[ { "name": "Access to God", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Access-to-God.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 65:4", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple." }, { "point_text": "Is by Christ", "verse_ref": "John 10:7", "verse_text": "Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep." }, { "point_text": "Is by Christ", "verse_ref": "John 14:6", "verse_text": "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." }, { "point_text": "Is by Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:2", "verse_text": "By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God." }, { "point_text": "Is by Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:13", "verse_text": "But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ." }, { "point_text": "Is by Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:12", "verse_text": "In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him." }, { "point_text": "Is by Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:19", "verse_text": "For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God." }, { "point_text": "Is by Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:19", "verse_text": "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus," }, { "point_text": "Is by Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:18", "verse_text": "For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:" }, { "point_text": "Is by the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:18", "verse_text": "For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father." }, { "point_text": "Obtained through faith", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:27", "verse_text": "And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles." }, { "point_text": "Obtained through faith", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:2", "verse_text": "By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God." }, { "point_text": "Obtained through faith", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:12", "verse_text": "In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him." }, { "point_text": "Obtained through faith", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:6", "verse_text": "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." }, { "point_text": "Follows upon reconciliation to God", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:21-22", "verse_text": "And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled 22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:" }, { "point_text": "In Prayer.\r\n\n\n\r\n\r\n(See Prayer)", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:7", "verse_text": "For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?" }, { "point_text": "In Prayer.\r\n\n\n\r\n\r\n(See Prayer)", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:6", "verse_text": "But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly." }, { "point_text": "In Prayer.\r\n\n\n\r\n\r\n(See Prayer)", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:17", "verse_text": "And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:" }, { "point_text": "In his temple", "verse_ref": "Psalm 15:1", "verse_text": "LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?" }, { "point_text": "In his temple", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:4", "verse_text": "One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple." }, { "point_text": "In his temple", "verse_ref": "Psalm 43:3", "verse_text": "O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles." }, { "point_text": "In his temple", "verse_ref": "Psalm 65:4", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple." }, { "point_text": "To obtain mercy and grace", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:16", "verse_text": "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." }, { "point_text": "A privilege of saints", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:7", "verse_text": "For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?" }, { "point_text": "A privilege of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 15", "verse_text": "LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? 2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart. 3 He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour. 4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not. ..." }, { "point_text": "A privilege of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 23:6", "verse_text": "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever." }, { "point_text": "A privilege of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 24:3-4", "verse_text": "Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? 4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully." }, { "point_text": "Saints have, with confidence", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:12", "verse_text": "In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him." }, { "point_text": "Saints have, with confidence", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:16", "verse_text": "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." }, { "point_text": "Saints have, with confidence", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:19", "verse_text": "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus," }, { "point_text": "Saints have, with confidence", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:22", "verse_text": "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water." }, { "point_text": "Vouchsafed to repenting sinners.\r\n\n\r\n\r\n(See Repentance)", "verse_ref": "Hosea 14:2", "verse_text": "Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips." }, { "point_text": "Vouchsafed to repenting sinners.\r\n\n\r\n\r\n(See Repentance)", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:12", "verse_text": "Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:" }, { "point_text": "Saints earnestly seek", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:4", "verse_text": "One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple." }, { "point_text": "Saints earnestly seek", "verse_ref": "Psalm 42:1", "verse_text": "As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God." }, { "point_text": "Saints earnestly seek", "verse_ref": "Psalm 43:3", "verse_text": "O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles." }, { "point_text": "Saints earnestly seek", "verse_ref": "Psalm 84:1-2", "verse_text": "How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts! 2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God." }, { "point_text": "The wicked commanded to seek", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 55:6", "verse_text": "Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:" }, { "point_text": "The wicked commanded to seek", "verse_ref": "James 4:8", "verse_text": "Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded." }, { "point_text": "Urge others to seek", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:3", "verse_text": "And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Urge others to seek", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:6", "verse_text": "For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God." }, { "point_text": "Promises connected with", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:18", "verse_text": "The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth." }, { "point_text": "Promises connected with", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 55:3", "verse_text": "Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David." }, { "point_text": "Promises connected with", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:6", "verse_text": "But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly." }, { "point_text": "Promises connected with", "verse_ref": "James 4:8", "verse_text": "Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 16:11", "verse_text": "Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 65:4", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:28", "verse_text": "But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:12-15", "verse_text": "And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail: 13 And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not: 14 And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times. 15 Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:" }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:19-22", "verse_text": "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 21 And having an high priest over the house of God; 22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 24:2", "verse_text": "And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:4-7", "verse_text": "And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone. 5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. 6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation." } ] }, { "name": "Adoption", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Adoption.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Explained", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:18", "verse_text": "And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." }, { "point_text": "Is according to promise", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:8", "verse_text": "That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed." }, { "point_text": "Is according to promise", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:29", "verse_text": "And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." }, { "point_text": "Is by faith", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:7", "verse_text": "Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham." }, { "point_text": "Is by faith", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:26", "verse_text": "For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Is of God's grace", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:3-6", "verse_text": "And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite. 4 And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. 5 None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born. 6 And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live." }, { "point_text": "Is of God's grace", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:16-17", "verse_text": "Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, 17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were." }, { "point_text": "Is through Christ", "verse_ref": "John 1:12", "verse_text": "But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:" }, { "point_text": "Is through Christ", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:4-5", "verse_text": "But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons." }, { "point_text": "Saints predestinated unto", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:29", "verse_text": "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren." }, { "point_text": "Saints predestinated unto", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:5", "verse_text": "Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will," }, { "point_text": "Saints predestinated unto", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:11", "verse_text": "In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:" }, { "point_text": "Of Gentiles, predicted", "verse_ref": "Hosea 2:23", "verse_text": "And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God." }, { "point_text": "Of Gentiles, predicted", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:24-26", "verse_text": "Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? 25 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. 26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God." }, { "point_text": "Of Gentiles, predicted", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:6", "verse_text": "That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:" }, { "point_text": "The Adopted are gathered together in one by Christ", "verse_ref": "John 11:52", "verse_text": "And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad." }, { "point_text": "New birth connected with", "verse_ref": "John 1:12-13", "verse_text": "But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: 13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost is a Witness of", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:16", "verse_text": "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:" }, { "point_text": "Being led by the Spirit is an evidence of", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:14", "verse_text": "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God." }, { "point_text": "Saints receive the Spirit of", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:15", "verse_text": "For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." }, { "point_text": "Saints receive the Spirit of", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:6", "verse_text": "And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father." }, { "point_text": "A privilege of saints", "verse_ref": "John 1:12", "verse_text": "But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:" }, { "point_text": "A privilege of saints", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:1", "verse_text": "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not." }, { "point_text": "Saints become brethren of Christ by", "verse_ref": "John 20:17", "verse_text": "Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God." }, { "point_text": "Saints become brethren of Christ by", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:11-12", "verse_text": "For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, 12 Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Saints wait for final consummation of", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:19", "verse_text": "For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God." }, { "point_text": "Saints wait for final consummation of", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:23", "verse_text": "And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body." }, { "point_text": "Saints wait for final consummation of", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:2", "verse_text": "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." }, { "point_text": "Subjects saints to the fatherly discipline of God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:5", "verse_text": "Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee." }, { "point_text": "Subjects saints to the fatherly discipline of God", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:14", "verse_text": "I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:" }, { "point_text": "Subjects saints to the fatherly discipline of God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:11-12", "verse_text": "My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: 12 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth." }, { "point_text": "God is long-suffering and merciful towards the partakers of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:1", "verse_text": "At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people." }, { "point_text": "God is long-suffering and merciful towards the partakers of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:9", "verse_text": "They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn." }, { "point_text": "God is long-suffering and merciful towards the partakers of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:20", "verse_text": "Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Should lead to holiness", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:17", "verse_text": "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you," }, { "point_text": "Should lead to holiness", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 7:1", "verse_text": "Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God." }, { "point_text": "Should lead to holiness", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:15", "verse_text": "That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;" }, { "point_text": "Should lead to holiness", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:2-3", "verse_text": "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD PRODUCE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Likeness to God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:44-45", "verse_text": "But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; 45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." }, { "point_text": "Likeness to God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:48", "verse_text": "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." }, { "point_text": "Child-like confidence in God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:25-34", "verse_text": "Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? 26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? 27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? 28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: ..." }, { "point_text": "A desire for God's glory", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:16", "verse_text": "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." }, { "point_text": "A spirit of prayer", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:7-11", "verse_text": "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. 9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? 10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? ..." }, { "point_text": "A love of peace", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:9", "verse_text": "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God." }, { "point_text": "A forgiving spirit", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:14", "verse_text": "For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:" }, { "point_text": "A merciful spirit", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:35-36", "verse_text": "But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. 36 Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful." }, { "point_text": "An avoidance of ostentation", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:1-4", "verse_text": "Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. 2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. 3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: 4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly." }, { "point_text": "An avoidance of ostentation", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:6", "verse_text": "But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly." }, { "point_text": "An avoidance of ostentation", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:18", "verse_text": "That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly." }, { "point_text": "Safety of those who receive", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:26", "verse_text": "In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge." }, { "point_text": "Confers a new name.\r\n\n\n\r\n\r\n(See Titles and Names of Saints)", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:27", "verse_text": "And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them." }, { "point_text": "Confers a new name.\r\n\n\n\r\n\r\n(See Titles and Names of Saints)", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 62:2", "verse_text": "And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name." }, { "point_text": "Confers a new name.\r\n\n\n\r\n\r\n(See Titles and Names of Saints)", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:17", "verse_text": "That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things." }, { "point_text": "Entitles to an inheritance", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:43", "verse_text": "Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear." }, { "point_text": "Entitles to an inheritance", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:17", "verse_text": "And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together." }, { "point_text": "Entitles to an inheritance", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:29", "verse_text": "And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." }, { "point_text": "Entitles to an inheritance", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:7", "verse_text": "Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ." }, { "point_text": "Entitles to an inheritance", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:6", "verse_text": "That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:" }, { "point_text": "Is to be pleaded in prayer", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:16", "verse_text": "Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting." }, { "point_text": "Is to be pleaded in prayer", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:9", "verse_text": "After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated.\r\n\nJoseph's sons, \n\n\n\nMoses, \nEsther,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 48:5", "verse_text": "And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated.\r\n\nJoseph's sons, \n\n\n\nMoses, \nEsther,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 48:14", "verse_text": "And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated.\r\n\nJoseph's sons, \n\n\n\nMoses, \nEsther,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 48:16", "verse_text": "The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated.\r\n\nJoseph's sons, \n\n\n\nMoses, \nEsther,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 48:22", "verse_text": "Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated.\r\n\nJoseph's sons, \n\n\n\nMoses, \nEsther,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:10", "verse_text": "And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated.\r\n\nJoseph's sons, \n\n\n\nMoses, \nEsther,", "verse_ref": "Esther 2:7", "verse_text": "And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter." }, { "point_text": "Typified.\r\n\nIsrael,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 4:22", "verse_text": "And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:" }, { "point_text": "Typified.\r\n\nIsrael,", "verse_ref": "Hosea 11:1", "verse_text": "When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Typified.\r\n\nIsrael,", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:4", "verse_text": "Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSolomon,", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 28:6", "verse_text": "And he said unto me, Solomon thy son, he shall build my house and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father." } ] }, { "name": "Affections, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Affections-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Should be supremely set upon God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 6:3", "verse_text": "Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey." }, { "point_text": "Should be supremely set upon God", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:30", "verse_text": "And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE SET", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Upon the commandments of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:8-10", "verse_text": "The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. 9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. 10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb." }, { "point_text": "Upon the commandments of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:20", "verse_text": "My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times." }, { "point_text": "Upon the commandments of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:97", "verse_text": "MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day." }, { "point_text": "Upon the commandments of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:103", "verse_text": "How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!" }, { "point_text": "Upon the commandments of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:167", "verse_text": "My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly." }, { "point_text": "Upon the house and worship of God", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:3", "verse_text": "Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house," }, { "point_text": "Upon the house and worship of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 26:8", "verse_text": "LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth." }, { "point_text": "Upon the house and worship of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:4", "verse_text": "One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple." }, { "point_text": "Upon the house and worship of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 84:1-2", "verse_text": "How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts! 2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God." }, { "point_text": "Upon the people of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 16:3", "verse_text": "But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight." }, { "point_text": "Upon the people of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:10", "verse_text": "Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;" }, { "point_text": "Upon the people of God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 7:13-15", "verse_text": "Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all. 14 For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth. 15 And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him." }, { "point_text": "Upon the people of God", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:8", "verse_text": "So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us." }, { "point_text": "Upon heavenly things", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:1-2", "verse_text": "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth." }, { "point_text": "Should be zealously engaged for God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:9", "verse_text": "For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me." }, { "point_text": "Should be zealously engaged for God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:139", "verse_text": "My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words." }, { "point_text": "Should be zealously engaged for God", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:18", "verse_text": "But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you." }, { "point_text": "Christ claims the first place in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:37", "verse_text": "He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me." }, { "point_text": "Christ claims the first place in", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:26", "verse_text": "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." }, { "point_text": "Enkindled by communion with Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:32", "verse_text": "And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?" }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of making God the object of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 91:14", "verse_text": "Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name." }, { "point_text": "Should not grow cold", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:12-13", "verse_text": "Then believed they his words; they sang his praise. 13 They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:" }, { "point_text": "Of saints, supremely set on God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 42:1", "verse_text": "As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God." }, { "point_text": "Of saints, supremely set on God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:25", "verse_text": "Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee." }, { "point_text": "Of saints, supremely set on God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:10", "verse_text": "With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments." }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked, not sincerely set on God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:1-2", "verse_text": "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. 2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God." }, { "point_text": "Carnal affections should be mortified", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:13", "verse_text": "For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live." }, { "point_text": "Carnal affections should be mortified", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:14", "verse_text": "But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof." }, { "point_text": "Carnal affections should be mortified", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:27", "verse_text": "But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway." }, { "point_text": "Carnal affections should be mortified", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:5", "verse_text": "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:" }, { "point_text": "Carnal affections should be mortified", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:5", "verse_text": "Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:" }, { "point_text": "Carnal affections crucified in saints", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:6", "verse_text": "Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin." }, { "point_text": "Carnal affections crucified in saints", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:24", "verse_text": "And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts." }, { "point_text": "False teachers seek to captivate", "verse_ref": "Galatians 1:10", "verse_text": "For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ." }, { "point_text": "False teachers seek to captivate", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:17", "verse_text": "They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them." }, { "point_text": "False teachers seek to captivate", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:6", "verse_text": "For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts," }, { "point_text": "False teachers seek to captivate", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:3", "verse_text": "And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not." }, { "point_text": "False teachers seek to captivate", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:18", "verse_text": "For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error." }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked, are unnatural and perverted", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:31", "verse_text": "Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:" }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked, are unnatural and perverted", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:3", "verse_text": "Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good," }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked, are unnatural and perverted", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:10", "verse_text": "But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities." } ] }, { "name": "Afflicted Saints", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Afflicted-Saints.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "God is with", "verse_ref": "Psalm 46:5", "verse_text": "God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early." }, { "point_text": "God is with", "verse_ref": "Psalm 46:7", "verse_text": "The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah." }, { "point_text": "God is a refuge and strength to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:5-6", "verse_text": "For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock. 6 And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "God comforts", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:13", "verse_text": "Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted." }, { "point_text": "God comforts", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:13", "verse_text": "Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow." }, { "point_text": "God comforts", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:4", "verse_text": "Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted." }, { "point_text": "God comforts", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:4", "verse_text": "Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God." }, { "point_text": "God comforts", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 7:6", "verse_text": "Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;" }, { "point_text": "God preserves", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:20", "verse_text": "He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken." }, { "point_text": "God delivers", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:4", "verse_text": "I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears." }, { "point_text": "God delivers", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:19", "verse_text": "Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all." }, { "point_text": "Christ is with", "verse_ref": "John 14:18", "verse_text": "I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you." }, { "point_text": "Christ supports", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:17", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion." }, { "point_text": "Christ supports", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:18", "verse_text": "For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted." }, { "point_text": "Christ comforts", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:2", "verse_text": "To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;" }, { "point_text": "Christ comforts", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:28-30", "verse_text": "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." }, { "point_text": "Christ comforts", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:13", "verse_text": "And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not." }, { "point_text": "Christ comforts", "verse_ref": "John 14:1", "verse_text": "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me." }, { "point_text": "Christ comforts", "verse_ref": "John 16:33", "verse_text": "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." }, { "point_text": "Christ preserves", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:9", "verse_text": "In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old." }, { "point_text": "Christ preserves", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:18", "verse_text": "But there shall not an hair of your head perish." }, { "point_text": "Christ delivers", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:10", "verse_text": "Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Should praise God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 13:5", "verse_text": "But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation." }, { "point_text": "Should praise God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 56:8-10", "verse_text": "Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book? 9 When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me. 10 In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his word." }, { "point_text": "Should praise God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 57:6", "verse_text": "They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Should praise God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 71:20-23", "verse_text": "Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth. 21 Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side. 22 I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel. 23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed." }, { "point_text": "Should imitate Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:1-3", "verse_text": "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds." }, { "point_text": "Should imitate Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:21-23", "verse_text": "For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: 22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: 23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:" }, { "point_text": "Should imitate the prophets", "verse_ref": "James 5:10", "verse_text": "Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience." }, { "point_text": "Should be patient", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:19", "verse_text": "In your patience possess ye your souls." }, { "point_text": "Should be patient", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:12", "verse_text": "Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;" }, { "point_text": "Should be patient", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:4", "verse_text": "So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:" }, { "point_text": "Should be patient", "verse_ref": "James 1:4", "verse_text": "But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing." }, { "point_text": "Should be patient", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:20", "verse_text": "For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God." }, { "point_text": "Should be resigned", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 3:18", "verse_text": "And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good." }, { "point_text": "Should be resigned", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:19", "verse_text": "Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days?" }, { "point_text": "Should be resigned", "verse_ref": "Job 1:21", "verse_text": "And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Should be resigned", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:9", "verse_text": "I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it." }, { "point_text": "Should not despise chastening", "verse_ref": "Job 5:17", "verse_text": "Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:" }, { "point_text": "Should not despise chastening", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:11", "verse_text": "My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:" }, { "point_text": "Should not despise chastening", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:5", "verse_text": "And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:" }, { "point_text": "Should acknowledge the justice of their chastisements", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:33", "verse_text": "Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:" }, { "point_text": "Should acknowledge the justice of their chastisements", "verse_ref": "Job 2:10", "verse_text": "But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips." }, { "point_text": "Should acknowledge the justice of their chastisements", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 64:5-7", "verse_text": "Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved. 6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. 7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities." }, { "point_text": "Should acknowledge the justice of their chastisements", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:39", "verse_text": "Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?" }, { "point_text": "Should acknowledge the justice of their chastisements", "verse_ref": "Micah 7:9", "verse_text": "I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Should avoid sin", "verse_ref": "Job 34:31-32", "verse_text": "Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more: 32 That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more." }, { "point_text": "Should trust in the goodness of God", "verse_ref": "Job 13:15", "verse_text": "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him." }, { "point_text": "Should trust in the goodness of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 71:20", "verse_text": "Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Should trust in the goodness of God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:9", "verse_text": "But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:" }, { "point_text": "Should turn and devote themselves to God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 116:7-9", "verse_text": "Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee. 8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. 9 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living." }, { "point_text": "Should turn and devote themselves to God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:3-4", "verse_text": "For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast. 4 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God." }, { "point_text": "Should keep the pious resolutions made during afflictions", "verse_ref": "Psalm 66:13-15", "verse_text": "I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows, 14 Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble. 15 I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Should be frequent in prayer.\r\n\n\r\n\r\n(See Affliction, Prayer under)", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:15", "verse_text": "And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me." }, { "point_text": "Should be frequent in prayer.\r\n\n\r\n\r\n(See Affliction, Prayer under)", "verse_ref": "Psalm 55:16-17", "verse_text": "As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me. 17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice." }, { "point_text": "Should take encouragement from former mercies", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:9", "verse_text": "Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation." }, { "point_text": "Should take encouragement from former mercies", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:10", "verse_text": "Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;" }, { "point_text": "Examples of afflicted saints.\r\n\nJoseph, \n\nMoses, \nEli, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \nDavid, \nPaul, \n\nApostles", "verse_ref": "Genesis 39:20-23", "verse_text": "And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison. 21 But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison. 22 And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it. 23 The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the LORD was with him, and that which he did, the LORD made it to prosper." }, { "point_text": "Examples of afflicted saints.\r\n\nJoseph, \n\nMoses, \nEli, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \nDavid, \nPaul, \n\nApostles", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:17-19", "verse_text": "He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant: 18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron: 19 Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him." }, { "point_text": "Examples of afflicted saints.\r\n\nJoseph, \n\nMoses, \nEli, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \nDavid, \nPaul, \n\nApostles", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:25", "verse_text": "Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;" }, { "point_text": "Examples of afflicted saints.\r\n\nJoseph, \n\nMoses, \nEli, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \nDavid, \nPaul, \n\nApostles", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 3:18", "verse_text": "And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good." }, { "point_text": "Examples of afflicted saints.\r\n\nJoseph, \n\nMoses, \nEli, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \nDavid, \nPaul, \n\nApostles", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 1:4", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven," }, { "point_text": "Examples of afflicted saints.\r\n\nJoseph, \n\nMoses, \nEli, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \nDavid, \nPaul, \n\nApostles", "verse_ref": "Job 1:20-22", "verse_text": "Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, 21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD. 22 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly." }, { "point_text": "Examples of afflicted saints.\r\n\nJoseph, \n\nMoses, \nEli, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \nDavid, \nPaul, \n\nApostles", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:15-23", "verse_text": "And Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick. 16 David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth. 17 And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them. 18 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead? ..." }, { "point_text": "Examples of afflicted saints.\r\n\nJoseph, \n\nMoses, \nEli, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \nDavid, \nPaul, \n\nApostles", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:22-24", "verse_text": "And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there: 23 Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. 24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God." }, { "point_text": "Examples of afflicted saints.\r\n\nJoseph, \n\nMoses, \nEli, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \nDavid, \nPaul, \n\nApostles", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:13", "verse_text": "Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Examples of afflicted saints.\r\n\nJoseph, \n\nMoses, \nEli, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \nDavid, \nPaul, \n\nApostles", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 4:13", "verse_text": "Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Examples of afflicted saints.\r\n\nJoseph, \n\nMoses, \nEli, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \nDavid, \nPaul, \n\nApostles", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:4-10", "verse_text": "But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, 5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; 6 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, 7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, ..." } ] }, { "name": "Afflicted, Duty toward the", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Afflicted-Duty-toward-the.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "To pray for them", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:5", "verse_text": "Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him." }, { "point_text": "To pray for them", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:16", "verse_text": "The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:" }, { "point_text": "To pray for them", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:19", "verse_text": "For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ," }, { "point_text": "To sympathize with them", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:15", "verse_text": "Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep." }, { "point_text": "To sympathize with them", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:2", "verse_text": "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ." }, { "point_text": "To pity them", "verse_ref": "Job 6:14", "verse_text": "To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty." }, { "point_text": "To bear them in mind", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:3", "verse_text": "Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body." }, { "point_text": "To visit them", "verse_ref": "James 1:27", "verse_text": "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." }, { "point_text": "To comfort them", "verse_ref": "Job 16:5", "verse_text": "But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief." }, { "point_text": "To comfort them", "verse_ref": "Job 29:25", "verse_text": "I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners." }, { "point_text": "To comfort them", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:4", "verse_text": "Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God." }, { "point_text": "To comfort them", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:18", "verse_text": "Wherefore comfort one another with these words." }, { "point_text": "To relieve them", "verse_ref": "Job 31:19-20", "verse_text": "If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; 20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;" }, { "point_text": "To protect them", "verse_ref": "Psalm 82:3", "verse_text": "Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy." }, { "point_text": "To protect them", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:22", "verse_text": "Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:" }, { "point_text": "To protect them", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:5", "verse_text": "Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted." } ] }, { "name": "Affliction, Consolation under", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Affliction-Consolation-under.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "God is the Author and Giver of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 23:4", "verse_text": "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." }, { "point_text": "God is the Author and Giver of", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:5", "verse_text": "Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:" }, { "point_text": "God is the Author and Giver of", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:3", "verse_text": "Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;" }, { "point_text": "God is the Author and Giver of", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 7:6", "verse_text": "Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;" }, { "point_text": "God is the Author and Giver of", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:11", "verse_text": "Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;" }, { "point_text": "God is the Author and Giver of", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:16-17", "verse_text": "Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, 17 Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work." }, { "point_text": "Christ is the Author and Giver of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:2", "verse_text": "To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;" }, { "point_text": "Christ is the Author and Giver of", "verse_ref": "John 14:18", "verse_text": "I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you." }, { "point_text": "Christ is the Author and Giver of", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:5", "verse_text": "For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ." }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost is the Author and Giver of", "verse_ref": "John 14:16", "verse_text": "And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;" }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost is the Author and Giver of", "verse_ref": "John 15:26", "verse_text": "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:" }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost is the Author and Giver of", "verse_ref": "John 16:7", "verse_text": "Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you." }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost is the Author and Giver of", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:31", "verse_text": "Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied." }, { "point_text": "Promised", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 51:3", "verse_text": "For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody." }, { "point_text": "Promised", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:13", "verse_text": "As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Promised", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 14:22-23", "verse_text": "Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it. 23 And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Through the Holy Scriptures", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:50", "verse_text": "This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me." }, { "point_text": "Through the Holy Scriptures", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:76", "verse_text": "Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant." }, { "point_text": "By ministers of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:1-2", "verse_text": "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. 2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins." }, { "point_text": "By ministers of the gospel", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:3", "verse_text": "But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort." }, { "point_text": "By ministers of the gospel", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:4", "verse_text": "Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God." }, { "point_text": "By ministers of the gospel", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:6", "verse_text": "And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation." }, { "point_text": "Is abundant", "verse_ref": "Psalm 71:21", "verse_text": "Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side." }, { "point_text": "Is abundant", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:11", "verse_text": "That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory." }, { "point_text": "Is strong", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:18", "verse_text": "That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:" }, { "point_text": "Is everlasting", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:16", "verse_text": "Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace," }, { "point_text": "Is a cause of praise", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 12:1", "verse_text": "And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me." }, { "point_text": "Is a cause of praise", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:13", "verse_text": "Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted." }, { "point_text": "Pray for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:82", "verse_text": "Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?" }, { "point_text": "Saints should administer to each other", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:18", "verse_text": "Wherefore comfort one another with these words." }, { "point_text": "Saints should administer to each other", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:11", "verse_text": "Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do." }, { "point_text": "Saints should administer to each other", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:14", "verse_text": "Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men." }, { "point_text": "Is sought in vain from the world", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:20", "verse_text": "Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none." }, { "point_text": "Is sought in vain from the world", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 4:1", "verse_text": "So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter." }, { "point_text": "Is sought in vain from the world", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 1:2", "verse_text": "She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies." }, { "point_text": "To those who mourn for sin", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:17", "verse_text": "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise." }, { "point_text": "To those who mourn for sin", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:18", "verse_text": "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." }, { "point_text": "To those who mourn for sin", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:1", "verse_text": "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God." }, { "point_text": "To those who mourn for sin", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:1", "verse_text": "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;" }, { "point_text": "To those who mourn for sin", "verse_ref": "Micah 7:18-19", "verse_text": "Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. 19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea." }, { "point_text": "To the troubled in mind", "verse_ref": "Psalm 42:5", "verse_text": "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance." }, { "point_text": "To the troubled in mind", "verse_ref": "Psalm 94:19", "verse_text": "In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul." }, { "point_text": "To the troubled in mind", "verse_ref": "John 14:1", "verse_text": "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me." }, { "point_text": "To the troubled in mind", "verse_ref": "John 16:20", "verse_text": "Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy." }, { "point_text": "To the troubled in mind", "verse_ref": "John 16:22", "verse_text": "And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you." }, { "point_text": "To those deserted by friends", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:10", "verse_text": "When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up." }, { "point_text": "To those deserted by friends", "verse_ref": "Psalm 41:9-12", "verse_text": "Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me. 10 But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them. 11 By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me. 12 And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever." }, { "point_text": "To those deserted by friends", "verse_ref": "John 14:18", "verse_text": "I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you." }, { "point_text": "To those deserted by friends", "verse_ref": "John 15:18-19", "verse_text": "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you." }, { "point_text": "To the persecuted", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:27", "verse_text": "The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them." }, { "point_text": "To the poor", "verse_ref": "Psalm 10:14", "verse_text": "Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless." }, { "point_text": "To the poor", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:6", "verse_text": "This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles." }, { "point_text": "To the poor", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:9-10", "verse_text": "O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him. 10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing." }, { "point_text": "To the sick", "verse_ref": "Psalm 41:3", "verse_text": "The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness." }, { "point_text": "To the tempted", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:20", "verse_text": "And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen." }, { "point_text": "To the tempted", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:13", "verse_text": "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it." }, { "point_text": "To the tempted", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 12:9", "verse_text": "And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me." }, { "point_text": "To the tempted", "verse_ref": "James 1:12", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him." }, { "point_text": "To the tempted", "verse_ref": "James 4:7", "verse_text": "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." }, { "point_text": "To the tempted", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:9", "verse_text": "The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:" }, { "point_text": "To the tempted", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:10", "verse_text": "Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." }, { "point_text": "In prospect of death", "verse_ref": "Job 19:25-26", "verse_text": "For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: 26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:" }, { "point_text": "In prospect of death", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:14", "verse_text": "For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him." }, { "point_text": "In prospect of death", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:9", "verse_text": "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God." }, { "point_text": "In prospect of death", "verse_ref": "Revelation 7:14-17", "verse_text": "And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. 16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. 17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." }, { "point_text": "In prospect of death", "verse_ref": "Revelation 14:13", "verse_text": "And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them." }, { "point_text": "Under the infirmities of age", "verse_ref": "Psalm 71:9", "verse_text": "Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth." }, { "point_text": "Under the infirmities of age", "verse_ref": "Psalm 71:18", "verse_text": "Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come." } ] }, { "name": "Affliction, Prayer under", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Affliction-Prayer-under.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Exhortation to", "verse_ref": "James 5:13", "verse_text": "Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms." }, { "point_text": "That God would consider our trouble", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:16", "verse_text": "LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God." }, { "point_text": "That God would consider our trouble", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:32", "verse_text": "Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day." }, { "point_text": "That God would consider our trouble", "verse_ref": "Psalm 9:13", "verse_text": "Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:" }, { "point_text": "That God would consider our trouble", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 5:1", "verse_text": "Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach." }, { "point_text": "For the presence and support of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 10:1", "verse_text": "Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?" }, { "point_text": "For the presence and support of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 102:2", "verse_text": "Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily." }, { "point_text": "That the Holy Spirit may not be withdrawn", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:11", "verse_text": "Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me." }, { "point_text": "For divine comfort", "verse_ref": "Psalm 4:6", "verse_text": "There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us." }, { "point_text": "For divine comfort", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:76", "verse_text": "Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant." }, { "point_text": "For mitigation of troubles", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:12-13", "verse_text": "Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. 13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more." }, { "point_text": "For deliverance", "verse_ref": "Psalm 25:17", "verse_text": "The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses." }, { "point_text": "For deliverance", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:10", "verse_text": "Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand." }, { "point_text": "For deliverance", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 64:9-12", "verse_text": "Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people. 10 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste. 12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?" }, { "point_text": "For deliverance", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:14", "verse_text": "Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise." }, { "point_text": "For pardon and deliverance from sin", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:8", "verse_text": "Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish." }, { "point_text": "For pardon and deliverance from sin", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:1", "verse_text": "Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions." }, { "point_text": "For pardon and deliverance from sin", "verse_ref": "Psalm 79:8", "verse_text": "O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low." }, { "point_text": "That we may be turned to God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 80:7", "verse_text": "Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved." }, { "point_text": "That we may be turned to God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 85:4-6", "verse_text": "Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease. 5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations? 6 Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?" }, { "point_text": "That we may be turned to God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:18", "verse_text": "I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God." }, { "point_text": "For divine teaching and direction", "verse_ref": "Job 34:32", "verse_text": "That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more." }, { "point_text": "For divine teaching and direction", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:11", "verse_text": "Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies." }, { "point_text": "For divine teaching and direction", "verse_ref": "Psalm 143:10", "verse_text": "Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness." }, { "point_text": "For increase of faith", "verse_ref": "Mark 9:24", "verse_text": "And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief." }, { "point_text": "For mercy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 6:2", "verse_text": "Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed." }, { "point_text": "For mercy", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 3:2", "verse_text": "O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy." }, { "point_text": "For restoration to joy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:8", "verse_text": "Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice." }, { "point_text": "For restoration to joy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:29", "verse_text": "But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high." }, { "point_text": "For restoration to joy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 90:14-15", "verse_text": "O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. 15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil." }, { "point_text": "For protection and preservation from enemies", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:19", "verse_text": "Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD God, even thou only." }, { "point_text": "For protection and preservation from enemies", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 20:12", "verse_text": "O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee." }, { "point_text": "For protection and preservation from enemies", "verse_ref": "Psalm 17:8-9", "verse_text": "Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings, 9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about." }, { "point_text": "That we may know the causes of our trouble", "verse_ref": "Job 6:24", "verse_text": "Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred." }, { "point_text": "That we may know the causes of our trouble", "verse_ref": "Job 10:2", "verse_text": "I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me." }, { "point_text": "That we may know the causes of our trouble", "verse_ref": "Job 13:23-24", "verse_text": "How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?" }, { "point_text": "That we may be taught the uncertainty of life", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:4", "verse_text": "LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am." }, { "point_text": "That we may be quickened", "verse_ref": "Psalm 143:11", "verse_text": "Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble." } ] }, { "name": "Afflictions", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Afflictions.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "God appoints", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:33", "verse_text": "And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?" }, { "point_text": "God appoints", "verse_ref": "Job 5:6", "verse_text": "Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;" }, { "point_text": "God appoints", "verse_ref": "Job 5:17", "verse_text": "Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:" }, { "point_text": "God dispenses, as He will", "verse_ref": "Job 11:10", "verse_text": "If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?" }, { "point_text": "God dispenses, as He will", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:15", "verse_text": "Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood." }, { "point_text": "God dispenses, as He will", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:7", "verse_text": "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things." }, { "point_text": "God regulates the measure of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 80:5", "verse_text": "Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure." }, { "point_text": "God regulates the measure of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:1", "verse_text": "Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations." }, { "point_text": "God regulates the measure of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 46:28", "verse_text": "Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished." }, { "point_text": "God determines the continuance of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:13-14", "verse_text": "And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; 14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance." }, { "point_text": "God does not willingly send", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:33", "verse_text": "For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men." }, { "point_text": "Man is born to", "verse_ref": "Job 5:6", "verse_text": "Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;" }, { "point_text": "Man is born to", "verse_ref": "Job 14:1", "verse_text": "Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble." }, { "point_text": "Saints appointed to", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 3:3", "verse_text": "That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto." }, { "point_text": "Consequent upon the fall", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:16-19", "verse_text": "Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. 17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." }, { "point_text": "Sin produces", "verse_ref": "Job 4:8", "verse_text": "Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same." }, { "point_text": "Sin produces", "verse_ref": "Job 20:11", "verse_text": "His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust." }, { "point_text": "Sin produces", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:31", "verse_text": "Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices." }, { "point_text": "Sin visited with", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:14", "verse_text": "Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die." }, { "point_text": "Sin visited with", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:30-32", "verse_text": "If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; 31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; 32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes." }, { "point_text": "Sin visited with", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:17", "verse_text": "For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart." }, { "point_text": "Sin visited with", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:10-11", "verse_text": "And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? 11 And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand." }, { "point_text": "Often severe", "verse_ref": "Job 16:7-16", "verse_text": "But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. 8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face. 9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. 10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. ..." }, { "point_text": "Often severe", "verse_ref": "Psalm 42:7", "verse_text": "Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me." }, { "point_text": "Often severe", "verse_ref": "Psalm 66:12", "verse_text": "Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place." }, { "point_text": "Often severe", "verse_ref": "Jonah 2:3", "verse_text": "For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me." }, { "point_text": "Often severe", "verse_ref": "Revelation 7:14", "verse_text": "And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." }, { "point_text": "Always less than we deserve", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:13", "verse_text": "And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;" }, { "point_text": "Always less than we deserve", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:10", "verse_text": "He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities." }, { "point_text": "Frequently terminate in good", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:20", "verse_text": "But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive." }, { "point_text": "Frequently terminate in good", "verse_ref": "Exodus 1:11-12", "verse_text": "Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Tempered with mercy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:38", "verse_text": "But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath." }, { "point_text": "Tempered with mercy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:43-46", "verse_text": "Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity. 44 Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry: 45 And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies. 46 He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives." }, { "point_text": "Tempered with mercy", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:18-21", "verse_text": "And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him. 19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee. 20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: 21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left." }, { "point_text": "Tempered with mercy", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:32", "verse_text": "But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies." }, { "point_text": "Tempered with mercy", "verse_ref": "Micah 7:7-9", "verse_text": "Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me. 8 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me. 9 I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Tempered with mercy", "verse_ref": "Nahum 1:12", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more." }, { "point_text": "Saints are to expect", "verse_ref": "John 16:33", "verse_text": "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." }, { "point_text": "Saints are to expect", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:22", "verse_text": "Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Of saints, are comparatively light", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:23-24", "verse_text": "Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. 24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God." }, { "point_text": "Of saints, are but temporary", "verse_ref": "Psalm 30:5", "verse_text": "For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." }, { "point_text": "Of saints, are but temporary", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:9", "verse_text": "He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever." }, { "point_text": "Of saints, are but temporary", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:7-8", "verse_text": "For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. 8 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer." }, { "point_text": "Saints have joy under", "verse_ref": "Job 5:17", "verse_text": "Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:" }, { "point_text": "Saints have joy under", "verse_ref": "James 5:11", "verse_text": "Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy." }, { "point_text": "Of saints, end in joy and blessedness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 126:5-6", "verse_text": "They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. 6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him." }, { "point_text": "Often arise from the profession of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:9", "verse_text": "Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake." }, { "point_text": "Often arise from the profession of the gospel", "verse_ref": "John 15:21", "verse_text": "But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me." }, { "point_text": "Often arise from the profession of the gospel", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:11-12", "verse_text": "Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me. 12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." }, { "point_text": "Exhibit the love and faithfulness of God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:5", "verse_text": "Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee." }, { "point_text": "Exhibit the love and faithfulness of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:75", "verse_text": "I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me." }, { "point_text": "Exhibit the love and faithfulness of God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:12", "verse_text": "For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth." }, { "point_text": "Exhibit the love and faithfulness of God", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:32", "verse_text": "But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world." }, { "point_text": "Exhibit the love and faithfulness of God", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:6-7", "verse_text": "For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?" } ] }, { "name": "Afflictions Made Beneficial", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Afflictions-Made-Beneficial.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "In promoting the glory of God", "verse_ref": "John 9:1-3", "verse_text": "And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? 3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him." }, { "point_text": "In promoting the glory of God", "verse_ref": "John 11:3", "verse_text": "Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick." }, { "point_text": "In promoting the glory of God", "verse_ref": "John 21:18-19", "verse_text": "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not. 19 This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me." }, { "point_text": "In exhibiting the power and faithfulness of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:19-20", "verse_text": "Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all. 20 He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken." }, { "point_text": "In exhibiting the power and faithfulness of God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:8-11", "verse_text": "We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. 11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh." }, { "point_text": "In teaching us the will of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:71", "verse_text": "It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes." }, { "point_text": "In teaching us the will of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:9", "verse_text": "With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness." }, { "point_text": "In teaching us the will of God", "verse_ref": "Micah 6:9", "verse_text": "The LORD'S voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it." }, { "point_text": "In turning us to God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:30-31", "verse_text": "When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice; 31 (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them." }, { "point_text": "In keeping us from again departing from God", "verse_ref": "Job 34:31-32", "verse_text": "Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more: 32 That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more." }, { "point_text": "In leading us to seek God in prayer", "verse_ref": "Judges 4:3", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "In leading us to seek God in prayer", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:18", "verse_text": "I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God." }, { "point_text": "In leading us to seek God in prayer", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 2:17-19", "verse_text": "The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries. 18 Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease. 19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street." }, { "point_text": "In leading us to seek God in prayer", "verse_ref": "Hosea 5:14-15", "verse_text": "For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him. 15 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early." }, { "point_text": "In convincing us of sin", "verse_ref": "Job 36:8-9", "verse_text": "And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction; 9 Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded." }, { "point_text": "In leading us to confession of sin", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:7", "verse_text": "Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people." }, { "point_text": "In leading us to confession of sin", "verse_ref": "Psalm 32:5", "verse_text": "I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah." }, { "point_text": "In leading us to confession of sin", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:3", "verse_text": "For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me." }, { "point_text": "In leading us to confession of sin", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:5", "verse_text": "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me." }, { "point_text": "In testing and exhibiting our sincerity", "verse_ref": "Job 23:10", "verse_text": "But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold." }, { "point_text": "In testing and exhibiting our sincerity", "verse_ref": "Psalm 66:10", "verse_text": "For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried." }, { "point_text": "In testing and exhibiting our sincerity", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:3", "verse_text": "The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts." }, { "point_text": "In trying our faith and obedience", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:1-2", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. 2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of." }, { "point_text": "In humbling us", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:3", "verse_text": "And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live." }, { "point_text": "In humbling us", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:16", "verse_text": "Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;" }, { "point_text": "In humbling us", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:13-14", "verse_text": "If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; 14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." }, { "point_text": "In purifying us", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 7:2-3", "verse_text": "It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. 3 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better." }, { "point_text": "In exercising our patience", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:1", "verse_text": "I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry." }, { "point_text": "In exercising our patience", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:3", "verse_text": "And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;" }, { "point_text": "In exercising our patience", "verse_ref": "James 1:3", "verse_text": "Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience." }, { "point_text": "In exercising our patience", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:20", "verse_text": "For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God." }, { "point_text": "In rendering us fruitful in good works", "verse_ref": "John 15:2", "verse_text": "Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit." }, { "point_text": "In rendering us fruitful in good works", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:10-11", "verse_text": "For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. 11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby." }, { "point_text": "In furthering the gospel", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:3", "verse_text": "As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison." }, { "point_text": "In furthering the gospel", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:19-21", "verse_text": "Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only. 20 And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus. 21 And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord." }, { "point_text": "In furthering the gospel", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:12", "verse_text": "But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;" }, { "point_text": "In furthering the gospel", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:9", "verse_text": "Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound." }, { "point_text": "In furthering the gospel", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:16-17", "verse_text": "At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge. 17 Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph's brethren, \nJoseph, \n\nIsrael, \n\nJosiah, \nHezekiah, \nManasseh, \nJonah, \nProdigal son,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 42:21", "verse_text": "And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph's brethren, \nJoseph, \n\nIsrael, \n\nJosiah, \nHezekiah, \nManasseh, \nJonah, \nProdigal son,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 45:5", "verse_text": "Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph's brethren, \nJoseph, \n\nIsrael, \n\nJosiah, \nHezekiah, \nManasseh, \nJonah, \nProdigal son,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 45:7-8", "verse_text": "And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. 8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph's brethren, \nJoseph, \n\nIsrael, \n\nJosiah, \nHezekiah, \nManasseh, \nJonah, \nProdigal son,", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:3", "verse_text": "And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph's brethren, \nJoseph, \n\nIsrael, \n\nJosiah, \nHezekiah, \nManasseh, \nJonah, \nProdigal son,", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:5", "verse_text": "Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph's brethren, \nJoseph, \n\nIsrael, \n\nJosiah, \nHezekiah, \nManasseh, \nJonah, \nProdigal son,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 22:19", "verse_text": "Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph's brethren, \nJoseph, \n\nIsrael, \n\nJosiah, \nHezekiah, \nManasseh, \nJonah, \nProdigal son,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 32:25-26", "verse_text": "But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem. 26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph's brethren, \nJoseph, \n\nIsrael, \n\nJosiah, \nHezekiah, \nManasseh, \nJonah, \nProdigal son,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:12", "verse_text": "And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph's brethren, \nJoseph, \n\nIsrael, \n\nJosiah, \nHezekiah, \nManasseh, \nJonah, \nProdigal son,", "verse_ref": "Jonah 2:7", "verse_text": "When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph's brethren, \nJoseph, \n\nIsrael, \n\nJosiah, \nHezekiah, \nManasseh, \nJonah, \nProdigal son,", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:21", "verse_text": "And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son." } ] }, { "name": "Afflictions of the Wicked, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Afflictions-of-the-Wicked-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "God is glorified in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:4", "verse_text": "And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD. And they did so." }, { "point_text": "God is glorified in", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 38:22-23", "verse_text": "And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. 23 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "God holds in derision", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:13", "verse_text": "The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming." }, { "point_text": "God holds in derision", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:26-27", "verse_text": "I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; 27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you." }, { "point_text": "Are multiplied", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 31:17", "verse_text": "Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?" }, { "point_text": "Are multiplied", "verse_ref": "Job 20:12-18", "verse_text": "Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; 13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: 14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. 15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. ..." }, { "point_text": "Are multiplied", "verse_ref": "Psalm 32:10", "verse_text": "Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about." }, { "point_text": "Are continual", "verse_ref": "Job 15:20", "verse_text": "The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor." }, { "point_text": "Are continual", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:23", "verse_text": "For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity." }, { "point_text": "Are continual", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:10", "verse_text": "Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come." }, { "point_text": "Are often sudden", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:10", "verse_text": "Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them." }, { "point_text": "Are often sudden", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:15", "verse_text": "Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy." }, { "point_text": "Are often sudden", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:13", "verse_text": "Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant." }, { "point_text": "Are often sudden", "verse_ref": "Revelation 18:10", "verse_text": "Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come." }, { "point_text": "Are often judicially sent", "verse_ref": "Job 21:17", "verse_text": "How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger." }, { "point_text": "Are often judicially sent", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:17", "verse_text": "Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted." }, { "point_text": "Are often judicially sent", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 30:15", "verse_text": "Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Are for examples to others", "verse_ref": "Psalm 64:7-9", "verse_text": "But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded. 8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away. 9 And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing." }, { "point_text": "Are for examples to others", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 3:6-7", "verse_text": "I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant. 7 I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings." }, { "point_text": "Are for examples to others", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:5-11", "verse_text": "But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. 6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. 7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. 8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. ..." }, { "point_text": "Are for examples to others", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:6", "verse_text": "And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;" }, { "point_text": "Are ineffectual of themselves, for their conversion", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:30", "verse_text": "But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear the LORD God." }, { "point_text": "Are ineffectual of themselves, for their conversion", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:13", "verse_text": "For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Are ineffectual of themselves, for their conversion", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:30", "verse_text": "In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion." }, { "point_text": "Are ineffectual of themselves, for their conversion", "verse_ref": "Haggai 2:17", "verse_text": "I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Their persecution of saints, a cause of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 30:7", "verse_text": "And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee." }, { "point_text": "Their persecution of saints, a cause of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 55:19", "verse_text": "God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God." }, { "point_text": "Their persecution of saints, a cause of", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 2:9", "verse_text": "For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me." }, { "point_text": "Their persecution of saints, a cause of", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:6", "verse_text": "Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;" }, { "point_text": "Impenitence is a cause of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:30-31", "verse_text": "They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. 31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes humble them", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:27", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly." }, { "point_text": "Frequently harden", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:28-29", "verse_text": "But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies; 29 And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear." }, { "point_text": "Produce slavish fear", "verse_ref": "Job 15:24", "verse_text": "Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle." }, { "point_text": "Produce slavish fear", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:19", "verse_text": "How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors." }, { "point_text": "Produce slavish fear", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:3", "verse_text": "Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together." }, { "point_text": "Produce slavish fear", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:5", "verse_text": "Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth." }, { "point_text": "Saints should not be alarmed at", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:25-26", "verse_text": "Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh. 26 For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh and the Egyptians, \n\nAhaziah, \nGehazi, \nJehoram, \nUzziah, \nAhaz, &c.,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:14", "verse_text": "For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh and the Egyptians, \n\nAhaziah, \nGehazi, \nJehoram, \nUzziah, \nAhaz, &c.,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:24-25", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians, 25 And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh and the Egyptians, \n\nAhaziah, \nGehazi, \nJehoram, \nUzziah, \nAhaz, &c.,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 1:1-4", "verse_text": "Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. 2 And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease. 3 But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? 4 Now therefore thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah departed." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh and the Egyptians, \n\nAhaziah, \nGehazi, \nJehoram, \nUzziah, \nAhaz, &c.,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:27", "verse_text": "The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh and the Egyptians, \n\nAhaziah, \nGehazi, \nJehoram, \nUzziah, \nAhaz, &c.,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 21:12-19", "verse_text": "And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah, 13 But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were better than thyself: 14 Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods: 15 And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh and the Egyptians, \n\nAhaziah, \nGehazi, \nJehoram, \nUzziah, \nAhaz, &c.,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:19-21", "verse_text": "Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar. 20 And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the LORD had smitten him. 21 And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the land." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh and the Egyptians, \n\nAhaziah, \nGehazi, \nJehoram, \nUzziah, \nAhaz, &c.,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 28:5-8", "verse_text": "Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter. 6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. 7 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the king. 8 And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh and the Egyptians, \n\nAhaziah, \nGehazi, \nJehoram, \nUzziah, \nAhaz, &c.,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 28:22", "verse_text": "And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz." } ] }, { "name": "Agriculture or Husbandry", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Agriculture-or-Husbandry.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The cultivation of the earth", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:23", "verse_text": "Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken." }, { "point_text": "The occupation of man before the fall", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:15", "verse_text": "And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it." }, { "point_text": "Rendered laborious by the curse on the earth", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:17-19", "verse_text": "And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." }, { "point_text": "Man doomed to labor in, after the fall", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:23", "verse_text": "Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken." }, { "point_text": "Contributes to the support of all", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 5:9", "verse_text": "Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field." }, { "point_text": "The providence of God to be acknowledged in the produce of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:24", "verse_text": "Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest." }, { "point_text": "The providence of God to be acknowledged in the produce of", "verse_ref": "Hosea 2:8", "verse_text": "For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal." }, { "point_text": "REQUIRES", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Wisdom", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:26", "verse_text": "For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him." }, { "point_text": "Diligence", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:23-27", "verse_text": "Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. 24 For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation? 25 The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered. 26 The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field. ..." }, { "point_text": "Diligence", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 11:6", "verse_text": "In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good." }, { "point_text": "Toil", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:6", "verse_text": "The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits." }, { "point_text": "Patience in waiting", "verse_ref": "James 5:7", "verse_text": "Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain." }, { "point_text": "Diligence in, abundantly recompensed", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:11", "verse_text": "He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding." }, { "point_text": "Diligence in, abundantly recompensed", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 13:23", "verse_text": "Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment." }, { "point_text": "Diligence in, abundantly recompensed", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:19", "verse_text": "He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough." }, { "point_text": "Diligence in, abundantly recompensed", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:7", "verse_text": "For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:" }, { "point_text": "PERSONS ENGAGED IN, CALLED", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Tillers of the ground", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:2", "verse_text": "And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground." }, { "point_text": "Husbandmen", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:10", "verse_text": "Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry." }, { "point_text": "Laborers", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:37", "verse_text": "Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;" }, { "point_text": "Laborers", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:1", "verse_text": "For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard." }, { "point_text": "Peace favorable to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:4", "verse_text": "And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." }, { "point_text": "Peace favorable to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:24", "verse_text": "And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks." }, { "point_text": "War destructive to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:16", "verse_text": "Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land." }, { "point_text": "War destructive to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:23", "verse_text": "I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers." }, { "point_text": "Patriarchs engaged in", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:2", "verse_text": "And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground." }, { "point_text": "Patriarchs engaged in", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:20", "verse_text": "And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:" }, { "point_text": "The labor of, supposed to be lessened by Noah", "verse_ref": "Genesis 5:29", "verse_text": "And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed." }, { "point_text": "The labor of, supposed to be lessened by Noah", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:20", "verse_text": "And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:" }, { "point_text": "The Jews loved and followed", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:11", "verse_text": "And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites." }, { "point_text": "The Jews loved and followed", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:19", "verse_text": "So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him." }, { "point_text": "The Jews loved and followed", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:10", "verse_text": "Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry." }, { "point_text": "Soil of Canaan suited to", "verse_ref": "Genesis 13:10", "verse_text": "And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar." }, { "point_text": "Soil of Canaan suited to", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:7-9", "verse_text": "For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; 8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; 9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass." }, { "point_text": "Climate of Canaan favorable to", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:10-11", "verse_text": "For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: 11 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:" }, { "point_text": "WAS PROMOTED AMONGST THE JEWS, BY", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Allotments to each family", "verse_ref": "Numbers 36:7-9", "verse_text": "So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. 8 And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers. 9 Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance." }, { "point_text": "The rights of redemption", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:23-28", "verse_text": "The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me. 24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land. 25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold. 26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it; ..." }, { "point_text": "Separation from other nations", "verse_ref": "Exodus 33:16", "verse_text": "For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth." }, { "point_text": "The prohibition against usury", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:25", "verse_text": "If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury." }, { "point_text": "The promises of God's blessings on", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:4", "verse_text": "Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit." }, { "point_text": "The promises of God's blessings on", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:13", "verse_text": "And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee." }, { "point_text": "The promises of God's blessings on", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:14-15", "verse_text": "That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. 15 And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full." }, { "point_text": "ENACTMENTS TO PROTECT;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Not to covet the fields of another", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:21", "verse_text": "Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's." }, { "point_text": "Not to move landmarks", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 19:14", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it." }, { "point_text": "Not to move landmarks", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:28", "verse_text": "Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set." }, { "point_text": "Not to cut down crops of another", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:25", "verse_text": "When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn." }, { "point_text": "Against the trespass of cattle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:5", "verse_text": "If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution." }, { "point_text": "Against injuring the produce of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:6", "verse_text": "If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution." }, { "point_text": "Often performed by hirelings", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:26", "verse_text": "And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:" }, { "point_text": "Often performed by hirelings", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:10", "verse_text": "Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry." }, { "point_text": "Often performed by hirelings", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:8", "verse_text": "So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first." }, { "point_text": "Often performed by hirelings", "verse_ref": "Luke 17:7", "verse_text": "But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?" }, { "point_text": "Not to be engaged in during the Sabbatical year", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:10-11", "verse_text": "And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: 11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard." }, { "point_text": "Produce of, given as rent for land", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:33-34", "verse_text": "Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: 34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it." }, { "point_text": "Produce of, often blasted because of sin", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:10", "verse_text": "Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah." }, { "point_text": "Produce of, often blasted because of sin", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:23", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns." }, { "point_text": "Produce of, often blasted because of sin", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 12:13", "verse_text": "They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Produce of, often blasted because of sin", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:10-11", "verse_text": "The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. 11 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished." }, { "point_text": "Grief occasioned by the failure of the fruits of", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:11", "verse_text": "Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished." }, { "point_text": "Grief occasioned by the failure of the fruits of", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:16-17", "verse_text": "Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing. 17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Produce of, exported", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:11", "verse_text": "And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year." }, { "point_text": "Produce of, exported", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:17", "verse_text": "Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm." }, { "point_text": "OPERATIONS IN;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Hedging", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:2", "verse_text": "And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes." }, { "point_text": "Hedging", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:5", "verse_text": "And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:" }, { "point_text": "Plowing", "verse_ref": "Job 1:14", "verse_text": "And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:" }, { "point_text": "Digging", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:6", "verse_text": "And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it." }, { "point_text": "Digging", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:8", "verse_text": "And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:" }, { "point_text": "Digging", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:3", "verse_text": "Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed." }, { "point_text": "Manuring", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 25:10", "verse_text": "For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill." }, { "point_text": "Manuring", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:34-35", "verse_text": "Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? 35 It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." }, { "point_text": "Harrowing", "verse_ref": "Job 39:10", "verse_text": "Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?" }, { "point_text": "Harrowing", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:24", "verse_text": "Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?" }, { "point_text": "Gathering out the stones", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:2", "verse_text": "And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes." }, { "point_text": "Sowing", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 11:4", "verse_text": "He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap." }, { "point_text": "Sowing", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:20", "verse_text": "Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass." }, { "point_text": "Sowing", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:3", "verse_text": "And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;" }, { "point_text": "Planting", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:16", "verse_text": "She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard." }, { "point_text": "Planting", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:14", "verse_text": "He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it." }, { "point_text": "Planting", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:5", "verse_text": "Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things." }, { "point_text": "Watering", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:10", "verse_text": "For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:" }, { "point_text": "Watering", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:6-8", "verse_text": "I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. 8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour." }, { "point_text": "Weeding", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:28", "verse_text": "He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?" }, { "point_text": "Grafting", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:17-19", "verse_text": "And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; 18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. 19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in." }, { "point_text": "Grafting", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:24", "verse_text": "For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?" }, { "point_text": "Pruning", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:3", "verse_text": "Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;" }, { "point_text": "Pruning", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:6", "verse_text": "And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it." }, { "point_text": "Pruning", "verse_ref": "John 15:2", "verse_text": "Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit." }, { "point_text": "Mowing", "verse_ref": "Psalm 129:7", "verse_text": "Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom." }, { "point_text": "Mowing", "verse_ref": "Amos 7:1", "verse_text": "Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings." }, { "point_text": "Reaping", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 17:5", "verse_text": "And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim." }, { "point_text": "Binding", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:7", "verse_text": "For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf." }, { "point_text": "Binding", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:30", "verse_text": "Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn." }, { "point_text": "Gleaning", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:9", "verse_text": "And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest." }, { "point_text": "Gleaning", "verse_ref": "Ruth 2:3", "verse_text": "And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech." }, { "point_text": "Stacking", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:6", "verse_text": "If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution." }, { "point_text": "Threshing", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 25:4", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn." }, { "point_text": "Threshing", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:11", "verse_text": "And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites." }, { "point_text": "Winnowing", "verse_ref": "Ruth 3:2", "verse_text": "And now is not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley to night in the threshingfloor." }, { "point_text": "Winnowing", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:12", "verse_text": "Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire." }, { "point_text": "Storing in barns", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:26", "verse_text": "Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?" }, { "point_text": "Storing in barns", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:30", "verse_text": "Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn." }, { "point_text": "BEASTS USED IN;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "The ox", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 25:4", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn." }, { "point_text": "The ass", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 22:10", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together." }, { "point_text": "The horse", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:28", "verse_text": "Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen." }, { "point_text": "IMPLEMENTS OF;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "The plow", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:20", "verse_text": "But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock." }, { "point_text": "The harrow", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:31", "verse_text": "And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "The mattock", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:20", "verse_text": "But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock." }, { "point_text": "The mattock", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:25", "verse_text": "And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle." }, { "point_text": "The sickle", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:9", "verse_text": "Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn." }, { "point_text": "The sickle", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:25", "verse_text": "When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn." }, { "point_text": "The pruning-hook", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 18:5", "verse_text": "For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches." }, { "point_text": "The pruning-hook", "verse_ref": "Joel 3:10", "verse_text": "Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong." }, { "point_text": "The fork", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:21", "verse_text": "Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads." }, { "point_text": "The axe", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:20", "verse_text": "But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock." }, { "point_text": "The teethed threshing instrument", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:15", "verse_text": "Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff." }, { "point_text": "The flail, &c", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:27", "verse_text": "For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod." }, { "point_text": "The cart", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 6:7", "verse_text": "Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:" }, { "point_text": "The cart", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:27-28", "verse_text": "For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod. 28 Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen." }, { "point_text": "The shovel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:24", "verse_text": "The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan." }, { "point_text": "The sieve", "verse_ref": "Amos 9:9", "verse_text": "For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "The fan", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:24", "verse_text": "The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan." }, { "point_text": "The fan", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:12", "verse_text": "Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Culture of the Church", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:9", "verse_text": "For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building." }, { "point_text": "Culture of the heart", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:3", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns." }, { "point_text": "Culture of the heart", "verse_ref": "Hosea 10:12", "verse_text": "Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you." } ] }, { "name": "Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Alliance-and-Society-with-the-Enemies-of-God.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:32", "verse_text": "Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:12", "verse_text": "Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:" }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:2", "verse_text": "And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:" }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 13:6", "verse_text": "If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;" }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 13:8", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:" }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:12", "verse_text": "Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:10", "verse_text": "My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:15", "verse_text": "My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:" }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:14-17", "verse_text": "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you," }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:11", "verse_text": "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." }, { "point_text": "Lead to idolatry", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:15-16", "verse_text": "Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice; 16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods." }, { "point_text": "Have led to murder and human sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:37-38", "verse_text": "Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, 38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood." }, { "point_text": "Provoke the anger of God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:4", "verse_text": "For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly." }, { "point_text": "Provoke the anger of God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 31:16-17", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. 17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?" }, { "point_text": "Provoke the anger of God", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 19:2", "verse_text": "And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Provoke the anger of God", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:13-14", "verse_text": "And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this; 14 Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping?" }, { "point_text": "Provoke God to leave mean to reap the fruits of them", "verse_ref": "Joshua 23:12-13", "verse_text": "Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you: 13 Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you." }, { "point_text": "Are ensnaring", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:33", "verse_text": "They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Are ensnaring", "verse_ref": "Numbers 25:18", "verse_text": "For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake." }, { "point_text": "Are ensnaring", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:30", "verse_text": "Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise." }, { "point_text": "Are ensnaring", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 13:6", "verse_text": "If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;" }, { "point_text": "Are ensnaring", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:36", "verse_text": "And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them." }, { "point_text": "Are enslaving", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:18-19", "verse_text": "For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage." }, { "point_text": "Are defiling", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:1-2", "verse_text": "Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. 2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass." }, { "point_text": "Are degrading", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:23", "verse_text": "Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them." }, { "point_text": "Are ruinous to spiritual interest", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 29:24", "verse_text": "Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not." }, { "point_text": "Are ruinous to spiritual interest", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:14-15", "verse_text": "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: 15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;" }, { "point_text": "Are ruinous to spiritual interest", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:17", "verse_text": "Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness." }, { "point_text": "Are ruinous to moral character", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:33", "verse_text": "Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners." }, { "point_text": "Are a proof of folly", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:11", "verse_text": "He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding." }, { "point_text": "Children who enter into, bring shame upon their parents", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:7", "verse_text": "Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father." }, { "point_text": "Evil consequences of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:19", "verse_text": "He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough." }, { "point_text": "Evil consequences of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:7", "verse_text": "Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD'S hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad." }, { "point_text": "The wicked are prone to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:18", "verse_text": "When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers." }, { "point_text": "The wicked are prone to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:25", "verse_text": "Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go." }, { "point_text": "The wicked tempt saints to", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 6:2-4", "verse_text": "That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief. 3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you? 4 Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner." }, { "point_text": "Sin of, to be confessed, deeply repented of, and forsaken", "verse_ref": "Ezra 10", "verse_text": "Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore. 2 And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing. 3 Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law. 4 Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be with thee: be of good courage, and do it. ..." }, { "point_text": "Involve saints in their guiltiness", "verse_ref": "2 John 9-11", "verse_text": "Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. 10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: 11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds." }, { "point_text": "Involve saints in their guiltiness", "verse_ref": "Revelation 18:4", "verse_text": "And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." }, { "point_text": "Involve saints in their punishment", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:26", "verse_text": "And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins." }, { "point_text": "Involve saints in their punishment", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:6", "verse_text": "Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence." }, { "point_text": "Involve saints in their punishment", "verse_ref": "Revelation 18:4", "verse_text": "And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." }, { "point_text": "Unbecoming in those called saints", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 19:2", "verse_text": "And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Unbecoming in those called saints", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:14-16", "verse_text": "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people." }, { "point_text": "Unbecoming in those called saints", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:15", "verse_text": "That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;" }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to shun all inducements to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:10-15", "verse_text": "My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: ..." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to shun all inducements to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 4:14-15", "verse_text": "Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. 15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to shun all inducements to", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:17", "verse_text": "Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to hate and avoid", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:7", "verse_text": "Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to hate and avoid", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:17", "verse_text": "Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to hate and avoid", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 5:9-11", "verse_text": "I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to hate and avoid", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:6-7", "verse_text": "Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. 7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to hate and avoid", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:5", "verse_text": "Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to hate and avoid", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:5", "verse_text": "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away." }, { "point_text": "A call to come out from", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:26", "verse_text": "And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins." }, { "point_text": "A call to come out from", "verse_ref": "Ezra 10:11", "verse_text": "Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives." }, { "point_text": "A call to come out from", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:6", "verse_text": "Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence." }, { "point_text": "A call to come out from", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:45", "verse_text": "My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "A call to come out from", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:17", "verse_text": "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you," }, { "point_text": "A call to come out from", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 3:6", "verse_text": "Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us." }, { "point_text": "A call to come out from", "verse_ref": "Revelation 18:4", "verse_text": "And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." }, { "point_text": "Means of preservation from", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 2:10-20", "verse_text": "When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; 11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: 12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; 13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; ..." }, { "point_text": "Means of preservation from", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:27", "verse_text": "Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of avoiding", "verse_ref": "Psalm 1:1", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of forsaking", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:12", "verse_text": "Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of forsaking", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 9:6", "verse_text": "Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of forsaking", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:17-18", "verse_text": "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, 18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." }, { "point_text": "Saints grieve to meet with, in their intercourse with the world", "verse_ref": "Psalm 57:4", "verse_text": "My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword." }, { "point_text": "Saints grieve to meet with, in their intercourse with the world", "verse_ref": "Psalm 120:5-6", "verse_text": "Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar! 6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace." }, { "point_text": "Saints grieve to meet with, in their intercourse with the world", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:7-8", "verse_text": "And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)" }, { "point_text": "Saints grieve to witness in their brethren", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:35", "verse_text": "Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah." }, { "point_text": "Saints grieve to witness in their brethren", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:3", "verse_text": "And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied." }, { "point_text": "Saints grieve to witness in their brethren", "verse_ref": "Ezra 10:6", "verse_text": "Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away." }, { "point_text": "Saints hate and avoid", "verse_ref": "Psalm 26:4", "verse_text": "I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers." }, { "point_text": "Saints hate and avoid", "verse_ref": "Psalm 31:6", "verse_text": "I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Saints hate and avoid", "verse_ref": "Psalm 101:7", "verse_text": "He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight." }, { "point_text": "Saints hate and avoid", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:2", "verse_text": "I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:" }, { "point_text": "Saints deprecate", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:6", "verse_text": "O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall." }, { "point_text": "Saints deprecate", "verse_ref": "Psalm 6:8", "verse_text": "Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping." }, { "point_text": "Saints deprecate", "verse_ref": "Psalm 15:4", "verse_text": "In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not." }, { "point_text": "Saints deprecate", "verse_ref": "Psalm 101:4", "verse_text": "A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person." }, { "point_text": "Saints deprecate", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:115", "verse_text": "Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God." }, { "point_text": "Saints deprecate", "verse_ref": "Psalm 139:19", "verse_text": "Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men." }, { "point_text": "Saints are separate from", "verse_ref": "Exodus 33:16", "verse_text": "For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Saints are separate from", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:21", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat," }, { "point_text": "Saints should be circumspect when undesignedly thrown into", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:16", "verse_text": "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." }, { "point_text": "Saints should be circumspect when undesignedly thrown into", "verse_ref": "Colossians 4:5", "verse_text": "Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time." }, { "point_text": "Saints should be circumspect when undesignedly thrown into", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:12", "verse_text": "Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation." }, { "point_text": "Pious parents prohibit, to their children", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:1", "verse_text": "And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan." }, { "point_text": "Persons in authority should denounce", "verse_ref": "Ezra 10:9-11", "verse_text": "Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain. 10 And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel. 11 Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives." }, { "point_text": "Persons in authority should denounce", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:23-27", "verse_text": "In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab: 24 And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people. 25 And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves. 26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin. ..." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:56", "verse_text": "Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:4", "verse_text": "For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Joshua 23:13", "verse_text": "Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Judges 2:3", "verse_text": "Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:5-8", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites: 6 And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods. 7 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves. 8 Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:7", "verse_text": "Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:14", "verse_text": "Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSolomon,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:1-8", "verse_text": "But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites; 2 Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love. 3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart. 4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. ..." }, { "point_text": "Examples of avoiding.\r\n\nMan of God, \nNehemiah, &c., \n\nDavid, \n\nJeremiah, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nChurch of Ephesus,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 13:7-10", "verse_text": "And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward. 8 And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place: 9 For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest. 10 So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Bethel." }, { "point_text": "Examples of avoiding.\r\n\nMan of God, \nNehemiah, &c., \n\nDavid, \n\nJeremiah, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nChurch of Ephesus,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 6:2-4", "verse_text": "That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief. 3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you? 4 Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner." }, { "point_text": "Examples of avoiding.\r\n\nMan of God, \nNehemiah, &c., \n\nDavid, \n\nJeremiah, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nChurch of Ephesus,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 10:29-31", "verse_text": "They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes; 30 And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons: 31 And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt." }, { "point_text": "Examples of avoiding.\r\n\nMan of God, \nNehemiah, &c., \n\nDavid, \n\nJeremiah, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nChurch of Ephesus,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 101:4-7", "verse_text": "A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person. 5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer. 6 Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me. 7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight." }, { "point_text": "Examples of avoiding.\r\n\nMan of God, \nNehemiah, &c., \n\nDavid, \n\nJeremiah, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nChurch of Ephesus,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:115", "verse_text": "Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God." }, { "point_text": "Examples of avoiding.\r\n\nMan of God, \nNehemiah, &c., \n\nDavid, \n\nJeremiah, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nChurch of Ephesus,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 15:17", "verse_text": "I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation." }, { "point_text": "Examples of avoiding.\r\n\nMan of God, \nNehemiah, &c., \n\nDavid, \n\nJeremiah, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nChurch of Ephesus,", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:51", "verse_text": "(The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Examples of avoiding.\r\n\nMan of God, \nNehemiah, &c., \n\nDavid, \n\nJeremiah, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nChurch of Ephesus,", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:6", "verse_text": "But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate." }, { "point_text": "Examples of forsaking.\r\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\nSons of the Priests,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:27", "verse_text": "So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children." }, { "point_text": "Examples of forsaking.\r\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\nSons of the Priests,", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:21", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat," }, { "point_text": "Examples of forsaking.\r\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\nSons of the Priests,", "verse_ref": "Ezra 10:3-4", "verse_text": "Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law. 4 Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be with thee: be of good courage, and do it." }, { "point_text": "Examples of forsaking.\r\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\nSons of the Priests,", "verse_ref": "Ezra 10:16-17", "verse_text": "And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter. 17 And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month." }, { "point_text": "Examples of forsaking.\r\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\nSons of the Priests,", "verse_ref": "Ezra 10:18-19", "verse_text": "And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives: namely, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah. 19 And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass." }, { "point_text": "Examples of the judgments of God against.\r\n\nKorah, &c., \nAhaziah, \nJudas Iscariot,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:32", "verse_text": "And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods." }, { "point_text": "Examples of the judgments of God against.\r\n\nKorah, &c., \nAhaziah, \nJudas Iscariot,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 22:7-8", "verse_text": "And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab. 8 And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to Ahaziah, he slew them." }, { "point_text": "Examples of the judgments of God against.\r\n\nKorah, &c., \nAhaziah, \nJudas Iscariot,", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:18", "verse_text": "Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out." } ] }, { "name": "Altar of Burnt-offering, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Altar-of-Burntoffering-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Dimensions, &c. of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 27:1", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits." }, { "point_text": "Dimensions, &c. of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 38:1", "verse_text": "And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof." }, { "point_text": "Horns on the corners of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 27:2", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass." }, { "point_text": "Horns on the corners of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 38:2", "verse_text": "And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass." }, { "point_text": "Covered with brass", "verse_ref": "Exodus 27:2", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass." }, { "point_text": "All its vessels of brass", "verse_ref": "Exodus 27:3", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass." }, { "point_text": "All its vessels of brass", "verse_ref": "Exodus 38:3", "verse_text": "And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he of brass." }, { "point_text": "A net-work grate of brass placed in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 27:4", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof." }, { "point_text": "A net-work grate of brass placed in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 38:4", "verse_text": "And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it." }, { "point_text": "Furnished with rings and staves", "verse_ref": "Exodus 27:6", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass." }, { "point_text": "Furnished with rings and staves", "verse_ref": "Exodus 38:5-7", "verse_text": "And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves. 6 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass. 7 And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards." }, { "point_text": "Made after a divine pattern", "verse_ref": "Exodus 27:8", "verse_text": "Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it." }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "The brazen altar", "verse_ref": "Exodus 39:39", "verse_text": "The brasen altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot," }, { "point_text": "The brazen altar", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:64", "verse_text": "The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings." }, { "point_text": "The altar of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 43:4", "verse_text": "Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God." }, { "point_text": "The altar of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Malachi 2:13", "verse_text": "And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand." }, { "point_text": "Placed in the court before the door of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:6", "verse_text": "And thou shalt set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "Placed in the court before the door of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:29", "verse_text": "And he put the altar of burnt offering by the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meat offering; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "Sanctified by God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:44", "verse_text": "And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me in the priest's office." }, { "point_text": "Anointed and sanctified with holy oil", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:10", "verse_text": "And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar most holy." }, { "point_text": "Anointed and sanctified with holy oil", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:10-11", "verse_text": "And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was therein, and sanctified them. 11 And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the laver and his foot, to sanctify them." }, { "point_text": "Cleansed and purified with blood", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:36-37", "verse_text": "And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it. 37 Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy." }, { "point_text": "Was most holy", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:10", "verse_text": "And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar most holy." }, { "point_text": "Sanctified whatever touched it", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:37", "verse_text": "Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy." }, { "point_text": "All sacrifices to be offered on", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:38-42", "verse_text": "Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually. 39 The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even: 40 And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering. 41 And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD. ..." }, { "point_text": "All sacrifices to be offered on", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:7", "verse_text": "Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people." }, { "point_text": "All gifts to be presented at", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:23-24", "verse_text": "Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; 24 Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift." }, { "point_text": "Nothing polluted or defective to be offered on", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:22", "verse_text": "Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Nothing polluted or defective to be offered on", "verse_ref": "Malachi 1:7-8", "verse_text": "Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible. 8 And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Offering at the dedication of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them; 2 That the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their fathers, who were the princes of the tribes, and were over them that were numbered, offered: 3 And they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they brought them before the tabernacle. 4 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ..." }, { "point_text": "THE FIRE UPON,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Came from before the Lord", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 9:24", "verse_text": "And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces." }, { "point_text": "Was continually burning", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:13", "verse_text": "The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out." }, { "point_text": "Consumed the sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:8-9", "verse_text": "And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar: 9 But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Sacrifices bound to the horns of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 118:27", "verse_text": "God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar." }, { "point_text": "The blood of sacrifices put on the horns and poured at the foot of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:12", "verse_text": "And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar." }, { "point_text": "The blood of sacrifices put on the horns and poured at the foot of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:7", "verse_text": "And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "The blood of sacrifices put on the horns and poured at the foot of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:18", "verse_text": "And he shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar which is before the LORD, that is in the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "The blood of sacrifices put on the horns and poured at the foot of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:15", "verse_text": "And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it." }, { "point_text": "THE PRIESTS", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Alone to serve", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:3", "verse_text": "And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die." }, { "point_text": "Alone to serve", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:7", "verse_text": "Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death." }, { "point_text": "Derived support from", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:13", "verse_text": "Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?" }, { "point_text": "Ahaz removed and profaned", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 16:10-16", "verse_text": "And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof. 11 And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus. 12 And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon. 13 And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar. ..." }, { "point_text": "The Jews condemned for swearing lightly by", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:18-19", "verse_text": "And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty. 19 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?" }, { "point_text": "A type of Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:10", "verse_text": "We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle." } ] }, { "name": "Altar of Incense", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Altar-of-Incense.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Dimensions, &c. of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:1", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim wood shalt thou make it." }, { "point_text": "Dimensions, &c. of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 37:25", "verse_text": "And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two cubits was the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same." }, { "point_text": "Covered with gold", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:3", "verse_text": "And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about." }, { "point_text": "Covered with gold", "verse_ref": "Exodus 37:26", "verse_text": "And he overlaid it with pure gold, both the top of it, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns of it: also he made unto it a crown of gold round about." }, { "point_text": "Top of, surrounded with a crown of gold", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:3", "verse_text": "And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about." }, { "point_text": "Top of, surrounded with a crown of gold", "verse_ref": "Exodus 37:26", "verse_text": "And he overlaid it with pure gold, both the top of it, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns of it: also he made unto it a crown of gold round about." }, { "point_text": "Had four rings of gold under the crown for the staves", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:4", "verse_text": "And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it, by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make it; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal." }, { "point_text": "Had four rings of gold under the crown for the staves", "verse_ref": "Exodus 37:27", "verse_text": "And he made two rings of gold for it under the crown thereof, by the two corners of it, upon the two sides thereof, to be places for the staves to bear it withal." }, { "point_text": "Staves of, covered with gold", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:5", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold." }, { "point_text": "Called the golden altar", "verse_ref": "Exodus 39:38", "verse_text": "And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door," }, { "point_text": "Placed before the vail in the outer sanctuary", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:6", "verse_text": "And thou shalt put it before the vail that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with thee." }, { "point_text": "Placed before the vail in the outer sanctuary", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:5", "verse_text": "And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle." }, { "point_text": "Placed before the vail in the outer sanctuary", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:26", "verse_text": "And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the vail:" }, { "point_text": "Said to be before the Lord", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:7", "verse_text": "And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "Said to be before the Lord", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 9:25", "verse_text": "And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto the LORD, and he burnt incense upon the altar that was before the LORD. So he finished the house." }, { "point_text": "Anointed with holy oil", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:26-27", "verse_text": "And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony, 27 And the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense," }, { "point_text": "The priest burned incense on, every morning and evening", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:7-8", "verse_text": "And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it. 8 And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations." }, { "point_text": "No strange incense nor any sacrifice to be offered on", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:9", "verse_text": "Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon." }, { "point_text": "Atonement made for, by the high priest once every year", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:10", "verse_text": "And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Atonement made for, by the high priest once every year", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:18-19", "verse_text": "And he shall go out unto the altar that is before the LORD, and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about. 19 And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "The blood of all sin offerings put on the horns of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:7", "verse_text": "And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "The blood of all sin offerings put on the horns of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:18", "verse_text": "And he shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar which is before the LORD, that is in the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "PUNISHMENT FOR;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Offering strange fire on", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 10:1-2", "verse_text": "And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not. 2 And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Unauthorized offering on", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:16-19", "verse_text": "But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense. 17 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men: 18 And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD God. 19 Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar." }, { "point_text": "Covered by the priest before removal from the sanctuary", "verse_ref": "Numbers 4:11", "verse_text": "And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put to the staves thereof:" }, { "point_text": "A type of Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 8:3", "verse_text": "And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne." }, { "point_text": "A type of Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 9:3", "verse_text": "And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power." } ] }, { "name": "Altars", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Altars.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Designed for sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:24", "verse_text": "An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee." }, { "point_text": "To be made of earth, or unhewn stone", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:24-25", "verse_text": "An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee. 25 And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it." }, { "point_text": "Of brick, hateful to God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:3", "verse_text": "A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;" }, { "point_text": "Natural rocks sometimes used as", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:19-21", "verse_text": "And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it. 20 And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so. 21 Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD departed out of his sight." }, { "point_text": "Natural rocks sometimes used as", "verse_ref": "Judges 13:19-20", "verse_text": "So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on. 20 For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground." }, { "point_text": "Were not to have steps up to them", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:26", "verse_text": "Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon." }, { "point_text": "For idolatrous worship, often erected on roofs of houses", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:12", "verse_text": "And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron." }, { "point_text": "For idolatrous worship, often erected on roofs of houses", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 19:13", "verse_text": "And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods." }, { "point_text": "For idolatrous worship, often erected on roofs of houses", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 32:29", "verse_text": "And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger." }, { "point_text": "Idolaters planted groves near", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:30", "verse_text": "Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy son, that he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the grove that was by it." }, { "point_text": "Idolaters planted groves near", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:32-33", "verse_text": "And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. 33 And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him." }, { "point_text": "Idolaters planted groves near", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 21:3", "verse_text": "For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them." }, { "point_text": "The Jews not to plant groves near", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:21", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee." }, { "point_text": "For idolatrous worship, to be destroyed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:13", "verse_text": "But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:" }, { "point_text": "For idolatrous worship, to be destroyed", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:5", "verse_text": "But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire." }, { "point_text": "Probable origin of inscriptions on", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 27:8", "verse_text": "And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly." }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Of Noah", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:20", "verse_text": "And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar." }, { "point_text": "Of Abraham", "verse_ref": "Genesis 12:7", "verse_text": "And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him." }, { "point_text": "Of Abraham", "verse_ref": "Genesis 13:18", "verse_text": "Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Of Abraham", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:9", "verse_text": "And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood." }, { "point_text": "Of Isaac", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:25", "verse_text": "And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well." }, { "point_text": "Of Jacob", "verse_ref": "Genesis 33:20", "verse_text": "And he erected there an altar, and called it Elelohe-Israel." }, { "point_text": "Of Jacob", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:1", "verse_text": "And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother." }, { "point_text": "Of Jacob", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:3", "verse_text": "And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went." }, { "point_text": "Of Jacob", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:7", "verse_text": "And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother." }, { "point_text": "Of Moses", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:15", "verse_text": "And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi:" }, { "point_text": "Of Moses", "verse_ref": "Exodus 24:4", "verse_text": "And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Of Balaam", "verse_ref": "Numbers 23:1", "verse_text": "And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams." }, { "point_text": "Of Balaam", "verse_ref": "Numbers 23:14", "verse_text": "And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar." }, { "point_text": "Of Balaam", "verse_ref": "Numbers 23:29", "verse_text": "And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams." }, { "point_text": "Of Joshua", "verse_ref": "Joshua 8:30-31", "verse_text": "Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal, 31 As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings." }, { "point_text": "Of the temple of Solomon", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 4:1", "verse_text": "Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof." }, { "point_text": "Of the temple of Solomon", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 4:19", "verse_text": "And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the shewbread was set;" }, { "point_text": "Of the second temple", "verse_ref": "Ezra 3:2-3", "verse_text": "Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God. 3 And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and evening." }, { "point_text": "Of Reubenites, &c. East of Jordan", "verse_ref": "Joshua 22:10", "verse_text": "And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that are in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan, a great altar to see to." }, { "point_text": "Of Gideon", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:26-27", "verse_text": "And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down. 27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared his father's household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night." }, { "point_text": "Of the people of Israel", "verse_ref": "Judges 21:4", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings." }, { "point_text": "Of Samuel", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 7:17", "verse_text": "And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Of David", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:21", "verse_text": "And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people." }, { "point_text": "Of David", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:25", "verse_text": "And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel." }, { "point_text": "Of Jeroboam at Bethel", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:33", "verse_text": "So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense." }, { "point_text": "Of Ahaz", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 16:10-12", "verse_text": "And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof. 11 And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus. 12 And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon." }, { "point_text": "Of the Athenians", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:23", "verse_text": "For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you." }, { "point_text": "For burnt-offering", "verse_ref": "Exodus 27:1-8", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits. 2 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass. 3 And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass. 4 And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof. ..." }, { "point_text": "For incense", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:1-6", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim wood shalt thou make it. 2 A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits shall be the height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of the same. 3 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about. 4 And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it, by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make it; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal. ..." }, { "point_text": "Protection afforded by", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:50-51", "verse_text": "And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar. 51 And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me to day that he will not slay his servant with the sword." }, { "point_text": "Afforded no protection to murderers", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:14", "verse_text": "But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die." }, { "point_text": "Afforded no protection to murderers", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:18-34", "verse_text": "And Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king. 19 Bathsheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand. 20 Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray thee, say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I will not say thee nay. 21 And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife. ..." } ] }, { "name": "Amalekites, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Amalekites-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Descent of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 36:12", "verse_text": "And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah Esau's wife." }, { "point_text": "Descent of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 36:16", "verse_text": "Duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek: these are the dukes that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these were the sons of Adah." }, { "point_text": "CHARACTER OF;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Wicked", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:18", "verse_text": "And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed." }, { "point_text": "Oppressive", "verse_ref": "Judges 10:12", "verse_text": "The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand." }, { "point_text": "Warlike and cruel", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:33", "verse_text": "And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal." }, { "point_text": "Governed by Kings", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:20", "verse_text": "And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites." }, { "point_text": "Governed by Kings", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:32", "verse_text": "Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past." }, { "point_text": "A powerful and influential nation", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:7", "verse_text": "He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted." }, { "point_text": "Possessed cities", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:5", "verse_text": "And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley." }, { "point_text": "COUNTRY OF,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "In the south of Canaan", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:29", "verse_text": "The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan." }, { "point_text": "In the south of Canaan", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 27:8", "verse_text": "And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Extended from Havilah to Shur", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:7", "verse_text": "And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Was the scene of ancient warfare", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:7", "verse_text": "And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar." }, { "point_text": "Part of the Kenites dwelt amongst", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:6", "verse_text": "And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites." }, { "point_text": "Were the first to oppose Israel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:8", "verse_text": "Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim." }, { "point_text": "Discomfited at Rephidim, through the intercession of Moses", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:9-13", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand. 10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. 12 But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. ..." }, { "point_text": "Doomed to utter destruction for opposing Israel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:14", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven." }, { "point_text": "Doomed to utter destruction for opposing Israel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:16", "verse_text": "For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation." }, { "point_text": "Their utter destruction foretold", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:20", "verse_text": "And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever." }, { "point_text": "Presumption of Israel punished by", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:45", "verse_text": "Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah." }, { "point_text": "United with Eglon against Israel", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:13", "verse_text": "And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees." }, { "point_text": "Part of their possessions taken by Ephraim", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:14", "verse_text": "Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer." }, { "point_text": "Part of their possessions taken by Ephraim", "verse_ref": "Judges 12:15", "verse_text": "And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites." }, { "point_text": "With Midian, oppressed Israel", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:3-5", "verse_text": "And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them; 4 And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass. 5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it." }, { "point_text": "Overcome by Gideon", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:33", "verse_text": "Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the valley of Jezreel." }, { "point_text": "Overcome by Gideon", "verse_ref": "Judges 7:21-22", "verse_text": "And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled. 22 And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath." }, { "point_text": "SAUL", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Overcame, and delivered Israel", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:48", "verse_text": "And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them." }, { "point_text": "Commissioned to destroy", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:1-3", "verse_text": "Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD. 2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. 3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass." }, { "point_text": "Massacred", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:4-8", "verse_text": "And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah. 5 And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley. 6 And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites. 7 And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt. ..." }, { "point_text": "Condemned for not utterly destroying", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:9-26", "verse_text": "But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly. 10 Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying, 11 It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night. 12 And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal. ..." }, { "point_text": "Condemned for not utterly destroying", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 28:18", "verse_text": "Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto thee this day." }, { "point_text": "Agag, king of, slain by Samuel", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:32-33", "verse_text": "Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past. 33 And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal." }, { "point_text": "Invaded by David", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 27:8-9", "verse_text": "And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt. 9 And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish." }, { "point_text": "Pillaged and burned Ziklag", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 30:1-2", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire; 2 And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way." }, { "point_text": "Pursued and slain by David", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 30:10-20", "verse_text": "But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor. 11 And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water; 12 And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights. 13 And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick. ..." }, { "point_text": "Spoil taken from, consecrated", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:11-12", "verse_text": "Which also king David did dedicate unto the LORD, with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued; 12 Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah." }, { "point_text": "Confederated against Israel", "verse_ref": "Psalm 83:7", "verse_text": "Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;" }, { "point_text": "Remnant of, completely destroyed during the reign of Hezekiah", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 4:41-43", "verse_text": "And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms: because there was pasture there for their flocks. 42 And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi. 43 And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped, and dwelt there unto this day." } ] }, { "name": "Ambition", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Ambition.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "God condemns", "verse_ref": "Genesis 11:7", "verse_text": "Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." }, { "point_text": "God condemns", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:8", "verse_text": "Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!" }, { "point_text": "Christ condemns", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:1", "verse_text": "At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?" }, { "point_text": "Christ condemns", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:3", "verse_text": "And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." }, { "point_text": "Christ condemns", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:25", "verse_text": "But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them." }, { "point_text": "Christ condemns", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:11-12", "verse_text": "But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant. 12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted." }, { "point_text": "Saints avoid", "verse_ref": "Psalm 131:1-2", "verse_text": "LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. 2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child." }, { "point_text": "Vanity of", "verse_ref": "Job 20:5-9", "verse_text": "That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? 6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; 7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? 8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. ..." }, { "point_text": "Vanity of", "verse_ref": "Job 24:24", "verse_text": "They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn." }, { "point_text": "Vanity of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 49:11-20", "verse_text": "Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names. 12 Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish. 13 This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah. 14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling. ..." }, { "point_text": "Leads to strife and contention", "verse_ref": "James 4:1-2", "verse_text": "From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:19", "verse_text": "He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:12-15", "verse_text": "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. 15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 31:10-11", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height; 11 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness." }, { "point_text": "CONNECTED WITH", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Pride", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:5", "verse_text": "Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:" }, { "point_text": "Covetousness", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:8-9", "verse_text": "Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein. 9 Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!" }, { "point_text": "Cruelty", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:12", "verse_text": "Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam and Eve, \nBuilders of Babel, \nMiriam and Aaron, \nKorah, &c., \nAbsalom, \n\nAdonijah, \nSennacherib, \nShebna,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:5-6", "verse_text": "For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam and Eve, \nBuilders of Babel, \nMiriam and Aaron, \nKorah, &c., \nAbsalom, \n\nAdonijah, \nSennacherib, \nShebna,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 11:4", "verse_text": "And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam and Eve, \nBuilders of Babel, \nMiriam and Aaron, \nKorah, &c., \nAbsalom, \n\nAdonijah, \nSennacherib, \nShebna,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 12:2", "verse_text": "And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam and Eve, \nBuilders of Babel, \nMiriam and Aaron, \nKorah, &c., \nAbsalom, \n\nAdonijah, \nSennacherib, \nShebna,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:3", "verse_text": "And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam and Eve, \nBuilders of Babel, \nMiriam and Aaron, \nKorah, &c., \nAbsalom, \n\nAdonijah, \nSennacherib, \nShebna,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 15:4", "verse_text": "Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam and Eve, \nBuilders of Babel, \nMiriam and Aaron, \nKorah, &c., \nAbsalom, \n\nAdonijah, \nSennacherib, \nShebna,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 18:18", "verse_text": "Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam and Eve, \nBuilders of Babel, \nMiriam and Aaron, \nKorah, &c., \nAbsalom, \n\nAdonijah, \nSennacherib, \nShebna,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:5", "verse_text": "Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam and Eve, \nBuilders of Babel, \nMiriam and Aaron, \nKorah, &c., \nAbsalom, \n\nAdonijah, \nSennacherib, \nShebna,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:23", "verse_text": "By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam and Eve, \nBuilders of Babel, \nMiriam and Aaron, \nKorah, &c., \nAbsalom, \n\nAdonijah, \nSennacherib, \nShebna,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:16", "verse_text": "What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?" } ] }, { "name": "Ammonites, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Ammonites-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Descent of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 19:38", "verse_text": "And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day." }, { "point_text": "CALLED THE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Children of Lot", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:19", "verse_text": "And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession." }, { "point_text": "Children of Ammon", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 25:21", "verse_text": "Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon," }, { "point_text": "Governed by hereditary kings", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 10:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead." }, { "point_text": "COUNTRY OF,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Belonged to the Zamzummims", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:20-21", "verse_text": "(That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims; 21 A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:" }, { "point_text": "Bordered on the Amorites", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:24", "verse_text": "And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong." }, { "point_text": "Was fertile", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:4", "verse_text": "Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me?" }, { "point_text": "Well fortified", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:24", "verse_text": "And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong." }, { "point_text": "Half of, given to the Gadites", "verse_ref": "Joshua 13:25", "verse_text": "And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before Rabbah;" }, { "point_text": "CHARACTER OF,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Cruel and covetous", "verse_ref": "Amos 1:13", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:" }, { "point_text": "Proud and reproachful", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 2:10", "verse_text": "This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Vindictive", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 25:3", "verse_text": "And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity;" }, { "point_text": "Vindictive", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 25:6", "verse_text": "For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel;" }, { "point_text": "Fond of ornaments", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 20:25", "verse_text": "And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much." }, { "point_text": "Idolatrous", "verse_ref": "Judges 10:6", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him." }, { "point_text": "Idolatrous", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:7", "verse_text": "Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon." }, { "point_text": "Idolatrous", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:33", "verse_text": "Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father." }, { "point_text": "Idolatrous", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:13", "verse_text": "And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile." }, { "point_text": "Superstitious", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:3", "verse_text": "And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;" }, { "point_text": "Superstitious", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:9", "verse_text": "Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:" }, { "point_text": "CHIEF CITIES OF,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Rabbah", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:26-27", "verse_text": "And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city. 27 And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters." }, { "point_text": "Ai", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:3", "verse_text": "Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together." }, { "point_text": "JEWISH LAWS RESPECTING", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Perpetual exclusion from the congregation", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:3", "verse_text": "An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:" }, { "point_text": "Perpetual exclusion from the congregation", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:1", "verse_text": "On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;" }, { "point_text": "No covenant to made with", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:6", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever." }, { "point_text": "Not to be distressed", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:19", "verse_text": "And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession." }, { "point_text": "Not to be distressed", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 20:10", "verse_text": "And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;" }, { "point_text": "Assisted Eglon against Israel", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:12-13", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD. 13 And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees." }, { "point_text": "With the Philistines oppressed Israel for eighteen years", "verse_ref": "Judges 10:6-9", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him. 7 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon. 8 And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead. 9 Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed." }, { "point_text": "Jephthah raised up to deliver Israel from", "verse_ref": "Judges 10:15-18", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day. 16 And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. 17 Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpeh. 18 And the people and princes of Gilead said one to another, What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead." }, { "point_text": "Jephthah raised up to deliver Israel from", "verse_ref": "Judges 11:4-33", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel. 5 And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob: 6 And they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon. 7 And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father's house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress? ..." }, { "point_text": "Proposed a disgraceful treaty to Jabesh-gilead", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 11:1-3", "verse_text": "Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabeshgilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee. 2 And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel. 3 And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and then, if there be no man to save us, we will come out to thee." }, { "point_text": "Saul's victories over", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 11:11", "verse_text": "And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together." }, { "point_text": "Saul's victories over", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:47", "verse_text": "So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed them." }, { "point_text": "Ill-treated David's embassadors", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 10:1-4", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead. 2 Then said David, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father shewed kindness unto me. And David sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon. 3 And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David rather sent his servants unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it? 4 Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away." }, { "point_text": "Hired the Syrians against David", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 10:6", "verse_text": "And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men." }, { "point_text": "Victories of Joab over", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 10:7-14", "verse_text": "And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men. 8 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entering in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba, and of Rehob, and Ishtob, and Maacah, were by themselves in the field. 9 When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians: 10 And the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of Abishai his brother, that he might put them in array against the children of Ammon. ..." }, { "point_text": "Victories of Joab over", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:26-29", "verse_text": "And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city. 27 And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters. 28 Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it: lest I take the city, and it be called after my name. 29 And David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it." }, { "point_text": "The royal treasure of, taken", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:30", "verse_text": "And he took their king's crown from off his head, the weight whereof was a talent of gold with the precious stones: and it was set on David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance." }, { "point_text": "Of Rabbah reduced to hard bondage", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:31", "verse_text": "And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Spoil of, consecrated to God", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:11-12", "verse_text": "Which also king David did dedicate unto the LORD, with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued; 12 Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah." }, { "point_text": "One of David's mighty men was of", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 23:37", "verse_text": "Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armourbearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah," }, { "point_text": "Solomon intermarried with, and introduced idols of into Israel", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:1-5", "verse_text": "But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites; 2 Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love. 3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart. 4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. ..." }, { "point_text": "Confederated against Jehoshaphat", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 20:1", "verse_text": "It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them other beside the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle." }, { "point_text": "Confederated against Jehoshaphat", "verse_ref": "Psalm 83:7", "verse_text": "Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;" }, { "point_text": "Miraculous defeat of", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 20:5-24", "verse_text": "And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court, 6 And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee? 7 Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever? 8 And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying, ..." }, { "point_text": "Submitted to Uzziah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:8", "verse_text": "And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad even to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened himself exceedingly." }, { "point_text": "Defeated by Jotham", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 27:5", "verse_text": "He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third." }, { "point_text": "Seized upon the possessions of Gad", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:1", "verse_text": "Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?" }, { "point_text": "Aided the Chaldeans against Judah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 24:2", "verse_text": "And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets." }, { "point_text": "Vexed the Jews after captivity", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 4:3", "verse_text": "Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall." }, { "point_text": "Vexed the Jews after captivity", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 4:7-8", "verse_text": "But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth, 8 And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it." }, { "point_text": "The Jews reprobated for intermarrying with", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:1-3", "verse_text": "Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. 2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass. 3 And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied." }, { "point_text": "The Jews reprobated for intermarrying with", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:23-28", "verse_text": "In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab: 24 And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people. 25 And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves. 26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin. ..." }, { "point_text": "PREDICTIONS RESPECTING", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Subjection to Babylon", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 25:9-21", "verse_text": "Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations. 10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle. 11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. 12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations. ..." }, { "point_text": "Subjection to Babylon", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:3", "verse_text": "And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;" }, { "point_text": "Subjection to Babylon", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:6", "verse_text": "And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him." }, { "point_text": "Destructions for hatred to Israel", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 25:2-10", "verse_text": "Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them; 3 And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity; 4 Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk. 5 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. ..." }, { "point_text": "Destructions for hatred to Israel", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 2:8-9", "verse_text": "I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border. 9 Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for oppressive cruelty", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:1-5", "verse_text": "Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities? 2 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD. 3 Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together. 4 Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me? ..." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for oppressive cruelty", "verse_ref": "Amos 1:13-15", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border: 14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind: 15 And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Restoration", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:6", "verse_text": "And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Subjection to the Jews", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:14", "verse_text": "But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them." } ] }, { "name": "Amorites, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Amorites-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Descent of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 10:15-16", "verse_text": "And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, 16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite," }, { "point_text": "Descent of", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 1:13-14", "verse_text": "And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth, 14 The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite," }, { "point_text": "One of the seven nations of Canaan", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:21", "verse_text": "And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites." }, { "point_text": "One of the seven nations of Canaan", "verse_ref": "Exodus 3:8", "verse_text": "And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites." }, { "point_text": "One of the seven nations of Canaan", "verse_ref": "Exodus 3:17", "verse_text": "And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey." }, { "point_text": "Governed by many independent kings", "verse_ref": "Joshua 5:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Governed by many independent kings", "verse_ref": "Joshua 9:10", "verse_text": "And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, which was at Ashtaroth." }, { "point_text": "Kings of, great and powerful", "verse_ref": "Psalm 136:18", "verse_text": "And slew famous kings: for his mercy endureth for ever:" }, { "point_text": "Kings of, great and powerful", "verse_ref": "Psalm 136:20", "verse_text": "And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy endureth for ever:" }, { "point_text": "Originally inhabited a mountain district in the south", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:29", "verse_text": "The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan." }, { "point_text": "Originally inhabited a mountain district in the south", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:7", "verse_text": "Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates." }, { "point_text": "Originally inhabited a mountain district in the south", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:20", "verse_text": "And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us." }, { "point_text": "Acquired an extensive territory from Moab east of Jordan", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:26", "verse_text": "For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon." }, { "point_text": "Acquired an extensive territory from Moab east of Jordan", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:30", "verse_text": "We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba." }, { "point_text": "Had many and strong cities", "verse_ref": "Numbers 32:17", "verse_text": "But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land." }, { "point_text": "Had many and strong cities", "verse_ref": "Numbers 32:33", "verse_text": "And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about." }, { "point_text": "Of gigantic strength and stature", "verse_ref": "Amos 2:9", "verse_text": "Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath." }, { "point_text": "CHARACTER OF;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Profane and wicked", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:16", "verse_text": "But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full." }, { "point_text": "Idolatrous", "verse_ref": "Joshua 24:15", "verse_text": "And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Defeated by Chedorlaomer, &c", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:7", "verse_text": "And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar." }, { "point_text": "Joined Abram against the kings", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:13", "verse_text": "And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram." }, { "point_text": "Joined Abram against the kings", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:24", "verse_text": "Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion." }, { "point_text": "Jacob took a portion from", "verse_ref": "Genesis 48:22", "verse_text": "Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow." }, { "point_text": "Forbearance of God towards", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:16", "verse_text": "But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full." }, { "point_text": "Doomed to utter destruction", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 20:17-18", "verse_text": "But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee: 18 That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "Refused a passage to Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:21-23", "verse_text": "And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, 22 Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way, until we be past thy borders. 23 And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel." }, { "point_text": "Refused a passage to Israel", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:30", "verse_text": "But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day." }, { "point_text": "Deprived of their eastern territory by Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:24-35", "verse_text": "And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong. 25 And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof. 26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon. 27 Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared: ..." }, { "point_text": "Land of, given to Reubenites, &c", "verse_ref": "Joshua 13:15-31", "verse_text": "And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance according to their families. 16 And their coast was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain by Medeba; 17 Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamothbaal, and Bethbaalmeon, 18 And Jahazah, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath, ..." }, { "point_text": "Western kings of, confederated against Israel", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:1-5", "verse_text": "Now it came to pass, when Adonizedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them; 2 That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty. 3 Wherefore Adonizedek king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying, 4 Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel. ..." }, { "point_text": "Miraculous overthrow of", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:11-14", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword. 12 Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. 13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. 14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel." }, { "point_text": "Kings of, degraded and slain", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:24-27", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them. 25 And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good courage: for thus shall the LORD do to all your enemies against whom ye fight. 26 And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening. 27 And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in the cave's mouth, which remain until this very day." }, { "point_text": "The Gibeonites a tribe of, deceived Israel into a league", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 21:2", "verse_text": "And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)" }, { "point_text": "The Gibeonites a tribe of, deceived Israel into a league", "verse_ref": "Joshua 9:3-16", "verse_text": "And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai, 4 They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up; 5 And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy. 6 And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now therefore make ye a league with us. ..." }, { "point_text": "The Israelites unable to expel, but extracted tribute from", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:34-35", "verse_text": "And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley: 35 But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributaries." }, { "point_text": "Had peace with Israel in the days of Samuel", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 7:14", "verse_text": "And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites." }, { "point_text": "Brought into bondage by Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 9:20-21", "verse_text": "And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel, 21 Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Ahab followed the abominations of", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:26", "verse_text": "And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Manasseh exceeded abominations of", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 21:11", "verse_text": "Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:" }, { "point_text": "The Jews after the captivity condemned for intermarrying with", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:1-2", "verse_text": "Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. 2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass." }, { "point_text": "Descent from, illustrative of man's natural state", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:3", "verse_text": "And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite." } ] }, { "name": "Amusements and Pleasures, worldly", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Amusements-and-Pleasures-worldly.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Belong to the works of the flesh", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:19", "verse_text": "Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness," }, { "point_text": "Belong to the works of the flesh", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:21", "verse_text": "Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Are transitory", "verse_ref": "Job 21:12-13", "verse_text": "They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. 13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave." }, { "point_text": "Are all vanity", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:11", "verse_text": "Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." }, { "point_text": "Choke the word of God in the heart", "verse_ref": "Luke 8:14", "verse_text": "And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection." }, { "point_text": "Formed a part of idolatrous worship", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:4", "verse_text": "And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Formed a part of idolatrous worship", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:6", "verse_text": "And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play." }, { "point_text": "Formed a part of idolatrous worship", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:19", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount." }, { "point_text": "Formed a part of idolatrous worship", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:7", "verse_text": "Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play." }, { "point_text": "Formed a part of idolatrous worship", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:23-25", "verse_text": "Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand. 24 And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us. 25 And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars." }, { "point_text": "LEAD TO", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Rejection of God", "verse_ref": "Job 21:14-15", "verse_text": "Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?" }, { "point_text": "Poverty", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:17", "verse_text": "He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich." }, { "point_text": "Disregard of the judgments and works of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:12", "verse_text": "And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands." }, { "point_text": "Disregard of the judgments and works of God", "verse_ref": "Amos 6:1-6", "verse_text": "Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came! 2 Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border? 3 Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; 4 That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; ..." }, { "point_text": "Terminate in sorrow", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:13", "verse_text": "Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness." }, { "point_text": "Are likely to lead to greater evil", "verse_ref": "Job 1:5", "verse_text": "And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually." }, { "point_text": "Are likely to lead to greater evil", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:6-8", "verse_text": "But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod. 7 Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask. 8 And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger." }, { "point_text": "The wicked seek for happiness in", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:1", "verse_text": "I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity." }, { "point_text": "The wicked seek for happiness in", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:8", "verse_text": "I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts." }, { "point_text": "INDULGENCE IN", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "A proof of folly", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 7:4", "verse_text": "The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 47:8", "verse_text": "Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:" }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:17", "verse_text": "This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind," }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:19", "verse_text": "Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of the wicked", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:4", "verse_text": "Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;" }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:3", "verse_text": "For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of the wicked", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:3", "verse_text": "For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:" }, { "point_text": "A proof of spiritual death", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:6", "verse_text": "But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth." }, { "point_text": "An abuse of riches", "verse_ref": "James 5:1", "verse_text": "Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you." }, { "point_text": "An abuse of riches", "verse_ref": "James 5:5", "verse_text": "Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter." }, { "point_text": "Wisdom of abstaining from", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 7:2-3", "verse_text": "It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. 3 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better." }, { "point_text": "Shunned by the saints", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:3", "verse_text": "For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:" }, { "point_text": "Abstinence from, seems strange to the wicked", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:4", "verse_text": "Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:" }, { "point_text": "Denounced by God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:11-12", "verse_text": "Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them! 12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 11:9", "verse_text": "Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:13", "verse_text": "And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;" }, { "point_text": "Renunciation of, Exemplified.\r\n\nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:25", "verse_text": "Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;" } ] }, { "name": "Anakim, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Anakim-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Descent of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:22", "verse_text": "And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)" }, { "point_text": "Descent of", "verse_ref": "Joshua 15:13", "verse_text": "And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, even the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron." }, { "point_text": "WERE CALLED", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "The sons of Anak", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:33", "verse_text": "And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight." }, { "point_text": "The sons of the Anakim", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:28", "verse_text": "Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there." }, { "point_text": "The children of the Anakims", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:2", "verse_text": "A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!" }, { "point_text": "Divided into three tribes", "verse_ref": "Joshua 15:14", "verse_text": "And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak." }, { "point_text": "Inhabited the mountains of Judah", "verse_ref": "Joshua 11:21", "verse_text": "And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities." }, { "point_text": "Hebron, chief city of", "verse_ref": "Joshua 14:15", "verse_text": "And the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war." }, { "point_text": "Hebron, chief city of", "verse_ref": "Joshua 21:11", "verse_text": "And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it." }, { "point_text": "Of gigantic strength and stature", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:10-11", "verse_text": "The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; 11 Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims." }, { "point_text": "Of gigantic strength and stature", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:21", "verse_text": "A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:" }, { "point_text": "Israel terrified by", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:1", "verse_text": "And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night." }, { "point_text": "Israel terrified by", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:33", "verse_text": "And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight." }, { "point_text": "Hebron a possession of, given to Caleb for his faithfulness", "verse_ref": "Joshua 14:6-14", "verse_text": "Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea. 7 Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart. 8 Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God. 9 And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God. ..." }, { "point_text": "Driven from Hebron by Caleb", "verse_ref": "Joshua 15:13-14", "verse_text": "And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, even the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron. 14 And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak." }, { "point_text": "Driven from Kirjath-sepher or Debir by Othniel", "verse_ref": "Joshua 15:15-17", "verse_text": "And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher. 16 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife. 17 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife." }, { "point_text": "Driven from Kirjath-sepher or Debir by Othniel", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:12-13", "verse_text": "And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife. 13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife." }, { "point_text": "Almost annihilated", "verse_ref": "Joshua 11:21-22", "verse_text": "And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities. 22 There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained." } ] }, { "name": "Angels", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Angels.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Created by God and Christ", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:6", "verse_text": "Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee." }, { "point_text": "Created by God and Christ", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:16", "verse_text": "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:" }, { "point_text": "Worship God and Christ", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:6", "verse_text": "Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee." }, { "point_text": "Worship God and Christ", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:9-11", "verse_text": "Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; 11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." }, { "point_text": "Worship God and Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:6", "verse_text": "And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him." }, { "point_text": "Are ministering Spirits", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:5", "verse_text": "And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat." }, { "point_text": "Are ministering Spirits", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:17", "verse_text": "The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place." }, { "point_text": "Are ministering Spirits", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:4", "verse_text": "Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:" }, { "point_text": "Are ministering Spirits", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:22", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;" }, { "point_text": "Are ministering Spirits", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:7-11", "verse_text": "And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands. 8 And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me. 9 And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision. 10 When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him. ..." }, { "point_text": "Are ministering Spirits", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:23", "verse_text": "For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve," }, { "point_text": "Are ministering Spirits", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:7", "verse_text": "And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire." }, { "point_text": "Are ministering Spirits", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:14", "verse_text": "Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?" }, { "point_text": "Communicate the will of God and Christ", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:16", "verse_text": "And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision." }, { "point_text": "Communicate the will of God and Christ", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:21-23", "verse_text": "Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation. 22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding. 23 At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision." }, { "point_text": "Communicate the will of God and Christ", "verse_ref": "Daniel 10:11", "verse_text": "And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling." }, { "point_text": "Communicate the will of God and Christ", "verse_ref": "Daniel 12:6-7", "verse_text": "And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders? 7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished." }, { "point_text": "Communicate the will of God and Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:20", "verse_text": "Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life." }, { "point_text": "Communicate the will of God and Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:26", "verse_text": "And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert." }, { "point_text": "Communicate the will of God and Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:5", "verse_text": "And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter:" }, { "point_text": "Communicate the will of God and Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:23", "verse_text": "For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve," }, { "point_text": "Communicate the will of God and Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:1", "verse_text": "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:" }, { "point_text": "Obey the will of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:20", "verse_text": "Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word." }, { "point_text": "Obey the will of God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:10", "verse_text": "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven." }, { "point_text": "Execute the purposes of God", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:22", "verse_text": "And God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him." }, { "point_text": "Execute the purposes of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:21", "verse_text": "Bless ye the LORD, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure." }, { "point_text": "Execute the purposes of God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:39-42", "verse_text": "The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. 40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. 41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; 42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." }, { "point_text": "Execute the purposes of God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:2", "verse_text": "And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it." }, { "point_text": "Execute the purposes of God", "verse_ref": "John 5:4", "verse_text": "For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had." }, { "point_text": "Execute the purposes of God", "verse_ref": "Revelation 5:2", "verse_text": "And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?" }, { "point_text": "Execute the judgments of God", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:16", "verse_text": "And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite." }, { "point_text": "Execute the judgments of God", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:35", "verse_text": "And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses." }, { "point_text": "Execute the judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 35:5-6", "verse_text": "Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them. 6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them." }, { "point_text": "Celebrate the praises of God", "verse_ref": "Job 38:7", "verse_text": "When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?" }, { "point_text": "Celebrate the praises of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:2", "verse_text": "Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts." }, { "point_text": "Celebrate the praises of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:3", "verse_text": "And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory." }, { "point_text": "Celebrate the praises of God", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:13-14", "verse_text": "And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, 14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." }, { "point_text": "The law given by the ministration of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:17", "verse_text": "The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place." }, { "point_text": "The law given by the ministration of", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:53", "verse_text": "Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it." }, { "point_text": "The law given by the ministration of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:2", "verse_text": "For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;" }, { "point_text": "ANNOUNCED", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "The conception of Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 1:20-21", "verse_text": "But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. 21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins." }, { "point_text": "The birth of Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:10-12", "verse_text": "And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. 12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger." }, { "point_text": "The resurrection of Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:5-7", "verse_text": "And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. 6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. 7 And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you." }, { "point_text": "The resurrection of Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:23", "verse_text": "And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive." }, { "point_text": "The ascension and second coming of Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:11", "verse_text": "Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven." }, { "point_text": "The conception of John the Baptist", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:13", "verse_text": "But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John." }, { "point_text": "The conception of John the Baptist", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:36", "verse_text": "And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren." }, { "point_text": "Minister to Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:11", "verse_text": "Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him." }, { "point_text": "Minister to Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:43", "verse_text": "And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him." }, { "point_text": "Minister to Christ", "verse_ref": "John 1:51", "verse_text": "And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man." }, { "point_text": "Are subject to Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:21", "verse_text": "Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:" }, { "point_text": "Are subject to Christ", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:16", "verse_text": "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:" }, { "point_text": "Are subject to Christ", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:10", "verse_text": "And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:" }, { "point_text": "Are subject to Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:22", "verse_text": "Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him." }, { "point_text": "Shall execute the purposes of Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:41", "verse_text": "The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;" }, { "point_text": "Shall execute the purposes of Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:31", "verse_text": "And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other." }, { "point_text": "Shall attend Christ at his second coming", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:27", "verse_text": "For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works." }, { "point_text": "Shall attend Christ at his second coming", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:31", "verse_text": "When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:" }, { "point_text": "Shall attend Christ at his second coming", "verse_ref": "Mark 8:38", "verse_text": "Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels." }, { "point_text": "Shall attend Christ at his second coming", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:7", "verse_text": "And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels," }, { "point_text": "Know and delight in the gospel of Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:9-10", "verse_text": "And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: 10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God," }, { "point_text": "Know and delight in the gospel of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:16", "verse_text": "And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory." }, { "point_text": "Know and delight in the gospel of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:12", "verse_text": "Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into." }, { "point_text": "Ministration of, obtained by prayer", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:53", "verse_text": "Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?" }, { "point_text": "Ministration of, obtained by prayer", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:5", "verse_text": "Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him." }, { "point_text": "Ministration of, obtained by prayer", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:7", "verse_text": "And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands." }, { "point_text": "Rejoice over every repentant sinner", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:7", "verse_text": "I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance." }, { "point_text": "Rejoice over every repentant sinner", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:10", "verse_text": "Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth." }, { "point_text": "Have charge over the children of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:7", "verse_text": "The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them." }, { "point_text": "Have charge over the children of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 91:11-12", "verse_text": "For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. 12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone." }, { "point_text": "Are of different orders", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:2", "verse_text": "Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly." }, { "point_text": "Are of different orders", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:16", "verse_text": "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:" }, { "point_text": "Are of different orders", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:22", "verse_text": "Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him." }, { "point_text": "Are of different orders", "verse_ref": "Jude 9", "verse_text": "Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee." }, { "point_text": "Are of different orders", "verse_ref": "Revelation 12:7", "verse_text": "And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels," }, { "point_text": "Not to be worshipped", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:18", "verse_text": "Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind," }, { "point_text": "Not to be worshipped", "verse_ref": "Revelation 19:10", "verse_text": "And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." }, { "point_text": "Not to be worshipped", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:9", "verse_text": "Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God." }, { "point_text": "Are examples of meekness", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:11", "verse_text": "Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Are examples of meekness", "verse_ref": "Jude 9", "verse_text": "Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee." }, { "point_text": "Are wise", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 14:20", "verse_text": "To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth." }, { "point_text": "Are mighty", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:20", "verse_text": "Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word." }, { "point_text": "Are holy", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:31", "verse_text": "When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:" }, { "point_text": "Are elect", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:21", "verse_text": "I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality." }, { "point_text": "Are innumerable", "verse_ref": "Job 25:3", "verse_text": "Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?" }, { "point_text": "Are innumerable", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:22", "verse_text": "But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels," } ] }, { "name": "Anger", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Anger.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 7:9", "verse_text": "Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:22", "verse_text": "But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:19", "verse_text": "Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord." }, { "point_text": "A work of the flesh", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:20", "verse_text": "Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies," }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of fools", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:16", "verse_text": "A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of fools", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:29", "verse_text": "He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of fools", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:3", "verse_text": "A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of fools", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 7:9", "verse_text": "Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools." }, { "point_text": "CONNECTED WITH", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Pride", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:24", "verse_text": "Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath." }, { "point_text": "Cruelty", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:7", "verse_text": "Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel." }, { "point_text": "Cruelty", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:3-4", "verse_text": "A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both. 4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?" }, { "point_text": "Clamor and evil-speaking", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:31", "verse_text": "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:" }, { "point_text": "Malice and blasphemy", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:8", "verse_text": "But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth." }, { "point_text": "Strife and contention", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:19", "verse_text": "It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman." }, { "point_text": "Strife and contention", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 29:22", "verse_text": "An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression." }, { "point_text": "Strife and contention", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:33", "verse_text": "Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife." }, { "point_text": "Brings its own punishment", "verse_ref": "Job 5:2", "verse_text": "For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one." }, { "point_text": "Brings its own punishment", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:19", "verse_text": "A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again." }, { "point_text": "Brings its own punishment", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:28", "verse_text": "He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls." }, { "point_text": "Grievous words stir up", "verse_ref": "Judges 12:4", "verse_text": "Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites." }, { "point_text": "Grievous words stir up", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 19:43", "verse_text": "And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Grievous words stir up", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:1", "verse_text": "A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger." }, { "point_text": "Should not betray us into sin", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:8", "verse_text": "Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil." }, { "point_text": "Should not betray us into sin", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:26", "verse_text": "Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:" }, { "point_text": "In prayer be free from", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:8", "verse_text": "I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting." }, { "point_text": "May be averted by wisdom", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 29:8", "verse_text": "Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath." }, { "point_text": "Meekness pacifies", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:1", "verse_text": "A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger." }, { "point_text": "Meekness pacifies", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 10:4", "verse_text": "If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences." }, { "point_text": "Children should not be provoked to", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:4", "verse_text": "And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Children should not be provoked to", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:21", "verse_text": "Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged." }, { "point_text": "Be slow to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:18", "verse_text": "A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife." }, { "point_text": "Be slow to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:32", "verse_text": "He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city." }, { "point_text": "Be slow to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:11", "verse_text": "The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression." }, { "point_text": "Be slow to", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:7", "verse_text": "For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;" }, { "point_text": "Be slow to", "verse_ref": "James 1:19", "verse_text": "Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:" }, { "point_text": "Avoid those given to", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:6", "verse_text": "O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall." }, { "point_text": "Avoid those given to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:24", "verse_text": "Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:" }, { "point_text": "Justifiable, Exemplified.\r\n\nOur Lord, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\n\n\nNehemiah,", "verse_ref": "Mark 3:5", "verse_text": "And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other." }, { "point_text": "Justifiable, Exemplified.\r\n\nOur Lord, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\n\n\nNehemiah,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:36", "verse_text": "And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?" }, { "point_text": "Justifiable, Exemplified.\r\n\nOur Lord, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\n\n\nNehemiah,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 11:8", "verse_text": "And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee: and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger." }, { "point_text": "Justifiable, Exemplified.\r\n\nOur Lord, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\n\n\nNehemiah,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:19", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount." }, { "point_text": "Justifiable, Exemplified.\r\n\nOur Lord, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\n\n\nNehemiah,", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 10:16", "verse_text": "And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burnt: and he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron which were left alive, saying," }, { "point_text": "Justifiable, Exemplified.\r\n\nOur Lord, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\n\n\nNehemiah,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:15", "verse_text": "And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them." }, { "point_text": "Justifiable, Exemplified.\r\n\nOur Lord, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\n\n\nNehemiah,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 5:6", "verse_text": "And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words." }, { "point_text": "Justifiable, Exemplified.\r\n\nOur Lord, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\n\n\nNehemiah,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:17", "verse_text": "Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?" }, { "point_text": "Justifiable, Exemplified.\r\n\nOur Lord, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\n\n\nNehemiah,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:25", "verse_text": "And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves." }, { "point_text": "Sinful, Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nSimeon and Levi, \nMoses, \nBalaam, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nNaaman, \nAsa, \nUzziah, \nHaman, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nJonah, \nHerod, \nJews, \nHigh Priest, &c", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:5-6", "verse_text": "But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. 6 And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?" }, { "point_text": "Sinful, Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nSimeon and Levi, \nMoses, \nBalaam, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nNaaman, \nAsa, \nUzziah, \nHaman, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nJonah, \nHerod, \nJews, \nHigh Priest, &c", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:45", "verse_text": "Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day?" }, { "point_text": "Sinful, Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nSimeon and Levi, \nMoses, \nBalaam, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nNaaman, \nAsa, \nUzziah, \nHaman, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nJonah, \nHerod, \nJews, \nHigh Priest, &c", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:5-7", "verse_text": "Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. 6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall. 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel." }, { "point_text": "Sinful, Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nSimeon and Levi, \nMoses, \nBalaam, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nNaaman, \nAsa, \nUzziah, \nHaman, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nJonah, \nHerod, \nJews, \nHigh Priest, &c", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:10-11", "verse_text": "And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock? 11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also." }, { "point_text": "Sinful, Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nSimeon and Levi, \nMoses, \nBalaam, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nNaaman, \nAsa, \nUzziah, \nHaman, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nJonah, \nHerod, \nJews, \nHigh Priest, &c", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:27", "verse_text": "And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she fell down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff." }, { "point_text": "Sinful, Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nSimeon and Levi, \nMoses, \nBalaam, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nNaaman, \nAsa, \nUzziah, \nHaman, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nJonah, \nHerod, \nJews, \nHigh Priest, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 20:30", "verse_text": "Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother's nakedness?" }, { "point_text": "Sinful, Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nSimeon and Levi, \nMoses, \nBalaam, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nNaaman, \nAsa, \nUzziah, \nHaman, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nJonah, \nHerod, \nJews, \nHigh Priest, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:4", "verse_text": "And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread." }, { "point_text": "Sinful, Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nSimeon and Levi, \nMoses, \nBalaam, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nNaaman, \nAsa, \nUzziah, \nHaman, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nJonah, \nHerod, \nJews, \nHigh Priest, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:11", "verse_text": "But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper." }, { "point_text": "Sinful, Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nSimeon and Levi, \nMoses, \nBalaam, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nNaaman, \nAsa, \nUzziah, \nHaman, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nJonah, \nHerod, \nJews, \nHigh Priest, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 16:10", "verse_text": "Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time." }, { "point_text": "Sinful, Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nSimeon and Levi, \nMoses, \nBalaam, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nNaaman, \nAsa, \nUzziah, \nHaman, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nJonah, \nHerod, \nJews, \nHigh Priest, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:19", "verse_text": "Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar." }, { "point_text": "Sinful, Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nSimeon and Levi, \nMoses, \nBalaam, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nNaaman, \nAsa, \nUzziah, \nHaman, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nJonah, \nHerod, \nJews, \nHigh Priest, &c", "verse_ref": "Esther 3:5", "verse_text": "And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath." }, { "point_text": "Sinful, Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nSimeon and Levi, \nMoses, \nBalaam, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nNaaman, \nAsa, \nUzziah, \nHaman, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nJonah, \nHerod, \nJews, \nHigh Priest, &c", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:13", "verse_text": "Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before the king." }, { "point_text": "Sinful, Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nSimeon and Levi, \nMoses, \nBalaam, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nNaaman, \nAsa, \nUzziah, \nHaman, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nJonah, \nHerod, \nJews, \nHigh Priest, &c", "verse_ref": "Jonah 4:4", "verse_text": "Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?" }, { "point_text": "Sinful, Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nSimeon and Levi, \nMoses, \nBalaam, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nNaaman, \nAsa, \nUzziah, \nHaman, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nJonah, \nHerod, \nJews, \nHigh Priest, &c", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:16", "verse_text": "Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men." }, { "point_text": "Sinful, Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nSimeon and Levi, \nMoses, \nBalaam, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nNaaman, \nAsa, \nUzziah, \nHaman, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nJonah, \nHerod, \nJews, \nHigh Priest, &c", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:28", "verse_text": "And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath," }, { "point_text": "Sinful, Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nSimeon and Levi, \nMoses, \nBalaam, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nNaaman, \nAsa, \nUzziah, \nHaman, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nJonah, \nHerod, \nJews, \nHigh Priest, &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:17", "verse_text": "Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation," }, { "point_text": "Sinful, Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nSimeon and Levi, \nMoses, \nBalaam, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nNaaman, \nAsa, \nUzziah, \nHaman, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nJonah, \nHerod, \nJews, \nHigh Priest, &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:54", "verse_text": "When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth." } ] }, { "name": "Anger of God, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Anger-of-God-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Averted by Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:11", "verse_text": "For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Averted by Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:14", "verse_text": "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." }, { "point_text": "Is averted from them that believe", "verse_ref": "John 3:14-18", "verse_text": "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. ..." }, { "point_text": "Is averted from them that believe", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:25", "verse_text": "Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;" }, { "point_text": "Is averted from them that believe", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:1", "verse_text": "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Is averted upon confession of sin and repentance", "verse_ref": "Job 33:27-28", "verse_text": "He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; 28 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light." }, { "point_text": "Is averted upon confession of sin and repentance", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:12-14", "verse_text": "Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: 13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. 14 Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?" }, { "point_text": "Is averted upon confession of sin and repentance", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:18-20", "verse_text": "I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, 19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. 20 And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him." }, { "point_text": "Is slow", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:8", "verse_text": "The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy." }, { "point_text": "Is slow", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 48:9", "verse_text": "For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off." }, { "point_text": "Is slow", "verse_ref": "Jonah 4:2", "verse_text": "And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil." }, { "point_text": "Is slow", "verse_ref": "Nahum 1:3", "verse_text": "The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet." }, { "point_text": "Is righteous", "verse_ref": "Psalm 58:10-11", "verse_text": "The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. 11 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth." }, { "point_text": "The justice of, not to be questioned", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:18", "verse_text": "Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth." }, { "point_text": "The justice of, not to be questioned", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:20", "verse_text": "Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?" }, { "point_text": "The justice of, not to be questioned", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:22", "verse_text": "What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:" }, { "point_text": "Manifested in terrors", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:24", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians," }, { "point_text": "Manifested in terrors", "verse_ref": "Psalm 76:6-8", "verse_text": "At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep. 7 Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry? 8 Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still," }, { "point_text": "Manifested in terrors", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 10:10", "verse_text": "But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation." }, { "point_text": "Manifested in terrors", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 2:20-22", "verse_text": "Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? 21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied. 22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed." }, { "point_text": "Manifested in judgments and afflictions", "verse_ref": "Job 21:17", "verse_text": "How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger." }, { "point_text": "Manifested in judgments and afflictions", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:49-51", "verse_text": "He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. 50 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; 51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:" }, { "point_text": "Manifested in judgments and afflictions", "verse_ref": "Psalm 90:7", "verse_text": "For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled." }, { "point_text": "Manifested in judgments and afflictions", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:19", "verse_text": "Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother." }, { "point_text": "Manifested in judgments and afflictions", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:20", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched." }, { "point_text": "Manifested in judgments and afflictions", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 7:19", "verse_text": "They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Manifested in judgments and afflictions", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:17", "verse_text": "But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?" }, { "point_text": "Cannot be resisted", "verse_ref": "Job 9:13", "verse_text": "If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him." }, { "point_text": "Cannot be resisted", "verse_ref": "Job 14:13", "verse_text": "O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!" }, { "point_text": "Cannot be resisted", "verse_ref": "Psalm 76:7", "verse_text": "Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?" }, { "point_text": "Cannot be resisted", "verse_ref": "Nahum 1:6", "verse_text": "Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him." }, { "point_text": "Aggravated by continual provocation", "verse_ref": "Numbers 32:14", "verse_text": "And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel." }, { "point_text": "Specially reserved for the day of wrath", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 1:14-18", "verse_text": "The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, 16 A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers. 17 And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung. ..." }, { "point_text": "Specially reserved for the day of wrath", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:41", "verse_text": "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:" }, { "point_text": "Specially reserved for the day of wrath", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:5", "verse_text": "But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;" }, { "point_text": "Specially reserved for the day of wrath", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:8", "verse_text": "But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath," }, { "point_text": "Specially reserved for the day of wrath", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:8", "verse_text": "In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Specially reserved for the day of wrath", "verse_ref": "Revelation 6:17", "verse_text": "For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?" }, { "point_text": "Specially reserved for the day of wrath", "verse_ref": "Revelation 11:18", "verse_text": "And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth." }, { "point_text": "Specially reserved for the day of wrath", "verse_ref": "Revelation 19:15", "verse_text": "And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God." }, { "point_text": "AGAINST", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "The wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 7:11", "verse_text": "God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day." }, { "point_text": "The wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 21:8-9", "verse_text": "Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee. 9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them." }, { "point_text": "The wicked", "verse_ref": "Nahum 1:2-3", "verse_text": "God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies. 3 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet." }, { "point_text": "Those who forsake him", "verse_ref": "Ezra 8:22", "verse_text": "For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him." }, { "point_text": "Those who forsake him", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:4", "verse_text": "Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward." }, { "point_text": "Unbelief", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:21-22", "verse_text": "Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel; 22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:" }, { "point_text": "Impenitence", "verse_ref": "Psalm 7:12", "verse_text": "If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready." }, { "point_text": "Impenitence", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:30-31", "verse_text": "They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. 31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices." }, { "point_text": "Apostacy", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:26-27", "verse_text": "For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, 27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries." }, { "point_text": "Idolatry", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 29:20", "verse_text": "The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven." }, { "point_text": "Idolatry", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 29:27", "verse_text": "And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:" }, { "point_text": "Idolatry", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:19-20", "verse_text": "And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. 20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith." }, { "point_text": "Idolatry", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:22", "verse_text": "For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains." }, { "point_text": "Idolatry", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 22:17", "verse_text": "Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched." }, { "point_text": "Idolatry", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:58-59", "verse_text": "For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. 59 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:" }, { "point_text": "Sin, in saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:30-32", "verse_text": "If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; 31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; 32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes." }, { "point_text": "Sin, in saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 90:7-9", "verse_text": "For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told." }, { "point_text": "Sin, in saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 99:8", "verse_text": "Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions." }, { "point_text": "Sin, in saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 102:9-10", "verse_text": "For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping, 10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down." }, { "point_text": "Extreme, against those who oppose the gospel", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:2-3", "verse_text": "The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, 3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us." }, { "point_text": "Extreme, against those who oppose the gospel", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:5", "verse_text": "Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure." }, { "point_text": "Extreme, against those who oppose the gospel", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:16", "verse_text": "Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost." }, { "point_text": "Folly of provoking", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:19", "verse_text": "Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?" }, { "point_text": "Folly of provoking", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:22", "verse_text": "Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?" }, { "point_text": "To be dreaded", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:12", "verse_text": "Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him." }, { "point_text": "To be dreaded", "verse_ref": "Psalm 76:7", "verse_text": "Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?" }, { "point_text": "To be dreaded", "verse_ref": "Psalm 90:11", "verse_text": "Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath." }, { "point_text": "To be dreaded", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:28", "verse_text": "And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." }, { "point_text": "To be deprecated", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:11", "verse_text": "And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?" }, { "point_text": "To be deprecated", "verse_ref": "Psalm 6:1", "verse_text": "O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure." }, { "point_text": "To be deprecated", "verse_ref": "Psalm 38:1", "verse_text": "O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure." }, { "point_text": "To be deprecated", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:1-2", "verse_text": "O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? 2 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt." }, { "point_text": "Removal of, should be prayed for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:10", "verse_text": "Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand." }, { "point_text": "Removal of, should be prayed for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 79:5", "verse_text": "How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?" }, { "point_text": "Removal of, should be prayed for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 80:4", "verse_text": "O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?" }, { "point_text": "Removal of, should be prayed for", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:16", "verse_text": "O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us." }, { "point_text": "Removal of, should be prayed for", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 3:2", "verse_text": "O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy." }, { "point_text": "Tempered with mercy to saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 30:5", "verse_text": "For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." }, { "point_text": "Tempered with mercy to saints", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:20", "verse_text": "Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast." }, { "point_text": "Tempered with mercy to saints", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:8", "verse_text": "In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer." }, { "point_text": "Tempered with mercy to saints", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:15-16", "verse_text": "For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. 16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made." }, { "point_text": "To be born with submission", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:17", "verse_text": "And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house." }, { "point_text": "To be born with submission", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:39", "verse_text": "Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?" }, { "point_text": "To be born with submission", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:43", "verse_text": "Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied." }, { "point_text": "Should lead to repentance", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:24-25", "verse_text": "Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law. 25 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:21-23", "verse_text": "And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: 22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. 23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 11:8", "verse_text": "So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 19:24-25", "verse_text": "Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; 25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 7:20", "verse_text": "And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 8:6", "verse_text": "And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 8:16", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:3", "verse_text": "Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:9", "verse_text": "And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 10:13", "verse_text": "And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:29", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:27", "verse_text": "And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:35", "verse_text": "And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:1", "verse_text": "And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:40-45", "verse_text": "And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned. 41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper. 42 Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies. 43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:6", "verse_text": "And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 25:9", "verse_text": "And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:1", "verse_text": "And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:15", "verse_text": "So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 5:6", "verse_text": "But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 7:10", "verse_text": "And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 10:2", "verse_text": "And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:37", "verse_text": "Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:31", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:35", "verse_text": "And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 12:9-10", "verse_text": "And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed. 10 And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:25", "verse_text": "And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good courage: for thus shall the LORD do to all your enemies against whom ye fight." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:56", "verse_text": "Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 6:19", "verse_text": "And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 31:6", "verse_text": "So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 6:7", "verse_text": "And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 21:1", "verse_text": "Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:28", "verse_text": "Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:35", "verse_text": "And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified against.\r\n\nThe old world, \nBuilders of Babel, \nCities of the plain, \nEgyptians, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnemies of Israel, \n\nNadab, &c., \nThe Spies, \nKorah, &c., \n\nAaron and Miriam, \nFive Kings, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Beth-shemesh, \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nSaul's family, \nSennacherib,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:37", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead." } ] }, { "name": "Anointing", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Anointing.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "With oil", "verse_ref": "Psalm 92:10", "verse_text": "But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil." }, { "point_text": "With ointment", "verse_ref": "John 11:2", "verse_text": "(It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)" }, { "point_text": "WAS USED FOR", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Decorating the person", "verse_ref": "Ruth 3:3", "verse_text": "Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: but make not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking." }, { "point_text": "Refreshing the body", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 28:15", "verse_text": "And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria." }, { "point_text": "Purifying the body", "verse_ref": "Esther 2:12", "verse_text": "Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)" }, { "point_text": "Purifying the body", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:9", "verse_text": "And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell." }, { "point_text": "Curing the sick", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:13", "verse_text": "And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them." }, { "point_text": "Curing the sick", "verse_ref": "James 5:14", "verse_text": "Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:" }, { "point_text": "Healing wounds", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:6", "verse_text": "From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment." }, { "point_text": "Healing wounds", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:34", "verse_text": "And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him." }, { "point_text": "Preparing weapons for war", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 21:5", "verse_text": "Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield." }, { "point_text": "Preparing the dead for burial", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:12", "verse_text": "For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial." }, { "point_text": "Preparing the dead for burial", "verse_ref": "Mark 16:1", "verse_text": "And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him." }, { "point_text": "Preparing the dead for burial", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:56", "verse_text": "And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment." }, { "point_text": "The Jews very fond of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:9", "verse_text": "Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel." }, { "point_text": "The Jews very fond of", "verse_ref": "Amos 6:6", "verse_text": "That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph." }, { "point_text": "WAS APPLIED TO", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "The head", "verse_ref": "Psalm 23:5", "verse_text": "Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over." }, { "point_text": "The head", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 9:8", "verse_text": "Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment." }, { "point_text": "The face", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:15", "verse_text": "And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart." }, { "point_text": "The feet", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:38-39", "verse_text": "And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. 39 Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner." }, { "point_text": "The eyes", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:18", "verse_text": "I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see." }, { "point_text": "OINTMENT FOR,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Richly perfumed", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:10", "verse_text": "How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!" }, { "point_text": "Richly perfumed", "verse_ref": "John 12:3", "verse_text": "Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment." }, { "point_text": "Most expensive", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:13", "verse_text": "And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not." }, { "point_text": "Most expensive", "verse_ref": "Amos 6:6", "verse_text": "That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph." }, { "point_text": "Most expensive", "verse_ref": "John 12:3", "verse_text": "Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment." }, { "point_text": "Most expensive", "verse_ref": "John 12:5", "verse_text": "Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?" }, { "point_text": "Prepared by the apothecary", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 10:1", "verse_text": "Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour." }, { "point_text": "An article of commerce", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:17", "verse_text": "Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm." }, { "point_text": "An article of commerce", "verse_ref": "Revelation 18:13", "verse_text": "And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men." }, { "point_text": "Neglected in times of affliction", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:20", "verse_text": "Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat." }, { "point_text": "Neglected in times of affliction", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 14:2", "verse_text": "And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:" }, { "point_text": "Neglected in times of affliction", "verse_ref": "Daniel 10:3", "verse_text": "I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled." }, { "point_text": "Neglect of, to guests, a mark of disrespect", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:46", "verse_text": "My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment." }, { "point_text": "A token of joy", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 9:7-8", "verse_text": "Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. 8 Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment." }, { "point_text": "Deprivation of, threatened as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:40", "verse_text": "Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit." }, { "point_text": "Deprivation of, threatened as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Micah 6:15", "verse_text": "Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine." }, { "point_text": "Why recommended by Christ in times of fasting", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:17-18", "verse_text": "But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; 18 That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly." } ] }, { "name": "Anointing of the Holy Ghost", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Anointing-of-the-Holy-Ghost.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is from God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:21", "verse_text": "Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God;" }, { "point_text": "THAT CHRIST SHOULD RECEIVE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:7", "verse_text": "Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows." }, { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:1", "verse_text": "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;" }, { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:24", "verse_text": "Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy." }, { "point_text": "Fulfilled", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:18", "verse_text": "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised," }, { "point_text": "Fulfilled", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:21", "verse_text": "And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears." }, { "point_text": "God preserves those who receive", "verse_ref": "Psalm 18:50", "verse_text": "Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore." }, { "point_text": "God preserves those who receive", "verse_ref": "Psalm 20:6", "verse_text": "Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand." }, { "point_text": "God preserves those who receive", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:20-23", "verse_text": "I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him: 21 With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him. 22 The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him. 23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him." }, { "point_text": "Saints receive", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:3", "verse_text": "To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified." }, { "point_text": "Saints receive", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:20", "verse_text": "But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things." }, { "point_text": "Is abiding in saints", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:27", "verse_text": "But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him." }, { "point_text": "Guides into all truth", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:27", "verse_text": "But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:13-15", "verse_text": "And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him, and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the priest's office. 14 And thou shalt bring his sons, and clothe them with coats: 15 And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office: for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:12", "verse_text": "And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and anointed him, to sanctify him." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 16:13", "verse_text": "Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:16", "verse_text": "And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room." } ] }, { "name": "Anointing, Sacred", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Anointing-Sacred.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:18", "verse_text": "And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it." }, { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:14", "verse_text": "And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon." }, { "point_text": "Consecrates to God's service", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:29", "verse_text": "And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy." }, { "point_text": "PERSONS WHO RECEIVED;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Prophets", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:16", "verse_text": "And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room." }, { "point_text": "Prophets", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:1", "verse_text": "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;" }, { "point_text": "Priests", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:13-15", "verse_text": "And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him, and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the priest's office. 14 And thou shalt bring his sons, and clothe them with coats: 15 And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office: for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations." }, { "point_text": "Kings", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:8", "verse_text": "The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us." }, { "point_text": "Kings", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 9:16", "verse_text": "To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me." }, { "point_text": "Kings", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:34", "verse_text": "And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel: and blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God save king Solomon." }, { "point_text": "THINGS WHICH RECEIVED;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Tabernacle, &c", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:26", "verse_text": "And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony," }, { "point_text": "Tabernacle, &c", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:9", "verse_text": "And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels thereof: and it shall be holy." }, { "point_text": "Brazen altar", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:36", "verse_text": "And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it." }, { "point_text": "Brazen altar", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:10", "verse_text": "And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar most holy." }, { "point_text": "Brazen laver", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:11", "verse_text": "And thou shalt anoint the laver and his foot, and sanctify it." }, { "point_text": "THOSE WHO PARTOOK OF,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Protected by God", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:22", "verse_text": "Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm." }, { "point_text": "Protected by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:15", "verse_text": "Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm." }, { "point_text": "Not to be injured or insulted", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 24:6", "verse_text": "And he said unto his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the LORD'S anointed, to stretch forth mine hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Not to be injured or insulted", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 26:9", "verse_text": "And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD'S anointed, and be guiltless?" }, { "point_text": "Not to be injured or insulted", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 1:14", "verse_text": "And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?" }, { "point_text": "Not to be injured or insulted", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 19:21", "verse_text": "But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD'S anointed?" }, { "point_text": "OIL OR OINTMENT FOR;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Divinely prescribed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:23-25", "verse_text": "Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels, 24 And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin: 25 And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil." }, { "point_text": "Compounded by the priests", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 9:30", "verse_text": "And some of the sons of the priests made the ointment of the spices." }, { "point_text": "An holy anointing oil for ever", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:25", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil." }, { "point_text": "An holy anointing oil for ever", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:31", "verse_text": "And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations." }, { "point_text": "Not to be imitated", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:32", "verse_text": "Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it shall be holy unto you." }, { "point_text": "To be put on no stranger", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:33", "verse_text": "Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people." }, { "point_text": "Jews condemned for imitating", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 23:41", "verse_text": "And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE ANOINTING", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Of Christ with the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:7", "verse_text": "Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows." }, { "point_text": "Of Christ with the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:1", "verse_text": "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;" }, { "point_text": "Of Christ with the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:18", "verse_text": "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised," }, { "point_text": "Of saints with the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:27", "verse_text": "But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him." } ] }, { "name": "Antichrist", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Antichrist.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Denies the Father and the Son", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:22", "verse_text": "Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son." }, { "point_text": "Denies the incarnation of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:3", "verse_text": "And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world." }, { "point_text": "Denies the incarnation of Christ", "verse_ref": "2 John 7", "verse_text": "For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of, prevalent in Apostolic times", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:18", "verse_text": "Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time." }, { "point_text": "Deceit, a characteristic of", "verse_ref": "2 John 7", "verse_text": "For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist." } ] }, { "name": "Apostates", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Apostates.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Described", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 13:13", "verse_text": "Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;" }, { "point_text": "Described", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:12", "verse_text": "Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God." }, { "point_text": "Persecution tends to make", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:9-10", "verse_text": "Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. 10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another." }, { "point_text": "A worldly spirit tends to make", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:10", "verse_text": "For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia." }, { "point_text": "Never belonged to Christ", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:19", "verse_text": "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us." }, { "point_text": "Saints do not become", "verse_ref": "Psalm 44:18-19", "verse_text": "Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; 19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death." }, { "point_text": "It is impossible to restore", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:4-6", "verse_text": "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame." }, { "point_text": "Guilt and punishment of", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 1:4-6", "verse_text": "I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests; 5 And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham; 6 And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired for him." }, { "point_text": "Guilt and punishment of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:25-31", "verse_text": "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. 26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, 27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. 28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: ..." }, { "point_text": "Guilt and punishment of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:39", "verse_text": "But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul." }, { "point_text": "Guilt and punishment of", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:17", "verse_text": "These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever." }, { "point_text": "Guilt and punishment of", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:20-22", "verse_text": "For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire." }, { "point_text": "Cautions against becoming", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:12", "verse_text": "Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God." }, { "point_text": "Cautions against becoming", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:17", "verse_text": "Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness." }, { "point_text": "Shall abound in the latter days", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:12", "verse_text": "And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold." }, { "point_text": "Shall abound in the latter days", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:3", "verse_text": "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;" }, { "point_text": "Shall abound in the latter days", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:1-3", "verse_text": "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; 3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAmaziah, \n\nProfessed disciples, \nHymeneus and Alexander,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 25:14", "verse_text": "Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAmaziah, \n\nProfessed disciples, \nHymeneus and Alexander,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 25:27", "verse_text": "Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAmaziah, \n\nProfessed disciples, \nHymeneus and Alexander,", "verse_ref": "John 6:66", "verse_text": "From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAmaziah, \n\nProfessed disciples, \nHymeneus and Alexander,", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:19-20", "verse_text": "Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: 20 Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme." } ] }, { "name": "Apostles, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Apostles-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Christ pre-eminently called \"The Apostle.\"", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:1", "verse_text": "Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;" }, { "point_text": "Ordained by Christ", "verse_ref": "Mark 3:14", "verse_text": "And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach," }, { "point_text": "Ordained by Christ", "verse_ref": "John 15:16", "verse_text": "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you." }, { "point_text": "Received their title from Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:13", "verse_text": "And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles;" }, { "point_text": "CALLED BY", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "God", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:1", "verse_text": "Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother," }, { "point_text": "God", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:28", "verse_text": "And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues." }, { "point_text": "God", "verse_ref": "Galatians 1:1", "verse_text": "Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)" }, { "point_text": "God", "verse_ref": "Galatians 1:15-16", "verse_text": "But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, 16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:" }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:1", "verse_text": "And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease." }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "Mark 3:13", "verse_text": "And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him." }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:24", "verse_text": "But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God." }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:5", "verse_text": "By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:" }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:24", "verse_text": "But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God." }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:5", "verse_text": "By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:" }, { "point_text": "Were unlearned men", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:13", "verse_text": "Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Selected from obscure stations", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:18", "verse_text": "And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers." }, { "point_text": "Sent first to the house of Israel", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:5-6", "verse_text": "These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: 6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Sent to preach the gospel to all nations", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:19-20", "verse_text": "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Christ always present with", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:20", "verse_text": "Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Warned against a timid profession of Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:27-33", "verse_text": "What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops. 28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. 29 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. 30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. ..." }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost given to", "verse_ref": "John 20:22", "verse_text": "And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:" }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost given to", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:1-4", "verse_text": "And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance." }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost given to", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:17", "verse_text": "And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Guided by the Spirit into all truth", "verse_ref": "John 14:26", "verse_text": "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." }, { "point_text": "Guided by the Spirit into all truth", "verse_ref": "John 15:26", "verse_text": "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:" }, { "point_text": "Guided by the Spirit into all truth", "verse_ref": "John 16:13", "verse_text": "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come." }, { "point_text": "Instructed by the Spirit to answer adversaries", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:19-20", "verse_text": "But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. 20 For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you." }, { "point_text": "Specially devoted to the office of the ministry", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:4", "verse_text": "But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word." }, { "point_text": "Specially devoted to the office of the ministry", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:27", "verse_text": "For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God." }, { "point_text": "Humility urged upon", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:26-27", "verse_text": "But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; 27 And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:" }, { "point_text": "Self-denial urged upon", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:37-39", "verse_text": "He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. 39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." }, { "point_text": "Mutual love urged upon", "verse_ref": "John 15:17", "verse_text": "These things I command you, that ye love one another." }, { "point_text": "Equal authority given to each of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:19", "verse_text": "And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." }, { "point_text": "Equal authority given to each of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:18", "verse_text": "Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." }, { "point_text": "Equal authority given to each of", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 11:5", "verse_text": "For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles." }, { "point_text": "Were not of the world", "verse_ref": "John 15:19", "verse_text": "If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you." }, { "point_text": "Were not of the world", "verse_ref": "John 17:16", "verse_text": "They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world." }, { "point_text": "Were hated by the world", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:22", "verse_text": "And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved." }, { "point_text": "Were hated by the world", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:9", "verse_text": "Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake." }, { "point_text": "Were hated by the world", "verse_ref": "John 15:18", "verse_text": "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you." }, { "point_text": "Persecutions and sufferings of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:16", "verse_text": "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." }, { "point_text": "Persecutions and sufferings of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:18", "verse_text": "And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles." }, { "point_text": "Saw Christ in the flesh", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:2", "verse_text": "Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;" }, { "point_text": "Saw Christ in the flesh", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:22", "verse_text": "Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection." }, { "point_text": "Saw Christ in the flesh", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:1", "verse_text": "Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?" }, { "point_text": "Saw Christ in the flesh", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:1", "verse_text": "That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;" }, { "point_text": "Witnesses of the resurrection and ascension of Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:33-41", "verse_text": "And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, 34 Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon. 35 And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread. 36 And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. ..." }, { "point_text": "Witnesses of the resurrection and ascension of Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:51", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven." }, { "point_text": "Empowered to work miracles", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:1", "verse_text": "And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease." }, { "point_text": "Empowered to work miracles", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:8", "verse_text": "Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give." } ] }, { "name": "Ark of the Covenant", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Ark-of-the-Covenant.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Dimensions, &c. of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:10", "verse_text": "And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof." }, { "point_text": "Dimensions, &c. of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 37:1", "verse_text": "And Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it:" }, { "point_text": "Entirely covered with gold", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:11", "verse_text": "And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about." }, { "point_text": "Entirely covered with gold", "verse_ref": "Exodus 37:2", "verse_text": "And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about." }, { "point_text": "Surrounded with a crown of gold", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:11", "verse_text": "And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about." }, { "point_text": "Furnished with rings and staves", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:12-15", "verse_text": "And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it. 13 And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold. 14 And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them. 15 The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it." }, { "point_text": "Furnished with rings and staves", "verse_ref": "Exodus 37:3-5", "verse_text": "And he cast for it four rings of gold, to be set by the four corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two rings upon the other side of it. 4 And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold. 5 And he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, to bear the ark." }, { "point_text": "Tables of testimony alone placed in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:16", "verse_text": "And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee." }, { "point_text": "Tables of testimony alone placed in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:21", "verse_text": "And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee." }, { "point_text": "Tables of testimony alone placed in", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:9", "verse_text": "There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Tables of testimony alone placed in", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:21", "verse_text": "And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Tables of testimony alone placed in", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 5:10", "verse_text": "There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Tables of testimony alone placed in", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:4", "verse_text": "Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;" }, { "point_text": "Mercy-seat laid upon", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:21", "verse_text": "And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee." }, { "point_text": "Mercy-seat laid upon", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:34", "verse_text": "And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place." }, { "point_text": "Placed in the Holy of Holies", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:33", "verse_text": "And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy." }, { "point_text": "Placed in the Holy of Holies", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:21", "verse_text": "And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the vail of the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "Placed in the Holy of Holies", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:3-4", "verse_text": "And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all; 4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;" }, { "point_text": "The pot of manna and Aaron's rod laid up before", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:4", "verse_text": "Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;" }, { "point_text": "The pot of manna and Aaron's rod laid up before", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:33-34", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations. 34 As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept." }, { "point_text": "A copy of the law laid in the side of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 31:26", "verse_text": "Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee." }, { "point_text": "Anointed with sacred oil", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:26", "verse_text": "And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony," }, { "point_text": "Covered with the vail by the priests before removal", "verse_ref": "Numbers 4:5-6", "verse_text": "And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it: 6 And shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof." }, { "point_text": "WAS CALLED THE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Ark of God", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 3:3", "verse_text": "And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep;" }, { "point_text": "Ark of God's strength", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 6:41", "verse_text": "Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness." }, { "point_text": "Ark of God's strength", "verse_ref": "Psalm 132:8", "verse_text": "Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength." }, { "point_text": "Ark of the covenant of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:33", "verse_text": "And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting place for them." }, { "point_text": "Ark of the testimony", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:6", "verse_text": "And thou shalt put it before the vail that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with thee." }, { "point_text": "Ark of the testimony", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:89", "verse_text": "And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him." }, { "point_text": "A symbol of the presence and glory of God", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:43-44", "verse_text": "For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you. 44 But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp." }, { "point_text": "Esteemed the glory of Israel", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 4:21-22", "verse_text": "And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband. 22 And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken." }, { "point_text": "Was holy", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 35:3", "verse_text": "And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel," }, { "point_text": "Sanctified its resting-place", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 8:11", "verse_text": "And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come." }, { "point_text": "The Israelites inquired of the Lord before", "verse_ref": "Joshua 7:6-9", "verse_text": "And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads. 7 And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan! 8 O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies! 9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?" }, { "point_text": "The Israelites inquired of the Lord before", "verse_ref": "Judges 20:27", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel inquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days," }, { "point_text": "The Israelites inquired of the Lord before", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 13:3", "verse_text": "And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we inquired not at it in the days of Saul." }, { "point_text": "WAS CARRIED", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "By priests of Levites alone", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:8", "verse_text": "At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day." }, { "point_text": "By priests of Levites alone", "verse_ref": "Joshua 3:14", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people;" }, { "point_text": "By priests of Levites alone", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 15:24", "verse_text": "And lo Zadok also, and all the Levites were with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God: and they set down the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people had done passing out of the city." }, { "point_text": "By priests of Levites alone", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 15:2", "verse_text": "Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister unto him for ever." }, { "point_text": "Before the Israelites in their journeys", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:33", "verse_text": "And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting place for them." }, { "point_text": "Before the Israelites in their journeys", "verse_ref": "Joshua 3:6", "verse_text": "And Joshua spake unto the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes to the camp in war", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 4:4-5", "verse_text": "So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth between the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God. 5 And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again." }, { "point_text": "Profanation of, punished", "verse_ref": "Numbers 4:5", "verse_text": "And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it:" }, { "point_text": "Profanation of, punished", "verse_ref": "Numbers 4:15", "verse_text": "And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear it: but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "Profanation of, punished", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 6:19", "verse_text": "And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter." }, { "point_text": "Profanation of, punished", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 15:13", "verse_text": "For because ye did it not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order." }, { "point_text": "Protecting of, rewarded", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 13:14", "verse_text": "And the ark of God remained with the family of Obededom in his house three months. And the LORD blessed the house of Obededom, and all that he had." }, { "point_text": "Captured by the Philistines", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 4:11", "verse_text": "And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain." }, { "point_text": "MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Jordan divided", "verse_ref": "Joshua 4:7", "verse_text": "Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever." }, { "point_text": "Fall of the walls of Jericho", "verse_ref": "Joshua 6:6-20", "verse_text": "And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD. 7 And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD. 8 And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns passed on before the LORD, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them. 9 And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trumpets, and the rereward came after the ark, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets. ..." }, { "point_text": "Fall of Dagon", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 5:1-4", "verse_text": "And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod. 2 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. 3 And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again. 4 And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him." }, { "point_text": "Philistines plagued", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 5:6-12", "verse_text": "But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof. 7 And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god. 8 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about thither. 9 And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts. ..." }, { "point_text": "Manner of its restoration", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 6:1-18", "verse_text": "And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months. 2 And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the LORD? tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place. 3 And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you. 4 Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords. ..." }, { "point_text": "At Kirjath-jearim twenty years", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 7:1-2", "verse_text": "And the men of Kirjathjearim came, and fetched up the ark of the LORD, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the LORD. 2 And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjathjearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Removed from Kirjath-jearim to the house of Obed-edom", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 6:1-11", "verse_text": "Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand. 2 And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the LORD of hosts that dwelleth between the cherubims. 3 And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart. 4 And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab which was at Gibeah, accompanying the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark. ..." }, { "point_text": "David made a tent for", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 6:17", "verse_text": "And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "David made a tent for", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 15:1", "verse_text": "And David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent." }, { "point_text": "Brought into the city of David", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 6:12-15", "verse_text": "And it was told king David, saying, The LORD hath blessed the house of Obededom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obededom into the city of David with gladness. 13 And it was so, that when they that bare the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings. 14 And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod. 15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet." }, { "point_text": "Brought into the city of David", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 15:25-28", "verse_text": "So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the house of Obededom with joy. 26 And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams. 27 And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also had upon him an ephod of linen. 28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps." }, { "point_text": "Brought by Solomon into the temple with great solemnity", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:1-6", "verse_text": "Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion. 2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. 3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. 4 And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up. ..." }, { "point_text": "Brought by Solomon into the temple with great solemnity", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 5:2-9", "verse_text": "Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion. 3 Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which was in the seventh month. 4 And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark. 5 And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, these did the priests and the Levites bring up. ..." }, { "point_text": "A type of Christ", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:8", "verse_text": "I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart." }, { "point_text": "A type of Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 11:19", "verse_text": "And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail." } ] }, { "name": "Armies", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Armies.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:1-8", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations; 2 That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar. 3 All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea. 4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. ..." }, { "point_text": "Ancient, often numerous", "verse_ref": "Joshua 11:4", "verse_text": "And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many." }, { "point_text": "Ancient, often numerous", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:5", "verse_text": "And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven." }, { "point_text": "Of different nations often confederated", "verse_ref": "Joshua 9:2", "verse_text": "That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord." }, { "point_text": "Of different nations often confederated", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:5", "verse_text": "Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it." }, { "point_text": "Of different nations often confederated", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:13", "verse_text": "And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees." }, { "point_text": "Of different nations often confederated", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:1", "verse_text": "And Benhadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it." }, { "point_text": "Troops often hired for", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 19:7", "verse_text": "So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle." }, { "point_text": "Troops often hired for", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 25:6", "verse_text": "He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver." }, { "point_text": "WERE COMPOSED OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Bowmen and slingers", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:2", "verse_text": "They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin." }, { "point_text": "Bowmen and slingers", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:29", "verse_text": "The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein." }, { "point_text": "Spearmen or heavy troops", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:30", "verse_text": "Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war." }, { "point_text": "Spearmen or heavy troops", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:23", "verse_text": "And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;" }, { "point_text": "Cavalry", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:9", "verse_text": "But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baalzephon." }, { "point_text": "Cavalry", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:20", "verse_text": "And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and Israel pursued them: and Benhadad the king of Syria escaped on an horse with the horsemen." }, { "point_text": "War-chariots", "verse_ref": "Joshua 17:16", "verse_text": "And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Bethshean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel." }, { "point_text": "War-chariots", "verse_ref": "Judges 4:3", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Often consisted of the whole effective strength of nations", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:23", "verse_text": "And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel." }, { "point_text": "Often consisted of the whole effective strength of nations", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 29:1", "verse_text": "Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in Jezreel." }, { "point_text": "Furnished with standards", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 6:4", "verse_text": "Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners." }, { "point_text": "Furnished with standards", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:18", "verse_text": "And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth." }, { "point_text": "Furnished with standards", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:21", "verse_text": "How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?" }, { "point_text": "Accompanied by beasts of burden and wagons for baggage", "verse_ref": "Judges 7:12", "verse_text": "And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude." }, { "point_text": "Accompanied by beasts of burden and wagons for baggage", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 7:7", "verse_text": "Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life." }, { "point_text": "Accompanied by beasts of burden and wagons for baggage", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 23:2", "verse_text": "Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:" }, { "point_text": "Generally in three divisions", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:15", "verse_text": "And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus." }, { "point_text": "Generally in three divisions", "verse_ref": "Job 1:17", "verse_text": "While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee." }, { "point_text": "WERE LED BY", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Kings in person", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:13", "verse_text": "Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them." }, { "point_text": "Kings in person", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about." }, { "point_text": "Experienced captains", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:17", "verse_text": "And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field." }, { "point_text": "Experienced captains", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:24", "verse_text": "How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?" }, { "point_text": "CALLED THE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Wings of a nation", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:8", "verse_text": "And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel." }, { "point_text": "Wings of a nation", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:40", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab." }, { "point_text": "Power of Kings", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 32:9", "verse_text": "After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem, (but he himself laid siege against Lachish, and all his power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that were at Jerusalem, saying," }, { "point_text": "Hosts", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:5", "verse_text": "Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it." }, { "point_text": "Hosts", "verse_ref": "Judges 8:10", "verse_text": "Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword." }, { "point_text": "Bands", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 24:2", "verse_text": "And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets." }, { "point_text": "Bands", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 7:4", "verse_text": "And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men: for they had many wives and sons." }, { "point_text": "Began their campaigns in the spring", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 11:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Often went on foreign service", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:15", "verse_text": "Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say." }, { "point_text": "Often went on foreign service", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:3", "verse_text": "For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast." }, { "point_text": "MARCHED", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Often in open line", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 1:6", "verse_text": "For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs." }, { "point_text": "Often in open line", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 1:8", "verse_text": "Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat." }, { "point_text": "With order and precision", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:27", "verse_text": "None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:" }, { "point_text": "With order and precision", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:7-8", "verse_text": "They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks: 8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded." }, { "point_text": "With rapidity", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:40", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab." }, { "point_text": "With rapidity", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 1:8", "verse_text": "Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat." }, { "point_text": "With noise and tumult", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 17:12-13", "verse_text": "Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! 13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind." }, { "point_text": "EMPLOYED IN", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Fighting battles", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:2-3", "verse_text": "And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines. 3 And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them." }, { "point_text": "Fighting battles", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 19:17", "verse_text": "And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed over Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him." }, { "point_text": "Besieging cities", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 20:12", "verse_text": "And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:" }, { "point_text": "Besieging cities", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 29:3", "verse_text": "And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee." }, { "point_text": "Assaulting cities", "verse_ref": "Joshua 7:3-4", "verse_text": "And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; and make not all the people to labour thither; for they are but few. 4 So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai." }, { "point_text": "Often surprised their enemies", "verse_ref": "Joshua 8:2", "verse_text": "And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it." }, { "point_text": "Often surprised their enemies", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 13:15", "verse_text": "Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah." }, { "point_text": "Often surprised their enemies", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:12", "verse_text": "Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon." }, { "point_text": "Commenced battles with a shout", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:20", "verse_text": "And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle." }, { "point_text": "Commenced battles with a shout", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 13:15", "verse_text": "Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah." }, { "point_text": "Commenced battles with a shout", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:14", "verse_text": "The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee." }, { "point_text": "Toil and fatigue often endured by", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 29:18", "verse_text": "Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it:" }, { "point_text": "Divided the spoil", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:9", "verse_text": "The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them." }, { "point_text": "Divided the spoil", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 14:1", "verse_text": "Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee." }, { "point_text": "Sent out foraging parties", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:2", "verse_text": "And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife." }, { "point_text": "Exercised savage cruelties on the vanquished", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:42", "verse_text": "They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon." }, { "point_text": "Exercised savage cruelties on the vanquished", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 5:11-13", "verse_text": "They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. 12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. 13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood." }, { "point_text": "Exercised savage cruelties on the vanquished", "verse_ref": "Amos 1:13", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:" }, { "point_text": "Frequently the instrument of God's vengeance", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:5", "verse_text": "They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land." }, { "point_text": "In latter ages received pay", "verse_ref": "Luke 3:14", "verse_text": "And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages." }, { "point_text": "In latter ages received pay", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:7", "verse_text": "Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?" }, { "point_text": "ENCAMPED", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "In the open fields", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 11:11", "verse_text": "And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing." }, { "point_text": "In the open fields", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 11:15", "verse_text": "Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim." }, { "point_text": "Before cities", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:5", "verse_text": "Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it." }, { "point_text": "Before cities", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 11:1", "verse_text": "Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabeshgilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee." }, { "point_text": "Fear occasioned by", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:3", "verse_text": "And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Fear occasioned by", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:25", "verse_text": "Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side." }, { "point_text": "Devastation occasioned by", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 37:18", "verse_text": "Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries," }, { "point_text": "Devastation occasioned by", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:17", "verse_text": "And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword." }, { "point_text": "OFTEN DESTROYED BY", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Their enemies", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:13", "verse_text": "And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword." }, { "point_text": "Their enemies", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:10", "verse_text": "And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Bethhoron, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah." }, { "point_text": "Their enemies", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:20", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest which remained of them entered into fenced cities." }, { "point_text": "Themselves through divine intervention", "verse_ref": "Judges 7:22", "verse_text": "And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath." }, { "point_text": "Themselves through divine intervention", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:15-16", "verse_text": "And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling. 16 And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down one another." }, { "point_text": "Themselves through divine intervention", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 20:23", "verse_text": "For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another." }, { "point_text": "Supernatural means", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:11", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword." }, { "point_text": "Supernatural means", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:35", "verse_text": "And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses." }, { "point_text": "Brought their idols with them", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 14:12", "verse_text": "And when they had left their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire." }, { "point_text": "COMPARED TO", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Whirlwinds", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 25:32", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Waters of a river", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:7", "verse_text": "Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:" }, { "point_text": "Caterpillars", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:14", "verse_text": "The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee." }, { "point_text": "Caterpillars", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:27", "verse_text": "Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers." }, { "point_text": "Grasshoppers", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:3-5", "verse_text": "And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them; 4 And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass. 5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it." }, { "point_text": "Grasshoppers", "verse_ref": "Judges 7:12", "verse_text": "And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude." }, { "point_text": "Locusts", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:4", "verse_text": "And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them." }, { "point_text": "Locusts", "verse_ref": "Revelation 9:3", "verse_text": "And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power." }, { "point_text": "Locusts", "verse_ref": "Revelation 9:7", "verse_text": "And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men." }, { "point_text": "Flies", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:18-19", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes." }, { "point_text": "Clouds", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 38:9-16", "verse_text": "Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee. 10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought: 11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, 12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land. ..." }, { "point_text": "Overflowing torrents", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:2", "verse_text": "Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand." }, { "point_text": "Overflowing torrents", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:10", "verse_text": "But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through: then shall he return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress." }, { "point_text": "Overflowing torrents", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:26", "verse_text": "Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Multitudes of angels", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:19", "verse_text": "And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left." }, { "point_text": "Multitudes of angels", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:2", "verse_text": "Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts." }, { "point_text": "Multitudes of angels", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:35", "verse_text": "And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?" }, { "point_text": "Multitudes of angels", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:53", "verse_text": "Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?" }, { "point_text": "The Church", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:10-13", "verse_text": "And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them. 11 Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. 12 And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered. 13 Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?" }, { "point_text": "The Church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 6:4", "verse_text": "Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners." }, { "point_text": "The Church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 6:10", "verse_text": "Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?" }, { "point_text": "Numerous and heavy afflictions", "verse_ref": "Job 19:12", "verse_text": "His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle." } ] }, { "name": "Armies of Israel, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Armies-of-Israel-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "First mention of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 7:4", "verse_text": "But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments." }, { "point_text": "COLLECTED BY", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Sound of trumpets", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:27", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them." }, { "point_text": "Sound of trumpets", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:34", "verse_text": "But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered after him." }, { "point_text": "Special messengers", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:35", "verse_text": "And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; who also was gathered after him: and he sent messengers unto Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali; and they came up to meet them." }, { "point_text": "Special messengers", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 20:14", "verse_text": "And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to Bethmaachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him." }, { "point_text": "Extraordinary means", "verse_ref": "Judges 19:29", "verse_text": "And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Extraordinary means", "verse_ref": "Judges 20:1", "verse_text": "Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh." }, { "point_text": "Extraordinary means", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 11:7", "verse_text": "And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent." }, { "point_text": "Enrolled by the chief scribe", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:19", "verse_text": "And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the city:" }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "The host", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:9", "verse_text": "When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing." }, { "point_text": "The host", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 28:19", "verse_text": "Moreover the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me: the LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines." }, { "point_text": "The armies of the living God", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:26", "verse_text": "And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?" }, { "point_text": "Composed of infantry", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:21", "verse_text": "And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month." }, { "point_text": "Composed of infantry", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:15", "verse_text": "And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart." }, { "point_text": "Horsemen and chariots introduced into, after David's reign", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:5", "verse_text": "Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him." }, { "point_text": "Horsemen and chariots introduced into, after David's reign", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:26", "verse_text": "And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen." }, { "point_text": "DIVIDED INTO", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Three divisions", "verse_ref": "Judges 7:16", "verse_text": "And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers." }, { "point_text": "Three divisions", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 11:11", "verse_text": "And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together." }, { "point_text": "Van and rear", "verse_ref": "Joshua 6:9", "verse_text": "And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trumpets, and the rereward came after the ark, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets." }, { "point_text": "Companies of thousands, &c", "verse_ref": "Numbers 31:14", "verse_text": "And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle." }, { "point_text": "Companies of thousands, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 1:9", "verse_text": "Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down." }, { "point_text": "Companies of thousands, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 1:11", "verse_text": "Again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty with his fifty. And he answered and said unto him, O man of God, thus hath the king said, Come down quickly." }, { "point_text": "Companies of thousands, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 13:1", "verse_text": "And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader." }, { "point_text": "Companies of thousands, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:1", "verse_text": "Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand." }, { "point_text": "Commanded by the captain of the host", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 2:8", "verse_text": "But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;" }, { "point_text": "Commanded by the captain of the host", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 17:25", "verse_text": "And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother." }, { "point_text": "Commanded by the captain of the host", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 20:23", "verse_text": "Now Joab was over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:" }, { "point_text": "Often led by the king in person", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 8:20", "verse_text": "That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles." }, { "point_text": "Often led by the king in person", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:4-5", "verse_text": "And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah. 5 And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley." }, { "point_text": "Often led by the king in person", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:29", "verse_text": "And David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it." }, { "point_text": "Often led by the king in person", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22", "verse_text": "And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel. 2 And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel. 3 And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we be still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria? 4 And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramothgilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses. ..." }, { "point_text": "INFERIOR OFFICERS OF, APPOINTED BY", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "The shoterim or chief officers", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 20:9", "verse_text": "And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people." }, { "point_text": "The king", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 18:1", "verse_text": "And David numbered the people that were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them." }, { "point_text": "The king", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 25:5", "verse_text": "Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield." }, { "point_text": "The captain of the host", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 18:11", "verse_text": "And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle." }, { "point_text": "The captain of the host", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:13", "verse_text": "And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among mine own people." }, { "point_text": "Persons liable to serve in", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:2-3", "verse_text": "Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls; 3 From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies." }, { "point_text": "PERSONS EXEMPTED FROM SERVING IN", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Who had builded a house", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 20:5", "verse_text": "And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it." }, { "point_text": "Who had planted a vineyard", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 20:6", "verse_text": "And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it." }, { "point_text": "Who were lately betrothed", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 20:7", "verse_text": "And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her." }, { "point_text": "Who were newly married", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:5", "verse_text": "When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken." }, { "point_text": "Refusing to join, stigmatized", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:15-17", "verse_text": "And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart. 16 Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart. 17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches." }, { "point_text": "Refusing to join, often punished", "verse_ref": "Judges 21:5", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation unto the LORD? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the LORD to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death." }, { "point_text": "Refusing to join, often punished", "verse_ref": "Judges 21:8-11", "verse_text": "And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly. 9 For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there. 10 And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children. 11 And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man." }, { "point_text": "Refusing to join, often punished", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 11:7", "verse_text": "And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent." }, { "point_text": "The fearful allowed to leave", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 20:8", "verse_text": "And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart." }, { "point_text": "The fearful allowed to leave", "verse_ref": "Judges 7:3", "verse_text": "Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes consisted of the whole nation", "verse_ref": "Judges 20:11", "verse_text": "So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes consisted of the whole nation", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 11:7", "verse_text": "And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent." }, { "point_text": "Strict discipline observed in", "verse_ref": "Joshua 7:16-21", "verse_text": "So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken: 17 And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was taken: 18 And he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken. 19 And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me. ..." }, { "point_text": "Strict discipline observed in", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:24-44", "verse_text": "And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted any food. 25 And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground. 26 And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath. 27 But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened. ..." }, { "point_text": "Educated in the art of war", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:4", "verse_text": "And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." }, { "point_text": "Educated in the art of war", "verse_ref": "Micah 4:3", "verse_text": "And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." }, { "point_text": "Often supplied with arms from public armories", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 11:12", "verse_text": "And in every several city he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side." }, { "point_text": "Often supplied with arms from public armories", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:14", "verse_text": "And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones." }, { "point_text": "BEFORE GOING TO WAR", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Were numbered and reviewed", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 18:1-2", "verse_text": "And David numbered the people that were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them. 2 And David sent forth a third part of the people under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said unto the people, I will surely go forth with you myself also." }, { "point_text": "Were numbered and reviewed", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 18:4", "verse_text": "And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do. And the king stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by hundreds and by thousands." }, { "point_text": "Were numbered and reviewed", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:15", "verse_text": "Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country." }, { "point_text": "Were numbered and reviewed", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:27", "verse_text": "And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance." }, { "point_text": "Required to keep from iniquity", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:9", "verse_text": "When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing." }, { "point_text": "Consulted the Lord", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:1", "verse_text": "Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?" }, { "point_text": "Consulted the Lord", "verse_ref": "Judges 20:27-28", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel inquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days, 28 And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand." }, { "point_text": "Encouraged by their commanders", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 20:20", "verse_text": "And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper." }, { "point_text": "Ark of God frequently brought with", "verse_ref": "Joshua 6:6-7", "verse_text": "And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD. 7 And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Ark of God frequently brought with", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 4:4-5", "verse_text": "So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth between the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God. 5 And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again." }, { "point_text": "Ark of God frequently brought with", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 11:11", "verse_text": "And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing." }, { "point_text": "Ark of God frequently brought with", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 15:24", "verse_text": "And lo Zadok also, and all the Levites were with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God: and they set down the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people had done passing out of the city." }, { "point_text": "Attended by priest with trumpets", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:9", "verse_text": "And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies." }, { "point_text": "Attended by priest with trumpets", "verse_ref": "Numbers 31:6", "verse_text": "And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand." }, { "point_text": "Attended by priest with trumpets", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 13:13-14", "verse_text": "But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them. 14 And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they cried unto the LORD, and the priests sounded with the trumpets." }, { "point_text": "Praises of God often sung before", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 20:21-22", "verse_text": "And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy endureth for ever. 22 And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten." }, { "point_text": "Often disposed to battle with Judgment, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 10:9", "verse_text": "When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians:" }, { "point_text": "Bravery and fidelity in, rewarded", "verse_ref": "Joshua 15:16", "verse_text": "And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife." }, { "point_text": "Bravery and fidelity in, rewarded", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:25", "verse_text": "And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel." }, { "point_text": "Bravery and fidelity in, rewarded", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 18:17", "verse_text": "And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD'S battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him." }, { "point_text": "Bravery and fidelity in, rewarded", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 18:11", "verse_text": "And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle." }, { "point_text": "Bravery and fidelity in, rewarded", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 11:6", "verse_text": "And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was chief." }, { "point_text": "Men selected from, for difficult enterprises", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:9", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand." }, { "point_text": "Men selected from, for difficult enterprises", "verse_ref": "Numbers 31:5-6", "verse_text": "So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. 6 And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand." }, { "point_text": "Directed in their movements by God", "verse_ref": "Joshua 8:1-2", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land: 2 And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it." }, { "point_text": "With the aid of God all-powerful", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:3", "verse_text": "If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;" }, { "point_text": "With the aid of God all-powerful", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:7-8", "verse_text": "And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8 And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword." }, { "point_text": "Without God easily overcome", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:17", "verse_text": "And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you." }, { "point_text": "Without God easily overcome", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:42", "verse_text": "Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies." }, { "point_text": "Without God easily overcome", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:45", "verse_text": "Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah." }, { "point_text": "MODE OF PROVISIONING", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Food brought by themselves", "verse_ref": "Joshua 1:11", "verse_text": "Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God giveth you to possess it." }, { "point_text": "Food sent by their families", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:17", "verse_text": "And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren;" }, { "point_text": "Contribution levied", "verse_ref": "Judges 8:5", "verse_text": "And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian." }, { "point_text": "Contribution levied", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:4-8", "verse_text": "And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep. 5 And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name: 6 And thus shall ye say to him that liveth in prosperity, Peace be both to thee, and peace be to thine house, and peace be unto all that thou hast. 7 And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel. ..." }, { "point_text": "By presents", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 17:27-29", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim, 28 Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse, 29 And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "Congratulated on returning victorious", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 18:6-7", "verse_text": "And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick. 7 And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands." }, { "point_text": "Purified on returning from war", "verse_ref": "Numbers 31:19-24", "verse_text": "And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day. 20 And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood. 21 And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses; 22 Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, ..." }, { "point_text": "Disbanded after war", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:2", "verse_text": "Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent." }, { "point_text": "Disbanded after war", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:36", "verse_text": "And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own country." }, { "point_text": "Part of, retained in times of peace by the kings", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:1-2", "verse_text": "Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel, 2 Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent." }, { "point_text": "Part of, retained in times of peace by the kings", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:1-15", "verse_text": "Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand. 2 Over the first course for the first month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel: and in his course were twenty and four thousand. 3 Of the children of Perez was the chief of all the captains of the host for the first month. 4 And over the course of the second month was Dodai an Ahohite, and of his course was Mikloth also the ruler: in his course likewise were twenty and four thousand. ..." } ] }, { "name": "Arms, Military", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Arms-Military.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Made of iron, steel, or brass", "verse_ref": "Job 20:24", "verse_text": "He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through." }, { "point_text": "Made of iron, steel, or brass", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:5-6", "verse_text": "And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass. 6 And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders." }, { "point_text": "OFFENSIVE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Sword", "verse_ref": "Judges 20:15", "verse_text": "And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men." }, { "point_text": "Sword", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 32:27", "verse_text": "And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living." }, { "point_text": "Two-edged sword", "verse_ref": "Psalm 149:6", "verse_text": "Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand;" }, { "point_text": "Two-edged sword", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 5:4", "verse_text": "But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword." }, { "point_text": "Dagger", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:16", "verse_text": "But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh." }, { "point_text": "Dagger", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:21-22", "verse_text": "And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly: 22 And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out." }, { "point_text": "Dart or javelin", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 18:10-11", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul's hand. 11 And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice." }, { "point_text": "Dart or javelin", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 18:14", "verse_text": "Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak." }, { "point_text": "Spear or lance", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 26:7", "verse_text": "So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him." }, { "point_text": "Spear or lance", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:42", "verse_text": "They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon." }, { "point_text": "Battle-axe", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:9", "verse_text": "And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers." }, { "point_text": "Battle-axe", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:20", "verse_text": "Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;" }, { "point_text": "Bow and arrows", "verse_ref": "Genesis 48:22", "verse_text": "Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow." }, { "point_text": "Bow and arrows", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:34", "verse_text": "And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded." }, { "point_text": "Sling", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:50", "verse_text": "So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David." }, { "point_text": "Sling", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 3:25", "verse_text": "And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it." }, { "point_text": "Handstaff", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:47", "verse_text": "And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people." }, { "point_text": "Called weapons of war", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 1:27", "verse_text": "How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!" }, { "point_text": "Called instruments of war", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:33", "verse_text": "Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: they were not of double heart." }, { "point_text": "Called instruments of war", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:37", "verse_text": "And on the other side of Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, an hundred and twenty thousand." }, { "point_text": "Called instruments of death", "verse_ref": "Psalm 7:13", "verse_text": "He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors." }, { "point_text": "DEFENSIVE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Helmet", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:5", "verse_text": "And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass." }, { "point_text": "Helmet", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:38", "verse_text": "And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail." }, { "point_text": "Helmet", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:14", "verse_text": "And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones." }, { "point_text": "Coat of mail, breastplate, habergeon, or brigandine", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:5", "verse_text": "And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass." }, { "point_text": "Coat of mail, breastplate, habergeon, or brigandine", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:38", "verse_text": "And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail." }, { "point_text": "Girdle", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 18:4", "verse_text": "And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle." }, { "point_text": "Girdle", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 18:11", "verse_text": "And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle." }, { "point_text": "Target", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:6", "verse_text": "And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders." }, { "point_text": "Greaves", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:6", "verse_text": "And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders." }, { "point_text": "Shield", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:16", "verse_text": "And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target." }, { "point_text": "Shield", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 14:26-27", "verse_text": "And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made. 27 And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's house." }, { "point_text": "Buckler", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 5:18", "verse_text": "The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war." }, { "point_text": "Buckler", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:8", "verse_text": "He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee." }, { "point_text": "Called harness", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:34", "verse_text": "And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded." }, { "point_text": "Called armor", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:22", "verse_text": "But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils." }, { "point_text": "FOR SIEGES", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Battering Rams", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 20:15", "verse_text": "And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down." }, { "point_text": "Battering Rams", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 4:2", "verse_text": "And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about." }, { "point_text": "Engines for casting stones, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:15", "verse_text": "And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong." }, { "point_text": "Not worn in ordinary times", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 21:8", "verse_text": "And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste." }, { "point_text": "Put on at the first alarm", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:9", "verse_text": "Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces." }, { "point_text": "Put on at the first alarm", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 46:3-4", "verse_text": "Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. 4 Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines." }, { "point_text": "Armories built for", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:13", "verse_text": "And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not." }, { "point_text": "Armories built for", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:4", "verse_text": "Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men." }, { "point_text": "Great stores of, prepared", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 32:5", "verse_text": "Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance." }, { "point_text": "WERE PROVIDED", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "By individuals themselves", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:33", "verse_text": "Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: they were not of double heart." }, { "point_text": "By individuals themselves", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:37", "verse_text": "And on the other side of Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, an hundred and twenty thousand." }, { "point_text": "From the public arsenals", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 11:12", "verse_text": "And in every several city he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side." }, { "point_text": "From the public arsenals", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:14", "verse_text": "And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones." }, { "point_text": "Often given as presents", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:25", "verse_text": "And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year." }, { "point_text": "BEFORE USING", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Tried and proved", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:39", "verse_text": "And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him." }, { "point_text": "Burnished", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 46:4", "verse_text": "Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines." }, { "point_text": "Burnished", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 21:9-11", "verse_text": "Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished: 10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree. 11 And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer." }, { "point_text": "Burnished", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 21:28", "verse_text": "And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:" }, { "point_text": "Anointed", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 21:5", "verse_text": "Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield." }, { "point_text": "Part of, borne by armor-bearers", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:54", "verse_text": "Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died." }, { "point_text": "Part of, borne by armor-bearers", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:1", "verse_text": "Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on the other side. But he told not his father." }, { "point_text": "Part of, borne by armor-bearers", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 16:21", "verse_text": "And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armourbearer." }, { "point_text": "Hung of the walls of cities", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:10-11", "verse_text": "They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness. 11 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect." }, { "point_text": "OF THE VANQUISHED,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Taken off them", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 2:21", "verse_text": "And Abner said to him, Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take thee his armour. But Asahel would not turn aside from following of him." }, { "point_text": "Taken off them", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:22", "verse_text": "But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes kept as trophies", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:54", "verse_text": "And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armour in his tent." }, { "point_text": "Sometime burned", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 39:9-10", "verse_text": "And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years: 10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Of conquered nations taken away to prevent rebellion", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:8", "verse_text": "They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?" }, { "point_text": "Of conquered nations taken away to prevent rebellion", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:19-22", "verse_text": "Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears: 20 But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock. 21 Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads. 22 So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found." }, { "point_text": "Inferior to wisdom", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 9:18", "verse_text": "Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Spiritual armor", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:12", "verse_text": "The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light." }, { "point_text": "Spiritual armor", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:7", "verse_text": "By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left," }, { "point_text": "Spiritual armor", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:11-14", "verse_text": "Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;" }, { "point_text": "Spiritual armor", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:8", "verse_text": "But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation." }, { "point_text": "Spiritual weapons", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 10:4", "verse_text": "(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)" }, { "point_text": "Spiritual weapons", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:17", "verse_text": "And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:" }, { "point_text": "Judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:5", "verse_text": "They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land." }, { "point_text": "Judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:25", "verse_text": "The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans." } ] }, { "name": "Arrows", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Arrows.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Deadly and destructive weapons", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:18", "verse_text": "As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death," }, { "point_text": "Called shafts", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:2", "verse_text": "And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;" }, { "point_text": "Sharp", "verse_ref": "Psalm 120:4", "verse_text": "Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper." }, { "point_text": "Sharp", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:28", "verse_text": "Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:" }, { "point_text": "Bright and polished", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:2", "verse_text": "And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;" }, { "point_text": "Bright and polished", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:11", "verse_text": "Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes poisoned", "verse_ref": "Job 6:4", "verse_text": "For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me." }, { "point_text": "Carried in a quiver", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:3", "verse_text": "Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison;" }, { "point_text": "Carried in a quiver", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:2", "verse_text": "And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;" }, { "point_text": "Carried in a quiver", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:16", "verse_text": "Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men." }, { "point_text": "Carried in a quiver", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:13", "verse_text": "He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins." }, { "point_text": "DISCHARGED", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "From a bow", "verse_ref": "Psalm 11:2", "verse_text": "For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart." }, { "point_text": "From a bow", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:24", "verse_text": "With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns." }, { "point_text": "From engines", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:15", "verse_text": "And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong." }, { "point_text": "At a mark for amusement", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 20:20-22", "verse_text": "And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though I shot at a mark. 21 And, behold, I will send a lad, saying, Go, find out the arrows. If I expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows are on this side of thee, take them; then come thou: for there is peace to thee, and no hurt; as the LORD liveth. 22 But if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows are beyond thee; go thy way: for the LORD hath sent thee away." }, { "point_text": "At the beasts of the earth", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:3", "verse_text": "Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison;" }, { "point_text": "Against enemies", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:32", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it." }, { "point_text": "Against enemies", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:14", "verse_text": "Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the LORD." }, { "point_text": "With great force", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:8", "verse_text": "God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows." }, { "point_text": "With great force", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 9:24", "verse_text": "And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot." }, { "point_text": "Fleetness of, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:14", "verse_text": "And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord GOD shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south." }, { "point_text": "The ancients divined by", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 21:21", "verse_text": "For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Of Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:2", "verse_text": "And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;" }, { "point_text": "Of the word of Christ", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:5", "verse_text": "Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee." }, { "point_text": "Of God's judgment", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:23-42", "verse_text": "I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. 24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. 25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs. 26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: ..." }, { "point_text": "Of God's judgment", "verse_ref": "Psalm 7:13", "verse_text": "He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors." }, { "point_text": "Of God's judgment", "verse_ref": "Psalm 21:12", "verse_text": "Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them." }, { "point_text": "Of God's judgment", "verse_ref": "Psalm 64:7", "verse_text": "But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded." }, { "point_text": "Of God's judgment", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 5:16", "verse_text": "When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:" }, { "point_text": "Of severe afflictions", "verse_ref": "Job 6:4", "verse_text": "For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me." }, { "point_text": "Of severe afflictions", "verse_ref": "Psalm 38:2", "verse_text": "For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore." }, { "point_text": "Of bitter words", "verse_ref": "Psalm 64:3", "verse_text": "Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:" }, { "point_text": "Of slanderous tongues", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:8", "verse_text": "Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait." }, { "point_text": "Of false witnesses", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:18", "verse_text": "A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow." }, { "point_text": "Of devices of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 11:2", "verse_text": "For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart." }, { "point_text": "Of young children", "verse_ref": "Psalm 127:5", "verse_text": "Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate." }, { "point_text": "Of lightnings", "verse_ref": "Psalm 77:17-18", "verse_text": "The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad. 18 The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook." }, { "point_text": "(Broken), of destruction of power", "verse_ref": "Psalm 76:3", "verse_text": "There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah." }, { "point_text": "(Falling from the hand), of the paralyzing power", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 39:3", "verse_text": "And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand." } ] }, { "name": "Arts of the", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Arts-of-the.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Apothecary or perfumer", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:25", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil." }, { "point_text": "Apothecary or perfumer", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:35", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:" }, { "point_text": "Armorer", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 8:12", "verse_text": "And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots." }, { "point_text": "Baker", "verse_ref": "Genesis 40:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Baker", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 8:13", "verse_text": "And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers." }, { "point_text": "Brick-maker", "verse_ref": "Genesis 11:3", "verse_text": "And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter." }, { "point_text": "Brick-maker", "verse_ref": "Exodus 5:7-8", "verse_text": "Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves. 8 And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God." }, { "point_text": "Brick-maker", "verse_ref": "Exodus 5:18", "verse_text": "Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks." }, { "point_text": "Brazier", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:22", "verse_text": "And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah." }, { "point_text": "Brazier", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:14", "verse_text": "Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:" }, { "point_text": "Blacksmith", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:22", "verse_text": "And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah." }, { "point_text": "Blacksmith", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:19", "verse_text": "Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:" }, { "point_text": "Carver", "verse_ref": "Exodus 31:5", "verse_text": "And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship." }, { "point_text": "Carver", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:18", "verse_text": "And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen." }, { "point_text": "Carpenter", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 5:11", "verse_text": "And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house." }, { "point_text": "Carpenter", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:3", "verse_text": "Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him." }, { "point_text": "Calker", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:9", "verse_text": "The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise." }, { "point_text": "Calker", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:27", "verse_text": "Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin." }, { "point_text": "Confectioner", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 8:13", "verse_text": "And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers." }, { "point_text": "Dyer", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:5", "verse_text": "And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood," }, { "point_text": "Embroiderer", "verse_ref": "Exodus 35:35", "verse_text": "Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work." }, { "point_text": "Embroiderer", "verse_ref": "Exodus 38:23", "verse_text": "And with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen." }, { "point_text": "Embalmer", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:2-3", "verse_text": "And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. 3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days." }, { "point_text": "Embalmer", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:26", "verse_text": "So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Engraver", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:11", "verse_text": "With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold." }, { "point_text": "Engraver", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:16", "verse_text": "Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me." }, { "point_text": "Engraver", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 3:7", "verse_text": "But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:" }, { "point_text": "Founder", "verse_ref": "Judges 17:4", "verse_text": "Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah." }, { "point_text": "Founder", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 10:9", "verse_text": "Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men." }, { "point_text": "Fuller", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:17", "verse_text": "And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field." }, { "point_text": "Fuller", "verse_ref": "Mark 9:3", "verse_text": "And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them." }, { "point_text": "Gardener", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 29:5", "verse_text": "Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;" }, { "point_text": "Gardener", "verse_ref": "John 20:15", "verse_text": "Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away." }, { "point_text": "Goldsmith", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:19", "verse_text": "The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains." }, { "point_text": "Husbandman", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:2", "verse_text": "And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground." }, { "point_text": "Husbandman", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:20", "verse_text": "And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:" }, { "point_text": "Mariner, &c", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:8-9", "verse_text": "The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots. 9 The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise." }, { "point_text": "Mason", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 5:11", "verse_text": "And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house." }, { "point_text": "Mason", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 24:12", "verse_text": "And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Musician", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 18:6", "verse_text": "And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick." }, { "point_text": "Musician", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 15:16", "verse_text": "And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy." }, { "point_text": "Potter", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 64:8", "verse_text": "But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand." }, { "point_text": "Potter", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 18:3", "verse_text": "Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels." }, { "point_text": "Potter", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 4:2", "verse_text": "The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!" }, { "point_text": "Potter", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 11:13", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Refiner of metals", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 28:18", "verse_text": "And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubims, that spread out their wings, and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Refiner of metals", "verse_ref": "Malachi 3:2-3", "verse_text": "But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: 3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Ropemaker", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:11", "verse_text": "And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man." }, { "point_text": "Silversmith", "verse_ref": "Acts 19:24", "verse_text": "For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;" }, { "point_text": "Stone cutter", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:25", "verse_text": "And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it." }, { "point_text": "Stone cutter", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 22:15", "verse_text": "Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work." }, { "point_text": "Ship-builder", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 9:26", "verse_text": "And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom." }, { "point_text": "Smelter of metals", "verse_ref": "Job 28:2", "verse_text": "Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone." }, { "point_text": "Spinner", "verse_ref": "Exodus 35:25", "verse_text": "And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen." }, { "point_text": "Spinner", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:19", "verse_text": "She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff." }, { "point_text": "Tailor", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:3", "verse_text": "And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office." }, { "point_text": "Tanner", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:43", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that he tarried many days in Joppa with one Simon a tanner." }, { "point_text": "Tanner", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:6", "verse_text": "He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side: he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do." }, { "point_text": "Tent-maker", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:20", "verse_text": "And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle." }, { "point_text": "Tent-maker", "verse_ref": "Acts 18:3", "verse_text": "And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers." }, { "point_text": "Weaver", "verse_ref": "Exodus 35:35", "verse_text": "Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work." }, { "point_text": "Weaver", "verse_ref": "John 19:23", "verse_text": "Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout." }, { "point_text": "Wine-maker", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:15", "verse_text": "In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals." }, { "point_text": "Wine-maker", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:3", "verse_text": "I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment." }, { "point_text": "Writer", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:14", "verse_text": "Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer." } ] }, { "name": "Ascension of Christ, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Ascension-of-Christ-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Prophecies respecting", "verse_ref": "Psalm 24:7", "verse_text": "Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in." }, { "point_text": "Prophecies respecting", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:18", "verse_text": "Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them." }, { "point_text": "Prophecies respecting", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:7-8", "verse_text": "But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. 8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men." }, { "point_text": "Foretold by himself", "verse_ref": "John 6:62", "verse_text": "What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?" }, { "point_text": "Foretold by himself", "verse_ref": "John 7:33", "verse_text": "Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me." }, { "point_text": "Foretold by himself", "verse_ref": "John 14:28", "verse_text": "Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I." }, { "point_text": "Foretold by himself", "verse_ref": "John 16:5", "verse_text": "But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?" }, { "point_text": "Foretold by himself", "verse_ref": "John 20:17", "verse_text": "Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God." }, { "point_text": "Forty days after His resurrection", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:3", "verse_text": "To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:" }, { "point_text": "Described", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:9", "verse_text": "And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight." }, { "point_text": "From Mount Olivet", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:50", "verse_text": "And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them." }, { "point_text": "From Mount Olivet", "verse_ref": "Mark 11:1", "verse_text": "And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples," }, { "point_text": "From Mount Olivet", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:12", "verse_text": "Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey." }, { "point_text": "While blessing his disciples", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:50", "verse_text": "And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them." }, { "point_text": "When he had atoned for sin", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:12", "verse_text": "Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us." }, { "point_text": "When he had atoned for sin", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:12", "verse_text": "But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;" }, { "point_text": "Was triumphant", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:18", "verse_text": "Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them." }, { "point_text": "Was to supreme power and dignity", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:26", "verse_text": "Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?" }, { "point_text": "Was to supreme power and dignity", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:20-21", "verse_text": "Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, 21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:" }, { "point_text": "Was to supreme power and dignity", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:22", "verse_text": "Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him." }, { "point_text": "As the Forerunner of His people", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:20", "verse_text": "Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec." }, { "point_text": "To intercede", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:34", "verse_text": "Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us." }, { "point_text": "To intercede", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:24", "verse_text": "For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:" }, { "point_text": "To send the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "John 16:7", "verse_text": "Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you." }, { "point_text": "To send the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:33", "verse_text": "Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear." }, { "point_text": "To receive gifts for men", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:18", "verse_text": "Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them." }, { "point_text": "To receive gifts for men", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:8", "verse_text": "Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men." }, { "point_text": "To receive gifts for men", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:11", "verse_text": "And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;" }, { "point_text": "To prepare a place for his people", "verse_ref": "John 14:2", "verse_text": "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you." }, { "point_text": "His second coming shall be in like manner as", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:10-11", "verse_text": "And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; 11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:15", "verse_text": "Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:" }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:20", "verse_text": "Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:7", "verse_text": "But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:" }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:9", "verse_text": "Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;" }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:12", "verse_text": "Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us." } ] }, { "name": "Asher, The Tribe of", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Asher-The-Tribe-of.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Descended from Jacob's eighth son", "verse_ref": "Genesis 30:12-13", "verse_text": "And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son. 13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher." }, { "point_text": "Predictions concerning", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:20", "verse_text": "Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties." }, { "point_text": "Predictions concerning", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:24-25", "verse_text": "And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil. 25 Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be." }, { "point_text": "Strength of, on leaving Egypt", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:40-41", "verse_text": "Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 41 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred." }, { "point_text": "PERSONS SELECTED FROM,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "To number the people", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:13", "verse_text": "Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran." }, { "point_text": "To spy out the land", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:13", "verse_text": "Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael." }, { "point_text": "To divide the land", "verse_ref": "Numbers 34:27", "verse_text": "And the prince of the tribe of the children of Asher, Ahihud the son of Shelomi." }, { "point_text": "The center of the fourth division of Israel in its journeys", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:25-26", "verse_text": "And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set forward, which was the rereward of all the camps throughout their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. 26 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ocran." }, { "point_text": "Encamped next to, and under the standard of Dan, north of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 2:25", "verse_text": "The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai." }, { "point_text": "Encamped next to, and under the standard of Dan, north of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 2:27", "verse_text": "And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher: and the captain of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ocran." }, { "point_text": "Offering of, at the dedication", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:72-77", "verse_text": "On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, prince of the children of Asher, offered: 73 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: 74 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: 75 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: ..." }, { "point_text": "Families of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:44-47", "verse_text": "Of the children of Asher after their families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites. 45 Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites. 46 And the name of the daughter of Asher was Sarah. 47 These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbered of them; who were fifty and three thousand and four hundred." }, { "point_text": "Strength of, on entering Canaan", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:47", "verse_text": "These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbered of them; who were fifty and three thousand and four hundred." }, { "point_text": "On Ebal, said amen to the curses of the law", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 27:13", "verse_text": "And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali." }, { "point_text": "Bounds of their inheritance", "verse_ref": "Joshua 19:24-31", "verse_text": "And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families. 25 And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph, 26 And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and reacheth to Carmel westward, and to Shihorlibnath; 27 And turneth toward the sunrising to Bethdagon, and reacheth to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthahel toward the north side of Bethemek, and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul on the left hand, ..." }, { "point_text": "Bordered on the sea", "verse_ref": "Joshua 19:29", "verse_text": "And then the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at the sea from the coast to Achzib:" }, { "point_text": "Bordered on the sea", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:17", "verse_text": "Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches." }, { "point_text": "Did not fully drive out Canaanites", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:31-32", "verse_text": "Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob: 32 But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out." }, { "point_text": "Reproved for not aiding against Sisera", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:17", "verse_text": "Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches." }, { "point_text": "Assisted Gideon against the Midianites", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:35", "verse_text": "And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; who also was gathered after him: and he sent messengers unto Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali; and they came up to meet them." }, { "point_text": "Assisted Gideon against the Midianites", "verse_ref": "Judges 7:23", "verse_text": "And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites." }, { "point_text": "Some of, at coronation of David", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:36", "verse_text": "And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, forty thousand." }, { "point_text": "Officers place over, by Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:16", "verse_text": "Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth:" }, { "point_text": "Aided in Hezekiah's reformation", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 30:11", "verse_text": "Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 7:30-40", "verse_text": "The sons of Asher; Imnah, and Isuah, and Ishuai, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. 31 And the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel, who is the father of Birzavith. 32 And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister. 33 And the sons of Japhlet; Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet. ..." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:36", "verse_text": "And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;" } ] }, { "name": "Asp, or Adder", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Asp-or-Adder.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Dangerous to travellers", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:17", "verse_text": "Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Venomous", "verse_ref": "Job 20:14", "verse_text": "Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him." }, { "point_text": "Venomous", "verse_ref": "Job 20:16", "verse_text": "He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him." }, { "point_text": "Not to be charmed", "verse_ref": "Psalm 58:5", "verse_text": "Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Of obstinate rejecters of God's Word", "verse_ref": "Psalm 58:4-5", "verse_text": "Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; 5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely." }, { "point_text": "Of the enemies of God's people", "verse_ref": "Psalm 91:13", "verse_text": "Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet." }, { "point_text": "(Venom of), of the speech of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 140:3", "verse_text": "They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah." }, { "point_text": "(Venom of), of the speech of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:13", "verse_text": "Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:" }, { "point_text": "(Venom of), of injurious effects of wine", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:33", "verse_text": "Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps." }, { "point_text": "(Venom of), of injurious effects of wine", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:32", "verse_text": "At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder." }, { "point_text": "(Deprived of its venom), of the effects of conversion", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:8-9", "verse_text": "And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. 9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea." } ] }, { "name": "Ass, The Domestic", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Ass-The-Domestic.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Unclean", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:2-3", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth. 3 Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat." }, { "point_text": "Unclean", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:26", "verse_text": "The carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Not devoid of instinct", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:3", "verse_text": "The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider." }, { "point_text": "Strong", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:14", "verse_text": "Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:" }, { "point_text": "Fond of ease", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:14-15", "verse_text": "Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens: 15 And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute." }, { "point_text": "Often fed on vine-leaves", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:11", "verse_text": "Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:" }, { "point_text": "Formed a part of patriarchal wealth", "verse_ref": "Genesis 12:16", "verse_text": "And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels." }, { "point_text": "Formed a part of patriarchal wealth", "verse_ref": "Genesis 30:43", "verse_text": "And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses." }, { "point_text": "Formed a part of patriarchal wealth", "verse_ref": "Job 1:3", "verse_text": "His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east." }, { "point_text": "Formed a part of patriarchal wealth", "verse_ref": "Job 42:12", "verse_text": "So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses." }, { "point_text": "WAS USED", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "In agriculture", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:6", "verse_text": "The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them." }, { "point_text": "In agriculture", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:24", "verse_text": "The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan." }, { "point_text": "For bearing burdens", "verse_ref": "Genesis 42:26", "verse_text": "And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence." }, { "point_text": "For bearing burdens", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:18", "verse_text": "Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses." }, { "point_text": "For riding", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:3", "verse_text": "And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him." }, { "point_text": "For riding", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:21", "verse_text": "And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab." }, { "point_text": "In harness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 21:7", "verse_text": "And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:" }, { "point_text": "In war", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 7:7", "verse_text": "Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life." }, { "point_text": "In war", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 7:10", "verse_text": "So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were." }, { "point_text": "Governed by a bridle", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:3", "verse_text": "A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back." }, { "point_text": "Urged on with a staff", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:23", "verse_text": "And the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way." }, { "point_text": "Urged on with a staff", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:27", "verse_text": "And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she fell down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff." }, { "point_text": "Women often rode on", "verse_ref": "Joshua 15:18", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou?" }, { "point_text": "Women often rode on", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:20", "verse_text": "And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert of the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down against her; and she met them." }, { "point_text": "Persons of rank rode on", "verse_ref": "Judges 10:3-4", "verse_text": "And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years. 4 And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havothjair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead." }, { "point_text": "Persons of rank rode on", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 16:2", "verse_text": "And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink." }, { "point_text": "Judges of Israel rode on white", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:10", "verse_text": "Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way." }, { "point_text": "Young, most valued for labor", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:6", "verse_text": "The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them." }, { "point_text": "Young, most valued for labor", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:24", "verse_text": "The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan." }, { "point_text": "Trusty persons appointed to take care of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 36:24", "verse_text": "And these are the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah: this was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father." }, { "point_text": "Trusty persons appointed to take care of", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 9:3", "verse_text": "And the asses of Kish Saul's father were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek the asses." }, { "point_text": "Trusty persons appointed to take care of", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:30", "verse_text": "Over the camels also was Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the asses was Jehdeiah the Meronothite:" }, { "point_text": "Often taken unlawfully by corrupt rulers", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:15", "verse_text": "And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them." }, { "point_text": "Often taken unlawfully by corrupt rulers", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 8:16", "verse_text": "And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work." }, { "point_text": "Often taken unlawfully by corrupt rulers", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 12:3", "verse_text": "Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you." }, { "point_text": "Latterly counted as an ignoble creature", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 22:19", "verse_text": "He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "LAWS RESPECTING;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Not to be coveted", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:17", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's." }, { "point_text": "Fallen under a burden, to be assisted", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:5", "verse_text": "If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him." }, { "point_text": "Astray, to be brought back to its owners", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:4", "verse_text": "If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again." }, { "point_text": "Astray, to be brought back to its owners", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 22:1", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother." }, { "point_text": "Astray, to be taken care of till its owner appeared", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 22:2-3", "verse_text": "And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again. 3 In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself." }, { "point_text": "Not to be yoked with an ox", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 22:10", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together." }, { "point_text": "To enjoy the rest of the Sabbath", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:14", "verse_text": "But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou." }, { "point_text": "First-born of, if not redeemed, to have its neck broken", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:13", "verse_text": "And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem." }, { "point_text": "First-born of, if not redeemed, to have its neck broken", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:20", "verse_text": "But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty." }, { "point_text": "Christ entered Jerusalem on", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:9", "verse_text": "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass." }, { "point_text": "Christ entered Jerusalem on", "verse_ref": "John 12:14", "verse_text": "And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written," }, { "point_text": "MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Mouth of Balaam's opened to speak", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:28", "verse_text": "And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?" }, { "point_text": "Mouth of Balaam's opened to speak", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:16", "verse_text": "But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet." }, { "point_text": "A thousand men slain by Samson with a jaw-bone of", "verse_ref": "Judges 15:19", "verse_text": "But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Water brought from the jaw-bone of", "verse_ref": "Judges 15:19", "verse_text": "But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Not torn by a lion", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 13:28", "verse_text": "And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass." }, { "point_text": "Eaten during famine in Samaria", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:25", "verse_text": "And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver." } ] }, { "name": "Ass, The Wild", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Ass-The-Wild.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Inhabits wild and solitary places", "verse_ref": "Job 39:6", "verse_text": "Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings." }, { "point_text": "Inhabits wild and solitary places", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:14", "verse_text": "Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;" }, { "point_text": "Inhabits wild and solitary places", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:21", "verse_text": "And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will." }, { "point_text": "Ranges the mountains for food", "verse_ref": "Job 39:8", "verse_text": "The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing." }, { "point_text": "Brays when hungry", "verse_ref": "Job 6:5", "verse_text": "Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?" }, { "point_text": "Suffers in time of scarcity", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:6", "verse_text": "And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Fond of liberty", "verse_ref": "Job 39:5", "verse_text": "Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?" }, { "point_text": "Intractable", "verse_ref": "Job 11:12", "verse_text": "For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt." }, { "point_text": "Unsocial", "verse_ref": "Hosea 8:9", "verse_text": "For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers." }, { "point_text": "Despises his pursuers", "verse_ref": "Job 39:7", "verse_text": "He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver." }, { "point_text": "Supported by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:10-11", "verse_text": "He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills. 11 They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Intractableness of natural man", "verse_ref": "Job 11:12", "verse_text": "For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt." }, { "point_text": "The wicked in their pursuit of sin", "verse_ref": "Job 24:5", "verse_text": "Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children." }, { "point_text": "Israel in their love of idols", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:23-24", "verse_text": "How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways; 24 A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her." }, { "point_text": "The Assyrian power", "verse_ref": "Hosea 8:9", "verse_text": "For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers." }, { "point_text": "The Ishmaelites\r\n\r\n (Hebrew.)", "verse_ref": "Genesis 16:12", "verse_text": "And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren." } ] }, { "name": "Assurance", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Assurance.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Produced by faith", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:12", "verse_text": "In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him." }, { "point_text": "Produced by faith", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:12", "verse_text": "For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day." }, { "point_text": "Produced by faith", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:22", "verse_text": "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water." }, { "point_text": "Made full by hope", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:11", "verse_text": "And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:" }, { "point_text": "Made full by hope", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:19", "verse_text": "Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;" }, { "point_text": "Confirmed by love", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:14", "verse_text": "We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death." }, { "point_text": "Confirmed by love", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:18", "verse_text": "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love." }, { "point_text": "Is the effect of righteousness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:17", "verse_text": "And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever." }, { "point_text": "Is abundant in the understanding of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:2", "verse_text": "That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;" }, { "point_text": "Is abundant in the understanding of the gospel", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 1:5", "verse_text": "For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS PRIVILEGED TO HAVE, OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Their election", "verse_ref": "Psalm 4:3", "verse_text": "But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him." }, { "point_text": "Their election", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 1:4", "verse_text": "Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God." }, { "point_text": "Their redemption", "verse_ref": "Job 19:25", "verse_text": "For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:" }, { "point_text": "Their adoption", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:16", "verse_text": "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:" }, { "point_text": "Their adoption", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:2", "verse_text": "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." }, { "point_text": "Their salvation", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 12:2", "verse_text": "Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation." }, { "point_text": "Eternal life", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:13", "verse_text": "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God." }, { "point_text": "The unalienable love of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:38-39", "verse_text": "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." }, { "point_text": "Union with God and Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:15", "verse_text": "Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid." }, { "point_text": "Union with God and Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 13:5", "verse_text": "Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?" }, { "point_text": "Union with God and Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:30", "verse_text": "For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones." }, { "point_text": "Union with God and Christ", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:5", "verse_text": "But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him." }, { "point_text": "Union with God and Christ", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:13", "verse_text": "Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit." }, { "point_text": "Peace with God by Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:1", "verse_text": "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Preservation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 3:6", "verse_text": "I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about." }, { "point_text": "Preservation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:3-5", "verse_text": "Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. 4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple. 5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock." }, { "point_text": "Preservation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 46:1-3", "verse_text": "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. 2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; 3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Answers to prayer", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:22", "verse_text": "And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight." }, { "point_text": "Answers to prayer", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:14-15", "verse_text": "And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: 15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him." }, { "point_text": "Continuance in grace", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:6", "verse_text": "Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Comfort in affliction", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:26", "verse_text": "My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever." }, { "point_text": "Comfort in affliction", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:18-19", "verse_text": "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Comfort in affliction", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:8-10", "verse_text": "We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body." }, { "point_text": "Comfort in affliction", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:16-18", "verse_text": "For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal." }, { "point_text": "Support in death", "verse_ref": "Psalm 23:4", "verse_text": "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." }, { "point_text": "A glorious resurrection", "verse_ref": "Job 19:26", "verse_text": "And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:" }, { "point_text": "A glorious resurrection", "verse_ref": "Psalm 17:15", "verse_text": "As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness." }, { "point_text": "A glorious resurrection", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:21", "verse_text": "Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself." }, { "point_text": "A glorious resurrection", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:2", "verse_text": "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." }, { "point_text": "A kingdom", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:28", "verse_text": "Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:" }, { "point_text": "A kingdom", "verse_ref": "Revelation 5:10", "verse_text": "And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth." }, { "point_text": "A crown", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:7-8", "verse_text": "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: 8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing." }, { "point_text": "Give diligence to attain to", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:10-11", "verse_text": "Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: 11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Strive to maintain", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:14", "verse_text": "For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;" }, { "point_text": "Strive to maintain", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:18", "verse_text": "And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?" }, { "point_text": "Confident hope in God restores", "verse_ref": "Psalm 42:11", "verse_text": "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \n\nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 23:4", "verse_text": "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \n\nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:24-26", "verse_text": "Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. 25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. 26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \n\nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:12", "verse_text": "For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \n\nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:18", "verse_text": "And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen." } ] }, { "name": "Assyria", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Assyria.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Antiquity and origin of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 10:8-11", "verse_text": "And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah," }, { "point_text": "Situated beyond the Euphrates", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:20", "verse_text": "In the same day shall the Lord shave with a rasor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard." }, { "point_text": "Watered by the river Tigris", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:14", "verse_text": "And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates." }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "The land of Nimrod", "verse_ref": "Micah 5:6", "verse_text": "And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders." }, { "point_text": "Shinar", "verse_ref": "Genesis 11:2", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there." }, { "point_text": "Shinar", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations;" }, { "point_text": "Asshur", "verse_ref": "Hosea 14:3", "verse_text": "Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy." }, { "point_text": "Nineveh, chief city of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 10:11", "verse_text": "Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah," }, { "point_text": "Nineveh, chief city of", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:36", "verse_text": "So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh." }, { "point_text": "Governed by kings", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 15:19", "verse_text": "And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand." }, { "point_text": "Governed by kings", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 15:29", "verse_text": "In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria." }, { "point_text": "CELEBRATED FOR", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Fertility", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:32", "verse_text": "Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us." }, { "point_text": "Fertility", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 36:17", "verse_text": "Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards." }, { "point_text": "Extent of conquests", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:33-35", "verse_text": "Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 34 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand? 35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?" }, { "point_text": "Extent of conquests", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:11-13", "verse_text": "Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered? 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?" }, { "point_text": "Extent of conquests", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:9-14", "verse_text": "Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? 10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; 11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. ..." }, { "point_text": "Extensive commerce", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:23-24", "verse_text": "Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants. 24 These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise." }, { "point_text": "Idolatry, the religion of", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:37", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead." }, { "point_text": "AS A POWER, WAS", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Most formidable", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:2", "verse_text": "Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand." }, { "point_text": "Intolerant and oppressive", "verse_ref": "Nahum 3:19", "verse_text": "There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?" }, { "point_text": "Cruel and destructive", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:7", "verse_text": "Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few." }, { "point_text": "Selfish and reserved", "verse_ref": "Hosea 8:9", "verse_text": "For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers." }, { "point_text": "Unfaithful, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 28:20-21", "verse_text": "And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not. 21 For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD, and out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not." }, { "point_text": "Proud and haughty", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:22-24", "verse_text": "Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel. 23 By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel. 24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places." }, { "point_text": "Proud and haughty", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:8", "verse_text": "For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?" }, { "point_text": "An instrument of God's vengeance", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:18", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria." }, { "point_text": "An instrument of God's vengeance", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:5-6", "verse_text": "O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. 6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets." }, { "point_text": "Chief men of, described", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 23:6", "verse_text": "Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses." }, { "point_text": "Chief men of, described", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 23:12", "verse_text": "She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men." }, { "point_text": "Chief men of, described", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 23:23", "verse_text": "The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses." }, { "point_text": "Armies of, described", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:26-29", "verse_text": "And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly: 27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken: 28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind: 29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it." }, { "point_text": "PUL KING OF,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Invaded Israel", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 15:19", "verse_text": "And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand." }, { "point_text": "Brought off by Menahem", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 15:19-20", "verse_text": "And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand. 20 And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the land." }, { "point_text": "TIGLATH PILESER KING OF,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Ravaged Israel", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 15:29", "verse_text": "In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria." }, { "point_text": "Asked to aid Ahaz against Syria", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 16:7-8", "verse_text": "So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me. 8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria." }, { "point_text": "Took money from Ahaz, but strengthened him not", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 28:20-21", "verse_text": "And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not. 21 For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD, and out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not." }, { "point_text": "Conquered Syria", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 16:9", "verse_text": "And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin." }, { "point_text": "SHALMANESER KING OF,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Reduced Israel to tribute", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:3", "verse_text": "Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents." }, { "point_text": "Was conspired against by Hoshea", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:4", "verse_text": "And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison." }, { "point_text": "Imprisoned Hoshea", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:4", "verse_text": "And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison." }, { "point_text": "Carried Israel captive", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:5-6", "verse_text": "Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes." }, { "point_text": "Re-peopled Samaria from Assyria", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:24", "verse_text": "And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof." }, { "point_text": "SENNACHERIB KING OF,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Invaded Judah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:13", "verse_text": "Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them." }, { "point_text": "Bought off by Hezekiah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:14-16", "verse_text": "And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. 15 And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house. 16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria." }, { "point_text": "Insulted and threatened Judah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:17-32", "verse_text": "And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field. 18 And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder. 19 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest? 20 Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me? ..." }, { "point_text": "Insulted and threatened Judah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:10-13", "verse_text": "Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. 11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered? 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?" }, { "point_text": "Blasphemed the Lord", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:33-35", "verse_text": "Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 34 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand? 35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?" }, { "point_text": "Prayed against by Hezekiah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:14-19", "verse_text": "And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD. 15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth. 16 LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God. 17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands, ..." }, { "point_text": "Reproved for pride and blasphemy", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:12-34", "verse_text": "Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah? 14 And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD. 15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth. ..." }, { "point_text": "Reproved for pride and blasphemy", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 37:21-29", "verse_text": "Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria: 22 This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. 23 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel. 24 By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel. ..." }, { "point_text": "His army destroyed by God", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:35", "verse_text": "And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses." }, { "point_text": "Assassinated by his sons", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:36", "verse_text": "So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh." }, { "point_text": "Condemned for oppressing God's people", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 52:4", "verse_text": "For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause." }, { "point_text": "Manasseh taken captive to", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:11", "verse_text": "Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon." }, { "point_text": "The re-peopling of Samaria from, completed by Asnapper", "verse_ref": "Ezra 4:10", "verse_text": "And the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnappar brought over, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest that are on this side the river, and at such a time." }, { "point_text": "Idolatry of, brought into Samaria", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:29", "verse_text": "Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt." }, { "point_text": "Judah condemned for trusting to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:18", "verse_text": "And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?" }, { "point_text": "Judah condemned for trusting to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:36", "verse_text": "Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria." }, { "point_text": "Israel condemned for trusting to", "verse_ref": "Hosea 5:13", "verse_text": "When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound." }, { "point_text": "Israel condemned for trusting to", "verse_ref": "Hosea 7:11", "verse_text": "Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria." }, { "point_text": "Israel condemned for trusting to", "verse_ref": "Hosea 8:9", "verse_text": "For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers." }, { "point_text": "The Jews condemned for following the idolatries of.\r\n\n\n\r\n, &c", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:28", "verse_text": "Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied." }, { "point_text": "The Jews condemned for following the idolatries of.\r\n\n\n\r\n, &c", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 23:5", "verse_text": "And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours," }, { "point_text": "The Jews condemned for following the idolatries of.\r\n\n\n\r\n, &c", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 23:7-49", "verse_text": "Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself. 8 Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her. 9 Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted. 10 These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her. ..." }, { "point_text": "The greatness, extent, duration, and fall of, illustrated", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 31:3-17", "verse_text": "Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. 4 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field. 5 Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth. 6 All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations. ..." }, { "point_text": "PREDICTIONS RESPECTING;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Conquest of the Kenites by", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:22", "verse_text": "Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive." }, { "point_text": "Conquest of Syria by", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:4", "verse_text": "For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria." }, { "point_text": "Conquest and captivity of Israel by", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:4", "verse_text": "For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria." }, { "point_text": "Conquest and captivity of Israel by", "verse_ref": "Hosea 9:3", "verse_text": "They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria." }, { "point_text": "Conquest and captivity of Israel by", "verse_ref": "Hosea 10:6", "verse_text": "It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel." }, { "point_text": "Conquest and captivity of Israel by", "verse_ref": "Hosea 11:5", "verse_text": "He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return." }, { "point_text": "Invasion of Judah by", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:26", "verse_text": "And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:" }, { "point_text": "Invasion of Judah by", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:17-20", "verse_text": "The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria. 18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes. 20 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a rasor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard." }, { "point_text": "Invasion of Judah by", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:8", "verse_text": "And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel." }, { "point_text": "Invasion of Judah by", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:5-6", "verse_text": "O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. 6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets." }, { "point_text": "Invasion of Judah by", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:12", "verse_text": "Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks." }, { "point_text": "Restoration of Israel from", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 27:12-13", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel. 13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:12-19", "verse_text": "Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. 13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man: 14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. 15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood. ..." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:24", "verse_text": "The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:" }, { "point_text": "Destruction of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:31-33", "verse_text": "For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod. 32 And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it. 33 For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 31:8-9", "verse_text": "Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited. 9 And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Participation in the blessings of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:23-25", "verse_text": "In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. 24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: 25 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance." }, { "point_text": "Participation in the blessings of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Micah 7:12", "verse_text": "In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain." } ] }, { "name": "Atonement, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Atonement-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Explained", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:8-11", "verse_text": "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. 10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. 11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement." }, { "point_text": "Explained", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:18-19", "verse_text": "And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation." }, { "point_text": "Foreordained", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:25", "verse_text": "Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;" }, { "point_text": "Foreordained", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:11", "verse_text": "Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow." }, { "point_text": "Foreordained", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:20", "verse_text": "Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you," }, { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:4-6", "verse_text": "Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." }, { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:8-12", "verse_text": "He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. 9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. 10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. 11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. ..." }, { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:24-27", "verse_text": "Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. 26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate." }, { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 13:1", "verse_text": "In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness." }, { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 13:7", "verse_text": "Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones." }, { "point_text": "Effected by Christ alone", "verse_ref": "John 1:29", "verse_text": "The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." }, { "point_text": "Effected by Christ alone", "verse_ref": "John 1:36", "verse_text": "And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!" }, { "point_text": "Was voluntary", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:6-8", "verse_text": "Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. 7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, 8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart." }, { "point_text": "Was voluntary", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:5-9", "verse_text": "Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: 6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. 7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. 8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; ..." }, { "point_text": "Was voluntary", "verse_ref": "John 10:11", "verse_text": "I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep." }, { "point_text": "Was voluntary", "verse_ref": "John 10:15", "verse_text": "As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep." }, { "point_text": "Was voluntary", "verse_ref": "John 10:17-18", "verse_text": "Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. 18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father." }, { "point_text": "EXHIBITS THE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Grace and mercy of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:32", "verse_text": "He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?" }, { "point_text": "Grace and mercy of God", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:4-5", "verse_text": "But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)" }, { "point_text": "Grace and mercy of God", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:7", "verse_text": "That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Grace and mercy of God", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:4", "verse_text": "Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth." }, { "point_text": "Grace and mercy of God", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:9", "verse_text": "But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man." }, { "point_text": "Love of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:8", "verse_text": "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." }, { "point_text": "Love of God", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:9-10", "verse_text": "In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins." }, { "point_text": "Love of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 15:13", "verse_text": "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." }, { "point_text": "Love of Christ", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:20", "verse_text": "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." }, { "point_text": "Love of Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:2", "verse_text": "And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour." }, { "point_text": "Love of Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:25", "verse_text": "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;" }, { "point_text": "Reconciles the justice and mercy of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:21", "verse_text": "Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me." }, { "point_text": "Reconciles the justice and mercy of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:25-26", "verse_text": "Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Necessity for", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:16", "verse_text": "And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him." }, { "point_text": "Necessity for", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:10", "verse_text": "For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost." }, { "point_text": "Necessity for", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:22", "verse_text": "And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission." }, { "point_text": "Made but once", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:27", "verse_text": "Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself." }, { "point_text": "Made but once", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:24-28", "verse_text": "For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: 25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; 26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: ..." }, { "point_text": "Made but once", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:10", "verse_text": "By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all." }, { "point_text": "Made but once", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:12", "verse_text": "But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;" }, { "point_text": "Made but once", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:14", "verse_text": "For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified." }, { "point_text": "Made but once", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:18", "verse_text": "For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:" }, { "point_text": "Acceptable to God", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:2", "verse_text": "And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour." }, { "point_text": "Reconciliation to God effected by", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:10", "verse_text": "For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life." }, { "point_text": "Reconciliation to God effected by", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:18-20", "verse_text": "And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God." }, { "point_text": "Reconciliation to God effected by", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:13-16", "verse_text": "But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. 14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; 15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; 16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:" }, { "point_text": "Reconciliation to God effected by", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:20-22", "verse_text": "And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. 21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled 22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:" }, { "point_text": "Reconciliation to God effected by", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:17", "verse_text": "Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people." }, { "point_text": "Reconciliation to God effected by", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:18", "verse_text": "For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:" }, { "point_text": "Access to God by", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:19-20", "verse_text": "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;" }, { "point_text": "Remission of sins by", "verse_ref": "John 1:29", "verse_text": "The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." }, { "point_text": "Remission of sins by", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:25", "verse_text": "Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;" }, { "point_text": "Remission of sins by", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:7", "verse_text": "In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;" }, { "point_text": "Remission of sins by", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:7", "verse_text": "But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin." }, { "point_text": "Remission of sins by", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:5", "verse_text": "And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood," }, { "point_text": "Justification by", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:9", "verse_text": "Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him." }, { "point_text": "Justification by", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:21", "verse_text": "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." }, { "point_text": "Sanctification by", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:15", "verse_text": "And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again." }, { "point_text": "Sanctification by", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:26-27", "verse_text": "That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish." }, { "point_text": "Redemption by", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:28", "verse_text": "Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many." }, { "point_text": "Redemption by", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:28", "verse_text": "Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood." }, { "point_text": "Redemption by", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:6", "verse_text": "Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time." }, { "point_text": "Redemption by", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:12", "verse_text": "Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us." }, { "point_text": "Redemption by", "verse_ref": "Revelation 5:9", "verse_text": "And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;" }, { "point_text": "HAS DELIVERED SAINTS FROM THE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Power of sin", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:3", "verse_text": "For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:" }, { "point_text": "Power of sin", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:18-19", "verse_text": "Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; 19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:" }, { "point_text": "Power of the World", "verse_ref": "Galatians 1:4", "verse_text": "Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:" }, { "point_text": "Power of the World", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:14", "verse_text": "But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world." }, { "point_text": "Power of the devil", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:15", "verse_text": "And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it." }, { "point_text": "Power of the devil", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:14-15", "verse_text": "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; 15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage." }, { "point_text": "Saints glorify God for", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:20", "verse_text": "For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." }, { "point_text": "Saints glorify God for", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:20", "verse_text": "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." }, { "point_text": "Saints glorify God for", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:20-21", "verse_text": "According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." }, { "point_text": "Saints rejoice in God for", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:11", "verse_text": "And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement." }, { "point_text": "Saints praise God for", "verse_ref": "Revelation 5:9-13", "verse_text": "And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; 10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. 11 And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; 12 Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. ..." }, { "point_text": "Faith in, indispensable", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:25", "verse_text": "Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;" }, { "point_text": "Faith in, indispensable", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:13-14", "verse_text": "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: 14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith." }, { "point_text": "Commemorated in the Lord's supper", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:26-28", "verse_text": "And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. 27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; 28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins." }, { "point_text": "Commemorated in the Lord's supper", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:23-26", "verse_text": "For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: 24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. 25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. 26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come." }, { "point_text": "Ministers should fully set forth", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:29-31", "verse_text": "Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men. 30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. 31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins." }, { "point_text": "Ministers should fully set forth", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:42", "verse_text": "And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Ministers should fully set forth", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:3", "verse_text": "For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;" }, { "point_text": "Ministers should fully set forth", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:18-21", "verse_text": "And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. 21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:4", "verse_text": "And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:" }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:4", "verse_text": "By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:2", "verse_text": "And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:17", "verse_text": "By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son," }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:19", "verse_text": "Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:5", "verse_text": "Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:" }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:11", "verse_text": "And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:14", "verse_text": "And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 5:7", "verse_text": "Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:" }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Exodus 24:8", "verse_text": "And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:20", "verse_text": "Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:30", "verse_text": "For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:34", "verse_text": "And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 17:11", "verse_text": "For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:22", "verse_text": "And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission." } ] }, { "name": "Atonement, The Day of", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Atonement-The-Day-of.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Tenth day of seventh month", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:26-27", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "A day of humiliation", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:29", "verse_text": "And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:" }, { "point_text": "A day of humiliation", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:27", "verse_text": "Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Observed as a sabbath", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:28", "verse_text": "And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "Observed as a sabbath", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:32", "verse_text": "It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath." }, { "point_text": "Offerings to be made on", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:3", "verse_text": "Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering." }, { "point_text": "Offerings to be made on", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:5-15", "verse_text": "And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering. 6 And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house. 7 And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat. ..." }, { "point_text": "The high priest entered into the holy place on", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:2-3", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat. 3 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering." }, { "point_text": "ATONEMENT MADE ON,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "For the holy place", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:10", "verse_text": "And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "For the holy place", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:15-16", "verse_text": "Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat: 16 And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness." }, { "point_text": "For the high priest", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:11", "verse_text": "And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself:" }, { "point_text": "For the high priest", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:7", "verse_text": "But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:" }, { "point_text": "For the whole congregation", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:17", "verse_text": "And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel." }, { "point_text": "For the whole congregation", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:28", "verse_text": "And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "For the whole congregation", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:7", "verse_text": "But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:" }, { "point_text": "The sins of the people borne off by the scapegoat on", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:21", "verse_text": "And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:" }, { "point_text": "Punishment for not observing", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:29-30", "verse_text": "For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people. 30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people." }, { "point_text": "Year of Jubilee commenced on", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:9", "verse_text": "Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land." }, { "point_text": "Typical", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:8", "verse_text": "The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:" }, { "point_text": "Typical", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:24", "verse_text": "For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:" } ] }, { "name": "Atonement, under the Law", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Atonement-under-the-Law.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Made by sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:4-5", "verse_text": "And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. 5 And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "By priests alone", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 6:49", "verse_text": "But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of the burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, and were appointed for all the work of the place most holy, and to make an atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded." }, { "point_text": "By priests alone", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 29:24", "verse_text": "And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel." }, { "point_text": "NECESSARY FOR", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Propitiating God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:30", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the LORD; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin." }, { "point_text": "Propitiating God", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:27-28", "verse_text": "Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD. 28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "Propitiating God", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 21:3", "verse_text": "Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?" }, { "point_text": "Ransoming", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:15-16", "verse_text": "The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls. 16 And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel before the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls." }, { "point_text": "Purifying", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:36", "verse_text": "And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it." }, { "point_text": "OFFERED FOR", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "The congregation", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:25", "verse_text": "And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their ignorance:" }, { "point_text": "The congregation", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 29:24", "verse_text": "And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel." }, { "point_text": "The priests", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:31-33", "verse_text": "And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe his flesh in the holy place. 32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 33 And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy." }, { "point_text": "The priests", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:34", "verse_text": "As he hath done this day, so the LORD hath commanded to do, to make an atonement for you." }, { "point_text": "Persons sinning ignorantly", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:20-35", "verse_text": "And he shall do with the bullock as he did with the bullock for a sin offering, so shall he do with this: and the priest shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them. 21 And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn him as he burned the first bullock: it is a sin offering for the congregation. 22 When a ruler hath sinned, and done somewhat through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD his God concerning things which should not be done, and is guilty; 23 Or if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish: ..." }, { "point_text": "Persons sinning wilfully", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:7", "verse_text": "And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD: and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath done in trespassing therein." }, { "point_text": "Persons swearing rashly", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:4", "verse_text": "Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these." }, { "point_text": "Persons swearing rashly", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:6", "verse_text": "And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin." }, { "point_text": "Persons withholding evidence", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:1", "verse_text": "And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Persons withholding evidence", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:6", "verse_text": "And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin." }, { "point_text": "Persons unclean", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:2-3", "verse_text": "Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty. 3 Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty." }, { "point_text": "Persons unclean", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:6", "verse_text": "And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin." }, { "point_text": "Women after childbirth", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 12:8", "verse_text": "And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean." }, { "point_text": "The altar", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:36-37", "verse_text": "And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it. 37 Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy." }, { "point_text": "The holy place", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:16-17", "verse_text": "And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness. 17 And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel." }, { "point_text": "The healed leper", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:18", "verse_text": "And the remnant of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The leprous house healed", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:53", "verse_text": "But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean." }, { "point_text": "Extraordinary cases of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:30-34", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the LORD; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin. 31 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. 32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written. 33 And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. ..." }, { "point_text": "Extraordinary cases of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:47", "verse_text": "And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people." }, { "point_text": "Extraordinary cases of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 25:10-13", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy. 12 Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace: 13 And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Typical of Christ's atonement", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:6-11", "verse_text": "For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. 8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. ..." } ] }, { "name": "Babylon", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Babylon.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Origin of.\r\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Genesis 10:8", "verse_text": "And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth." }, { "point_text": "Origin of.\r\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Genesis 10:10", "verse_text": "And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar." }, { "point_text": "Origin of the name", "verse_ref": "Genesis 11:8-9", "verse_text": "So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth." }, { "point_text": "WAS CALLED", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Land of the Chaldeans", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 12:13", "verse_text": "My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there." }, { "point_text": "Land of Shinar", "verse_ref": "Daniel 1:2", "verse_text": "And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god." }, { "point_text": "Land of Shinar", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 5:11", "verse_text": "And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base." }, { "point_text": "Land of Merathaim", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:1", "verse_text": "The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet." }, { "point_text": "Land of Merathaim", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:21", "verse_text": "Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee." }, { "point_text": "Desert of the sea", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 21:1", "verse_text": "The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land." }, { "point_text": "Desert of the sea", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 21:9", "verse_text": "And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground." }, { "point_text": "Sheshach", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 25:12", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations." }, { "point_text": "Sheshach", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 25:26", "verse_text": "And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them." }, { "point_text": "Lady of kingdoms", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 47:5", "verse_text": "Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms." }, { "point_text": "Situated beyond the Euphrates", "verse_ref": "Genesis 11:31", "verse_text": "And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there." }, { "point_text": "Situated beyond the Euphrates", "verse_ref": "Joshua 24:2-3", "verse_text": "And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods. 3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac." }, { "point_text": "Formerly a part of Mesopotamia", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:2", "verse_text": "And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran," }, { "point_text": "Founded by the Assyrians, and a part of their empire", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:24", "verse_text": "And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof." }, { "point_text": "Founded by the Assyrians, and a part of their empire", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:13", "verse_text": "Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin." }, { "point_text": "Watered by the rivers Euphrates and Tigris", "verse_ref": "Psalm 137:1", "verse_text": "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion." }, { "point_text": "Watered by the rivers Euphrates and Tigris", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:13", "verse_text": "O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness." }, { "point_text": "Composed of many nations", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:1", "verse_text": "Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon." }, { "point_text": "Composed of many nations", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:29", "verse_text": "At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon." }, { "point_text": "Governed by Kings", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:12", "verse_text": "At that time Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick." }, { "point_text": "Governed by Kings", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:1", "verse_text": "Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand." }, { "point_text": "With Media and Persia divided by Darius into one hundred and twenty provinces", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:1", "verse_text": "It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;" }, { "point_text": "Presidents placed over", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:48", "verse_text": "Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon." }, { "point_text": "Presidents placed over", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:1", "verse_text": "It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;" }, { "point_text": "Babylon the chief province of", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:1", "verse_text": "Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon." }, { "point_text": "BABYLON THE CAPITAL OF,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Its antiquity", "verse_ref": "Genesis 11:4", "verse_text": "And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." }, { "point_text": "Its antiquity", "verse_ref": "Genesis 11:9", "verse_text": "Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth." }, { "point_text": "Enlarged by Nebuchadnezzar", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:30", "verse_text": "The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?" }, { "point_text": "Surrounded with a great wall and fortified", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:53", "verse_text": "Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Surrounded with a great wall and fortified", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:58", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary." }, { "point_text": "Called the golden city", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:4", "verse_text": "That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!" }, { "point_text": "Called the glory of kingdoms", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:19", "verse_text": "And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah." }, { "point_text": "Called beauty of Chaldees, &c", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:19", "verse_text": "And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah." }, { "point_text": "Called the city of merchants", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:4", "verse_text": "He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants." }, { "point_text": "Called Babylon the great", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:30", "verse_text": "The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?" }, { "point_text": "REMARKABLE FOR", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Antiquity", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:15", "verse_text": "Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say." }, { "point_text": "Naval power", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 43:14", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships." }, { "point_text": "Military power", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:16", "verse_text": "Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men." }, { "point_text": "Military power", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:23", "verse_text": "How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!" }, { "point_text": "National greatness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:19", "verse_text": "And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah." }, { "point_text": "National greatness", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:41", "verse_text": "How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!" }, { "point_text": "Wealth", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:37", "verse_text": "A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed." }, { "point_text": "Wealth", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:13", "verse_text": "O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness." }, { "point_text": "Commerce", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:4", "verse_text": "He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants." }, { "point_text": "Manufacture of garments", "verse_ref": "Joshua 7:21", "verse_text": "When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it." }, { "point_text": "Wisdom of senators", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 47:10", "verse_text": "For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me." }, { "point_text": "Wisdom of senators", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:35", "verse_text": "A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men." }, { "point_text": "INHABITANTS OF,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Idolatrous", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:38", "verse_text": "A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols." }, { "point_text": "Idolatrous", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:18", "verse_text": "But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up." }, { "point_text": "Addicted to magic", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 47:9", "verse_text": "But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments." }, { "point_text": "Addicted to magic", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 47:12-13", "verse_text": "Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. 13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee." }, { "point_text": "Profane and sacrilegious", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:1-3", "verse_text": "Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. 2 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein. 3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them." }, { "point_text": "Wicked", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 47:10", "verse_text": "For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me." }, { "point_text": "AS A POWER WAS", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Arrogant", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:13-14", "verse_text": "For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High." }, { "point_text": "Secure and self-confident", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 47:7-8", "verse_text": "And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. 8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:" }, { "point_text": "Grand and stately", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 47:1", "verse_text": "Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate." }, { "point_text": "Grand and stately", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 47:5", "verse_text": "Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms." }, { "point_text": "Covetous", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:13", "verse_text": "O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness." }, { "point_text": "Oppressive", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:4", "verse_text": "That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!" }, { "point_text": "Cruel and destructive", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:17", "verse_text": "That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?" }, { "point_text": "Cruel and destructive", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 47:6", "verse_text": "I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke." }, { "point_text": "Cruel and destructive", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:25", "verse_text": "Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain." }, { "point_text": "Cruel and destructive", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 1:6-7", "verse_text": "For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs. 7 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves." }, { "point_text": "An instrument of God's vengeance on other nations", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:7", "verse_text": "Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD'S hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad." }, { "point_text": "An instrument of God's vengeance on other nations", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 47:6", "verse_text": "I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke." }, { "point_text": "Languages spoken in", "verse_ref": "Daniel 1:4", "verse_text": "Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans." }, { "point_text": "Languages spoken in", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:4", "verse_text": "Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation." }, { "point_text": "Armies of, described", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 1:7-9", "verse_text": "They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves. 8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat. 9 They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand." }, { "point_text": "REPRESENTED BY", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "A great eagle", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:3", "verse_text": "And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:" }, { "point_text": "A head of gold", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:32", "verse_text": "This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass," }, { "point_text": "A head of gold", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:37-38", "verse_text": "Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. 38 And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold." }, { "point_text": "A lion with eagle's wings", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:4", "verse_text": "The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it." }, { "point_text": "Ambassadors of, sent to Hezekiah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:12", "verse_text": "At that time Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick." }, { "point_text": "NEBUCHADNEZZAR KING OF,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Made Jehoiakim tributary", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 24:1", "verse_text": "In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him." }, { "point_text": "Besieged Jerusalem", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 24:10-11", "verse_text": "At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. 11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it." }, { "point_text": "Took Jehoiachin, &c. captive to Babylon", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 24:12", "verse_text": "And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign." }, { "point_text": "Took Jehoiachin, &c. captive to Babylon", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 24:14-16", "verse_text": "And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land. 15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. 16 And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon." }, { "point_text": "Took Jehoiachin, &c. captive to Babylon", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:10", "verse_text": "And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Spoiled the temple", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 24:13", "verse_text": "And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said." }, { "point_text": "Made Zedekiah king", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 24:17", "verse_text": "And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah." }, { "point_text": "Rebelled against by Zedekiah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 24:20", "verse_text": "For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon." }, { "point_text": "Besieged and took Jerusalem", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:1-4", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about. 2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 3 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land. 4 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain." }, { "point_text": "Burned Jerusalem, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:9-10", "verse_text": "And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire. 10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about." }, { "point_text": "Took Zedekiah, &c. captive to Babylon", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:7", "verse_text": "And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon." }, { "point_text": "Took Zedekiah, &c. captive to Babylon", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:11", "verse_text": "Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away." }, { "point_text": "Took Zedekiah, &c. captive to Babylon", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:18-21", "verse_text": "And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door: 19 And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the city: 20 And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah: 21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land." }, { "point_text": "Took Zedekiah, &c. captive to Babylon", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:20", "verse_text": "And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:" }, { "point_text": "Spoiled and burned the temple", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:9", "verse_text": "And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire." }, { "point_text": "Spoiled and burned the temple", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:13-17", "verse_text": "And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon. 14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away. 15 And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away. 16 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels was without weight. ..." }, { "point_text": "Spoiled and burned the temple", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:18-19", "verse_text": "And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon. 19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof." }, { "point_text": "Revolt of the Jews from, and their punishment illustrated", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17", "verse_text": "And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel; 3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar: 4 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants. ..." }, { "point_text": "The Jews exhorted to be subject to, and settle in", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:17", "verse_text": "Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?" }, { "point_text": "The Jews exhorted to be subject to, and settle in", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 29:1-7", "verse_text": "Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon; 2 (After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;) 3 By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying, 4 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon; ..." }, { "point_text": "Treatment of the Jews in", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:27-30", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison; 28 And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon; 29 And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life. 30 And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life." }, { "point_text": "Treatment of the Jews in", "verse_ref": "Daniel 1:3-7", "verse_text": "And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king's seed, and of the princes; 4 Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans. 5 And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king. 6 Now among these were of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: ..." }, { "point_text": "Grief of the Jews in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 137:1-6", "verse_text": "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. 2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. 3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. 4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land? ..." }, { "point_text": "Destroyed by the Medes", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:30-31", "verse_text": "In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. 31 And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old." }, { "point_text": "Restoration of the Jews from", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:23", "verse_text": "Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up." }, { "point_text": "Restoration of the Jews from", "verse_ref": "Ezra 1:1-2:67", "verse_text": "Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, 2 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. 3 Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem. 4 And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem. ..." }, { "point_text": "The gospel preached in", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:13", "verse_text": "The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son." }, { "point_text": "A type of Antichrist", "verse_ref": "Revelation 16:19", "verse_text": "And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath." }, { "point_text": "A type of Antichrist", "verse_ref": "Revelation 17:5", "verse_text": "And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." }, { "point_text": "PREDICTIONS RESPECTING;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Conquests by", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 21:3-10", "verse_text": "Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah: 4 Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city. 5 And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath. 6 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence. ..." }, { "point_text": "Conquests by", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:2-6", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck, 3 And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah; 4 And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your masters; 5 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me. ..." }, { "point_text": "Conquests by", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:28-33", "verse_text": "Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east. 29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side. 30 Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you. 31 Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell alone. ..." }, { "point_text": "Conquests by", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 21:19-32", "verse_text": "Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city. 20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced. 21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver. 22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort. ..." }, { "point_text": "Conquests by", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 29:18-20", "verse_text": "Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it: 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. 20 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Captivity of the Jews by", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 20:4-6", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword. 5 Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon. 6 And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies." }, { "point_text": "Captivity of the Jews by", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 22:20-26", "verse_text": "Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed. 21 I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice. 22 The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness. 23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail! ..." }, { "point_text": "Captivity of the Jews by", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 25:9-11", "verse_text": "Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations. 10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle. 11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years." }, { "point_text": "Captivity of the Jews by", "verse_ref": "Micah 4:10", "verse_text": "Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies." }, { "point_text": "Restoration of the Jews from", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:1-4", "verse_text": "For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. 2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. 3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve, 4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!" }, { "point_text": "Restoration of the Jews from", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:28", "verse_text": "That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid." }, { "point_text": "Restoration of the Jews from", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 48:20", "verse_text": "Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob." }, { "point_text": "Restoration of the Jews from", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 29:10", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place." }, { "point_text": "Restoration of the Jews from", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:4", "verse_text": "In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God." }, { "point_text": "Restoration of the Jews from", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:8", "verse_text": "Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks." }, { "point_text": "Restoration of the Jews from", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:19", "verse_text": "And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13", "verse_text": "The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see. 2 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. 3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness. 4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle. ..." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:4-22", "verse_text": "That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! 5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers. 6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth. 7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. ..." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 21:1-10", "verse_text": "The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. 2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. 3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it. 4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me. ..." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 47", "verse_text": "Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. 2 Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. 3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man. 4 As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel. ..." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 25:12", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50-51", "verse_text": "The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet. 2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces. 3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast. 4 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God. ..." }, { "point_text": "Perpetual desolation of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:19-22", "verse_text": "And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. 21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. 22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged." }, { "point_text": "Perpetual desolation of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:22-23", "verse_text": "For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD. 23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Preaching of the gospel in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 87:4", "verse_text": "I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there." } ] }, { "name": "Backsliding", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Backsliding.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is turning from God", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:9", "verse_text": "And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice," }, { "point_text": "Is leaving the first love", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:4", "verse_text": "Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love." }, { "point_text": "Is departing from the simplicity of the gospel", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 11:3", "verse_text": "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ." }, { "point_text": "Is departing from the simplicity of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:1-3", "verse_text": "O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? 2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?" }, { "point_text": "Is departing from the simplicity of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:4", "verse_text": "Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace." }, { "point_text": "Is departing from the simplicity of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:7", "verse_text": "Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?" }, { "point_text": "God is displeased at", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:57", "verse_text": "But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow." }, { "point_text": "God is displeased at", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:59", "verse_text": "When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:" }, { "point_text": "Warnings against", "verse_ref": "Psalm 85:8", "verse_text": "I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly." }, { "point_text": "Warnings against", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:12", "verse_text": "Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall." }, { "point_text": "Guilt and consequences of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:43", "verse_text": "For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you." }, { "point_text": "Guilt and consequences of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 125:5", "verse_text": "As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel." }, { "point_text": "Guilt and consequences of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:2", "verse_text": "But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear." }, { "point_text": "Guilt and consequences of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:9-11", "verse_text": "Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. 10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men. 11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us." }, { "point_text": "Guilt and consequences of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:6", "verse_text": "Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased." }, { "point_text": "Guilt and consequences of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:5", "verse_text": "Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return." }, { "point_text": "Guilt and consequences of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 15:6", "verse_text": "Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting." }, { "point_text": "Guilt and consequences of", "verse_ref": "Luke 9:62", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Brings its own punishment", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:14", "verse_text": "The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself." }, { "point_text": "Brings its own punishment", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:19", "verse_text": "Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "A haughty spirit leads to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:18", "verse_text": "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall." }, { "point_text": "Proneness to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 24:16", "verse_text": "For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief." }, { "point_text": "Proneness to", "verse_ref": "Hosea 11:7", "verse_text": "And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him." }, { "point_text": "Liable to continue and increase", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:5", "verse_text": "Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return." }, { "point_text": "Liable to continue and increase", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:7", "verse_text": "O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to return from", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 30:6", "verse_text": "So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to return from", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 31:6", "verse_text": "Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to return from", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:12", "verse_text": "Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to return from", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:14", "verse_text": "Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:" }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to return from", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:22", "verse_text": "Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God." }, { "point_text": "Pray to be restored from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 80:3", "verse_text": "Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved." }, { "point_text": "Pray to be restored from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 85:4", "verse_text": "Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease." }, { "point_text": "Pray to be restored from", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 5:21", "verse_text": "Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of tempting others to the sin of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:10", "verse_text": "Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of tempting others to the sin of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:6", "verse_text": "But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." }, { "point_text": "Not hopeless", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:24", "verse_text": "Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand." }, { "point_text": "Not hopeless", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 24:16", "verse_text": "For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief." }, { "point_text": "Endeavor to bring back those guilty of", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:1", "verse_text": "Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted." }, { "point_text": "Endeavor to bring back those guilty of", "verse_ref": "James 5:19-20", "verse_text": "Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; 20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins." }, { "point_text": "Sin of, to be confessed", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:12-14", "verse_text": "For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them; 13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. 14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter." }, { "point_text": "Sin of, to be confessed", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:13", "verse_text": "Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Sin of, to be confessed", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:7-9", "verse_text": "O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee. 8 O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night? 9 Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not." }, { "point_text": "Pardon of, promised", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:14", "verse_text": "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." }, { "point_text": "Pardon of, promised", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:12", "verse_text": "Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever." }, { "point_text": "Pardon of, promised", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:20", "verse_text": "Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Pardon of, promised", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 36:3", "verse_text": "It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin." }, { "point_text": "Healing of, promised", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:22", "verse_text": "Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God." }, { "point_text": "Healing of, promised", "verse_ref": "Hosea 14:4", "verse_text": "I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him." }, { "point_text": "Afflictions sent to heal", "verse_ref": "Hosea 5:15", "verse_text": "I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of those who keep from", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:14", "verse_text": "Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of those who keep from", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:3-4", "verse_text": "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. 4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:" }, { "point_text": "Hateful to Saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 101:3", "verse_text": "I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\n\n\nSaul, \nSolomon, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:8", "verse_text": "They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\n\n\nSaul, \nSolomon, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:26", "verse_text": "Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\n\n\nSaul, \nSolomon, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:11", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\n\n\nSaul, \nSolomon, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:16", "verse_text": "For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\n\n\nSaul, \nSolomon, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:11", "verse_text": "It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\n\n\nSaul, \nSolomon, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:3-4", "verse_text": "And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart. 4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\n\n\nSaul, \nSolomon, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:70-74", "verse_text": "But he denied before them all, saying, I know not what thou sayest. 71 And when he was gone out into the porch, another maid saw him, and said unto them that were there, This fellow was also with Jesus of Nazareth. 72 And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man. 73 And after a while came unto him they that stood by, and said to Peter, Surely thou also art one of them; for thy speech bewrayeth thee. ..." } ] }, { "name": "Baptism", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Baptism.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "As administered by John", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:5-12", "verse_text": "Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan, 6 And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins. 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: ..." }, { "point_text": "As administered by John", "verse_ref": "John 3:23", "verse_text": "And John also was baptizing in AEnon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized." }, { "point_text": "As administered by John", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:24", "verse_text": "When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel." }, { "point_text": "As administered by John", "verse_ref": "Acts 19:4", "verse_text": "Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Sanctioned by Christ's submission to it", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:13-15", "verse_text": "Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. 14 But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? 15 And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him." }, { "point_text": "Sanctioned by Christ's submission to it", "verse_ref": "Luke 3:21", "verse_text": "Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened," }, { "point_text": "Adopted by Christ", "verse_ref": "John 3:22", "verse_text": "After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized." }, { "point_text": "Adopted by Christ", "verse_ref": "John 4:1-2", "verse_text": "When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, 2 (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)" }, { "point_text": "Appointed an ordinance of the Christian church", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:19-20", "verse_text": "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen." }, { "point_text": "To be administered in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:19", "verse_text": "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:" }, { "point_text": "Water, the outward and visible sign in", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:36", "verse_text": "And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?" }, { "point_text": "Water, the outward and visible sign in", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:47", "verse_text": "Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?" }, { "point_text": "Regeneration, the inward and spiritual grace of", "verse_ref": "John 3:3", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Regeneration, the inward and spiritual grace of", "verse_ref": "John 3:5-6", "verse_text": "Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." }, { "point_text": "Remission of sins, signified by", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:38", "verse_text": "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Remission of sins, signified by", "verse_ref": "Acts 22:16", "verse_text": "And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Unity of the Church effected by", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:13", "verse_text": "For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit." }, { "point_text": "Unity of the Church effected by", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:27-28", "verse_text": "For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Confession of sin necessary to", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:6", "verse_text": "And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins." }, { "point_text": "Repentance necessary to", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:38", "verse_text": "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Faith necessary to", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:37", "verse_text": "And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God." }, { "point_text": "Faith necessary to", "verse_ref": "Acts 18:8", "verse_text": "And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized." }, { "point_text": "There is but one", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:5", "verse_text": "One Lord, one faith, one baptism," }, { "point_text": "ADMINISTERED TO", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Individuals", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:38", "verse_text": "And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him." }, { "point_text": "Individuals", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:18", "verse_text": "And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized." }, { "point_text": "Households", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:15", "verse_text": "And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us." }, { "point_text": "Households", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:16", "verse_text": "And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other." }, { "point_text": "Emblematic of the influences of the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:11", "verse_text": "I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:" }, { "point_text": "Emblematic of the influences of the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:5", "verse_text": "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;" }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:2", "verse_text": "And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;" }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:20-21", "verse_text": "Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. 21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:" } ] }, { "name": "Baptism with the Holy Ghost", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Baptism-with-the-Holy-Ghost.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 36:25", "verse_text": "Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you." }, { "point_text": "Is through Christ", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:6", "verse_text": "Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;" }, { "point_text": "Christ administered", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:11", "verse_text": "I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:" }, { "point_text": "Christ administered", "verse_ref": "John 1:33", "verse_text": "And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Promised to saints", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:5", "verse_text": "For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence." }, { "point_text": "Promised to saints", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:38", "verse_text": "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Promised to saints", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:16", "verse_text": "Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "All saints partake of", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:13", "verse_text": "For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit." }, { "point_text": "Necessity for", "verse_ref": "John 3:5", "verse_text": "Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Necessity for", "verse_ref": "Acts 19:2-6", "verse_text": "He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. 3 And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism. 4 Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus. 5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. ..." }, { "point_text": "Renews and cleanses the soul", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:5", "verse_text": "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;" }, { "point_text": "Renews and cleanses the soul", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:20-21", "verse_text": "Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. 21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "The Word of God instrumental to", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:44", "verse_text": "While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word." }, { "point_text": "The Word of God instrumental to", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:26", "verse_text": "That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word," }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:1-4", "verse_text": "And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance." } ] }, { "name": "Bear, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Bear-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Inhabits woods", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 2:24", "verse_text": "And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Voracious", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:5", "verse_text": "And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh." }, { "point_text": "Cunning", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:10", "verse_text": "He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places." }, { "point_text": "Cruel", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:19", "verse_text": "As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him." }, { "point_text": "Often attacks men", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 2:24", "verse_text": "And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them." }, { "point_text": "Often attacks men", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:19", "verse_text": "As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him." }, { "point_text": "Attacks the flock in the presence of the shepherd", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:34", "verse_text": "And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:" }, { "point_text": "Particularly fierce when deprived of its young", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 17:8", "verse_text": "For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people." }, { "point_text": "Particularly fierce when deprived of its young", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:12", "verse_text": "Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly." }, { "point_text": "Growls when annoyed", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:11", "verse_text": "We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us." }, { "point_text": "Miraculously killed by David", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:36-37", "verse_text": "Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God. 37 David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD be with thee." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "God in His judgments", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:10", "verse_text": "He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places." }, { "point_text": "God in His judgments", "verse_ref": "Hosea 13:8", "verse_text": "I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them." }, { "point_text": "The natural man", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:7", "verse_text": "And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox." }, { "point_text": "Wicked rulers", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:15", "verse_text": "As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people." }, { "point_text": "The kingdom of the Medes", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:5", "verse_text": "And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh." }, { "point_text": "The kingdom of Antichrist", "verse_ref": "Revelation 13:2", "verse_text": "And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority." } ] }, { "name": "Beard, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Beard-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The Jews never appeared without", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 10:5", "verse_text": "When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return." }, { "point_text": "Worn even by the priests", "verse_ref": "Psalm 133:2", "verse_text": "It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;" }, { "point_text": "Laying hold of, a token of respect", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 20:9", "verse_text": "And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him." }, { "point_text": "Shaving of, a great offence", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 10:4", "verse_text": "Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away." }, { "point_text": "Shaving of, a great offence", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 10:6-7", "verse_text": "And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men. 7 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men." }, { "point_text": "Plucking of, a sign of scorn", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 50:6", "verse_text": "I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting." }, { "point_text": "Dribbling on, a sign of derangement", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 21:13", "verse_text": "And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard." }, { "point_text": "IN AFFLICTION,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Was neglected and untrimmed", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 19:24", "verse_text": "And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace." }, { "point_text": "Was clipped", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:37", "verse_text": "For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth." }, { "point_text": "Was shorn", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 41:5", "verse_text": "That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes plucked out", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:3", "verse_text": "And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied." }, { "point_text": "Corners of, not to be marred for the dead", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:27", "verse_text": "Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard." }, { "point_text": "Corners of, not to be marred for the dead", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 21:5", "verse_text": "They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh." }, { "point_text": "Subject to leprosy", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:29-30", "verse_text": "If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard; 30 Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard." }, { "point_text": "Of the healed leper to be shaved", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:9", "verse_text": "But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean." }, { "point_text": "Shaving, illustrative of severe judgments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:20", "verse_text": "In the same day shall the Lord shave with a rasor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard." }, { "point_text": "Shaving, illustrative of severe judgments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 15:2", "verse_text": "He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off." }, { "point_text": "Shaving, illustrative of severe judgments", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 5:1", "verse_text": "And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's rasor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair." } ] }, { "name": "Beasts", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Beasts.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Created by God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:24", "verse_text": "And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so." }, { "point_text": "Created by God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:19", "verse_text": "And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof." }, { "point_text": "Creation of, exhibits God's power", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:5", "verse_text": "I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me." }, { "point_text": "Made for the praise and glory of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:10", "verse_text": "Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl:" }, { "point_text": "Differ in flesh from birds and fishes", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:39", "verse_text": "All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds." }, { "point_text": "Herb of the field given to, for food", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:30", "verse_text": "And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so." }, { "point_text": "Power over, given to man", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:26", "verse_text": "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Power over, given to man", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:28", "verse_text": "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Instinctively fear man", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:2", "verse_text": "And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered." }, { "point_text": "Received their names from Adam", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:19-20", "verse_text": "And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. 20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him." }, { "point_text": "Given to man for food after the flood", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:3", "verse_text": "Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things." }, { "point_text": "Not to be eaten alive or with blood", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:4", "verse_text": "But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat." }, { "point_text": "Not to be eaten alive or with blood", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:16", "verse_text": "Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water." }, { "point_text": "Not to be eaten alive or with blood", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:23", "verse_text": "Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh." }, { "point_text": "That died naturally or were torn, not to be eaten", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:31", "verse_text": "And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs." }, { "point_text": "That died naturally or were torn, not to be eaten", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 17:15", "verse_text": "And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean." }, { "point_text": "That died naturally or were torn, not to be eaten", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:8", "verse_text": "That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Supply clothing to man", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:21", "verse_text": "Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them." }, { "point_text": "Supply clothing to man", "verse_ref": "Job 31:20", "verse_text": "If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;" }, { "point_text": "The property of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:10", "verse_text": "For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills." }, { "point_text": "Subjects of God's care", "verse_ref": "Psalm 36:6", "verse_text": "Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast." }, { "point_text": "Subjects of God's care", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:10-11", "verse_text": "He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills. 11 They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Devoid of speech", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:16", "verse_text": "But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet." }, { "point_text": "Devoid of understanding", "verse_ref": "Psalm 32:9", "verse_text": "Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Devoid of understanding", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:22", "verse_text": "So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee." }, { "point_text": "Devoid of immortality", "verse_ref": "Psalm 49:12-15", "verse_text": "Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish. 13 This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah. 14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling. 15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Possessed of instinct", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:3", "verse_text": "The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider." }, { "point_text": "Being four-footed", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:12", "verse_text": "Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air." }, { "point_text": "By nature wild, &c", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:11", "verse_text": "I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine." }, { "point_text": "By nature wild, &c", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:13", "verse_text": "And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him." }, { "point_text": "Capable of being tamed", "verse_ref": "James 3:7", "verse_text": "For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:" }, { "point_text": "Many kinds of, noisome and destructive", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:6", "verse_text": "And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land." }, { "point_text": "Many kinds of, noisome and destructive", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 5:17", "verse_text": "So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it." }, { "point_text": "Many kinds of, domestic", "verse_ref": "Genesis 36:6", "verse_text": "And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob." }, { "point_text": "Many kinds of, domestic", "verse_ref": "Genesis 45:17", "verse_text": "And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;" }, { "point_text": "Lessons of wisdom to be learned from", "verse_ref": "Job 12:7", "verse_text": "But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:" }, { "point_text": "FOUND IN", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Deserts", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:21", "verse_text": "But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there." }, { "point_text": "Fields", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:22", "verse_text": "And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee." }, { "point_text": "Fields", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:22", "verse_text": "Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength." }, { "point_text": "Mountains", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:8", "verse_text": "Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards." }, { "point_text": "Forests", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:9", "verse_text": "All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest." }, { "point_text": "Forests", "verse_ref": "Micah 5:8", "verse_text": "And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver." }, { "point_text": "HABITATIONS OF;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Dens and caves", "verse_ref": "Job 37:8", "verse_text": "Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places." }, { "point_text": "Dens and caves", "verse_ref": "Job 38:40", "verse_text": "When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?" }, { "point_text": "Under spreading trees", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:12", "verse_text": "The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it." }, { "point_text": "Deserted cities", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:21-22", "verse_text": "But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. 22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged." }, { "point_text": "Liable to diseases", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:3", "verse_text": "Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain." }, { "point_text": "Frequently suffered on account of the sins of men", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:18", "verse_text": "How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate." }, { "point_text": "Frequently suffered on account of the sins of men", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:20", "verse_text": "The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "Often cut off for the sins of men", "verse_ref": "Genesis 6:7", "verse_text": "And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them." }, { "point_text": "Often cut off for the sins of men", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:23", "verse_text": "And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark." }, { "point_text": "Often cut off for the sins of men", "verse_ref": "Exodus 11:5", "verse_text": "And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts." }, { "point_text": "Often cut off for the sins of men", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:3", "verse_text": "Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away." }, { "point_text": "Early distinguished into clean and unclean", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:2", "verse_text": "Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female." }, { "point_text": "CLEAN;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Ox", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:28", "verse_text": "If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit." }, { "point_text": "Ox", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:4", "verse_text": "These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat," }, { "point_text": "Wild ox", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:5", "verse_text": "The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois." }, { "point_text": "Sheep", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:13", "verse_text": "And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee." }, { "point_text": "Sheep", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:4", "verse_text": "These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat," }, { "point_text": "Goat", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:4", "verse_text": "These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat," }, { "point_text": "Hart", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:5", "verse_text": "The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois." }, { "point_text": "Hart", "verse_ref": "Job 39:1", "verse_text": "Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?" }, { "point_text": "Roebuck", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:5", "verse_text": "The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois." }, { "point_text": "Roebuck", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 2:18", "verse_text": "And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe." }, { "point_text": "Wild goat", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:5", "verse_text": "The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois." }, { "point_text": "Fallow deer", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:5", "verse_text": "The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois." }, { "point_text": "Chamois", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:5", "verse_text": "The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois." }, { "point_text": "Pygarg", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:5", "verse_text": "The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois." }, { "point_text": "How distinguished", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:3", "verse_text": "Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat." }, { "point_text": "How distinguished", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:6", "verse_text": "And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat." }, { "point_text": "Used for food", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:2", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth." }, { "point_text": "Used for food", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:15", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart." }, { "point_text": "Used for sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:20", "verse_text": "And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar." }, { "point_text": "First born of, not redeemed", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:17", "verse_text": "But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "UNCLEAN;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Camel", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:64", "verse_text": "And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel." }, { "point_text": "Camel", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:4", "verse_text": "Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you." }, { "point_text": "Dromedary", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:28", "verse_text": "Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge." }, { "point_text": "Dromedary", "verse_ref": "Esther 8:10", "verse_text": "And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries:" }, { "point_text": "Horse", "verse_ref": "Job 39:19-25", "verse_text": "Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? 20 Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible. 21 He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. 22 He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword. ..." }, { "point_text": "Ass", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:3", "verse_text": "And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him." }, { "point_text": "Ass", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:2", "verse_text": "Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me." }, { "point_text": "Wild Ass", "verse_ref": "Job 6:5", "verse_text": "Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?" }, { "point_text": "Wild Ass", "verse_ref": "Job 39:5-8", "verse_text": "Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? 6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. 7 He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. 8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing." }, { "point_text": "Mule", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 13:29", "verse_text": "And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every man gat him up upon his mule, and fled." }, { "point_text": "Mule", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:25", "verse_text": "And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year." }, { "point_text": "Lion", "verse_ref": "Judges 14:5-6", "verse_text": "Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him. 6 And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done." }, { "point_text": "Leopard", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:8", "verse_text": "Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards." }, { "point_text": "Bear", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 17:8", "verse_text": "For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people." }, { "point_text": "Wolf", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:27", "verse_text": "Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil." }, { "point_text": "Wolf", "verse_ref": "John 10:12", "verse_text": "But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep." }, { "point_text": "Unicorn", "verse_ref": "Numbers 23:22", "verse_text": "God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn." }, { "point_text": "Behemoth", "verse_ref": "Job 40:15", "verse_text": "Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox." }, { "point_text": "Ape", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:22", "verse_text": "For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks." }, { "point_text": "Fox", "verse_ref": "Psalm 63:10", "verse_text": "They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes." }, { "point_text": "Fox", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:5", "verse_text": "Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love." }, { "point_text": "Dog", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:31", "verse_text": "And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs." }, { "point_text": "Dog", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:2", "verse_text": "And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward." }, { "point_text": "Swine", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:7", "verse_text": "And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you." }, { "point_text": "Swine", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:17", "verse_text": "They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Hare", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:6", "verse_text": "And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you." }, { "point_text": "Hare", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:7", "verse_text": "Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you." }, { "point_text": "Coney", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:5", "verse_text": "And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you." }, { "point_text": "Coney", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:18", "verse_text": "The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies." }, { "point_text": "Mouse", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:29", "verse_text": "These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind," }, { "point_text": "Mouse", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:17", "verse_text": "They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Mole", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:30", "verse_text": "And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole." }, { "point_text": "Mole", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:20", "verse_text": "In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;" }, { "point_text": "Weasel", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:29", "verse_text": "These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind," }, { "point_text": "Ferret", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:30", "verse_text": "And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole." }, { "point_text": "Badger", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:5", "verse_text": "And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood," }, { "point_text": "Badger", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:10", "verse_text": "I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk." }, { "point_text": "How distinguished", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:26", "verse_text": "The carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean." }, { "point_text": "Not eaten", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:4-8", "verse_text": "Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. 5 And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. 6 And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. 7 And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you. ..." }, { "point_text": "Not eaten", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:7-8", "verse_text": "Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates. 8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them." }, { "point_text": "Not offered in sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 27:11", "verse_text": "And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the priest:" }, { "point_text": "First-born of, redeemed", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:15", "verse_text": "Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem." }, { "point_text": "Caused uncleanness when dead", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:2", "verse_text": "Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty." }, { "point_text": "DOMESTIC,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "To enjoy the sabbath", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:10", "verse_text": "But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:" }, { "point_text": "To enjoy the sabbath", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:14", "verse_text": "But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou." }, { "point_text": "To be taken care of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:7", "verse_text": "And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat." }, { "point_text": "To be taken care of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 25:4", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn." }, { "point_text": "Not to be cruelly used", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:27-32", "verse_text": "And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she fell down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff. 28 And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times? 29 And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee. 30 And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said, Nay. ..." }, { "point_text": "Not to be cruelly used", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:10", "verse_text": "A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel." }, { "point_text": "No likeness of, to be worshipped", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:17", "verse_text": "The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air," }, { "point_text": "Representations of, worshipped by the heathen", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:23", "verse_text": "And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things." }, { "point_text": "History of, written by Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:33", "verse_text": "And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes." }, { "point_text": "Often used as instruments of punishment", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:22", "verse_text": "I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate." }, { "point_text": "Often used as instruments of punishment", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:24", "verse_text": "They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust." }, { "point_text": "Often used as instruments of punishment", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 15:3", "verse_text": "And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy." }, { "point_text": "Often used as instruments of punishment", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 5:17", "verse_text": "So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it." }, { "point_text": "Man by nature no better than", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 3:18-19", "verse_text": "I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. 19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "The wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 49:20", "verse_text": "Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish." }, { "point_text": "The wicked", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:12", "verse_text": "One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies." }, { "point_text": "Ungodly professors", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:12", "verse_text": "But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;" }, { "point_text": "Ungodly professors", "verse_ref": "Jude 10", "verse_text": "But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves." }, { "point_text": "Persecutors", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:32", "verse_text": "If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die." }, { "point_text": "Persecutors", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:17", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion." }, { "point_text": "Kingdoms", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:11", "verse_text": "I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame." }, { "point_text": "Kingdoms", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:4", "verse_text": "I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great." }, { "point_text": "People of different nations", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:12", "verse_text": "The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it." }, { "point_text": "People of different nations", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:21-22", "verse_text": "Whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation: 22 It is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong: for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Antichrist", "verse_ref": "Revelation 13:2", "verse_text": "And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority." }, { "point_text": "Antichrist", "verse_ref": "Revelation 20:4", "verse_text": "And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years." } ] }, { "name": "Beds", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Beds.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 47:31", "verse_text": "And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head." }, { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 8:3", "verse_text": "And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:" }, { "point_text": "Couches or divans used as", "verse_ref": "Job 7:13", "verse_text": "When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;" }, { "point_text": "Couches or divans used as", "verse_ref": "Psalm 6:6", "verse_text": "I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears." }, { "point_text": "A small pallet or mattress used as", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 19:15", "verse_text": "And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him." }, { "point_text": "Considered necessary", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:10", "verse_text": "Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither." }, { "point_text": "MADE OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Iron", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 3:11", "verse_text": "For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man." }, { "point_text": "Ivory", "verse_ref": "Amos 6:4", "verse_text": "That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;" }, { "point_text": "Gold and Silver", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:6", "verse_text": "Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble." }, { "point_text": "Wood.\r\n\r\n(marg.)", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 3:7-9", "verse_text": "Behold his bed, which is Solomon's; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel. 8 They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night. 9 King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Supplied with pillows", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 19:13", "verse_text": "And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth." }, { "point_text": "Supplied with pillows", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 26:7", "verse_text": "So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him." }, { "point_text": "Covered with tapestry and linen", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 7:16", "verse_text": "I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Often perfumed", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 7:17", "verse_text": "I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon." }, { "point_text": "Often perfumed", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 23:41", "verse_text": "And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil." }, { "point_text": "Of the poor covered with their upper garment", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:26-27", "verse_text": "If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down: 27 For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious." }, { "point_text": "USED FOR", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Sleeping on", "verse_ref": "Job 33:15", "verse_text": "In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;" }, { "point_text": "Sleeping on", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:7", "verse_text": "And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee." }, { "point_text": "Reclining on by day", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 4:5", "verse_text": "And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, who lay on a bed at noon." }, { "point_text": "Reclining on by day", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 11:2", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon." }, { "point_text": "Reclining on at meals", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 28:23-25", "verse_text": "But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed. 24 And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof: 25 And she brought it before Saul, and before his servants; and they did eat. Then they rose up, and went away that night." }, { "point_text": "Reclining on at meals", "verse_ref": "Amos 6:4-6", "verse_text": "That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; 5 That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David; 6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph." }, { "point_text": "Reclining on at meals", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:36-38", "verse_text": "And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat. 37 And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, 38 And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment." }, { "point_text": "Reclining on at meals", "verse_ref": "John 13:23", "verse_text": "Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved." }, { "point_text": "Not used in affliction", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:16", "verse_text": "David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Not used in affliction", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 13:31", "verse_text": "Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent." }, { "point_text": "Persons sometimes took to, in grief", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:4", "verse_text": "And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread." }, { "point_text": "Persons sometimes took to, in grief", "verse_ref": "Hosea 7:14", "verse_text": "And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me." }, { "point_text": "Saints meditate and praise God while on", "verse_ref": "Psalm 4:4", "verse_text": "Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Saints meditate and praise God while on", "verse_ref": "Psalm 149:5", "verse_text": "Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds." }, { "point_text": "Saints meditate and praise God while on", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 3:1", "verse_text": "By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not." }, { "point_text": "The wicked devise mischief while on", "verse_ref": "Psalm 36:4", "verse_text": "He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil." }, { "point_text": "The wicked devise mischief while on", "verse_ref": "Micah 2:1", "verse_text": "Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand." }, { "point_text": "The slothful too fond of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:14", "verse_text": "As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed." }, { "point_text": "Of the poor often sold for debt", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:27", "verse_text": "If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?" }, { "point_text": "Subject to ceremonial defilement", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 15:4", "verse_text": "Every bed, whereon he lieth that hath the issue, is unclean: and every thing, whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean." }, { "point_text": "Purification of.\r\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Mark 7:4", "verse_text": "And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Of the grave", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:2", "verse_text": "He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness." }, { "point_text": "(Made in darkness,) of extreme misery", "verse_ref": "Job 17:13", "verse_text": "If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness." }, { "point_text": "(Made in sickness,) of divine support and comfort", "verse_ref": "Psalm 41:3", "verse_text": "The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness." }, { "point_text": "(Made on high,) of carnal security", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:7", "verse_text": "Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice." }, { "point_text": "(Too short,) of plans which afford no rest or peace", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:20", "verse_text": "For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." } ] }, { "name": "Benjamin, Tribe of", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Benjamin-Tribe-of.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Descended from Jacob's twelfth son", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:18", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin." }, { "point_text": "Predictions respecting", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:27", "verse_text": "Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil." }, { "point_text": "Predictions respecting", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:12", "verse_text": "And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; and the LORD shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders." }, { "point_text": "PERSONS SELECTED FROM,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "To number the people", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:11", "verse_text": "Of Benjamin; Abidan the son of Gideoni." }, { "point_text": "To spy out the land", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:9", "verse_text": "Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu." }, { "point_text": "To divide the land", "verse_ref": "Numbers 34:21", "verse_text": "Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon." }, { "point_text": "Strength of, on leaving Egypt", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:36-37", "verse_text": "Of the children of Benjamin, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 37 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred." }, { "point_text": "Formed the rear of the third division of Israel in their journeys", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:22", "verse_text": "And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud." }, { "point_text": "Formed the rear of the third division of Israel in their journeys", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:24", "verse_text": "And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni." }, { "point_text": "Encamped on west side of the tabernacle under the standard of Ephraim", "verse_ref": "Numbers 2:18", "verse_text": "On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud." }, { "point_text": "Encamped on west side of the tabernacle under the standard of Ephraim", "verse_ref": "Numbers 2:22", "verse_text": "Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the captain of the sons of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni." }, { "point_text": "Offering of, at dedication", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:60-65", "verse_text": "On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin, offered: 61 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: 62 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: 63 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: ..." }, { "point_text": "Families of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:38-40", "verse_text": "The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites: 39 Of Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites: of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites. 40 And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites: and of Naaman, the family of the Naamites." }, { "point_text": "Strength of, entering Canaan", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:41", "verse_text": "These are the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and six hundred." }, { "point_text": "On Gerizim said amen to the blessings", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 27:12", "verse_text": "These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:" }, { "point_text": "Cities and bounds of inheritance", "verse_ref": "Joshua 18:11-28", "verse_text": "And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph. 12 And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Bethaven. 13 And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Bethel, southward; and the border descended to Atarothadar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Bethhoron. 14 And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Bethhoron southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter. ..." }, { "point_text": "Celebrated as bowmen and slingers", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:2", "verse_text": "They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin." }, { "point_text": "Assisted against Sisera", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:14", "verse_text": "Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer." }, { "point_text": "Oppressed by the Ammonites", "verse_ref": "Judges 10:9", "verse_text": "Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed." }, { "point_text": "Almost annihilated for protecting the men of Gibeah", "verse_ref": "Judges 20:12-48", "verse_text": "And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you? 13 Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel: 14 But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel. 15 And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men. ..." }, { "point_text": "Remnant of, provided with wives to preserve the tribe", "verse_ref": "Judges 21:1-23", "verse_text": "Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife. 2 And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore; 3 And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel? 4 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. ..." }, { "point_text": "Furnished the first king to Israel", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 9:1-2", "verse_text": "Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power. 2 And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people." }, { "point_text": "Furnished the first king to Israel", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 9:15-17", "verse_text": "Now the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came, saying, 16 To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me. 17 And when Samuel saw Saul, the LORD said unto him, Behold the man whom I spake to thee of! this same shall reign over my people." }, { "point_text": "Furnished the first king to Israel", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 10:20-21", "verse_text": "And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of Israel to come near, the tribe of Benjamin was taken. 21 When he had caused the tribe of Benjamin to come near by their families, the family of Matri was taken, and Saul the son of Kish was taken: and when they sought him, he could not be found." }, { "point_text": "Furnished the first king to Israel", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 2:8-10", "verse_text": "But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim; 9 And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel. 10 Ishbosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David." }, { "point_text": "Adhered for a time to the house of Saul against David", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 2:9", "verse_text": "And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel." }, { "point_text": "Adhered for a time to the house of Saul against David", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 2:15", "verse_text": "Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin, which pertained to Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David." }, { "point_text": "Adhered for a time to the house of Saul against David", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 2:25", "verse_text": "And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of an hill." }, { "point_text": "Adhered for a time to the house of Saul against David", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 2:31", "verse_text": "But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, so that three hundred and threescore men died." }, { "point_text": "Some of, assisted David", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:1-7", "verse_text": "Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish: and they were among the mighty men, helpers of the war. 2 They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin. 3 The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Berachah, and Jehu the Antothite, 4 And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite, ..." }, { "point_text": "Some of, assisted David", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:16", "verse_text": "And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the hold unto David." }, { "point_text": "Revolted from the house of Saul", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 3:19", "verse_text": "And Abner also spake in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and that seemed good to the whole house of Benjamin." }, { "point_text": "Some of, at David's coronation", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:29", "verse_text": "And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul." }, { "point_text": "A thousand of, with Shimei came to meet David on his return to Jerusalem", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 19:16-17", "verse_text": "And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which was of Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David. 17 And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king." }, { "point_text": "Very numerous in David's time", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 7:6-12", "verse_text": "The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three. 7 And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour; and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four. 8 And the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these are the sons of Becher. 9 And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour, was twenty thousand and two hundred. ..." }, { "point_text": "Captains appointed over", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:18", "verse_text": "Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:" }, { "point_text": "Captains appointed over", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:12", "verse_text": "The ninth captain for the ninth month was Abiezer the Anetothite, of the Benjamites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand." }, { "point_text": "Remained faithful to Judah", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:21", "verse_text": "And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon." }, { "point_text": "Furnished an army to Jehoshaphat", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 17:17", "verse_text": "And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand." }, { "point_text": "Numbers of, returned from the captivity and dwelt at Jerusalem", "verse_ref": "Ezra 1:5", "verse_text": "Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Numbers of, returned from the captivity and dwelt at Jerusalem", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 11:4", "verse_text": "And at Jerusalem dwelt certain of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah; Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalaleel, of the children of Perez;" }, { "point_text": "Celebrated persons of;\r\n\nEhud, \nKish, \nSaul, \n\nAbner, \n\nElhanan, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:15", "verse_text": "But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab." }, { "point_text": "Celebrated persons of;\r\n\nEhud, \nKish, \nSaul, \n\nAbner, \n\nElhanan, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 9:1", "verse_text": "Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power." }, { "point_text": "Celebrated persons of;\r\n\nEhud, \nKish, \nSaul, \n\nAbner, \n\nElhanan, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 9:1", "verse_text": "Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power." }, { "point_text": "Celebrated persons of;\r\n\nEhud, \nKish, \nSaul, \n\nAbner, \n\nElhanan, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 10:1", "verse_text": "Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because the LORD hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance?" }, { "point_text": "Celebrated persons of;\r\n\nEhud, \nKish, \nSaul, \n\nAbner, \n\nElhanan, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:51", "verse_text": "And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel." }, { "point_text": "Celebrated persons of;\r\n\nEhud, \nKish, \nSaul, \n\nAbner, \n\nElhanan, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:55", "verse_text": "And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell." }, { "point_text": "Celebrated persons of;\r\n\nEhud, \nKish, \nSaul, \n\nAbner, \n\nElhanan, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 21:19", "verse_text": "And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam." }, { "point_text": "Celebrated persons of;\r\n\nEhud, \nKish, \nSaul, \n\nAbner, \n\nElhanan, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:5", "verse_text": "Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;" } ] }, { "name": "Birds", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Birds.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Created by God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:20", "verse_text": "And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven." }, { "point_text": "Created by God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:19", "verse_text": "And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof." }, { "point_text": "Created for the glory of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:10", "verse_text": "Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl:" }, { "point_text": "Herb of the field given as food to", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:30", "verse_text": "And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so." }, { "point_text": "Differ in flesh from beasts and fishes", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:39", "verse_text": "All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds." }, { "point_text": "Power over given to man", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:26", "verse_text": "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Power over given to man", "verse_ref": "Psalm 8:8", "verse_text": "The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas." }, { "point_text": "Names given to, by Adam", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:19-20", "verse_text": "And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. 20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him." }, { "point_text": "Instinctively fear man", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:2", "verse_text": "And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered." }, { "point_text": "Instinct of, inferior to man's reason", "verse_ref": "Job 35:11", "verse_text": "Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?" }, { "point_text": "Lessons of wisdom to be learned from", "verse_ref": "Job 12:7", "verse_text": "But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:" }, { "point_text": "Can all be tamed", "verse_ref": "James 3:7", "verse_text": "For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:" }, { "point_text": "Given as food to man", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:2-3", "verse_text": "And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. 3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things." }, { "point_text": "The blood of, not to be eaten", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:26", "verse_text": "Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings." }, { "point_text": "The property of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:11", "verse_text": "I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine." }, { "point_text": "God provides for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:1-12", "verse_text": "Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty. 2 Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: 3 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind: 4 Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire: ..." }, { "point_text": "God provides for", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:26", "verse_text": "Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?" }, { "point_text": "God provides for", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:23-24", "verse_text": "The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment. 24 Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?" }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Fowls of the air", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:3", "verse_text": "Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth." }, { "point_text": "Fowls of heaven", "verse_ref": "Job 35:11", "verse_text": "Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?" }, { "point_text": "Feathered fowl", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 39:17", "verse_text": "And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood." }, { "point_text": "Winged fowl", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:17", "verse_text": "The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air," }, { "point_text": "Birds of the air", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:20", "verse_text": "And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head." }, { "point_text": "Many kinds of, granivorous", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:4", "verse_text": "And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:" }, { "point_text": "Many kinds of, carnivorous", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:11", "verse_text": "And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away." }, { "point_text": "Many kinds of, carnivorous", "verse_ref": "Genesis 40:19", "verse_text": "Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee." }, { "point_text": "Many kinds of, carnivorous", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:26", "verse_text": "And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away." }, { "point_text": "Furnished with claws", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:33", "verse_text": "The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws." }, { "point_text": "Propagated by eggs", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 22:6", "verse_text": "If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:" }, { "point_text": "Propagated by eggs", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:11", "verse_text": "As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool." }, { "point_text": "Make, and dwell in nests", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:20", "verse_text": "And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head." }, { "point_text": "Are hostile to strange kinds", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 12:9", "verse_text": "Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour." }, { "point_text": "Have each their peculiar note or song", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:12", "verse_text": "By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches." }, { "point_text": "Have each their peculiar note or song", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 12:4", "verse_text": "And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;" }, { "point_text": "Have each their peculiar note or song", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:12", "verse_text": "The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;" }, { "point_text": "Fly above the earth", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:20", "verse_text": "And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven." }, { "point_text": "Rapid flight of, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 31:5", "verse_text": "As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it." }, { "point_text": "Rapid flight of, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Hosea 9:11", "verse_text": "As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception." }, { "point_text": "Rapid flight of, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Hosea 11:11", "verse_text": "They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Many kinds of, migratory", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:7", "verse_text": "Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Often remove from places suffering calamities", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:25", "verse_text": "I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled." }, { "point_text": "Often remove from places suffering calamities", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:10", "verse_text": "For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone." }, { "point_text": "Rest on trees", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:12", "verse_text": "The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it." }, { "point_text": "Rest on trees", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:32", "verse_text": "Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof." }, { "point_text": "INHABIT", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Mountains", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:11", "verse_text": "I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine." }, { "point_text": "Deserts", "verse_ref": "Psalm 102:6", "verse_text": "I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert." }, { "point_text": "Marshes", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:23", "verse_text": "I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Deserted Cities", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 34:11", "verse_text": "But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness." }, { "point_text": "Deserted Cities", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 34:14-15", "verse_text": "The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. 15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate." }, { "point_text": "MAKE THEIR NESTS", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "In trees", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:17", "verse_text": "Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house." }, { "point_text": "In trees", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 31:6", "verse_text": "All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations." }, { "point_text": "On the ground", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 22:6", "verse_text": "If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:" }, { "point_text": "In clefts of rocks", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:21", "verse_text": "And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock." }, { "point_text": "In clefts of rocks", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:28", "verse_text": "O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth." }, { "point_text": "In deserted cities", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 34:15", "verse_text": "There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate." }, { "point_text": "Under the roofs of houses", "verse_ref": "Psalm 84:3", "verse_text": "Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God." }, { "point_text": "Early distinguished into clean and clean", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:20", "verse_text": "And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar." }, { "point_text": "CLEAN;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Dove", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:8", "verse_text": "Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;" }, { "point_text": "Turtle", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:22", "verse_text": "And two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering." }, { "point_text": "Turtle", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:12", "verse_text": "The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;" }, { "point_text": "Pigeon", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:14", "verse_text": "And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the LORD be of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons." }, { "point_text": "Pigeon", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 12:6", "verse_text": "And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest:" }, { "point_text": "Quail", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:12-13", "verse_text": "I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God. 13 And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host." }, { "point_text": "Sparrow", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:4", "verse_text": "Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:" }, { "point_text": "Sparrow", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:29-31", "verse_text": "Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. 30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 31 Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows." }, { "point_text": "Swallow", "verse_ref": "Psalm 84:3", "verse_text": "Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God." }, { "point_text": "Swallow", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:14", "verse_text": "Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me." }, { "point_text": "Cock and hen", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:37", "verse_text": "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!" }, { "point_text": "Cock and hen", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:34", "verse_text": "Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice." }, { "point_text": "Cock and hen", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:74", "verse_text": "Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew." }, { "point_text": "Partridge", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 26:20", "verse_text": "Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains." }, { "point_text": "Partridge", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:11", "verse_text": "As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool." }, { "point_text": "Crane", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:14", "verse_text": "Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me." }, { "point_text": "Crane", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:7", "verse_text": "Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "To be eaten", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:11", "verse_text": "Of all clean birds ye shall eat." }, { "point_text": "To be eaten", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:20", "verse_text": "But of all clean fowls ye may eat." }, { "point_text": "Offered in sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:20", "verse_text": "And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar." }, { "point_text": "Offered in sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:14", "verse_text": "And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the LORD be of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons." }, { "point_text": "UNCLEAN;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Eagle", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:13", "verse_text": "And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray," }, { "point_text": "Eagle", "verse_ref": "Job 39:27", "verse_text": "Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?" }, { "point_text": "Ossifrage", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:13", "verse_text": "And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray," }, { "point_text": "Osprey", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:13", "verse_text": "And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray," }, { "point_text": "Vulture", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:14", "verse_text": "And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;" }, { "point_text": "Vulture", "verse_ref": "Job 28:7", "verse_text": "There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:" }, { "point_text": "Vulture", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 34:15", "verse_text": "There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate." }, { "point_text": "Glede", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:13", "verse_text": "And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind," }, { "point_text": "Kite", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:14", "verse_text": "And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;" }, { "point_text": "Raven", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:15", "verse_text": "Every raven after his kind;" }, { "point_text": "Raven", "verse_ref": "Job 38:41", "verse_text": "Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat." }, { "point_text": "Owl", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:16", "verse_text": "And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind," }, { "point_text": "Owl", "verse_ref": "Job 30:29", "verse_text": "I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls." }, { "point_text": "Night hawk", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:16", "verse_text": "And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind," }, { "point_text": "Cuckoo", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:16", "verse_text": "And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind," }, { "point_text": "Hawk", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:17", "verse_text": "And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl," }, { "point_text": "Hawk", "verse_ref": "Job 39:26", "verse_text": "Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?" }, { "point_text": "Little owl", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:17", "verse_text": "And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl," }, { "point_text": "Cormorant", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:17", "verse_text": "And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl," }, { "point_text": "Cormorant", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 34:11", "verse_text": "But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness." }, { "point_text": "Great owl", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:17", "verse_text": "And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl," }, { "point_text": "Swan", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:18", "verse_text": "And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle," }, { "point_text": "Pelican", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:18", "verse_text": "And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle," }, { "point_text": "Pelican", "verse_ref": "Psalm 102:6", "verse_text": "I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert." }, { "point_text": "Gier Eagle", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:18", "verse_text": "And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle," }, { "point_text": "Stork", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:19", "verse_text": "And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat." }, { "point_text": "Stork", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:17", "verse_text": "Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house." }, { "point_text": "Heron", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:19", "verse_text": "And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat." }, { "point_text": "Lapwing", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:19", "verse_text": "And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat." }, { "point_text": "Bat", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:19", "verse_text": "And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat." }, { "point_text": "Bat", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:20", "verse_text": "In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;" }, { "point_text": "Ostrich", "verse_ref": "Job 39:13", "verse_text": "Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?" }, { "point_text": "Ostrich", "verse_ref": "Job 39:18", "verse_text": "What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider." }, { "point_text": "Bittern", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:23", "verse_text": "I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Bittern", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 34:11", "verse_text": "But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness." }, { "point_text": "Peacock", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:22", "verse_text": "For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks." }, { "point_text": "Peacock", "verse_ref": "Job 39:13", "verse_text": "Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?" }, { "point_text": "Not to be eaten", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:13", "verse_text": "And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray," }, { "point_text": "Not to be eaten", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:17", "verse_text": "And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl," }, { "point_text": "Not to be eaten with their young", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 22:6-7", "verse_text": "If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young: 7 But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days." }, { "point_text": "Taken in snares or nets", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:17", "verse_text": "Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." }, { "point_text": "Often suffered for man's sin", "verse_ref": "Genesis 6:7", "verse_text": "And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them." }, { "point_text": "Often suffered for man's sin", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 12:4", "verse_text": "How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end." }, { "point_text": "Often suffered for man's sin", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 38:20", "verse_text": "So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground." }, { "point_text": "Often suffered for man's sin", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:3", "verse_text": "Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away." }, { "point_text": "Solomon wrote the history of", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:33", "verse_text": "And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes." }, { "point_text": "Confinement of, in cages alluded to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:27", "verse_text": "As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich." }, { "point_text": "No likeness of, to be made for worship", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:17", "verse_text": "The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air," }, { "point_text": "Often worshipped by idolaters", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:23", "verse_text": "And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Of cruel and rapacious kings", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 46:11", "verse_text": "Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it." }, { "point_text": "Of hostile nations", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 12:9", "verse_text": "Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour." }, { "point_text": "Of people of different countries", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 31:6", "verse_text": "All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations." }, { "point_text": "Of people of different countries", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:32", "verse_text": "Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof." }, { "point_text": "Of unsettled persons, &c", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:8", "verse_text": "As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place." }, { "point_text": "Of unsettled persons, &c", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 16:2", "verse_text": "For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon." }, { "point_text": "Of the devil and his spirits", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:4", "verse_text": "And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:" }, { "point_text": "Of the devil and his spirits", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:19", "verse_text": "When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side." }, { "point_text": "(Snaring,) of death", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 9:12", "verse_text": "For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them." }, { "point_text": "(Snaring,) of designs of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 124:7", "verse_text": "Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped." }, { "point_text": "(Snaring,) of designs of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:10-17", "verse_text": "My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: ..." }, { "point_text": "(Snaring,) of designs of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 7:23", "verse_text": "Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life." } ] }, { "name": "Blasphemy", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Blasphemy.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Christ assailed with", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:25", "verse_text": "It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?" }, { "point_text": "Christ assailed with", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:64-65", "verse_text": "And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee? 65 And many other things blasphemously spake they against him." }, { "point_text": "Christ assailed with", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:14", "verse_text": "If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified." }, { "point_text": "Charged upon Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:2", "verse_text": "And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee." }, { "point_text": "Charged upon Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:64-65", "verse_text": "Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven. 65 Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy." }, { "point_text": "Charged upon saints", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:11", "verse_text": "Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God." }, { "point_text": "Charged upon saints", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:13", "verse_text": "And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:" }, { "point_text": "Proceeds from the heart", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:19", "verse_text": "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:" }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:7", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:8", "verse_text": "But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth." }, { "point_text": "The wicked addicted to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:18", "verse_text": "Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name." }, { "point_text": "The wicked addicted to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 52:5", "verse_text": "Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed." }, { "point_text": "The wicked addicted to", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:2", "verse_text": "For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy," }, { "point_text": "The wicked addicted to", "verse_ref": "Revelation 18:11", "verse_text": "And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:" }, { "point_text": "The wicked addicted to", "verse_ref": "Revelation 18:21", "verse_text": "And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all." }, { "point_text": "Idolatry counted as", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:7", "verse_text": "Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom." }, { "point_text": "Idolatry counted as", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:27-28", "verse_text": "Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me. 28 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings." }, { "point_text": "Hypocrisy counted as", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:9", "verse_text": "I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan." }, { "point_text": "Saints grieved to hear", "verse_ref": "Psalm 44:15", "verse_text": "My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me," }, { "point_text": "Saints grieved to hear", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:10", "verse_text": "O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?" }, { "point_text": "Saints grieved to hear", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:18", "verse_text": "Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name." }, { "point_text": "Saints grieved to hear", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:22", "verse_text": "Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily." }, { "point_text": "Gives no occasion for", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:14", "verse_text": "Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die." }, { "point_text": "Gives no occasion for", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:1", "verse_text": "Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed." }, { "point_text": "Against the Holy Ghost, unpardonable", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:31-32", "verse_text": "Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. 32 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come." }, { "point_text": "Connected with folly and pride", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:22", "verse_text": "Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Connected with folly and pride", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:18", "verse_text": "Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 24:16", "verse_text": "And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:7", "verse_text": "Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:27-33", "verse_text": "Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me. 28 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings. 29 Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day. 30 Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations? ..." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 35:11-12", "verse_text": "Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee. 12 And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Danite, \nSennacherib, \n\n\nThe Jews, \nHymeneus,", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 24:11", "verse_text": "And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the LORD, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Danite, \nSennacherib, \n\n\nThe Jews, \nHymeneus,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:4", "verse_text": "It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Danite, \nSennacherib, \n\n\nThe Jews, \nHymeneus,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:10", "verse_text": "Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Danite, \nSennacherib, \n\n\nThe Jews, \nHymeneus,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:22", "verse_text": "Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Danite, \nSennacherib, \n\n\nThe Jews, \nHymeneus,", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:65", "verse_text": "And many other things blasphemously spake they against him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Danite, \nSennacherib, \n\n\nThe Jews, \nHymeneus,", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:20", "verse_text": "Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme." } ] }, { "name": "Blessed, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Blessed-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Whom God chooses", "verse_ref": "Psalm 65:4", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple." }, { "point_text": "Whom God chooses", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:3-4", "verse_text": "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: 4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:" }, { "point_text": "Whom God calls", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 51:2", "verse_text": "Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him." }, { "point_text": "Whom God calls", "verse_ref": "Revelation 19:9", "verse_text": "And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God." }, { "point_text": "Who know Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:16-17", "verse_text": "And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. 17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven." }, { "point_text": "Who know the gospel", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:15", "verse_text": "Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance." }, { "point_text": "Who are not offended at Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:6", "verse_text": "And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me." }, { "point_text": "Who believe", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:45", "verse_text": "And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Who believe", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:9", "verse_text": "So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham." }, { "point_text": "Whose sins are forgiven", "verse_ref": "Psalm 32:1-2", "verse_text": "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. 2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile." }, { "point_text": "To whom God imputes righteousness without works", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:6-9", "verse_text": "Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, 7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. 8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. 9 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Whom God chastens", "verse_ref": "Job 5:17", "verse_text": "Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:" }, { "point_text": "Whom God chastens", "verse_ref": "Psalm 94:12", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;" }, { "point_text": "Who suffer for Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:22", "verse_text": "Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake." }, { "point_text": "Who have the Lord for their God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 144:15", "verse_text": "Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Who trust in God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:12", "verse_text": "Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him." }, { "point_text": "Who trust in God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:8", "verse_text": "O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him." }, { "point_text": "Who trust in God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:4", "verse_text": "Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies." }, { "point_text": "Who trust in God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 84:12", "verse_text": "O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee." }, { "point_text": "Who trust in God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:7", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is." }, { "point_text": "Who fear God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 112:1", "verse_text": "Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments." }, { "point_text": "Who fear God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 128:1", "verse_text": "Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways." }, { "point_text": "Who fear God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 128:4", "verse_text": "Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Who hear and keep the word of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:2", "verse_text": "Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart." }, { "point_text": "Who hear and keep the word of God", "verse_ref": "James 1:24", "verse_text": "For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was." }, { "point_text": "Who hear and keep the word of God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:16", "verse_text": "But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear." }, { "point_text": "Who hear and keep the word of God", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:28", "verse_text": "But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it." }, { "point_text": "Who hear and keep the word of God", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:3", "verse_text": "Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand." }, { "point_text": "Who hear and keep the word of God", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:7", "verse_text": "Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book." }, { "point_text": "Who delight in the commandments of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 112:1", "verse_text": "Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments." }, { "point_text": "Who keep the commandments of God", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:14", "verse_text": "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city." }, { "point_text": "Who wait for the Lord", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:18", "verse_text": "And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him." }, { "point_text": "Whose strength is in the Lord", "verse_ref": "Psalm 84:5", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them." }, { "point_text": "Who hunger and thirst after righteousness", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:6", "verse_text": "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled." }, { "point_text": "Who frequent the house of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 65:4", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple." }, { "point_text": "Who frequent the house of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 84:5", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them." }, { "point_text": "Who avoid the wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 1:1", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful." }, { "point_text": "Who endure temptation", "verse_ref": "James 1:12", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him." }, { "point_text": "Who watch against sin", "verse_ref": "Revelation 16:15", "verse_text": "Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame." }, { "point_text": "Who rebuke sinners", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 24:25", "verse_text": "But to them that rebuke him shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them." }, { "point_text": "Who watch for the Lord", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:37", "verse_text": "Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them." }, { "point_text": "Who die in the Lord", "verse_ref": "Revelation 14:13", "verse_text": "And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them." }, { "point_text": "Who have part in the first resurrection", "verse_ref": "Revelation 20:6", "verse_text": "Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years." }, { "point_text": "Who favor saints", "verse_ref": "Genesis 12:3", "verse_text": "And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed." }, { "point_text": "Who favor saints", "verse_ref": "Ruth 2:10", "verse_text": "Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?" }, { "point_text": "The undefiled", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:1", "verse_text": "ALEPH. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The pure in heart", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:8", "verse_text": "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God." }, { "point_text": "The just", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:3", "verse_text": "Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times." }, { "point_text": "The just", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:6", "verse_text": "Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked." }, { "point_text": "The children of the just", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:7", "verse_text": "The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him." }, { "point_text": "The righteous", "verse_ref": "Psalm 5:12", "verse_text": "For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield." }, { "point_text": "The generation of the upright", "verse_ref": "Psalm 112:2", "verse_text": "His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed." }, { "point_text": "The faithful", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:20", "verse_text": "A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent." }, { "point_text": "The poor in spirit", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:3", "verse_text": "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." }, { "point_text": "The meek", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:5", "verse_text": "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth." }, { "point_text": "The merciful", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:7", "verse_text": "Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy." }, { "point_text": "The bountiful", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 15:10", "verse_text": "Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto." }, { "point_text": "The bountiful", "verse_ref": "Psalm 41:1", "verse_text": "Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble." }, { "point_text": "The bountiful", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:9", "verse_text": "He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor." }, { "point_text": "The bountiful", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:13-14", "verse_text": "But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: 14 And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just." }, { "point_text": "The peace-makers", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:9", "verse_text": "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God." }, { "point_text": "Holy mourners", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:4", "verse_text": "Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted." }, { "point_text": "Holy mourners", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:21", "verse_text": "Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh." }, { "point_text": "Saints at the judgment-day", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:34", "verse_text": "Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:" }, { "point_text": "Who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:15", "verse_text": "And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God", "verse_ref": "Revelation 19:9", "verse_text": "And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God." } ] }, { "name": "Blindness, Spiritual", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Blindness-Spiritual.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Explained", "verse_ref": "John 1:5", "verse_text": "And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." }, { "point_text": "Explained", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:14", "verse_text": "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." }, { "point_text": "The effect of sin", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 29:10", "verse_text": "For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered." }, { "point_text": "The effect of sin", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:23", "verse_text": "But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!" }, { "point_text": "The effect of sin", "verse_ref": "John 3:19-20", "verse_text": "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved." }, { "point_text": "Unbelief, the effect of", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:8", "verse_text": "(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Unbelief, the effect of", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:3-4", "verse_text": "But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: 4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." }, { "point_text": "Uncharitableness, a proof of", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:9", "verse_text": "He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now." }, { "point_text": "Uncharitableness, a proof of", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:11", "verse_text": "But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes." }, { "point_text": "A work of the devil", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:4", "verse_text": "In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." }, { "point_text": "Leads to all evil", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:17-19", "verse_text": "This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: 19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness." }, { "point_text": "Is consistent with communion with God", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:6-7", "verse_text": "If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin." }, { "point_text": "Of ministers, fatal to themselves and to the people", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:14", "verse_text": "Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch." }, { "point_text": "The wicked are in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 82:5", "verse_text": "They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course." }, { "point_text": "The wicked are in", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:21", "verse_text": "Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:" }, { "point_text": "The self-righteous are in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:19", "verse_text": "Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?" }, { "point_text": "The self-righteous are in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:26", "verse_text": "Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also." }, { "point_text": "The wicked wilfully guilty of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:11", "verse_text": "LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them." }, { "point_text": "The wicked wilfully guilty of", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:19-21", "verse_text": "Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened." }, { "point_text": "Judicially inflicted", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:23", "verse_text": "Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake." }, { "point_text": "Judicially inflicted", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 29:10", "verse_text": "For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered." }, { "point_text": "Judicially inflicted", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:18", "verse_text": "They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand." }, { "point_text": "Judicially inflicted", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:13-14", "verse_text": "Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. 14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:" }, { "point_text": "Pray for the removal of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 13:3", "verse_text": "Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;" }, { "point_text": "Pray for the removal of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:18", "verse_text": "Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law." }, { "point_text": "Christ appointed to remove", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:7", "verse_text": "To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house." }, { "point_text": "Christ appointed to remove", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:18", "verse_text": "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised," }, { "point_text": "Christ appointed to remove", "verse_ref": "John 8:12", "verse_text": "Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." }, { "point_text": "Christ appointed to remove", "verse_ref": "John 9:39", "verse_text": "And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind." }, { "point_text": "Christ appointed to remove", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:6", "verse_text": "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Christ's ministers are lights to remove", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:14", "verse_text": "Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid." }, { "point_text": "Christ's ministers are lights to remove", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:18", "verse_text": "To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me." }, { "point_text": "Saints are delivered from", "verse_ref": "John 8:12", "verse_text": "Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." }, { "point_text": "Saints are delivered from", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:8", "verse_text": "For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:" }, { "point_text": "Saints are delivered from", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:13", "verse_text": "Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:" }, { "point_text": "Saints are delivered from", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:4-5", "verse_text": "But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. 5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness." }, { "point_text": "Saints are delivered from", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:9", "verse_text": "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:" }, { "point_text": "Removal of, illustrated", "verse_ref": "John 9:7", "verse_text": "And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing." }, { "point_text": "Removal of, illustrated", "verse_ref": "John 9:11", "verse_text": "He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight." }, { "point_text": "Removal of, illustrated", "verse_ref": "John 9:25", "verse_text": "He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nScribes and Pharisees, \n\nChurches of Laodicea,", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:25", "verse_text": "For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nScribes and Pharisees, \n\nChurches of Laodicea,", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 3:15", "verse_text": "But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nScribes and Pharisees, \n\nChurches of Laodicea,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:16", "verse_text": "Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nScribes and Pharisees, \n\nChurches of Laodicea,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:24", "verse_text": "Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nScribes and Pharisees, \n\nChurches of Laodicea,", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:17", "verse_text": "Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:" } ] }, { "name": "Blood", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Blood.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The life of animals", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:4", "verse_text": "But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat." }, { "point_text": "The life of animals", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 17:11", "verse_text": "For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul." }, { "point_text": "The life of animals", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 17:14", "verse_text": "For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off." }, { "point_text": "Fluid", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:16", "verse_text": "Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water." }, { "point_text": "Red", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 3:22", "verse_text": "And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood:" }, { "point_text": "Red", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:31", "verse_text": "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come." }, { "point_text": "Of all men the same", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:26", "verse_text": "And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;" }, { "point_text": "EATING OF, FORBIDDEN TO", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Man after the flood", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:4", "verse_text": "But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat." }, { "point_text": "The Israelites under the law", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 3:17", "verse_text": "It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood." }, { "point_text": "The Israelites under the law", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 17:10", "verse_text": "And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people." }, { "point_text": "The Israelites under the law", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 17:12", "verse_text": "Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood." }, { "point_text": "The early Christians", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:20", "verse_text": "But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood." }, { "point_text": "The early Christians", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:29", "verse_text": "That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well." }, { "point_text": "The Jews often guilty of eating", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:32-33", "verse_text": "And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood. 33 Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day." }, { "point_text": "Of animals slain for good to be poured on the earth and covered", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 17:13", "verse_text": "And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust." }, { "point_text": "Of animals slain for good to be poured on the earth and covered", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:16", "verse_text": "Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water." }, { "point_text": "Of animals slain for good to be poured on the earth and covered", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:24", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water." }, { "point_text": "Birds of prey delight in", "verse_ref": "Job 39:30", "verse_text": "Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she." }, { "point_text": "Beasts of prey delight in", "verse_ref": "Numbers 23:24", "verse_text": "Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain." }, { "point_text": "Beasts of prey delight in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:23", "verse_text": "That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same." }, { "point_text": "SHEDDING OF HUMAN,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:5", "verse_text": "And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man." }, { "point_text": "Hateful to God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:16-17", "verse_text": "These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood," }, { "point_text": "Defiling to the land", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:38", "verse_text": "And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood." }, { "point_text": "Defiling to the person", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:3", "verse_text": "For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness." }, { "point_text": "Jews often guilty of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 22:17", "verse_text": "But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it." }, { "point_text": "Jews often guilty of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:4", "verse_text": "Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries." }, { "point_text": "Always punished", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:6", "verse_text": "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man." }, { "point_text": "Mode of clearing those accused of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 21:1-9", "verse_text": "If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him: 2 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain: 3 And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke; 4 And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley: ..." }, { "point_text": "The price of, not to be consecrated", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:6", "verse_text": "And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood." }, { "point_text": "OF LEGAL SACRIFICES", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "For atonement", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:10", "verse_text": "And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "For atonement", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 17:11", "verse_text": "For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul." }, { "point_text": "For purification", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:13", "verse_text": "For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:" }, { "point_text": "For purification", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:19-22", "verse_text": "For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, 20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. 21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. 22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission." }, { "point_text": "How disposed of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:12", "verse_text": "And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar." }, { "point_text": "How disposed of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:7", "verse_text": "And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "Not offered with leaven", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:18", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning." }, { "point_text": "Not offered with leaven", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:25", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning." }, { "point_text": "Ineffectual to remove sin", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:4", "verse_text": "For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins." }, { "point_text": "Idolaters made drink-offerings of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 16:4", "verse_text": "Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips." }, { "point_text": "Water turned into, as a sign", "verse_ref": "Exodus 4:30", "verse_text": "And Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people." }, { "point_text": "Water turned into, as a sign", "verse_ref": "Exodus 4:9", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land." }, { "point_text": "Waters of Egypt turned into, as a judgment", "verse_ref": "Exodus 7:17-21", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, In this thou shalt know that I am the LORD: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood. 18 And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river. 19 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone. 20 And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood. ..." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "(Washing the feet in,) of victories", "verse_ref": "Psalm 58:10", "verse_text": "The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked." }, { "point_text": "(Washing the feet in,) of victories", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:23", "verse_text": "That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same." }, { "point_text": "(Building with,) of oppression and cruelty", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:12", "verse_text": "Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!" }, { "point_text": "(Preparing to,) of ripening for destruction", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 35:6", "verse_text": "Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee." }, { "point_text": "(On one's own head,) of guilt", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 20:9", "verse_text": "For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him." }, { "point_text": "(On one's own head,) of guilt", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 1:16", "verse_text": "And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD'S anointed." }, { "point_text": "(On one's own head,) of guilt", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 18:13", "verse_text": "Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him." }, { "point_text": "(Given to drink,) of severe judgments", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:38", "verse_text": "And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy." }, { "point_text": "(Given to drink,) of severe judgments", "verse_ref": "Revelation 16:6", "verse_text": "For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy." } ] }, { "name": "Boldness, Holy", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Boldness-Holy.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Christ set an example of", "verse_ref": "John 7:26", "verse_text": "But, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing unto him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ?" }, { "point_text": "Is through faith in Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:12", "verse_text": "In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him." }, { "point_text": "Is through faith in Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:19", "verse_text": "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus," }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of saints", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:1", "verse_text": "The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion." }, { "point_text": "PRODUCED BY", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Trust in God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 50:7", "verse_text": "For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed." }, { "point_text": "The fear of God", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:19", "verse_text": "But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye." }, { "point_text": "The fear of God", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:29", "verse_text": "Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men." }, { "point_text": "Faithfulness to God", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:13", "verse_text": "For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Express your trust in God with", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:6", "verse_text": "So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me." }, { "point_text": "Have, in prayer", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:12", "verse_text": "In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him." }, { "point_text": "Have, in prayer", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:16", "verse_text": "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." }, { "point_text": "Saints shall have, in judgment", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:17", "verse_text": "Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to", "verse_ref": "Joshua 1:7", "verse_text": "Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 19:11", "verse_text": "And, behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, for all the king's matters: also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and the LORD shall be with the good." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 1:8", "verse_text": "Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 3:9", "verse_text": "As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house." }, { "point_text": "Pray for", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:29", "verse_text": "And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word," }, { "point_text": "Pray for", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:19-20", "verse_text": "And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel, 20 For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak." }, { "point_text": "MINISTERS SHOULD EXHIBIT, IN", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Faithfulness to their people", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 7:4", "verse_text": "Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation." }, { "point_text": "Faithfulness to their people", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 10:1", "verse_text": "Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:" }, { "point_text": "Preaching", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:31", "verse_text": "And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness." }, { "point_text": "Preaching", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:14", "verse_text": "And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear." }, { "point_text": "Reproving sin", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:1", "verse_text": "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins." }, { "point_text": "Reproving sin", "verse_ref": "Micah 3:8", "verse_text": "But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin." }, { "point_text": "The face of opposition", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:46", "verse_text": "Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles." }, { "point_text": "The face of opposition", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:2", "verse_text": "But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nAaron, \nDavid, \nElijah, \n\nNehemiah, \nShadrac, \nDaniel, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nPeter and John, \nStephen, \nPaul, \n\nBarnabas, \nApollos,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:22-32", "verse_text": "And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD. 23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? 24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? 25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nAaron, \nDavid, \nElijah, \n\nNehemiah, \nShadrac, \nDaniel, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nPeter and John, \nStephen, \nPaul, \n\nBarnabas, \nApollos,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:24-29", "verse_text": "And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. 25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. 26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. 27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nAaron, \nDavid, \nElijah, \n\nNehemiah, \nShadrac, \nDaniel, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nPeter and John, \nStephen, \nPaul, \n\nBarnabas, \nApollos,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:31", "verse_text": "And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nAaron, \nDavid, \nElijah, \n\nNehemiah, \nShadrac, \nDaniel, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nPeter and John, \nStephen, \nPaul, \n\nBarnabas, \nApollos,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 33:18", "verse_text": "And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nAaron, \nDavid, \nElijah, \n\nNehemiah, \nShadrac, \nDaniel, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nPeter and John, \nStephen, \nPaul, \n\nBarnabas, \nApollos,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:47-48", "verse_text": "And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people. 48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nAaron, \nDavid, \nElijah, \n\nNehemiah, \nShadrac, \nDaniel, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nPeter and John, \nStephen, \nPaul, \n\nBarnabas, \nApollos,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:45", "verse_text": "Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nAaron, \nDavid, \nElijah, \n\nNehemiah, \nShadrac, \nDaniel, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nPeter and John, \nStephen, \nPaul, \n\nBarnabas, \nApollos,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:15", "verse_text": "And Elijah said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely shew myself unto him to day." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nAaron, \nDavid, \nElijah, \n\nNehemiah, \nShadrac, \nDaniel, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nPeter and John, \nStephen, \nPaul, \n\nBarnabas, \nApollos,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:18", "verse_text": "And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nAaron, \nDavid, \nElijah, \n\nNehemiah, \nShadrac, \nDaniel, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nPeter and John, \nStephen, \nPaul, \n\nBarnabas, \nApollos,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 6:11", "verse_text": "And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nAaron, \nDavid, \nElijah, \n\nNehemiah, \nShadrac, \nDaniel, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nPeter and John, \nStephen, \nPaul, \n\nBarnabas, \nApollos,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:17-18", "verse_text": "If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. 18 But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nAaron, \nDavid, \nElijah, \n\nNehemiah, \nShadrac, \nDaniel, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nPeter and John, \nStephen, \nPaul, \n\nBarnabas, \nApollos,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:10", "verse_text": "Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nAaron, \nDavid, \nElijah, \n\nNehemiah, \nShadrac, \nDaniel, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nPeter and John, \nStephen, \nPaul, \n\nBarnabas, \nApollos,", "verse_ref": "Mark 15:43", "verse_text": "Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counseller, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nAaron, \nDavid, \nElijah, \n\nNehemiah, \nShadrac, \nDaniel, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nPeter and John, \nStephen, \nPaul, \n\nBarnabas, \nApollos,", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:8-13", "verse_text": "Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, 9 If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole; 10 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. 11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nAaron, \nDavid, \nElijah, \n\nNehemiah, \nShadrac, \nDaniel, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nPeter and John, \nStephen, \nPaul, \n\nBarnabas, \nApollos,", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:51", "verse_text": "Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nAaron, \nDavid, \nElijah, \n\nNehemiah, \nShadrac, \nDaniel, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nPeter and John, \nStephen, \nPaul, \n\nBarnabas, \nApollos,", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:27", "verse_text": "But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nAaron, \nDavid, \nElijah, \n\nNehemiah, \nShadrac, \nDaniel, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nPeter and John, \nStephen, \nPaul, \n\nBarnabas, \nApollos,", "verse_ref": "Acts 19:8", "verse_text": "And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nAaron, \nDavid, \nElijah, \n\nNehemiah, \nShadrac, \nDaniel, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nPeter and John, \nStephen, \nPaul, \n\nBarnabas, \nApollos,", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:3", "verse_text": "Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nAaron, \nDavid, \nElijah, \n\nNehemiah, \nShadrac, \nDaniel, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nPeter and John, \nStephen, \nPaul, \n\nBarnabas, \nApollos,", "verse_ref": "Acts 18:26", "verse_text": "And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly." } ] }, { "name": "Bondage, Spiritual", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Bondage-Spiritual.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is to the devil", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:7", "verse_text": "Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil." }, { "point_text": "Is to the devil", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:26", "verse_text": "And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will." }, { "point_text": "Is to the fear of death", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:14-15", "verse_text": "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; 15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage." }, { "point_text": "Is to sin", "verse_ref": "John 8:34", "verse_text": "Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin." }, { "point_text": "Is to sin", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:23", "verse_text": "For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Is to sin", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:16", "verse_text": "Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?" }, { "point_text": "Is to sin", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:23", "verse_text": "But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members." }, { "point_text": "Is to sin", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:3", "verse_text": "Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:" }, { "point_text": "Is to sin", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:19", "verse_text": "While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage." }, { "point_text": "Deliverance from, promised", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:6-7", "verse_text": "I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; 7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house." }, { "point_text": "Christ delivers from", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:18", "verse_text": "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised," }, { "point_text": "Christ delivers from", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:21", "verse_text": "And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears." }, { "point_text": "The gospel, the instrument of deliverance from", "verse_ref": "John 8:32", "verse_text": "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." }, { "point_text": "The gospel, the instrument of deliverance from", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:2", "verse_text": "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." }, { "point_text": "Saints are delivered from", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:18", "verse_text": "Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Saints are delivered from", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:22", "verse_text": "But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life." }, { "point_text": "Deliverance from, illustrated", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:20", "verse_text": "But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day." }, { "point_text": "Typified.\r\n\nIsrael in Egypt,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 1:13-14", "verse_text": "And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: 14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour." } ] }, { "name": "Books", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Books.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Probable origin of", "verse_ref": "Job 19:23-24", "verse_text": "Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! 24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!" }, { "point_text": "MADE OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Papyrus or paper reed", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:7", "verse_text": "The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more." }, { "point_text": "Parchment", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:13", "verse_text": "The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments." }, { "point_text": "Made in a roll", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 34:4", "verse_text": "And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree." }, { "point_text": "Made in a roll", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 36:2", "verse_text": "Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Made in a roll", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 2:9", "verse_text": "And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein;" }, { "point_text": "Written with pen and ink", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 36:18", "verse_text": "Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book." }, { "point_text": "Written with pen and ink", "verse_ref": "3 John 13", "verse_text": "I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee:" }, { "point_text": "Often written on both sides", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 2:10", "verse_text": "And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe." }, { "point_text": "Often sealed", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 29:11", "verse_text": "And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:" }, { "point_text": "Often sealed", "verse_ref": "Daniel 12:4", "verse_text": "But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased." }, { "point_text": "Often sealed", "verse_ref": "Revelation 5:1", "verse_text": "And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals." }, { "point_text": "Often dedicated to persons of distinction", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:3", "verse_text": "It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus," }, { "point_text": "Often dedicated to persons of distinction", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:1", "verse_text": "The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach," }, { "point_text": "Were numerous and most expensive", "verse_ref": "Acts 19:19", "verse_text": "Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver." }, { "point_text": "The ancients fond of making", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 12:12", "verse_text": "And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh." }, { "point_text": "Divine communications recorded in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:14", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven." }, { "point_text": "Divine communications recorded in", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:8", "verse_text": "Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:" }, { "point_text": "Divine communications recorded in", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 36:2", "verse_text": "Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Divine communications recorded in", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:19", "verse_text": "Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;" }, { "point_text": "Important events recorded in", "verse_ref": "Ezra 4:15", "verse_text": "That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed." }, { "point_text": "Important events recorded in", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:1-2", "verse_text": "Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon. 2 And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:" }, { "point_text": "Erasures in, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:33", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book." }, { "point_text": "Erasures in, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Numbers 5:23", "verse_text": "And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:" }, { "point_text": "NOT EXTANT, BUT MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Wars of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:14", "verse_text": "Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon," }, { "point_text": "Jasher", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:13", "verse_text": "And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day." }, { "point_text": "Jasher", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 1:18", "verse_text": "(Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)" }, { "point_text": "Samuel concerning the kingdom", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 10:25", "verse_text": "Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house." }, { "point_text": "Chronicles of David", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:24", "verse_text": "Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David." }, { "point_text": "Acts of Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:41", "verse_text": "And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?" }, { "point_text": "Natural history by Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:32-33", "verse_text": "And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five. 33 And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes." }, { "point_text": "History of the kings", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 9:1", "verse_text": "So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who were carried away to Babylon for their transgression." }, { "point_text": "Samuel the seer", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:29", "verse_text": "Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer," }, { "point_text": "Nathan", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:29", "verse_text": "Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer," }, { "point_text": "Nathan", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:29", "verse_text": "Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?" }, { "point_text": "Shemaiah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 12:15", "verse_text": "Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually." }, { "point_text": "Gad the seer", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:29", "verse_text": "Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer," }, { "point_text": "Ahijah the Shilonite", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:29", "verse_text": "Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?" }, { "point_text": "Visions of Iddo", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:29", "verse_text": "Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?" }, { "point_text": "Visions of Iddo", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 12:15", "verse_text": "Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually." }, { "point_text": "Jehu the son of Hanani", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 20:34", "verse_text": "Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who is mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Sayings of the seers", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:19", "verse_text": "His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Memorials of God's providence", "verse_ref": "Psalm 56:8", "verse_text": "Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?" }, { "point_text": "Memorials of God's providence", "verse_ref": "Psalm 139:16", "verse_text": "Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them." }, { "point_text": "Memorials of conversation and conduct of men", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:10", "verse_text": "A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened." }, { "point_text": "Memorials of conversation and conduct of men", "verse_ref": "Malachi 3:16", "verse_text": "Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name." }, { "point_text": "Memorials of conversation and conduct of men", "verse_ref": "Revelation 20:12", "verse_text": "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works." }, { "point_text": "The record of the church of Christ", "verse_ref": "Daniel 12:1", "verse_text": "And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book." }, { "point_text": "The record of the church of Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:23", "verse_text": "To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect," }, { "point_text": "The record of the church of Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 20:12", "verse_text": "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works." }, { "point_text": "The record of the church of Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:19", "verse_text": "And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book." } ] }, { "name": "Bottles", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Bottles.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "First mention of, in Scripture", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:14", "verse_text": "And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba." }, { "point_text": "Ancients often drank from", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:15", "verse_text": "Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!" }, { "point_text": "USED FOR HOLDING", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Water", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:14-15", "verse_text": "And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. 15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs." }, { "point_text": "Water", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:19", "verse_text": "And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink." }, { "point_text": "Milk", "verse_ref": "Judges 4:19", "verse_text": "And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him." }, { "point_text": "Wine", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:24", "verse_text": "And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young." }, { "point_text": "Wine", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 16:20", "verse_text": "And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul." }, { "point_text": "Some, made of earthenware", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 19:1", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;" }, { "point_text": "MADE OF SKINS", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Shrivelled and dried by smoke", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:83", "verse_text": "For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes." }, { "point_text": "Marred by age and use", "verse_ref": "Joshua 9:14", "verse_text": "And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Marred by age and use", "verse_ref": "Joshua 9:13", "verse_text": "And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey." }, { "point_text": "When old, unfit for holding new wine", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:17", "verse_text": "Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved." }, { "point_text": "When old, unfit for holding new wine", "verse_ref": "Mark 2:22", "verse_text": "And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes probably of large dimensions", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:18", "verse_text": "Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes probably of large dimensions", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 16:1", "verse_text": "And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Of the clouds", "verse_ref": "Job 38:37", "verse_text": "Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven," }, { "point_text": "Of God's remembrance", "verse_ref": "Psalm 56:8", "verse_text": "Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?" }, { "point_text": "Of sinners ripe for judgment", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 13:12-14", "verse_text": "Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? 13 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness. 14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them." }, { "point_text": "(Dried up,) of the afflicted", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:83", "verse_text": "For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes." }, { "point_text": "(Ready to burst,) of the impatient", "verse_ref": "Job 32:19", "verse_text": "Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles." }, { "point_text": "(Broken,) of severe judgments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:14", "verse_text": "And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit." }, { "point_text": "(Broken,) of severe judgments", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 19:10", "verse_text": "Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee," }, { "point_text": "(Broken,) of severe judgments", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:12", "verse_text": "Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles." } ] }, { "name": "Bow, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Bow-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "An instrument of war", "verse_ref": "Genesis 48:22", "verse_text": "Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow." }, { "point_text": "An instrument of war", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:24", "verse_text": "With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes used in hunting", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:3", "verse_text": "Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison;" }, { "point_text": "For shooting arrows.\r\n\r\n (see marg.)", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:2", "verse_text": "They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin." }, { "point_text": "Called the battle bow", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:10", "verse_text": "And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Called the battle bow", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 10:4", "verse_text": "Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together." }, { "point_text": "THOSE WHO USED, CALLED", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Bowmen", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:29", "verse_text": "The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein." }, { "point_text": "Archers", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 31:3", "verse_text": "And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers." }, { "point_text": "Archers", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:3", "verse_text": "Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host." }, { "point_text": "Usually of steel", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 22:35", "verse_text": "He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms." }, { "point_text": "Usually of steel", "verse_ref": "Job 20:24", "verse_text": "He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through." }, { "point_text": "Held in the left hand", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 39:3", "verse_text": "And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand." }, { "point_text": "Drawn with full force", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 9:24", "verse_text": "And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot." }, { "point_text": "The Jews taught to use", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 1:18", "verse_text": "(Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)" }, { "point_text": "USED EXPERTLY BY", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Lydians", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 46:9", "verse_text": "Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow." }, { "point_text": "Elamites", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:35", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might." }, { "point_text": "Philistines", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 31:2-3", "verse_text": "And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, Saul's sons. 3 And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers." }, { "point_text": "Sons of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 5:18", "verse_text": "The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war." }, { "point_text": "Benjamites", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:2", "verse_text": "They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin." }, { "point_text": "Benjamites", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 14:8", "verse_text": "And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valour." }, { "point_text": "Given as a token of friendship", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 18:4", "verse_text": "And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle." }, { "point_text": "Often furnished by the state", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:14", "verse_text": "And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones." }, { "point_text": "Of the vanquished, broken and burned", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:15", "verse_text": "Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken." }, { "point_text": "Of the vanquished, broken and burned", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 39:9", "verse_text": "And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:" }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Of strength and power", "verse_ref": "Job 29:20", "verse_text": "My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand." }, { "point_text": "Of the tongue of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 11:2", "verse_text": "For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart." }, { "point_text": "Of the tongue of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:3", "verse_text": "And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "(When deceitful,) of the hypocrite", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:57", "verse_text": "But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow." }, { "point_text": "(When deceitful,) of the hypocrite", "verse_ref": "Hosea 7:16", "verse_text": "They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "(When broken,) of the overthrow of power", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:4", "verse_text": "The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength." }, { "point_text": "(When broken,) of the overthrow of power", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:35", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might." }, { "point_text": "(When broken,) of the overthrow of power", "verse_ref": "Hosea 1:5", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel." }, { "point_text": "(When broken,) of the overthrow of power", "verse_ref": "Hosea 2:18", "verse_text": "And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely." } ] }, { "name": "Brass, or Copper", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Brass-or-Copper.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Dug out of the mountains", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:9", "verse_text": "A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass." }, { "point_text": "Purified by smelting", "verse_ref": "Job 28:2", "verse_text": "Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone." }, { "point_text": "CHARACTERIZED BY", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Strength", "verse_ref": "Job 40:18", "verse_text": "His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron." }, { "point_text": "Hardness", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:19", "verse_text": "And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:" }, { "point_text": "Yellow color.\r\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Ezra 8:27", "verse_text": "Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold." }, { "point_text": "Fusibility", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:18", "verse_text": "Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver." }, { "point_text": "Fusibility", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:20", "verse_text": "As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you." }, { "point_text": "Sonorousness", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 13:1", "verse_text": "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal." }, { "point_text": "Takes a high polish", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 4:16", "verse_text": "The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass." }, { "point_text": "Takes a high polish", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 1:7", "verse_text": "And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass." }, { "point_text": "Inferior in value to gold and silver", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:17", "verse_text": "For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Inferior in value to gold and silver", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:32", "verse_text": "This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass," }, { "point_text": "Inferior in value to gold and silver", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:39", "verse_text": "And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth." }, { "point_text": "Antiquity of working in", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:22", "verse_text": "And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah." }, { "point_text": "Extensive commerce in", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:13", "verse_text": "Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market." }, { "point_text": "Extensive commerce in", "verse_ref": "Revelation 18:12", "verse_text": "The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble," }, { "point_text": "Working in, a trade", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:22", "verse_text": "And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah." }, { "point_text": "Working in, a trade", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 7:14", "verse_text": "He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work." }, { "point_text": "Working in, a trade", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 24:12", "verse_text": "And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Working in, a trade", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:14", "verse_text": "Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:" }, { "point_text": "Canaan abounded in.\r\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:9", "verse_text": "A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass." }, { "point_text": "Canaan abounded in.\r\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:25", "verse_text": "Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be." }, { "point_text": "TAKEN IN WAR;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Often in great quantities", "verse_ref": "Joshua 22:8", "verse_text": "And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren." }, { "point_text": "Often in great quantities", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:8", "verse_text": "And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass." }, { "point_text": "Often in great quantities", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:13-16", "verse_text": "And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon. 14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away. 15 And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away. 16 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels was without weight." }, { "point_text": "Cleansed by fire", "verse_ref": "Numbers 31:21-23", "verse_text": "And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses; 22 Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, 23 Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water." }, { "point_text": "Generally consecrated to God", "verse_ref": "Joshua 6:19", "verse_text": "But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Generally consecrated to God", "verse_ref": "Joshua 6:24", "verse_text": "And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Generally consecrated to God", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:10-11", "verse_text": "Then Toi sent Joram his son unto king David, to salute him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer, and smitten him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. And Joram brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass: 11 Which also king David did dedicate unto the LORD, with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued;" }, { "point_text": "Offerings of, for the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 38:29", "verse_text": "And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels." }, { "point_text": "Collected by David for the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 22:3", "verse_text": "And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight;" }, { "point_text": "Collected by David for the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 22:14", "verse_text": "Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto." }, { "point_text": "Collected by David for the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:2", "verse_text": "Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance." }, { "point_text": "Offerings of, for the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:6-7", "verse_text": "Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers of the king's work, offered willingly, 7 And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron." }, { "point_text": "Coined for money.\r\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:9", "verse_text": "Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses," }, { "point_text": "Coined for money.\r\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:41", "verse_text": "And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much." }, { "point_text": "MADE INTO", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Mirrors.\r\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Exodus 38:8", "verse_text": "And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "Gates", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:16", "verse_text": "For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder." }, { "point_text": "Gates", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:2", "verse_text": "I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:" }, { "point_text": "Bars for gates", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:13", "verse_text": "The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars:" }, { "point_text": "Fetters", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:21", "verse_text": "But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house." }, { "point_text": "Fetters", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:7", "verse_text": "And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon." }, { "point_text": "Shields", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 14:27", "verse_text": "And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's house." }, { "point_text": "Shields", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 12:10", "verse_text": "Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard, that kept the entrance of the king's house." }, { "point_text": "Helmets", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:5", "verse_text": "And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass." }, { "point_text": "Greaves for the legs", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:6", "verse_text": "And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders." }, { "point_text": "Household vessels", "verse_ref": "Mark 7:4", "verse_text": "And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables." }, { "point_text": "Sacred vessels", "verse_ref": "Exodus 27:3", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass." }, { "point_text": "Sacred vessels", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 7:45", "verse_text": "And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, were of bright brass." }, { "point_text": "Altars", "verse_ref": "Exodus 27:2", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass." }, { "point_text": "Altars", "verse_ref": "Exodus 39:39", "verse_text": "The brasen altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot," }, { "point_text": "Sockets for pillars", "verse_ref": "Exodus 38:10-11", "verse_text": "Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. 11 And for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver." }, { "point_text": "Sockets for pillars", "verse_ref": "Exodus 38:17", "verse_text": "And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their chapiters of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver." }, { "point_text": "Lavers", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:18", "verse_text": "Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein." }, { "point_text": "Lavers", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 7:38", "verse_text": "Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver." }, { "point_text": "Pillars", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 7:15-16", "verse_text": "For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about. 16 And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits:" }, { "point_text": "Idols", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:4", "verse_text": "They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone." }, { "point_text": "Idols", "verse_ref": "Revelation 9:20", "verse_text": "And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:" }, { "point_text": "Instruments of music", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 15:19", "verse_text": "So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass;" }, { "point_text": "Moses made the serpent of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:9", "verse_text": "And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived." }, { "point_text": "Moses made the serpent of", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:4", "verse_text": "He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Obstinate sinners", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 48:4", "verse_text": "Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;" }, { "point_text": "Obstinate sinners", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:28", "verse_text": "They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters." }, { "point_text": "The decrees of God", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 6:1", "verse_text": "And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass." }, { "point_text": "The strength and firmness of Christ", "verse_ref": "Daniel 10:6", "verse_text": "His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude." }, { "point_text": "The strength and firmness of Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:15", "verse_text": "And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters." }, { "point_text": "Strength given to saints", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 15:20", "verse_text": "And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Strength given to saints", "verse_ref": "Micah 4:13", "verse_text": "Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth." }, { "point_text": "Macedonian empire", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:39", "verse_text": "And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth." }, { "point_text": "Extreme drought", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:23", "verse_text": "And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron." }, { "point_text": "The earth made barren", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:19", "verse_text": "And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:" } ] }, { "name": "Bread", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Bread.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Given by God", "verse_ref": "Ruth 1:6", "verse_text": "Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread." }, { "point_text": "Given by God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:11", "verse_text": "Give us this day our daily bread." }, { "point_text": "Yielded by the earth", "verse_ref": "Job 28:5", "verse_text": "As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire." }, { "point_text": "Yielded by the earth", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 55:10", "verse_text": "For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:" }, { "point_text": "MADE OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Wheat", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:2", "verse_text": "And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them." }, { "point_text": "Wheat", "verse_ref": "Psalm 81:16", "verse_text": "He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee." }, { "point_text": "Barley", "verse_ref": "Judges 7:13", "verse_text": "And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along." }, { "point_text": "Barley", "verse_ref": "John 6:9", "verse_text": "There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?" }, { "point_text": "Beans, millet, &c", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 4:9", "verse_text": "Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof." }, { "point_text": "Manna (in the wilderness)", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:8", "verse_text": "And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil." }, { "point_text": "Corn ground for making", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:28", "verse_text": "Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen." }, { "point_text": "Was kneaded", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:6", "verse_text": "And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth." }, { "point_text": "Was kneaded", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:18", "verse_text": "The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger." }, { "point_text": "Was kneaded", "verse_ref": "Hosea 7:4", "verse_text": "They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened." }, { "point_text": "Troughs used for kneading", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:34", "verse_text": "And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders." }, { "point_text": "Usually leavened", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:17", "verse_text": "Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Usually leavened", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:33", "verse_text": "Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes unleavened", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:18", "verse_text": "In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes unleavened", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 5:8", "verse_text": "Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." }, { "point_text": "WAS FORMED INTO", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Loaves", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 10:3-4", "verse_text": "Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine: 4 And they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hands." }, { "point_text": "Cakes", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 6:19", "verse_text": "And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine. So all the people departed every one to his house." }, { "point_text": "Cakes", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 17:13", "verse_text": "And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son." }, { "point_text": "Wafers", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:31", "verse_text": "And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey." }, { "point_text": "Wafers", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:23", "verse_text": "And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "WAS BAKED", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "On hearths", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:6", "verse_text": "And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth." }, { "point_text": "On coals of fire", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:19", "verse_text": "And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?" }, { "point_text": "On coals of fire", "verse_ref": "John 21:9", "verse_text": "As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread." }, { "point_text": "In ovens", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:26", "verse_text": "And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied." }, { "point_text": "In ovens", "verse_ref": "Hosea 7:4-7", "verse_text": "They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened. 5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. 6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire. 7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me." }, { "point_text": "Making of, a trade", "verse_ref": "Genesis 40:2", "verse_text": "And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers." }, { "point_text": "Making of, a trade", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 37:21", "verse_text": "Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison." }, { "point_text": "Ordinary, called common bread", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 21:4", "verse_text": "And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women." }, { "point_text": "Sacred, called hallowed bread", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 21:4", "verse_text": "And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women." }, { "point_text": "Sacred, called hallowed bread", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 21:6", "verse_text": "So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away." }, { "point_text": "Nutritious and strengthening", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:15", "verse_text": "And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart." }, { "point_text": "When old, dry and mouldy", "verse_ref": "Joshua 9:5", "verse_text": "And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy." }, { "point_text": "When old, dry and mouldy", "verse_ref": "Joshua 9:12", "verse_text": "This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy:" }, { "point_text": "Often put for the whole sustenance of man", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:19", "verse_text": "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." }, { "point_text": "Often put for the whole sustenance of man", "verse_ref": "Genesis 39:6", "verse_text": "And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured." }, { "point_text": "Often put for the whole sustenance of man", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:11", "verse_text": "Give us this day our daily bread." }, { "point_text": "The principal food used by the ancients", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:5", "verse_text": "And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said." }, { "point_text": "The principal food used by the ancients", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:14", "verse_text": "And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba." }, { "point_text": "The principal food used by the ancients", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:17", "verse_text": "And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob." }, { "point_text": "The principal food used by the ancients", "verse_ref": "Judges 19:5", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early in the morning, that he rose up to depart: and the damsel's father said unto his son in law, Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward go your way." }, { "point_text": "Broken for use", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 4:4", "verse_text": "The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them." }, { "point_text": "Broken for use", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:19", "verse_text": "And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude." }, { "point_text": "Kept in baskets", "verse_ref": "Genesis 40:16", "verse_text": "When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head:" }, { "point_text": "Kept in baskets", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:32", "verse_text": "And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "Publicly sold", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:15", "verse_text": "And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals." }, { "point_text": "Publicly sold", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:33", "verse_text": "And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?" }, { "point_text": "In times of scarcity, sold by weight", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:26", "verse_text": "And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied." }, { "point_text": "In times of scarcity, sold by weight", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 4:16", "verse_text": "Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:" }, { "point_text": "Scarceness of, sent as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:16", "verse_text": "Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread." }, { "point_text": "Scarceness of, sent as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:1", "verse_text": "For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water," }, { "point_text": "Scarceness of, sent as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 5:16", "verse_text": "When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:" }, { "point_text": "Plenty of, promised to the obedient", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:5", "verse_text": "And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely." }, { "point_text": "Often given as a present", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:18", "verse_text": "Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses." }, { "point_text": "Often given as a present", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 16:12", "verse_text": "It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day." }, { "point_text": "Often given as a present", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:40", "verse_text": "Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel." }, { "point_text": "Served round after funerals", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 24:17-22", "verse_text": "Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men. 18 So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded. 19 And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so? 20 Then I answered them, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, ..." }, { "point_text": "With water, the food of prisons", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:27", "verse_text": "And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace." }, { "point_text": "Crumb of, used to wipe the fingers, thrown under the table", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:27", "verse_text": "And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table." }, { "point_text": "Crumb of, used to wipe the fingers, thrown under the table", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:21", "verse_text": "And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores." }, { "point_text": "First fruit of, offered to God", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:19-20", "verse_text": "Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD. 20 Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering: as ye do the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it." }, { "point_text": "Offered with sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:2", "verse_text": "And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them." }, { "point_text": "Offered with sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:23", "verse_text": "And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Placed on table of shew bread", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:30", "verse_text": "And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway." }, { "point_text": "Multitudes miraculously fed by Christ with", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:19-21", "verse_text": "And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. 20 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full. 21 And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children." }, { "point_text": "Multitudes miraculously fed by Christ with", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:34-37", "verse_text": "And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes. 35 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground. 36 And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. 37 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 6:33-35", "verse_text": "For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. 34 Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. 35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst." }, { "point_text": "(When broken,) of the death of Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:26", "verse_text": "And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body." }, { "point_text": "(When broken,) of the death of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:23-24", "verse_text": "For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: 24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me." }, { "point_text": "(Partaking of,) of communion of saints", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:46", "verse_text": "And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart," }, { "point_text": "(Partaking of,) of communion of saints", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:17", "verse_text": "For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread." }, { "point_text": "(Want of,) of extreme poverty", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:9", "verse_text": "He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread." }, { "point_text": "(Want of,) of extreme poverty", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:7", "verse_text": "In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people." }, { "point_text": "(Seeking of begging,) of extreme poverty", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:36", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread." }, { "point_text": "(Seeking of begging,) of extreme poverty", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:25", "verse_text": "I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread." }, { "point_text": "(Seeking of begging,) of extreme poverty", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 1:11", "verse_text": "All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile." }, { "point_text": "(Fulness of,) of abundance", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:49", "verse_text": "Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy." }, { "point_text": "(Eating without scarceness,) of plenty", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:9", "verse_text": "A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass." }, { "point_text": "(Of adversity,) of heavy affliction", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:20", "verse_text": "And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:" }, { "point_text": "(Of tears,) of sorrow", "verse_ref": "Psalm 80:5", "verse_text": "Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure." }, { "point_text": "(Of deceit,) of unlawful gain", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:17", "verse_text": "Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel." }, { "point_text": "(Of wickedness,) of oppression", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 4:17", "verse_text": "For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence." }, { "point_text": "(Of idleness,) of sloth", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:27", "verse_text": "She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness." } ] }, { "name": "Breastplate", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Breastplate.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "A part of defensive armor.\r\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:34", "verse_text": "And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded." }, { "point_text": "A part of the high priest's dress", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:4", "verse_text": "And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office." }, { "point_text": "FOR SOLDIERS,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Made of iron", "verse_ref": "Revelation 9:9", "verse_text": "And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle." }, { "point_text": "Bright and shining", "verse_ref": "Revelation 9:17", "verse_text": "And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone." }, { "point_text": "FOR THE HIGH PRIEST,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Materials of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:15", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it." }, { "point_text": "Materials of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 39:8", "verse_text": "And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen." }, { "point_text": "Form and dimensions of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:16", "verse_text": "Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof." }, { "point_text": "Form and dimensions of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 39:9", "verse_text": "It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled." }, { "point_text": "Made from the offering of the people", "verse_ref": "Exodus 35:9", "verse_text": "And onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate." }, { "point_text": "Had names of the tribes engraved on precious stones", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:17-21", "verse_text": "And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row. 18 And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond. 19 And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst. 20 And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings. ..." }, { "point_text": "Had names of the tribes engraved on precious stones", "verse_ref": "Exodus 39:10", "verse_text": "And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first row." }, { "point_text": "Had names of the tribes engraved on precious stones", "verse_ref": "Exodus 39:14", "verse_text": "And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve tribes." }, { "point_text": "Inseparably united to the ephod", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:22-28", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains at the ends of wreathen work of pure gold. 23 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. 24 And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate. 25 And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt fasten in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod before it. ..." }, { "point_text": "Inseparably united to the ephod", "verse_ref": "Exodus 39:15-21", "verse_text": "And they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends, of wreathen work of pure gold. 16 And they made two ouches of gold, and two gold rings; and put the two rings in the two ends of the breastplate. 17 And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breastplate. 18 And the two ends of the two wreathen chains they fastened in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod, before it. ..." }, { "point_text": "The Urim and Thummim placed in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:30", "verse_text": "And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually." }, { "point_text": "The Urim and Thummim placed in", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:8", "verse_text": "And he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in the breastplate the Urim and the Thummim." }, { "point_text": "Worn as a memorial", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:29", "verse_text": "And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the LORD continually." }, { "point_text": "Worn as a memorial", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:16", "verse_text": "Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Righteous judgment of Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:17", "verse_text": "For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke." }, { "point_text": "Defence of righteousness", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:14", "verse_text": "Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;" }, { "point_text": "Defence of faith and love", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:8", "verse_text": "But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation." } ] }, { "name": "Brooks", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Brooks.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Canaan abounded with", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:7", "verse_text": "For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;" }, { "point_text": "Often ran over pebbles", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:40", "verse_text": "And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine." }, { "point_text": "Often ran over pebbles", "verse_ref": "Job 22:24", "verse_text": "Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks." }, { "point_text": "BORDERS OF, FAVORABLE TO", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Grass", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:5", "verse_text": "And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts." }, { "point_text": "Willows", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:40", "verse_text": "And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days." }, { "point_text": "Willows", "verse_ref": "Job 40:22", "verse_text": "The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about." }, { "point_text": "Reeds", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:7", "verse_text": "The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more." }, { "point_text": "Abounded with fish", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:8", "verse_text": "The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish." }, { "point_text": "Afforded protection to a country", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:6", "verse_text": "And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither." }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Arnon", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:14-15", "verse_text": "Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon, 15 And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab." }, { "point_text": "Besor", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 30:9", "verse_text": "So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed." }, { "point_text": "Gaash", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 23:30", "verse_text": "Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash," }, { "point_text": "Gaash", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 11:32", "verse_text": "Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite," }, { "point_text": "Cherith", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 17:3", "verse_text": "Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan." }, { "point_text": "Cherith", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 17:5", "verse_text": "So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan." }, { "point_text": "Eshcol", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:23-24", "verse_text": "And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs. 24 The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence." }, { "point_text": "Kidron", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 15:23", "verse_text": "And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "Kidron", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:13", "verse_text": "And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron." }, { "point_text": "Kidron", "verse_ref": "John 18:1", "verse_text": "When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples." }, { "point_text": "Kishon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:40", "verse_text": "And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there." }, { "point_text": "Kishon", "verse_ref": "Psalm 83:9", "verse_text": "Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:" }, { "point_text": "Zered", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:13", "verse_text": "Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered." }, { "point_text": "Of the willows", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 15:7", "verse_text": "Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Of wisdom", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 18:4", "verse_text": "The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook." }, { "point_text": "Of temporal abundance", "verse_ref": "Job 20:17", "verse_text": "He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter." }, { "point_text": "(Deceptive,) of false friends", "verse_ref": "Job 6:15", "verse_text": "My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;" }, { "point_text": "(Drinking of, by the way,) of help in distress", "verse_ref": "Psalm 110:7", "verse_text": "He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head." } ] }, { "name": "Burial", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Burial.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Probable origin of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:9-10", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper? 10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground." }, { "point_text": "Design of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 23:3-4", "verse_text": "And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying, 4 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight." }, { "point_text": "ATTENDED BY", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Family of the dead", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:5-6", "verse_text": "My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again. 6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear." }, { "point_text": "Family of the dead", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:8", "verse_text": "And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen." }, { "point_text": "Numbers of friends, &c", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:7", "verse_text": "And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt," }, { "point_text": "Numbers of friends, &c", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:9", "verse_text": "And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company." }, { "point_text": "Numbers of friends, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 3:31", "verse_text": "And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier." }, { "point_text": "Numbers of friends, &c", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:12", "verse_text": "Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her." }, { "point_text": "Female friends", "verse_ref": "Mark 15:47", "verse_text": "And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid." }, { "point_text": "Female friends", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:13", "verse_text": "And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not." }, { "point_text": "Hired mourners", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:17-18", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come: 18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters." }, { "point_text": "Great lamentation at", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:10-11", "verse_text": "And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days. 11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan." }, { "point_text": "Great lamentation at", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 3:31-32", "verse_text": "And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier. 32 And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept." }, { "point_text": "Orations sometimes made at", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 3:33-34", "verse_text": "And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth? 34 Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him." }, { "point_text": "THE BODY WAS", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Washed before", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:37", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber." }, { "point_text": "Anointed for", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:12", "verse_text": "For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial." }, { "point_text": "Wound in linen for", "verse_ref": "John 11:44", "verse_text": "And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go." }, { "point_text": "Wound in linen for", "verse_ref": "John 19:40", "verse_text": "Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury." }, { "point_text": "Preserved with spices", "verse_ref": "John 19:39-40", "verse_text": "And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight. 40 Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes burned before", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 31:12", "verse_text": "All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Bethshan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there." }, { "point_text": "Carried on a bier to", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 3:31", "verse_text": "And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier." }, { "point_text": "Carried on a bier to", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:14", "verse_text": "And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise." }, { "point_text": "Perfumes burned at", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 16:14", "verse_text": "And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him." }, { "point_text": "Perfumes burned at", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 34:5", "verse_text": "But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Antiquity of coffins for", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:26", "verse_text": "So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Often took place immediately after death", "verse_ref": "John 11:17", "verse_text": "Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already." }, { "point_text": "Often took place immediately after death", "verse_ref": "John 11:39", "verse_text": "Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days." }, { "point_text": "Of persons embalmed, deferred for seventy days", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:3-4", "verse_text": "And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days. 4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying," }, { "point_text": "Of persons hanged, always on the days of execution", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 21:23", "verse_text": "His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance." }, { "point_text": "Of persons hanged, always on the days of execution", "verse_ref": "John 19:31", "verse_text": "The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away." }, { "point_text": "The right of all nations", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:31", "verse_text": "Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years." }, { "point_text": "The right of all nations", "verse_ref": "John 19:38", "verse_text": "And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Of enemies, sometimes performed by the conquerors", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:15", "verse_text": "For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom;" }, { "point_text": "Of enemies, sometimes performed by the conquerors", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 39:11-14", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog. 12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land. 13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD. 14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search." }, { "point_text": "Of the friendless, a kind act", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 2:5", "verse_text": "And David sent messengers unto the men of Jabeshgilead, and said unto them, Blessed be ye of the LORD, that ye have shewed this kindness unto your lord, even unto Saul, and have buried him." }, { "point_text": "PLACES USED FOR;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Natural caves", "verse_ref": "Genesis 23:19", "verse_text": "And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan." }, { "point_text": "Natural caves", "verse_ref": "John 11:38", "verse_text": "Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it." }, { "point_text": "Caves hewn out of rocks", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:16", "verse_text": "What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?" }, { "point_text": "Caves hewn out of rocks", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:60", "verse_text": "And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed." }, { "point_text": "Gardens", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 21:18", "verse_text": "And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead." }, { "point_text": "Gardens", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 21:26", "verse_text": "And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead." }, { "point_text": "Under trees", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:8", "verse_text": "But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth." }, { "point_text": "Under trees", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 31:13", "verse_text": "And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days." }, { "point_text": "Tops of the hills", "verse_ref": "Joshua 24:33", "verse_text": "And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim." }, { "point_text": "Tops of the hills", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:16", "verse_text": "And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words." }, { "point_text": "Houses of the deceased", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:1", "verse_text": "And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran." }, { "point_text": "Houses of the deceased", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:34", "verse_text": "So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "The city of David for the kings of Judah", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:10", "verse_text": "So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David." }, { "point_text": "The city of David for the kings of Judah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 21:20", "verse_text": "Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings." }, { "point_text": "The city of David for the kings of Judah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 24:16", "verse_text": "And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his house." }, { "point_text": "Antiquity of purchasing places for", "verse_ref": "Genesis 23:7-16", "verse_text": "And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth. 8 And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, 9 That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you. 10 And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying, ..." }, { "point_text": "PLACES OF,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Frequently prepared and pointed out during life", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:5", "verse_text": "My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again." }, { "point_text": "Frequently prepared and pointed out during life", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 16:14", "verse_text": "And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him." }, { "point_text": "Frequently prepared and pointed out during life", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:60", "verse_text": "And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed." }, { "point_text": "Members of a family interred in the same", "verse_ref": "Genesis 25:10", "verse_text": "The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife." }, { "point_text": "Members of a family interred in the same", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:31", "verse_text": "There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah." }, { "point_text": "Members of a family interred in the same", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 2:32", "verse_text": "And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which was in Bethlehem. And Joab and his men went all night, and they came to Hebron at break of day." }, { "point_text": "Held in high veneration", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 2:3", "verse_text": "And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?" }, { "point_text": "Held in high veneration", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 2:5", "verse_text": "And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it." }, { "point_text": "Provided for the common people", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 26:23", "verse_text": "And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people." }, { "point_text": "Provided for aliens and strangers", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:7", "verse_text": "And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in." }, { "point_text": "Visited by sorrowing friends", "verse_ref": "John 11:31", "verse_text": "The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep there." }, { "point_text": "Pillars erected on", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:20", "verse_text": "And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Tombs erected over", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:27-29", "verse_text": "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. 28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. 29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous," }, { "point_text": "Sometimes had inscriptions", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:17", "verse_text": "Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes not apparent", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:44", "verse_text": "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them." }, { "point_text": "For criminals, marked by heaps", "verse_ref": "Joshua 7:26", "verse_text": "And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Were ceremonially unclean", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:16", "verse_text": "And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days." }, { "point_text": "Were ceremonially unclean", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:18", "verse_text": "And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:" }, { "point_text": "Often desecrated by idolatry", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:3-4", "verse_text": "A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick; 4 Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;" }, { "point_text": "The Jews anxious to be interred in their family places of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 47:29-31", "verse_text": "And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt: 30 But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said. 31 And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head." }, { "point_text": "The Jews anxious to be interred in their family places of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:29", "verse_text": "And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite," }, { "point_text": "The Jews anxious to be interred in their family places of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:25", "verse_text": "And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence." }, { "point_text": "The Jews anxious to be interred in their family places of", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 19:37", "verse_text": "Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Followed by a feast", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 3:35", "verse_text": "And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down." }, { "point_text": "Followed by a feast", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 16:7-8", "verse_text": "Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother. 8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink." }, { "point_text": "Privation of, considered a calamity", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 6:3", "verse_text": "If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he." }, { "point_text": "Privation of, threatened as a punishment", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 9:10", "verse_text": "And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her. And he opened the door, and fled." }, { "point_text": "Privation of, threatened as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:2", "verse_text": "And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Privation of, threatened as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 16:4", "verse_text": "They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth." }, { "point_text": "An ignominious, compared to the burial of an ass", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 22:19", "verse_text": "He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of regeneration", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:4", "verse_text": "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of regeneration", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:12", "verse_text": "Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead." } ] }, { "name": "Burnt Offering, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Burnt-Offering-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "To be offered only to the Lord", "verse_ref": "Judges 13:16", "verse_text": "And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Specially acceptable", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:21", "verse_text": "And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done." }, { "point_text": "Specially acceptable", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:9", "verse_text": "But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Specially acceptable", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:13", "verse_text": "But he shall wash the inwards and the legs with water: and the priest shall bring it all, and burn it upon the altar: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Specially acceptable", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:17", "verse_text": "And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, but shall not divide it asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood that is upon the fire: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The most ancient of all sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:4", "verse_text": "And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:" }, { "point_text": "The most ancient of all sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:20", "verse_text": "And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar." }, { "point_text": "The most ancient of all sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:2", "verse_text": "And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of." }, { "point_text": "The most ancient of all sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:13", "verse_text": "And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son." }, { "point_text": "Offered by the Jews before the law", "verse_ref": "Exodus 10:25", "verse_text": "And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God." }, { "point_text": "Offered by the Jews before the law", "verse_ref": "Exodus 24:5", "verse_text": "And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "TO BE TAKEN FROM", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "The flock or herd", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:2", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock." }, { "point_text": "The fowls", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:14", "verse_text": "And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the LORD be of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons." }, { "point_text": "Was an atonement for sin", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 9:7", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto Aaron, Go unto the altar, and offer thy sin offering, and thy burnt offering, and make an atonement for thyself, and for the people: and offer the offering of the people, and make an atonement for them; as the LORD commanded." }, { "point_text": "Guilt transferred to, by imposition of hands", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:4", "verse_text": "And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him." }, { "point_text": "Guilt transferred to, by imposition of hands", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:12", "verse_text": "And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, unto the LORD, to make an atonement for the Levites." }, { "point_text": "REQUIRED TO BE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Killed, if a beast, by the person who brought it", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:5", "verse_text": "And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "Killed, if a beast, by the person who brought it", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:11", "verse_text": "And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle his blood round about upon the altar." }, { "point_text": "Killed, if a bird, by the priest", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:15", "verse_text": "And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off his head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar:" }, { "point_text": "For the people at large, killed and prepared by the Levites", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 44:11", "verse_text": "Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them." }, { "point_text": "A male without blemish", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:3", "verse_text": "If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "A male without blemish", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:19", "verse_text": "Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats." }, { "point_text": "Voluntary", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:3", "verse_text": "If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Voluntary", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:18-19", "verse_text": "Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering; 19 Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats." }, { "point_text": "Presented at the door of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:3", "verse_text": "If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Presented at the door of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:6", "verse_text": "And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:" }, { "point_text": "Presented at the door of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:11", "verse_text": "Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Presented at the door of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:14", "verse_text": "But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee." }, { "point_text": "Offered by priests only", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:9", "verse_text": "But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Offered by priests only", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 44:15", "verse_text": "But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:" }, { "point_text": "Offered in righteousness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:19", "verse_text": "Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar." }, { "point_text": "Entirely burned", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:8-9", "verse_text": "And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar: 9 But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Entirely burned", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:12", "verse_text": "And he shall cut it into his pieces, with his head and his fat: and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:" }, { "point_text": "Entirely burned", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:9", "verse_text": "Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering: It is the burnt offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it." }, { "point_text": "Blood of, sprinkled round about upon the altar", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:5", "verse_text": "And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "Blood of, sprinkled round about upon the altar", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:11", "verse_text": "And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle his blood round about upon the altar." }, { "point_text": "Blood of, sprinkled round about upon the altar", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:5", "verse_text": "And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "Blood of, sprinkled round about upon the altar", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:11", "verse_text": "And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle his blood round about upon the altar." }, { "point_text": "If a bird, the blood was wrung out at the side of the altar", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:15", "verse_text": "And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off his head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar:" }, { "point_text": "Ashes of, collected at foot of the altar, and conveyed without the camp", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:11", "verse_text": "And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place." }, { "point_text": "Skin of, given to the priests for clothing", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:8", "verse_text": "And the priest that offereth any man's burnt offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered." }, { "point_text": "Skin of, given to the priests for clothing", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:21", "verse_text": "Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them." }, { "point_text": "WAS OFFERED", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Every morning and evening", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:38-42", "verse_text": "Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually. 39 The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even: 40 And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering. 41 And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD. ..." }, { "point_text": "Every sabbath day", "verse_ref": "Numbers 28:9-10", "verse_text": "And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof: 10 This is the burnt offering of every sabbath, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering." }, { "point_text": "The first day of every month", "verse_ref": "Numbers 28:11", "verse_text": "And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;" }, { "point_text": "The seven days of unleavened bread", "verse_ref": "Numbers 28:19", "verse_text": "But ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire for a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you without blemish:" }, { "point_text": "The seven days of unleavened bread", "verse_ref": "Numbers 28:24", "verse_text": "After this manner ye shall offer daily, throughout the seven days, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: it shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering." }, { "point_text": "The day of atonement", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:3", "verse_text": "Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering." }, { "point_text": "The day of atonement", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:5", "verse_text": "And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering." }, { "point_text": "At consecration of Levites", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:12", "verse_text": "And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, unto the LORD, to make an atonement for the Levites." }, { "point_text": "At consecration of priests", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 9:2", "verse_text": "And he said unto Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "At consecration of priests", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 9:12-14", "verse_text": "And he slew the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled round about upon the altar. 13 And they presented the burnt offering unto him, with the pieces thereof, and the head: and he burnt them upon the altar. 14 And he did wash the inwards and the legs, and burnt them upon the burnt offering on the altar." }, { "point_text": "At consecration of kings", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:21-23", "verse_text": "And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings unto the LORD, on the morrow after that day, even a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel: 22 And did eat and drink before the LORD on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him unto the LORD to be the chief governor, and Zadok to be priest. 23 Then Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him." }, { "point_text": "At purification of women", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 12:6", "verse_text": "And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest:" }, { "point_text": "For Nazarites after defilement, or at the end of their vow", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:11", "verse_text": "And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day." }, { "point_text": "For Nazarites after defilement, or at the end of their vow", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:14", "verse_text": "And he shall offer his offering unto the LORD, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings," }, { "point_text": "For the healed leper", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:13", "verse_text": "And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass offering: it is most holy:" }, { "point_text": "For the healed leper", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:19-20", "verse_text": "And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering: 20 And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean." }, { "point_text": "At dedication of sacred places", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:15", "verse_text": "One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:" }, { "point_text": "At dedication of sacred places", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:64", "verse_text": "The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings." }, { "point_text": "After great mercies", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 6:14", "verse_text": "And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "After great mercies", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:22", "verse_text": "And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood." }, { "point_text": "After great mercies", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:25", "verse_text": "And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel." }, { "point_text": "Before going to war", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 7:9", "verse_text": "And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel cried unto the LORD for Israel; and the LORD heard him." }, { "point_text": "With sounds of trumpets at feasts", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:10", "verse_text": "Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "The fat, &c. of all peace offerings laid on, and consumed with the daily", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 3:5", "verse_text": "And Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt sacrifice, which is upon the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The fat, &c. of all peace offerings laid on, and consumed with the daily", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:12", "verse_text": "And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings." }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked, not accepted by God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:10-11", "verse_text": "Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. 11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats." }, { "point_text": "Obedience better than", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:22", "verse_text": "And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams." }, { "point_text": "Obedience better than", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:21-23", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. 22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: 23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you." }, { "point_text": "Knowledge of God better than", "verse_ref": "Hosea 6:6", "verse_text": "For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings." }, { "point_text": "Love of God better than", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:33", "verse_text": "And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices." }, { "point_text": "Abraham tried by the command to offer Isaac as", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. 2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. 3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him. 4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off. ..." }, { "point_text": "Incapable of removing sin, and reconciling to God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:6", "verse_text": "Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required." }, { "point_text": "Incapable of removing sin, and reconciling to God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:8", "verse_text": "I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me." }, { "point_text": "Incapable of removing sin, and reconciling to God", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:6", "verse_text": "In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure." }, { "point_text": "The most costly, no adequate tribute to God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:16", "verse_text": "And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering." }, { "point_text": "The most costly, no adequate tribute to God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:9-13", "verse_text": "I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. 10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. 11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. ..." }, { "point_text": "Guilt of unauthorized persons offering", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:12-13", "verse_text": "Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the LORD: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering. 13 And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever." }, { "point_text": "Guilt of offering, except in the place appointed", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 17:8-9", "verse_text": "And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn among you, that offereth a burnt offering or sacrifice, 9 And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer it unto the LORD; even that man shall be cut off from among his people." }, { "point_text": "Of human victims execrated", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:31", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods." }, { "point_text": "Of human victims execrated", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 3:27", "verse_text": "Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land." }, { "point_text": "Of human victims execrated", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:31", "verse_text": "And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart." }, { "point_text": "Of human victims execrated", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 19:5", "verse_text": "They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:" }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "The offering of Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:2", "verse_text": "And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour." }, { "point_text": "The offering of Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:8-10", "verse_text": "Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; 9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all." }, { "point_text": "Devotedness to God", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:1", "verse_text": "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service." } ] }, { "name": "Busy-bodies", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Busybodies.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Fools are", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:3", "verse_text": "It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling." }, { "point_text": "The idle are", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 3:11", "verse_text": "For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies." }, { "point_text": "The idle are", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:13", "verse_text": "And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not." }, { "point_text": "Are mischievous tale-bearers", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:13", "verse_text": "And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not." }, { "point_text": "Bring mischief upon themselves", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 14:10", "verse_text": "Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up: glory of this, and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?" }, { "point_text": "Bring mischief upon themselves", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:17", "verse_text": "He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears." }, { "point_text": "Christians must not be", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:15", "verse_text": "But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters." } ] }, { "name": "Calf of Gold", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Calf-of-Gold.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Made on account of the delay of Moses in the mount", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:1", "verse_text": "And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him." }, { "point_text": "WAS MADE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Of the ornaments of the women, &c", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:2-3", "verse_text": "And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. 3 And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron." }, { "point_text": "To represent God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:4-5", "verse_text": "And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD." }, { "point_text": "After an Egyptian model", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:39", "verse_text": "To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt," }, { "point_text": "After an Egyptian model", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:41", "verse_text": "And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands." }, { "point_text": "To go before the congregation", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:1", "verse_text": "And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him." }, { "point_text": "Molten in the fire", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:4", "verse_text": "And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Molten in the fire", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:19", "verse_text": "They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image." }, { "point_text": "Fashioned with a graven tool", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:4", "verse_text": "And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "An altar built before", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:5", "verse_text": "And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Sacrifices offered to", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:6", "verse_text": "And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play." }, { "point_text": "Sacrifices offered to", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:41", "verse_text": "And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands." }, { "point_text": "Worshipped with profane revelry", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:6", "verse_text": "And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play." }, { "point_text": "Worshipped with profane revelry", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:18-19", "verse_text": "And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear. 19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount." }, { "point_text": "Worshipped with profane revelry", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:25", "verse_text": "And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)" }, { "point_text": "Worshipped with profane revelry", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:7", "verse_text": "Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play." }, { "point_text": "MAKING OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "A very great sin", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:21", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?" }, { "point_text": "A very great sin", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:30-31", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the LORD; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin. 31 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold." }, { "point_text": "A forgetting of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:21", "verse_text": "They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;" }, { "point_text": "A turning aside from the divine command", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:8", "verse_text": "They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "A turning aside from the divine command", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:12", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image." }, { "point_text": "A turning aside from the divine command", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:16", "verse_text": "And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you." }, { "point_text": "Excited wrath against Aaron", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:20", "verse_text": "And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time." }, { "point_text": "Excited wrath against Israel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:10", "verse_text": "Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation." }, { "point_text": "Excited wrath against Israel", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:14", "verse_text": "Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they." }, { "point_text": "Excited wrath against Israel", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:19", "verse_text": "For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also." }, { "point_text": "Caused Moses to break the tables of the testimony", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:19", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount." }, { "point_text": "Caused Moses to break the tables of the testimony", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:17", "verse_text": "And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes." }, { "point_text": "Israel punished for", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:26-29", "verse_text": "Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD'S side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him. 27 And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour. 28 And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. 29 For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves to day to the LORD, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day." }, { "point_text": "Israel punished for", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:35", "verse_text": "And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made." }, { "point_text": "Moses interceded for those who worshipped", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:11-14", "verse_text": "And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand? 12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever. 14 And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people." }, { "point_text": "Moses interceded for those who worshipped", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:30-34", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the LORD; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin. 31 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. 32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written. 33 And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. ..." }, { "point_text": "Moses interceded for those who worshipped", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:18-20", "verse_text": "And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also. 20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time." }, { "point_text": "Destroyed by Moses", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:20", "verse_text": "And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it." }, { "point_text": "Destroyed by Moses", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:21", "verse_text": "And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of those who worshipped a warning to others", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:5-7", "verse_text": "But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. 6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. 7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play." } ] }, { "name": "Calf, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Calf-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The young of the herd", "verse_ref": "Job 21:10", "verse_text": "Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf." }, { "point_text": "The young of the herd", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:12", "verse_text": "Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all." }, { "point_text": "Playfulness of, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 29:6", "verse_text": "He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn." }, { "point_text": "FED ON", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Milk", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 6:10", "verse_text": "And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:" }, { "point_text": "Branches of trees, &c", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 27:10", "verse_text": "Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof." }, { "point_text": "Fattened in stalls, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 28:24", "verse_text": "And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof:" }, { "point_text": "Fattened in stalls, &c", "verse_ref": "Amos 6:4", "verse_text": "That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;" }, { "point_text": "Offered in sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 9:2-3", "verse_text": "And he said unto Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before the LORD. 3 And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take ye a kid of the goats for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt offering;" }, { "point_text": "Of a year old best for sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Micah 6:6", "verse_text": "Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?" }, { "point_text": "If first-born not redeemed", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:17", "verse_text": "But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Eaten in the patriarchal age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:7-8", "verse_text": "And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it. 8 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat." }, { "point_text": "When fattened considered a delicacy", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 28:24-25", "verse_text": "And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof: 25 And she brought it before Saul, and before his servants; and they did eat. Then they rose up, and went away that night." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Saints nourished by grace", "verse_ref": "Malachi 4:2", "verse_text": "But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall." }, { "point_text": "Sacrifices of praise", "verse_ref": "Hosea 14:2", "verse_text": "Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips." }, { "point_text": "Sacrifices of praise", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:5", "verse_text": "Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." }, { "point_text": "Patient endurance", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 1:7", "verse_text": "And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass." }, { "point_text": "Patient endurance", "verse_ref": "Revelation 4:7", "verse_text": "And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle." }, { "point_text": "The young of the herd", "verse_ref": "Job 21:10", "verse_text": "Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf." }, { "point_text": "The young of the herd", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:12", "verse_text": "Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all." }, { "point_text": "Playfulness of, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 29:6", "verse_text": "He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn." }, { "point_text": "FED ON", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Milk", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 6:10", "verse_text": "And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:" }, { "point_text": "Branches of trees, &c", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 27:10", "verse_text": "Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof." }, { "point_text": "Fattened in stalls, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 28:24", "verse_text": "And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof:" }, { "point_text": "Fattened in stalls, &c", "verse_ref": "Amos 6:4", "verse_text": "That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;" }, { "point_text": "Offered in sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 9:2-3", "verse_text": "And he said unto Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before the LORD. 3 And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take ye a kid of the goats for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt offering;" }, { "point_text": "Of a year old best for sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Micah 6:6", "verse_text": "Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?" }, { "point_text": "If first-born not redeemed", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:17", "verse_text": "But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Eaten in the patriarchal age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:7-8", "verse_text": "And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it. 8 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat." }, { "point_text": "When fattened considered a delicacy", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 28:24-25", "verse_text": "And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof: 25 And she brought it before Saul, and before his servants; and they did eat. Then they rose up, and went away that night." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Saints nourished by grace", "verse_ref": "Malachi 4:2", "verse_text": "But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall." }, { "point_text": "Sacrifices of praise", "verse_ref": "Hosea 14:2", "verse_text": "Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips." }, { "point_text": "Sacrifices of praise", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:5", "verse_text": "Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." }, { "point_text": "Patient endurance", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 1:7", "verse_text": "And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass." }, { "point_text": "Patient endurance", "verse_ref": "Revelation 4:7", "verse_text": "And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle." } ] }, { "name": "Camel, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Camel-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Unclean", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:4", "verse_text": "Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you." }, { "point_text": "Unclean", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:7", "verse_text": "Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you." }, { "point_text": "Found in deserted places", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 25:5", "verse_text": "And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "CHARACTERIZED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The bunches on its back", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:6", "verse_text": "The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them." }, { "point_text": "Its docility", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:11", "verse_text": "And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water." }, { "point_text": "The dromedary a species of, remarkable for swiftness", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:23", "verse_text": "How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;" }, { "point_text": "Abounded in the east", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 5:21", "verse_text": "And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand." }, { "point_text": "Abounded in the east", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:6", "verse_text": "The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "A part of patriarchal wealth", "verse_ref": "Genesis 12:16", "verse_text": "And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels." }, { "point_text": "A part of patriarchal wealth", "verse_ref": "Genesis 30:43", "verse_text": "And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses." }, { "point_text": "A part of patriarchal wealth", "verse_ref": "Job 1:3", "verse_text": "His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east." }, { "point_text": "Kept in numbers by kings", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:30", "verse_text": "Over the camels also was Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the asses was Jehdeiah the Meronothite:" }, { "point_text": "USED FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Riding", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:61", "verse_text": "And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and went his way." }, { "point_text": "Drawing chariots", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 21:7", "verse_text": "And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:" }, { "point_text": "Carrying burdens", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:25", "verse_text": "And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Carrying burdens", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:2", "verse_text": "And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart." }, { "point_text": "Carrying burdens", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 8:9", "verse_text": "So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?" }, { "point_text": "Conveying posts and messengers", "verse_ref": "Esther 8:10", "verse_text": "And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries:" }, { "point_text": "War", "verse_ref": "Judges 7:12", "verse_text": "And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude." }, { "point_text": "War", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 30:17", "verse_text": "And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled." }, { "point_text": "Of the rich adorned with chains", "verse_ref": "Judges 8:21", "verse_text": "Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that were on their camels' necks." }, { "point_text": "Of the rich adorned with chains", "verse_ref": "Judges 8:26", "verse_text": "And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels' necks." }, { "point_text": "Furniture of, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:34", "verse_text": "Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not." }, { "point_text": "Subject to plagues", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:3", "verse_text": "Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain." }, { "point_text": "Subject to plagues", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 14:15", "verse_text": "And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague." }, { "point_text": "Treated with great care", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:31-32", "verse_text": "And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels. 32 And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men's feet that were with him." }, { "point_text": "Esteemed a valuable booty", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 5:20-21", "verse_text": "And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him. 21 And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand." }, { "point_text": "Esteemed a valuable booty", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 14:15", "verse_text": "They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Esteemed a valuable booty", "verse_ref": "Job 1:17", "verse_text": "While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee." }, { "point_text": "Esteemed a valuable booty", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:29", "verse_text": "Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side." }, { "point_text": "Esteemed a valuable booty", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:32", "verse_text": "And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Coarse cloth made from its hair", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:4", "verse_text": "And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey." }, { "point_text": "Referred to in illustrations by Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:24", "verse_text": "And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Referred to in illustrations by Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:24", "verse_text": "Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel." } ] }, { "name": "Calves of Jeroboam", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Calves-of-Jeroboam.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Made of gold", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:28", "verse_text": "Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Made to prevent the Israelites going to Jerusalem", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:26-27", "verse_text": "And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David: 27 If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah." }, { "point_text": "CALLED THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Golden calves", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 10:29", "verse_text": "Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan." }, { "point_text": "Golden calves", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 13:8", "verse_text": "And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods." }, { "point_text": "Calves of Bethaven", "verse_ref": "Hosea 10:5", "verse_text": "The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it." }, { "point_text": "Calves of Samaria", "verse_ref": "Hosea 8:5", "verse_text": "Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?" }, { "point_text": "Placed in Dan and Bethel", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:29", "verse_text": "And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan." }, { "point_text": "Probably from an Egyptian model", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:40", "verse_text": "Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon." }, { "point_text": "Designed to represent God", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:28", "verse_text": "Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Priests appointed for", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:31", "verse_text": "And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi." }, { "point_text": "Priests appointed for", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 11:15", "verse_text": "And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made." }, { "point_text": "Sacrifices offered to", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:32", "verse_text": "And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made." }, { "point_text": "Sacrifices offered to", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 13:1", "verse_text": "And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense." }, { "point_text": "Feasts appointed for", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:32-33", "verse_text": "And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made. 33 So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense." }, { "point_text": "Were kissed in adoration", "verse_ref": "Hosea 13:2", "verse_text": "And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves." }, { "point_text": "WORSHIP OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Denounced by a prophet", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 13:1-3", "verse_text": "And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense. 2 And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee. 3 And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out." }, { "point_text": "Adopted by succeeding kings", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:34", "verse_text": "And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin." }, { "point_text": "Adopted by succeeding kings", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:26", "verse_text": "For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities." }, { "point_text": "Adopted by succeeding kings", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 10:29", "verse_text": "Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan." }, { "point_text": "Adopted by succeeding kings", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 14:24", "verse_text": "And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin." }, { "point_text": "Became the sin of Israel", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:30", "verse_text": "And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan." }, { "point_text": "Became the sin of Israel", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 10:31", "verse_text": "But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin." }, { "point_text": "Became the sin of Israel", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 13:8", "verse_text": "And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods." }, { "point_text": "God's people refused to worship", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:18", "verse_text": "Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him." }, { "point_text": "God's people refused to worship", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 11:16", "verse_text": "And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the LORD God of their fathers." }, { "point_text": "Guilt of making", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 14:9-10", "verse_text": "But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back: 10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone." }, { "point_text": "Guilt of worshipping", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 14:15-16", "verse_text": "For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger. 16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin." }, { "point_text": "Guilt of worshipping", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:22-23", "verse_text": "For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them; 23 Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day." }, { "point_text": "PREDICTIONS RESPECTING;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Captivity", "verse_ref": "Hosea 10:6", "verse_text": "It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel." }, { "point_text": "Destruction", "verse_ref": "Hosea 8:6", "verse_text": "For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces." }, { "point_text": "Destruction", "verse_ref": "Hosea 10:8", "verse_text": "The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of the worshippers", "verse_ref": "Hosea 8:13-14", "verse_text": "They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt. 14 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof." } ] }, { "name": "Censers", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Censers.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "For burning incense", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 10:1", "verse_text": "And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not." }, { "point_text": "For burning incense", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:19", "verse_text": "Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar." }, { "point_text": "MADE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Brass", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:39", "verse_text": "And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar:" }, { "point_text": "Gold", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 7:50", "verse_text": "And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple." }, { "point_text": "One of gold in the most holy place", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:4", "verse_text": "Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;" }, { "point_text": "Directions for removing", "verse_ref": "Numbers 4:14", "verse_text": "And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith they minister about it, even the censers, the fleshhooks, and the shovels, and the basons, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers' skins, and put to the staves of it." }, { "point_text": "Often used in idolatrous worship", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 8:11", "verse_text": "And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up." }, { "point_text": "Of Korah, &c. made into plates to cover the altar", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:18", "verse_text": "And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron." }, { "point_text": "Of Korah, &c. made into plates to cover the altar", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:39", "verse_text": "And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar:" }, { "point_text": "Typical of Christ's intercession", "verse_ref": "Revelation 8:3", "verse_text": "And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne." }, { "point_text": "Typical of Christ's intercession", "verse_ref": "Revelation 8:5", "verse_text": "And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake." } ] }, { "name": "Care, Overmuch", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Care-Overmuch.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "About earthly things, forbidden", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:25", "verse_text": "Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?" }, { "point_text": "About earthly things, forbidden", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:22", "verse_text": "And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on." }, { "point_text": "About earthly things, forbidden", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:29", "verse_text": "And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind." }, { "point_text": "God's providential goodness should keep us from", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:26", "verse_text": "Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?" }, { "point_text": "God's providential goodness should keep us from", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:28", "verse_text": "And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:" }, { "point_text": "God's providential goodness should keep us from", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:30", "verse_text": "Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?" }, { "point_text": "God's promises should keep us from", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:5", "verse_text": "Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." }, { "point_text": "Trust in God should free us from", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:7-8", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. 8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit." }, { "point_text": "Should be cast on God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:5", "verse_text": "Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass." }, { "point_text": "Should be cast on God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 55:22", "verse_text": "Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved." }, { "point_text": "Should be cast on God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:3", "verse_text": "Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established." }, { "point_text": "Should be cast on God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:7", "verse_text": "Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you." }, { "point_text": "An obstruction to the Gospel", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:22", "verse_text": "He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful." }, { "point_text": "An obstruction to the Gospel", "verse_ref": "Luke 8:14", "verse_text": "And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection." }, { "point_text": "An obstruction to the Gospel", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:18-20", "verse_text": "And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused. 19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused. 20 And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come." }, { "point_text": "Be without", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:32", "verse_text": "But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:" }, { "point_text": "Be without", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:6", "verse_text": "Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God." }, { "point_text": "Unbecoming in saints", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:4", "verse_text": "No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." }, { "point_text": "Inutility of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:27", "verse_text": "Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?" }, { "point_text": "Inutility of", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:25-26", "verse_text": "And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? 26 If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?" }, { "point_text": "Vanity of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:6", "verse_text": "Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them." }, { "point_text": "Vanity of", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 4:8", "verse_text": "There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail." }, { "point_text": "Warning against", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:34", "verse_text": "And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares." }, { "point_text": "Sent as a punishment to the wicked", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 4:16", "verse_text": "Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:" }, { "point_text": "Sent as a punishment to the wicked", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 12:19", "verse_text": "And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMartha, \nPersons who offered to follow Christ, \r\n, &c", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:41", "verse_text": "And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMartha, \nPersons who offered to follow Christ, \r\n, &c", "verse_ref": "Luke 9:57", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that, as they went in the way, a certain man said unto him, Lord, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest." } ] }, { "name": "Canaanites, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Canaanites-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Descended from Ham", "verse_ref": "Genesis 10:6", "verse_text": "And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan." }, { "point_text": "An accursed race", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:25-26", "verse_text": "And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. 26 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant." }, { "point_text": "Different families of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 10:15-18", "verse_text": "And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, 16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, 17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, 18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad." }, { "point_text": "Comprised seven distinct nations", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:1", "verse_text": "When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;" }, { "point_text": "Possessions of, how bounded", "verse_ref": "Genesis 10:19", "verse_text": "And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha." }, { "point_text": "Country of, fertile", "verse_ref": "Exodus 3:17", "verse_text": "And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey." }, { "point_text": "Country of, fertile", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:27", "verse_text": "And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Great and mighty", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:28", "verse_text": "Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there." }, { "point_text": "Great and mighty", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:1", "verse_text": "When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;" }, { "point_text": "Idolatrous", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 29:17", "verse_text": "And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)" }, { "point_text": "Superstitious", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:9-11", "verse_text": "When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer." }, { "point_text": "Profane and wicked", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 18:27", "verse_text": "(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)" }, { "point_text": "Extremely numerous", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:17", "verse_text": "If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?" }, { "point_text": "Had many strong cities", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:28", "verse_text": "Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there." }, { "point_text": "Had many strong cities", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:28", "verse_text": "Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there." }, { "point_text": "Expelled for wickedness", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:4", "verse_text": "Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee." }, { "point_text": "Expelled for wickedness", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:12", "verse_text": "For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee." }, { "point_text": "ABRAHAM", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Called to dwell amongst", "verse_ref": "Genesis 12:1-5", "verse_text": "Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. 4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. ..." }, { "point_text": "Was promised the country of, for inheritance", "verse_ref": "Genesis 13:14-17", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: 15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. 16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. 17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Was promised the country of, for inheritance", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:18", "verse_text": "In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:" }, { "point_text": "Was promised the country of, for inheritance", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:8", "verse_text": "And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God." }, { "point_text": "Had his faith tried by dwelling amongst", "verse_ref": "Genesis 12:6", "verse_text": "And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land." }, { "point_text": "Had his faith tried by dwelling amongst", "verse_ref": "Genesis 13:7", "verse_text": "And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land." }, { "point_text": "Kind to the patriarchs", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:13", "verse_text": "And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram." }, { "point_text": "Kind to the patriarchs", "verse_ref": "Genesis 23:6", "verse_text": "Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead." }, { "point_text": "ISRAEL COMMANDED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To make no league with", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:2", "verse_text": "And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:" }, { "point_text": "To make no league with", "verse_ref": "Judges 2:2", "verse_text": "And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?" }, { "point_text": "Not to intermarry with", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:3", "verse_text": "Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son." }, { "point_text": "Not to intermarry with", "verse_ref": "Joshua 23:12", "verse_text": "Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:" }, { "point_text": "Not to follow idols of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:24", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images." }, { "point_text": "Not to follow idols of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:25", "verse_text": "The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God." }, { "point_text": "Not to follow customs of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 18:26-27", "verse_text": "Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you: 27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)" }, { "point_text": "To destroy, without mercy", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:2", "verse_text": "And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:" }, { "point_text": "To destroy, without mercy", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:24", "verse_text": "And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them." }, { "point_text": "To destroy all vestiges of their idolatry", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:24", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images." }, { "point_text": "To destroy all vestiges of their idolatry", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:5", "verse_text": "But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire." }, { "point_text": "To destroy all vestiges of their idolatry", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:25", "verse_text": "The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God." }, { "point_text": "Not to fear", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:17", "verse_text": "If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?" }, { "point_text": "Not to fear", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 31:7", "verse_text": "And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it." }, { "point_text": "Terrified at the approach of Israel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:15-16", "verse_text": "Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away. 16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased." }, { "point_text": "Partially subdued by Israel", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10-11", "verse_text": "Now it came to pass, when Adonizedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them; 2 That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty. 3 Wherefore Adonizedek king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying, 4 Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel. ..." }, { "point_text": "Partially subdued by Israel", "verse_ref": "Judges 1", "verse_text": "Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them? 2 And the LORD said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand. 3 And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him. 4 And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men. ..." }, { "point_text": "PART OF LEFT", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To try Israel", "verse_ref": "Judges 2:21", "verse_text": "I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:" }, { "point_text": "To try Israel", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:1-4", "verse_text": "Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan; 2 Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof; 3 Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath. 4 And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses." }, { "point_text": "To chastise Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:55", "verse_text": "But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell." }, { "point_text": "To chastise Israel", "verse_ref": "Judges 2:3", "verse_text": "Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you." }, { "point_text": "To chastise Israel", "verse_ref": "Judges 4:2", "verse_text": "And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles." }, { "point_text": "Israel ensnared by", "verse_ref": "Judges 2:3", "verse_text": "Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you." }, { "point_text": "Israel ensnared by", "verse_ref": "Judges 2:19", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way." }, { "point_text": "Some descendants of, in our Lord's time", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:22", "verse_text": "And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil." }, { "point_text": "Some descendants of, in our Lord's time", "verse_ref": "Mark 7:26", "verse_text": "The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter." } ] }, { "name": "Cedar, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Cedar-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Planted by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:16", "verse_text": "The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted;" }, { "point_text": "Planted by God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:19", "verse_text": "I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:" }, { "point_text": "Made to glorify God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:9", "verse_text": "Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:" }, { "point_text": "Lebanon celebrated for", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:15", "verse_text": "And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Lebanon celebrated for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 92:12", "verse_text": "The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Banks of rivers favorable to the growth of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:6", "verse_text": "As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters." }, { "point_text": "Imported largely by Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:27", "verse_text": "And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "High", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 37:24", "verse_text": "By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel." }, { "point_text": "High", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:22", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent:" }, { "point_text": "High", "verse_ref": "Amos 2:9", "verse_text": "Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath." }, { "point_text": "Spreading", "verse_ref": "Psalm 80:10-11", "verse_text": "The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. 11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river." }, { "point_text": "Fragrant", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:11", "verse_text": "Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Graceful and beautiful", "verse_ref": "Psalm 80:10", "verse_text": "The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars." }, { "point_text": "Graceful and beautiful", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:23", "verse_text": "In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell." }, { "point_text": "Strong and durable", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:10", "verse_text": "The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars." }, { "point_text": "Considered the first of trees", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:33", "verse_text": "And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes." }, { "point_text": "Extensive commerce in", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:10-11", "verse_text": "So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire. 11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year." }, { "point_text": "USED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Building temples", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:5", "verse_text": "And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name." }, { "point_text": "Building temples", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:9-10", "verse_text": "So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar. 10 And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar." }, { "point_text": "Building palaces", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 5:11", "verse_text": "And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house." }, { "point_text": "Building palaces", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 7:2-3", "verse_text": "He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars. 3 And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row." }, { "point_text": "Making masts of ships", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:5", "verse_text": "They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee." }, { "point_text": "Making wardrobes", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:24", "verse_text": "These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise." }, { "point_text": "Making chariots", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 3:9", "verse_text": "King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Purifying the leper", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:4-7", "verse_text": "Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: 5 And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water: 6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water: 7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field." }, { "point_text": "Purifying the leper", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:49-52", "verse_text": "And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: 50 And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water: 51 And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times: 52 And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:" }, { "point_text": "Preparing the water of separation", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:6", "verse_text": "And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer." }, { "point_text": "Making idols", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:14", "verse_text": "He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it." }, { "point_text": "THE EAGLE ALLUDED TO AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Making its nest in", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 22:23", "verse_text": "O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!" }, { "point_text": "Perching on the high branches of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:3", "verse_text": "And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:" }, { "point_text": "Instrumental in propagating", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:4-5", "verse_text": "He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants. 5 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of, a punishment", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 22:7", "verse_text": "And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of, exhibits God's power", "verse_ref": "Psalm 29:5", "verse_text": "The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Majesty, strength, and glory of Christ", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:15", "verse_text": "His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars." }, { "point_text": "Majesty, strength, and glory of Christ", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:22-23", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent: 23 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell." }, { "point_text": "Beauty and glory of israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:6", "verse_text": "As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters." }, { "point_text": "Saints in their rapid growth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 92:12", "verse_text": "The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Powerful nations", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 31:3", "verse_text": "Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs." }, { "point_text": "Powerful nations", "verse_ref": "Amos 2:9", "verse_text": "Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath." }, { "point_text": "Arrogant rulers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:13", "verse_text": "And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan," }, { "point_text": "Arrogant rulers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:33-34", "verse_text": "Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled. 34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one." } ] }, { "name": "Candlestick", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Candlestick.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "A part of household furniture", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:10", "verse_text": "Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither." }, { "point_text": "USED FOR HOLDING", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Candles or torches", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:15", "verse_text": "Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house." }, { "point_text": "Lamps", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:31", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same." }, { "point_text": "Lamps", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:37", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it." }, { "point_text": "FOR THE TABERNACLE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Form, &c. of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:31-36", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same. 32 And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side: 33 Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick. 34 And in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers. ..." }, { "point_text": "Form, &c. of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 37:17-22", "verse_text": "And he made the candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work made he the candlestick; his shaft, and his branch, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, were of the same: 18 And six branches going out of the sides thereof; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side thereof: 19 Three bowls made after the fashion of almonds in one branch, a knop and a flower; and three bowls made like almonds in another branch, a knop and a flower: so throughout the six branches going out of the candlestick. 20 And in the candlestick were four bowls made like almonds, his knops, and his flowers: ..." }, { "point_text": "Held seven golden lamps", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:37", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it." }, { "point_text": "Held seven golden lamps", "verse_ref": "Exodus 37:23", "verse_text": "And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his snuffdishes, of pure gold." }, { "point_text": "Had snuffers, &c. of gold", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:38", "verse_text": "And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold." }, { "point_text": "Had snuffers, &c. of gold", "verse_ref": "Exodus 37:23", "verse_text": "And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his snuffdishes, of pure gold." }, { "point_text": "Weighed a talent of gold", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:39", "verse_text": "Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels." }, { "point_text": "After a divine pattern", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:40", "verse_text": "And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount." }, { "point_text": "After a divine pattern", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:4", "verse_text": "And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was beaten work: according unto the pattern which the LORD had shewed Moses, so he made the candlestick." }, { "point_text": "Called the lamp of God", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 3:3", "verse_text": "And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep;" }, { "point_text": "Called the pure candlestick", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 24:4", "verse_text": "He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually." }, { "point_text": "Placed in the outer sanctuary over against the table", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:24", "verse_text": "And he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation, over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward." }, { "point_text": "Placed in the outer sanctuary over against the table", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:2", "verse_text": "For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary." }, { "point_text": "Lighted with olive oil", "verse_ref": "Exodus 27:20", "verse_text": "And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always." }, { "point_text": "Lighted with olive oil", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 24:2", "verse_text": "Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually." }, { "point_text": "Lighted &c. by priests", "verse_ref": "Exodus 27:21", "verse_text": "In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Lighted &c. by priests", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 24:3-4", "verse_text": "Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations. 4 He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually." }, { "point_text": "Directions for removing", "verse_ref": "Numbers 4:9-10", "verse_text": "And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and his snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they minister unto it: 10 And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put it upon a bar." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 4:2", "verse_text": "And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:" }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "John 8:12", "verse_text": "Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:2", "verse_text": "For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary." }, { "point_text": "The church", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:13", "verse_text": "And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle." }, { "point_text": "The church", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:20", "verse_text": "The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches." }, { "point_text": "Ministers", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:14-16", "verse_text": "Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. 15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." } ] }, { "name": "Call of God, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Call-of-God-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "By Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 55:5", "verse_text": "Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee." }, { "point_text": "By Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:6", "verse_text": "Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "By His Spirit", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:17", "verse_text": "And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." }, { "point_text": "By His works", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:2-3", "verse_text": "Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. 3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard." }, { "point_text": "By His ministers", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 35:15", "verse_text": "I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me." }, { "point_text": "By His ministers", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:20", "verse_text": "Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God." }, { "point_text": "By His gospel", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:14", "verse_text": "Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Is from darkness", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:9", "verse_text": "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:" }, { "point_text": "Addressed to all", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:22", "verse_text": "Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else." }, { "point_text": "Addressed to all", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:16", "verse_text": "So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen." }, { "point_text": "Most reject", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:24", "verse_text": "Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;" }, { "point_text": "Most reject", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:16", "verse_text": "So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen." }, { "point_text": "Effectual to saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 110:3", "verse_text": "Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth." }, { "point_text": "Effectual to saints", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:47", "verse_text": "Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved." }, { "point_text": "Effectual to saints", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:48", "verse_text": "And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed." }, { "point_text": "Effectual to saints", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:24", "verse_text": "But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God." }, { "point_text": "TO MAN IS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of grace", "verse_ref": "Galatians 1:15", "verse_text": "But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace," }, { "point_text": "Of grace", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:9", "verse_text": "Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began," }, { "point_text": "According to the purpose of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:28", "verse_text": "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." }, { "point_text": "According to the purpose of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:11", "verse_text": "(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)" }, { "point_text": "According to the purpose of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:23-24", "verse_text": "And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, 24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?" }, { "point_text": "High", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:14", "verse_text": "I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Holy", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:9", "verse_text": "Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers," }, { "point_text": "Heavenly", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:1", "verse_text": "Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;" }, { "point_text": "To fellowship with Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:9", "verse_text": "God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord." }, { "point_text": "To holiness", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:7", "verse_text": "For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness." }, { "point_text": "To liberty", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:13", "verse_text": "For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another." }, { "point_text": "To peace", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:15", "verse_text": "But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace." }, { "point_text": "To peace", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:15", "verse_text": "And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful." }, { "point_text": "To glory and virtue", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:3", "verse_text": "According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:" }, { "point_text": "To the eternal glory of Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:14", "verse_text": "Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "To the eternal glory of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:10", "verse_text": "But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you." }, { "point_text": "To eternal life", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:12", "verse_text": "Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses." }, { "point_text": "Partakers of, justified", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:30", "verse_text": "Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified." }, { "point_text": "Walk worthy of", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:1", "verse_text": "I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called," }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of receiving", "verse_ref": "Revelation 19:9", "verse_text": "And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God." }, { "point_text": "Praise God for", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:9", "verse_text": "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:" }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 9:3-4", "verse_text": "She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city, 4 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him," }, { "point_text": "REJECTION OF, LEADS TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Judicial blindness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:9", "verse_text": "And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not." }, { "point_text": "Judicial blindness", "verse_ref": "Acts 28:24-27", "verse_text": "And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not. 25 And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers, 26 Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive: 27 For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them." }, { "point_text": "Judicial blindness", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:8-10", "verse_text": "(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day. 9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them: 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway." }, { "point_text": "Delusion", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:4", "verse_text": "I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not." }, { "point_text": "Delusion", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:10-11", "verse_text": "And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:" }, { "point_text": "Withdrawal of the means of grace", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 26:4-6", "verse_text": "And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you, 5 To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not hearkened; 6 Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Withdrawal of the means of grace", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:46", "verse_text": "Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles." }, { "point_text": "Withdrawal of the means of grace", "verse_ref": "Acts 18:6", "verse_text": "And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles." }, { "point_text": "Withdrawal of the means of grace", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:5", "verse_text": "Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent." }, { "point_text": "Temporal judgments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:12", "verse_text": "To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear." }, { "point_text": "Temporal judgments", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:16", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein." }, { "point_text": "Temporal judgments", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 35:17", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken unto them, but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered." }, { "point_text": "Temporal judgments", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 7:12-14", "verse_text": "Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts. 13 Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts: 14 But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate." }, { "point_text": "Rejection by God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:14-32", "verse_text": "Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: 16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. 17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. ..." }, { "point_text": "Rejection by God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:19", "verse_text": "Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it." }, { "point_text": "Rejection by God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:30", "verse_text": "Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them." }, { "point_text": "Condemnation", "verse_ref": "John 12:48", "verse_text": "He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day." }, { "point_text": "Condemnation", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:1-3", "verse_text": "Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. 2 For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; 3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;" }, { "point_text": "Condemnation", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:25", "verse_text": "See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:" }, { "point_text": "Destruction", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 29:1", "verse_text": "He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy." }, { "point_text": "Destruction", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:3-7", "verse_text": "And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. 4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage. 5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise: 6 And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them. ..." } ] }, { "name": "Caves", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Caves.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Natural", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:38", "verse_text": "(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Artificial", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:2", "verse_text": "And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds." }, { "point_text": "FOUND IN THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Open fields", "verse_ref": "Genesis 23:20", "verse_text": "And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth." }, { "point_text": "Rocks", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:19", "verse_text": "And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth." }, { "point_text": "WERE USED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Dwelling-places", "verse_ref": "Genesis 19:30", "verse_text": "And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters." }, { "point_text": "Places of concealment", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:6", "verse_text": "When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits." }, { "point_text": "Places of concealment", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:11", "verse_text": "And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves." }, { "point_text": "Places of concealment", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:4", "verse_text": "For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)" }, { "point_text": "Places of concealment", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:38", "verse_text": "(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Resting places", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 24:3", "verse_text": "And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave." }, { "point_text": "Resting places", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:9", "verse_text": "And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?" }, { "point_text": "Burial places", "verse_ref": "Genesis 23:19", "verse_text": "And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan." }, { "point_text": "Burial places", "verse_ref": "John 11:38", "verse_text": "Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it." }, { "point_text": "Haunts of robbers", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:11", "verse_text": "Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Haunts of robbers", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:13", "verse_text": "And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves." }, { "point_text": "Hiding places of wild beasts", "verse_ref": "Nahum 2:12", "verse_text": "The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin." }, { "point_text": "Often capacious", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 22:1", "verse_text": "David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him." }, { "point_text": "Often capacious", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 24:3", "verse_text": "And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave." }, { "point_text": "Afford no protection from the judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:19", "verse_text": "And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth." }, { "point_text": "Afford no protection from the judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 33:27", "verse_text": "Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence." }, { "point_text": "Afford no protection from the judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Revelation 6:15", "verse_text": "And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;" }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Adullam", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 22:1", "verse_text": "David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him." }, { "point_text": "Engedi", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 23:29-24:1", "verse_text": "And David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds at Engedi. 1 And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi." }, { "point_text": "Engedi", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 24:3", "verse_text": "And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave." }, { "point_text": "Machpelah", "verse_ref": "Genesis 23:9", "verse_text": "That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you." }, { "point_text": "Makkedah", "verse_ref": "John 10:16-17", "verse_text": "And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. 17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again." } ] }, { "name": "Character of Saints", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Character-of-Saints.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Attentive to Christ's voice", "verse_ref": "John 10:3-4", "verse_text": "To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. 4 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice." }, { "point_text": "Blameless and harmless", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:15", "verse_text": "That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;" }, { "point_text": "Bold", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:1", "verse_text": "The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion." }, { "point_text": "Bold", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:3", "verse_text": "For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:" }, { "point_text": "Contrite", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:15", "verse_text": "For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones." }, { "point_text": "Contrite", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:2", "verse_text": "For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word." }, { "point_text": "Devout", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:2", "verse_text": "And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him." }, { "point_text": "Devout", "verse_ref": "Acts 22:12", "verse_text": "And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews which dwelt there," }, { "point_text": "Faithful", "verse_ref": "Revelation 17:14", "verse_text": "These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful." }, { "point_text": "Fearing God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:16", "verse_text": "And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:" }, { "point_text": "Fearing God", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:2", "verse_text": "A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway." }, { "point_text": "Following Christ", "verse_ref": "John 10:4", "verse_text": "And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice." }, { "point_text": "Following Christ", "verse_ref": "John 10:27", "verse_text": "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:" }, { "point_text": "Godly", "verse_ref": "Psalm 4:3", "verse_text": "But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him." }, { "point_text": "Godly", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:9", "verse_text": "The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:" }, { "point_text": "Guileless", "verse_ref": "John 1:47", "verse_text": "Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!" }, { "point_text": "Holy", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:6", "verse_text": "For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Holy", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:2", "verse_text": "For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Holy", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:12", "verse_text": "Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;" }, { "point_text": "Humble", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:2", "verse_text": "My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad." }, { "point_text": "Humble", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:5", "verse_text": "Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble." }, { "point_text": "Hungering after righteousness", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:6", "verse_text": "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled." }, { "point_text": "Just", "verse_ref": "Genesis 6:9", "verse_text": "These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God." }, { "point_text": "Just", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:4", "verse_text": "Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith." }, { "point_text": "Just", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:25", "verse_text": "And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him." }, { "point_text": "Led by the Spirit", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:14", "verse_text": "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God." }, { "point_text": "Liberal", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:8", "verse_text": "But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand." }, { "point_text": "Liberal", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 9:13", "verse_text": "Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;" }, { "point_text": "Loving", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:4", "verse_text": "Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints," }, { "point_text": "Loving", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:9", "verse_text": "But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another." }, { "point_text": "Lowly", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:19", "verse_text": "Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud." }, { "point_text": "Meek", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 29:19", "verse_text": "The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Meek", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:5", "verse_text": "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth." }, { "point_text": "Merciful", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:26", "verse_text": "He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed." }, { "point_text": "Merciful", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:7", "verse_text": "Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy." }, { "point_text": "New Creatures", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:17", "verse_text": "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." }, { "point_text": "New Creatures", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:10", "verse_text": "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." }, { "point_text": "Obedient", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:19", "verse_text": "For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil." }, { "point_text": "Obedient", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:14", "verse_text": "As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:" }, { "point_text": "Poor in spirit", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:17", "verse_text": "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise." }, { "point_text": "Poor in spirit", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:3", "verse_text": "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." }, { "point_text": "Prudent", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:21", "verse_text": "The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning." }, { "point_text": "Pure in heart", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:8", "verse_text": "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God." }, { "point_text": "Pure in heart", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:3", "verse_text": "And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure." }, { "point_text": "Righteous", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:21", "verse_text": "Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified." }, { "point_text": "Righteous", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:6", "verse_text": "And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless." }, { "point_text": "Sincere", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:12", "verse_text": "For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward." }, { "point_text": "Sincere", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 2:17", "verse_text": "For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ." }, { "point_text": "Steadfast", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:42", "verse_text": "And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers." }, { "point_text": "Steadfast", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:5", "verse_text": "For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ." }, { "point_text": "Taught of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:13", "verse_text": "And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children." }, { "point_text": "Taught of God", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:27", "verse_text": "But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him." }, { "point_text": "True", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:8", "verse_text": "By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;" }, { "point_text": "Undefiled", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:1", "verse_text": "ALEPH. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Upright", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 3:6", "verse_text": "And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day." }, { "point_text": "Upright", "verse_ref": "Psalm 15:2", "verse_text": "He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart." }, { "point_text": "Watchful", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:37", "verse_text": "Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them." }, { "point_text": "Zealous of good works", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:14", "verse_text": "Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works." }, { "point_text": "Zealous of good works", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:8", "verse_text": "This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men." }, { "point_text": "Attentive to Christ's voice", "verse_ref": "John 10:3-4", "verse_text": "To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. 4 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice." }, { "point_text": "Blameless and harmless", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:15", "verse_text": "That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;" }, { "point_text": "Bold", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:1", "verse_text": "The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion." }, { "point_text": "Bold", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:3", "verse_text": "For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:" }, { "point_text": "Contrite", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:15", "verse_text": "For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones." }, { "point_text": "Contrite", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:2", "verse_text": "For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word." }, { "point_text": "Devout", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:2", "verse_text": "And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him." }, { "point_text": "Devout", "verse_ref": "Acts 22:12", "verse_text": "And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews which dwelt there," }, { "point_text": "Faithful", "verse_ref": "Revelation 17:14", "verse_text": "These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful." }, { "point_text": "Fearing God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:16", "verse_text": "And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:" }, { "point_text": "Fearing God", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:2", "verse_text": "A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway." }, { "point_text": "Following Christ", "verse_ref": "John 10:4", "verse_text": "And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice." }, { "point_text": "Following Christ", "verse_ref": "John 10:27", "verse_text": "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:" }, { "point_text": "Godly", "verse_ref": "Psalm 4:3", "verse_text": "But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him." }, { "point_text": "Godly", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:9", "verse_text": "The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:" }, { "point_text": "Guileless", "verse_ref": "John 1:47", "verse_text": "Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!" }, { "point_text": "Holy", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:6", "verse_text": "For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Holy", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:2", "verse_text": "For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Holy", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:12", "verse_text": "Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;" }, { "point_text": "Humble", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:2", "verse_text": "My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad." }, { "point_text": "Humble", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:5", "verse_text": "Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble." }, { "point_text": "Hungering after righteousness", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:6", "verse_text": "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled." }, { "point_text": "Just", "verse_ref": "Genesis 6:9", "verse_text": "These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God." }, { "point_text": "Just", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:4", "verse_text": "Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith." }, { "point_text": "Just", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:25", "verse_text": "And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him." }, { "point_text": "Led by the Spirit", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:14", "verse_text": "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God." }, { "point_text": "Liberal", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:8", "verse_text": "But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand." }, { "point_text": "Liberal", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 9:13", "verse_text": "Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;" }, { "point_text": "Loving", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:4", "verse_text": "Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints," }, { "point_text": "Loving", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:9", "verse_text": "But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another." }, { "point_text": "Lowly", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:19", "verse_text": "Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud." }, { "point_text": "Meek", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 29:19", "verse_text": "The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Meek", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:5", "verse_text": "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth." }, { "point_text": "Merciful", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:26", "verse_text": "He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed." }, { "point_text": "Merciful", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:7", "verse_text": "Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy." }, { "point_text": "New Creatures", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:17", "verse_text": "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." }, { "point_text": "New Creatures", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:10", "verse_text": "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." }, { "point_text": "Obedient", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:19", "verse_text": "For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil." }, { "point_text": "Obedient", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:14", "verse_text": "As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:" }, { "point_text": "Poor in spirit", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:17", "verse_text": "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise." }, { "point_text": "Poor in spirit", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:3", "verse_text": "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." }, { "point_text": "Prudent", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:21", "verse_text": "The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning." }, { "point_text": "Pure in heart", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:8", "verse_text": "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God." }, { "point_text": "Pure in heart", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:3", "verse_text": "And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure." }, { "point_text": "Righteous", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:21", "verse_text": "Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified." }, { "point_text": "Righteous", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:6", "verse_text": "And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless." }, { "point_text": "Sincere", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:12", "verse_text": "For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward." }, { "point_text": "Sincere", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 2:17", "verse_text": "For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ." }, { "point_text": "Steadfast", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:42", "verse_text": "And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers." }, { "point_text": "Steadfast", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:5", "verse_text": "For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ." }, { "point_text": "Taught of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:13", "verse_text": "And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children." }, { "point_text": "Taught of God", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:27", "verse_text": "But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him." }, { "point_text": "True", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:8", "verse_text": "By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;" }, { "point_text": "Undefiled", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:1", "verse_text": "ALEPH. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Upright", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 3:6", "verse_text": "And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day." }, { "point_text": "Upright", "verse_ref": "Psalm 15:2", "verse_text": "He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart." }, { "point_text": "Watchful", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:37", "verse_text": "Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them." }, { "point_text": "Zealous of good works", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:14", "verse_text": "Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works." }, { "point_text": "Zealous of good works", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:8", "verse_text": "This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men." } ] }, { "name": "Character of the Wicked", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Character-of-the-Wicked.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Abominable", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:8", "verse_text": "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death." }, { "point_text": "Alienated from God", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:18", "verse_text": "Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:" }, { "point_text": "Alienated from God", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:21", "verse_text": "And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled" }, { "point_text": "Blasphemous", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:65", "verse_text": "And many other things blasphemously spake they against him." }, { "point_text": "Blasphemous", "verse_ref": "Revelation 16:9", "verse_text": "And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory." }, { "point_text": "Blinded", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:4", "verse_text": "In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." }, { "point_text": "Blinded", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:18", "verse_text": "Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:" }, { "point_text": "Boastful", "verse_ref": "Psalm 10:3", "verse_text": "For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth." }, { "point_text": "Boastful", "verse_ref": "Psalm 49:6", "verse_text": "They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;" }, { "point_text": "Conspiring against God's people", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 4:8", "verse_text": "And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it." }, { "point_text": "Conspiring against God's people", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 6:2", "verse_text": "That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief." }, { "point_text": "Conspiring against God's people", "verse_ref": "Psalm 38:12", "verse_text": "They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long." }, { "point_text": "Covetous", "verse_ref": "Micah 2:2", "verse_text": "And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage." }, { "point_text": "Covetous", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:29", "verse_text": "Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers," }, { "point_text": "Deceitful", "verse_ref": "Psalm 5:6", "verse_text": "Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man." }, { "point_text": "Deceitful", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:13", "verse_text": "Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:" }, { "point_text": "Delighting in the iniquity of others", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 2:14", "verse_text": "Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;" }, { "point_text": "Delighting in the iniquity of others", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:32", "verse_text": "Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them." }, { "point_text": "Despising the works of the faithful", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 2:19", "verse_text": "But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?" }, { "point_text": "Despising the works of the faithful", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 4:2", "verse_text": "And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?" }, { "point_text": "Despising the works of the faithful", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:3-4", "verse_text": "Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;" }, { "point_text": "Destructive", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:7", "verse_text": "Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths." }, { "point_text": "Disobedient", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:26", "verse_text": "Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations." }, { "point_text": "Disobedient", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:3", "verse_text": "For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another." }, { "point_text": "Disobedient", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:7", "verse_text": "Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner," }, { "point_text": "Enticing to evil", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:10-14", "verse_text": "My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: ..." }, { "point_text": "Enticing to evil", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:6", "verse_text": "For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts," }, { "point_text": "Envious", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 2:10", "verse_text": "When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Envious", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:3", "verse_text": "For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another." }, { "point_text": "Fearful", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:1", "verse_text": "The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion." }, { "point_text": "Fearful", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:8", "verse_text": "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death." }, { "point_text": "Fierce", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:29", "verse_text": "A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good." }, { "point_text": "Fierce", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:3", "verse_text": "Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good," }, { "point_text": "Foolish", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:6", "verse_text": "Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?" }, { "point_text": "Foolish", "verse_ref": "Psalm 5:5", "verse_text": "The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Forgetting God", "verse_ref": "Job 8:13", "verse_text": "So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:" }, { "point_text": "Fraudulent", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:21", "verse_text": "The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth." }, { "point_text": "Fraudulent", "verse_ref": "Micah 6:11", "verse_text": "Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?" }, { "point_text": "Froward", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:8", "verse_text": "The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right." }, { "point_text": "Froward", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:17", "verse_text": "For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart." }, { "point_text": "Glorying in their shame", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:19", "verse_text": "Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)" }, { "point_text": "Hard-hearted", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 3:7", "verse_text": "But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted." }, { "point_text": "Hating the light", "verse_ref": "Job 24:13", "verse_text": "They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof." }, { "point_text": "Hating the light", "verse_ref": "John 3:20", "verse_text": "For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved." }, { "point_text": "Heady and high-minded", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:4", "verse_text": "Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;" }, { "point_text": "Hostile to God", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:7", "verse_text": "Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be." }, { "point_text": "Hostile to God", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:21", "verse_text": "And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled" }, { "point_text": "Hypocritical", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 29:13", "verse_text": "Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:" }, { "point_text": "Hypocritical", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:5", "verse_text": "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away." }, { "point_text": "Ignorant of God", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:1", "verse_text": "Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land." }, { "point_text": "Ignorant of God", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:8", "verse_text": "In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Impudent", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 2:4", "verse_text": "For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Incontinent", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:3", "verse_text": "Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good," }, { "point_text": "Infidel", "verse_ref": "Psalm 10:4", "verse_text": "The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts." }, { "point_text": "Infidel", "verse_ref": "Psalm 14:1", "verse_text": "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good." }, { "point_text": "Loathsome", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 13:5", "verse_text": "A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame." }, { "point_text": "Lovers of pleasure more than of God", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:4", "verse_text": "Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;" }, { "point_text": "Lying", "verse_ref": "Psalm 58:3", "verse_text": "The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies." }, { "point_text": "Lying", "verse_ref": "Psalm 62:4", "verse_text": "They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Lying", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:4", "verse_text": "None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Mischievous", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 24:8", "verse_text": "He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person." }, { "point_text": "Mischievous", "verse_ref": "Micah 7:3", "verse_text": "That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up." }, { "point_text": "Murderous", "verse_ref": "Psalm 10:8", "verse_text": "He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor." }, { "point_text": "Murderous", "verse_ref": "Psalm 94:6", "verse_text": "They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless." }, { "point_text": "Murderous", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:29", "verse_text": "Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers," }, { "point_text": "Prayerless", "verse_ref": "Job 21:15", "verse_text": "What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?" }, { "point_text": "Prayerless", "verse_ref": "Psalm 53:4", "verse_text": "Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God." }, { "point_text": "Persecuting", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:26", "verse_text": "For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded." }, { "point_text": "Persecuting", "verse_ref": "Psalm 109:16", "verse_text": "Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart." }, { "point_text": "Perverse", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:5", "verse_text": "They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation." }, { "point_text": "Proud", "verse_ref": "Psalm 59:12", "verse_text": "For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak." }, { "point_text": "Proud", "verse_ref": "Obadiah 3", "verse_text": "The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?" }, { "point_text": "Proud", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:2", "verse_text": "For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy," }, { "point_text": "Rejoicing in the affliction of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 35:15", "verse_text": "But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:" }, { "point_text": "Reprobate", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 13:5", "verse_text": "Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?" }, { "point_text": "Reprobate", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:8", "verse_text": "Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith." }, { "point_text": "Reprobate", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:16", "verse_text": "They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate." }, { "point_text": "Selfish", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:2", "verse_text": "For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy," }, { "point_text": "Sensual", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:19", "verse_text": "Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)" }, { "point_text": "Sensual", "verse_ref": "Jude 19", "verse_text": "These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit." }, { "point_text": "Sold under sin", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:20", "verse_text": "And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Sold under sin", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:17", "verse_text": "And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger." }, { "point_text": "Stiff-hearted", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 2:4", "verse_text": "For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Stiff-necked", "verse_ref": "Exodus 33:5", "verse_text": "For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Stiff-necked", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:51", "verse_text": "Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye." }, { "point_text": "Uncircumcised in heart", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:26", "verse_text": "Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart." }, { "point_text": "Uncircumcised in heart", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:51", "verse_text": "Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye." }, { "point_text": "Unjust", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:7", "verse_text": "When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth." }, { "point_text": "Unjust", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:10", "verse_text": "Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Unmerciful", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:31", "verse_text": "Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:" }, { "point_text": "Ungodly", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:27", "verse_text": "An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire." }, { "point_text": "Unholy", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:2", "verse_text": "For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy," }, { "point_text": "Unprofitable", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:30", "verse_text": "And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." }, { "point_text": "Unprofitable", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:12", "verse_text": "They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one." }, { "point_text": "Unruly", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:10", "verse_text": "For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:" }, { "point_text": "Unthankful", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:35", "verse_text": "But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil." }, { "point_text": "Unthankful", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:2", "verse_text": "For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy," }, { "point_text": "Untoward", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:40", "verse_text": "And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation." }, { "point_text": "Unwise", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:6", "verse_text": "Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?" } ] }, { "name": "Chariots", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Chariots.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Carriages for travelling, &c", "verse_ref": "Genesis 46:29", "verse_text": "And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while." }, { "point_text": "Carriages used in war", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:25", "verse_text": "And number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so." }, { "point_text": "Wheels of, described", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 7:33", "verse_text": "And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten." }, { "point_text": "Bound with traces", "verse_ref": "Micah 1:13", "verse_text": "O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee." }, { "point_text": "DRAWN BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Horses", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 10:2", "verse_text": "Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and armour;" }, { "point_text": "Horses", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 1:9", "verse_text": "I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots." }, { "point_text": "Asses and camels", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 21:7", "verse_text": "And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:" }, { "point_text": "Value of in Solomon's time", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:29", "verse_text": "And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means." }, { "point_text": "Drivers generally employed for", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:34", "verse_text": "And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded." }, { "point_text": "Drivers generally employed for", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 18:33", "verse_text": "And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: therefore he said to his chariot man, Turn thine hand, that thou mayest carry me out of the host; for I am wounded." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes driven by the owners", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 9:16", "verse_text": "So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes driven by the owners", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 9:20", "verse_text": "And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes driven furiously", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 9:20", "verse_text": "And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes driven furiously", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:28", "verse_text": "Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:" }, { "point_text": "Sometimes driven furiously", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:13", "verse_text": "Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled." }, { "point_text": "Bounding motion of, referred to", "verse_ref": "Nahum 3:2", "verse_text": "The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots." }, { "point_text": "Noise occasioned by, referred to", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 7:6", "verse_text": "For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us." }, { "point_text": "Noise occasioned by, referred to", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:5", "verse_text": "Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array." }, { "point_text": "Noise occasioned by, referred to", "verse_ref": "Nahum 3:2", "verse_text": "The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots." }, { "point_text": "Noise occasioned by, referred to", "verse_ref": "Revelation 9:9", "verse_text": "And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle." }, { "point_text": "Introduced into Israel by David", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:4", "verse_text": "And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for an hundred chariots." }, { "point_text": "Multiplied by Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:26", "verse_text": "And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Imported from Egypt", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:28-29", "verse_text": "And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price. 29 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means." }, { "point_text": "FOR WAR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Armed with iron", "verse_ref": "Joshua 17:16", "verse_text": "And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Bethshean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel." }, { "point_text": "Armed with iron", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:19", "verse_text": "And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron." }, { "point_text": "Lighted by night with torches", "verse_ref": "Nahum 2:3", "verse_text": "The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken." }, { "point_text": "Commanded by captains", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:7", "verse_text": "And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them." }, { "point_text": "Commanded by captains", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:9", "verse_text": "And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah." }, { "point_text": "Advantageously manSuvred in a flat country", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:19", "verse_text": "And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron." }, { "point_text": "Advantageously manSuvred in a flat country", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:23-25", "verse_text": "And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their gods are gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. 24 And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their rooms: 25 And number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so." }, { "point_text": "Formed part of the line of battle", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:25", "verse_text": "And number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so." }, { "point_text": "Used in pursuing enemies", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:9", "verse_text": "But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baalzephon." }, { "point_text": "Used in pursuing enemies", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 1:6", "verse_text": "And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him." }, { "point_text": "Kept in chariot cities", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 9:19", "verse_text": "And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion." }, { "point_text": "Kept in chariot cities", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:26", "verse_text": "And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "USED IN WAR BY THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Egyptians", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:7", "verse_text": "And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them." }, { "point_text": "Egyptians", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:24", "verse_text": "How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?" }, { "point_text": "Canaanites", "verse_ref": "Joshua 17:16", "verse_text": "And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Bethshean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel." }, { "point_text": "Canaanites", "verse_ref": "Judges 4:3", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Philistines", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:5", "verse_text": "And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven." }, { "point_text": "Syrians", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 10:18", "verse_text": "And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men of seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there." }, { "point_text": "Syrians", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:1", "verse_text": "And Benhadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it." }, { "point_text": "Assyrians", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:23", "verse_text": "By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel." }, { "point_text": "Ethiopians", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 14:9", "verse_text": "And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto Mareshah." }, { "point_text": "Ethiopians", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 16:8", "verse_text": "Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD, he delivered them into thine hand." }, { "point_text": "Babylonians", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 23:23", "verse_text": "The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses." }, { "point_text": "Babylonians", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:7", "verse_text": "For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people." }, { "point_text": "Jews", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 8:21", "verse_text": "So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people fled into their tents." }, { "point_text": "Jews", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 10:2", "verse_text": "Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and armour;" }, { "point_text": "Kings rode in, to battle", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:35", "verse_text": "And the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot." }, { "point_text": "Kings used, in common", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:18", "verse_text": "Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the tribute; and all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Kings used, in common", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:44", "verse_text": "And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not." }, { "point_text": "Persons of distinction used", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:43", "verse_text": "And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Persons of distinction used", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:9", "verse_text": "So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha." }, { "point_text": "Persons of distinction used", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:21", "verse_text": "So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well?" }, { "point_text": "Often attended by running footmen", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 8:11", "verse_text": "And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots." }, { "point_text": "Often attended by running footmen", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 15:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him." }, { "point_text": "Often attended by running footmen", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:5", "verse_text": "Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him." }, { "point_text": "Consecrated to the sun", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:11", "verse_text": "And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire." }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS CONDEMNED FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Multiplying", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:7", "verse_text": "Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:" }, { "point_text": "Trusting to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:18", "verse_text": "He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house." }, { "point_text": "Trusting to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 31:1", "verse_text": "Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!" }, { "point_text": "Taken in war, often destroyed", "verse_ref": "Joshua 11:6", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them: for to morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire." }, { "point_text": "Taken in war, often destroyed", "verse_ref": "Joshua 11:9", "verse_text": "And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The clouds", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:3", "verse_text": "Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:" }, { "point_text": "The judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:15", "verse_text": "For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire." }, { "point_text": "Angels", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:16-17", "verse_text": "And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. 17 And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha." }, { "point_text": "Prophets", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 2:12", "verse_text": "And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces." }, { "point_text": "Prophets", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 13:14", "verse_text": "Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof." }, { "point_text": "Christ's love to his church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 6:12", "verse_text": "Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib." }, { "point_text": "Elijah taken to heaven in one of fire", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 2:11", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven." } ] }, { "name": "Cherubim", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Cherubim.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Form and appearance of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 1:5-11", "verse_text": "Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man. 6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings. 7 And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass. 8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings. ..." }, { "point_text": "Form and appearance of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 1:13-14", "verse_text": "As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning. 14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning." }, { "point_text": "Animated by the Spirit of God", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 1:12", "verse_text": "And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went." }, { "point_text": "Animated by the Spirit of God", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 1:20", "verse_text": "Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels." }, { "point_text": "Engaged in accomplishing the purposes of God", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 1:15", "verse_text": "Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces." }, { "point_text": "Engaged in accomplishing the purposes of God", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 10:9-11", "verse_text": "And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone. 10 And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel. 11 When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went." }, { "point_text": "Engaged in accomplishing the purposes of God", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 10:16-17", "verse_text": "And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them. 17 When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up, these lifted up themselves also: for the spirit of the living creature was in them." }, { "point_text": "The glory of God exhibited upon", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 1:22", "verse_text": "And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above." }, { "point_text": "The glory of God exhibited upon", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 1:26-28", "verse_text": "And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. 27 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about. 28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake." }, { "point_text": "The glory of God exhibited upon", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 10:4", "verse_text": "Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD'S glory." }, { "point_text": "The glory of God exhibited upon", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 10:18", "verse_text": "Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims." }, { "point_text": "The glory of God exhibited upon", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 10:20", "verse_text": "This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubims." }, { "point_text": "Sound of their wings was as the voice of God", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 1:24", "verse_text": "And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings." }, { "point_text": "Sound of their wings was as the voice of God", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 10:5", "verse_text": "And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh." }, { "point_text": "Placed at the entrance of Eden", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:24", "verse_text": "So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life." }, { "point_text": "OF GOLD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Formed out of, and at each end of the mercy seat", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:18-20", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat. 19 And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof. 20 And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be." }, { "point_text": "Placed over the ark of the covenant", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 4:4", "verse_text": "So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth between the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God." }, { "point_text": "Placed over the ark of the covenant", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:6-7", "verse_text": "And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims. 7 For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above." }, { "point_text": "Placed over the ark of the covenant", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 5:7-8", "verse_text": "And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims: 8 For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above." }, { "point_text": "God's presence manifested between", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 6:2", "verse_text": "And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the LORD of hosts that dwelleth between the cherubims." }, { "point_text": "God's presence manifested between", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:15", "verse_text": "And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth." }, { "point_text": "God's presence manifested between", "verse_ref": "Psalm 80:1", "verse_text": "Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth." }, { "point_text": "God's presence manifested between", "verse_ref": "Psalm 99:1", "verse_text": "The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved." }, { "point_text": "The oracles or answers of God delivered from between", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:22", "verse_text": "And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "The oracles or answers of God delivered from between", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:89", "verse_text": "And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him." }, { "point_text": "Called the cherubim of glory", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:5", "verse_text": "And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly." }, { "point_text": "REPRESENTATIONS OF, MADE ON THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Curtains of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:1", "verse_text": "Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them." }, { "point_text": "Curtains of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:31", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:" }, { "point_text": "Vail of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:31", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:" }, { "point_text": "Vail of the temple", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:14", "verse_text": "And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon." }, { "point_text": "Doors of the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:32", "verse_text": "The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees." }, { "point_text": "Doors of the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:35", "verse_text": "And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work." }, { "point_text": "Walls of the temple", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:7", "verse_text": "He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls." }, { "point_text": "Bases of brazen lavers", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 7:29", "verse_text": "And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work." }, { "point_text": "Bases of brazen lavers", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 7:36", "verse_text": "For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about." }, { "point_text": "Riding on, illustrative of majesty and power of God", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 22:11", "verse_text": "And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind." }, { "point_text": "Riding on, illustrative of majesty and power of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 18:10", "verse_text": "And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind." } ] }, { "name": "Children", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Children.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Christ was an example to", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:51", "verse_text": "And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart." }, { "point_text": "Christ was an example to", "verse_ref": "John 19:26-27", "verse_text": "When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! 27 Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home." }, { "point_text": "Are a gift from God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 33:5", "verse_text": "And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant." }, { "point_text": "Are a gift from God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 127:3", "verse_text": "Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward." }, { "point_text": "Are capable of glorifying God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 8:2", "verse_text": "Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger." }, { "point_text": "Are capable of glorifying God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:12-13", "verse_text": "Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children: 13 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Brought to Christ", "verse_ref": "Mark 10:13-16", "verse_text": "And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them. 14 But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. 15 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. 16 And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them." }, { "point_text": "Brought early to the house of God", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:24", "verse_text": "And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young." }, { "point_text": "Instructed in the ways of God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 31:12-13", "verse_text": "Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law: 13 And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it." }, { "point_text": "Judiciously trained", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:15", "verse_text": "Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him." }, { "point_text": "Judiciously trained", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 29:17", "verse_text": "Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul." }, { "point_text": "Judiciously trained", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:4", "verse_text": "And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Obey God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 30:2", "verse_text": "And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;" }, { "point_text": "Fear God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 24:21", "verse_text": "My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:" }, { "point_text": "Remember God", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 12:1", "verse_text": "Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;" }, { "point_text": "Attend to parental teaching", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:8-9", "verse_text": "My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck." }, { "point_text": "Honor parents", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:12", "verse_text": "Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee." }, { "point_text": "Honor parents", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:9", "verse_text": "Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?" }, { "point_text": "Fear parents", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:3", "verse_text": "Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "Obey parents", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:20", "verse_text": "My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:" }, { "point_text": "Obey parents", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:1", "verse_text": "Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right." }, { "point_text": "Take care of parents", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:4", "verse_text": "But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God." }, { "point_text": "Honor the aged", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:32", "verse_text": "Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Honor the aged", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:5", "verse_text": "Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble." }, { "point_text": "Not imitate bad parents", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:18", "verse_text": "But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:" }, { "point_text": "An heritage from the Lord", "verse_ref": "Psalm 113:9", "verse_text": "He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD." }, { "point_text": "An heritage from the Lord", "verse_ref": "Psalm 127:3", "verse_text": "Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward." }, { "point_text": "NOT TO HAVE,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Considered an affliction", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:2-3", "verse_text": "And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? 3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir." }, { "point_text": "A reproach in Israel", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:6-7", "verse_text": "And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb. 7 And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat." }, { "point_text": "Anxiety of the Jews for", "verse_ref": "Genesis 30:1", "verse_text": "And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die." }, { "point_text": "Anxiety of the Jews for", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:5", "verse_text": "But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb." }, { "point_text": "Anxiety of the Jews for", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:8", "verse_text": "Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?" }, { "point_text": "Often prayed for", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:10-11", "verse_text": "And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore. 11 And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no rasor come upon his head." }, { "point_text": "Often given in answer to prayer", "verse_ref": "Genesis 25:21", "verse_text": "And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived." }, { "point_text": "Often given in answer to prayer", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:27", "verse_text": "For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:" }, { "point_text": "Often given in answer to prayer", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:13", "verse_text": "But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John." }, { "point_text": "Treatment of, after birth, noticed", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:4", "verse_text": "And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all." }, { "point_text": "Mostly nursed by the mothers", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:22", "verse_text": "But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and there abide for ever." }, { "point_text": "Mostly nursed by the mothers", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 3:21", "verse_text": "And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear." }, { "point_text": "Mostly nursed by the mothers", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:9", "verse_text": "But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts." }, { "point_text": "Mostly nursed by the mothers", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 8:1", "verse_text": "O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised." }, { "point_text": "Weaning of, a time of joy and feasting", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:8", "verse_text": "And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned." }, { "point_text": "Weaning of, a time of joy and feasting", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:24", "verse_text": "And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young." }, { "point_text": "Circumcised on the eighth day", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:5", "verse_text": "Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;" }, { "point_text": "Named at circumcision", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:59", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father." }, { "point_text": "Named at circumcision", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:21", "verse_text": "And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb." }, { "point_text": "WERE NAMED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "After relatives", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:59", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father." }, { "point_text": "After relatives", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:61", "verse_text": "And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name." }, { "point_text": "From remarkable events", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:3", "verse_text": "And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac." }, { "point_text": "From remarkable events", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:13", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?" }, { "point_text": "From remarkable events", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:10", "verse_text": "And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water." }, { "point_text": "From remarkable events", "verse_ref": "Exodus 18:3-4", "verse_text": "And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land: 4 And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:" }, { "point_text": "From circumstances connected with their birth", "verse_ref": "Genesis 25:25", "verse_text": "And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau." }, { "point_text": "From circumstances connected with their birth", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:18", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin." }, { "point_text": "From circumstances connected with their birth", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 4:9", "verse_text": "And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow." }, { "point_text": "Often by God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:3", "verse_text": "And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz." }, { "point_text": "Often by God", "verse_ref": "Hosea 1:4", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Often by God", "verse_ref": "Hosea 1:6", "verse_text": "And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away." }, { "point_text": "Often by God", "verse_ref": "Hosea 1:9", "verse_text": "Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God." }, { "point_text": "Often numerous", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 10:1", "verse_text": "And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's children, saying," }, { "point_text": "Often numerous", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 4:27", "verse_text": "And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply, like to the children of Judah." }, { "point_text": "Numerous, considered an especial blessing", "verse_ref": "Psalm 115:14", "verse_text": "The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children." }, { "point_text": "Numerous, considered an especial blessing", "verse_ref": "Psalm 127:4-5", "verse_text": "As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. 5 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes born when parents were old", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:3", "verse_text": "And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes born when parents were old", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:17", "verse_text": "Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?" }, { "point_text": "Sometimes born when parents were old", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:18", "verse_text": "And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years." }, { "point_text": "MALE,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "If first born, belonged to God and were redeemed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:12-13", "verse_text": "That thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males shall be the LORD'S. 13 And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem." }, { "point_text": "If first born, belonged to God and were redeemed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:15", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem." }, { "point_text": "Birth of, announced to the father by a messenger", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 20:15", "verse_text": "Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad." }, { "point_text": "Under the care of tutors, till they came of age", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 10:1", "verse_text": "And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's children, saying," }, { "point_text": "Under the care of tutors, till they came of age", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:1-2", "verse_text": "Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; 2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father." }, { "point_text": "Usefully employed", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 9:3", "verse_text": "And the asses of Kish Saul's father were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek the asses." }, { "point_text": "Usefully employed", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:15", "verse_text": "But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem." }, { "point_text": "Inherited the possessions of their father", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 21:16-17", "verse_text": "Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn: 17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his." }, { "point_text": "Received the blessing of their father before his death", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:1-4", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I. 2 And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death: 3 Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison; 4 And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die." }, { "point_text": "Received the blessing of their father before his death", "verse_ref": "Genesis 48:15", "verse_text": "And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day," }, { "point_text": "Received the blessing of their father before his death", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49", "verse_text": "And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days. 2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father. 3 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: 4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch. ..." }, { "point_text": "FEMALE,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Taken care of by nurses", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:8", "verse_text": "But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth." }, { "point_text": "Usefully employed", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:13", "verse_text": "Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:" }, { "point_text": "Usefully employed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:16", "verse_text": "Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock." }, { "point_text": "Inherited property in default of sons", "verse_ref": "Numbers 27:1-8", "verse_text": "Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah. 2 And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying, 3 Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons. 4 Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father. ..." }, { "point_text": "Inherited property in default of sons", "verse_ref": "Joshua 17:1-6", "verse_text": "There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn of Joseph; to wit, for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan. 2 There was also a lot for the rest of the children of Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families. 3 But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. 4 And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore according to the commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father. ..." }, { "point_text": "Fondness and care of mothers for", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:2-10", "verse_text": "And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. 3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink. 4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him. 5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. ..." }, { "point_text": "Fondness and care of mothers for", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:19", "verse_text": "Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice." }, { "point_text": "Fondness and care of mothers for", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 3:27", "verse_text": "Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof." }, { "point_text": "Fondness and care of mothers for", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:15", "verse_text": "Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee." }, { "point_text": "Fondness and care of mothers for", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:7-8", "verse_text": "But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children: 8 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us." }, { "point_text": "Of God's people, holy", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:2", "verse_text": "For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass." }, { "point_text": "Of God's people, holy", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:14", "verse_text": "For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy." }, { "point_text": "Of God's people, interested in the promises", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 29:29", "verse_text": "The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law." }, { "point_text": "Of God's people, interested in the promises", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:39", "verse_text": "For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." }, { "point_text": "Prosperity of, greatly depended on obedience of parents", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:40", "verse_text": "Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever." }, { "point_text": "Prosperity of, greatly depended on obedience of parents", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:25", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Prosperity of, greatly depended on obedience of parents", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:28", "verse_text": "Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God." }, { "point_text": "Frequently bore the curse of parents", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:5", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;" }, { "point_text": "Frequently bore the curse of parents", "verse_ref": "Psalm 109:9-10", "verse_text": "Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. 10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places." }, { "point_text": "WERE REQUIRED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To honor their parents", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:12", "verse_text": "Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee." }, { "point_text": "To attend to instruction", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:9", "verse_text": "Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;" }, { "point_text": "To attend to instruction", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:19", "verse_text": "And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." }, { "point_text": "To submit to discipline", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 29:17", "verse_text": "Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul." }, { "point_text": "To submit to discipline", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:9", "verse_text": "Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?" }, { "point_text": "To respect the aged", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:32", "verse_text": "Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Mode of giving public instruction to", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:46", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions." }, { "point_text": "Mode of giving public instruction to", "verse_ref": "Acts 22:3", "verse_text": "I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day." }, { "point_text": "Power of parents over, during the patriarchal age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:24", "verse_text": "And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him." }, { "point_text": "Power of parents over, during the patriarchal age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:14", "verse_text": "And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba." }, { "point_text": "Power of parents over, during the patriarchal age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 38:24", "verse_text": "And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt." }, { "point_text": "Often wicked and rebellious", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 2:23", "verse_text": "And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head." }, { "point_text": "Rebellious, punished by the civil power", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:15-17", "verse_text": "And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. 16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. 17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death." }, { "point_text": "Rebellious, punished by the civil power", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 21:18-21", "verse_text": "If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: 19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; 20 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. 21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes devoted their property to avoid supporting parents", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:5", "verse_text": "But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;" }, { "point_text": "Sometimes devoted their property to avoid supporting parents", "verse_ref": "Mark 7:11-12", "verse_text": "But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free. 12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;" }, { "point_text": "Could demand their portion during father's life", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:12", "verse_text": "And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living." }, { "point_text": "Amusements of", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 8:5", "verse_text": "And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof." }, { "point_text": "Amusements of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:16-17", "verse_text": "But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, 17 And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented." }, { "point_text": "Casting out of weak, &c. alluded to", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:5", "verse_text": "None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born." }, { "point_text": "Inhuman practice of offering to idols", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:31", "verse_text": "And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim." }, { "point_text": "Inhuman practice of offering to idols", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 28:3", "verse_text": "Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Inhuman practice of offering to idols", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:6", "verse_text": "And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger." }, { "point_text": "ILLEGITIMATE,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Had no inheritance", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:10", "verse_text": "Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac." }, { "point_text": "Had no inheritance", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:14", "verse_text": "And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba." }, { "point_text": "Not cared for by the father", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:8", "verse_text": "But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons." }, { "point_text": "Excluded from the congregation", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:2", "verse_text": "A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes sent away with gifts", "verse_ref": "Genesis 25:6", "verse_text": "But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country." }, { "point_text": "Despised by their brethren", "verse_ref": "Judges 11:2", "verse_text": "And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou art the son of a strange woman." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of, a punishment", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:22", "verse_text": "I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of, a punishment", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 9:6", "verse_text": "Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of, a punishment", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:44", "verse_text": "And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation." }, { "point_text": "Grief occasioned by loss of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:35", "verse_text": "And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him." }, { "point_text": "Grief occasioned by loss of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 44:27-29", "verse_text": "And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons: 28 And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since: 29 And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave." }, { "point_text": "Grief occasioned by loss of", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 13:37", "verse_text": "But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day." }, { "point_text": "Grief occasioned by loss of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:26", "verse_text": "O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us." }, { "point_text": "Grief occasioned by loss of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:15", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not." }, { "point_text": "Resignation manifested at loss of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 10:19-20", "verse_text": "And Aaron said unto Moses, Behold, this day have they offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD; and such things have befallen me: and if I had eaten the sin offering to day, should it have been accepted in the sight of the LORD? 20 And when Moses heard that, he was content." }, { "point_text": "Resignation manifested at loss of", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:18-23", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead? 19 But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead. 20 Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat. 21 Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread. ..." }, { "point_text": "Resignation manifested at loss of", "verse_ref": "Job 1:19-21", "verse_text": "And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. 20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, 21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD." } ] }, { "name": "Chastity", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Chastity.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:14", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not commit adultery." }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:3", "verse_text": "Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings." }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:20", "verse_text": "But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood." }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:13", "verse_text": "Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying." }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:5", "verse_text": "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:" }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:3", "verse_text": "For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:" }, { "point_text": "Required in look", "verse_ref": "Job 31:1", "verse_text": "I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?" }, { "point_text": "Required in look", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:28", "verse_text": "But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." }, { "point_text": "Required in heart", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:25", "verse_text": "Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids." }, { "point_text": "Required in speech", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:3", "verse_text": "But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;" }, { "point_text": "Keep the body in", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:13", "verse_text": "Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body." }, { "point_text": "Keep the body in", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:15-18", "verse_text": "Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. 16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. 17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. 18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body." }, { "point_text": "Preserved by wisdom", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 2:10-11", "verse_text": "When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; 11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:" }, { "point_text": "Preserved by wisdom", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 7:1-5", "verse_text": "My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. 2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. 3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. 4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: ..." }, { "point_text": "Saints are kept in", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 7:26", "verse_text": "And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her." }, { "point_text": "Advantages of", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:1-2", "verse_text": "Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; 2 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear." }, { "point_text": "Shun those devoid of", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 5:11", "verse_text": "But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat." }, { "point_text": "Shun those devoid of", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:3", "verse_text": "For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:" }, { "point_text": "The wicked are devoid of", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:29", "verse_text": "Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers," }, { "point_text": "The wicked are devoid of", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:19", "verse_text": "Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness." }, { "point_text": "The wicked are devoid of", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:14", "verse_text": "Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:" }, { "point_text": "The wicked are devoid of", "verse_ref": "Jude 8", "verse_text": "Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities." }, { "point_text": "Temptation to deviate from, dangerous", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 11:2-4", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. 3 And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? 4 And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house." }, { "point_text": "Consequences of associating with those devoid of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 5:3-11", "verse_text": "For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. 6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. ..." }, { "point_text": "Consequences of associating with those devoid of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 7:25-27", "verse_text": "Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. 26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. 27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death." }, { "point_text": "Consequences of associating with those devoid of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:14", "verse_text": "The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein." }, { "point_text": "Want of, excludes from heaven", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:19-21", "verse_text": "Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Drunkenness destructive to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:31-33", "verse_text": "Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. 32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. 33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things." }, { "point_text": "Breach of, punished", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:16-17", "verse_text": "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are." }, { "point_text": "Motives for", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:19", "verse_text": "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?" }, { "point_text": "Motives for", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:7", "verse_text": "For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbimelech, \n\nJoseph, \nRuth, \nBoaz,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 20:4", "verse_text": "But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbimelech, \n\nJoseph, \nRuth, \nBoaz,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:10-11", "verse_text": "And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us. 11 And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbimelech, \n\nJoseph, \nRuth, \nBoaz,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 39:7-10", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me. 8 But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand; 9 There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? 10 And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbimelech, \n\nJoseph, \nRuth, \nBoaz,", "verse_ref": "Ruth 3:10-11", "verse_text": "And he said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my daughter: for thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich. 11 And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all that thou requirest: for all the city of my people doth know that thou art a virtuous woman." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbimelech, \n\nJoseph, \nRuth, \nBoaz,", "verse_ref": "Ruth 3:13", "verse_text": "Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman's part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, as the LORD liveth: lie down until the morning." } ] }, { "name": "Charity", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Charity.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Explained", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 13:4-7", "verse_text": "Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things." }, { "point_text": "Enjoined.\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n(See Love to Man)", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:14", "verse_text": "And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness." } ] }, { "name": "Children, Wicked", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Children-Wicked.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Know not God", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:12", "verse_text": "Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Are void of understanding", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 7:7", "verse_text": "And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding," }, { "point_text": "Are proud", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:5", "verse_text": "And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable." }, { "point_text": "WITH REGARD TO PARENTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Hearken not to them", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:25", "verse_text": "If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the LORD, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the LORD would slay them." }, { "point_text": "Despise them", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:5", "verse_text": "A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent." }, { "point_text": "Despise them", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:20", "verse_text": "A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother." }, { "point_text": "Curse them", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:11", "verse_text": "There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother." }, { "point_text": "Bring reproach on them", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:26", "verse_text": "He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach." }, { "point_text": "Are a calamity to them", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:13", "verse_text": "A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping." }, { "point_text": "Are a grief to them", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:25", "verse_text": "A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him." }, { "point_text": "Despise their elders", "verse_ref": "Job 19:18", "verse_text": "Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me." }, { "point_text": "PUNISHMENT OF, FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Setting light by parents", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 27:16", "verse_text": "Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen." }, { "point_text": "Disobeying parents", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 21:21", "verse_text": "And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear." }, { "point_text": "Mocking parents", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:17", "verse_text": "The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it." }, { "point_text": "Cursing parents", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:15", "verse_text": "And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death." }, { "point_text": "Cursing parents", "verse_ref": "Mark 7:10", "verse_text": "For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:" }, { "point_text": "Smiting parents", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:15", "verse_text": "And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death." }, { "point_text": "Mocking of a prophet", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 2:23-24", "verse_text": "And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. 24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them." }, { "point_text": "Gluttony and drunkenness", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 21:20-21", "verse_text": "And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. 21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear." }, { "point_text": "Their guilt in robbing parents", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:24", "verse_text": "Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEsau, \nSons of Eli, \n\nSons of Samuel, \nAbsalom, \nAdonijah, \nChildren at Bethel, \nAdrammelech and Sharezer,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:34-35", "verse_text": "And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: 35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEsau, \nSons of Eli, \n\nSons of Samuel, \nAbsalom, \nAdonijah, \nChildren at Bethel, \nAdrammelech and Sharezer,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:12", "verse_text": "Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEsau, \nSons of Eli, \n\nSons of Samuel, \nAbsalom, \nAdonijah, \nChildren at Bethel, \nAdrammelech and Sharezer,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:17", "verse_text": "Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEsau, \nSons of Eli, \n\nSons of Samuel, \nAbsalom, \nAdonijah, \nChildren at Bethel, \nAdrammelech and Sharezer,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 8:3", "verse_text": "And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEsau, \nSons of Eli, \n\nSons of Samuel, \nAbsalom, \nAdonijah, \nChildren at Bethel, \nAdrammelech and Sharezer,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 15:10", "verse_text": "But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye shall say, Absalom reigneth in Hebron." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEsau, \nSons of Eli, \n\nSons of Samuel, \nAbsalom, \nAdonijah, \nChildren at Bethel, \nAdrammelech and Sharezer,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:5-6", "verse_text": "Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. 6 And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEsau, \nSons of Eli, \n\nSons of Samuel, \nAbsalom, \nAdonijah, \nChildren at Bethel, \nAdrammelech and Sharezer,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 2:23", "verse_text": "And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEsau, \nSons of Eli, \n\nSons of Samuel, \nAbsalom, \nAdonijah, \nChildren at Bethel, \nAdrammelech and Sharezer,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:37", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead." } ] }, { "name": "Children, Good", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Children-Good.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The Lord is with", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 3:19", "verse_text": "And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground." }, { "point_text": "Know the Scriptures", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:15", "verse_text": "And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Observe the law of God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:7", "verse_text": "Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father." }, { "point_text": "Their obedience to parents is well pleasing to God", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:20", "verse_text": "Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Partake of the promises of God", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:39", "verse_text": "For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." }, { "point_text": "Shall be blessed", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:1-4", "verse_text": "My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: 2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. 3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: 4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man." }, { "point_text": "Shall be blessed", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:2-3", "verse_text": "Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) 3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth." }, { "point_text": "Show love to parents", "verse_ref": "Genesis 46:29", "verse_text": "And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while." }, { "point_text": "Obey parents", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:7", "verse_text": "And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;" }, { "point_text": "Obey parents", "verse_ref": "Genesis 47:30", "verse_text": "But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said." }, { "point_text": "Attend to parental teaching", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 13:1", "verse_text": "A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke." }, { "point_text": "Take care of parents", "verse_ref": "Genesis 45:9", "verse_text": "Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:" }, { "point_text": "Take care of parents", "verse_ref": "Genesis 47:12", "verse_text": "And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families." }, { "point_text": "Make their parents' hearts glad", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:1", "verse_text": "The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother." }, { "point_text": "Make their parents' hearts glad", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 29:17", "verse_text": "Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul." }, { "point_text": "Honor the aged", "verse_ref": "Job 32:6-7", "verse_text": "And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion. 7 I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom." }, { "point_text": "Adduced as a motive for submission to God", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:9", "verse_text": "Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?" }, { "point_text": "Spirit of, a requisite for the kingdom of heaven", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:3", "verse_text": "And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of a teachable spirit", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:4", "verse_text": "Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsaac, \nJoseph, \n\nJephthah's daughter, \n\nSamson, \nSamuel, \nObadiah, \nJosiah, \nEsther, \nJob, \nDavid, \n\nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \nChildren in the Temple, \nTimothy,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:6-10", "verse_text": "And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together. 7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? 8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together. 9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsaac, \nJoseph, \n\nJephthah's daughter, \n\nSamson, \nSamuel, \nObadiah, \nJosiah, \nEsther, \nJob, \nDavid, \n\nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \nChildren in the Temple, \nTimothy,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 45:9", "verse_text": "Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsaac, \nJoseph, \n\nJephthah's daughter, \n\nSamson, \nSamuel, \nObadiah, \nJosiah, \nEsther, \nJob, \nDavid, \n\nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \nChildren in the Temple, \nTimothy,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 46:29", "verse_text": "And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsaac, \nJoseph, \n\nJephthah's daughter, \n\nSamson, \nSamuel, \nObadiah, \nJosiah, \nEsther, \nJob, \nDavid, \n\nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \nChildren in the Temple, \nTimothy,", "verse_ref": "Judges 11:34", "verse_text": "And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsaac, \nJoseph, \n\nJephthah's daughter, \n\nSamson, \nSamuel, \nObadiah, \nJosiah, \nEsther, \nJob, \nDavid, \n\nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \nChildren in the Temple, \nTimothy,", "verse_ref": "Judges 11:36", "verse_text": "And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsaac, \nJoseph, \n\nJephthah's daughter, \n\nSamson, \nSamuel, \nObadiah, \nJosiah, \nEsther, \nJob, \nDavid, \n\nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \nChildren in the Temple, \nTimothy,", "verse_ref": "Judges 13:24", "verse_text": "And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsaac, \nJoseph, \n\nJephthah's daughter, \n\nSamson, \nSamuel, \nObadiah, \nJosiah, \nEsther, \nJob, \nDavid, \n\nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \nChildren in the Temple, \nTimothy,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 3:19", "verse_text": "And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsaac, \nJoseph, \n\nJephthah's daughter, \n\nSamson, \nSamuel, \nObadiah, \nJosiah, \nEsther, \nJob, \nDavid, \n\nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \nChildren in the Temple, \nTimothy,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:12", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsaac, \nJoseph, \n\nJephthah's daughter, \n\nSamson, \nSamuel, \nObadiah, \nJosiah, \nEsther, \nJob, \nDavid, \n\nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \nChildren in the Temple, \nTimothy,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 34:3", "verse_text": "For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsaac, \nJoseph, \n\nJephthah's daughter, \n\nSamson, \nSamuel, \nObadiah, \nJosiah, \nEsther, \nJob, \nDavid, \n\nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \nChildren in the Temple, \nTimothy,", "verse_ref": "Esther 2:20", "verse_text": "Esther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsaac, \nJoseph, \n\nJephthah's daughter, \n\nSamson, \nSamuel, \nObadiah, \nJosiah, \nEsther, \nJob, \nDavid, \n\nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \nChildren in the Temple, \nTimothy,", "verse_ref": "Job 29:4", "verse_text": "As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsaac, \nJoseph, \n\nJephthah's daughter, \n\nSamson, \nSamuel, \nObadiah, \nJosiah, \nEsther, \nJob, \nDavid, \n\nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \nChildren in the Temple, \nTimothy,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:20", "verse_text": "And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsaac, \nJoseph, \n\nJephthah's daughter, \n\nSamson, \nSamuel, \nObadiah, \nJosiah, \nEsther, \nJob, \nDavid, \n\nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \nChildren in the Temple, \nTimothy,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 71:5", "verse_text": "For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsaac, \nJoseph, \n\nJephthah's daughter, \n\nSamson, \nSamuel, \nObadiah, \nJosiah, \nEsther, \nJob, \nDavid, \n\nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \nChildren in the Temple, \nTimothy,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 1:6", "verse_text": "Now among these were of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsaac, \nJoseph, \n\nJephthah's daughter, \n\nSamson, \nSamuel, \nObadiah, \nJosiah, \nEsther, \nJob, \nDavid, \n\nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \nChildren in the Temple, \nTimothy,", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:80", "verse_text": "And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsaac, \nJoseph, \n\nJephthah's daughter, \n\nSamson, \nSamuel, \nObadiah, \nJosiah, \nEsther, \nJob, \nDavid, \n\nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \nChildren in the Temple, \nTimothy,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:15-16", "verse_text": "And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; they were sore displeased, 16 And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsaac, \nJoseph, \n\nJephthah's daughter, \n\nSamson, \nSamuel, \nObadiah, \nJosiah, \nEsther, \nJob, \nDavid, \n\nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \nChildren in the Temple, \nTimothy,", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:15", "verse_text": "And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus." } ] }, { "name": "Christ is God", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Christ-is-God.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "As Jehovah", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:3", "verse_text": "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God." }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:3", "verse_text": "For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight." }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah of glory", "verse_ref": "Psalm 24:7", "verse_text": "Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in." }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah of glory", "verse_ref": "Psalm 24:10", "verse_text": "Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah." }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah of glory", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:8", "verse_text": "Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory." }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah of glory", "verse_ref": "James 2:1", "verse_text": "My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons." }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah, our RIGHTEOUSNESS", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:5-6", "verse_text": "Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. 6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS." }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah, our RIGHTEOUSNESS", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:30", "verse_text": "But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:" }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah, above all", "verse_ref": "Psalm 97:9", "verse_text": "For thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods." }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah, above all", "verse_ref": "John 3:31", "verse_text": "He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all." }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah, the First and the Last", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:6", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God." }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah, the First and the Last", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:17", "verse_text": "And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:" }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah, the First and the Last", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 48:12-16", "verse_text": "Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. 13 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together. 14 All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans. 15 I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous. ..." }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah, the First and the Last", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:13", "verse_text": "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last." }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah's Fellow and Equal", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 13:7", "verse_text": "Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones." }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah's Fellow and Equal", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:6", "verse_text": "Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:" }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah of Hosts", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:1-3", "verse_text": "In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. 2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. 3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory." }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah of Hosts", "verse_ref": "John 12:41", "verse_text": "These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him." }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah of Hosts", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:13-14", "verse_text": "Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. 14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah of Hosts", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:8", "verse_text": "And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed." }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah, the Shepherd", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:11", "verse_text": "He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young." }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah, the Shepherd", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:20", "verse_text": "Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant," }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah, for whose glory all things were created", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:4", "verse_text": "The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil." }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah, for whose glory all things were created", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:16", "verse_text": "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:" }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah, the Messenger of the covenant", "verse_ref": "Malachi 3:1", "verse_text": "Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah, the Messenger of the covenant", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:2", "verse_text": "As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee." }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah, the Messenger of the covenant", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:27", "verse_text": "And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law," }, { "point_text": "Invoked as Jehovah", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:32", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call." }, { "point_text": "Invoked as Jehovah", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:21", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved." }, { "point_text": "Invoked as Jehovah", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:2", "verse_text": "Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:" }, { "point_text": "As the Eternal God and Creator", "verse_ref": "Psalm 102:24-27", "verse_text": "I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations. 25 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. 26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: 27 But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end." }, { "point_text": "As the Eternal God and Creator", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:8", "verse_text": "But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom." }, { "point_text": "As the Eternal God and Creator", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:10-12", "verse_text": "And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: 11 They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; 12 And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail." }, { "point_text": "As the mighty God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:6", "verse_text": "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." }, { "point_text": "As the Great God and Saviour", "verse_ref": "Hosea 1:7", "verse_text": "But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen." }, { "point_text": "As the Great God and Saviour", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:13", "verse_text": "Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;" }, { "point_text": "As God over all", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:6-7", "verse_text": "Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. 7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows." }, { "point_text": "As the true God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 10:10", "verse_text": "But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation." }, { "point_text": "As the true God", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:20", "verse_text": "And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life." }, { "point_text": "As God the Word", "verse_ref": "John 1:1", "verse_text": "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." }, { "point_text": "As God, the Judge", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 12:14", "verse_text": "For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil." }, { "point_text": "As God, the Judge", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 4:5", "verse_text": "Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God." }, { "point_text": "As God, the Judge", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:10", "verse_text": "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad." }, { "point_text": "As God, the Judge", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:1", "verse_text": "I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;" }, { "point_text": "As Emmanuel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:14", "verse_text": "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel." }, { "point_text": "As Emmanuel", "verse_ref": "Matthew 1:23", "verse_text": "Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us." }, { "point_text": "As King of kings and Lord of lords", "verse_ref": "Daniel 10:17", "verse_text": "For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me." }, { "point_text": "As King of kings and Lord of lords", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:5", "verse_text": "And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood," }, { "point_text": "As King of kings and Lord of lords", "verse_ref": "Revelation 17:14", "verse_text": "These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful." }, { "point_text": "As the Holy One", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:2", "verse_text": "There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God." }, { "point_text": "As the Holy One", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:14", "verse_text": "But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;" }, { "point_text": "As the Lord from heaven", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:47", "verse_text": "The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven." }, { "point_text": "As Lord of the sabbath", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:3", "verse_text": "And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made." }, { "point_text": "As Lord of the sabbath", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:8", "verse_text": "For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day." }, { "point_text": "As Lord of all", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:36", "verse_text": "The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)" }, { "point_text": "As Lord of all", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:11-13", "verse_text": "For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. 12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." }, { "point_text": "As Son of God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:63-67", "verse_text": "But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God. 64 Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven. 65 Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy. 66 What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death. ..." }, { "point_text": "As the Only-begotten Son of the Father", "verse_ref": "John 1:14", "verse_text": "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." }, { "point_text": "As the Only-begotten Son of the Father", "verse_ref": "John 3:16", "verse_text": "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." }, { "point_text": "As the Only-begotten Son of the Father", "verse_ref": "John 3:18", "verse_text": "He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." }, { "point_text": "As the Only-begotten Son of the Father", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:9", "verse_text": "In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him." }, { "point_text": "His blood is called the blood of God", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:28", "verse_text": "Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood." }, { "point_text": "As one with the Father", "verse_ref": "John 10:30", "verse_text": "I and my Father are one." }, { "point_text": "As one with the Father", "verse_ref": "John 12:45", "verse_text": "And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me." }, { "point_text": "As one with the Father", "verse_ref": "John 14:7-10", "verse_text": "If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. 8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. 9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? 10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works." }, { "point_text": "As one with the Father", "verse_ref": "John 17:10", "verse_text": "And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them." }, { "point_text": "As sending the Spirit, equally with the Father", "verse_ref": "John 14:16", "verse_text": "And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;" }, { "point_text": "As sending the Spirit, equally with the Father", "verse_ref": "John 15:26", "verse_text": "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:" }, { "point_text": "As entitled to equal honor with the Father", "verse_ref": "John 5:23", "verse_text": "That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him." }, { "point_text": "As Owner of all things, equally with the Father", "verse_ref": "John 16:15", "verse_text": "All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you." }, { "point_text": "As unrestricted by the law of the sabbath, equally with the Father", "verse_ref": "John 5:17", "verse_text": "But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." }, { "point_text": "As the Source of grace, equally with the Father", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 3:11", "verse_text": "Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you." }, { "point_text": "As the Source of grace, equally with the Father", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:16-17", "verse_text": "Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, 17 Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work." }, { "point_text": "As unsearchable, equally with the Father", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:4", "verse_text": "Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?" }, { "point_text": "As unsearchable, equally with the Father", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:27", "verse_text": "All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him." }, { "point_text": "As Creator of all things", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:28", "verse_text": "Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding." }, { "point_text": "As Creator of all things", "verse_ref": "John 1:3", "verse_text": "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." }, { "point_text": "As Creator of all things", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:16", "verse_text": "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:" }, { "point_text": "As Creator of all things", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:2", "verse_text": "Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;" }, { "point_text": "As Supporter and Preserver of all things", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:6", "verse_text": "Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee." }, { "point_text": "As Supporter and Preserver of all things", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:17", "verse_text": "And he is before all things, and by him all things consist." }, { "point_text": "As Supporter and Preserver of all things", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:3", "verse_text": "Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;" }, { "point_text": "As possessed of the fulness of the God head", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:9", "verse_text": "For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily." }, { "point_text": "As possessed of the fulness of the God head", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:3", "verse_text": "Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;" }, { "point_text": "As raising the dead", "verse_ref": "John 5:21", "verse_text": "For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will." }, { "point_text": "As raising the dead", "verse_ref": "John 6:40", "verse_text": "And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day." }, { "point_text": "As raising the dead", "verse_ref": "John 6:54", "verse_text": "Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day." }, { "point_text": "As raising Himself from the dead", "verse_ref": "John 2:19", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." }, { "point_text": "As raising Himself from the dead", "verse_ref": "John 10:18", "verse_text": "No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father." }, { "point_text": "As Eternal", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:6", "verse_text": "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." }, { "point_text": "As Eternal", "verse_ref": "Micah 5:2", "verse_text": "But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting." }, { "point_text": "As Eternal", "verse_ref": "John 1:1", "verse_text": "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." }, { "point_text": "As Eternal", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:17", "verse_text": "And he is before all things, and by him all things consist." }, { "point_text": "As Eternal", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:8-10", "verse_text": "But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. 9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. 10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:" }, { "point_text": "As Eternal", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:8", "verse_text": "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty." }, { "point_text": "As Omnipresent", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:20", "verse_text": "For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." }, { "point_text": "As Omnipresent", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:20", "verse_text": "Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen." }, { "point_text": "As Omnipresent", "verse_ref": "John 3:13", "verse_text": "And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." }, { "point_text": "As Omnipotent", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:3", "verse_text": "Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty." }, { "point_text": "As Omnipotent", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:21", "verse_text": "Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself." }, { "point_text": "As Omnipotent", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:8", "verse_text": "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty." }, { "point_text": "As Omniscient", "verse_ref": "John 16:30", "verse_text": "Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God." }, { "point_text": "As Omniscient", "verse_ref": "John 21:17", "verse_text": "He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep." }, { "point_text": "As discerning the thoughts of the heart", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:39", "verse_text": "Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)" }, { "point_text": "As discerning the thoughts of the heart", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:22", "verse_text": "But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts?" }, { "point_text": "As discerning the thoughts of the heart", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 11:5", "verse_text": "And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them." }, { "point_text": "As discerning the thoughts of the heart", "verse_ref": "John 2:24-25", "verse_text": "But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men, 25 And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man." }, { "point_text": "As unchangeable", "verse_ref": "Malachi 3:6", "verse_text": "For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed." }, { "point_text": "As unchangeable", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:12", "verse_text": "And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail." }, { "point_text": "As unchangeable", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:8", "verse_text": "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever." }, { "point_text": "As having power to forgive sins", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:13", "verse_text": "Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye." }, { "point_text": "As having power to forgive sins", "verse_ref": "Mark 2:7", "verse_text": "Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?" }, { "point_text": "As having power to forgive sins", "verse_ref": "Mark 2:10", "verse_text": "But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)" }, { "point_text": "As Giver of pastors to the Church", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:15", "verse_text": "And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding." }, { "point_text": "As Giver of pastors to the Church", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:11-13", "verse_text": "And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: 13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:" }, { "point_text": "As Husband of the Church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:5", "verse_text": "For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called." }, { "point_text": "As Husband of the Church", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:25-32", "verse_text": "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. ..." }, { "point_text": "As Husband of the Church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 62:5", "verse_text": "For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee." }, { "point_text": "As Husband of the Church", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:2", "verse_text": "And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband." }, { "point_text": "As Husband of the Church", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:9", "verse_text": "And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife." }, { "point_text": "As the object of divine worship", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:59", "verse_text": "And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." }, { "point_text": "As the object of divine worship", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 12:8-9", "verse_text": "For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. 9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me." }, { "point_text": "As the object of faith", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:12", "verse_text": "Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him." }, { "point_text": "As the object of faith", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:6", "verse_text": "Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded." }, { "point_text": "As the object of faith", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:5", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD." }, { "point_text": "As the object of faith", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:7", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is." }, { "point_text": "As God, He redeems and purifies the Church to Himself", "verse_ref": "Revelation 5:9", "verse_text": "And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;" }, { "point_text": "As God, He redeems and purifies the Church to Himself", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:14", "verse_text": "Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works." }, { "point_text": "As God, He presents the Church to Himself", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:27", "verse_text": "That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish." }, { "point_text": "As God, He presents the Church to Himself", "verse_ref": "Jude 24-25", "verse_text": "Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, 25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Saints live to Him as God", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:11", "verse_text": "Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord." }, { "point_text": "Saints live to Him as God", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:19", "verse_text": "For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God." }, { "point_text": "Saints live to Him as God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:15", "verse_text": "And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again." }, { "point_text": "Acknowledged by His Apostles", "verse_ref": "John 20:28", "verse_text": "And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God." }, { "point_text": "Acknowledged by the Old Testament saints", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:1", "verse_text": "And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect." }, { "point_text": "Acknowledged by the Old Testament saints", "verse_ref": "Genesis 48:15", "verse_text": "And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day," }, { "point_text": "Acknowledged by the Old Testament saints", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:24-30", "verse_text": "And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. 25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. 26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. 27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. ..." }, { "point_text": "Acknowledged by the Old Testament saints", "verse_ref": "Hosea 12:3-5", "verse_text": "He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God: 4 Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us; 5 Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial." }, { "point_text": "Acknowledged by the Old Testament saints", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:22-24", "verse_text": "And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the LORD, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord GOD! for because I have seen an angel of the LORD face to face. 23 And the LORD said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not die. 24 Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it Jehovahshalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites." }, { "point_text": "Acknowledged by the Old Testament saints", "verse_ref": "Judges 13:21-22", "verse_text": "But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the LORD. 22 And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God." } ] }, { "name": "Christ, Character of", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Christ-Character-of.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Altogether lovely", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:16", "verse_text": "His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Holy", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:35", "verse_text": "And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." }, { "point_text": "Holy", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:27", "verse_text": "For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together," }, { "point_text": "Holy", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:7", "verse_text": "And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;" }, { "point_text": "Righteous", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:11", "verse_text": "He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities." }, { "point_text": "Righteous", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:9", "verse_text": "Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows." }, { "point_text": "Good", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:16", "verse_text": "And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?" }, { "point_text": "Faithful", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:5", "verse_text": "And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins." }, { "point_text": "Faithful", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:24", "verse_text": "Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it." }, { "point_text": "True", "verse_ref": "John 1:14", "verse_text": "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." }, { "point_text": "True", "verse_ref": "John 7:18", "verse_text": "He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him." }, { "point_text": "True", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:20", "verse_text": "And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life." }, { "point_text": "Just", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:9", "verse_text": "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass." }, { "point_text": "Just", "verse_ref": "John 5:30", "verse_text": "I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me." }, { "point_text": "Just", "verse_ref": "Acts 22:14", "verse_text": "And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth." }, { "point_text": "Guileless", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:9", "verse_text": "And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth." }, { "point_text": "Guileless", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:22", "verse_text": "Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:" }, { "point_text": "Sinless", "verse_ref": "John 8:46", "verse_text": "Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?" }, { "point_text": "Sinless", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:21", "verse_text": "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." }, { "point_text": "Spotless", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:19", "verse_text": "But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:" }, { "point_text": "Innocent", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:4", "verse_text": "Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that." }, { "point_text": "Harmless", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:26", "verse_text": "For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;" }, { "point_text": "Resisting temptation", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:1-10", "verse_text": "Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. 3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. 4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. ..." }, { "point_text": "Obedient to God the Father", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:8", "verse_text": "I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart." }, { "point_text": "Obedient to God the Father", "verse_ref": "John 4:34", "verse_text": "Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work." }, { "point_text": "Obedient to God the Father", "verse_ref": "John 15:10", "verse_text": "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love." }, { "point_text": "Zealous", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:49", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?" }, { "point_text": "Zealous", "verse_ref": "John 2:17", "verse_text": "And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up." }, { "point_text": "Zealous", "verse_ref": "John 8:29", "verse_text": "And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him." }, { "point_text": "Meek", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:7", "verse_text": "He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth." }, { "point_text": "Meek", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:9", "verse_text": "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass." }, { "point_text": "Meek", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:29", "verse_text": "Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls." }, { "point_text": "Lowly in heart", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:29", "verse_text": "Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls." }, { "point_text": "Merciful", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:17", "verse_text": "Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people." }, { "point_text": "Patient", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:7", "verse_text": "He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth." }, { "point_text": "Patient", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:14", "verse_text": "And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly." }, { "point_text": "Long-suffering", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:16", "verse_text": "Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting." }, { "point_text": "Compassionate", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:11", "verse_text": "He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young." }, { "point_text": "Compassionate", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:41", "verse_text": "And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it," }, { "point_text": "Benevolent", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:23-24", "verse_text": "And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. 24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them." }, { "point_text": "Loving", "verse_ref": "John 13:1", "verse_text": "Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end." }, { "point_text": "Loving", "verse_ref": "John 15:13", "verse_text": "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." }, { "point_text": "Self-denying", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:20", "verse_text": "And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head." }, { "point_text": "Self-denying", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:9", "verse_text": "For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich." }, { "point_text": "Humble", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:27", "verse_text": "For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth." }, { "point_text": "Humble", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:8", "verse_text": "And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." }, { "point_text": "Resigned", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:42", "verse_text": "Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done." }, { "point_text": "Forgiving", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:34", "verse_text": "Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots." }, { "point_text": "Subject to His parents", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:51", "verse_text": "And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart." }, { "point_text": "Saints are conformed to", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:29", "verse_text": "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren." }, { "point_text": "Altogether lovely", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:16", "verse_text": "His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Holy", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:35", "verse_text": "And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." }, { "point_text": "Holy", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:27", "verse_text": "For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together," }, { "point_text": "Holy", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:7", "verse_text": "And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;" }, { "point_text": "Righteous", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:11", "verse_text": "He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities." }, { "point_text": "Righteous", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:9", "verse_text": "Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows." }, { "point_text": "Good", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:16", "verse_text": "And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?" }, { "point_text": "Faithful", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:5", "verse_text": "And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins." }, { "point_text": "Faithful", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:24", "verse_text": "Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it." }, { "point_text": "True", "verse_ref": "John 1:14", "verse_text": "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." }, { "point_text": "True", "verse_ref": "John 7:18", "verse_text": "He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him." }, { "point_text": "True", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:20", "verse_text": "And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life." }, { "point_text": "Just", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:9", "verse_text": "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass." }, { "point_text": "Just", "verse_ref": "John 5:30", "verse_text": "I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me." }, { "point_text": "Just", "verse_ref": "Acts 22:14", "verse_text": "And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth." }, { "point_text": "Guileless", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:9", "verse_text": "And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth." }, { "point_text": "Guileless", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:22", "verse_text": "Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:" }, { "point_text": "Sinless", "verse_ref": "John 8:46", "verse_text": "Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?" }, { "point_text": "Sinless", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:21", "verse_text": "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." }, { "point_text": "Spotless", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:19", "verse_text": "But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:" }, { "point_text": "Innocent", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:4", "verse_text": "Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that." }, { "point_text": "Harmless", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:26", "verse_text": "For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;" }, { "point_text": "Resisting temptation", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:1-10", "verse_text": "Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. 3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. 4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. ..." }, { "point_text": "Obedient to God the Father", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:8", "verse_text": "I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart." }, { "point_text": "Obedient to God the Father", "verse_ref": "John 4:34", "verse_text": "Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work." }, { "point_text": "Obedient to God the Father", "verse_ref": "John 15:10", "verse_text": "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love." }, { "point_text": "Zealous", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:49", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?" }, { "point_text": "Zealous", "verse_ref": "John 2:17", "verse_text": "And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up." }, { "point_text": "Zealous", "verse_ref": "John 8:29", "verse_text": "And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him." }, { "point_text": "Meek", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:7", "verse_text": "He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth." }, { "point_text": "Meek", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:9", "verse_text": "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass." }, { "point_text": "Meek", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:29", "verse_text": "Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls." }, { "point_text": "Lowly in heart", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:29", "verse_text": "Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls." }, { "point_text": "Merciful", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:17", "verse_text": "Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people." }, { "point_text": "Patient", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:7", "verse_text": "He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth." }, { "point_text": "Patient", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:14", "verse_text": "And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly." }, { "point_text": "Long-suffering", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:16", "verse_text": "Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting." }, { "point_text": "Compassionate", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:11", "verse_text": "He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young." }, { "point_text": "Compassionate", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:41", "verse_text": "And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it," }, { "point_text": "Benevolent", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:23-24", "verse_text": "And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. 24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them." }, { "point_text": "Loving", "verse_ref": "John 13:1", "verse_text": "Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end." }, { "point_text": "Loving", "verse_ref": "John 15:13", "verse_text": "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." }, { "point_text": "Self-denying", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:20", "verse_text": "And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head." }, { "point_text": "Self-denying", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:9", "verse_text": "For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich." }, { "point_text": "Humble", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:27", "verse_text": "For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth." }, { "point_text": "Humble", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:8", "verse_text": "And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." }, { "point_text": "Resigned", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:42", "verse_text": "Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done." }, { "point_text": "Forgiving", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:34", "verse_text": "Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots." }, { "point_text": "Subject to His parents", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:51", "verse_text": "And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart." }, { "point_text": "Saints are conformed to", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:29", "verse_text": "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren." } ] }, { "name": "Christ, the High Priest", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Christ-the-High-Priest.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Appointed and called by God", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:1", "verse_text": "Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;" }, { "point_text": "Appointed and called by God", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 5:4-5", "verse_text": "And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron. 5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee." }, { "point_text": "After the order of Melchizedek", "verse_ref": "Psalm 110:4", "verse_text": "The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek." }, { "point_text": "After the order of Melchizedek", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 5:6", "verse_text": "As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec." }, { "point_text": "After the order of Melchizedek", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:20", "verse_text": "Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec." }, { "point_text": "After the order of Melchizedek", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:15", "verse_text": "And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest," }, { "point_text": "After the order of Melchizedek", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:17", "verse_text": "For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec." }, { "point_text": "Superior to Aaron and the Levitical priests", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:11", "verse_text": "If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?" }, { "point_text": "Superior to Aaron and the Levitical priests", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:16", "verse_text": "Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life." }, { "point_text": "Superior to Aaron and the Levitical priests", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 8:1-2", "verse_text": "Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; 2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man." }, { "point_text": "Superior to Aaron and the Levitical priests", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 8:6", "verse_text": "But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises." }, { "point_text": "Consecrated with an oath", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:20-21", "verse_text": "And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest: 21 (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)" }, { "point_text": "Has an unchangeable priesthood", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:23", "verse_text": "And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:" }, { "point_text": "Has an unchangeable priesthood", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:28", "verse_text": "For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore." }, { "point_text": "Is of unblemished purity", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:26", "verse_text": "For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;" }, { "point_text": "Is of unblemished purity", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:28", "verse_text": "For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore." }, { "point_text": "Faithful", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:2", "verse_text": "Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house." }, { "point_text": "Needed no sacrifice for Himself", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:27", "verse_text": "Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself." }, { "point_text": "Offered Himself a sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:14", "verse_text": "How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" }, { "point_text": "Offered Himself a sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:26", "verse_text": "For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself." }, { "point_text": "His sacrifice superior to all others", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:13-14", "verse_text": "For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" }, { "point_text": "His sacrifice superior to all others", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:23", "verse_text": "It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these." }, { "point_text": "Offered sacrifice but once", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:27", "verse_text": "Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself." }, { "point_text": "Offered sacrifice but once", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:25-26", "verse_text": "Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; 26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself." }, { "point_text": "Made reconciliation", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:17", "verse_text": "Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people." }, { "point_text": "Obtained redemption for us", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:12", "verse_text": "Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us." }, { "point_text": "Entered into heaven", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:14", "verse_text": "Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession." }, { "point_text": "Entered into heaven", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:12", "verse_text": "But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;" }, { "point_text": "Sympathizes with those who are tempted", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:18", "verse_text": "For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted." }, { "point_text": "Sympathizes with those who are tempted", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:15", "verse_text": "For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." }, { "point_text": "Intercedes", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:25", "verse_text": "Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them." }, { "point_text": "Intercedes", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:24", "verse_text": "For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:" }, { "point_text": "Blesses", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:23-26", "verse_text": "Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them, 24 The LORD bless thee, and keep thee: 25 The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: 26 The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace." }, { "point_text": "Blesses", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:26", "verse_text": "Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities." }, { "point_text": "On His throne", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 6:13", "verse_text": "Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both." }, { "point_text": "Appointment of, and encouragement to steadfastness", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:14", "verse_text": "Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession." }, { "point_text": "Typified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nAaron, &c", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:18-20", "verse_text": "And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. 19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: 20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all." }, { "point_text": "Typified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nAaron, &c", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:12-15", "verse_text": "And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with water. 13 And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him, and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the priest's office. 14 And thou shalt bring his sons, and clothe them with coats: 15 And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office: for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations." } ] }, { "name": "Christ, the Head of the Church", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Christ-the-Head-of-the-Church.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Predicted", "verse_ref": "Psalm 118:22", "verse_text": "The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner." }, { "point_text": "Predicted", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:42", "verse_text": "Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?" }, { "point_text": "Appointed by God", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:22", "verse_text": "And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church," }, { "point_text": "Declared by Himself", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:42", "verse_text": "Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?" }, { "point_text": "As His mystical body", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:12", "verse_text": "For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:" }, { "point_text": "As His mystical body", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:23", "verse_text": "For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body." }, { "point_text": "Has the pre-eminence in all things", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:3", "verse_text": "But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God." }, { "point_text": "Has the pre-eminence in all things", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:22", "verse_text": "And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church," }, { "point_text": "Has the pre-eminence in all things", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:18", "verse_text": "And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence." }, { "point_text": "Commissioned His Apostles", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:1", "verse_text": "And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease." }, { "point_text": "Commissioned His Apostles", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:19", "verse_text": "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:" }, { "point_text": "Commissioned His Apostles", "verse_ref": "John 20:21", "verse_text": "Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you." }, { "point_text": "Instituted the ordinances", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:19", "verse_text": "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:" }, { "point_text": "Instituted the ordinances", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:19-20", "verse_text": "And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me. 20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you." }, { "point_text": "Imparts gifts", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:18", "verse_text": "Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them." }, { "point_text": "Imparts gifts", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:8", "verse_text": "Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men." }, { "point_text": "Saints are complete in", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:10", "verse_text": "And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:" }, { "point_text": "Perverters of the truth do not hold", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:18-19", "verse_text": "Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God." } ] }, { "name": "Christ, the Mediator", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Christ-the-Mediator.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "In virtue of His atonement", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:13-18", "verse_text": "But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. 14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; 15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; 16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: ..." }, { "point_text": "In virtue of His atonement", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:15", "verse_text": "And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance." }, { "point_text": "In virtue of His atonement", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:24", "verse_text": "And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel." }, { "point_text": "The only One between God and man", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:5", "verse_text": "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;" }, { "point_text": "Of the gospel covenant", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 8:6", "verse_text": "But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises." }, { "point_text": "Of the gospel covenant", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:24", "verse_text": "And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel." }, { "point_text": "Typified.\r\n\nMoses, \n\nAaron,", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:5", "verse_text": "(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying," }, { "point_text": "Typified.\r\n\nMoses, \n\nAaron,", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:19", "verse_text": "Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator." }, { "point_text": "Typified.\r\n\nMoses, \n\nAaron,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:48", "verse_text": "And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed." } ] }, { "name": "Christ, the King", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Christ-the-King.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:17", "verse_text": "I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth." }, { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:6", "verse_text": "Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion." }, { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45", "verse_text": "My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. 2 Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. 3 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. 4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. ..." }, { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:7", "verse_text": "Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this." }, { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:5", "verse_text": "Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth." }, { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Micah 5:2", "verse_text": "But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting." }, { "point_text": "Glorious", "verse_ref": "Psalm 24:7-10", "verse_text": "Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. 8 Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle. 9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. 10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Glorious", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:8", "verse_text": "Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory." }, { "point_text": "Glorious", "verse_ref": "James 2:1", "verse_text": "My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons." }, { "point_text": "Supreme", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:27", "verse_text": "Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Supreme", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:5", "verse_text": "And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood," }, { "point_text": "Supreme", "verse_ref": "Revelation 19:16", "verse_text": "And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS." }, { "point_text": "Sits in the throne of God", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:21", "verse_text": "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne." }, { "point_text": "Sits on the throne of David", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:7", "verse_text": "Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this." }, { "point_text": "Sits on the throne of David", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 37:24-25", "verse_text": "And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. 25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever." }, { "point_text": "Is King of Zion", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:6", "verse_text": "Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion." }, { "point_text": "Is King of Zion", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 52:7", "verse_text": "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!" }, { "point_text": "Is King of Zion", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:9", "verse_text": "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass." }, { "point_text": "Is King of Zion", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:5", "verse_text": "Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass." }, { "point_text": "Is King of Zion", "verse_ref": "John 12:12-15", "verse_text": "On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, 13 Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord. 14 And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written, 15 Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt." }, { "point_text": "Has a righteous kingdom", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:6", "verse_text": "Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre." }, { "point_text": "Has a righteous kingdom", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:8-9", "verse_text": "But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. 9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows." }, { "point_text": "Has an everlasting kingdom", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:44", "verse_text": "And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever." }, { "point_text": "Has an everlasting kingdom", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:14", "verse_text": "And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed." }, { "point_text": "Has an everlasting kingdom", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:33", "verse_text": "And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end." }, { "point_text": "Has an universal kingdom", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:8", "verse_text": "Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession." }, { "point_text": "Has an universal kingdom", "verse_ref": "Psalm 72:8", "verse_text": "He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Has an universal kingdom", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 14:9", "verse_text": "And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one." }, { "point_text": "Has an universal kingdom", "verse_ref": "Revelation 11:15", "verse_text": "And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever." }, { "point_text": "His kingdom not of this world", "verse_ref": "John 18:36", "verse_text": "Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence." }, { "point_text": "Saints, the subjects of", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:13", "verse_text": "Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:" }, { "point_text": "Saints, the subjects of", "verse_ref": "Revelation 15:3", "verse_text": "And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints." }, { "point_text": "Saints receive a kingdom from", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:29-30", "verse_text": "And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me; 30 That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel." }, { "point_text": "ACKNOWLEDGED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The wise men from the East", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:2", "verse_text": "Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him." }, { "point_text": "Nathanael", "verse_ref": "John 1:49", "verse_text": "Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel." }, { "point_text": "His followers", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:38", "verse_text": "Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest." }, { "point_text": "His followers", "verse_ref": "John 12:13", "verse_text": "Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Declared by Himself", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:34", "verse_text": "Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:" }, { "point_text": "Declared by Himself", "verse_ref": "John 18:37", "verse_text": "Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice." }, { "point_text": "Written on His cross", "verse_ref": "John 19:19", "verse_text": "And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS." }, { "point_text": "The Jews shall seek to", "verse_ref": "Hosea 3:5", "verse_text": "Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days." }, { "point_text": "Saints shall behold", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:17", "verse_text": "Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off." }, { "point_text": "Saints shall behold", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:3-4", "verse_text": "And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: 4 And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads." }, { "point_text": "Kings shall do homage to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 72:10", "verse_text": "The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts." }, { "point_text": "Kings shall do homage to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:7", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee." }, { "point_text": "Shall overcome all His enemies", "verse_ref": "Psalm 110:1", "verse_text": "The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool." }, { "point_text": "Shall overcome all His enemies", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:36", "verse_text": "For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool." }, { "point_text": "Shall overcome all His enemies", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:25", "verse_text": "For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet." }, { "point_text": "Shall overcome all His enemies", "verse_ref": "Revelation 17:14", "verse_text": "These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful." }, { "point_text": "Typified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nDavid, \n\nSolomon,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:18", "verse_text": "And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God." }, { "point_text": "Typified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nDavid, \n\nSolomon,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 16:1", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons." }, { "point_text": "Typified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nDavid, \n\nSolomon,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 16:12-13", "verse_text": "And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he. 13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah." }, { "point_text": "Typified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nDavid, \n\nSolomon,", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 28:6-7", "verse_text": "And he said unto me, Solomon thy son, he shall build my house and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father. 7 Moreover I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he be constant to do my commandments and my judgments, as at this day." } ] }, { "name": "Christ, the Prophet", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Christ-the-Prophet.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:15", "verse_text": "The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;" }, { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:18", "verse_text": "I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him." }, { "point_text": "Anointed with the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:1", "verse_text": "Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles." }, { "point_text": "Anointed with the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:1", "verse_text": "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;" }, { "point_text": "Anointed with the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:18", "verse_text": "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised," }, { "point_text": "Anointed with the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "John 3:34", "verse_text": "For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." }, { "point_text": "Alone knows and reveals God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:27", "verse_text": "All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him." }, { "point_text": "Alone knows and reveals God", "verse_ref": "John 3:2", "verse_text": "The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him." }, { "point_text": "Alone knows and reveals God", "verse_ref": "John 3:13", "verse_text": "And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." }, { "point_text": "Alone knows and reveals God", "verse_ref": "John 17:6", "verse_text": "I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word." }, { "point_text": "Alone knows and reveals God", "verse_ref": "John 17:14", "verse_text": "I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world." }, { "point_text": "Alone knows and reveals God", "verse_ref": "John 17:26", "verse_text": "And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them." }, { "point_text": "Declared His doctrine to be that of the Father", "verse_ref": "John 8:26", "verse_text": "I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him." }, { "point_text": "Declared His doctrine to be that of the Father", "verse_ref": "John 12:49", "verse_text": "For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak." }, { "point_text": "Declared His doctrine to be that of the Father", "verse_ref": "John 14:10", "verse_text": "Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works." }, { "point_text": "Declared His doctrine to be that of the Father", "verse_ref": "John 15:15", "verse_text": "Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you." }, { "point_text": "Declared His doctrine to be that of the Father", "verse_ref": "John 17:8", "verse_text": "For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me." }, { "point_text": "Declared His doctrine to be that of the Father", "verse_ref": "John 17:16", "verse_text": "They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world." }, { "point_text": "Preached the gospel, and worked miracles", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:23", "verse_text": "And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people." }, { "point_text": "Preached the gospel, and worked miracles", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:5", "verse_text": "The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them." }, { "point_text": "Preached the gospel, and worked miracles", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:43", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent." }, { "point_text": "Foretold things to come", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:3-35", "verse_text": "And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? 4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. 6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. ..." }, { "point_text": "Foretold things to come", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:41", "verse_text": "And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it," }, { "point_text": "Foretold things to come", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:44", "verse_text": "And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation." }, { "point_text": "Faithful to His trust", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:43", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent." }, { "point_text": "Faithful to His trust", "verse_ref": "John 17:8", "verse_text": "For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me." }, { "point_text": "Faithful to His trust", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:2", "verse_text": "Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house." }, { "point_text": "Faithful to His trust", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:5", "verse_text": "And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood," }, { "point_text": "Faithful to His trust", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:14", "verse_text": "And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;" }, { "point_text": "Abounded in wisdom", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:40", "verse_text": "And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him." }, { "point_text": "Abounded in wisdom", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:47", "verse_text": "And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers." }, { "point_text": "Abounded in wisdom", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:52", "verse_text": "And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man." }, { "point_text": "Mighty in deed and word", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:54", "verse_text": "And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works?" }, { "point_text": "Mighty in deed and word", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:27", "verse_text": "And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him." }, { "point_text": "Mighty in deed and word", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:32", "verse_text": "And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with power." }, { "point_text": "Mighty in deed and word", "verse_ref": "John 7:46", "verse_text": "The officers answered, Never man spake like this man." }, { "point_text": "Meek and unostentatious in His teaching", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:2", "verse_text": "He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street." }, { "point_text": "Meek and unostentatious in His teaching", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:17-20", "verse_text": "That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, 18 Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles. 19 He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets. 20 A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory." }, { "point_text": "God commands us to hear", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:15", "verse_text": "The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;" }, { "point_text": "God commands us to hear", "verse_ref": "Matthew 17:25", "verse_text": "He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers?" }, { "point_text": "God commands us to hear", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:22", "verse_text": "For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you." }, { "point_text": "God commands us to hear", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:37", "verse_text": "This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear." }, { "point_text": "God will severely visit our neglect of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:19", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him." }, { "point_text": "God will severely visit our neglect of", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:23", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people." }, { "point_text": "God will severely visit our neglect of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:3", "verse_text": "How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;" }, { "point_text": "Typified.\r\n\nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:15", "verse_text": "The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;" } ] }, { "name": "Christ, the Shepherd", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Christ-the-Shepherd.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:24", "verse_text": "But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)" }, { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:11", "verse_text": "He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young." }, { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 34:23", "verse_text": "And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd." }, { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 37:24", "verse_text": "And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them." }, { "point_text": "The chief", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:4", "verse_text": "And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away." }, { "point_text": "The good", "verse_ref": "John 10:11", "verse_text": "I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep." }, { "point_text": "The good", "verse_ref": "John 10:14", "verse_text": "I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine." }, { "point_text": "The great", "verse_ref": "Micah 5:4", "verse_text": "And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth." }, { "point_text": "The great", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:20", "verse_text": "Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant," }, { "point_text": "HIS SHEEP", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "He knows", "verse_ref": "John 10:14", "verse_text": "I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine." }, { "point_text": "He knows", "verse_ref": "John 10:27", "verse_text": "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:" }, { "point_text": "He calls", "verse_ref": "John 10:3", "verse_text": "To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out." }, { "point_text": "He gathers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:11", "verse_text": "He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young." }, { "point_text": "He gathers", "verse_ref": "John 10:16", "verse_text": "And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd." }, { "point_text": "He guides", "verse_ref": "Psalm 23:3", "verse_text": "He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake." }, { "point_text": "He guides", "verse_ref": "John 10:3-4", "verse_text": "To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. 4 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice." }, { "point_text": "He feeds", "verse_ref": "Psalm 23:1-2", "verse_text": "The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters." }, { "point_text": "He cherishes tenderly", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:11", "verse_text": "He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young." }, { "point_text": "He protects and preserves", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:10", "verse_text": "Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock." }, { "point_text": "He protects and preserves", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 34:10", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them." }, { "point_text": "He protects and preserves", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:16", "verse_text": "And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land." }, { "point_text": "He protects and preserves", "verse_ref": "John 10:28", "verse_text": "And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand." }, { "point_text": "He laid down His life for", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 13:7", "verse_text": "Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones." }, { "point_text": "He laid down His life for", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:31", "verse_text": "Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad." }, { "point_text": "He laid down His life for", "verse_ref": "John 10:11", "verse_text": "I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep." }, { "point_text": "He laid down His life for", "verse_ref": "John 10:15", "verse_text": "As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep." }, { "point_text": "He gives eternal life to", "verse_ref": "John 10:28", "verse_text": "And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand." }, { "point_text": "Typified.\r\n\nDavid,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 16:11", "verse_text": "And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither." } ] }, { "name": "Circumcision", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Circumcision.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Instituted by God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:9-10", "verse_text": "And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations. 10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised." }, { "point_text": "Described", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:11", "verse_text": "And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you." }, { "point_text": "Described", "verse_ref": "Exodus 4:25", "verse_text": "Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me." }, { "point_text": "Enforced by the law", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 12:3", "verse_text": "And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised." }, { "point_text": "Enforced by the law", "verse_ref": "John 7:22", "verse_text": "Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man." }, { "point_text": "CALLED THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Covenant of circumcision", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:8", "verse_text": "And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs." }, { "point_text": "Circumcision in the flesh", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:11", "verse_text": "Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;" }, { "point_text": "Concision", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:2", "verse_text": "Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision." }, { "point_text": "A painful and bloody rite", "verse_ref": "Exodus 4:26", "verse_text": "So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision." }, { "point_text": "A painful and bloody rite", "verse_ref": "Joshua 5:8", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole." }, { "point_text": "Promises to Abraham previous to", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:9", "verse_text": "Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Promises to Abraham previous to", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:13", "verse_text": "For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith." }, { "point_text": "A seal of the covenant", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:11", "verse_text": "And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you." }, { "point_text": "A seal of the covenant", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:11", "verse_text": "And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:" }, { "point_text": "Introductory Jewish sacrament", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:3", "verse_text": "For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law." }, { "point_text": "Outward sign of", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:28", "verse_text": "For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:" }, { "point_text": "Inward grace", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:29", "verse_text": "But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God." }, { "point_text": "Necessary to enjoying the privileges of the Jewish Church", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:48", "verse_text": "And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof." }, { "point_text": "Necessary to enjoying the privileges of the Jewish Church", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 44:7", "verse_text": "In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations." }, { "point_text": "WAS PERFORMED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "On males home-born and bought", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:12-13", "verse_text": "And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed. 13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant." }, { "point_text": "On the eighth day", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:12", "verse_text": "And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed." }, { "point_text": "On the eighth day", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 12:3", "verse_text": "And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised." }, { "point_text": "Even on the sabbath day", "verse_ref": "John 7:22-23", "verse_text": "Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man. 23 If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?" }, { "point_text": "With knives of flint.\r\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Exodus 4:25", "verse_text": "Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me." }, { "point_text": "With knives of flint.\r\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Joshua 5:3", "verse_text": "And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins." }, { "point_text": "By the heads of families", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:23", "verse_text": "And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him." }, { "point_text": "By the heads of families", "verse_ref": "Exodus 4:25", "verse_text": "Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me." }, { "point_text": "By persons in authority", "verse_ref": "Joshua 5:3", "verse_text": "And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins." }, { "point_text": "In the presence of the family, &c", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:58-61", "verse_text": "And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her. 59 And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father. 60 And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be called John. 61 And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name." }, { "point_text": "Accompanied with naming the child", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:3-4", "verse_text": "And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. 4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him." }, { "point_text": "First performed on Abraham and his family", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:24-27", "verse_text": "And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 25 And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 26 In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son. 27 And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him." }, { "point_text": "Not performed in the wilderness", "verse_ref": "Joshua 5:5", "verse_text": "Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised." }, { "point_text": "Performed by Joshua at Gilgal", "verse_ref": "Joshua 5:2", "verse_text": "At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time." }, { "point_text": "Performed by Joshua at Gilgal", "verse_ref": "Joshua 5:7", "verse_text": "And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for neglecting", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:14", "verse_text": "And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for neglecting", "verse_ref": "Exodus 4:24", "verse_text": "And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for neglecting", "verse_ref": "Exodus 4:26", "verse_text": "So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision." }, { "point_text": "Without faith, vain", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:30", "verse_text": "Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith." }, { "point_text": "Without faith, vain", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:6", "verse_text": "For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love." }, { "point_text": "Without obedience, vain", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:25", "verse_text": "For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision." }, { "point_text": "Without obedience, vain", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:19", "verse_text": "Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God." }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Denominated by", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:45", "verse_text": "And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Denominated by", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:9", "verse_text": "And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision." }, { "point_text": "Held it unlawful to intermarry with those not of the", "verse_ref": "Genesis 34:14", "verse_text": "And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us:" }, { "point_text": "Held it unlawful to intermarry with those not of the", "verse_ref": "Judges 14:3", "verse_text": "Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well." }, { "point_text": "Held no intercourse with those not of the", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:28", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean." }, { "point_text": "Held no intercourse with those not of the", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:3", "verse_text": "Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them." }, { "point_text": "Held no intercourse with those not of the", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:12", "verse_text": "For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision." }, { "point_text": "Despised as unclean those not of the", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:6", "verse_text": "And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few." }, { "point_text": "Despised as unclean those not of the", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:26", "verse_text": "And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?" }, { "point_text": "Despised as unclean those not of the", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:26-27", "verse_text": "But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs. 27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes performed on slain enemies", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 18:25-27", "verse_text": "And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. 26 And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son in law: and the days were not expired. 27 Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes performed on slain enemies", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 3:14", "verse_text": "And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines." }, { "point_text": "Abolished by the gospel", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:11", "verse_text": "Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;" }, { "point_text": "Abolished by the gospel", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:15", "verse_text": "Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;" }, { "point_text": "Performed on Timothy as a matter or expediency because of the Jews", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:3", "verse_text": "Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek." }, { "point_text": "Necessity of, denied by Paul", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:3-5", "verse_text": "But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised: 4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: 5 To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you." }, { "point_text": "Necessity of, asserted by false teachers", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:24", "verse_text": "Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:" }, { "point_text": "Necessity of, asserted by false teachers", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:12", "verse_text": "As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ." }, { "point_text": "Necessity of, asserted by false teachers", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:10", "verse_text": "For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:" }, { "point_text": "Trusting to, a denial of Christ", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:3", "verse_text": "Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?" }, { "point_text": "Trusting to, a denial of Christ", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:3-4", "verse_text": "For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. 4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace." }, { "point_text": "Paul denounced for opposing", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:21", "verse_text": "And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs." }, { "point_text": "Saints the true spiritual", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:3", "verse_text": "For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh." }, { "point_text": "Saints the true spiritual", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:11", "verse_text": "In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:" }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Readiness to hear and obey", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:10", "verse_text": "To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it." }, { "point_text": "Purity of heart", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:16", "verse_text": "Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked." }, { "point_text": "Purity of heart", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 30:6", "verse_text": "And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live." }, { "point_text": "Purity of speech", "verse_ref": "Exodus 6:12", "verse_text": "And Moses spake before the LORD, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?" } ] }, { "name": "Church of Israel", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Church-of-Israel.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Established by God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:5-14", "verse_text": "Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. 6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. 7 For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for? 8 And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? ..." }, { "point_text": "Established by God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 26:18", "verse_text": "And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;" }, { "point_text": "Established by God", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:35", "verse_text": "This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush." }, { "point_text": "Established by God", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:38", "verse_text": "This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:" }, { "point_text": "Admission into, by circumcision", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:10-14", "verse_text": "This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised. 11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you. 12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed. 13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. ..." }, { "point_text": "All Israelites members of", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:4", "verse_text": "Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;" }, { "point_text": "Was relatively holy", "verse_ref": "Exodus 31:13", "verse_text": "Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you." }, { "point_text": "Was relatively holy", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:3", "verse_text": "And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?" }, { "point_text": "HAD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "An appointed place of worship", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:5", "verse_text": "But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:" }, { "point_text": "Appointed ordinances", "verse_ref": "Exodus 18:20", "verse_text": "And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do." }, { "point_text": "Appointed ordinances", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:1", "verse_text": "Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary." }, { "point_text": "Appointed ordinances", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:10", "verse_text": "Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation." }, { "point_text": "Appointed feasts", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:2", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts." }, { "point_text": "Appointed feasts", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:14", "verse_text": "Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them." }, { "point_text": "An ordained ministry", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:9", "verse_text": "And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons." }, { "point_text": "An ordained ministry", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:8", "verse_text": "At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day." }, { "point_text": "The divine presence manifested in it", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:45-46", "verse_text": "And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God. 46 And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I am the LORD their God." }, { "point_text": "A spiritual church within it", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:6-8", "verse_text": "Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: 7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. 8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed." }, { "point_text": "A spiritual church within it", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:2-7", "verse_text": "God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, 3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. 4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. 5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. ..." }, { "point_text": "In covenant with God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:13", "verse_text": "And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone." }, { "point_text": "In covenant with God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:23", "verse_text": "Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee." }, { "point_text": "The depository of holy writ", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:2", "verse_text": "Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God." }, { "point_text": "CALLED THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Congregation of Israel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:47", "verse_text": "All the congregation of Israel shall keep it." }, { "point_text": "Congregation of Israel", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:13", "verse_text": "And if the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done somewhat against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which should not be done, and are guilty;" }, { "point_text": "Congregation of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Numbers 27:17", "verse_text": "Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd." }, { "point_text": "Congregation of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Numbers 31:16", "verse_text": "Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Privileges of", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:4", "verse_text": "Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;" }, { "point_text": "Proselytes admitted into", "verse_ref": "Numbers 9:14", "verse_text": "And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land." }, { "point_text": "Proselytes admitted into", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:15", "verse_text": "One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Proselytes admitted into", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:29", "verse_text": "Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them." }, { "point_text": "Supported by the people", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:20", "verse_text": "But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty." }, { "point_text": "Supported by the people", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:17", "verse_text": "Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee." }, { "point_text": "WORSHIP OF, CONSISTED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Exodus 10:25", "verse_text": "And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God." }, { "point_text": "Sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:2", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock." }, { "point_text": "Sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:1", "verse_text": "For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect." }, { "point_text": "Prayer", "verse_ref": "Exodus 24:11", "verse_text": "And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink." }, { "point_text": "Prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 5:7", "verse_text": "But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple." }, { "point_text": "Prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 95:6", "verse_text": "O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker." }, { "point_text": "Praise", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 5:13", "verse_text": "It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;" }, { "point_text": "Praise", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 30:21", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Reading God's word", "verse_ref": "Exodus 24:7", "verse_text": "And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient." }, { "point_text": "Reading God's word", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 31:11", "verse_text": "When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing." }, { "point_text": "Preaching", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:4-5", "verse_text": "And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam. 5 And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up:" }, { "point_text": "Attachment of the Jews to", "verse_ref": "John 9:28-29", "verse_text": "Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples. 29 We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is." }, { "point_text": "MEMBERS OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Required to know its statutes", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 10:11", "verse_text": "And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses." }, { "point_text": "Required to keeps its statutes", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:12", "verse_text": "And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes." }, { "point_text": "Required to attend its worship", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:17", "verse_text": "Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Separated from, while unclean", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:46", "verse_text": "All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be." }, { "point_text": "Separated from, while unclean", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 15:31", "verse_text": "Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them." }, { "point_text": "Separated from, while unclean", "verse_ref": "Numbers 5:2-4", "verse_text": "Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead: 3 Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell. 4 And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Excommunicated for heavy offences", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:30", "verse_text": "But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people." }, { "point_text": "Excommunicated for heavy offences", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:20", "verse_text": "But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean." }, { "point_text": "Persons excluded from", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:48", "verse_text": "And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof." }, { "point_text": "Persons excluded from", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:1-4", "verse_text": "He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD. 2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD. 3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever: 4 Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee." }, { "point_text": "Persons excluded from", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 44:7", "verse_text": "In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations." }, { "point_text": "Persons excluded from", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 44:9", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "A type of the church of Christ", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:24-26", "verse_text": "Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. 25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. 26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all." }, { "point_text": "A type of the church of Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:23", "verse_text": "To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect," }, { "point_text": "Established by God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:5-14", "verse_text": "Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. 6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. 7 For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for? 8 And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? ..." }, { "point_text": "Established by God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 26:18", "verse_text": "And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;" }, { "point_text": "Established by God", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:35", "verse_text": "This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush." }, { "point_text": "Established by God", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:38", "verse_text": "This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:" }, { "point_text": "Admission into, by circumcision", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:10-14", "verse_text": "This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised. 11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you. 12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed. 13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. ..." }, { "point_text": "All Israelites members of", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:4", "verse_text": "Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;" }, { "point_text": "Was relatively holy", "verse_ref": "Exodus 31:13", "verse_text": "Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you." }, { "point_text": "Was relatively holy", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:3", "verse_text": "And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?" }, { "point_text": "HAD", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "An appointed place of worship", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:5", "verse_text": "But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:" }, { "point_text": "Appointed ordinances", "verse_ref": "Exodus 18:20", "verse_text": "And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do." }, { "point_text": "Appointed ordinances", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:1", "verse_text": "Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary." }, { "point_text": "Appointed ordinances", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:10", "verse_text": "Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation." }, { "point_text": "Appointed feasts", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:2", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts." }, { "point_text": "Appointed feasts", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:14", "verse_text": "Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them." }, { "point_text": "An ordained ministry", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:9", "verse_text": "And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons." }, { "point_text": "An ordained ministry", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:8", "verse_text": "At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day." }, { "point_text": "The divine presence manifested in it", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:45-46", "verse_text": "And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God. 46 And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I am the LORD their God." }, { "point_text": "A spiritual church within it", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:6-8", "verse_text": "Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: 7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. 8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed." }, { "point_text": "A spiritual church within it", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:2-7", "verse_text": "God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, 3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. 4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. 5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. ..." }, { "point_text": "In covenant with God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:13", "verse_text": "And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone." }, { "point_text": "In covenant with God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:23", "verse_text": "Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee." }, { "point_text": "The depository of holy writ", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:2", "verse_text": "Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God." }, { "point_text": "CALLED THE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Congregation of Israel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:47", "verse_text": "All the congregation of Israel shall keep it." }, { "point_text": "Congregation of Israel", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:13", "verse_text": "And if the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done somewhat against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which should not be done, and are guilty;" }, { "point_text": "Congregation of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Numbers 27:17", "verse_text": "Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd." }, { "point_text": "Congregation of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Numbers 31:16", "verse_text": "Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Privileges of", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:4", "verse_text": "Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;" }, { "point_text": "Proselytes admitted into", "verse_ref": "Numbers 9:14", "verse_text": "And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land." }, { "point_text": "Proselytes admitted into", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:15", "verse_text": "One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Proselytes admitted into", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:29", "verse_text": "Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them." }, { "point_text": "Supported by the people", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:20", "verse_text": "But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty." }, { "point_text": "Supported by the people", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:17", "verse_text": "Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee." }, { "point_text": "WORSHIP OF, CONSISTED IN", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Exodus 10:25", "verse_text": "And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God." }, { "point_text": "Sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:2", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock." }, { "point_text": "Sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:1", "verse_text": "For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect." }, { "point_text": "Prayer", "verse_ref": "Exodus 24:11", "verse_text": "And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink." }, { "point_text": "Prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 5:7", "verse_text": "But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple." }, { "point_text": "Prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 95:6", "verse_text": "O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker." }, { "point_text": "Praise", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 5:13", "verse_text": "It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;" }, { "point_text": "Praise", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 30:21", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Reading God's word", "verse_ref": "Exodus 24:7", "verse_text": "And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient." }, { "point_text": "Reading God's word", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 31:11", "verse_text": "When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing." }, { "point_text": "Preaching", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:4-5", "verse_text": "And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam. 5 And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up:" }, { "point_text": "Attachment of the Jews to", "verse_ref": "John 9:28-29", "verse_text": "Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples. 29 We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is." }, { "point_text": "MEMBERS OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Required to know its statutes", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 10:11", "verse_text": "And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses." }, { "point_text": "Required to keeps its statutes", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:12", "verse_text": "And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes." }, { "point_text": "Required to attend its worship", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:17", "verse_text": "Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Separated from, while unclean", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:46", "verse_text": "All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be." }, { "point_text": "Separated from, while unclean", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 15:31", "verse_text": "Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them." }, { "point_text": "Separated from, while unclean", "verse_ref": "Numbers 5:2-4", "verse_text": "Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead: 3 Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell. 4 And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Excommunicated for heavy offences", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:30", "verse_text": "But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people." }, { "point_text": "Excommunicated for heavy offences", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:20", "verse_text": "But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean." }, { "point_text": "Persons excluded from", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:48", "verse_text": "And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof." }, { "point_text": "Persons excluded from", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:1-4", "verse_text": "He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD. 2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD. 3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever: 4 Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee." }, { "point_text": "Persons excluded from", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 44:7", "verse_text": "In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations." }, { "point_text": "Persons excluded from", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 44:9", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "A type of the church of Christ", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:24-26", "verse_text": "Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. 25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. 26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all." }, { "point_text": "A type of the church of Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:23", "verse_text": "To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect," } ] }, { "name": "Communion of Saints", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Communion-of-Saints.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "According to the prayer of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 17:20-21", "verse_text": "Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me." }, { "point_text": "IS WITH", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "God", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:3", "verse_text": "That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Saints in heaven", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:22-24", "verse_text": "But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel." }, { "point_text": "Each other", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:9", "verse_text": "And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision." }, { "point_text": "Each other", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:3", "verse_text": "That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Each other", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:7", "verse_text": "But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin." }, { "point_text": "God marks, with his approval", "verse_ref": "Malachi 3:16", "verse_text": "Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name." }, { "point_text": "Christ is present in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:20", "verse_text": "For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." }, { "point_text": "In public and social worship", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:3", "verse_text": "O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together." }, { "point_text": "In public and social worship", "verse_ref": "Psalm 55:14", "verse_text": "We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company." }, { "point_text": "In public and social worship", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:14", "verse_text": "These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren." }, { "point_text": "In public and social worship", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:25", "verse_text": "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." }, { "point_text": "In the Lord's supper", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:17", "verse_text": "For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread." }, { "point_text": "In holy conversation", "verse_ref": "Malachi 3:16", "verse_text": "Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name." }, { "point_text": "In prayer for each other", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:11", "verse_text": "Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf." }, { "point_text": "In prayer for each other", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:18", "verse_text": "Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;" }, { "point_text": "In exhortation", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:16", "verse_text": "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord." }, { "point_text": "In exhortation", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:25", "verse_text": "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." }, { "point_text": "In mutual comfort and edification", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:18", "verse_text": "Wherefore comfort one another with these words." }, { "point_text": "In mutual comfort and edification", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:11", "verse_text": "Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do." }, { "point_text": "In mutual sympathy and kindness", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:15", "verse_text": "Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep." }, { "point_text": "In mutual sympathy and kindness", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:32", "verse_text": "And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you." }, { "point_text": "Delight of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 16:3", "verse_text": "But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight." }, { "point_text": "Delight of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 42:4", "verse_text": "When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday." }, { "point_text": "Delight of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 133", "verse_text": "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! 2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; 3 As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore." }, { "point_text": "Delight of", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:32", "verse_text": "That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed." }, { "point_text": "Exhortation to", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:1-3", "verse_text": "I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, 2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; 3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace." }, { "point_text": "Opposed to communion with the wicked", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:14-17", "verse_text": "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you," }, { "point_text": "Opposed to communion with the wicked", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:11", "verse_text": "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJonathan, \nDavid, \nDaniel, \nApostles, \nThe Primitive Church, \n\nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 23:16", "verse_text": "And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJonathan, \nDavid, \nDaniel, \nApostles, \nThe Primitive Church, \n\nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:63", "verse_text": "I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJonathan, \nDavid, \nDaniel, \nApostles, \nThe Primitive Church, \n\nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:17-18", "verse_text": "Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions: 18 That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJonathan, \nDavid, \nDaniel, \nApostles, \nThe Primitive Church, \n\nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:14", "verse_text": "These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJonathan, \nDavid, \nDaniel, \nApostles, \nThe Primitive Church, \n\nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:42", "verse_text": "And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJonathan, \nDavid, \nDaniel, \nApostles, \nThe Primitive Church, \n\nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:12", "verse_text": "And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJonathan, \nDavid, \nDaniel, \nApostles, \nThe Primitive Church, \n\nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:36-38", "verse_text": "And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. 37 And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, 38 Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him unto the ship." } ] }, { "name": "Clouds", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Clouds.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Formed from the sea", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:44", "verse_text": "And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not." }, { "point_text": "Formed from the sea", "verse_ref": "Amos 9:6", "verse_text": "It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name." }, { "point_text": "Are the garment of the sea", "verse_ref": "Job 38:9", "verse_text": "When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it," }, { "point_text": "GOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Established", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 8:28", "verse_text": "When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:" }, { "point_text": "Balanced in the air", "verse_ref": "Job 37:16", "verse_text": "Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?" }, { "point_text": "Disposed in order", "verse_ref": "Job 37:15", "verse_text": "Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?" }, { "point_text": "Brings over the earth", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:14", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:" }, { "point_text": "Binds up", "verse_ref": "Job 26:8", "verse_text": "He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them." }, { "point_text": "Spreads out", "verse_ref": "Job 26:9", "verse_text": "He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it." }, { "point_text": "Scatters", "verse_ref": "Job 37:11", "verse_text": "Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:" }, { "point_text": "Power and wisdom of God exhibited in forming", "verse_ref": "Psalm 135:6", "verse_text": "Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places." }, { "point_text": "Power and wisdom of God exhibited in forming", "verse_ref": "Psalm 147:5", "verse_text": "Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite." }, { "point_text": "Power and wisdom of God exhibited in forming", "verse_ref": "Psalm 147:8", "verse_text": "Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains." }, { "point_text": "Power and wisdom of God exhibited in condensing", "verse_ref": "Job 36:27", "verse_text": "For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:" }, { "point_text": "Power and wisdom of God exhibited in condensing", "verse_ref": "Job 37:10-11", "verse_text": "By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened. 11 Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:" }, { "point_text": "Made for the glory of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:4", "verse_text": "Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens." }, { "point_text": "CALLED THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Clouds of heaven", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:13", "verse_text": "I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him." }, { "point_text": "Clouds of heaven", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:30", "verse_text": "And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory." }, { "point_text": "Windows of heaven", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:11", "verse_text": "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." }, { "point_text": "Windows of heaven", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 24:18", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake." }, { "point_text": "Bottles of heaven", "verse_ref": "Job 38:37", "verse_text": "Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven," }, { "point_text": "Chambers of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:3", "verse_text": "Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:" }, { "point_text": "Chambers of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:13", "verse_text": "He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works." }, { "point_text": "Waters above the firmament", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:7", "verse_text": "And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so." }, { "point_text": "Dust of God's feet", "verse_ref": "Nahum 1:3", "verse_text": "The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet." }, { "point_text": "DIFFERENT KINDS OF, MENTIONED;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "White", "verse_ref": "Revelation 14:14", "verse_text": "And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle." }, { "point_text": "Bright", "verse_ref": "Job 37:11", "verse_text": "Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:" }, { "point_text": "Bright", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 10:1", "verse_text": "Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field." }, { "point_text": "Thick", "verse_ref": "Job 22:14", "verse_text": "Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven." }, { "point_text": "Thick", "verse_ref": "Job 37:11", "verse_text": "Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:" }, { "point_text": "Black", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:45", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel." }, { "point_text": "Swift", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:1", "verse_text": "The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it." }, { "point_text": "Great", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 1:4", "verse_text": "And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire." }, { "point_text": "Small", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:44", "verse_text": "And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not." }, { "point_text": "Often cover the heavens", "verse_ref": "Psalm 147:8", "verse_text": "Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains." }, { "point_text": "Often obscure the sun, &c", "verse_ref": "Job 36:32", "verse_text": "With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt." }, { "point_text": "Often obscure the sun, &c", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 32:7", "verse_text": "And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light." }, { "point_text": "Often dispersed by the wind", "verse_ref": "Hosea 13:3", "verse_text": "Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney." }, { "point_text": "USES OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To give rain", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:4", "verse_text": "LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water." }, { "point_text": "To give rain", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:13-14", "verse_text": "He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works. 14 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;" }, { "point_text": "To supply dew", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:20", "verse_text": "By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew." }, { "point_text": "To supply dew", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 18:4", "verse_text": "For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest." }, { "point_text": "To moderate heat", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 25:5", "verse_text": "Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low." }, { "point_text": "From the west, bring rain", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:54", "verse_text": "And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is." }, { "point_text": "Though small, often bring much rain", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:44-45", "verse_text": "And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not. 45 And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel." }, { "point_text": "Thunder and lightning come from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 77:17-18", "verse_text": "The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad. 18 The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook." }, { "point_text": "The rainbow appears in", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:13-14", "verse_text": "I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. 14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:" }, { "point_text": "Frequently the instrument of God's judgments", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:11-12", "verse_text": "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights." }, { "point_text": "MAN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Ignorant of the spreading of", "verse_ref": "Job 36:29", "verse_text": "Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?" }, { "point_text": "Ignorant of the disposing of", "verse_ref": "Job 37:15", "verse_text": "Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?" }, { "point_text": "Ignorant of the balancing of", "verse_ref": "Job 37:16", "verse_text": "Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?" }, { "point_text": "Cannot number", "verse_ref": "Job 38:37", "verse_text": "Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven," }, { "point_text": "Cannot cause to rain", "verse_ref": "Job 38:34", "verse_text": "Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?" }, { "point_text": "Cannot stay", "verse_ref": "Job 38:37", "verse_text": "Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven," }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of multitudes of persons", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:8", "verse_text": "Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?" }, { "point_text": "Of multitudes of persons", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:1", "verse_text": "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us," }, { "point_text": "Of hostile armies", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:13", "verse_text": "Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled." }, { "point_text": "Of hostile armies", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 38:9", "verse_text": "Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee." }, { "point_text": "Of hostile armies", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 38:16", "verse_text": "And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes." }, { "point_text": "Of sins of men", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:22", "verse_text": "I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee." }, { "point_text": "Of judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 2:1", "verse_text": "How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!" }, { "point_text": "Of judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 30:3", "verse_text": "For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen." }, { "point_text": "Of judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 34:12", "verse_text": "As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day." }, { "point_text": "Of judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:2", "verse_text": "A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations." }, { "point_text": "Of unsearchableness of God", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 22:12", "verse_text": "And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies." }, { "point_text": "Of unsearchableness of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 97:2", "verse_text": "Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne." }, { "point_text": "Of unsearchableness of God", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 1:4", "verse_text": "And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire." }, { "point_text": "(Riding upon,) of the power and greatness of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:3", "verse_text": "Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:" }, { "point_text": "(Riding upon,) of the power and greatness of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:1", "verse_text": "The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it." }, { "point_text": "(Passing away,) of the goodness and prosperity of hypocrites", "verse_ref": "Hosea 6:4", "verse_text": "O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away." }, { "point_text": "(Passing away,) of the goodness and prosperity of hypocrites", "verse_ref": "Hosea 13:3", "verse_text": "Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney." }, { "point_text": "(Without water,) of false teachers", "verse_ref": "Jude 12", "verse_text": "These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;" }, { "point_text": "(Carried away by a tempest,) of false teachers", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:17", "verse_text": "These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever." }, { "point_text": "(Without rain,) of the fraudulent", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:14", "verse_text": "Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain." }, { "point_text": "(A morning without,) of wise rulers", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 23:3-4", "verse_text": "The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. 4 And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain." }, { "point_text": "(When seasonable,) of the favor of good rulers", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:15", "verse_text": "In the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain." } ] }, { "name": "Commandments, The Ten", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Commandments-The-Ten.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Spoken by God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:1", "verse_text": "And God spake all these words, saying," }, { "point_text": "Spoken by God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:4", "verse_text": "The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire," }, { "point_text": "Spoken by God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:22", "verse_text": "These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me." }, { "point_text": "Written by God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:16", "verse_text": "And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables." }, { "point_text": "Written by God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:1", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest." }, { "point_text": "Written by God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:28", "verse_text": "And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments." }, { "point_text": "Enumerated", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:3-17", "verse_text": "Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; 6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. ..." }, { "point_text": "Summed up by Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:35-40", "verse_text": "Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, 36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. ..." }, { "point_text": "Law of, is spiritual.\r\n\n\r\n\r\n(See Law of God, The)", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:28", "verse_text": "But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." }, { "point_text": "Law of, is spiritual.\r\n\n\r\n\r\n(See Law of God, The)", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:14", "verse_text": "For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin." } ] }, { "name": "Commerce", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Commerce.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The barter of one commodity for another", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:8", "verse_text": "And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things which thou sentest to me for: and I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir." }, { "point_text": "The barter of one commodity for another", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:11", "verse_text": "And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year." }, { "point_text": "The exchange of commodities for money", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:28-29", "verse_text": "And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price. 29 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means." }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Trade", "verse_ref": "Genesis 34:10", "verse_text": "And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein." }, { "point_text": "Trade", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:16", "verse_text": "Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents." }, { "point_text": "Traffic", "verse_ref": "Genesis 42:34", "verse_text": "And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land." }, { "point_text": "Traffic", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:4", "verse_text": "He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants." }, { "point_text": "Buying and selling", "verse_ref": "James 4:13", "verse_text": "Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:" }, { "point_text": "ARTICLES OF, CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Merchandise", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:12", "verse_text": "And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water." }, { "point_text": "Merchandise", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:5", "verse_text": "But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:" }, { "point_text": "Wares", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 10:17", "verse_text": "Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress." }, { "point_text": "Wares", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:16", "verse_text": "Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate." }, { "point_text": "Wares", "verse_ref": "Jonah 1:5", "verse_text": "Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep." }, { "point_text": "PERSONS ENGAGED IN, CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Merchants", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:28", "verse_text": "Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Merchants", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:24", "verse_text": "She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant." }, { "point_text": "Chapmen", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:14", "verse_text": "Beside that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon." }, { "point_text": "Traffickers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:8", "verse_text": "Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?" }, { "point_text": "Sellers and buyers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 24:2", "verse_text": "And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him." }, { "point_text": "Carried on in fairs, &c", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:12", "verse_text": "Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs." }, { "point_text": "Carried on in fairs, &c", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:19", "verse_text": "Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market." }, { "point_text": "Inland, by caravans", "verse_ref": "Job 6:19", "verse_text": "The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them." }, { "point_text": "Inland, by caravans", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 21:13", "verse_text": "The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim." }, { "point_text": "Maritime, by ships", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 8:18", "verse_text": "And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon." }, { "point_text": "Maritime, by ships", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:21", "verse_text": "For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks." }, { "point_text": "Persons of distinction engaged in", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:8", "verse_text": "Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?" }, { "point_text": "Increased the wealth of nations and individuals", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:20-22", "verse_text": "And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon. 21 For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. 22 And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom." }, { "point_text": "Increased the wealth of nations and individuals", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:14-18", "verse_text": "She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar. 15 She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. 16 She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard. 17 She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms. ..." }, { "point_text": "Increased the wealth of nations and individuals", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:4-5", "verse_text": "With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: 5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:" }, { "point_text": "CARRIED ON BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Ishmaelites", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:25", "verse_text": "And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Egyptians", "verse_ref": "Genesis 42:2-34", "verse_text": "And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die. 3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt. 4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him. 5 And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan. ..." }, { "point_text": "Ethiopians", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:14", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God." }, { "point_text": "Ninevites", "verse_ref": "Nahum 3:16", "verse_text": "Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away." }, { "point_text": "Syrians", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:16", "verse_text": "Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate." }, { "point_text": "Syrians", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:18", "verse_text": "Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool." }, { "point_text": "People of Tarshish", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:25", "verse_text": "The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas." }, { "point_text": "People of Tyre", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:5", "verse_text": "By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:" }, { "point_text": "People of Tyre", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:13", "verse_text": "Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created." }, { "point_text": "People of Tyre", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:16", "verse_text": "By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire." }, { "point_text": "Jews", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:17", "verse_text": "Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm." }, { "point_text": "OF THE JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Under strict laws", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:36", "verse_text": "Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Under strict laws", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:14", "verse_text": "And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:" }, { "point_text": "Under strict laws", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:17", "verse_text": "Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "Commenced after their settlement in Canaan", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:13", "verse_text": "Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon." }, { "point_text": "Commenced after their settlement in Canaan", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:17", "verse_text": "Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches." }, { "point_text": "Greatly extended by Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 9:26-27", "verse_text": "And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. 27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon." }, { "point_text": "Greatly extended by Solomon", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:21", "verse_text": "For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks." }, { "point_text": "Checked in Jehoshaphat's time", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:48-49", "verse_text": "Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber. 49 Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not." }, { "point_text": "Success in, led to pride, &c", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:2", "verse_text": "Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:" }, { "point_text": "Success in, led to pride, &c", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:16-18", "verse_text": "By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. 17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. 18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee." }, { "point_text": "Evil practices connected with", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:14", "verse_text": "It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth." }, { "point_text": "Evil practices connected with", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:13", "verse_text": "Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee." }, { "point_text": "Evil practices connected with", "verse_ref": "Hosea 12:7", "verse_text": "He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress." }, { "point_text": "Denunciations connected with abuses of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:11", "verse_text": "He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof." }, { "point_text": "Denunciations connected with abuses of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 7:12", "verse_text": "The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof." }, { "point_text": "Denunciations connected with abuses of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:32-36", "verse_text": "And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea? 33 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise. 34 In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall. 35 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance. ..." }, { "point_text": "Denunciations connected with abuses of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:16-18", "verse_text": "By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. 17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. 18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee." }, { "point_text": "ARTICLES OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Blue cloth", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:24", "verse_text": "These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise." }, { "point_text": "Brass", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:13", "verse_text": "Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market." }, { "point_text": "Corn", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:11", "verse_text": "And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year." }, { "point_text": "Corn", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:17", "verse_text": "Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm." }, { "point_text": "Cattle", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:21", "verse_text": "Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants." }, { "point_text": "Chests of rich apparel", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:24", "verse_text": "These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise." }, { "point_text": "Chariots", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:29", "verse_text": "And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means." }, { "point_text": "Clothes for chariots", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:20", "verse_text": "Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots." }, { "point_text": "Embroidery", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:16", "verse_text": "Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate." }, { "point_text": "Embroidery", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:24", "verse_text": "These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise." }, { "point_text": "Gold", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 8:18", "verse_text": "And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon." }, { "point_text": "Honey", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:17", "verse_text": "Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm." }, { "point_text": "Horses", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:29", "verse_text": "And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means." }, { "point_text": "Horses", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:14", "verse_text": "They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules." }, { "point_text": "Ivory", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:21", "verse_text": "For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks." }, { "point_text": "Ivory", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:15", "verse_text": "The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony." }, { "point_text": "Iron and steel", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:12", "verse_text": "Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs." }, { "point_text": "Iron and steel", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:19", "verse_text": "Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market." }, { "point_text": "Land", "verse_ref": "Genesis 23:13-16", "verse_text": "And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there. 14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him, 15 My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead. 16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant." }, { "point_text": "Land", "verse_ref": "Ruth 4:3", "verse_text": "And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's:" }, { "point_text": "Lead", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:12", "verse_text": "Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs." }, { "point_text": "Linen", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:28", "verse_text": "And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price." }, { "point_text": "Oil", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:11", "verse_text": "And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year." }, { "point_text": "Oil", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:17", "verse_text": "Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm." }, { "point_text": "Perfumes", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 3:6", "verse_text": "Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?" }, { "point_text": "Precious stones", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:16", "verse_text": "Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate." }, { "point_text": "Precious stones", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:13", "verse_text": "Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created." }, { "point_text": "Precious stones", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:16", "verse_text": "By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire." }, { "point_text": "Purple", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:16", "verse_text": "Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate." }, { "point_text": "Slaves", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:28", "verse_text": "Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Slaves", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:36", "verse_text": "And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard." }, { "point_text": "Silver", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:21", "verse_text": "For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks." }, { "point_text": "Timber", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:6", "verse_text": "Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians." }, { "point_text": "Timber", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:8", "verse_text": "And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things which thou sentest to me for: and I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir." }, { "point_text": "Tin", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:12", "verse_text": "Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs." }, { "point_text": "White wool", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:18", "verse_text": "Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool." }, { "point_text": "Wine", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:15", "verse_text": "Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:" }, { "point_text": "Wine", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:18", "verse_text": "Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool." }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of intercourse with the apostacy", "verse_ref": "Revelation 18:3-19", "verse_text": "For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. 4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. 6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. ..." } ] }, { "name": "Communion of the Lord's Supper", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Communion-of-the-Lords-Supper.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Prefigured", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:21-28", "verse_text": "Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover. 22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. 23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you. 24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever. ..." }, { "point_text": "Prefigured", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 5:7-8", "verse_text": "Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." }, { "point_text": "Instituted", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:26", "verse_text": "And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body." }, { "point_text": "Instituted", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:23", "verse_text": "For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:" }, { "point_text": "Object of", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:19", "verse_text": "And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me." }, { "point_text": "Object of", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:24", "verse_text": "And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me." }, { "point_text": "Object of", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:26", "verse_text": "For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come." }, { "point_text": "Is the communion of the body and blood of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:16", "verse_text": "The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?" }, { "point_text": "Both bread and wine are necessary to be received in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:27", "verse_text": "And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;" }, { "point_text": "Both bread and wine are necessary to be received in", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:26", "verse_text": "For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come." }, { "point_text": "Self-examination commanded before partaking of", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:28", "verse_text": "But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup." }, { "point_text": "Self-examination commanded before partaking of", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:31", "verse_text": "For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged." }, { "point_text": "Newness of heart and life necessary to the worthy partaking of", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 5:7-8", "verse_text": "Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." }, { "point_text": "Partakers of, be wholly separate unto God", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:21", "verse_text": "Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils." }, { "point_text": "Was continually partaken of, by the Primitive Church", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:42", "verse_text": "And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers." }, { "point_text": "Was continually partaken of, by the Primitive Church", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:7", "verse_text": "And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight." }, { "point_text": "UNWORTHY PARTAKERS OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Are guilty of the body and blood of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:27", "verse_text": "Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Discern not the Lord's body", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:29", "verse_text": "For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body." }, { "point_text": "Are visited with judgments", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:30", "verse_text": "For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep." } ] }, { "name": "Cities", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Cities.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "First mention of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:17", "verse_text": "And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch." }, { "point_text": "Designed for habitations", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:7", "verse_text": "And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation." }, { "point_text": "Designed for habitations", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:36", "verse_text": "And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;" }, { "point_text": "Often built to perpetuate a name", "verse_ref": "Genesis 11:4", "verse_text": "And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." }, { "point_text": "Often founded and enlarged by blood and rapine", "verse_ref": "Micah 3:10", "verse_text": "They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Often founded and enlarged by blood and rapine", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:12", "verse_text": "Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!" }, { "point_text": "BUILT", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of brick and slime", "verse_ref": "Genesis 11:3", "verse_text": "And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter." }, { "point_text": "Of stone and wood", "verse_ref": "Psalm 102:14", "verse_text": "For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof." }, { "point_text": "Of stone and wood", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:12", "verse_text": "And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water." }, { "point_text": "Of brick and mortar", "verse_ref": "Exodus 1:11", "verse_text": "Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses." }, { "point_text": "Of brick and mortar", "verse_ref": "Exodus 1:14", "verse_text": "And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour." }, { "point_text": "On solid foundations", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:3", "verse_text": "In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;" }, { "point_text": "On solid foundations", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:14", "verse_text": "And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb." }, { "point_text": "With compactness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 122:3", "verse_text": "Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:" }, { "point_text": "Often of a square form", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:16", "verse_text": "And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal." }, { "point_text": "Beside rivers", "verse_ref": "Psalm 46:4", "verse_text": "There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High." }, { "point_text": "Beside rivers", "verse_ref": "Psalm 137:1", "verse_text": "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion." }, { "point_text": "On hills", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:14", "verse_text": "Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid." }, { "point_text": "On hills", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:29", "verse_text": "And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong." }, { "point_text": "On hills", "verse_ref": "Revelation 17:9", "verse_text": "And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth." }, { "point_text": "In plains", "verse_ref": "Genesis 11:2", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there." }, { "point_text": "In plains", "verse_ref": "Genesis 13:12", "verse_text": "Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom." }, { "point_text": "In desert places", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 8:4", "verse_text": "And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath." }, { "point_text": "In desert places", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:35-36", "verse_text": "He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings. 36 And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;" }, { "point_text": "In pleasant situations", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 2:19", "verse_text": "And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren." }, { "point_text": "In pleasant situations", "verse_ref": "Psalm 48:2", "verse_text": "Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King." }, { "point_text": "Arranged in streets and lanes", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:39", "verse_text": "And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto Kirjathhuzoth." }, { "point_text": "Arranged in streets and lanes", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 8:5", "verse_text": "And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof." }, { "point_text": "Arranged in streets and lanes", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:21", "verse_text": "So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind." }, { "point_text": "Entered through gates", "verse_ref": "Genesis 34:24", "verse_text": "And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city." }, { "point_text": "Entered through gates", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:19", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day." }, { "point_text": "Entered through gates", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:22", "verse_text": "And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy." }, { "point_text": "Surrounded with walls", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:28", "verse_text": "Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there." }, { "point_text": "Surrounded with walls", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 3:5", "verse_text": "All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many." }, { "point_text": "Often fortified by nature", "verse_ref": "Psalm 125:2", "verse_text": "As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever." }, { "point_text": "Often fortified by nature", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:16", "verse_text": "He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure." }, { "point_text": "Often fortified by art", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 11:5-10", "verse_text": "And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in Judah. 6 He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa, 7 And Bethzur, and Shoco, and Adullam, 8 And Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph, ..." }, { "point_text": "Often fortified by art", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 11:23", "verse_text": "And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes had suburbs", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:2", "verse_text": "Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes had suburbs", "verse_ref": "Joshua 21:3", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their inheritance, at the commandment of the LORD, these cities and their suburbs." }, { "point_text": "WERE CALLED AFTER", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The family of the founder", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:17", "verse_text": "And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch." }, { "point_text": "The family of the founder", "verse_ref": "Judges 18:29", "verse_text": "And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the first." }, { "point_text": "The proprietor of the land", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:24", "verse_text": "And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria." }, { "point_text": "The country in which built", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:29-30", "verse_text": "At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. 30 The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?" }, { "point_text": "Numerous", "verse_ref": "Joshua 15:21", "verse_text": "And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur," }, { "point_text": "Numerous", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 2:22", "verse_text": "And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead." }, { "point_text": "Numerous", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:28", "verse_text": "But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah." }, { "point_text": "Densely inhabited", "verse_ref": "Jonah 4:11", "verse_text": "And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?" }, { "point_text": "Densely inhabited", "verse_ref": "Nahum 3:8", "verse_text": "Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?" }, { "point_text": "Often great and goodly", "verse_ref": "Genesis 10:12", "verse_text": "And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city." }, { "point_text": "Often great and goodly", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 6:10", "verse_text": "And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not," }, { "point_text": "Often great and goodly", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:30", "verse_text": "The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?" }, { "point_text": "Often great and goodly", "verse_ref": "Jonah 3:3", "verse_text": "So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey." }, { "point_text": "Often of great antiquity", "verse_ref": "Genesis 10:11-12", "verse_text": "Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, 12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city." }, { "point_text": "Often insignificant", "verse_ref": "Genesis 19:20", "verse_text": "Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live." }, { "point_text": "Often insignificant", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 9:14", "verse_text": "There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:" }, { "point_text": "DIFFERENT KINDS OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Royal", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:26", "verse_text": "For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon." }, { "point_text": "Royal", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:2", "verse_text": "That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty." }, { "point_text": "Royal", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:26", "verse_text": "And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city." }, { "point_text": "Fenced", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:20", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest which remained of them entered into fenced cities." }, { "point_text": "Fenced", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 36:1", "verse_text": "Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them." }, { "point_text": "Treasure", "verse_ref": "Exodus 1:11", "verse_text": "Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses." }, { "point_text": "Commercial", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:11", "verse_text": "He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof." }, { "point_text": "Commercial", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:3", "verse_text": "And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty." }, { "point_text": "Chariot", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 1:14", "verse_text": "And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Chariot", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:25", "verse_text": "And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Store", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 8:4", "verse_text": "And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath." }, { "point_text": "Store", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 8:6", "verse_text": "And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion." }, { "point_text": "Levitical", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:32-33", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time. 33 And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Refuge", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:6", "verse_text": "And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites there shall be six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add forty and two cities." }, { "point_text": "Inhabitants of, called citizens", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:39", "verse_text": "But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people." }, { "point_text": "Prosperity of, increased by commerce", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:13", "verse_text": "Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon." }, { "point_text": "Prosperity of, increased by commerce", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:18-19", "verse_text": "And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and, Issachar, in thy tents. 19 They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand." }, { "point_text": "Artificial mode of supplying water to", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:17", "verse_text": "And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field." }, { "point_text": "Artificial mode of supplying water to", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:20", "verse_text": "And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?" }, { "point_text": "Infested by dogs", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 14:11", "verse_text": "Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken it." }, { "point_text": "Infested by dogs", "verse_ref": "Psalm 59:6", "verse_text": "They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city." }, { "point_text": "Infested by dogs", "verse_ref": "Psalm 59:14", "verse_text": "And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city." }, { "point_text": "Under governors", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:14", "verse_text": "Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah." }, { "point_text": "Under governors", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 11:32", "verse_text": "In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:" }, { "point_text": "Provided with judges", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:18", "verse_text": "Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment." }, { "point_text": "Provided with judges", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 19:5", "verse_text": "And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city," }, { "point_text": "Protected at night by watchmen", "verse_ref": "Psalm 127:1", "verse_text": "Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." }, { "point_text": "Protected at night by watchmen", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:7", "verse_text": "The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me." }, { "point_text": "Protected at night by watchmen", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 21:11", "verse_text": "The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?" }, { "point_text": "Furnished with stores", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 11:11-12", "verse_text": "And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine. 12 And in every several city he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side." }, { "point_text": "Garrisoned in war", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 17:2", "verse_text": "And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken." }, { "point_text": "Garrisoned in war", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 17:19", "verse_text": "These waited on the king, beside those whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah." }, { "point_text": "Often had citadels", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:51", "verse_text": "But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower." }, { "point_text": "A great defence to a country", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 11:5", "verse_text": "And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in Judah." }, { "point_text": "Afforded refuge in times of danger", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:14-16", "verse_text": "Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD. 15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble! 16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein." }, { "point_text": "Often deserted on the approach of an enemy", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 31:7", "verse_text": "And when the men of Israel that were on the other side of the valley, and they that were on the other side Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them." }, { "point_text": "Often deserted on the approach of an enemy", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:29", "verse_text": "The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein." }, { "point_text": "WERE FREQUENTLY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Stormed", "verse_ref": "Joshua 8:3-7", "verse_text": "So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night. 4 And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready: 5 And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them, 6 (For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them. ..." }, { "point_text": "Stormed", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:44", "verse_text": "And Abimelech, and the company that was with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and the two other companies ran upon all the people that were in the fields, and slew them." }, { "point_text": "Besieged", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:52", "verse_text": "And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee." }, { "point_text": "Besieged", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:24-25", "verse_text": "I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places. 25 Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps." }, { "point_text": "Pillaged", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:16", "verse_text": "Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished." }, { "point_text": "Pillaged", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 20:5", "verse_text": "Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon." }, { "point_text": "Wasted by pestilence", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 5:11", "verse_text": "So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there." }, { "point_text": "Wasted by famine", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 52:6", "verse_text": "And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land." }, { "point_text": "Wasted by famine", "verse_ref": "Amos 4:6", "verse_text": "And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Depopulated", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 17:9", "verse_text": "In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation." }, { "point_text": "Depopulated", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:19", "verse_text": "For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee;" }, { "point_text": "Burned", "verse_ref": "Judges 20:38", "verse_text": "Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city." }, { "point_text": "Burned", "verse_ref": "Judges 20:40", "verse_text": "But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven." }, { "point_text": "Made heaps of ruins", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 25:2", "verse_text": "For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built." }, { "point_text": "Razed and sown with salt", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:45", "verse_text": "And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt." }, { "point_text": "Difficulty of taking, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 18:19", "verse_text": "A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle." }, { "point_text": "Difficulty of taking, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 1:18-19", "verse_text": "For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land. 19 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee." }, { "point_text": "Perishable nature of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:14", "verse_text": "For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Saints", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:14", "verse_text": "Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid." }, { "point_text": "Visible church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 3:2-3", "verse_text": "I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. 3 The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?" }, { "point_text": "Church triumphant", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:2", "verse_text": "And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband." }, { "point_text": "Church triumphant", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:19", "verse_text": "And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book." }, { "point_text": "Heavenly inheritance", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:16", "verse_text": "But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city." }, { "point_text": "The apostacy", "verse_ref": "Revelation 16:10", "verse_text": "And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain," }, { "point_text": "The apostacy", "verse_ref": "Revelation 17:18", "verse_text": "And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Riches", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:15", "verse_text": "The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty." } ] }, { "name": "Cities of Refuge", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Cities-of-Refuge.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Design of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:13", "verse_text": "And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee." }, { "point_text": "Design of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:11", "verse_text": "Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares." }, { "point_text": "Design of", "verse_ref": "Joshua 20:3", "verse_text": "That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood." }, { "point_text": "Names &c. of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:41-43", "verse_text": "Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising; 42 That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live: 43 Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites." }, { "point_text": "Names &c. of", "verse_ref": "Joshua 20:7-8", "verse_text": "And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah. 8 And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh." }, { "point_text": "REQUIRED TO BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Easy of access", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 19:3", "verse_text": "Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither." }, { "point_text": "Easy of access", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 62:10", "verse_text": "Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people." }, { "point_text": "Open to all manslayers", "verse_ref": "Joshua 20:4", "verse_text": "And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them." }, { "point_text": "Strangers might take advantage of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:15", "verse_text": "These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither." }, { "point_text": "THOSE ADMITTED TO,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Were put on their trial", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:12", "verse_text": "And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment." }, { "point_text": "Were put on their trial", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:24", "verse_text": "Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:" }, { "point_text": "Not protected outside of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:26-27", "verse_text": "But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge, whither he was fled; 27 And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:" }, { "point_text": "Obliged to remain in, until the high priest's death", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:25", "verse_text": "And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil." }, { "point_text": "Obliged to remain in, until the high priest's death", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:28", "verse_text": "Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession." }, { "point_text": "Afforded no asylum to murderers", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:14", "verse_text": "But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die." }, { "point_text": "Afforded no asylum to murderers", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:16-21", "verse_text": "And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. 17 And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. 18 Or if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. 19 The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him. ..." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of Christ", "verse_ref": "Psalm 91:2", "verse_text": "I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust." }, { "point_text": "Of Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 25:4", "verse_text": "For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall." }, { "point_text": "Of the hope of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:18", "verse_text": "That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:" }, { "point_text": "(The way to,) of Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 35:8", "verse_text": "And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein." }, { "point_text": "(The way to,) of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 14:6", "verse_text": "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." } ] }, { "name": "Communion with God", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Communion-with-God.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is communion with the Father", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:3", "verse_text": "That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Is communion with the Son", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:9", "verse_text": "God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord." }, { "point_text": "Is communion with the Son", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:3", "verse_text": "That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Is communion with the Son", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:20", "verse_text": "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." }, { "point_text": "Is communion with the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:13", "verse_text": "For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit." }, { "point_text": "Is communion with the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 13:14", "verse_text": "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Is communion with the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:1", "verse_text": "If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies," }, { "point_text": "Reconciliation must precede", "verse_ref": "Amos 3:3", "verse_text": "Can two walk together, except they be agreed?" }, { "point_text": "Holiness essential to", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:14-16", "verse_text": "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people." }, { "point_text": "Promised to the obedient", "verse_ref": "John 14:23", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Desire", "verse_ref": "Psalm 42:1", "verse_text": "As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God." }, { "point_text": "Desire", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:23", "verse_text": "For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:" }, { "point_text": "Have, in meditation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 63:5-6", "verse_text": "My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips: 6 When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches." }, { "point_text": "Have, in prayer", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:6", "verse_text": "Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God." }, { "point_text": "Have, in prayer", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:16", "verse_text": "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." }, { "point_text": "Have, in the Lord's supper", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:16", "verse_text": "The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?" }, { "point_text": "Should always enjoy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 16:8", "verse_text": "I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved." }, { "point_text": "Should always enjoy", "verse_ref": "John 14:16-18", "verse_text": "And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. 18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 5:24", "verse_text": "And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 6:9", "verse_text": "These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:33", "verse_text": "And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:24-29", "verse_text": "And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. 25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. 26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. 27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 33:11-23", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle. 12 And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight. 13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people. 14 And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. ..." } ] }, { "name": "Cloud of Glory", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Cloud-of-Glory.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "First manifestation of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:20-21", "verse_text": "And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness. 21 And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:" }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The cloud", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:5", "verse_text": "And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Pillar of cloud and pillar of fire", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:22", "verse_text": "He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people." }, { "point_text": "Cloudy pillar", "verse_ref": "Exodus 33:9-10", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the LORD talked with Moses. 10 And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man in his tent door." }, { "point_text": "Cloud of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:34", "verse_text": "And the cloud of the LORD was upon them by day, when they went out of the camp." }, { "point_text": "The presence of God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 33:14-15", "verse_text": "And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. 15 And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence." }, { "point_text": "God's glory manifested in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:10", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud." }, { "point_text": "God's glory manifested in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:35", "verse_text": "And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle." }, { "point_text": "God came down in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:5", "verse_text": "And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "God came down in", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:25", "verse_text": "And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease." }, { "point_text": "God spoke from", "verse_ref": "Exodus 24:16", "verse_text": "And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud." }, { "point_text": "God spoke from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 99:7", "verse_text": "He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them." }, { "point_text": "WAS DESIGNED TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Regulate the movements of Israel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:36-37", "verse_text": "And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys: 37 But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up." }, { "point_text": "Guide Israel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:21", "verse_text": "And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:" }, { "point_text": "Guide Israel", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:19", "verse_text": "Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go." }, { "point_text": "Shew light to Israel", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:14", "verse_text": "In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire." }, { "point_text": "Shew light to Israel", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:39", "verse_text": "He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night." }, { "point_text": "Defend Israel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:19", "verse_text": "And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:" }, { "point_text": "Defend Israel", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:39", "verse_text": "He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night." }, { "point_text": "Cover the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:34", "verse_text": "Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle." }, { "point_text": "Cover the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 9:15", "verse_text": "And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning." }, { "point_text": "Was dark to the enemies of Israel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:20", "verse_text": "And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night." }, { "point_text": "Was the Shekinah over the mercy-seat", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:2", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat." }, { "point_text": "Continued during the journeyings of Israel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:22", "verse_text": "He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people." }, { "point_text": "Continued during the journeyings of Israel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:38", "verse_text": "For the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys." }, { "point_text": "Manifested in the temple of Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:10-11", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD, 11 So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Manifested in the temple of Solomon", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 5:13", "verse_text": "It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;" }, { "point_text": "Manifested in the temple of Solomon", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 10:4", "verse_text": "Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD'S glory." }, { "point_text": "SPECIAL APPEARANCES OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "At the murmuring for bread", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:10", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud." }, { "point_text": "At giving of the law", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:9", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "At giving of the law", "verse_ref": "Exodus 24:16-18", "verse_text": "And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel. 18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights." }, { "point_text": "At sedition of Aaron and Miriam", "verse_ref": "Numbers 12:5", "verse_text": "And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth." }, { "point_text": "At the murmuring of Israel on the report of the spies", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:10", "verse_text": "But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "At the rebellion of Korah, &c", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:19", "verse_text": "And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation." }, { "point_text": "At the murmuring of Israel on account of Korah's death", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:42", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared." }, { "point_text": "At Christ's transfiguration", "verse_ref": "Matthew 17:5", "verse_text": "While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him." }, { "point_text": "At Christ's ascension", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:9", "verse_text": "And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight." }, { "point_text": "Our Lord shall make His second appearance in", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:27", "verse_text": "And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory." }, { "point_text": "Our Lord shall make His second appearance in", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:11", "verse_text": "Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The glory of Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 10:1", "verse_text": "And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:" }, { "point_text": "The protection of the church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 4:5", "verse_text": "And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence." } ] }, { "name": "Church, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Church-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Belongs to God", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:15", "verse_text": "But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth." }, { "point_text": "The body of Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:23", "verse_text": "Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all." }, { "point_text": "The body of Christ", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:24", "verse_text": "Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:" }, { "point_text": "Christ, the foundation-stone of", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:11", "verse_text": "For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Christ, the foundation-stone of", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:20", "verse_text": "And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;" }, { "point_text": "Christ, the foundation-stone of", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:4-5", "verse_text": "To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, 5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Christ, the head of", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:22", "verse_text": "And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church," }, { "point_text": "Christ, the head of", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:23", "verse_text": "For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body." }, { "point_text": "Loved by Christ", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 7:10", "verse_text": "I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me." }, { "point_text": "Loved by Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:25", "verse_text": "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;" }, { "point_text": "Purchased by the blood of Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:28", "verse_text": "Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood." }, { "point_text": "Purchased by the blood of Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:25", "verse_text": "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;" }, { "point_text": "Purchased by the blood of Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:12", "verse_text": "Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us." }, { "point_text": "Sanctified and cleansed by Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:11", "verse_text": "And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God." }, { "point_text": "Sanctified and cleansed by Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:26-27", "verse_text": "That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish." }, { "point_text": "Subject to Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:4", "verse_text": "Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God." }, { "point_text": "Subject to Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:24", "verse_text": "Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing." }, { "point_text": "The object of the grace of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 27:3", "verse_text": "I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day." }, { "point_text": "The object of the grace of God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:1", "verse_text": "Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;" }, { "point_text": "Displays the wisdom of God", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:10", "verse_text": "To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God," }, { "point_text": "Shews forth the praises of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:6", "verse_text": "The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "God defends", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:18", "verse_text": "For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king." }, { "point_text": "God defends", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 4:5", "verse_text": "And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence." }, { "point_text": "God defends", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:25", "verse_text": "But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children." }, { "point_text": "God defends", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:18", "verse_text": "And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." }, { "point_text": "God provides ministers for", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:15", "verse_text": "And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding." }, { "point_text": "God provides ministers for", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:11-12", "verse_text": "And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Glory to be ascribed to God by", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:21", "verse_text": "Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Elect", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:13", "verse_text": "The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son." }, { "point_text": "Glorious", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:13", "verse_text": "The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold." }, { "point_text": "Glorious", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:27", "verse_text": "That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish." }, { "point_text": "Clothed in righteousness", "verse_ref": "Revelation 19:8", "verse_text": "And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints." }, { "point_text": "Believers continually added to, by the Lord", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:27", "verse_text": "Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption." }, { "point_text": "Believers continually added to, by the Lord", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:14", "verse_text": "And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)" }, { "point_text": "Believers continually added to, by the Lord", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:24", "verse_text": "For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Unity of", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:5", "verse_text": "So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another." }, { "point_text": "Unity of", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:17", "verse_text": "For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread." }, { "point_text": "Unity of", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:12", "verse_text": "For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ." }, { "point_text": "Unity of", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:28", "verse_text": "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Saints baptized into, by one Spirit", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:13", "verse_text": "For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit." }, { "point_text": "Ministers commanded to feed", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:28", "verse_text": "Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood." }, { "point_text": "Is edified by the word", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:4", "verse_text": "He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church." }, { "point_text": "Is edified by the word", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:13", "verse_text": "Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret." }, { "point_text": "The wicked persecute", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:1-3", "verse_text": "And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles. 2 And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him. 3 As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison." }, { "point_text": "The wicked persecute", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:14-15", "verse_text": "For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: 15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:" }, { "point_text": "Not to be despised", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:22", "verse_text": "What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not." }, { "point_text": "Defiling of, will be punished", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:17", "verse_text": "If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are." }, { "point_text": "Extent of, predicted", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:2", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it." }, { "point_text": "Extent of, predicted", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:22-24", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent: 23 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell. 24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it." }, { "point_text": "Extent of, predicted", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:34-35", "verse_text": "Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. 35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth." }, { "point_text": "Belongs to God", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:15", "verse_text": "But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth." }, { "point_text": "The body of Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:23", "verse_text": "Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all." }, { "point_text": "The body of Christ", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:24", "verse_text": "Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:" }, { "point_text": "Christ, the foundation-stone of", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:11", "verse_text": "For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Christ, the foundation-stone of", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:20", "verse_text": "And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;" }, { "point_text": "Christ, the foundation-stone of", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:4-5", "verse_text": "To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, 5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Christ, the head of", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:22", "verse_text": "And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church," }, { "point_text": "Christ, the head of", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:23", "verse_text": "For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body." }, { "point_text": "Loved by Christ", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 7:10", "verse_text": "I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me." }, { "point_text": "Loved by Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:25", "verse_text": "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;" }, { "point_text": "Purchased by the blood of Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:28", "verse_text": "Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood." }, { "point_text": "Purchased by the blood of Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:25", "verse_text": "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;" }, { "point_text": "Purchased by the blood of Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:12", "verse_text": "Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us." }, { "point_text": "Sanctified and cleansed by Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:11", "verse_text": "And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God." }, { "point_text": "Sanctified and cleansed by Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:26-27", "verse_text": "That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish." }, { "point_text": "Subject to Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:4", "verse_text": "Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God." }, { "point_text": "Subject to Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:24", "verse_text": "Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing." }, { "point_text": "The object of the grace of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 27:3", "verse_text": "I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day." }, { "point_text": "The object of the grace of God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:1", "verse_text": "Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;" }, { "point_text": "Displays the wisdom of God", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:10", "verse_text": "To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God," }, { "point_text": "Shews forth the praises of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:6", "verse_text": "The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "God defends", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:18", "verse_text": "For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king." }, { "point_text": "God defends", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 4:5", "verse_text": "And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence." }, { "point_text": "God defends", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:25", "verse_text": "But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children." }, { "point_text": "God defends", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:18", "verse_text": "And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." }, { "point_text": "God provides ministers for", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:15", "verse_text": "And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding." }, { "point_text": "God provides ministers for", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:11-12", "verse_text": "And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Glory to be ascribed to God by", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:21", "verse_text": "Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Elect", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:13", "verse_text": "The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son." }, { "point_text": "Glorious", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:13", "verse_text": "The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold." }, { "point_text": "Glorious", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:27", "verse_text": "That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish." }, { "point_text": "Clothed in righteousness", "verse_ref": "Revelation 19:8", "verse_text": "And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints." }, { "point_text": "Believers continually added to, by the Lord", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:27", "verse_text": "Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption." }, { "point_text": "Believers continually added to, by the Lord", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:14", "verse_text": "And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)" }, { "point_text": "Believers continually added to, by the Lord", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:24", "verse_text": "For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Unity of", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:5", "verse_text": "So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another." }, { "point_text": "Unity of", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:17", "verse_text": "For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread." }, { "point_text": "Unity of", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:12", "verse_text": "For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ." }, { "point_text": "Unity of", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:28", "verse_text": "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Saints baptized into, by one Spirit", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:13", "verse_text": "For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit." }, { "point_text": "Ministers commanded to feed", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:28", "verse_text": "Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood." }, { "point_text": "Is edified by the word", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:4", "verse_text": "He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church." }, { "point_text": "Is edified by the word", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:13", "verse_text": "Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret." }, { "point_text": "The wicked persecute", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:1-3", "verse_text": "And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles. 2 And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him. 3 As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison." }, { "point_text": "The wicked persecute", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:14-15", "verse_text": "For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: 15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:" }, { "point_text": "Not to be despised", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:22", "verse_text": "What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not." }, { "point_text": "Defiling of, will be punished", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:17", "verse_text": "If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are." }, { "point_text": "Extent of, predicted", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:2", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it." }, { "point_text": "Extent of, predicted", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:22-24", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent: 23 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell. 24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it." }, { "point_text": "Extent of, predicted", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:34-35", "verse_text": "Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. 35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth." } ] }, { "name": "Compassion and Sympathy", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Compassion-and-Sympathy.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Christ set an example of", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:41-42", "verse_text": "And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, 42 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes." }, { "point_text": "Exhortation to", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:15", "verse_text": "Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep." }, { "point_text": "Exhortation to", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:8", "verse_text": "Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:" }, { "point_text": "EXERCISE TOWARDS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The afflicted", "verse_ref": "Job 6:14", "verse_text": "To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty." }, { "point_text": "The afflicted", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:3", "verse_text": "Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body." }, { "point_text": "The chastened", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:4", "verse_text": "Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people." }, { "point_text": "The chastened", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:1", "verse_text": "Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!" }, { "point_text": "Enemies", "verse_ref": "Psalm 35:13", "verse_text": "But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom." }, { "point_text": "The poor", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:17", "verse_text": "He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again." }, { "point_text": "The weak", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 11:29", "verse_text": "Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?" }, { "point_text": "The weak", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:2", "verse_text": "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ." }, { "point_text": "Saints", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:25-26", "verse_text": "That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. 26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it." }, { "point_text": "Inseparable from love to God", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:17", "verse_text": "But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?" }, { "point_text": "Inseparable from love to God", "verse_ref": "John 4:20", "verse_text": "Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship." }, { "point_text": "MOTIVES TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The compassion of God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:27", "verse_text": "So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?" }, { "point_text": "The compassion of God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:33", "verse_text": "Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened." }, { "point_text": "The sense of our infirmities", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 5:2", "verse_text": "Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity." }, { "point_text": "The wicked made to feel, for saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:46", "verse_text": "He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives." }, { "point_text": "Promise to those who show", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:17", "verse_text": "He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again." }, { "point_text": "Promise to those who show", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:42", "verse_text": "And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:33", "verse_text": "But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him," }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:20", "verse_text": "And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh's Daughter, \nShobi, &c. \nElijah, \nNehemiah, \nJob's friends, \nJob, \nDavid, \nJews, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:6", "verse_text": "And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh's Daughter, \nShobi, &c. \nElijah, \nNehemiah, \nJob's friends, \nJob, \nDavid, \nJews, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 17:27-29", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim, 28 Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse, 29 And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh's Daughter, \nShobi, &c. \nElijah, \nNehemiah, \nJob's friends, \nJob, \nDavid, \nJews, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 17:18-19", "verse_text": "And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son? 19 And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh's Daughter, \nShobi, &c. \nElijah, \nNehemiah, \nJob's friends, \nJob, \nDavid, \nJews, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 1:4", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh's Daughter, \nShobi, &c. \nElijah, \nNehemiah, \nJob's friends, \nJob, \nDavid, \nJews, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Job 2:11", "verse_text": "Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh's Daughter, \nShobi, &c. \nElijah, \nNehemiah, \nJob's friends, \nJob, \nDavid, \nJews, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Job 30:25", "verse_text": "Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh's Daughter, \nShobi, &c. \nElijah, \nNehemiah, \nJob's friends, \nJob, \nDavid, \nJews, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 35:13-14", "verse_text": "But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom. 14 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh's Daughter, \nShobi, &c. \nElijah, \nNehemiah, \nJob's friends, \nJob, \nDavid, \nJews, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "John 11:19", "verse_text": "And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh's Daughter, \nShobi, &c. \nElijah, \nNehemiah, \nJob's friends, \nJob, \nDavid, \nJews, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:22", "verse_text": "To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some." } ] }, { "name": "Condemnation", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Condemnation.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The sentence of God against sin", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:41", "verse_text": "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:" }, { "point_text": "Universal, caused by the offence of Adam", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:12", "verse_text": "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:" }, { "point_text": "Universal, caused by the offence of Adam", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:16", "verse_text": "And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification." }, { "point_text": "Universal, caused by the offence of Adam", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:18", "verse_text": "Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life." }, { "point_text": "Inseparable consequence of sin", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:2", "verse_text": "A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn." }, { "point_text": "Inseparable consequence of sin", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:23", "verse_text": "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." }, { "point_text": "INCREASED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Impenitence", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:20-24", "verse_text": "Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not: 21 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you. 23 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. ..." }, { "point_text": "Unbelief", "verse_ref": "John 3:18-19", "verse_text": "He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil." }, { "point_text": "Pride", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:6", "verse_text": "Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil." }, { "point_text": "Oppression", "verse_ref": "James 5:1-5", "verse_text": "Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. 3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. 4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. ..." }, { "point_text": "Hypocrisy", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:14", "verse_text": "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation." }, { "point_text": "Conscience testifies to the justice of", "verse_ref": "Job 9:20", "verse_text": "If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse." }, { "point_text": "Conscience testifies to the justice of", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:1", "verse_text": "Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things." }, { "point_text": "Conscience testifies to the justice of", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:11", "verse_text": "Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself." }, { "point_text": "The law testifies to the justice of", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:19", "verse_text": "Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God." }, { "point_text": "According to men's deserts", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:37", "verse_text": "For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned." }, { "point_text": "According to men's deserts", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 11:15", "verse_text": "Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works." }, { "point_text": "Saints are delivered from, by Christ", "verse_ref": "John 3:18", "verse_text": "He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." }, { "point_text": "Saints are delivered from, by Christ", "verse_ref": "John 5:24", "verse_text": "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life." }, { "point_text": "Saints are delivered from, by Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:1", "verse_text": "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." }, { "point_text": "Saints are delivered from, by Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:33-34", "verse_text": "Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. 34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us." }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked, an example", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:7", "verse_text": "And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:" }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked, an example", "verse_ref": "Jude 7", "verse_text": "Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire." }, { "point_text": "Chastisements are designed to rescue us from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 94:12-13", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law; 13 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked." }, { "point_text": "Chastisements are designed to rescue us from", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:32", "verse_text": "But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world." }, { "point_text": "Apostates ordained to", "verse_ref": "Jude 4", "verse_text": "For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Unbelievers remain under", "verse_ref": "John 3:18", "verse_text": "He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." }, { "point_text": "Unbelievers remain under", "verse_ref": "John 3:36", "verse_text": "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him." }, { "point_text": "The law is the ministration of", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 3:9", "verse_text": "For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory." } ] }, { "name": "Compassion and Sympathy of Christ, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Compassion-and-Sympathy-of-Christ-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Necessary to his priestly office", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 5:2", "verse_text": "Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity." }, { "point_text": "Necessary to his priestly office", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 5:7", "verse_text": "Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;" }, { "point_text": "MANIFESTED FOR THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Weary and heavy-laden", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:28-30", "verse_text": "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." }, { "point_text": "Weak in faith", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:11", "verse_text": "He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young." }, { "point_text": "Weak in faith", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:3", "verse_text": "A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth." }, { "point_text": "Weak in faith", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:20", "verse_text": "A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory." }, { "point_text": "Tempted", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:18", "verse_text": "For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted." }, { "point_text": "Afflicted", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:13", "verse_text": "And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not." }, { "point_text": "Afflicted", "verse_ref": "John 11:33", "verse_text": "When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled," }, { "point_text": "Afflicted", "verse_ref": "John 11:35", "verse_text": "Jesus wept." }, { "point_text": "Diseased", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:14", "verse_text": "And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick." }, { "point_text": "Diseased", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:41", "verse_text": "And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean." }, { "point_text": "Poor", "verse_ref": "Mark 8:2", "verse_text": "I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:" }, { "point_text": "Perishing sinners", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:36", "verse_text": "But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd." }, { "point_text": "Perishing sinners", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:41", "verse_text": "And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it," }, { "point_text": "Perishing sinners", "verse_ref": "John 3:16", "verse_text": "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." }, { "point_text": "An encouragement to prayer", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:15", "verse_text": "For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." } ] }, { "name": "Confessing Christ", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Confessing-Christ.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Influences of the Holy Spirit necessary to", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:3", "verse_text": "Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Influences of the Holy Spirit necessary to", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:2", "verse_text": "Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:" }, { "point_text": "A test of being saints", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:23", "verse_text": "Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also." }, { "point_text": "A test of being saints", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:2-3", "verse_text": "Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world." }, { "point_text": "An evidence of union with God", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:15", "verse_text": "Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God." }, { "point_text": "Necessary to salvation", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:9-10", "verse_text": "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." }, { "point_text": "Ensures His confessing us", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:32", "verse_text": "Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven." }, { "point_text": "The fear of man prevents", "verse_ref": "John 7:13", "verse_text": "Howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews." }, { "point_text": "The fear of man prevents", "verse_ref": "John 12:42-43", "verse_text": "Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: 43 For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God." }, { "point_text": "Persecution should not prevent us from", "verse_ref": "Mark 8:35", "verse_text": "For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it." }, { "point_text": "Persecution should not prevent us from", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:12", "verse_text": "If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:" }, { "point_text": "Must be connected with faith", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:9", "verse_text": "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." }, { "point_text": "Consequences of not", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:33", "verse_text": "But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNathanael, \nPeter, \nMan born blind, \n\nMartha, \nPeter and John, \nApostles, \n\nStephen, \n\nPaul, \nTimothy, \nJohn, \nChurch in Pergamos, \nMartyrs,", "verse_ref": "John 1:49", "verse_text": "Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNathanael, \nPeter, \nMan born blind, \n\nMartha, \nPeter and John, \nApostles, \n\nStephen, \n\nPaul, \nTimothy, \nJohn, \nChurch in Pergamos, \nMartyrs,", "verse_ref": "John 6:68-69", "verse_text": "Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. 69 And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNathanael, \nPeter, \nMan born blind, \n\nMartha, \nPeter and John, \nApostles, \n\nStephen, \n\nPaul, \nTimothy, \nJohn, \nChurch in Pergamos, \nMartyrs,", "verse_ref": "John 9:25", "verse_text": "He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNathanael, \nPeter, \nMan born blind, \n\nMartha, \nPeter and John, \nApostles, \n\nStephen, \n\nPaul, \nTimothy, \nJohn, \nChurch in Pergamos, \nMartyrs,", "verse_ref": "John 9:33", "verse_text": "If this man were not of God, he could do nothing." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNathanael, \nPeter, \nMan born blind, \n\nMartha, \nPeter and John, \nApostles, \n\nStephen, \n\nPaul, \nTimothy, \nJohn, \nChurch in Pergamos, \nMartyrs,", "verse_ref": "John 11:27", "verse_text": "She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNathanael, \nPeter, \nMan born blind, \n\nMartha, \nPeter and John, \nApostles, \n\nStephen, \n\nPaul, \nTimothy, \nJohn, \nChurch in Pergamos, \nMartyrs,", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:7-12", "verse_text": "And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this? 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, 9 If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole; 10 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNathanael, \nPeter, \nMan born blind, \n\nMartha, \nPeter and John, \nApostles, \n\nStephen, \n\nPaul, \nTimothy, \nJohn, \nChurch in Pergamos, \nMartyrs,", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:29-32", "verse_text": "Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men. 30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. 31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. 32 And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNathanael, \nPeter, \nMan born blind, \n\nMartha, \nPeter and John, \nApostles, \n\nStephen, \n\nPaul, \nTimothy, \nJohn, \nChurch in Pergamos, \nMartyrs,", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:42", "verse_text": "And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNathanael, \nPeter, \nMan born blind, \n\nMartha, \nPeter and John, \nApostles, \n\nStephen, \n\nPaul, \nTimothy, \nJohn, \nChurch in Pergamos, \nMartyrs,", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:52", "verse_text": "Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNathanael, \nPeter, \nMan born blind, \n\nMartha, \nPeter and John, \nApostles, \n\nStephen, \n\nPaul, \nTimothy, \nJohn, \nChurch in Pergamos, \nMartyrs,", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:59", "verse_text": "And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNathanael, \nPeter, \nMan born blind, \n\nMartha, \nPeter and John, \nApostles, \n\nStephen, \n\nPaul, \nTimothy, \nJohn, \nChurch in Pergamos, \nMartyrs,", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:29", "verse_text": "And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNathanael, \nPeter, \nMan born blind, \n\nMartha, \nPeter and John, \nApostles, \n\nStephen, \n\nPaul, \nTimothy, \nJohn, \nChurch in Pergamos, \nMartyrs,", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:12", "verse_text": "Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNathanael, \nPeter, \nMan born blind, \n\nMartha, \nPeter and John, \nApostles, \n\nStephen, \n\nPaul, \nTimothy, \nJohn, \nChurch in Pergamos, \nMartyrs,", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:9", "verse_text": "I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNathanael, \nPeter, \nMan born blind, \n\nMartha, \nPeter and John, \nApostles, \n\nStephen, \n\nPaul, \nTimothy, \nJohn, \nChurch in Pergamos, \nMartyrs,", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:13", "verse_text": "I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNathanael, \nPeter, \nMan born blind, \n\nMartha, \nPeter and John, \nApostles, \n\nStephen, \n\nPaul, \nTimothy, \nJohn, \nChurch in Pergamos, \nMartyrs,", "verse_ref": "Revelation 20:4", "verse_text": "And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years." } ] }, { "name": "Conduct, Christian", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Conduct-Christian.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Believing God", "verse_ref": "Mark 11:22", "verse_text": "And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God." }, { "point_text": "Believing God", "verse_ref": "John 14:11-12", "verse_text": "Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake. 12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father." }, { "point_text": "Fearing God", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 12:13", "verse_text": "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man." }, { "point_text": "Fearing God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:17", "verse_text": "Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king." }, { "point_text": "Loving God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 6:5", "verse_text": "And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." }, { "point_text": "Loving God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:37", "verse_text": "Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." }, { "point_text": "Following God", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:1", "verse_text": "Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;" }, { "point_text": "Following God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:15-16", "verse_text": "But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy." }, { "point_text": "Obeying God", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:6", "verse_text": "And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless." }, { "point_text": "Obeying God", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:3", "verse_text": "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous." }, { "point_text": "Rejoicing in God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 33:1", "verse_text": "Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright." }, { "point_text": "Rejoicing in God", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 3:18", "verse_text": "Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation." }, { "point_text": "Believing in Christ", "verse_ref": "John 6:29", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent." }, { "point_text": "Believing in Christ", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:23", "verse_text": "And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment." }, { "point_text": "Loving Christ", "verse_ref": "John 21:15", "verse_text": "So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs." }, { "point_text": "Loving Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:7-8", "verse_text": "That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:" }, { "point_text": "Following the example of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 13:15", "verse_text": "For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you." }, { "point_text": "Following the example of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:21-24", "verse_text": "For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: 22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: 23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: 24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed." }, { "point_text": "Obeying Christ", "verse_ref": "John 14:21", "verse_text": "He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him." }, { "point_text": "Obeying Christ", "verse_ref": "John 15:14", "verse_text": "Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you." }, { "point_text": "LIVING", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 14:8", "verse_text": "For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's." }, { "point_text": "To Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:15", "verse_text": "And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again." }, { "point_text": "Unto righteousness", "verse_ref": "Micah 6:8", "verse_text": "He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" }, { "point_text": "Unto righteousness", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:18", "verse_text": "Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Unto righteousness", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:24", "verse_text": "Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed." }, { "point_text": "Soberly, righteously, and godly", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:12", "verse_text": "Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;" }, { "point_text": "WALKING", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Honestly", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:12", "verse_text": "That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing." }, { "point_text": "Worthy of God", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:12", "verse_text": "That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory." }, { "point_text": "Worthy of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:10", "verse_text": "That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;" }, { "point_text": "In the Spirit", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:25", "verse_text": "If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit." }, { "point_text": "After the Spirit", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:1", "verse_text": "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." }, { "point_text": "In newness of life", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:4", "verse_text": "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." }, { "point_text": "Worthy of vocation", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:1", "verse_text": "I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called," }, { "point_text": "As children of light", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:8", "verse_text": "For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:" }, { "point_text": "Rejoicing in Christ", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:1", "verse_text": "Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe." }, { "point_text": "Rejoicing in Christ", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:4", "verse_text": "Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice." }, { "point_text": "Loving one another", "verse_ref": "John 15:12", "verse_text": "This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you." }, { "point_text": "Loving one another", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:10", "verse_text": "Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;" }, { "point_text": "Loving one another", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 13", "verse_text": "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, ..." }, { "point_text": "Loving one another", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:2", "verse_text": "And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour." }, { "point_text": "Loving one another", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:1", "verse_text": "Let brotherly love continue." }, { "point_text": "Striving for the faith", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:27", "verse_text": "Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;" }, { "point_text": "Striving for the faith", "verse_ref": "Jude 3", "verse_text": "Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints." }, { "point_text": "Putting away all sin", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 5:7", "verse_text": "Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:" }, { "point_text": "Putting away all sin", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:1", "verse_text": "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us," }, { "point_text": "Abstaining from all appearance of evil", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:22", "verse_text": "Abstain from all appearance of evil." }, { "point_text": "Perfecting holiness", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:48", "verse_text": "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." }, { "point_text": "Perfecting holiness", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 7:1", "verse_text": "Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God." }, { "point_text": "Perfecting holiness", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:17", "verse_text": "That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works." }, { "point_text": "Hating defilement", "verse_ref": "Jude 23", "verse_text": "And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh." }, { "point_text": "Following after that which is good", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:8", "verse_text": "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." }, { "point_text": "Following after that which is good", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:15", "verse_text": "See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men." }, { "point_text": "Following after that which is good", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:11", "verse_text": "But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness." }, { "point_text": "Overcoming the world", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:4-5", "verse_text": "For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. 5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?" }, { "point_text": "Adorning the gospel", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:16", "verse_text": "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." }, { "point_text": "Adorning the gospel", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:10", "verse_text": "Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things." }, { "point_text": "Showing a good example", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:12", "verse_text": "Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity." }, { "point_text": "Showing a good example", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:12", "verse_text": "Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation." }, { "point_text": "Showing a good example", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:7", "verse_text": "In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity," }, { "point_text": "Abounding in the work of the Lord", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:58", "verse_text": "Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Abounding in the work of the Lord", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:7", "verse_text": "Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also." }, { "point_text": "Abounding in the work of the Lord", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:1", "verse_text": "Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more." }, { "point_text": "Shunning the wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 1:1", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful." }, { "point_text": "Shunning the wicked", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 3:6", "verse_text": "Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us." }, { "point_text": "Controlling the body", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:27", "verse_text": "But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway." }, { "point_text": "Controlling the body", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:5", "verse_text": "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:" }, { "point_text": "Subduing the temper", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:26", "verse_text": "Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:" }, { "point_text": "Subduing the temper", "verse_ref": "James 1:19", "verse_text": "Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:" }, { "point_text": "Submitting to injuries", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:39-41", "verse_text": "But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. 40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also. 41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain." }, { "point_text": "Submitting to injuries", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:7", "verse_text": "Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?" }, { "point_text": "Forgiving injuries", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:14", "verse_text": "For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:" }, { "point_text": "Forgiving injuries", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:20", "verse_text": "Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head." }, { "point_text": "Living peaceably with all", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:18", "verse_text": "If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men." }, { "point_text": "Living peaceably with all", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:14", "verse_text": "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:" }, { "point_text": "Visiting the afflicted", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:36", "verse_text": "Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me." }, { "point_text": "Visiting the afflicted", "verse_ref": "James 1:27", "verse_text": "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." }, { "point_text": "Doing as we would be done by", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:12", "verse_text": "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets." }, { "point_text": "Doing as we would be done by", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:31", "verse_text": "And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise." }, { "point_text": "Sympathizing with others", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:2", "verse_text": "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ." }, { "point_text": "Sympathizing with others", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:14", "verse_text": "Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men." }, { "point_text": "Honoring others", "verse_ref": "Psalm 15:4", "verse_text": "In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not." }, { "point_text": "Honoring others", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:10", "verse_text": "Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;" }, { "point_text": "Fulfilling domestic duties", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:1-8", "verse_text": "Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. 2 Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) 3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. 4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. ..." }, { "point_text": "Fulfilling domestic duties", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:1-7", "verse_text": "Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; 2 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. 3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; 4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. ..." }, { "point_text": "Submitting to Authorities", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:1-7", "verse_text": "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. 2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: 4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. ..." }, { "point_text": "Being liberal to others", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:35", "verse_text": "I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive." }, { "point_text": "Being liberal to others", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:13", "verse_text": "Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality." }, { "point_text": "Being contented", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:11", "verse_text": "Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content." }, { "point_text": "Being contented", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:5", "verse_text": "Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of maintaining", "verse_ref": "Psalm 1:1-3", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of maintaining", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:9-11", "verse_text": "The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. 10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. 11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of maintaining", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:23", "verse_text": "Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of maintaining", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:3-12", "verse_text": "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. 5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. 6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. ..." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of maintaining", "verse_ref": "John 15:10", "verse_text": "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of maintaining", "verse_ref": "John 7:17", "verse_text": "If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself." }, { "point_text": "Believing God", "verse_ref": "Mark 11:22", "verse_text": "And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God." }, { "point_text": "Believing God", "verse_ref": "John 14:11-12", "verse_text": "Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake. 12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father." }, { "point_text": "Fearing God", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 12:13", "verse_text": "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man." }, { "point_text": "Fearing God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:17", "verse_text": "Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king." }, { "point_text": "Loving God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 6:5", "verse_text": "And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." }, { "point_text": "Loving God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:37", "verse_text": "Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." }, { "point_text": "Following God", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:1", "verse_text": "Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;" }, { "point_text": "Following God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:15-16", "verse_text": "But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy." }, { "point_text": "Obeying God", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:6", "verse_text": "And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless." }, { "point_text": "Obeying God", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:3", "verse_text": "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous." }, { "point_text": "Rejoicing in God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 33:1", "verse_text": "Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright." }, { "point_text": "Rejoicing in God", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 3:18", "verse_text": "Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation." }, { "point_text": "Believing in Christ", "verse_ref": "John 6:29", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent." }, { "point_text": "Believing in Christ", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:23", "verse_text": "And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment." }, { "point_text": "Loving Christ", "verse_ref": "John 21:15", "verse_text": "So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs." }, { "point_text": "Loving Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:7-8", "verse_text": "That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:" }, { "point_text": "Following the example of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 13:15", "verse_text": "For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you." }, { "point_text": "Following the example of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:21-24", "verse_text": "For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: 22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: 23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: 24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed." }, { "point_text": "Obeying Christ", "verse_ref": "John 14:21", "verse_text": "He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him." }, { "point_text": "Obeying Christ", "verse_ref": "John 15:14", "verse_text": "Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you." }, { "point_text": "LIVING", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "To Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 14:8", "verse_text": "For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's." }, { "point_text": "To Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:15", "verse_text": "And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again." }, { "point_text": "Unto righteousness", "verse_ref": "Micah 6:8", "verse_text": "He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" }, { "point_text": "Unto righteousness", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:18", "verse_text": "Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Unto righteousness", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:24", "verse_text": "Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed." }, { "point_text": "Soberly, righteously, and godly", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:12", "verse_text": "Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;" }, { "point_text": "WALKING", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Honestly", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:12", "verse_text": "That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing." }, { "point_text": "Worthy of God", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:12", "verse_text": "That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory." }, { "point_text": "Worthy of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:10", "verse_text": "That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;" }, { "point_text": "In the Spirit", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:25", "verse_text": "If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit." }, { "point_text": "After the Spirit", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:1", "verse_text": "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." }, { "point_text": "In newness of life", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:4", "verse_text": "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." }, { "point_text": "Worthy of vocation", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:1", "verse_text": "I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called," }, { "point_text": "As children of light", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:8", "verse_text": "For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:" }, { "point_text": "Rejoicing in Christ", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:1", "verse_text": "Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe." }, { "point_text": "Rejoicing in Christ", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:4", "verse_text": "Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice." }, { "point_text": "Loving one another", "verse_ref": "John 15:12", "verse_text": "This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you." }, { "point_text": "Loving one another", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:10", "verse_text": "Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;" }, { "point_text": "Loving one another", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 13", "verse_text": "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, ..." }, { "point_text": "Loving one another", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:2", "verse_text": "And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour." }, { "point_text": "Loving one another", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:1", "verse_text": "Let brotherly love continue." }, { "point_text": "Striving for the faith", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:27", "verse_text": "Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;" }, { "point_text": "Striving for the faith", "verse_ref": "Jude 3", "verse_text": "Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints." }, { "point_text": "Putting away all sin", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 5:7", "verse_text": "Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:" }, { "point_text": "Putting away all sin", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:1", "verse_text": "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us," }, { "point_text": "Abstaining from all appearance of evil", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:22", "verse_text": "Abstain from all appearance of evil." }, { "point_text": "Perfecting holiness", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:48", "verse_text": "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." }, { "point_text": "Perfecting holiness", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 7:1", "verse_text": "Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God." }, { "point_text": "Perfecting holiness", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:17", "verse_text": "That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works." }, { "point_text": "Hating defilement", "verse_ref": "Jude 23", "verse_text": "And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh." }, { "point_text": "Following after that which is good", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:8", "verse_text": "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." }, { "point_text": "Following after that which is good", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:15", "verse_text": "See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men." }, { "point_text": "Following after that which is good", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:11", "verse_text": "But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness." }, { "point_text": "Overcoming the world", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:4-5", "verse_text": "For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. 5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?" }, { "point_text": "Adorning the gospel", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:16", "verse_text": "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." }, { "point_text": "Adorning the gospel", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:10", "verse_text": "Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things." }, { "point_text": "Showing a good example", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:12", "verse_text": "Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity." }, { "point_text": "Showing a good example", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:12", "verse_text": "Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation." }, { "point_text": "Showing a good example", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:7", "verse_text": "In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity," }, { "point_text": "Abounding in the work of the Lord", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:58", "verse_text": "Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Abounding in the work of the Lord", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:7", "verse_text": "Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also." }, { "point_text": "Abounding in the work of the Lord", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:1", "verse_text": "Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more." }, { "point_text": "Shunning the wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 1:1", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful." }, { "point_text": "Shunning the wicked", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 3:6", "verse_text": "Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us." }, { "point_text": "Controlling the body", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:27", "verse_text": "But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway." }, { "point_text": "Controlling the body", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:5", "verse_text": "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:" }, { "point_text": "Subduing the temper", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:26", "verse_text": "Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:" }, { "point_text": "Subduing the temper", "verse_ref": "James 1:19", "verse_text": "Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:" }, { "point_text": "Submitting to injuries", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:39-41", "verse_text": "But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. 40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also. 41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain." }, { "point_text": "Submitting to injuries", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:7", "verse_text": "Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?" }, { "point_text": "Forgiving injuries", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:14", "verse_text": "For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:" }, { "point_text": "Forgiving injuries", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:20", "verse_text": "Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head." }, { "point_text": "Living peaceably with all", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:18", "verse_text": "If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men." }, { "point_text": "Living peaceably with all", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:14", "verse_text": "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:" }, { "point_text": "Visiting the afflicted", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:36", "verse_text": "Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me." }, { "point_text": "Visiting the afflicted", "verse_ref": "James 1:27", "verse_text": "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." }, { "point_text": "Doing as we would be done by", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:12", "verse_text": "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets." }, { "point_text": "Doing as we would be done by", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:31", "verse_text": "And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise." }, { "point_text": "Sympathizing with others", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:2", "verse_text": "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ." }, { "point_text": "Sympathizing with others", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:14", "verse_text": "Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men." }, { "point_text": "Honoring others", "verse_ref": "Psalm 15:4", "verse_text": "In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not." }, { "point_text": "Honoring others", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:10", "verse_text": "Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;" }, { "point_text": "Fulfilling domestic duties", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:1-8", "verse_text": "Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. 2 Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) 3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. 4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. ..." }, { "point_text": "Fulfilling domestic duties", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:1-7", "verse_text": "Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; 2 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. 3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; 4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. ..." }, { "point_text": "Submitting to Authorities", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:1-7", "verse_text": "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. 2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: 4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. ..." }, { "point_text": "Being liberal to others", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:35", "verse_text": "I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive." }, { "point_text": "Being liberal to others", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:13", "verse_text": "Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality." }, { "point_text": "Being contented", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:11", "verse_text": "Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content." }, { "point_text": "Being contented", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:5", "verse_text": "Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of maintaining", "verse_ref": "Psalm 1:1-3", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of maintaining", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:9-11", "verse_text": "The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. 10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. 11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of maintaining", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:23", "verse_text": "Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of maintaining", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:3-12", "verse_text": "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. 5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. 6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. ..." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of maintaining", "verse_ref": "John 15:10", "verse_text": "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of maintaining", "verse_ref": "John 7:17", "verse_text": "If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself." } ] }, { "name": "Contentment", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Contentment.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "With godliness is great gain", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:16", "verse_text": "A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked." }, { "point_text": "With godliness is great gain", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:6", "verse_text": "But godliness with contentment is great gain." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS SHOULD EXHIBIT", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In their respective callings", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:20", "verse_text": "Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called." }, { "point_text": "With appointed wages", "verse_ref": "Luke 3:14", "verse_text": "And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages." }, { "point_text": "With what things they have", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:5", "verse_text": "Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." }, { "point_text": "With food and raiment", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:8", "verse_text": "And having food and raiment let us be therewith content." }, { "point_text": "God's promises should lead to", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:5", "verse_text": "Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." }, { "point_text": "The wicked want", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:8", "verse_text": "Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!" }, { "point_text": "The wicked want", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 5:10", "verse_text": "He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nDavid, \nAgur, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 19:33-37", "verse_text": "And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over with me, and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem. 34 And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem? 35 I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king? 36 Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward? ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nDavid, \nAgur, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:13", "verse_text": "And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among mine own people." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nDavid, \nAgur, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 16:6", "verse_text": "The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nDavid, \nAgur, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:8-9", "verse_text": "Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: 9 Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nDavid, \nAgur, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:11-12", "verse_text": "Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. 12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need." } ] }, { "name": "Conversion", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Conversion.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "By God", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:37", "verse_text": "Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again." }, { "point_text": "By God", "verse_ref": "John 6:44", "verse_text": "No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day." }, { "point_text": "By God", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:19", "verse_text": "And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry." }, { "point_text": "By Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:26", "verse_text": "Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities." }, { "point_text": "By Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:18", "verse_text": "For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed," }, { "point_text": "By the power of the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:23", "verse_text": "Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you." }, { "point_text": "Is of grace", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:21", "verse_text": "And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Is of grace", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:23", "verse_text": "Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Follows repentance", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:19", "verse_text": "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;" }, { "point_text": "Follows repentance", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:20", "verse_text": "But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance." }, { "point_text": "Is the result of faith", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:21", "verse_text": "And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord." }, { "point_text": "THROUGH THE INSTRUMENTALITY OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The scriptures", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:7", "verse_text": "The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple." }, { "point_text": "Ministers", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:18", "verse_text": "To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me." }, { "point_text": "Ministers", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 1:9", "verse_text": "For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;" }, { "point_text": "Self-examination", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:59", "verse_text": "I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies." }, { "point_text": "Self-examination", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:40", "verse_text": "Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Affliction", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:34", "verse_text": "When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God." }, { "point_text": "OF SINNERS, A CAUSE OF JOY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To God", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 18:23", "verse_text": "Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?" }, { "point_text": "To God", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:32", "verse_text": "It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found." }, { "point_text": "To saints", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:3", "verse_text": "And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren." }, { "point_text": "To saints", "verse_ref": "Galatians 1:23-24", "verse_text": "But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. 24 And they glorified God in me." }, { "point_text": "Is necessary", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:3", "verse_text": "And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Job 36:10", "verse_text": "He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:23", "verse_text": "Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 31:6", "verse_text": "Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 55:7", "verse_text": "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:7", "verse_text": "And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 33:11", "verse_text": "Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?" }, { "point_text": "Promises connected with", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 1:9", "verse_text": "But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there." }, { "point_text": "Promises connected with", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:27", "verse_text": "Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Promises connected with", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:14", "verse_text": "Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:" }, { "point_text": "Promises connected with", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 18:27", "verse_text": "Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive." }, { "point_text": "Pray for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 80:7", "verse_text": "Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved." }, { "point_text": "Pray for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 85:4", "verse_text": "Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease." }, { "point_text": "Pray for", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:18", "verse_text": "I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God." }, { "point_text": "Pray for", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 5:21", "verse_text": "Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old." }, { "point_text": "Is accompanied by confession of sin, and prayer", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:35", "verse_text": "When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:" }, { "point_text": "Danger of neglecting", "verse_ref": "Psalm 7:12", "verse_text": "If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready." }, { "point_text": "Danger of neglecting", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 44:5", "verse_text": "But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods." }, { "point_text": "Danger of neglecting", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 44:11", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah." }, { "point_text": "Duty of leading sinners to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:13", "verse_text": "Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Encouragement for leading sinners to", "verse_ref": "Daniel 12:3", "verse_text": "And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever." }, { "point_text": "Encouragement for leading sinners to", "verse_ref": "James 5:19-20", "verse_text": "Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; 20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins." }, { "point_text": "Of Gentiles, predicted", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:2", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it." }, { "point_text": "Of Gentiles, predicted", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:10", "verse_text": "And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious." }, { "point_text": "Of Gentiles, predicted", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:5", "verse_text": "Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Of Gentiles, predicted", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:12", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees." }, { "point_text": "Of Israel, predicted", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 36:25-27", "verse_text": "Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. 26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them." } ] }, { "name": "Conscience", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Conscience.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Witnesses in man", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:27", "verse_text": "The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly." }, { "point_text": "Witnesses in man", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:15", "verse_text": "Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)" }, { "point_text": "Accuses of sin", "verse_ref": "Genesis 42:21", "verse_text": "And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us." }, { "point_text": "Accuses of sin", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:10", "verse_text": "And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly." }, { "point_text": "Accuses of sin", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:3", "verse_text": "Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders," }, { "point_text": "Accuses of sin", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:37", "verse_text": "Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?" }, { "point_text": "We should have the approval of", "verse_ref": "Job 27:6", "verse_text": "My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live." }, { "point_text": "We should have the approval of", "verse_ref": "Acts 24:16", "verse_text": "And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men." }, { "point_text": "We should have the approval of", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:1", "verse_text": "I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost," }, { "point_text": "We should have the approval of", "verse_ref": "Romans 14:22", "verse_text": "Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth." }, { "point_text": "The blood of Christ alone can purify", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:14", "verse_text": "How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" }, { "point_text": "The blood of Christ alone can purify", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:2-10", "verse_text": "For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. 3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. 4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. 5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: ..." }, { "point_text": "The blood of Christ alone can purify", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:22", "verse_text": "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water." }, { "point_text": "Keep the faith in purity of", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:19", "verse_text": "Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:" }, { "point_text": "Keep the faith in purity of", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:9", "verse_text": "Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience." }, { "point_text": "Of saints, pure and good", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:18", "verse_text": "Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly." }, { "point_text": "Of saints, pure and good", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:16", "verse_text": "Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ." }, { "point_text": "Of saints, pure and good", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:21", "verse_text": "The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Submit to authority for", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:5", "verse_text": "Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake." }, { "point_text": "Suffer patiently for", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:19", "verse_text": "For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully." }, { "point_text": "Testimony of, a source of joy", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:12", "verse_text": "For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward." }, { "point_text": "Testimony of, a source of joy", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:21", "verse_text": "Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God." }, { "point_text": "Of others, not to be offended", "verse_ref": "Romans 14:21", "verse_text": "It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak." }, { "point_text": "Of others, not to be offended", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:28-32", "verse_text": "But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof: 29 Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience? 30 For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks? 31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. ..." }, { "point_text": "Ministers should commend themselves to that of their people", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:2", "verse_text": "But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God." }, { "point_text": "Ministers should commend themselves to that of their people", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:11", "verse_text": "Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences." }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked, seared", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:2", "verse_text": "Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;" }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked, defiled", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:15", "verse_text": "Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled." }, { "point_text": "Without spiritual illumination, a false guide", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:1", "verse_text": "And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day." }, { "point_text": "Without spiritual illumination, a false guide", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:9", "verse_text": "I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth." } ] }, { "name": "Confession of Sin", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Confession-of-Sin.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "God requires", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:5", "verse_text": "And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing:" }, { "point_text": "God requires", "verse_ref": "Hosea 5:15", "verse_text": "I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early." }, { "point_text": "God regards.\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n, &c", "verse_ref": "Job 33:27-28", "verse_text": "He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; 28 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light." }, { "point_text": "Exhortation to", "verse_ref": "Joshua 7:19", "verse_text": "And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me." }, { "point_text": "Exhortation to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:13", "verse_text": "Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exhortation to", "verse_ref": "James 5:16", "verse_text": "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." }, { "point_text": "Promises to", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:40-42", "verse_text": "If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me; 41 And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity: 42 Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land." }, { "point_text": "Promises to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:13", "verse_text": "He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE ACCOMPANIED WITH", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Submission to punishment", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:41", "verse_text": "And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:" }, { "point_text": "Submission to punishment", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:33", "verse_text": "Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:" }, { "point_text": "Submission to punishment", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:13", "verse_text": "And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;" }, { "point_text": "Prayer for forgiveness", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:10", "verse_text": "And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly." }, { "point_text": "Prayer for forgiveness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 25:11", "verse_text": "For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great." }, { "point_text": "Prayer for forgiveness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:1", "verse_text": "Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions." }, { "point_text": "Prayer for forgiveness", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:7-9", "verse_text": "O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee. 8 O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night? 9 Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not." }, { "point_text": "Prayer for forgiveness", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:20", "verse_text": "We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee." }, { "point_text": "Self-abasement", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 64:5-6", "verse_text": "Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved. 6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away." }, { "point_text": "Godly sorrow", "verse_ref": "Psalm 38:18", "verse_text": "For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin." }, { "point_text": "Godly sorrow", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 1:20", "verse_text": "Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death." }, { "point_text": "Forsaking sin", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:13", "verse_text": "He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy." }, { "point_text": "Restitution", "verse_ref": "Numbers 5:6-7", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person be guilty; 7 Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed." }, { "point_text": "Should be full and unreserved", "verse_ref": "Psalm 32:5", "verse_text": "I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Should be full and unreserved", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:3", "verse_text": "For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me." }, { "point_text": "Should be full and unreserved", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:6", "verse_text": "We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly." }, { "point_text": "Followed by pardon", "verse_ref": "Psalm 32:5", "verse_text": "I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Followed by pardon", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:9", "verse_text": "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:21", "verse_text": "And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:13", "verse_text": "And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nIsraelites, \n\n\nSaul, \nDavid, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nLevites, \n\nJob, \nDaniel, \nPeter, \nThief,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 12:11", "verse_text": "And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nIsraelites, \n\n\nSaul, \nDavid, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nLevites, \n\nJob, \nDaniel, \nPeter, \nThief,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:6-7", "verse_text": "And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. 7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nIsraelites, \n\n\nSaul, \nDavid, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nLevites, \n\nJob, \nDaniel, \nPeter, \nThief,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 7:6", "verse_text": "And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nIsraelites, \n\n\nSaul, \nDavid, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nLevites, \n\nJob, \nDaniel, \nPeter, \nThief,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 12:19", "verse_text": "And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nIsraelites, \n\n\nSaul, \nDavid, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nLevites, \n\nJob, \nDaniel, \nPeter, \nThief,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:24", "verse_text": "And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nIsraelites, \n\n\nSaul, \nDavid, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nLevites, \n\nJob, \nDaniel, \nPeter, \nThief,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:10", "verse_text": "And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nIsraelites, \n\n\nSaul, \nDavid, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nLevites, \n\nJob, \nDaniel, \nPeter, \nThief,", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:6", "verse_text": "And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nIsraelites, \n\n\nSaul, \nDavid, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nLevites, \n\nJob, \nDaniel, \nPeter, \nThief,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 1:6-7", "verse_text": "Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned. 7 We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nIsraelites, \n\n\nSaul, \nDavid, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nLevites, \n\nJob, \nDaniel, \nPeter, \nThief,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:4", "verse_text": "Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nIsraelites, \n\n\nSaul, \nDavid, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nLevites, \n\nJob, \nDaniel, \nPeter, \nThief,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:33-34", "verse_text": "Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly: 34 Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nIsraelites, \n\n\nSaul, \nDavid, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nLevites, \n\nJob, \nDaniel, \nPeter, \nThief,", "verse_ref": "Job 7:20", "verse_text": "I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nIsraelites, \n\n\nSaul, \nDavid, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nLevites, \n\nJob, \nDaniel, \nPeter, \nThief,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:4", "verse_text": "And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nIsraelites, \n\n\nSaul, \nDavid, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nLevites, \n\nJob, \nDaniel, \nPeter, \nThief,", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:8", "verse_text": "When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nIsraelites, \n\n\nSaul, \nDavid, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nLevites, \n\nJob, \nDaniel, \nPeter, \nThief,", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:41", "verse_text": "And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss." } ] }, { "name": "Contempt", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Contempt.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Sin of", "verse_ref": "Job 31:13-14", "verse_text": "If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; 14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?" }, { "point_text": "Folly of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:12", "verse_text": "He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 18:3", "verse_text": "When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:24", "verse_text": "Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of the wicked", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:3", "verse_text": "Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good," }, { "point_text": "FORBIDDEN TOWARDS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Parents", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:22", "verse_text": "Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old." }, { "point_text": "Christ's little ones", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:10", "verse_text": "Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven." }, { "point_text": "Weak brethren", "verse_ref": "Romans 14:3", "verse_text": "Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him." }, { "point_text": "Young ministers", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 16:11", "verse_text": "Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace, that he may come unto me: for I look for him with the brethren." }, { "point_text": "Believing masters", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:2", "verse_text": "And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort." }, { "point_text": "The poor", "verse_ref": "James 2:1-3", "verse_text": "My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. 2 For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; 3 And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:" }, { "point_text": "Self-righteousness prompts to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:5", "verse_text": "Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day." }, { "point_text": "Self-righteousness prompts to", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:9", "verse_text": "And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:" }, { "point_text": "Self-righteousness prompts to", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:11", "verse_text": "The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican." }, { "point_text": "Pride and prosperity prompt to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 123:4", "verse_text": "Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud." }, { "point_text": "Ministers should give no occasion for", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:12", "verse_text": "Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity." }, { "point_text": "Of ministers, is a despising of God", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:16", "verse_text": "He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me." }, { "point_text": "Of ministers, is a despising of God", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:8", "verse_text": "He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit." }, { "point_text": "TOWARDS THE CHURCH", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Often turned into respect", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:14", "verse_text": "The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Often punished", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:26", "verse_text": "And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God." }, { "point_text": "Causes saints to cry unto God", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 4:4", "verse_text": "Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:" }, { "point_text": "Causes saints to cry unto God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 123:3", "verse_text": "Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED EXHIBIT TOWARDS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:6", "verse_text": "But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people." }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:3", "verse_text": "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not." }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:29", "verse_text": "And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!" }, { "point_text": "Saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:141", "verse_text": "I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts." }, { "point_text": "Authorities", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:10", "verse_text": "But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities." }, { "point_text": "Authorities", "verse_ref": "Jude 8", "verse_text": "Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities." }, { "point_text": "Parents", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:5", "verse_text": "A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent." }, { "point_text": "Parents", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:20", "verse_text": "A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother." }, { "point_text": "The afflicted", "verse_ref": "Job 19:18", "verse_text": "Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me." }, { "point_text": "The poor", "verse_ref": "Psalm 14:6", "verse_text": "Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge." }, { "point_text": "The poor", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 9:16", "verse_text": "Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard." }, { "point_text": "Saints sometimes guilty of", "verse_ref": "James 2:6", "verse_text": "But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHagar, \nChildren of Belial, \nNabal, \nMichal, \nSanballat, &c. \n\nFalse teachers,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 16:4", "verse_text": "And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHagar, \nChildren of Belial, \nNabal, \nMichal, \nSanballat, &c. \n\nFalse teachers,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 10:27", "verse_text": "But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHagar, \nChildren of Belial, \nNabal, \nMichal, \nSanballat, &c. \n\nFalse teachers,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:10-11", "verse_text": "And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master. 11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHagar, \nChildren of Belial, \nNabal, \nMichal, \nSanballat, &c. \n\nFalse teachers,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 6:16", "verse_text": "And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHagar, \nChildren of Belial, \nNabal, \nMichal, \nSanballat, &c. \n\nFalse teachers,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 2:19", "verse_text": "But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHagar, \nChildren of Belial, \nNabal, \nMichal, \nSanballat, &c. \n\nFalse teachers,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 4:2-3", "verse_text": "And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned? 3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHagar, \nChildren of Belial, \nNabal, \nMichal, \nSanballat, &c. \n\nFalse teachers,", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 10:10", "verse_text": "For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible." } ] }, { "name": "Counsels and purposes of God, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Counsels-and-purposes-of-God-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Are great", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 32:19", "verse_text": "Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:" }, { "point_text": "Are wonderful", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:29", "verse_text": "This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working." }, { "point_text": "Are immutable", "verse_ref": "Psalm 33:11", "verse_text": "The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations." }, { "point_text": "Are immutable", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:21", "verse_text": "There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand." }, { "point_text": "Are immutable", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:28", "verse_text": "For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it." }, { "point_text": "Are immutable", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:11", "verse_text": "(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)" }, { "point_text": "Are immutable", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:17", "verse_text": "Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:" }, { "point_text": "Are sovereign", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:13-14", "verse_text": "Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counseller hath taught him? 14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?" }, { "point_text": "Are eternal", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:11", "verse_text": "According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:" }, { "point_text": "Are faithfulness and truth", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 25:1", "verse_text": "O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth." }, { "point_text": "None can disannul", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:27", "verse_text": "For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?" }, { "point_text": "Shall be performed", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:24", "verse_text": "The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:" }, { "point_text": "Shall be performed", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 46:11", "verse_text": "Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it." }, { "point_text": "The sufferings and death of Christ were according to", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:23", "verse_text": "Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:" }, { "point_text": "The sufferings and death of Christ were according to", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:28", "verse_text": "For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done." }, { "point_text": "Saints called and saved according to", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:28", "verse_text": "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." }, { "point_text": "Saints called and saved according to", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:9", "verse_text": "Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began," }, { "point_text": "The union of all saints in Christ, is according to", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:9-10", "verse_text": "Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: 10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:" }, { "point_text": "The works of God according to", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:11", "verse_text": "In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:" }, { "point_text": "Should be declared by ministers", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:27", "verse_text": "For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God." }, { "point_text": "Attend to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:20", "verse_text": "Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them." }, { "point_text": "Attend to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:45", "verse_text": "Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them." }, { "point_text": "Secret not to be searched into", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 29:29", "verse_text": "The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law." }, { "point_text": "Secret not to be searched into", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:36", "verse_text": "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." }, { "point_text": "Secret not to be searched into", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:7", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Understand not", "verse_ref": "Micah 4:12", "verse_text": "But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor." }, { "point_text": "Despise", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:19", "verse_text": "That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!" }, { "point_text": "Reject", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:30", "verse_text": "But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him." } ] }, { "name": "Covenant, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Covenant-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Christ, the substance of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:6", "verse_text": "I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;" }, { "point_text": "Christ, the substance of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:8", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;" }, { "point_text": "Christ, the Mediator of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 8:6", "verse_text": "But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises." }, { "point_text": "Christ, the Mediator of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:15", "verse_text": "And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance." }, { "point_text": "Christ, the Mediator of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:24", "verse_text": "And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel." }, { "point_text": "Christ, the Messenger of", "verse_ref": "Malachi 3:1", "verse_text": "Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "MADE WITH", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Abraham", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:7-18", "verse_text": "And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. 8 And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? 9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. 10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not. ..." }, { "point_text": "Abraham", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:2-14", "verse_text": "And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly. 3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying, 4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. 5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee. ..." }, { "point_text": "Abraham", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:72-75", "verse_text": "To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; 73 The oath which he sware to our father Abraham, 74 That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear, 75 In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life." }, { "point_text": "Abraham", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:25", "verse_text": "Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed." }, { "point_text": "Abraham", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:16", "verse_text": "Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ." }, { "point_text": "Isaac", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:19", "verse_text": "And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him." }, { "point_text": "Isaac", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:3-4", "verse_text": "Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; 4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;" }, { "point_text": "Jacob", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:13-14", "verse_text": "And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; 14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed." }, { "point_text": "Jacob", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:16-17", "verse_text": "Even of the covenant which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac; 17 And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant," }, { "point_text": "Israel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 6:4", "verse_text": "And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers." }, { "point_text": "Israel", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:25", "verse_text": "Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed." }, { "point_text": "David", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 23:5", "verse_text": "Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow." }, { "point_text": "David", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:3-4", "verse_text": "I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, 4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Renewed under the gospel", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:31-33", "verse_text": "Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people." }, { "point_text": "Renewed under the gospel", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:27", "verse_text": "For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins." }, { "point_text": "Renewed under the gospel", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 8:8-10", "verse_text": "For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: 9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:" }, { "point_text": "Renewed under the gospel", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 8:13", "verse_text": "In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away." }, { "point_text": "Fulfilled in Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:68-79", "verse_text": "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, 69 And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; 70 As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began: 71 That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us; ..." }, { "point_text": "Confirmed in Christ", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:17", "verse_text": "And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect." }, { "point_text": "Ratified by the blood of Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:11-14", "verse_text": "But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. 13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" }, { "point_text": "Ratified by the blood of Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:16-23", "verse_text": "For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. 17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. 18 Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood. 19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, ..." }, { "point_text": "Is a covenant of peace", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:9-10", "verse_text": "For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. 10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee." }, { "point_text": "Is unalterable", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:34", "verse_text": "My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips." }, { "point_text": "Is unalterable", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:10", "verse_text": "For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee." }, { "point_text": "Is unalterable", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:21", "verse_text": "As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever." }, { "point_text": "Is unalterable", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:17", "verse_text": "And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect." }, { "point_text": "Is everlasting", "verse_ref": "Psalm 111:9", "verse_text": "He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name." }, { "point_text": "Is everlasting", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 55:3", "verse_text": "Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David." }, { "point_text": "Is everlasting", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:8", "verse_text": "For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them." }, { "point_text": "Is everlasting", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:60-63", "verse_text": "Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant. 61 Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant. 62 And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: 63 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Is everlasting", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:20", "verse_text": "Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant," }, { "point_text": "All saints interested in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 25:14", "verse_text": "The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant." }, { "point_text": "All saints interested in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:29-37", "verse_text": "His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. 30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; 31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; 32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. ..." }, { "point_text": "All saints interested in", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 8:10", "verse_text": "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:" }, { "point_text": "The wicked have no interest in", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:12", "verse_text": "That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:" }, { "point_text": "Blessings connected with", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:4-7", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; 5 Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. 6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; 7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people." }, { "point_text": "Blessings connected with", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 8:10-12", "verse_text": "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." }, { "point_text": "God is faithful to", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:9", "verse_text": "Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;" }, { "point_text": "God is faithful to", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:23", "verse_text": "And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart:" }, { "point_text": "God is faithful to", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 1:5", "verse_text": "And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:" }, { "point_text": "God is faithful to", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:4", "verse_text": "And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;" }, { "point_text": "God is ever mindful of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:8", "verse_text": "He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations." }, { "point_text": "God is ever mindful of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 111:5", "verse_text": "He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant." }, { "point_text": "God is ever mindful of", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:72", "verse_text": "To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;" }, { "point_text": "Be mindful of", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:15", "verse_text": "Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word which he commanded to a thousand generations;" }, { "point_text": "Caution against forgetting", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:23", "verse_text": "Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee." }, { "point_text": "Plead, in prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:20", "verse_text": "Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty." }, { "point_text": "Plead, in prayer", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:21", "verse_text": "Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for despising", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:29-30", "verse_text": "Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people." } ] }, { "name": "Covenants", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Covenants.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Agreements between two parties", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:28", "verse_text": "And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;" }, { "point_text": "Agreements between two parties", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:6", "verse_text": "And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times." }, { "point_text": "DESIGNED FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Establishing friendship", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 18:3", "verse_text": "Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul." }, { "point_text": "Procuring assistance in war", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:18-19", "verse_text": "Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Benhadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying, 19 There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me." }, { "point_text": "Mutual protection", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:28", "verse_text": "And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;" }, { "point_text": "Mutual protection", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:50-52", "verse_text": "If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee. 51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee; 52 This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm." }, { "point_text": "Establishing peace", "verse_ref": "Joshua 9:15-16", "verse_text": "And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them. 16 And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them." }, { "point_text": "Promoting commerce", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:6-11", "verse_text": "Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians. 7 And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be the LORD this day, which hath given unto David a wise son over this great people. 8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things which thou sentest to me for: and I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir. 9 My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household. ..." }, { "point_text": "Selling land", "verse_ref": "Genesis 23:14-16", "verse_text": "And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him, 15 My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead. 16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant." }, { "point_text": "CONDITIONS OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Clearly specified", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 11:1-2", "verse_text": "Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabeshgilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee. 2 And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel." }, { "point_text": "Conformed by oath", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:23", "verse_text": "Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned." }, { "point_text": "Conformed by oath", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:31", "verse_text": "And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace." }, { "point_text": "Witnessed", "verse_ref": "Genesis 23:17-18", "verse_text": "And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure 18 Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city." }, { "point_text": "Written and sealed", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:38-10:1", "verse_text": "And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it. 1 Now those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah," }, { "point_text": "God often called to witness", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:50", "verse_text": "If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee." }, { "point_text": "God often called to witness", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:53", "verse_text": "The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac." }, { "point_text": "When confirmed, unalterable", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:15", "verse_text": "Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto." }, { "point_text": "Made by passing between the pieces of the divided sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:9-17", "verse_text": "And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. 10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not. 11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away. 12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. ..." }, { "point_text": "Made by passing between the pieces of the divided sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 34:18-19", "verse_text": "And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof, 19 The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;" }, { "point_text": "Salt a sign of perpetuity in", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:19", "verse_text": "All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee." }, { "point_text": "Salt a sign of perpetuity in", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 13:5", "verse_text": "Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?" }, { "point_text": "Ratified by joining hands", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:21", "verse_text": "Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered." }, { "point_text": "Ratified by joining hands", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:18", "verse_text": "Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape." }, { "point_text": "Followed by a feast", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:30", "verse_text": "And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink." }, { "point_text": "Followed by a feast", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:54", "verse_text": "Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount." }, { "point_text": "Presents given as tokens of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:27-30", "verse_text": "And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant. 28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. 29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves? 30 And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well." }, { "point_text": "Presents given as tokens of", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 18:3-4", "verse_text": "Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. 4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle." }, { "point_text": "Pillars raised in token of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:45-46", "verse_text": "And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. 46 And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap." }, { "point_text": "Names given to places where made", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:31", "verse_text": "Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them." }, { "point_text": "Names given to places where made", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:47-49", "verse_text": "And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed. 48 And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed; 49 And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another." }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to make, with the nations of Canaan", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:32", "verse_text": "Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to make, with the nations of Canaan", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:2", "verse_text": "And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:" }, { "point_text": "Frequently made with other nations", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:12", "verse_text": "And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together." }, { "point_text": "Frequently made with other nations", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:4", "verse_text": "And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison." }, { "point_text": "Condemned for making, with idolatrous nations", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:2-5", "verse_text": "That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt! 3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. 4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes. 5 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach." }, { "point_text": "Condemned for making, with idolatrous nations", "verse_ref": "Hosea 12:1", "verse_text": "Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Regarded, as sacred", "verse_ref": "Joshua 9:16-19", "verse_text": "And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them. 17 And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjathjearim. 18 And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes. 19 But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them." }, { "point_text": "Regarded, as sacred", "verse_ref": "Psalm 15:4", "verse_text": "In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not." }, { "point_text": "Violated by the wicked", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:31", "verse_text": "Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:" }, { "point_text": "Violated by the wicked", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:3", "verse_text": "Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good," }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the contract of marriage", "verse_ref": "Malachi 2:14", "verse_text": "Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant." }, { "point_text": "Of God's promises to man", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:9-11", "verse_text": "And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; 10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. 11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth." }, { "point_text": "Of God's promises to man", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:12", "verse_text": "That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:" }, { "point_text": "Of the united determination of a people to serve God", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 11:17", "verse_text": "And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD'S people; between the king also and the people." }, { "point_text": "Of the united determination of a people to serve God", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 15:12", "verse_text": "And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;" }, { "point_text": "Of the united determination of a people to serve God", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 10:29", "verse_text": "They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;" }, { "point_text": "Of good resolutions", "verse_ref": "Job 31:1", "verse_text": "I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?" }, { "point_text": "(With death and hell,) of carnal security", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:15", "verse_text": "Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:" }, { "point_text": "(With death and hell,) of carnal security", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:18", "verse_text": "And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it." }, { "point_text": "(With stones and beasts of the earth,) of peace and prosperity", "verse_ref": "Job 5:23", "verse_text": "For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee." }, { "point_text": "(With stones and beasts of the earth,) of peace and prosperity", "verse_ref": "Hosea 2:18", "verse_text": "And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely." } ] }, { "name": "Courts of Justice", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Courts-of-Justice.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Have authority from God", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:1-5", "verse_text": "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. 2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: 4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. ..." }, { "point_text": "SUPERIOR COURT", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Held first by Moses alone in the wilderness", "verse_ref": "Exodus 18:13-20", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening. 14 And when Moses' father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even? 15 And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto me to inquire of God: 16 When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws. ..." }, { "point_text": "Consisted subsequently of priests and Levites", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:9", "verse_text": "And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:" }, { "point_text": "Consisted subsequently of priests and Levites", "verse_ref": "Malachi 2:7", "verse_text": "For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Presided over by the governor or the high priest", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:12", "verse_text": "And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel." }, { "point_text": "Presided over by the governor or the high priest", "verse_ref": "Judges 4:4-5", "verse_text": "And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time. 5 And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment." }, { "point_text": "Held at the seat of government", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:8", "verse_text": "If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;" }, { "point_text": "Decided on all appeals and difficult cases", "verse_ref": "Exodus 18:26", "verse_text": "And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves." }, { "point_text": "Decided on all appeals and difficult cases", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:17", "verse_text": "Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it." }, { "point_text": "Decided on all appeals and difficult cases", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:8-9", "verse_text": "If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose; 9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:" }, { "point_text": "Decisions of, conclusive", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:10-11", "verse_text": "And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee: 11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left." }, { "point_text": "INFERIOR,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In all cities", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:18", "verse_text": "Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment." }, { "point_text": "In all cities", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 19:5-7", "verse_text": "And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city, 6 And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment. 7 Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts." }, { "point_text": "Held at the gates", "verse_ref": "Genesis 34:20", "verse_text": "And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying," }, { "point_text": "Held at the gates", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:18", "verse_text": "Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment." }, { "point_text": "Held at the gates", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 21:19", "verse_text": "Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;" }, { "point_text": "Held at the gates", "verse_ref": "Job 5:4", "verse_text": "His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them." }, { "point_text": "Judges of, appointed by the governor", "verse_ref": "Exodus 18:21", "verse_text": "Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:" }, { "point_text": "Judges of, appointed by the governor", "verse_ref": "Exodus 18:25", "verse_text": "And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens." }, { "point_text": "All minor cases decided by", "verse_ref": "Exodus 18:26", "verse_text": "And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves." }, { "point_text": "All minor cases decided by", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 15:4", "verse_text": "Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!" }, { "point_text": "All transfers of property made before", "verse_ref": "Genesis 23:17-20", "verse_text": "And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure 18 Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city. 19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan. 20 And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth." }, { "point_text": "All transfers of property made before", "verse_ref": "Ruth 4:1-2", "verse_text": "Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down. 2 And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down." }, { "point_text": "Re-established by Jehoshaphat", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 19:5-10", "verse_text": "And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city, 6 And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment. 7 Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts. 8 Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and of the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem. ..." }, { "point_text": "Re-established by Ezra", "verse_ref": "Ezra 7:25", "verse_text": "And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not." }, { "point_text": "SANHEDRIM OR COURT OF THE SEVENTY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Probably derived from the seventy elders appointed by Moses", "verse_ref": "Exodus 24:9", "verse_text": "Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:" }, { "point_text": "Probably derived from the seventy elders appointed by Moses", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:16-17", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee. 17 And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone." }, { "point_text": "Probably derived from the seventy elders appointed by Moses", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:24-30", "verse_text": "And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle. 25 And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease. 26 But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were written, but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp. 27 And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. ..." }, { "point_text": "Mentioned in the latter part of sacred history", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:66", "verse_text": "And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him into their council, saying," }, { "point_text": "Mentioned in the latter part of sacred history", "verse_ref": "John 11:47", "verse_text": "Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles." }, { "point_text": "Mentioned in the latter part of sacred history", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:27", "verse_text": "And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them," }, { "point_text": "Consisted of chief priest, &c", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:57", "verse_text": "And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled." }, { "point_text": "Consisted of chief priest, &c", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:59", "verse_text": "Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;" }, { "point_text": "Presided over by high priest", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:62-66", "verse_text": "And the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee? 63 But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God. 64 Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven. 65 Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy. ..." }, { "point_text": "Sat in high priest's palace", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:57-58", "verse_text": "And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled. 58 But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end." }, { "point_text": "OF THE ROMANS IN JUDEA", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Presided over by the governor or deputy", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:2", "verse_text": "And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor." }, { "point_text": "Presided over by the governor or deputy", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:11", "verse_text": "And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest." }, { "point_text": "Place of, called the hall of judgment", "verse_ref": "John 18:28", "verse_text": "Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover." }, { "point_text": "Place of, called the hall of judgment", "verse_ref": "John 19:9", "verse_text": "And went again into the judgment hall, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer." }, { "point_text": "Never interfered in any dispute about minor matters or about religion", "verse_ref": "Acts 18:14-15", "verse_text": "And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you: 15 But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters." }, { "point_text": "Could alone award death", "verse_ref": "John 18:31", "verse_text": "Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death:" }, { "point_text": "Never examined their own citizens by torture", "verse_ref": "Acts 22:25-29", "verse_text": "And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned? 26 When the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman. 27 Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea. 28 And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born. ..." }, { "point_text": "Appeals from, made to the emperor", "verse_ref": "Acts 25:11", "verse_text": "For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar." }, { "point_text": "Appeals from, made to the emperor", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:32", "verse_text": "Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar." }, { "point_text": "Appeals from, made to the emperor", "verse_ref": "Acts 28:19", "verse_text": "But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse my nation of." }, { "point_text": "Generally held in the morning", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 21:12", "verse_text": "O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings." }, { "point_text": "Generally held in the morning", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:1", "verse_text": "When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:" }, { "point_text": "Generally held in the morning", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:66", "verse_text": "And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him into their council, saying," }, { "point_text": "Generally held in the morning", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:21", "verse_text": "And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes held in synagogues.\r\n\n\n\n\r\n (Greek,)", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:17", "verse_text": "But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;" }, { "point_text": "Sometimes held in synagogues.\r\n\n\n\n\r\n (Greek,)", "verse_ref": "Acts 22:19", "verse_text": "And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:" }, { "point_text": "Sometimes held in synagogues.\r\n\n\n\n\r\n (Greek,)", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:11", "verse_text": "And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes held in synagogues.\r\n\n\n\n\r\n (Greek,)", "verse_ref": "James 2:2", "verse_text": "For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;" }, { "point_text": "PROVIDED WITH", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Judges", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:18", "verse_text": "Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment." }, { "point_text": "Officers", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:18", "verse_text": "Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment." }, { "point_text": "Officers", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:25", "verse_text": "Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison." }, { "point_text": "Tormentors or executioners", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:34", "verse_text": "And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him." }, { "point_text": "JUDGES OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Called elders", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 25:7", "verse_text": "And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother." }, { "point_text": "Called elders", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 16:4", "verse_text": "And Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably?" }, { "point_text": "Called magistrates", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:58", "verse_text": "When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison." }, { "point_text": "Rode often on white asses", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:10", "verse_text": "Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way." }, { "point_text": "To judge righteously", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:15", "verse_text": "Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour." }, { "point_text": "To judge righteously", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:6", "verse_text": "The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:" }, { "point_text": "To judge without respect of persons", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:3", "verse_text": "Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause." }, { "point_text": "To judge without respect of persons", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:6", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause." }, { "point_text": "To investigate every case", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 19:18", "verse_text": "And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;" }, { "point_text": "Not to take bribes", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:8", "verse_text": "And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous." }, { "point_text": "Not to take bribes", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:19", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous." }, { "point_text": "To judge as for God", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 19:6-7", "verse_text": "And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment. 7 Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts." }, { "point_text": "To judge as for God", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 19:9", "verse_text": "And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of the LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart." }, { "point_text": "To decide according to the law", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 44:24", "verse_text": "And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths." }, { "point_text": "To promote peace", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 8:16", "verse_text": "These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:" }, { "point_text": "Sat on the judgment-seat while hearing causes", "verse_ref": "Exodus 18:13", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening." }, { "point_text": "Sat on the judgment-seat while hearing causes", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:10", "verse_text": "Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way." }, { "point_text": "Sat on the judgment-seat while hearing causes", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:6", "verse_text": "And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate." }, { "point_text": "Sat on the judgment-seat while hearing causes", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:19", "verse_text": "When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him." }, { "point_text": "Examined the parties", "verse_ref": "Acts 24:8", "verse_text": "Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him." }, { "point_text": "Conferred together before giving judgment", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:34-40", "verse_text": "Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space; 35 And said unto them, Ye men of Israel, take heed to yourselves what ye intend to do as touching these men. 36 For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought. 37 After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the taxing, and drew away much people after him: he also perished; and all, even as many as obeyed him, were dispersed. ..." }, { "point_text": "Conferred together before giving judgment", "verse_ref": "Acts 25:12", "verse_text": "Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shalt thou go." }, { "point_text": "Conferred together before giving judgment", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:30-31", "verse_text": "And when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and they that sat with them: 31 And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds." }, { "point_text": "Pronounced the judgment of the court", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:65-66", "verse_text": "Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy. 66 What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death." }, { "point_text": "Both the accusers and accused required to appear before", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 25:1", "verse_text": "If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked." }, { "point_text": "Both the accusers and accused required to appear before", "verse_ref": "Acts 25:16", "verse_text": "To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him." }, { "point_text": "CAUSES IN, WERE OPENED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The complainant", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 3:17-21", "verse_text": "And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house. 18 And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house. 19 And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it. 20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom. ..." }, { "point_text": "The complainant", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:19-21", "verse_text": "And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers, 20 And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, 21 And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans." }, { "point_text": "An advocate", "verse_ref": "Acts 24:1", "verse_text": "And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul." }, { "point_text": "THE ACCUSED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Stood before the judge", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:12", "verse_text": "And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment." }, { "point_text": "Stood before the judge", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:11", "verse_text": "And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest." }, { "point_text": "Permitted to plead their own cause", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 3:22", "verse_text": "And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king." }, { "point_text": "Permitted to plead their own cause", "verse_ref": "Acts 24:10", "verse_text": "Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:" }, { "point_text": "Permitted to plead their own cause", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:1", "verse_text": "Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:" }, { "point_text": "Might have advocates", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:8-9", "verse_text": "Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. 9 Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy." }, { "point_text": "Exhorted to confess", "verse_ref": "Joshua 7:19", "verse_text": "And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me." }, { "point_text": "Examined on oath", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:1", "verse_text": "And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Examined on oath", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:63", "verse_text": "But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes examined by torture", "verse_ref": "Acts 22:24", "verse_text": "The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes examined by torture", "verse_ref": "Acts 22:29", "verse_text": "Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes treated with insult", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:67", "verse_text": "Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands," }, { "point_text": "Sometimes treated with insult", "verse_ref": "John 18:22-23", "verse_text": "And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so? 23 Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou me?" }, { "point_text": "The evidence of two or more witnesses required in", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:6", "verse_text": "At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death." }, { "point_text": "The evidence of two or more witnesses required in", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 19:15", "verse_text": "One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established." }, { "point_text": "The evidence of two or more witnesses required in", "verse_ref": "John 8:17", "verse_text": "It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true." }, { "point_text": "The evidence of two or more witnesses required in", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 13:1", "verse_text": "This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established." }, { "point_text": "Witnesses sometimes laid their hands on the criminal's head before punishment", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 24:14", "verse_text": "Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him." }, { "point_text": "False witnesses in to receive the punishment of the accused", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 19:19", "verse_text": "Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you." }, { "point_text": "Corruption and bribery often practised in", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:1", "verse_text": "Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;" }, { "point_text": "Corruption and bribery often practised in", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:12", "verse_text": "For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right." }, { "point_text": "Corruption and bribery often practised in", "verse_ref": "Amos 8:6", "verse_text": "That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?" }, { "point_text": "THE JUDGMENT OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Not given till accused was heard", "verse_ref": "John 7:51", "verse_text": "Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?" }, { "point_text": "Recorded in writing.\r\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:1", "verse_text": "Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;" }, { "point_text": "Immediately executed", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 25:2", "verse_text": "And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number." }, { "point_text": "Immediately executed", "verse_ref": "Joshua 7:25", "verse_text": "And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones." }, { "point_text": "Immediately executed", "verse_ref": "Mark 15:15-20", "verse_text": "And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified. 16 And the soldiers led him away into the hall, called Praetorium; and they call together the whole band. 17 And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head, 18 And began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews! ..." }, { "point_text": "Witnesses first to execute", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:7", "verse_text": "The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you." }, { "point_text": "Witnesses first to execute", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:58", "verse_text": "And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul." }, { "point_text": "Allusions to", "verse_ref": "Job 5:4", "verse_text": "His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them." }, { "point_text": "Allusions to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 127:5", "verse_text": "Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate." }, { "point_text": "Allusions to", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:22", "verse_text": "But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire." }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of the last judgment", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:28", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of the last judgment", "verse_ref": "Romans 14:10", "verse_text": "But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ." }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of the last judgment", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:2", "verse_text": "Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?" } ] }, { "name": "Covetousness", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Covetousness.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Comes from the heart", "verse_ref": "Mark 7:22-23", "verse_text": "Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man." }, { "point_text": "Engrosses the heart", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 33:31", "verse_text": "And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness." }, { "point_text": "Engrosses the heart", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:14", "verse_text": "Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:" }, { "point_text": "Is idolatry", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:5", "verse_text": "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God." }, { "point_text": "Is idolatry", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:5", "verse_text": "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:" }, { "point_text": "Is the root of all evil", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:10", "verse_text": "For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." }, { "point_text": "Is never satisfied", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 5:10", "verse_text": "He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity." }, { "point_text": "Is never satisfied", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:5", "verse_text": "Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:" }, { "point_text": "Is vanity", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:6", "verse_text": "Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them." }, { "point_text": "Is vanity", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 4:8", "verse_text": "There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail." }, { "point_text": "IS INCONSISTENT", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In saints", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:3", "verse_text": "But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;" }, { "point_text": "In saints", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:5", "verse_text": "Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." }, { "point_text": "Specially in ministers", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:3", "verse_text": "Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;" }, { "point_text": "LEADS TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Injustice and oppression", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:20", "verse_text": "A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent." }, { "point_text": "Injustice and oppression", "verse_ref": "Micah 2:2", "verse_text": "And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage." }, { "point_text": "Foolish and hurtful lusts", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:9", "verse_text": "But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition." }, { "point_text": "Departure from the faith", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:10", "verse_text": "For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." }, { "point_text": "Lying", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:22-25", "verse_text": "And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments. 23 And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him. 24 And when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed. 25 But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no whither." }, { "point_text": "Murder", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:18-19", "verse_text": "And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. 19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof." }, { "point_text": "Theft", "verse_ref": "Joshua 7:21", "verse_text": "When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it." }, { "point_text": "Poverty", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:22", "verse_text": "He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him." }, { "point_text": "Misery", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:10", "verse_text": "For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." }, { "point_text": "Domestic affliction", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:27", "verse_text": "He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live." }, { "point_text": "Abhorred by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 10:3", "verse_text": "For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:17", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:29", "verse_text": "Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers," }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of the slothful", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:26", "verse_text": "He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not." }, { "point_text": "Commended by the wicked alone", "verse_ref": "Psalm 10:3", "verse_text": "For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth." }, { "point_text": "Hated by saints", "verse_ref": "Exodus 18:21", "verse_text": "Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:" }, { "point_text": "Hated by saints", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:33", "verse_text": "I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel." }, { "point_text": "To be mortified by saints", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:5", "verse_text": "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:" }, { "point_text": "Woe denounced against", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:8", "verse_text": "Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!" }, { "point_text": "Woe denounced against", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:9", "verse_text": "Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!" }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Job 20:15", "verse_text": "He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:17", "verse_text": "For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 22:17-19", "verse_text": "But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it. 18 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory! 19 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Micah 2:2-3", "verse_text": "And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. 3 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil." }, { "point_text": "Excludes from heaven", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:10", "verse_text": "Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Excludes from heaven", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:5", "verse_text": "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God." }, { "point_text": "Beware of", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:15", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth." }, { "point_text": "Avoid those guilty of", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 5:11", "verse_text": "But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat." }, { "point_text": "Pray against", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:36", "verse_text": "Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness." }, { "point_text": "Reward of those who hate", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:16", "verse_text": "The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days." }, { "point_text": "Shall abound in the last days", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:2", "verse_text": "For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy," }, { "point_text": "Shall abound in the last days", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:1-3", "verse_text": "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. 3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban, \nAchan, \nEli's sons, \nSamuel's sons, \nSaul, \n\nAhab, \r\n, &c.\r\n\nGehazi, \nNobles of the Jews, \n\nJewish People, \n\nBabylon, \nYoung man, \nJudas, \nPharisees, \nAnanias, &c. \nFelix, \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:41", "verse_text": "Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban, \nAchan, \nEli's sons, \nSamuel's sons, \nSaul, \n\nAhab, \r\n, &c.\r\n\nGehazi, \nNobles of the Jews, \n\nJewish People, \n\nBabylon, \nYoung man, \nJudas, \nPharisees, \nAnanias, &c. \nFelix, \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "Joshua 7:21", "verse_text": "When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban, \nAchan, \nEli's sons, \nSamuel's sons, \nSaul, \n\nAhab, \r\n, &c.\r\n\nGehazi, \nNobles of the Jews, \n\nJewish People, \n\nBabylon, \nYoung man, \nJudas, \nPharisees, \nAnanias, &c. \nFelix, \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:12-14", "verse_text": "Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD. 13 And the priests' custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand; 14 And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban, \nAchan, \nEli's sons, \nSamuel's sons, \nSaul, \n\nAhab, \r\n, &c.\r\n\nGehazi, \nNobles of the Jews, \n\nJewish People, \n\nBabylon, \nYoung man, \nJudas, \nPharisees, \nAnanias, &c. \nFelix, \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 8:3", "verse_text": "And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban, \nAchan, \nEli's sons, \nSamuel's sons, \nSaul, \n\nAhab, \r\n, &c.\r\n\nGehazi, \nNobles of the Jews, \n\nJewish People, \n\nBabylon, \nYoung man, \nJudas, \nPharisees, \nAnanias, &c. \nFelix, \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:9", "verse_text": "But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban, \nAchan, \nEli's sons, \nSamuel's sons, \nSaul, \n\nAhab, \r\n, &c.\r\n\nGehazi, \nNobles of the Jews, \n\nJewish People, \n\nBabylon, \nYoung man, \nJudas, \nPharisees, \nAnanias, &c. \nFelix, \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:19", "verse_text": "Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban, \nAchan, \nEli's sons, \nSamuel's sons, \nSaul, \n\nAhab, \r\n, &c.\r\n\nGehazi, \nNobles of the Jews, \n\nJewish People, \n\nBabylon, \nYoung man, \nJudas, \nPharisees, \nAnanias, &c. \nFelix, \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:2-4", "verse_text": "And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money. 3 And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee. 4 And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban, \nAchan, \nEli's sons, \nSamuel's sons, \nSaul, \n\nAhab, \r\n, &c.\r\n\nGehazi, \nNobles of the Jews, \n\nJewish People, \n\nBabylon, \nYoung man, \nJudas, \nPharisees, \nAnanias, &c. \nFelix, \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:20-24", "verse_text": "But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him. 21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well? 22 And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments. 23 And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban, \nAchan, \nEli's sons, \nSamuel's sons, \nSaul, \n\nAhab, \r\n, &c.\r\n\nGehazi, \nNobles of the Jews, \n\nJewish People, \n\nBabylon, \nYoung man, \nJudas, \nPharisees, \nAnanias, &c. \nFelix, \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 5:7", "verse_text": "Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban, \nAchan, \nEli's sons, \nSamuel's sons, \nSaul, \n\nAhab, \r\n, &c.\r\n\nGehazi, \nNobles of the Jews, \n\nJewish People, \n\nBabylon, \nYoung man, \nJudas, \nPharisees, \nAnanias, &c. \nFelix, \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:23", "verse_text": "Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban, \nAchan, \nEli's sons, \nSamuel's sons, \nSaul, \n\nAhab, \r\n, &c.\r\n\nGehazi, \nNobles of the Jews, \n\nJewish People, \n\nBabylon, \nYoung man, \nJudas, \nPharisees, \nAnanias, &c. \nFelix, \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:11", "verse_text": "Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban, \nAchan, \nEli's sons, \nSamuel's sons, \nSaul, \n\nAhab, \r\n, &c.\r\n\nGehazi, \nNobles of the Jews, \n\nJewish People, \n\nBabylon, \nYoung man, \nJudas, \nPharisees, \nAnanias, &c. \nFelix, \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:13", "verse_text": "For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban, \nAchan, \nEli's sons, \nSamuel's sons, \nSaul, \n\nAhab, \r\n, &c.\r\n\nGehazi, \nNobles of the Jews, \n\nJewish People, \n\nBabylon, \nYoung man, \nJudas, \nPharisees, \nAnanias, &c. \nFelix, \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:13", "verse_text": "O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban, \nAchan, \nEli's sons, \nSamuel's sons, \nSaul, \n\nAhab, \r\n, &c.\r\n\nGehazi, \nNobles of the Jews, \n\nJewish People, \n\nBabylon, \nYoung man, \nJudas, \nPharisees, \nAnanias, &c. \nFelix, \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:22", "verse_text": "But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban, \nAchan, \nEli's sons, \nSamuel's sons, \nSaul, \n\nAhab, \r\n, &c.\r\n\nGehazi, \nNobles of the Jews, \n\nJewish People, \n\nBabylon, \nYoung man, \nJudas, \nPharisees, \nAnanias, &c. \nFelix, \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:14-15", "verse_text": "Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, 15 And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban, \nAchan, \nEli's sons, \nSamuel's sons, \nSaul, \n\nAhab, \r\n, &c.\r\n\nGehazi, \nNobles of the Jews, \n\nJewish People, \n\nBabylon, \nYoung man, \nJudas, \nPharisees, \nAnanias, &c. \nFelix, \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:14", "verse_text": "And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban, \nAchan, \nEli's sons, \nSamuel's sons, \nSaul, \n\nAhab, \r\n, &c.\r\n\nGehazi, \nNobles of the Jews, \n\nJewish People, \n\nBabylon, \nYoung man, \nJudas, \nPharisees, \nAnanias, &c. \nFelix, \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:1-10", "verse_text": "But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, 2 And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet. 3 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? 4 Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban, \nAchan, \nEli's sons, \nSamuel's sons, \nSaul, \n\nAhab, \r\n, &c.\r\n\nGehazi, \nNobles of the Jews, \n\nJewish People, \n\nBabylon, \nYoung man, \nJudas, \nPharisees, \nAnanias, &c. \nFelix, \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "Acts 24:26", "verse_text": "He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban, \nAchan, \nEli's sons, \nSamuel's sons, \nSaul, \n\nAhab, \r\n, &c.\r\n\nGehazi, \nNobles of the Jews, \n\nJewish People, \n\nBabylon, \nYoung man, \nJudas, \nPharisees, \nAnanias, &c. \nFelix, \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:15", "verse_text": "Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban, \nAchan, \nEli's sons, \nSamuel's sons, \nSaul, \n\nAhab, \r\n, &c.\r\n\nGehazi, \nNobles of the Jews, \n\nJewish People, \n\nBabylon, \nYoung man, \nJudas, \nPharisees, \nAnanias, &c. \nFelix, \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "Jude 11", "verse_text": "Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core." } ] }, { "name": "Daily Sacrifice, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Daily-Sacrifice-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Ordained in mount Sinai", "verse_ref": "Numbers 28:6", "verse_text": "It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "A lamb as a burnt offering morning and evening", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:38-39", "verse_text": "Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually. 39 The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even:" }, { "point_text": "Doubled on the sabbath", "verse_ref": "Numbers 28:9-10", "verse_text": "And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof: 10 This is the burnt offering of every sabbath, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering." }, { "point_text": "REQUIRED TO BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "With a meat and drink offering", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:40-41", "verse_text": "And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering. 41 And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Slowly and entirely consumed", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:9-12", "verse_text": "Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering: It is the burnt offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it. 10 And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar. 11 And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place. 12 And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings." }, { "point_text": "Perpetually observed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:42", "verse_text": "This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Perpetually observed", "verse_ref": "Numbers 28:3", "verse_text": "And thou shalt say unto them, This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto the LORD; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, for a continual burnt offering." }, { "point_text": "Perpetually observed", "verse_ref": "Numbers 28:6", "verse_text": "It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Peculiarly acceptable", "verse_ref": "Numbers 28:8", "verse_text": "And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, thou shalt offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Peculiarly acceptable", "verse_ref": "Psalm 141:2", "verse_text": "Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice." }, { "point_text": "Secured God's presence and favor", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:43-44", "verse_text": "And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory. 44 And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me in the priest's office." }, { "point_text": "Times of offering, were seasons of prayer", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:5", "verse_text": "And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God," }, { "point_text": "Times of offering, were seasons of prayer", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:20-21", "verse_text": "And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God; 21 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation." }, { "point_text": "Restored after the captivity", "verse_ref": "Ezra 3:3", "verse_text": "And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and evening." }, { "point_text": "The abolition of, foretold", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:26", "verse_text": "And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined." }, { "point_text": "The abolition of, foretold", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:31", "verse_text": "And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "John 1:29", "verse_text": "The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "John 1:36", "verse_text": "And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!" }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:19", "verse_text": "But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:" }, { "point_text": "Acceptable prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 141:2", "verse_text": "Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice." } ] }, { "name": "Creditors", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Creditors.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Defined", "verse_ref": "Philemon 18", "verse_text": "If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine account;" }, { "point_text": "MIGHT DEMAND", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Pledges", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:10-11", "verse_text": "When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge. 11 Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Security of others", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:1", "verse_text": "My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger," }, { "point_text": "Security of others", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:26", "verse_text": "Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts." }, { "point_text": "Mortgages on property", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 5:3", "verse_text": "Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth." }, { "point_text": "Bills or promissory notes", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:6-7", "verse_text": "And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty. 7 Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore." }, { "point_text": "To return before sunset, garments taken in pledge", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:26-27", "verse_text": "If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down: 27 For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious." }, { "point_text": "PROHIBITED FROM", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Taking millstones in pledge", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:6", "verse_text": "No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge." }, { "point_text": "Violently selecting pledges", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:10", "verse_text": "When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge." }, { "point_text": "Exacting usury from brethren", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:25", "verse_text": "If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury." }, { "point_text": "Exacting usury from brethren", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:36-37", "verse_text": "Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. 37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase." }, { "point_text": "Exacting debts from brethren during sabbatical year", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 15:2-3", "verse_text": "And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD'S release. 3 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;" }, { "point_text": "Might take interest from strangers", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:20", "verse_text": "Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes entirely remitted debts", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 5:10-12", "verse_text": "I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury. 11 Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them. 12 Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes entirely remitted debts", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:27", "verse_text": "Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes entirely remitted debts", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:42", "verse_text": "And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?" }, { "point_text": "Often cruel in exacting debts", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 5:7-9", "verse_text": "Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them. 8 And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer. 9 Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?" }, { "point_text": "Often cruel in exacting debts", "verse_ref": "Job 24:3-9", "verse_text": "They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. 4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. 5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children. 6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked. ..." }, { "point_text": "Often cruel in exacting debts", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:28-30", "verse_text": "But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest. 29 And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. 30 And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt." }, { "point_text": "OFTEN EXACTED DEBTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "By selling the debtor or taking him for a servant", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:25", "verse_text": "But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made." }, { "point_text": "By selling the debtor or taking him for a servant", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:2", "verse_text": "If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing." }, { "point_text": "By selling the debtor's property", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:25", "verse_text": "But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made." }, { "point_text": "By selling the debtor's family", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:1", "verse_text": "Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen." }, { "point_text": "By selling the debtor's family", "verse_ref": "Job 24:9", "verse_text": "They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor." }, { "point_text": "By selling the debtor's family", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:25", "verse_text": "But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made." }, { "point_text": "By imprisonment", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:25", "verse_text": "Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison." }, { "point_text": "By imprisonment", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:34", "verse_text": "And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him." }, { "point_text": "From the sureties", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:15", "verse_text": "He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure." }, { "point_text": "From the sureties", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:26-27", "verse_text": "Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts. 27 If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?" }, { "point_text": "Were often defrauded", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 22:2", "verse_text": "And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men." }, { "point_text": "Were often defrauded", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:5-7", "verse_text": "So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord? 6 And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty. 7 Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "God's claim upon men", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:25", "verse_text": "Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison." }, { "point_text": "God's claim upon men", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:23", "verse_text": "Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants." }, { "point_text": "God's claim upon men", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:35", "verse_text": "So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses." }, { "point_text": "The demands of the law", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:3", "verse_text": "For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law." } ] }, { "name": "Day", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Day.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The light first called", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:5", "verse_text": "And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day." }, { "point_text": "Natural, from evening to evening", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:5", "verse_text": "And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day." }, { "point_text": "Natural, from evening to evening", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:32", "verse_text": "It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath." }, { "point_text": "Artificial, the time of the sun's continuance above the horizon", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:39-40", "verse_text": "That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night. 40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes." }, { "point_text": "Prophetical, a year", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 4:6", "verse_text": "And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year." }, { "point_text": "Prophetical, a year", "verse_ref": "Daniel 12:12", "verse_text": "Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days." }, { "point_text": "ARTIFICIAL, DIVIDED INTO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Break of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:24", "verse_text": "And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day." }, { "point_text": "Break of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:26", "verse_text": "And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me." }, { "point_text": "Morning", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:39", "verse_text": "The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even:" }, { "point_text": "Morning", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 23:4", "verse_text": "And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain." }, { "point_text": "Noon", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:16", "verse_text": "And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready; for these men shall dine with me at noon." }, { "point_text": "Noon", "verse_ref": "Psalm 55:17", "verse_text": "Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice." }, { "point_text": "Decline of", "verse_ref": "Judges 19:8-9", "verse_text": "And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart: and the damsel's father said, Comfort thine heart, I pray thee. And they tarried until afternoon, and they did eat both of them. 9 And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel's father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home." }, { "point_text": "Evening", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:11", "verse_text": "And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth." }, { "point_text": "Evening", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:23", "verse_text": "Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening." }, { "point_text": "Evening", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:4", "verse_text": "Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes divided into four parts", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:3", "verse_text": "And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the LORD their God." }, { "point_text": "Latterly subdivided into twelve hours", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:3", "verse_text": "And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace," }, { "point_text": "Latterly subdivided into twelve hours", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:5-6", "verse_text": "Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise. 6 And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?" }, { "point_text": "Time of, ascertained by the dial", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:11", "verse_text": "And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz." }, { "point_text": "Succession of, secured by covenant", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:22", "verse_text": "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." }, { "point_text": "Made for the glory of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:16", "verse_text": "The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun." }, { "point_text": "Proclaims the glory of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:2", "verse_text": "Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge." }, { "point_text": "Under the control of God", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:8", "verse_text": "Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:" }, { "point_text": "Under the control of God", "verse_ref": "Amos 8:9", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:" }, { "point_text": "A TIME OF JUDGMENT CALLED A DAY OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Anger", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 2:21", "verse_text": "The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied." }, { "point_text": "Wrath", "verse_ref": "Job 20:28", "verse_text": "The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath." }, { "point_text": "Wrath", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 1:15", "verse_text": "That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness," }, { "point_text": "Wrath", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 1:18", "verse_text": "Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land." }, { "point_text": "Visitation", "verse_ref": "Micah 7:4", "verse_text": "The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity." }, { "point_text": "Destruction", "verse_ref": "Job 21:30", "verse_text": "That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath." }, { "point_text": "Darkness", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:2", "verse_text": "A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations." }, { "point_text": "Darkness", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 1:15", "verse_text": "That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness," }, { "point_text": "Trouble", "verse_ref": "Psalm 102:2", "verse_text": "Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily." }, { "point_text": "Calamity", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:35", "verse_text": "To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste." }, { "point_text": "Calamity", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 18:17", "verse_text": "I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity." }, { "point_text": "Adversity", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 24:10", "verse_text": "If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small." }, { "point_text": "Vengeance", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:34", "verse_text": "For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance." }, { "point_text": "Vengeance", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:2", "verse_text": "To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;" }, { "point_text": "Slaughter", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:25", "verse_text": "And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall." }, { "point_text": "Slaughter", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 12:3", "verse_text": "But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter." }, { "point_text": "Evil", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:17", "verse_text": "Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil." }, { "point_text": "Evil", "verse_ref": "Amos 6:3", "verse_text": "Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;" }, { "point_text": "Evil", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:13", "verse_text": "Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand." }, { "point_text": "The Lord", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:12", "verse_text": "For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:" }, { "point_text": "The Lord", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:6", "verse_text": "Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty." }, { "point_text": "The Lord", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 1:14", "verse_text": "The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly." }, { "point_text": "A TIME OF MERCY CALLED A DAY OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Salvation", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:2", "verse_text": "(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)" }, { "point_text": "Redemption", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:30", "verse_text": "And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption." }, { "point_text": "Visitation", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:22", "verse_text": "They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place." }, { "point_text": "Visitation", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:12", "verse_text": "Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation." }, { "point_text": "God's power", "verse_ref": "Psalm 110:3", "verse_text": "Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth." }, { "point_text": "A TIME OF FESTIVITY CALLED A", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Good day", "verse_ref": "Esther 8:17", "verse_text": "And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them." }, { "point_text": "Good day", "verse_ref": "Esther 9:19", "verse_text": "Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another." }, { "point_text": "Day of good tidings", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 7:9", "verse_text": "Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household." }, { "point_text": "Day which the Lord has made", "verse_ref": "Psalm 118:24", "verse_text": "This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it." }, { "point_text": "Solemn day", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:10", "verse_text": "Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "Solemn day", "verse_ref": "Hosea 9:5", "verse_text": "What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?" }, { "point_text": "Day of gladness", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:10", "verse_text": "Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "The time for labor", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:22", "verse_text": "The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens." }, { "point_text": "The time for labor", "verse_ref": "John 9:4", "verse_text": "I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work." }, { "point_text": "Wild beasts hide during", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:22", "verse_text": "The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Time of judgment", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:13", "verse_text": "Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is." }, { "point_text": "Time of judgment", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 4:3", "verse_text": "But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self." }, { "point_text": "Spiritual light", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:5", "verse_text": "Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness." }, { "point_text": "Spiritual light", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:8", "verse_text": "But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation." }, { "point_text": "Spiritual light", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:19", "verse_text": "We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:" }, { "point_text": "The path of the just", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 4:18", "verse_text": "But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day." } ] }, { "name": "Darkness", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Darkness.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Created by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:20", "verse_text": "Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth." }, { "point_text": "Created by God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:7", "verse_text": "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things." }, { "point_text": "Originally covered the earth", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:2", "verse_text": "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." }, { "point_text": "Separated from the light", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:4", "verse_text": "And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness." }, { "point_text": "Called night", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:5", "verse_text": "And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day." }, { "point_text": "Caused by the setting of the sun", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:17", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces." }, { "point_text": "Caused by the setting of the sun", "verse_ref": "John 6:17", "verse_text": "And entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them." }, { "point_text": "Inexplicable nature of", "verse_ref": "Job 38:19-20", "verse_text": "Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof, 20 That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?" }, { "point_text": "Exhibits God's power and greatness", "verse_ref": "Job 38:8-9", "verse_text": "Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? 9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it," }, { "point_text": "DEGREES OF, MENTIONED;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Great", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:12", "verse_text": "And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him." }, { "point_text": "That may be felt", "verse_ref": "Exodus 10:21", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt." }, { "point_text": "Thick", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:22", "verse_text": "These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me." }, { "point_text": "Thick", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:2", "verse_text": "A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations." }, { "point_text": "Gross", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 13:16", "verse_text": "Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness." }, { "point_text": "Outer or extreme", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:12", "verse_text": "But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." }, { "point_text": "EFFECTS OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Keeps us from seeing objects", "verse_ref": "Exodus 10:23", "verse_text": "They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings." }, { "point_text": "Causes us to go astray", "verse_ref": "John 12:35", "verse_text": "Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth." }, { "point_text": "Causes us to go astray", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:11", "verse_text": "But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes." }, { "point_text": "Causes us to stumble", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:10", "verse_text": "We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men." }, { "point_text": "Often put for night", "verse_ref": "Psalm 91:6", "verse_text": "Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday." }, { "point_text": "Called the swaddling band of the sea", "verse_ref": "Job 38:9", "verse_text": "When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it," }, { "point_text": "Cannot hide us from God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 139:11-12", "verse_text": "If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. 12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The children of", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:5", "verse_text": "Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness." }, { "point_text": "Live in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:10", "verse_text": "Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;" }, { "point_text": "Walk in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 82:5", "verse_text": "They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course." }, { "point_text": "Perpetrate their designs in", "verse_ref": "Job 24:16", "verse_text": "In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light." }, { "point_text": "Are full of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:23", "verse_text": "But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!" }, { "point_text": "MIRACULOUS,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "On mount Sinai", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:16", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled." }, { "point_text": "On mount Sinai", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:18", "verse_text": "For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest," }, { "point_text": "Over the land of Egypt", "verse_ref": "Exodus 10:21-22", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt. 22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:" }, { "point_text": "At the death of Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:45", "verse_text": "Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour." }, { "point_text": "Before the destruction of Jerusalem", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:29", "verse_text": "Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:" }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Greatness and unsearchableness of God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:21", "verse_text": "And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was." }, { "point_text": "Greatness and unsearchableness of God", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 22:10", "verse_text": "He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet." }, { "point_text": "Greatness and unsearchableness of God", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 22:12", "verse_text": "And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies." }, { "point_text": "Greatness and unsearchableness of God", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:12", "verse_text": "Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick darkness." }, { "point_text": "Greatness and unsearchableness of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 97:2", "verse_text": "Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne." }, { "point_text": "Abstruse and deep subjects", "verse_ref": "Job 28:3", "verse_text": "He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death." }, { "point_text": "Secrecy", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:19", "verse_text": "I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right." }, { "point_text": "Secrecy", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:27", "verse_text": "What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops." }, { "point_text": "Ignorance and error", "verse_ref": "Job 37:19", "verse_text": "Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness." }, { "point_text": "Ignorance and error", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:2", "verse_text": "For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee." }, { "point_text": "Ignorance and error", "verse_ref": "John 1:5", "verse_text": "And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." }, { "point_text": "Ignorance and error", "verse_ref": "John 3:19", "verse_text": "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil." }, { "point_text": "Ignorance and error", "verse_ref": "John 12:35", "verse_text": "Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth." }, { "point_text": "Ignorance and error", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:18", "verse_text": "To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me." }, { "point_text": "Anything hateful", "verse_ref": "Job 3:4-9", "verse_text": "Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. 6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months. 7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein. ..." }, { "point_text": "A course of sin", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 2:13", "verse_text": "Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;" }, { "point_text": "A course of sin", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:11", "verse_text": "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." }, { "point_text": "Heavy afflictions", "verse_ref": "Job 23:17", "verse_text": "Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face." }, { "point_text": "Heavy afflictions", "verse_ref": "Psalm 112:4", "verse_text": "Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous." }, { "point_text": "Heavy afflictions", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 5:17", "verse_text": "All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness." }, { "point_text": "Heavy afflictions", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:30", "verse_text": "And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof." }, { "point_text": "Heavy afflictions", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:22", "verse_text": "And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness." }, { "point_text": "Heavy afflictions", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:9", "verse_text": "Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness." }, { "point_text": "The power of Satan", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:12", "verse_text": "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." }, { "point_text": "The power of Satan", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:13", "verse_text": "Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:" }, { "point_text": "The grave", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:9", "verse_text": "He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail." }, { "point_text": "The grave", "verse_ref": "Job 10:21-22", "verse_text": "Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; 22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness." }, { "point_text": "The punishment of devils and wicked men", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:13", "verse_text": "Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." }, { "point_text": "The punishment of devils and wicked men", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:4", "verse_text": "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;" }, { "point_text": "The punishment of devils and wicked men", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:17", "verse_text": "These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever." } ] }, { "name": "Creation", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Creation.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The formation of things which had no previous existence", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:17", "verse_text": "(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were." }, { "point_text": "The formation of things which had no previous existence", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:3", "verse_text": "Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear." }, { "point_text": "EFFECTED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "By God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:1", "verse_text": "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." }, { "point_text": "By God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:4-5", "verse_text": "These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, 5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground." }, { "point_text": "By Christ", "verse_ref": "John 1:3", "verse_text": "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." }, { "point_text": "By Christ", "verse_ref": "John 1:10", "verse_text": "He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not." }, { "point_text": "By the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Job 26:13", "verse_text": "By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent." }, { "point_text": "By the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:30", "verse_text": "Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth." }, { "point_text": "By the command of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 33:9", "verse_text": "For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast." }, { "point_text": "By the command of God", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:3", "verse_text": "Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear." }, { "point_text": "In the beginning", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:1", "verse_text": "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." }, { "point_text": "In the beginning", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:21", "verse_text": "For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be." }, { "point_text": "In six days", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:11", "verse_text": "For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it." }, { "point_text": "In six days", "verse_ref": "Exodus 31:17", "verse_text": "It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed." }, { "point_text": "According to God's purpose", "verse_ref": "Psalm 135:6", "verse_text": "Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places." }, { "point_text": "For God's pleasure", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:4", "verse_text": "The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil." }, { "point_text": "For God's pleasure", "verse_ref": "Revelation 4:11", "verse_text": "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created." }, { "point_text": "For Christ", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:16", "verse_text": "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:" }, { "point_text": "By faith we believe, to be God's work", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:3", "verse_text": "Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear." }, { "point_text": "ORDER OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "First day, making light and dividing it from darkness", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:3-5", "verse_text": "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day." }, { "point_text": "First day, making light and dividing it from darkness", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:6", "verse_text": "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Second day, making the firmament or atmosphere, and separating the waters", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:6-8", "verse_text": "And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day." }, { "point_text": "Third day, separating the land from the water, and making it fruitful", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:9-13", "verse_text": "And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. 11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. ..." }, { "point_text": "Fourth day, placing the sun, moon, and stars to give light, &c", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:14-19", "verse_text": "And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, ..." }, { "point_text": "Fifth day, making birds, insects, and fishes", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:20-23", "verse_text": "And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day." }, { "point_text": "Sixth day, making beasts of the earth, and man", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:24", "verse_text": "And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so." }, { "point_text": "Sixth day, making beasts of the earth, and man", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:28", "verse_text": "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "God rested from, on the seventh day", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:2-3", "verse_text": "And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made." }, { "point_text": "Approved of by God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:31", "verse_text": "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day." }, { "point_text": "A subject of joy to angels", "verse_ref": "Job 38:7", "verse_text": "When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?" }, { "point_text": "EXHIBITS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The deity of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:20", "verse_text": "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:" }, { "point_text": "The power of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:26", "verse_text": "Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth." }, { "point_text": "The power of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:28", "verse_text": "Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding." }, { "point_text": "The glory and handiwork of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:1", "verse_text": "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork." }, { "point_text": "The wisdom of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:24", "verse_text": "O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches." }, { "point_text": "The wisdom of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 136:5", "verse_text": "To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth for ever." }, { "point_text": "The goodness of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 33:5", "verse_text": "He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "God as the sole object of worship", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:16", "verse_text": "They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols." }, { "point_text": "God as the sole object of worship", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:18", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else." }, { "point_text": "Glorifies God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:10", "verse_text": "All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall bless thee." }, { "point_text": "Glorifies God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:5", "verse_text": "Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created." }, { "point_text": "God to be praised for", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:6", "verse_text": "Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee." }, { "point_text": "God to be praised for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 146:5-6", "verse_text": "Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God: 6 Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:" }, { "point_text": "Leads to confidence", "verse_ref": "Psalm 124:8", "verse_text": "Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth." }, { "point_text": "Leads to confidence", "verse_ref": "Psalm 146:5-6", "verse_text": "Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God: 6 Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:" }, { "point_text": "Insignificance of man seen from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 8:3-4", "verse_text": "When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; 4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?" }, { "point_text": "Groaneth because of sin", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:22", "verse_text": "For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The new birth", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:17", "verse_text": "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." }, { "point_text": "The new birth", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:10", "verse_text": "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." }, { "point_text": "Daily renewal of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:10", "verse_text": "Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me." }, { "point_text": "Daily renewal of saints", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:24", "verse_text": "And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness." }, { "point_text": "Renewal of the earth", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:17", "verse_text": "For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind." }, { "point_text": "Renewal of the earth", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:11", "verse_text": "Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness," }, { "point_text": "Renewal of the earth", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:13", "verse_text": "Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." } ] }, { "name": "Dan, The Tribe of", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Dan-The-Tribe-of.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Descended from Jacob's fifth son", "verse_ref": "Genesis 30:6", "verse_text": "And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan." }, { "point_text": "Predictions respecting", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:16-17", "verse_text": "Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. 17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward." }, { "point_text": "PERSONS SELECTED FROM,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To number the people", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:12", "verse_text": "Of Dan; Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai." }, { "point_text": "To spy out the land", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:12", "verse_text": "Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli." }, { "point_text": "To divide the land", "verse_ref": "Numbers 34:22", "verse_text": "And the prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli." }, { "point_text": "Strength of, on leaving Egypt", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:38-39", "verse_text": "Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 39 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Dan, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred." }, { "point_text": "Led the fourth and last division of Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 2:31", "verse_text": "All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan were an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. They shall go hindmost with their standards." }, { "point_text": "Led the fourth and last division of Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:25", "verse_text": "And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set forward, which was the rereward of all the camps throughout their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai." }, { "point_text": "Encamped north of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 2:25", "verse_text": "The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai." }, { "point_text": "Offering of, at dedication", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:66-71", "verse_text": "On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan, offered: 67 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: 68 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: 69 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: ..." }, { "point_text": "Families of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:42", "verse_text": "These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families." }, { "point_text": "Strength of, entering Canaan", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:43", "verse_text": "All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and four hundred." }, { "point_text": "On Ebal, said amen to the curses", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 27:13", "verse_text": "And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali." }, { "point_text": "Bounds of its inheritance", "verse_ref": "Joshua 19:40-46", "verse_text": "And the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families. 41 And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Irshemesh, 42 And Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah, 43 And Elon, and Thimnathah, and Ekron, ..." }, { "point_text": "A commercial people", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:17", "verse_text": "Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches." }, { "point_text": "A commercial people", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:19", "verse_text": "Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market." }, { "point_text": "Restricted to the hills by Amorites", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:34", "verse_text": "And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:" }, { "point_text": "A PART OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Sent to seek new settlements", "verse_ref": "Judges 18:1-2", "verse_text": "In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel. 2 And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there." }, { "point_text": "Took Laish and called it Dan", "verse_ref": "Joshua 19:47", "verse_text": "And the coast of the children of Dan went out too little for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father." }, { "point_text": "Took Laish and called it Dan", "verse_ref": "Judges 18:8-13", "verse_text": "And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye? 9 And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land. 10 When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth. 11 And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with weapons of war. ..." }, { "point_text": "Took Laish and called it Dan", "verse_ref": "Judges 18:27-29", "verse_text": "And they took the things which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people that were at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire. 28 And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no business with any man; and it was in the valley that lieth by Bethrehob. And they built a city, and dwelt therein. 29 And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the first." }, { "point_text": "Plundered Michah of his idols and his ephod", "verse_ref": "Judges 18:17-21", "verse_text": "And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war. 18 And these went into Micah's house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye? 19 And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel? 20 And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people. ..." }, { "point_text": "Plundered Michah of his idols and his ephod", "verse_ref": "Judges 18:27", "verse_text": "And they took the things which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people that were at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire." }, { "point_text": "Set up Micah's idols in Dan", "verse_ref": "Judges 18:30-31", "verse_text": "And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land. 31 And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh." }, { "point_text": "Reproved for not aiding against Sisera", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:17", "verse_text": "Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches." }, { "point_text": "Sampson was of", "verse_ref": "Judges 13:2", "verse_text": "And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not." }, { "point_text": "Sampson was of", "verse_ref": "Judges 13:24-25", "verse_text": "And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him. 25 And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol." }, { "point_text": "Some of, at coronation of David", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:35", "verse_text": "And of the Danites expert in war twenty and eight thousand and six hundred." }, { "point_text": "Ruler appointed over, by David", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:22", "verse_text": "Of Dan, Azareel the son of Jeroham. These were the princes of the tribes of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Descended from Jacob's fifth son", "verse_ref": "Genesis 30:6", "verse_text": "And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan." }, { "point_text": "Predictions respecting", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:16-17", "verse_text": "Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. 17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward." }, { "point_text": "PERSONS SELECTED FROM,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "To number the people", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:12", "verse_text": "Of Dan; Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai." }, { "point_text": "To spy out the land", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:12", "verse_text": "Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli." }, { "point_text": "To divide the land", "verse_ref": "Numbers 34:22", "verse_text": "And the prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli." }, { "point_text": "Strength of, on leaving Egypt", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:38-39", "verse_text": "Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 39 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Dan, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred." }, { "point_text": "Led the fourth and last division of Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 2:31", "verse_text": "All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan were an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. They shall go hindmost with their standards." }, { "point_text": "Led the fourth and last division of Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:25", "verse_text": "And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set forward, which was the rereward of all the camps throughout their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai." }, { "point_text": "Encamped north of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 2:25", "verse_text": "The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai." }, { "point_text": "Offering of, at dedication", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:66-71", "verse_text": "On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan, offered: 67 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: 68 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: 69 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: ..." }, { "point_text": "Families of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:42", "verse_text": "These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families." }, { "point_text": "Strength of, entering Canaan", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:43", "verse_text": "All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and four hundred." }, { "point_text": "On Ebal, said amen to the curses", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 27:13", "verse_text": "And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali." }, { "point_text": "Bounds of its inheritance", "verse_ref": "Joshua 19:40-46", "verse_text": "And the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families. 41 And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Irshemesh, 42 And Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah, 43 And Elon, and Thimnathah, and Ekron, ..." }, { "point_text": "A commercial people", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:17", "verse_text": "Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches." }, { "point_text": "A commercial people", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:19", "verse_text": "Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market." }, { "point_text": "Restricted to the hills by Amorites", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:34", "verse_text": "And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:" }, { "point_text": "A PART OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Sent to seek new settlements", "verse_ref": "Judges 18:1-2", "verse_text": "In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel. 2 And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there." }, { "point_text": "Took Laish and called it Dan", "verse_ref": "Joshua 19:47", "verse_text": "And the coast of the children of Dan went out too little for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father." }, { "point_text": "Took Laish and called it Dan", "verse_ref": "Judges 18:8-13", "verse_text": "And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye? 9 And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land. 10 When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth. 11 And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with weapons of war. ..." }, { "point_text": "Took Laish and called it Dan", "verse_ref": "Judges 18:27-29", "verse_text": "And they took the things which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people that were at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire. 28 And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no business with any man; and it was in the valley that lieth by Bethrehob. And they built a city, and dwelt therein. 29 And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the first." }, { "point_text": "Plundered Michah of his idols and his ephod", "verse_ref": "Judges 18:17-21", "verse_text": "And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war. 18 And these went into Micah's house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye? 19 And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel? 20 And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people. ..." }, { "point_text": "Plundered Michah of his idols and his ephod", "verse_ref": "Judges 18:27", "verse_text": "And they took the things which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people that were at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire." }, { "point_text": "Set up Micah's idols in Dan", "verse_ref": "Judges 18:30-31", "verse_text": "And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land. 31 And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh." }, { "point_text": "Reproved for not aiding against Sisera", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:17", "verse_text": "Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches." }, { "point_text": "Sampson was of", "verse_ref": "Judges 13:2", "verse_text": "And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not." }, { "point_text": "Sampson was of", "verse_ref": "Judges 13:24-25", "verse_text": "And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him. 25 And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol." }, { "point_text": "Some of, at coronation of David", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:35", "verse_text": "And of the Danites expert in war twenty and eight thousand and six hundred." }, { "point_text": "Ruler appointed over, by David", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:22", "verse_text": "Of Dan, Azareel the son of Jeroham. These were the princes of the tribes of Israel." } ] }, { "name": "Dead, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Dead-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "They who have departed this life", "verse_ref": "Genesis 23:2", "verse_text": "And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her." }, { "point_text": "They who have departed this life", "verse_ref": "Genesis 25:8", "verse_text": "Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people." }, { "point_text": "They who have departed this life", "verse_ref": "Job 1:19", "verse_text": "And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee." }, { "point_text": "TERMS USED TO EXPRESS;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Corpses", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:35", "verse_text": "And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses." }, { "point_text": "Corpses", "verse_ref": "Nahum 3:3", "verse_text": "The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:" }, { "point_text": "Carcases", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:29", "verse_text": "Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me," }, { "point_text": "Carcases", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:32-33", "verse_text": "But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness. 33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "Carcases", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 13:24", "verse_text": "And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase." }, { "point_text": "Those who are not", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:18", "verse_text": "In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not." }, { "point_text": "Deceased", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:14", "verse_text": "They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish." }, { "point_text": "Deceased", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:25", "verse_text": "Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:" }, { "point_text": "CHARACTERIZED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Being without the Spirit", "verse_ref": "James 2:26", "verse_text": "For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also." }, { "point_text": "Being incapable of motion", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:4", "verse_text": "And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men." }, { "point_text": "Being incapable of motion", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:17", "verse_text": "And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:" }, { "point_text": "Ignorance of all human affairs", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 9:5", "verse_text": "For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten." }, { "point_text": "Absence of all human passions", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 9:6", "verse_text": "Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun." }, { "point_text": "Inability to glorify God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 115:17", "verse_text": "The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence." }, { "point_text": "Return not to this life", "verse_ref": "Job 7:9", "verse_text": "As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more." }, { "point_text": "Return not to this life", "verse_ref": "Job 14:10", "verse_text": "But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?" }, { "point_text": "Return not to this life", "verse_ref": "Job 14:14", "verse_text": "If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come." }, { "point_text": "Eyes of, closed by nearest of kin", "verse_ref": "Genesis 46:4", "verse_text": "I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes." }, { "point_text": "Were washed and laid out", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:37", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber." }, { "point_text": "Were wrapped in lined with spices", "verse_ref": "John 19:40", "verse_text": "Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury." }, { "point_text": "MOURNING FOR, OFTEN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Very great", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:35", "verse_text": "And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing." }, { "point_text": "Very great", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:15", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not." }, { "point_text": "Very great", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:18", "verse_text": "In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not." }, { "point_text": "Very great", "verse_ref": "John 11:33", "verse_text": "When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled," }, { "point_text": "Loud and clamorous", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 16:6", "verse_text": "Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:" }, { "point_text": "Loud and clamorous", "verse_ref": "Mark 5:38", "verse_text": "And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly." }, { "point_text": "By hired mourners", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:17-18", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come: 18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters." }, { "point_text": "With plaintive music", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:36", "verse_text": "Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the riches that he hath gotten are perished." }, { "point_text": "With plaintive music", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:23", "verse_text": "And when Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise," }, { "point_text": "Testified by change of apparel", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 14:2", "verse_text": "And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:" }, { "point_text": "Testified by tearing the hair", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 16:7", "verse_text": "Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother." }, { "point_text": "Testified by covering the head", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 19:4", "verse_text": "But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!" }, { "point_text": "Testified by rending the garments", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:34", "verse_text": "And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days." }, { "point_text": "Testified by rending the garments", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 3:31", "verse_text": "And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier." }, { "point_text": "Lasted many days", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:34", "verse_text": "And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days." }, { "point_text": "Lasted many days", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:3", "verse_text": "And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days." }, { "point_text": "Lasted many days", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:10", "verse_text": "And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days." }, { "point_text": "Regard often shown to the memory of", "verse_ref": "Ruth 1:8", "verse_text": "And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me." }, { "point_text": "Too soon forgotten", "verse_ref": "Psalm 31:12", "verse_text": "I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel." }, { "point_text": "Too soon forgotten", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 9:5", "verse_text": "For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten." }, { "point_text": "Heathenish expressions of grief for, forbidden", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:28", "verse_text": "Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Heathenish expressions of grief for, forbidden", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:1-2", "verse_text": "Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "All offerings to, forbidden", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 26:14", "verse_text": "I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me." }, { "point_text": "Touching of, caused uncleanness", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:11", "verse_text": "He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days." }, { "point_text": "Touching of, caused uncleanness", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:13", "verse_text": "Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him." }, { "point_text": "Touching of, caused uncleanness", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:16", "verse_text": "And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days." }, { "point_text": "In a house rendered it unclean", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:14-15", "verse_text": "This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. 15 And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean." }, { "point_text": "Even bones of, caused uncleanness", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:16", "verse_text": "And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days." }, { "point_text": "Even bones of, caused uncleanness", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 34:5", "verse_text": "And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "A priest not to mourn for, except when near of kin", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 21:1-3", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people: 2 But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, 3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled." }, { "point_text": "A priest not to mourn for, except when near of kin", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 44:25", "verse_text": "And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves." }, { "point_text": "High priest in no case to mourn for", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 21:10-11", "verse_text": "And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes; 11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;" }, { "point_text": "Nazarites not to touch or mourn for", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:6-7", "verse_text": "All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body. 7 He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head." }, { "point_text": "Those defiled by, removed from the camp", "verse_ref": "Numbers 5:2", "verse_text": "Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:" }, { "point_text": "Uncleanness contracted from, removed by the water separation", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:12", "verse_text": "He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean." }, { "point_text": "Uncleanness contracted from, removed by the water separation", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:18", "verse_text": "And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:" }, { "point_text": "IDOLATERS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Tore themselves for", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 16:7", "verse_text": "Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother." }, { "point_text": "Offered sacrifices for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:28", "verse_text": "They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead." }, { "point_text": "Invoked and consulted", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 28:7-8", "verse_text": "Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor. 8 And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Consecrated part of their crops to", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 26:14", "verse_text": "I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me." }, { "point_text": "The Jews looked for a resurrection from", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:19", "verse_text": "Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead." }, { "point_text": "The Jews looked for a resurrection from", "verse_ref": "Acts 24:15", "verse_text": "And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust." }, { "point_text": "Instances of, restored to life before Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 17:22", "verse_text": "And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived." }, { "point_text": "Instances of, restored to life before Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:34-36", "verse_text": "And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm. 35 Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes. 36 And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy son." }, { "point_text": "Instances of, restored to life before Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 13:21", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet." }, { "point_text": "Instances of, restored by Christ, &c", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:25", "verse_text": "But when the people were put forth, he went in, and took her by the hand, and the maid arose." }, { "point_text": "Instances of, restored by Christ, &c", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:15", "verse_text": "And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother." }, { "point_text": "Instances of, restored by Christ, &c", "verse_ref": "John 11:44", "verse_text": "And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go." }, { "point_text": "Instances of, restored by Christ, &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:40", "verse_text": "But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed; and turning him to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up." }, { "point_text": "Instances of, restored by Christ, &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:12", "verse_text": "And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Man's state by nature", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:4", "verse_text": "For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life." }, { "point_text": "Man's state by nature", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:1", "verse_text": "And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;" }, { "point_text": "Man's state by nature", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:5", "verse_text": "Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)" }, { "point_text": "A state of deep affliction, &c", "verse_ref": "Psalm 88:5", "verse_text": "Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand." }, { "point_text": "A state of deep affliction, &c", "verse_ref": "Psalm 143:3", "verse_text": "For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead." }, { "point_text": "A state of deep affliction, &c", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:10", "verse_text": "We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men." }, { "point_text": "Freedom from the power of sin", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:2", "verse_text": "God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?" }, { "point_text": "Freedom from the power of sin", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:8", "verse_text": "Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:" }, { "point_text": "Freedom from the power of sin", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:11", "verse_text": "Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord." }, { "point_text": "Freedom from the law", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:4", "verse_text": "Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God." }, { "point_text": "Faith without works", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:6", "verse_text": "But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth." }, { "point_text": "Faith without works", "verse_ref": "James 2:17", "verse_text": "Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone." }, { "point_text": "Faith without works", "verse_ref": "James 2:26", "verse_text": "For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also." }, { "point_text": "Diviners, &c", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:19", "verse_text": "And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?" }, { "point_text": "Impotence", "verse_ref": "Genesis 20:3", "verse_text": "But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife." }, { "point_text": "Impotence", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:19", "verse_text": "And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:" } ] }, { "name": "Death of Christ, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Death-of-Christ-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:8", "verse_text": "He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken." }, { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:26", "verse_text": "And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined." }, { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 13:7", "verse_text": "Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones." }, { "point_text": "Appointed by God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:6", "verse_text": "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." }, { "point_text": "Appointed by God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:10", "verse_text": "Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand." }, { "point_text": "Necessary for the redemption of man", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:46", "verse_text": "And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:" }, { "point_text": "Necessary for the redemption of man", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:3", "verse_text": "Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ." }, { "point_text": "Acceptable, as a sacrifice to God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:28", "verse_text": "Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many." }, { "point_text": "Acceptable, as a sacrifice to God", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:2", "verse_text": "And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour." }, { "point_text": "Acceptable, as a sacrifice to God", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:10", "verse_text": "Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him." }, { "point_text": "Was voluntary", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:12", "verse_text": "Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." }, { "point_text": "Was voluntary", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:53", "verse_text": "Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?" }, { "point_text": "Was voluntary", "verse_ref": "John 10:17-18", "verse_text": "Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. 18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father." }, { "point_text": "Was undeserved", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:9", "verse_text": "And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth." }, { "point_text": "MODE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Foretold by Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:18-19", "verse_text": "Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, 19 And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again." }, { "point_text": "Prefigured", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:8", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live." }, { "point_text": "Prefigured", "verse_ref": "John 3:14", "verse_text": "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:" }, { "point_text": "Ignominious", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:2", "verse_text": "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." }, { "point_text": "Accursed", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:13", "verse_text": "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:" }, { "point_text": "Exhibited His humility", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:8", "verse_text": "And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." }, { "point_text": "A stumbling block to Jews", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:23", "verse_text": "But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;" }, { "point_text": "Foolishness to Gentiles", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:18", "verse_text": "For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God." }, { "point_text": "Foolishness to Gentiles", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:23", "verse_text": "But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;" }, { "point_text": "Demanded by the Jews", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:22-23", "verse_text": "Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified. 23 And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified." }, { "point_text": "Inflicted by the Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:26-35", "verse_text": "Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified. 27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. 28 And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe. 29 And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews! ..." }, { "point_text": "In the company of malefactors", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:12", "verse_text": "Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." }, { "point_text": "In the company of malefactors", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:38", "verse_text": "Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left." }, { "point_text": "Accompanied by preternatural signs", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:45", "verse_text": "Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour." }, { "point_text": "Accompanied by preternatural signs", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:51-53", "verse_text": "And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; 52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, 53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many." }, { "point_text": "Emblematical of the death unto sin", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:3-8", "verse_text": "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. ..." }, { "point_text": "Emblematical of the death unto sin", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:20", "verse_text": "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." }, { "point_text": "Commemorated in the sacrament of the Lord's supper", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:19-20", "verse_text": "And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me. 20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you." }, { "point_text": "Commemorated in the sacrament of the Lord's supper", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:26-29", "verse_text": "For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come. 27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. 28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. 29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body." } ] }, { "name": "Death of the Wicked, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Death-of-the-Wicked-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is in their sins", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 3:19", "verse_text": "Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul." }, { "point_text": "Is in their sins", "verse_ref": "John 8:21", "verse_text": "Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come." }, { "point_text": "Is without hope", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:7", "verse_text": "When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes without fear", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 34:5", "verse_text": "But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes without fear", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:11-13", "verse_text": "Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. 12 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD. 13 And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Frequently sudden and unexpected", "verse_ref": "Job 21:13", "verse_text": "They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave." }, { "point_text": "Frequently sudden and unexpected", "verse_ref": "Job 27:21", "verse_text": "The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place." }, { "point_text": "Frequently sudden and unexpected", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 29:1", "verse_text": "He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy." }, { "point_text": "Frequently marked by terror", "verse_ref": "Job 18:11-15", "verse_text": "Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. 12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side. 13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. 14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. ..." }, { "point_text": "Frequently marked by terror", "verse_ref": "Job 27:19-21", "verse_text": "The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not. 20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night. 21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place." }, { "point_text": "Frequently marked by terror", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:19", "verse_text": "How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors." }, { "point_text": "Punishment follows", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:9", "verse_text": "Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations." }, { "point_text": "Punishment follows", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:25", "verse_text": "That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place." }, { "point_text": "The remembrance of them perishes in", "verse_ref": "Job 18:17", "verse_text": "His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street." }, { "point_text": "The remembrance of them perishes in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:16", "verse_text": "The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth." }, { "point_text": "The remembrance of them perishes in", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:7", "verse_text": "The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot." }, { "point_text": "God has no pleasure in", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 18:23", "verse_text": "Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?" }, { "point_text": "God has no pleasure in", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 18:32", "verse_text": "For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye." }, { "point_text": "Like the death of beasts", "verse_ref": "Psalm 49:14", "verse_text": "Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:20", "verse_text": "But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?" }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:22-23", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; 23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nKorah, &c., \nAbsalom, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nAthaliah, \nHaman, \nBelshazzar, \nJudas, \n\nAnanias, &c., \n\nHerod,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:32", "verse_text": "And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nKorah, &c., \nAbsalom, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nAthaliah, \nHaman, \nBelshazzar, \nJudas, \n\nAnanias, &c., \n\nHerod,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 18:9-10", "verse_text": "And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away. 10 And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nKorah, &c., \nAbsalom, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nAthaliah, \nHaman, \nBelshazzar, \nJudas, \n\nAnanias, &c., \n\nHerod,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:34", "verse_text": "And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nKorah, &c., \nAbsalom, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nAthaliah, \nHaman, \nBelshazzar, \nJudas, \n\nAnanias, &c., \n\nHerod,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 9:33", "verse_text": "And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nKorah, &c., \nAbsalom, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nAthaliah, \nHaman, \nBelshazzar, \nJudas, \n\nAnanias, &c., \n\nHerod,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 23:15", "verse_text": "So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king's house, they slew her there." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nKorah, &c., \nAbsalom, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nAthaliah, \nHaman, \nBelshazzar, \nJudas, \n\nAnanias, &c., \n\nHerod,", "verse_ref": "Esther 7:10", "verse_text": "So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nKorah, &c., \nAbsalom, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nAthaliah, \nHaman, \nBelshazzar, \nJudas, \n\nAnanias, &c., \n\nHerod,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:30", "verse_text": "In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nKorah, &c., \nAbsalom, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nAthaliah, \nHaman, \nBelshazzar, \nJudas, \n\nAnanias, &c., \n\nHerod,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:5", "verse_text": "And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nKorah, &c., \nAbsalom, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nAthaliah, \nHaman, \nBelshazzar, \nJudas, \n\nAnanias, &c., \n\nHerod,", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:18", "verse_text": "Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nKorah, &c., \nAbsalom, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nAthaliah, \nHaman, \nBelshazzar, \nJudas, \n\nAnanias, &c., \n\nHerod,", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:5", "verse_text": "And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nKorah, &c., \nAbsalom, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nAthaliah, \nHaman, \nBelshazzar, \nJudas, \n\nAnanias, &c., \n\nHerod,", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:9-10", "verse_text": "Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out. 10 Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nKorah, &c., \nAbsalom, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nAthaliah, \nHaman, \nBelshazzar, \nJudas, \n\nAnanias, &c., \n\nHerod,", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:23", "verse_text": "And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost." } ] }, { "name": "Death, Natural", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Death-Natural.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "By Adam", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:19", "verse_text": "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." }, { "point_text": "By Adam", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:21-22", "verse_text": "For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." }, { "point_text": "Consequence of sin", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:17", "verse_text": "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." }, { "point_text": "Consequence of sin", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:12", "verse_text": "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:" }, { "point_text": "Lot of all", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 8:8", "verse_text": "There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it." }, { "point_text": "Lot of all", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:27", "verse_text": "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:" }, { "point_text": "Ordered by God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:39", "verse_text": "See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand." }, { "point_text": "Ordered by God", "verse_ref": "Job 14:5", "verse_text": "Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;" }, { "point_text": "Puts an end to earthly projects", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 9:10", "verse_text": "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest." }, { "point_text": "Strips of earthly possessions", "verse_ref": "Job 1:21", "verse_text": "And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Strips of earthly possessions", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:7", "verse_text": "For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out." }, { "point_text": "Levels all ranks", "verse_ref": "Job 3:17-19", "verse_text": "There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. 18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. 19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master." }, { "point_text": "Conquered by Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:9", "verse_text": "Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him." }, { "point_text": "Conquered by Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:18", "verse_text": "I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death." }, { "point_text": "Abolished by Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:10", "verse_text": "But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:" }, { "point_text": "Shall finally be destroyed by Christ", "verse_ref": "Hosea 13:14", "verse_text": "I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes." }, { "point_text": "Shall finally be destroyed by Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:26", "verse_text": "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." }, { "point_text": "Christ delivers from the fear of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:15", "verse_text": "And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage." }, { "point_text": "Regard, as at hand", "verse_ref": "Job 14:1-2", "verse_text": "Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not." }, { "point_text": "Prepare for", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:1", "verse_text": "In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live." }, { "point_text": "Pray to be prepared for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:4", "verse_text": "LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am." }, { "point_text": "Pray to be prepared for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 90:12", "verse_text": "So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." }, { "point_text": "Consideration of, a motive to diligence", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 9:10", "verse_text": "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest." }, { "point_text": "Consideration of, a motive to diligence", "verse_ref": "John 9:4", "verse_text": "I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work." }, { "point_text": "When averted for a season, is a motive to increased devotedness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 56:12", "verse_text": "Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee." }, { "point_text": "When averted for a season, is a motive to increased devotedness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 118:17", "verse_text": "I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "When averted for a season, is a motive to increased devotedness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:18", "verse_text": "For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth." }, { "point_text": "When averted for a season, is a motive to increased devotedness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:20", "verse_text": "The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Enoch and Elijah were exempted from", "verse_ref": "Genesis 5:24", "verse_text": "And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him." }, { "point_text": "Enoch and Elijah were exempted from", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:5", "verse_text": "By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God." }, { "point_text": "Enoch and Elijah were exempted from", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 2:11", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven." }, { "point_text": "All shall be raised from", "verse_ref": "Acts 24:15", "verse_text": "And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust." }, { "point_text": "None subject to, in heaven", "verse_ref": "Luke 20:36", "verse_text": "Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection." }, { "point_text": "None subject to, in heaven", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:4", "verse_text": "And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away." }, { "point_text": "Illustrates the change produced in conversion", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:2", "verse_text": "God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?" }, { "point_text": "Illustrates the change produced in conversion", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:20", "verse_text": "Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances," }, { "point_text": "IS DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "A sleep", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 31:16", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them." }, { "point_text": "A sleep", "verse_ref": "John 11:11", "verse_text": "These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep." }, { "point_text": "The earthly house of this tabernacle being dissolved", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:1", "verse_text": "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." }, { "point_text": "Putting off this tabernacle", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:14", "verse_text": "Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me." }, { "point_text": "God requiring the soul", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:20", "verse_text": "But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?" }, { "point_text": "Going the way whence there is no return", "verse_ref": "Job 16:22", "verse_text": "When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return." }, { "point_text": "Gathering to our people", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:33", "verse_text": "And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people." }, { "point_text": "Going down into silence", "verse_ref": "Psalm 115:17", "verse_text": "The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence." }, { "point_text": "Yielding up the ghost", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:10", "verse_text": "Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband." }, { "point_text": "Returning to dust", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:19", "verse_text": "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." }, { "point_text": "Returning to dust", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:29", "verse_text": "Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust." }, { "point_text": "Being cut down", "verse_ref": "Job 14:2", "verse_text": "He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not." }, { "point_text": "Fleeing as a shadow", "verse_ref": "Job 14:2", "verse_text": "He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not." }, { "point_text": "Departing", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:23", "verse_text": "For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:" } ] }, { "name": "Death, Spiritual", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Death-Spiritual.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Alienation from God is", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:18", "verse_text": "Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:" }, { "point_text": "Carnal-mindedness is", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:6", "verse_text": "For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace." }, { "point_text": "Walking in trespasses and sins is", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:1", "verse_text": "And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;" }, { "point_text": "Walking in trespasses and sins is", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:13", "verse_text": "And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;" }, { "point_text": "Spiritual ignorance is", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:2", "verse_text": "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined." }, { "point_text": "Spiritual ignorance is", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:16", "verse_text": "The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up." }, { "point_text": "Spiritual ignorance is", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:79", "verse_text": "To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace." }, { "point_text": "Spiritual ignorance is", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:18", "verse_text": "Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:" }, { "point_text": "Unbelief is", "verse_ref": "John 3:36", "verse_text": "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him." }, { "point_text": "Unbelief is", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:12", "verse_text": "He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life." }, { "point_text": "Living in pleasure is", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:6", "verse_text": "But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth." }, { "point_text": "Hypocrisy is", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:1-2", "verse_text": "And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. 2 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God." }, { "point_text": "Is a consequence of the fall", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:15", "verse_text": "But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many." }, { "point_text": "Is the state of all men by nature", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:13", "verse_text": "Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God." }, { "point_text": "Is the state of all men by nature", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:6", "verse_text": "For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace." }, { "point_text": "The fruits of, are dead works", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:1", "verse_text": "Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God," }, { "point_text": "The fruits of, are dead works", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:14", "verse_text": "How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" }, { "point_text": "A call to arise from", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:14", "verse_text": "Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light." }, { "point_text": "Deliverance from, is through Christ", "verse_ref": "John 5:24-25", "verse_text": "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. 25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live." }, { "point_text": "Saints are raised from", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:13", "verse_text": "Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God." }, { "point_text": "Love of the brethren, a proof of being raised from", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:14", "verse_text": "We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 37:2-3", "verse_text": "And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest." } ] }, { "name": "Deceit", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Deceit.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is falsehood", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:118", "verse_text": "Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood." }, { "point_text": "The tongue, the instrument of", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:13", "verse_text": "Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:" }, { "point_text": "Comes from the heart", "verse_ref": "Mark 7:22", "verse_text": "Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:" }, { "point_text": "Characteristic of the heart", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:9", "verse_text": "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" }, { "point_text": "God abhors", "verse_ref": "Psalm 5:6", "verse_text": "Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 24:28", "verse_text": "Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:10", "verse_text": "For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:" }, { "point_text": "Christ was perfectly free from", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:9", "verse_text": "And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth." }, { "point_text": "Christ was perfectly free from", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:22", "verse_text": "Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:" }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Free from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 24:4", "verse_text": "He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully." }, { "point_text": "Free from", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 3:13", "verse_text": "The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid." }, { "point_text": "Free from", "verse_ref": "Revelation 14:5", "verse_text": "And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God." }, { "point_text": "Purposed against", "verse_ref": "Job 27:4", "verse_text": "My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit." }, { "point_text": "Avoid", "verse_ref": "Job 31:5", "verse_text": "If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;" }, { "point_text": "Shun those addicted to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 101:7", "verse_text": "He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight." }, { "point_text": "Pray for deliverance from those who use", "verse_ref": "Psalm 43:1", "verse_text": "Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man." }, { "point_text": "Pray for deliverance from those who use", "verse_ref": "Psalm 120:2", "verse_text": "Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue." }, { "point_text": "Delivered from those who use", "verse_ref": "Psalm 72:14", "verse_text": "He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight." }, { "point_text": "Should beware of those who teach", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:6", "verse_text": "Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience." }, { "point_text": "Should beware of those who teach", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:8", "verse_text": "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ." }, { "point_text": "Should lay aside, in seeking truth", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:1", "verse_text": "Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings," }, { "point_text": "Ministers should lay aside", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:2", "verse_text": "But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God." }, { "point_text": "Ministers should lay aside", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:3", "verse_text": "For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:" }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Are full of", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:29", "verse_text": "Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers," }, { "point_text": "Devise", "verse_ref": "Psalm 35:20", "verse_text": "For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land." }, { "point_text": "Devise", "verse_ref": "Psalm 38:12", "verse_text": "They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long." }, { "point_text": "Devise", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:5", "verse_text": "The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit." }, { "point_text": "Utter", "verse_ref": "Psalm 10:7", "verse_text": "His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity." }, { "point_text": "Utter", "verse_ref": "Psalm 36:3", "verse_text": "The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good." }, { "point_text": "Work", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:18", "verse_text": "The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward." }, { "point_text": "Increase in", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:13", "verse_text": "But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived." }, { "point_text": "Use, to each other", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:5", "verse_text": "And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Use, to themselves", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 37:9", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart." }, { "point_text": "Use, to themselves", "verse_ref": "Obadiah 3", "verse_text": "The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?" }, { "point_text": "Use, to themselves", "verse_ref": "Obadiah 7", "verse_text": "All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread have laid a wound under thee: there is none understanding in him." }, { "point_text": "Delight in", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:17", "verse_text": "Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel." }, { "point_text": "FALSE TEACHERS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Are workers of", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 11:13", "verse_text": "For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ." }, { "point_text": "Preach", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:14", "verse_text": "Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart." }, { "point_text": "Preach", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:26", "verse_text": "How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;" }, { "point_text": "Impose on others by", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:18", "verse_text": "For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple." }, { "point_text": "Impose on others by", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:14", "verse_text": "That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;" }, { "point_text": "Sport themselves with", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:13", "verse_text": "And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;" }, { "point_text": "Hypocrites devise", "verse_ref": "Job 15:35", "verse_text": "They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit." }, { "point_text": "Hypocrites practice", "verse_ref": "Hosea 11:12", "verse_text": "Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints." }, { "point_text": "False witnesses use", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:17", "verse_text": "He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit." }, { "point_text": "False witnesses use", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:5", "verse_text": "A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of Antichrist", "verse_ref": "2 John 7", "verse_text": "For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of the Apostacy", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:10", "verse_text": "And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." }, { "point_text": "EVIL OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Keeps from knowledge of God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:6", "verse_text": "Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Keeps from turning to God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:5", "verse_text": "Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return." }, { "point_text": "Leads to pride and oppression", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:27-28", "verse_text": "As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. 28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge." }, { "point_text": "Leads to lying", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:25", "verse_text": "A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies." }, { "point_text": "Often accompanied by fraud and injustice", "verse_ref": "Psalm 10:7", "verse_text": "His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity." }, { "point_text": "Often accompanied by fraud and injustice", "verse_ref": "Psalm 43:1", "verse_text": "Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man." }, { "point_text": "Hatred often concealed by", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:24-28", "verse_text": "He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him; 25 When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart. 26 Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation. 27 Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him. ..." }, { "point_text": "The folly of fools is", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:8", "verse_text": "The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit." }, { "point_text": "The kisses of an enemy are", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:6", "verse_text": "Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of being free from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 24:4", "verse_text": "He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of being free from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 32:2", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 55:23", "verse_text": "But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:7-9", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people? 8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait. 9 Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe devil, \n\nRebecca and Jacob, \n\nLaban, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nDavid, \nJob's friends, \nDoeg, \r\n, compared with the title.\r\n\nHerod, \nPharisees, \nChief Priests,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:1", "verse_text": "Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe devil, \n\nRebecca and Jacob, \n\nLaban, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nDavid, \nJob's friends, \nDoeg, \r\n, compared with the title.\r\n\nHerod, \nPharisees, \nChief Priests,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:4-5", "verse_text": "And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe devil, \n\nRebecca and Jacob, \n\nLaban, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nDavid, \nJob's friends, \nDoeg, \r\n, compared with the title.\r\n\nHerod, \nPharisees, \nChief Priests,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:9", "verse_text": "Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe devil, \n\nRebecca and Jacob, \n\nLaban, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nDavid, \nJob's friends, \nDoeg, \r\n, compared with the title.\r\n\nHerod, \nPharisees, \nChief Priests,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:19", "verse_text": "And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe devil, \n\nRebecca and Jacob, \n\nLaban, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nDavid, \nJob's friends, \nDoeg, \r\n, compared with the title.\r\n\nHerod, \nPharisees, \nChief Priests,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:7", "verse_text": "And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe devil, \n\nRebecca and Jacob, \n\nLaban, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nDavid, \nJob's friends, \nDoeg, \r\n, compared with the title.\r\n\nHerod, \nPharisees, \nChief Priests,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:31-32", "verse_text": "And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood; 32 And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it be thy son's coat or no." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe devil, \n\nRebecca and Jacob, \n\nLaban, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nDavid, \nJob's friends, \nDoeg, \r\n, compared with the title.\r\n\nHerod, \nPharisees, \nChief Priests,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 8:29", "verse_text": "And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe devil, \n\nRebecca and Jacob, \n\nLaban, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nDavid, \nJob's friends, \nDoeg, \r\n, compared with the title.\r\n\nHerod, \nPharisees, \nChief Priests,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 21:13", "verse_text": "And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe devil, \n\nRebecca and Jacob, \n\nLaban, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nDavid, \nJob's friends, \nDoeg, \r\n, compared with the title.\r\n\nHerod, \nPharisees, \nChief Priests,", "verse_ref": "Job 6:15", "verse_text": "My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe devil, \n\nRebecca and Jacob, \n\nLaban, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nDavid, \nJob's friends, \nDoeg, \r\n, compared with the title.\r\n\nHerod, \nPharisees, \nChief Priests,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 52:1-2", "verse_text": "Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually. 2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe devil, \n\nRebecca and Jacob, \n\nLaban, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nDavid, \nJob's friends, \nDoeg, \r\n, compared with the title.\r\n\nHerod, \nPharisees, \nChief Priests,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:8", "verse_text": "And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe devil, \n\nRebecca and Jacob, \n\nLaban, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nDavid, \nJob's friends, \nDoeg, \r\n, compared with the title.\r\n\nHerod, \nPharisees, \nChief Priests,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:16", "verse_text": "And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe devil, \n\nRebecca and Jacob, \n\nLaban, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nDavid, \nJob's friends, \nDoeg, \r\n, compared with the title.\r\n\nHerod, \nPharisees, \nChief Priests,", "verse_ref": "Mark 14:1", "verse_text": "After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death." } ] }, { "name": "Delighting in God", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Delighting-in-God.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:4", "verse_text": "Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart." }, { "point_text": "Reconciliation leads to", "verse_ref": "Job 22:21", "verse_text": "Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Reconciliation leads to", "verse_ref": "Job 22:26", "verse_text": "For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God." }, { "point_text": "Observing the sabbath leads to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:13-14", "verse_text": "If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: 14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS' EXPERIENCE, IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Communion with God", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:3", "verse_text": "As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste." }, { "point_text": "The law of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 1:1", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful." }, { "point_text": "The law of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:24", "verse_text": "Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellers." }, { "point_text": "The law of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:35", "verse_text": "Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight." }, { "point_text": "The goodness of God", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:25", "verse_text": "And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness." }, { "point_text": "The comforts of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 94:19", "verse_text": "In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul." }, { "point_text": "HYPOCRITES", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Pretend to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:2", "verse_text": "Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God." }, { "point_text": "In heart despise", "verse_ref": "Job 27:10", "verse_text": "Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?" }, { "point_text": "In heart despise", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:10", "verse_text": "To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it." }, { "point_text": "Promises to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:4", "verse_text": "Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 112:1", "verse_text": "Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments." } ] }, { "name": "Defilement", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Defilement.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Forbidden to the Jews", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:44-45", "verse_text": "For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 45 For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy." }, { "point_text": "THINGS LIABLE TO CEREMONIAL;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The person", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:3", "verse_text": "Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty." }, { "point_text": "Garments", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:59", "verse_text": "This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean." }, { "point_text": "Furniture, &c", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 15:9-10", "verse_text": "And what saddle soever he rideth upon that hath the issue shall be unclean. 10 And whosoever toucheth any thing that was under him shall be unclean until the even: and he that beareth any of those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even." }, { "point_text": "Houses", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:44", "verse_text": "Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean." }, { "point_text": "The land", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 18:25", "verse_text": "And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants." }, { "point_text": "The land", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 21:23", "verse_text": "His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance." }, { "point_text": "The sanctuary", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 20:3", "verse_text": "And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name." }, { "point_text": "The sanctuary", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 3:4", "verse_text": "Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law." }, { "point_text": "CEREMONIAL CAUSED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Eating unclean things", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:8", "verse_text": "Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you." }, { "point_text": "Eating unclean things", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:11", "verse_text": "And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:" }, { "point_text": "Eating unclean things", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:14", "verse_text": "But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean." }, { "point_text": "Eating things that died", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 17:15", "verse_text": "And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean." }, { "point_text": "Touching a dead body or a bone", "verse_ref": "Numbers 9:6", "verse_text": "And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:" }, { "point_text": "Touching a dead body or a bone", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:11", "verse_text": "He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days." }, { "point_text": "Touching a dead body or a bone", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:16", "verse_text": "And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days." }, { "point_text": "Touching a grave", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:16", "verse_text": "And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days." }, { "point_text": "Touching a dead beast", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:2", "verse_text": "Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty." }, { "point_text": "Touching a dead beast", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:24-28", "verse_text": "And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even. 25 And whosoever beareth ought of the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even. 26 The carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean. 27 And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of beasts that go on all four, those are unclean unto you: whoso toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even. ..." }, { "point_text": "Being alone with a dead body", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:14", "verse_text": "This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days." }, { "point_text": "Mourning for the dead", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 21:1-3", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people: 2 But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, 3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled." }, { "point_text": "Having a leprosy", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:3", "verse_text": "And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean." }, { "point_text": "Having a leprosy", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:11", "verse_text": "It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he is unclean." }, { "point_text": "Having an issue, &c", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 15:2", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean." }, { "point_text": "Having an issue, &c", "verse_ref": "Numbers 5:2", "verse_text": "Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:" }, { "point_text": "Touching anything defiled by an issue, &c", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 15:5-11", "verse_text": "And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. 6 And he that sitteth on any thing whereon he sat that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. 7 And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. 8 And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean; then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. ..." }, { "point_text": "Going into a leprous house", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:46", "verse_text": "Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even." }, { "point_text": "Sacrificing the red heifer", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:7", "verse_text": "Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even." }, { "point_text": "Burning the red heifer", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:8", "verse_text": "And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even." }, { "point_text": "Gathering ashes of the red heifer", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:10", "verse_text": "And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever." }, { "point_text": "Touching an unclean person", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:22", "verse_text": "And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even." }, { "point_text": "Child-bearing", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 12:2", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean." }, { "point_text": "Causes of, improperly enlarged by tradition", "verse_ref": "Mark 7:2", "verse_text": "And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault." }, { "point_text": "Causes of, improperly enlarged by tradition", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:20", "verse_text": "These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man." }, { "point_text": "MORAL, CAUSED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Following the sins of the heathen", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 18:24", "verse_text": "Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:" }, { "point_text": "Seeking after wizards", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:31", "verse_text": "Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "Giving children to Molech", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 20:3", "verse_text": "And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name." }, { "point_text": "Making and serving idols", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:17", "verse_text": "Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "Making and serving idols", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:3", "verse_text": "Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself." }, { "point_text": "Making and serving idols", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 23:7", "verse_text": "Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself." }, { "point_text": "Blood shedding", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:3", "verse_text": "For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness." }, { "point_text": "Moral, punished", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 18:24-25", "verse_text": "Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: 25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants." }, { "point_text": "Moral, punished", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 18:28-29", "verse_text": "That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you. 29 For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people." }, { "point_text": "Those under, removed from the camp", "verse_ref": "Numbers 5:3-4", "verse_text": "Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell. 4 And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "PRIESTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To decide in all cases of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 10:10", "verse_text": "And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;" }, { "point_text": "To decide in all cases of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:3", "verse_text": "And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean." }, { "point_text": "Specially required to avoid", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 21:1-6", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people: 2 But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, 3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled. 4 But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself. ..." }, { "point_text": "Specially required to avoid", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 21:11-12", "verse_text": "Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; 12 Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Not to eat holy things while under", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:2", "verse_text": "Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Not to eat holy things while under", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:4-6", "verse_text": "What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him; 5 Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath; 6 The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water." }, { "point_text": "Punished for eating of the holy things while under", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:3", "verse_text": "Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Cleansed by legal ablutions", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:18-19", "verse_text": "And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave: 19 And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even." }, { "point_text": "Neglecting purification from, punished by cutting off", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:13", "verse_text": "Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him." }, { "point_text": "Neglecting purification from, punished by cutting off", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:20", "verse_text": "But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean." }, { "point_text": "Ceremonial, abolished under the gospel", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:15", "verse_text": "And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common." }, { "point_text": "Ceremonial, abolished under the gospel", "verse_ref": "Romans 14:14", "verse_text": "I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean." }, { "point_text": "Ceremonial, abolished under the gospel", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:20-22", "verse_text": "Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, 21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not; 22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?" }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of sin", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:11", "verse_text": "Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man." }, { "point_text": "Of sin", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:18", "verse_text": "But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man." }, { "point_text": "Of unholy doctrines", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:16-17", "verse_text": "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are." } ] }, { "name": "Death of Saints, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Death-of-Saints-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "A sleep in Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:18", "verse_text": "Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished." }, { "point_text": "A sleep in Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:14", "verse_text": "For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him." }, { "point_text": "Is blessed", "verse_ref": "Revelation 14:13", "verse_text": "And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them." }, { "point_text": "Is gain", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:21", "verse_text": "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." }, { "point_text": "IS FULL OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Faith", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:13", "verse_text": "These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth." }, { "point_text": "Peace", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:2", "verse_text": "He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness." }, { "point_text": "Hope", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:32", "verse_text": "The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes desired", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:29", "verse_text": "Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:" }, { "point_text": "Waited for", "verse_ref": "Job 14:14", "verse_text": "If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come." }, { "point_text": "Met with resignation", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:24", "verse_text": "And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob." }, { "point_text": "Met with resignation", "verse_ref": "Joshua 23:14", "verse_text": "And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof." }, { "point_text": "Met with resignation", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:2", "verse_text": "I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man;" }, { "point_text": "Met without fear", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:55", "verse_text": "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" }, { "point_text": "Precious in God's sight", "verse_ref": "Psalm 116:15", "verse_text": "Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints." }, { "point_text": "God preserves them unto", "verse_ref": "Psalm 48:14", "verse_text": "For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death." }, { "point_text": "God is with them in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 23:4", "verse_text": "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." }, { "point_text": "Removes from coming evil", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 22:20", "verse_text": "Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again." }, { "point_text": "Removes from coming evil", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:1", "verse_text": "The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come." }, { "point_text": "LEADS TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Rest", "verse_ref": "Job 3:17", "verse_text": "There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest." }, { "point_text": "Rest", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:7", "verse_text": "And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels," }, { "point_text": "Comfort", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:25", "verse_text": "But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented." }, { "point_text": "Christ's presence", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:8", "verse_text": "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Christ's presence", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:23", "verse_text": "For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:" }, { "point_text": "A crown of life", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:8", "verse_text": "Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing." }, { "point_text": "A crown of life", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:10", "verse_text": "Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." }, { "point_text": "A joyful resurrection", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:19", "verse_text": "Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead." }, { "point_text": "A joyful resurrection", "verse_ref": "Daniel 12:2", "verse_text": "And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt." }, { "point_text": "Disregarded by the wicked", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:1", "verse_text": "The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come." }, { "point_text": "Survivors consoled for", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:13-18", "verse_text": "But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: ..." }, { "point_text": "The wicked wish theirs to resemble", "verse_ref": "Numbers 23:10", "verse_text": "Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!" }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:22", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \nAaron, \nMoses, \nJoshua, \nElisha, \n\nOne thief, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 25:8", "verse_text": "Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \nAaron, \nMoses, \nJoshua, \nElisha, \n\nOne thief, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:29", "verse_text": "And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \nAaron, \nMoses, \nJoshua, \nElisha, \n\nOne thief, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:33", "verse_text": "And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \nAaron, \nMoses, \nJoshua, \nElisha, \n\nOne thief, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:28", "verse_text": "And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \nAaron, \nMoses, \nJoshua, \nElisha, \n\nOne thief, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 34:5", "verse_text": "So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \nAaron, \nMoses, \nJoshua, \nElisha, \n\nOne thief, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "Joshua 24:29", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \nAaron, \nMoses, \nJoshua, \nElisha, \n\nOne thief, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 13:14", "verse_text": "Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \nAaron, \nMoses, \nJoshua, \nElisha, \n\nOne thief, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 13:20", "verse_text": "And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \nAaron, \nMoses, \nJoshua, \nElisha, \n\nOne thief, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:43", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \nAaron, \nMoses, \nJoshua, \nElisha, \n\nOne thief, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:37", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber." }, { "point_text": "A sleep in Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:18", "verse_text": "Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished." }, { "point_text": "A sleep in Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:14", "verse_text": "For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him." }, { "point_text": "Is blessed", "verse_ref": "Revelation 14:13", "verse_text": "And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them." }, { "point_text": "Is gain", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:21", "verse_text": "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." }, { "point_text": "IS FULL OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Faith", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:13", "verse_text": "These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth." }, { "point_text": "Peace", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:2", "verse_text": "He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness." }, { "point_text": "Hope", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:32", "verse_text": "The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes desired", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:29", "verse_text": "Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:" }, { "point_text": "Waited for", "verse_ref": "Job 14:14", "verse_text": "If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come." }, { "point_text": "Met with resignation", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:24", "verse_text": "And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob." }, { "point_text": "Met with resignation", "verse_ref": "Joshua 23:14", "verse_text": "And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof." }, { "point_text": "Met with resignation", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:2", "verse_text": "I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man;" }, { "point_text": "Met without fear", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:55", "verse_text": "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" }, { "point_text": "Precious in God's sight", "verse_ref": "Psalm 116:15", "verse_text": "Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints." }, { "point_text": "God preserves them unto", "verse_ref": "Psalm 48:14", "verse_text": "For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death." }, { "point_text": "God is with them in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 23:4", "verse_text": "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." }, { "point_text": "Removes from coming evil", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 22:20", "verse_text": "Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again." }, { "point_text": "Removes from coming evil", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:1", "verse_text": "The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come." }, { "point_text": "LEADS TO", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Rest", "verse_ref": "Job 3:17", "verse_text": "There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest." }, { "point_text": "Rest", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:7", "verse_text": "And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels," }, { "point_text": "Comfort", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:25", "verse_text": "But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented." }, { "point_text": "Christ's presence", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:8", "verse_text": "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Christ's presence", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:23", "verse_text": "For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:" }, { "point_text": "A crown of life", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:8", "verse_text": "Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing." }, { "point_text": "A crown of life", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:10", "verse_text": "Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." }, { "point_text": "A joyful resurrection", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:19", "verse_text": "Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead." }, { "point_text": "A joyful resurrection", "verse_ref": "Daniel 12:2", "verse_text": "And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt." }, { "point_text": "Disregarded by the wicked", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:1", "verse_text": "The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come." }, { "point_text": "Survivors consoled for", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:13-18", "verse_text": "But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: ..." }, { "point_text": "The wicked wish theirs to resemble", "verse_ref": "Numbers 23:10", "verse_text": "Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!" }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:22", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \nAaron, \nMoses, \nJoshua, \nElisha, \n\nOne thief, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 25:8", "verse_text": "Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \nAaron, \nMoses, \nJoshua, \nElisha, \n\nOne thief, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:29", "verse_text": "And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \nAaron, \nMoses, \nJoshua, \nElisha, \n\nOne thief, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:33", "verse_text": "And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \nAaron, \nMoses, \nJoshua, \nElisha, \n\nOne thief, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:28", "verse_text": "And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \nAaron, \nMoses, \nJoshua, \nElisha, \n\nOne thief, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 34:5", "verse_text": "So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \nAaron, \nMoses, \nJoshua, \nElisha, \n\nOne thief, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "Joshua 24:29", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \nAaron, \nMoses, \nJoshua, \nElisha, \n\nOne thief, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 13:14", "verse_text": "Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \nAaron, \nMoses, \nJoshua, \nElisha, \n\nOne thief, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 13:20", "verse_text": "And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \nAaron, \nMoses, \nJoshua, \nElisha, \n\nOne thief, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:43", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \nAaron, \nMoses, \nJoshua, \nElisha, \n\nOne thief, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:37", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber." } ] }, { "name": "Dedication", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Dedication.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Consecration of a place of worship", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:4", "verse_text": "Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel." }, { "point_text": "Solemn confirmation of a covenant", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:18", "verse_text": "Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood." }, { "point_text": "Devoting any thing to sacred uses", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 28:12", "verse_text": "And the pattern of all that he had by the spirit, of the courts of the house of the LORD, and of all the chambers round about, of the treasuries of the house of God, and of the treasuries of the dedicated things:" }, { "point_text": "SUBJECTS OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them; 2 That the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their fathers, who were the princes of the tribes, and were over them that were numbered, offered: 3 And they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they brought them before the tabernacle. 4 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ..." }, { "point_text": "Temple of Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:1-63", "verse_text": "Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion. 2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. 3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. 4 And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up. ..." }, { "point_text": "Temple of Solomon", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:5", "verse_text": "And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God." }, { "point_text": "Second temple", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:16-17", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy, 17 And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Persons", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:29", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me." }, { "point_text": "Persons", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:11", "verse_text": "And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no rasor come upon his head." }, { "point_text": "Property", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 27:28", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Property", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:5", "verse_text": "But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;" }, { "point_text": "Spoils of war", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:11", "verse_text": "Which also king David did dedicate unto the LORD, with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued;" }, { "point_text": "Spoils of war", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 18:11", "verse_text": "Them also king David dedicated unto the LORD, with the silver and the gold that he brought from all these nations; from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek." }, { "point_text": "Tribute from foreigners", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:10-11", "verse_text": "Then Toi sent Joram his son unto king David, to salute him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer, and smitten him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. And Joram brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass: 11 Which also king David did dedicate unto the LORD, with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued;" }, { "point_text": "Walls of cities", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 12:27", "verse_text": "And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps." }, { "point_text": "Houses when built.\r\n\n\r\n, title", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 20:5", "verse_text": "And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it." }, { "point_text": "Houses when built.\r\n\n\r\n, title", "verse_ref": "Psalm 30:1", "verse_text": "I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me." }, { "point_text": "By idolaters in setting up idols", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:2-3", "verse_text": "Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellers, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. 3 Then the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellers, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up." }, { "point_text": "THINGS DEDICATED TO GOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Esteemed holy", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 27:28", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Esteemed holy", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 12:18", "verse_text": "And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Placed with the treasures of the Lord's house", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 7:51", "verse_text": "So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the LORD. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Placed with the treasures of the Lord's house", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 5:1", "verse_text": "Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God." }, { "point_text": "Special chambers prepared for", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:11-12", "verse_text": "Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them, 12 And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next." }, { "point_text": "Levites place over", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 26:20", "verse_text": "And of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of the house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things." }, { "point_text": "Levites place over", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 26:26", "verse_text": "Which Shelomith and his brethren were over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the chief fathers, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the host, had dedicated." }, { "point_text": "Levites place over", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:12", "verse_text": "And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next." }, { "point_text": "Applied to the repair and maintenance of the temple", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 12:4-5", "verse_text": "And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, even the money of every one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at, and all the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD, 5 Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found." }, { "point_text": "Applied to the repair and maintenance of the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 26:27", "verse_text": "Out of the spoils won in battles did they dedicate to maintain the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "For support of priests", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:14", "verse_text": "Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine." }, { "point_text": "For support of priests", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 44:29", "verse_text": "They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs." }, { "point_text": "Given to propitiate enemies", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 12:17-18", "verse_text": "Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem. 18 And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Law respecting the release of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 27", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by thy estimation. 3 And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary. 4 And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels. ..." }, { "point_text": "Of property often perverted", "verse_ref": "Mark 7:9-13", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. 10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: 11 But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free. 12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother; ..." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated of devotedness to God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:38", "verse_text": "Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear." } ] }, { "name": "Decision", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Decision.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Necessary to the service of God", "verse_ref": "Luke 9:62", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to", "verse_ref": "Joshua 24:14-15", "verse_text": "Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD. 15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." }, { "point_text": "EXHIBITED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Seeking God with the heart", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 15:12", "verse_text": "And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;" }, { "point_text": "Keeping the commandments of God", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 10:29", "verse_text": "They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;" }, { "point_text": "Being on the Lord's side", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:26", "verse_text": "Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD'S side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him." }, { "point_text": "Following God fully", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:24", "verse_text": "But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it." }, { "point_text": "Following God fully", "verse_ref": "Numbers 32:12", "verse_text": "Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Following God fully", "verse_ref": "Joshua 14:8", "verse_text": "Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God." }, { "point_text": "Serving God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:6", "verse_text": "Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;" }, { "point_text": "Loving God perfectly", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 6:5", "verse_text": "And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of", "verse_ref": "Joshua 1:7", "verse_text": "Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest." }, { "point_text": "OPPOSED TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "A divided service", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:24", "verse_text": "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." }, { "point_text": "Double-mindedness", "verse_ref": "James 1:8", "verse_text": "A double minded man is unstable in all his ways." }, { "point_text": "Halting between two opinions", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:21", "verse_text": "And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word." }, { "point_text": "Turning to the right or left", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:32", "verse_text": "Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left." }, { "point_text": "Not setting the heart aright", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:8", "verse_text": "And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God." }, { "point_text": "Not setting the heart aright", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:37", "verse_text": "For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMoses, \nCaleb, \nJoshua, \nRuth, \nAsa, \nDavid, \nPeter, \nPaul, \nAbraham,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:26", "verse_text": "Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD'S side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMoses, \nCaleb, \nJoshua, \nRuth, \nAsa, \nDavid, \nPeter, \nPaul, \nAbraham,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:30", "verse_text": "And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMoses, \nCaleb, \nJoshua, \nRuth, \nAsa, \nDavid, \nPeter, \nPaul, \nAbraham,", "verse_ref": "Joshua 24:15", "verse_text": "And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMoses, \nCaleb, \nJoshua, \nRuth, \nAsa, \nDavid, \nPeter, \nPaul, \nAbraham,", "verse_ref": "Ruth 1:16", "verse_text": "And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMoses, \nCaleb, \nJoshua, \nRuth, \nAsa, \nDavid, \nPeter, \nPaul, \nAbraham,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 15:8", "verse_text": "And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMoses, \nCaleb, \nJoshua, \nRuth, \nAsa, \nDavid, \nPeter, \nPaul, \nAbraham,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 17:3", "verse_text": "Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMoses, \nCaleb, \nJoshua, \nRuth, \nAsa, \nDavid, \nPeter, \nPaul, \nAbraham,", "verse_ref": "John 6:68", "verse_text": "Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMoses, \nCaleb, \nJoshua, \nRuth, \nAsa, \nDavid, \nPeter, \nPaul, \nAbraham,", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:13", "verse_text": "Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMoses, \nCaleb, \nJoshua, \nRuth, \nAsa, \nDavid, \nPeter, \nPaul, \nAbraham,", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:8", "verse_text": "By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went." } ] }, { "name": "Death, Eternal", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Death-Eternal.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The necessary consequence of sin", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:16", "verse_text": "Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?" }, { "point_text": "The necessary consequence of sin", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:13", "verse_text": "For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live." }, { "point_text": "The necessary consequence of sin", "verse_ref": "James 1:15", "verse_text": "Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death." }, { "point_text": "The wages of sin", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:23", "verse_text": "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." }, { "point_text": "The portion of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:41", "verse_text": "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:" }, { "point_text": "The portion of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:46", "verse_text": "And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal." }, { "point_text": "The way to, described", "verse_ref": "Psalm 9:17", "verse_text": "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God." }, { "point_text": "The way to, described", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:13", "verse_text": "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:" }, { "point_text": "Self-righteousness leads to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:12", "verse_text": "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." }, { "point_text": "God alone can inflict", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:28", "verse_text": "And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." }, { "point_text": "God alone can inflict", "verse_ref": "James 4:12", "verse_text": "There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?" }, { "point_text": "IS DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Banishment from God", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:9", "verse_text": "Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;" }, { "point_text": "Society with the devil, &c", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:41", "verse_text": "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:" }, { "point_text": "A lake of fire", "verse_ref": "Revelation 19:20", "verse_text": "And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone." }, { "point_text": "A lake of fire", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:8", "verse_text": "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death." }, { "point_text": "The worm that dies not", "verse_ref": "Mark 9:44", "verse_text": "Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched." }, { "point_text": "Outer darkness", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:30", "verse_text": "And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." }, { "point_text": "A mist of darkness for ever", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:17", "verse_text": "These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever." }, { "point_text": "Indignation, wrath, &c", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:8-9", "verse_text": "But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;" }, { "point_text": "IS CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Destruction", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:22", "verse_text": "What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:" }, { "point_text": "Destruction", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:9", "verse_text": "Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;" }, { "point_text": "Perishing", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:12", "verse_text": "But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;" }, { "point_text": "The wrath to come", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 1:10", "verse_text": "And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come." }, { "point_text": "The second death", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:11", "verse_text": "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death." }, { "point_text": "A resurrection to damnation", "verse_ref": "John 5:29", "verse_text": "And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation." }, { "point_text": "A resurrection to shame, &c", "verse_ref": "Daniel 12:2", "verse_text": "And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt." }, { "point_text": "Damnation of hell", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:33", "verse_text": "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?" }, { "point_text": "Everlasting punishment", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:46", "verse_text": "And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal." }, { "point_text": "Shall be inflicted by Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:31", "verse_text": "When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:" }, { "point_text": "Shall be inflicted by Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:41", "verse_text": "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:" }, { "point_text": "Shall be inflicted by Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:7-8", "verse_text": "And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, 8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Christ, the only way of escape from", "verse_ref": "John 3:16", "verse_text": "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." }, { "point_text": "Christ, the only way of escape from", "verse_ref": "John 8:51", "verse_text": "Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death." }, { "point_text": "Christ, the only way of escape from", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:12", "verse_text": "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." }, { "point_text": "Saints shall escape", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:11", "verse_text": "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death." }, { "point_text": "Saints shall escape", "verse_ref": "Revelation 20:6", "verse_text": "Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years." }, { "point_text": "Strive to preserve others from", "verse_ref": "James 5:20", "verse_text": "Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:23-26", "verse_text": "And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. 24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. 25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. 26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence." } ] }, { "name": "Deluge, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Deluge-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Sent as a punishment for the extreme wickedness of man", "verse_ref": "Genesis 6:5-7", "verse_text": "And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them." }, { "point_text": "Sent as a punishment for the extreme wickedness of man", "verse_ref": "Genesis 6:11-13", "verse_text": "The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. 13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth." }, { "point_text": "Sent as a punishment for the extreme wickedness of man", "verse_ref": "Genesis 6:17", "verse_text": "And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die." }, { "point_text": "CALLED THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Flood", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:28", "verse_text": "And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years." }, { "point_text": "Waters of Noah", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:9", "verse_text": "For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee." }, { "point_text": "Noah forewarned of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 6:13", "verse_text": "And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth." }, { "point_text": "Noah forewarned of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:7", "verse_text": "By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith." }, { "point_text": "Long-suffering of God exhibited in deferring", "verse_ref": "Genesis 6:3", "verse_text": "And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years." }, { "point_text": "Long-suffering of God exhibited in deferring", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:20", "verse_text": "Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water." }, { "point_text": "The wicked warned of", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:19-20", "verse_text": "By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; 20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water." }, { "point_text": "The wicked warned of", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:5", "verse_text": "And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;" }, { "point_text": "Noah, &c, saved from", "verse_ref": "Genesis 6:18-22", "verse_text": "But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. 19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female. 20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive. 21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them. ..." }, { "point_text": "Noah, &c, saved from", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:13-14", "verse_text": "In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; 14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort." }, { "point_text": "Date of its commencement", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:11", "verse_text": "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." }, { "point_text": "Came suddenly and unexpectedly", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:38-39", "verse_text": "For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." }, { "point_text": "PRODUCED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Forty days' incessant rain", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:4", "verse_text": "For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Forty days' incessant rain", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:12", "verse_text": "And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights." }, { "point_text": "Forty days' incessant rain", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:17", "verse_text": "And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth." }, { "point_text": "Opening up of the fountains of the great deep", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:11", "verse_text": "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." }, { "point_text": "Increased gradually", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:17-18", "verse_text": "And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. 18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters." }, { "point_text": "Extreme height of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:19-20", "verse_text": "And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. 20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered." }, { "point_text": "Time of its increase and prevailing", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:24", "verse_text": "And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days." }, { "point_text": "Causes of its abatement", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:1-2", "verse_text": "And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged; 2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;" }, { "point_text": "Decrease of, gradual", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:3", "verse_text": "And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated." }, { "point_text": "Decrease of, gradual", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:5", "verse_text": "And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen." }, { "point_text": "Date of its complete removal", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:13", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry." }, { "point_text": "Complete destruction effected by", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:23", "verse_text": "And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark." }, { "point_text": "Entire face of the earth changed by", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:5-6", "verse_text": "For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:" }, { "point_text": "Traditional notice of", "verse_ref": "Job 22:15-17", "verse_text": "Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? 16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood: 17 Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?" }, { "point_text": "THAT IT SHALL NEVER AGAIN OCCUR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Promised", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:21-22", "verse_text": "And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." }, { "point_text": "Confirmed by covenant", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:9-11", "verse_text": "And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; 10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. 11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth." }, { "point_text": "The rainbow a token", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:12-17", "verse_text": "And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: 13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. 14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: 15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. ..." }, { "point_text": "A pledge of God's faithfulness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:9-10", "verse_text": "For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. 10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the destruction of sinners", "verse_ref": "Psalm 32:6", "verse_text": "For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him." }, { "point_text": "Of the destruction of sinners", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:2", "verse_text": "Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand." }, { "point_text": "Of the destruction of sinners", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:18", "verse_text": "And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it." }, { "point_text": "Of baptism", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:20-21", "verse_text": "Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. 21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "(Unexpectedness of,) of suddenness of Christ's coming", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:36-39", "verse_text": "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. 37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." }, { "point_text": "(Unexpectedness of,) of suddenness of Christ's coming", "verse_ref": "Luke 17:26-30", "verse_text": "And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. 27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. ..." } ] }, { "name": "Denial of Christ", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Denial-of-Christ.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "In doctrine", "verse_ref": "Mark 8:38", "verse_text": "Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels." }, { "point_text": "In doctrine", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:8", "verse_text": "Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;" }, { "point_text": "In practice", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:18", "verse_text": "(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:" }, { "point_text": "In practice", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:10", "verse_text": "That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;" }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of false teachers", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:1", "verse_text": "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of false teachers", "verse_ref": "Jude 4", "verse_text": "For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Is the spirit of Antichrist", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:22", "verse_text": "Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son." }, { "point_text": "Is the spirit of Antichrist", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:3", "verse_text": "And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world." }, { "point_text": "Christ will deny those guilty of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:33", "verse_text": "But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven." }, { "point_text": "Christ will deny those guilty of", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:12", "verse_text": "If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:" }, { "point_text": "Leads to destruction", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:1", "verse_text": "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction." }, { "point_text": "Leads to destruction", "verse_ref": "Jude 4", "verse_text": "For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Leads to destruction", "verse_ref": "Jude 15", "verse_text": "To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPeter, \nThe Jews,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:69-75", "verse_text": "Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came unto him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee. 70 But he denied before them all, saying, I know not what thou sayest. 71 And when he was gone out into the porch, another maid saw him, and said unto them that were there, This fellow was also with Jesus of Nazareth. 72 And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPeter, \nThe Jews,", "verse_ref": "John 18:40", "verse_text": "Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPeter, \nThe Jews,", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:13-14", "verse_text": "The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go. 14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;" } ] }, { "name": "Desert, Journey of Israel through the", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Desert-Journey-of-Israel-through-the.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Date of its commencement", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:41-42", "verse_text": "And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt. 42 It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations." }, { "point_text": "Their number commencing", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:37", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children." }, { "point_text": "Their healthy state commencing", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:37", "verse_text": "He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes." }, { "point_text": "A mixed multitude accompanied them in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:38", "verse_text": "And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle." }, { "point_text": "A mixed multitude accompanied them in", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:4", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Commenced in haste", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:39", "verse_text": "And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual." }, { "point_text": "Conducted with regularity", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:18", "verse_text": "But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Under Moses as leader", "verse_ref": "Exodus 3:10-12", "verse_text": "Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt. 11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? 12 And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain." }, { "point_text": "Under Moses as leader", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:36,38", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "By a circuitous route", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:17-18", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt: 18 But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Order of marching during", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:14-29", "verse_text": "In the first place went the standard of the camp of the children of Judah according to their armies: and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab. 15 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar was Nethaneel the son of Zuar. 16 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon. 17 And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the tabernacle. ..." }, { "point_text": "Order of encamping during", "verse_ref": "Numbers 2", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 2 Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch. 3 And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah. 4 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred. ..." }, { "point_text": "Difficulty and danger of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:15", "verse_text": "Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;" }, { "point_text": "CONTINUED FORTY YEARS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "As a punishment", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:33-34", "verse_text": "And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness. 34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise." }, { "point_text": "To prove and humble them, &c", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:2", "verse_text": "And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no." }, { "point_text": "To teach them to live on God's word", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:3", "verse_text": "And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live." }, { "point_text": "Under God's guidance", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:21", "verse_text": "And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:" }, { "point_text": "Under God's guidance", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:13; Nehemiah 9:12; Psalm 78:52; Isaiah 63:11-14", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Under God's protection", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:19-20", "verse_text": "And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them: 20 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night." }, { "point_text": "With miraculous provision", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:35", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan." }, { "point_text": "With miraculous provision", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:3", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Their clothing preserved during", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:4", "verse_text": "Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years." }, { "point_text": "Their clothing preserved during", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 29:5; Nehemiah 9:21", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Worship of God celebrated during", "verse_ref": "Exodus 24:5-8", "verse_text": "And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD. 6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. 7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient. 8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words." }, { "point_text": "Worship of God celebrated during", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:38-42; 40:24-29", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Justice administered during", "verse_ref": "Exodus 18:13", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening." }, { "point_text": "Justice administered during", "verse_ref": "Exodus 18:26", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Circumcision omitted during", "verse_ref": "Joshua 5:5", "verse_text": "Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised." }, { "point_text": "Caused universal terror and dismay", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:14-16", "verse_text": "The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina. 15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away. 16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased." }, { "point_text": "Caused universal terror and dismay", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:3-4", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Obstructed, &c. by the surrounding nations", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:8", "verse_text": "Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim." }, { "point_text": "Obstructed, &c. by the surrounding nations", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:21", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Territory acquired during", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 29:7-8", "verse_text": "And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them: 8 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh." }, { "point_text": "Marked by constant murmurings and rebellions", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:40", "verse_text": "How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!" }, { "point_text": "Marked by constant murmurings and rebellions", "verse_ref": "Psalm 95:10; 106:7-39", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Constant goodness and mercy of God to them during", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:10", "verse_text": "And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy." }, { "point_text": "Constant goodness and mercy of God to them during", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:43-46; 107:6,13", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Commenced from Rameses in Egypt", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:37", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children." }, { "point_text": "TO SUCCOTH", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:37", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children." }, { "point_text": "TO SUCCOTH", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:5", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "TO ETHAM", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:20", "verse_text": "And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "TO ETHAM", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:6", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "BETWEEN BAALZEPHON AND PIHAHIROTH", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:2", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalzephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea." }, { "point_text": "BETWEEN BAALZEPHON AND PIHAHIROTH", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:7", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Overtaken by Pharaoh", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:9", "verse_text": "But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baalzephon." }, { "point_text": "Exhorted to look to God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:13-14", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. 14 The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace." }, { "point_text": "The cloud removed to the rear", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:19-20", "verse_text": "And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them: 20 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night." }, { "point_text": "Red Sea divided", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:16", "verse_text": "But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea." }, { "point_text": "Red Sea divided", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:21", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "THROUGH THE RED SEA", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:22", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left." }, { "point_text": "THROUGH THE RED SEA", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:29", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Faith exhibited in passing", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:29", "verse_text": "By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned." }, { "point_text": "Pharaoh and his host destroyed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:23-28", "verse_text": "And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. 24 And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians, 25 And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians. 26 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen. ..." }, { "point_text": "Pharaoh and his host destroyed", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:11", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Israel's song of praise", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:1-21", "verse_text": "Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. 2 The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him. 3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name. 4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea. ..." }, { "point_text": "Israel's song of praise", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:12", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "THROUGH THE WILDERNESS OF SHUR OR ETHAM", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:22", "verse_text": "So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water." }, { "point_text": "THROUGH THE WILDERNESS OF SHUR OR ETHAM", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:8", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "TO MARAH", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:23", "verse_text": "And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah." }, { "point_text": "TO MARAH", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:8", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Murmuring of the people on account of bitter water", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:24", "verse_text": "And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?" }, { "point_text": "Water sweetened", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:25", "verse_text": "And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them," }, { "point_text": "TO ELIM", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:27", "verse_text": "And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters." }, { "point_text": "TO ELIM", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:9", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "BY THE RED SEA", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:10", "verse_text": "And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea." }, { "point_text": "THROUGH THE WILDERNESS OF SIN", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:1", "verse_text": "And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "THROUGH THE WILDERNESS OF SIN", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:11", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Murmuring for bread", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:2-3", "verse_text": "And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: 3 And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger." }, { "point_text": "Quails given for one night", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:8", "verse_text": "And Moses said, This shall be, when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Quails given for one night", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:12-13", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Manna sent", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:4", "verse_text": "Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no." }, { "point_text": "Manna sent", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:8,16-31", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "TO DOPHKAH", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:12", "verse_text": "And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah." }, { "point_text": "TO ALUSH", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:13", "verse_text": "And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush." }, { "point_text": "TO REPHIDIM", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:1", "verse_text": "And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink." }, { "point_text": "TO REPHIDIM", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:14", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Murmuring for water", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:2-3", "verse_text": "Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD? 3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?" }, { "point_text": "Water brought from the rock", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:5-6", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go. 6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Called Massah and Meribah", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:7", "verse_text": "And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?" }, { "point_text": "Amalek opposes Israel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:8", "verse_text": "Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim." }, { "point_text": "Amalek overcome", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:9-13", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand. 10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. 12 But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. ..." }, { "point_text": "TO MOUNT SINAI", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:1-2", "verse_text": "In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. 2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount." }, { "point_text": "Jethro's visit", "verse_ref": "Exodus 18:1-6", "verse_text": "When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt; 2 Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back, 3 And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land: 4 And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh: ..." }, { "point_text": "Judges appointed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 18:14-26", "verse_text": "And when Moses' father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even? 15 And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto me to inquire of God: 16 When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws. 17 And Moses' father in law said unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good. ..." }, { "point_text": "Judges appointed", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:9-15", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Moral law given", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:3", "verse_text": "And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;" }, { "point_text": "Moral law given", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Covenant made", "verse_ref": "Exodus 24:3-8", "verse_text": "And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do. 4 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. 5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD. 6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. ..." }, { "point_text": "Moral law written on tables", "verse_ref": "Exodus 31:18", "verse_text": "And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God." }, { "point_text": "Order for making the tabernacle, &c", "verse_ref": "Exodus 24-27", "verse_text": "And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off. 2 And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him. 3 And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do. 4 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. ..." }, { "point_text": "Tribe of Levi taken instead of the first-born", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:11-13", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 12 And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine; 13 Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Aaron and his sons selected for priesthood", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28-29", "verse_text": "And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons. 2 And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty. 3 And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office. 4 And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office. ..." }, { "point_text": "Aaron and his sons selected for priesthood", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:1-3,10", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Levites set apart", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:5-9", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 6 Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him. 7 And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do the service of the tabernacle. 8 And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle. ..." }, { "point_text": "Golden calf made", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:1", "verse_text": "And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him." }, { "point_text": "Golden calf made", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:4", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Tables of testimony broken", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:19", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount." }, { "point_text": "People punished for idolatry", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:25-29", "verse_text": "And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:) 26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD'S side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him. 27 And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour. 28 And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. ..." }, { "point_text": "People punished for idolatry", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:35", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "God's glory shown to Moses", "verse_ref": "Exodus 33:18-23", "verse_text": "And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory. 19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy. 20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live. 21 And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock: ..." }, { "point_text": "God's glory shown to Moses", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:5-8", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "The tables of testimony renewed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:1-4", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest. 2 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount. 3 And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount. 4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone." }, { "point_text": "The tables of testimony renewed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:27-29; Deuteronomy 10:1-5", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Tabernacle first set up", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation. 3 And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the vail. 4 And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and light the lamps thereof. ..." }, { "point_text": "Nadab and Abihu destroyed for offering strange fire", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 10:1-2", "verse_text": "And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not. 2 And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Passover first commemorated", "verse_ref": "Numbers 9:1-5", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 2 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season. 3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it. 4 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover. ..." }, { "point_text": "Second numbering of the people", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:1-46", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 2 Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls; 3 From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies. 4 And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers. ..." }, { "point_text": "Second numbering of the people", "verse_ref": "Exodus 38:25-26", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "TO KIBROTH-HATTAAVAH", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:16", "verse_text": "And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibrothhattaavah." }, { "point_text": "Complaining punished by fire", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:1-3", "verse_text": "And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp. 2 And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched. 3 And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them." }, { "point_text": "Called Taberah", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:3", "verse_text": "And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them." }, { "point_text": "Murmuring of the mixed multitude and of Israel, for flesh", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:4-9", "verse_text": "And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? 5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: 6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes. 7 And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium. ..." }, { "point_text": "Flesh promised", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:10-15", "verse_text": "Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased. 11 And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me? 12 Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers? 13 Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat. ..." }, { "point_text": "Flesh promised", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:18-23", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Seventy elders appointed to assist Moses", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:16-17", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee. 17 And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone." }, { "point_text": "Seventy elders appointed to assist Moses", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:24-30", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Quails sent for a month", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:19-20", "verse_text": "Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days; 20 But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?" }, { "point_text": "Quails sent for a month", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:31-32", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Their murmuring punished", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:33", "verse_text": "And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague." }, { "point_text": "Their murmuring punished", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:30-31", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Why called Kibroth-hattaavah", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:34", "verse_text": "And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted." }, { "point_text": "TO HAZEROTH", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:35", "verse_text": "And the people journeyed from Kibrothhattaavah unto Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth." }, { "point_text": "TO HAZEROTH", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:17", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Aaron and Miriam envy Moses", "verse_ref": "Numbers 12:1-2", "verse_text": "And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman. 2 And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it." }, { "point_text": "Miriam punished by leprosy", "verse_ref": "Numbers 12:10", "verse_text": "And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous." }, { "point_text": "Delayed seven day for Miriam", "verse_ref": "Numbers 12:14-15", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again. 15 And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again." }, { "point_text": "TO KADESH-BARNEA IN WILDERNESS OF RITHMAH OR PARAN", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:19", "verse_text": "And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea." }, { "point_text": "TO KADESH-BARNEA IN WILDERNESS OF RITHMAH OR PARAN", "verse_ref": "Numbers 32:8; 12:16; 33:18", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "The people anxious to have the land of Canaan searched", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:22", "verse_text": "And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come." }, { "point_text": "Moses commanded to send spies", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:1-2", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them." }, { "point_text": "Persons selected as spies", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:3-16", "verse_text": "And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel. 4 And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. 5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori. 6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. ..." }, { "point_text": "Spies sent", "verse_ref": "Joshua 14:7", "verse_text": "Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart." }, { "point_text": "Spies sent", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:17-20", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Spies bring back evil report", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:26-33", "verse_text": "And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land. 27 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it. 28 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there. 29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan. ..." }, { "point_text": "The people terrified and rebel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:1-4", "verse_text": "And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. 2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! 3 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt? 4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for rebellion", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:26", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying," }, { "point_text": "Punishment for rebellion", "verse_ref": "Numbers 32:11-13; Deuteronomy 1:35-36,40", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Guilty spies slain by plague", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:36-37", "verse_text": "And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land, 37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "People smitten by Amalek for going up without the Lord", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:40-45", "verse_text": "And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned. 41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper. 42 Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies. 43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you. ..." }, { "point_text": "People smitten by Amalek for going up without the Lord", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:41-44", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "RETURNED BY THE WAY TO THE RED SEA", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:25", "verse_text": "(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea." }, { "point_text": "RETURNED BY THE WAY TO THE RED SEA", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:40; 2:1", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Sabbath breaker stoned", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:32-36", "verse_text": "And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. 33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation. 34 And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him. 35 And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp. ..." }, { "point_text": "Rebellion of Korah", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:1-19", "verse_text": "Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men: 2 And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown: 3 And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD? 4 And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face: ..." }, { "point_text": "Korah, &c. punished", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:30-35", "verse_text": "But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD. 31 And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them: 32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. 33 They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation. ..." }, { "point_text": "Plague sent", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:41-46", "verse_text": "But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD. 42 And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared. 43 And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation. 44 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ..." }, { "point_text": "Plague stayed", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:47-50", "verse_text": "And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people. 48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed. 49 Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah. 50 And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed." }, { "point_text": "God's choice of Aaron confirmed", "verse_ref": "Numbers 17", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod. 3 And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers. 4 And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you. ..." }, { "point_text": "TO RIMMON-PAREZ", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:19", "verse_text": "And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at Rimmonparez." }, { "point_text": "TO LIBNAH OR LABAN", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:20", "verse_text": "And they departed from Rimmonparez, and pitched in Libnah." }, { "point_text": "TO LIBNAH OR LABAN", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:1", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "TO RISSAH", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:21", "verse_text": "And they removed from Libnah, and pitched at Rissah." }, { "point_text": "TO KEHELATHAH", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:22", "verse_text": "And they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah." }, { "point_text": "TO MOUNT SHAPHER", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:23", "verse_text": "And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shapher." }, { "point_text": "TO HARADAH", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:24", "verse_text": "And they removed from mount Shapher, and encamped in Haradah." }, { "point_text": "TO MAKHELOTH", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:25", "verse_text": "And they removed from Haradah, and pitched in Makheloth." }, { "point_text": "TO TAHATH", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:26", "verse_text": "And they removed from Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath." }, { "point_text": "TO TARAH", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:37", "verse_text": "And they removed from Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom." }, { "point_text": "TO MITHCAH", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:28", "verse_text": "And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah." }, { "point_text": "TO HASHMONAH", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:29", "verse_text": "And they went from Mithcah, and pitched in Hashmonah." }, { "point_text": "TO MOSEROTH OR MOSERA", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:30", "verse_text": "And they departed from Hashmonah, and encamped at Moseroth." }, { "point_text": "TO BENE-JAAKAN", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:31", "verse_text": "And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in Benejaakan." }, { "point_text": "TO HORHAGIDGAD OR GUDGODAH", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:32", "verse_text": "And they removed from Benejaakan, and encamped at Horhagidgad." }, { "point_text": "TO HORHAGIDGAD OR GUDGODAH", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:7", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "TO JOTBATHAH OR LAND OF RIVERS", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:33", "verse_text": "And they went from Horhagidgad, and pitched in Jotbathah." }, { "point_text": "TO JOTBATHAH OR LAND OF RIVERS", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:7", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Several of these stations probably revisited", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:6-7", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead. 7 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters." }, { "point_text": "TO EBRONAH", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:34", "verse_text": "And they removed from Jotbathah, and encamped at Ebronah." }, { "point_text": "TO EZION-GABER", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:35", "verse_text": "And they departed from Ebronah, and encamped at Eziongaber." }, { "point_text": "TO KADESH IN THE WILDERNESS OF ZIN", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:1", "verse_text": "Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there." }, { "point_text": "TO KADESH IN THE WILDERNESS OF ZIN", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:36; Judges 11:16", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Miriam dies and is buried", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:1", "verse_text": "Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there." }, { "point_text": "Second murmuring for water", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:2-6", "verse_text": "And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. 3 And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD! 4 And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there? 5 And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink. ..." }, { "point_text": "Moses striking the rock instead of speaking to it, disobeys God", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:7-11", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 8 Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink. 9 And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him. 10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock? ..." }, { "point_text": "Moses and Aaron punished", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:12", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them." }, { "point_text": "Called Meribah to commemorate the murmuring", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:13", "verse_text": "This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them." }, { "point_text": "Called Meribah to commemorate the murmuring", "verse_ref": "Numbers 27:14", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Orders given respecting Edom", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:3-6", "verse_text": "Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward. 4 And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore: 5 Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession. 6 Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink." }, { "point_text": "The king of Edom refuses a passage", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:14-21", "verse_text": "And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us: 15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers: 16 And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border: 17 Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders. ..." }, { "point_text": "The king of Edom refuses a passage", "verse_ref": "Judges 11:17", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "TO MOUNT HOR", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:22", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor." }, { "point_text": "TO MOUNT HOR", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:37", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Aaron dies", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:28", "verse_text": "And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount." }, { "point_text": "Aaron dies", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:38-39", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Arad conquered", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:1-3", "verse_text": "And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners. 2 And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities. 3 And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah." }, { "point_text": "Arad conquered", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:40", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Called Hormah", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:2-3", "verse_text": "And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities. 3 And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah." }, { "point_text": "TO ZALMONAH", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:41", "verse_text": "And they departed from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah." }, { "point_text": "Murmuring of the people", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:4-5", "verse_text": "And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way. 5 And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread." }, { "point_text": "Fiery serpents sent", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:6", "verse_text": "And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died." }, { "point_text": "Brazen serpent raised up", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:7-9", "verse_text": "Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. 8 And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. 9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived." }, { "point_text": "TO PUNON", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:42", "verse_text": "And they departed from Zalmonah, and pitched in Punon." }, { "point_text": "TO OBOTH", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:10", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth." }, { "point_text": "TO OBOTH", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:43", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "TO IJE-ABARIM BEFORE MOAB", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:11", "verse_text": "And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising." }, { "point_text": "TO IJE-ABARIM BEFORE MOAB", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:44", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Orders given respecting Moab", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:8-9", "verse_text": "And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. 9 And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession." }, { "point_text": "TO ZARED OR DIBON-GAD", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:12", "verse_text": "From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared." }, { "point_text": "TO ZARED OR DIBON-GAD", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:45", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "TO ALMON-DIBLATHAIM", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:46", "verse_text": "And they removed from Dibongad, and encamped in Almondiblathaim." }, { "point_text": "ACROSS THE BROOK ZERED", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:13", "verse_text": "Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered." }, { "point_text": "Time occupied in going from Kadesh-barnea to this station", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:14", "verse_text": "And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them." }, { "point_text": "Order to pass through Ar", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:18", "verse_text": "Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day:" }, { "point_text": "Orders given respecting Ammon", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:19", "verse_text": "And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession." }, { "point_text": "ACROSS THE ARNON", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:13-15", "verse_text": "From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. 14 Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon, 15 And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab." }, { "point_text": "ACROSS THE ARNON", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:24", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "TO BEER OR THE WELL", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:16", "verse_text": "And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water." }, { "point_text": "TO MATTANAH", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:18", "verse_text": "The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:" }, { "point_text": "TO NAHALIEL", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:19", "verse_text": "And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth:" }, { "point_text": "TO BAMOTH", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:19", "verse_text": "And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth:" }, { "point_text": "TO THE MOUNTAINS OF ABARIM", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:20", "verse_text": "And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon." }, { "point_text": "TO THE MOUNTAINS OF ABARIM", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:47", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "The Amorites refuse a passage to Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:21-23", "verse_text": "And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, 22 Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way, until we be past thy borders. 23 And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel." }, { "point_text": "The Amorites refuse a passage to Israel", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:26-30", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Sihon conquered", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:23-32", "verse_text": "And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel. 24 And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong. 25 And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof. 26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon. ..." }, { "point_text": "Sihon conquered", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:32-36", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Og conquered", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:33-35", "verse_text": "And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei. 34 And the LORD said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon. 35 So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land." }, { "point_text": "Og conquered", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 3:1-11", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Reubenites, &c. obtained the land taken from the Amorites", "verse_ref": "Numbers 32", "verse_text": "Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle; 2 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying, 3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon, 4 Even the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle: ..." }, { "point_text": "Reubenites, &c. obtained the land taken from the Amorites", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 3:12-17", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "RETURN TO THE PLAINS OF MOAB", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:1", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho." }, { "point_text": "RETURN TO THE PLAINS OF MOAB", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:48-49", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Balak sends for Balaam", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:5-6", "verse_text": "He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me: 6 Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed." }, { "point_text": "Balak sends for Balaam", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:15-17", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Balaam not permitted to curse Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:9-41", "verse_text": "And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are these with thee? 10 And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me, saying, 11 Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covereth the face of the earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out. 12 And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed. ..." }, { "point_text": "Balaam not permitted to curse Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 23-24", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Israel seduced to idolatry, &c. by advice of Balaam", "verse_ref": "Numbers 25:1-3", "verse_text": "And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. 2 And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. 3 And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel." }, { "point_text": "Israel seduced to idolatry, &c. by advice of Balaam", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:14", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Israel punished", "verse_ref": "Numbers 25:5", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor." }, { "point_text": "Israel punished", "verse_ref": "Numbers 25:9", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Third numbering", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:1-62", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after the plague, that the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying, 2 Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel. 3 And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying, 4 Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt. ..." }, { "point_text": "All formerly numbered over twenty years old, except Caleb and Joshua, dead", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:63-65", "verse_text": "These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho. 64 But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. 65 For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun." }, { "point_text": "All formerly numbered over twenty years old, except Caleb and Joshua, dead", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:29", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "The law of female inheritance settled", "verse_ref": "Numbers 27:1-11", "verse_text": "Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah. 2 And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying, 3 Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons. 4 Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father. ..." }, { "point_text": "The law of female inheritance settled", "verse_ref": "Numbers 36:1-9", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Appointment of Joshua", "verse_ref": "Numbers 27:15-23", "verse_text": "And Moses spake unto the LORD, saying, 16 Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation, 17 Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd. 18 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him; ..." }, { "point_text": "Midianites destroyed and Balaam slain", "verse_ref": "Numbers 31", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people. 3 And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian. 4 Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war. ..." }, { "point_text": "Midianites destroyed and Balaam slain", "verse_ref": "Numbers 25:17-18", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "The law rehearsed", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:3", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;" }, { "point_text": "The law written by Moses", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 31:9", "verse_text": "And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Moses beholds Canaan", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 34:1-4", "verse_text": "And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan, 2 And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea, 3 And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar. 4 And the LORD said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither." }, { "point_text": "Moses dies and is buried", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 34:5-6", "verse_text": "So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. 6 And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Joshua ordered to cross Jordan", "verse_ref": "Joshua 1:2", "verse_text": "Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Two spies sent to Jericho", "verse_ref": "Joshua 2:1", "verse_text": "And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there." }, { "point_text": "ACROSS THE RIVER JORDAN", "verse_ref": "Joshua 4:10", "verse_text": "For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until every thing was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over." }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of the pilgrimage of the church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 8:5", "verse_text": "Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee." }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of the pilgrimage of the church", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:17", "verse_text": "Also ." } ] }, { "name": "Deserts", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Deserts.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Vast barren plains", "verse_ref": "Exodus 5:3", "verse_text": "And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword." }, { "point_text": "Vast barren plains", "verse_ref": "John 6:13", "verse_text": "Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten." }, { "point_text": "Uninhabited places", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:15", "verse_text": "And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals." }, { "point_text": "Uninhabited places", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:31", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Uninhabited and lonesome", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:6", "verse_text": "Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?" }, { "point_text": "Uncultivated", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:5", "verse_text": "And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink." }, { "point_text": "Uncultivated", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:2", "verse_text": "Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown." }, { "point_text": "Desolate", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 6:14", "verse_text": "So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Dry and without water", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:1", "verse_text": "And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink." }, { "point_text": "Dry and without water", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:15", "verse_text": "Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;" }, { "point_text": "Trackless", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 43:19", "verse_text": "Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert." }, { "point_text": "Great and terrible", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:19", "verse_text": "And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea." }, { "point_text": "Waste and howling", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:10", "verse_text": "He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye." }, { "point_text": "Infested with wild beasts", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:21", "verse_text": "But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there." }, { "point_text": "Infested with wild beasts", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:13", "verse_text": "And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him." }, { "point_text": "Infested with serpents", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:15", "verse_text": "Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;" }, { "point_text": "Infested with robbers", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:2", "verse_text": "Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness." }, { "point_text": "Infested with robbers", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 4:19", "verse_text": "Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "Danger of travelling in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:3", "verse_text": "For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in." }, { "point_text": "Danger of travelling in", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 11:26", "verse_text": "In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;" }, { "point_text": "Guides required in", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:31", "verse_text": "And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes." }, { "point_text": "Guides required in", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:10", "verse_text": "He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye." }, { "point_text": "PHENOMENA OF, ALLUDED TO;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Mirage or deceptive appearance of water", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 15:18", "verse_text": "Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?" }, { "point_text": "Simoom or deadly wind", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:7", "verse_text": "Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land." }, { "point_text": "Simoom or deadly wind", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:11", "verse_text": "At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse," }, { "point_text": "Tornadoes or whirlwinds", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 21:1", "verse_text": "The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land." }, { "point_text": "Clouds of sand and dust", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:24", "verse_text": "The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed." }, { "point_text": "Clouds of sand and dust", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:12-13", "verse_text": "Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them. 13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled." }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Arabian or great desert", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:31", "verse_text": "And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee." }, { "point_text": "Bethaven", "verse_ref": "Joshua 18:12", "verse_text": "And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Bethaven." }, { "point_text": "Beersheba", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:14", "verse_text": "And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba." }, { "point_text": "Beersheba", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:3-4", "verse_text": "And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there. 4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers." }, { "point_text": "Damascus", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:15", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria:" }, { "point_text": "Edom", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 3:8", "verse_text": "And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way through the wilderness of Edom." }, { "point_text": "Engedi", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 24:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi." }, { "point_text": "Gibeon", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 2:24", "verse_text": "Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lieth before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon." }, { "point_text": "Judea", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:1", "verse_text": "In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea," }, { "point_text": "Jeruel", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 20:16", "verse_text": "To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel." }, { "point_text": "Kedemoth", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:26", "verse_text": "And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying," }, { "point_text": "Kadesh", "verse_ref": "Psalm 29:8", "verse_text": "The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh." }, { "point_text": "Maon", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 23:24-25", "verse_text": "And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon. 25 Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon." }, { "point_text": "Paran", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:21", "verse_text": "And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Paran", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:12", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran." }, { "point_text": "Shur", "verse_ref": "Genesis 16:7", "verse_text": "And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur." }, { "point_text": "Sin", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:1", "verse_text": "And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Sinai", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:1-2", "verse_text": "In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. 2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount." }, { "point_text": "Ziph", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 23:14-15", "verse_text": "And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand. 15 And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood." }, { "point_text": "Zin", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:1", "verse_text": "Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there." }, { "point_text": "Zin", "verse_ref": "Numbers 27:14", "verse_text": "For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin." }, { "point_text": "Of the Red Sea", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:18", "verse_text": "But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Near Gaza", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:26", "verse_text": "And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert." }, { "point_text": "Heath often found in", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:6", "verse_text": "For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited." }, { "point_text": "Parts of, afforded pasture", "verse_ref": "Genesis 36:24", "verse_text": "And these are the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah: this was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father." }, { "point_text": "Parts of, afforded pasture", "verse_ref": "Exodus 3:1", "verse_text": "Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb." }, { "point_text": "Inhabited by wandering tribes", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:20-21", "verse_text": "And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. 21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "The persecuted fled to", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 23:14", "verse_text": "And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand." }, { "point_text": "The persecuted fled to", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:38", "verse_text": "(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth." }, { "point_text": "The disaffected fled to", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 22:2", "verse_text": "And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men." }, { "point_text": "The disaffected fled to", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:38", "verse_text": "Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?" }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Barrenness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:9", "verse_text": "He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "Barrenness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:33", "verse_text": "He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;" }, { "point_text": "Barrenness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:35", "verse_text": "He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings." }, { "point_text": "Those deprived of all blessings", "verse_ref": "Hosea 2:3", "verse_text": "Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst." }, { "point_text": "The world", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 3:6", "verse_text": "Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?" }, { "point_text": "The world", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 8:5", "verse_text": "Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee." }, { "point_text": "The Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 35:1", "verse_text": "The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose." }, { "point_text": "The Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:19", "verse_text": "I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:" }, { "point_text": "What affords no support", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:31", "verse_text": "O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?" }, { "point_text": "Desolation by armies", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 12:10-13", "verse_text": "Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. 11 They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart. 12 The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace. 13 They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Desolation by armies", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:12", "verse_text": "Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert." } ] }, { "name": "Devil, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Devil-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Sinned against God", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:4", "verse_text": "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;" }, { "point_text": "Sinned against God", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:8", "verse_text": "He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil." }, { "point_text": "Cast out of heaven", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:18", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven." }, { "point_text": "Cast down to hell", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:4", "verse_text": "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;" }, { "point_text": "Cast down to hell", "verse_ref": "Jude 6", "verse_text": "And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day." }, { "point_text": "The author of the fall", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:1", "verse_text": "Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?" }, { "point_text": "The author of the fall", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:6", "verse_text": "And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat." }, { "point_text": "The author of the fall", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:14", "verse_text": "And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:" }, { "point_text": "The author of the fall", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:24", "verse_text": "So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life." }, { "point_text": "Tempted Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:3-10", "verse_text": "And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. 4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. 5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, 6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. ..." }, { "point_text": "Perverts the Scripture", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:6", "verse_text": "And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone." }, { "point_text": "Perverts the Scripture", "verse_ref": "Psalm 91:11-12", "verse_text": "For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. 12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone." }, { "point_text": "Opposes God's work", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 3:1", "verse_text": "And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him." }, { "point_text": "Opposes God's work", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:18", "verse_text": "Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us." }, { "point_text": "Hinders the gospel", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:19", "verse_text": "When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side." }, { "point_text": "Hinders the gospel", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:4", "verse_text": "In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." }, { "point_text": "Works lying wonders", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:9", "verse_text": "Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders," }, { "point_text": "Works lying wonders", "verse_ref": "Revelation 16:14", "verse_text": "For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty." }, { "point_text": "Assumes the form of an angel of light", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 11:14", "verse_text": "And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Are the children of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:38", "verse_text": "The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;" }, { "point_text": "Are the children of", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:10", "verse_text": "And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?" }, { "point_text": "Are the children of", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:10", "verse_text": "In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother." }, { "point_text": "Turn aside after", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:15", "verse_text": "For some are already turned aside after Satan." }, { "point_text": "Do the lusts of", "verse_ref": "John 8:44", "verse_text": "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." }, { "point_text": "Possessed by", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:3", "verse_text": "Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve." }, { "point_text": "Possessed by", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:3", "verse_text": "But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?" }, { "point_text": "Possessed by", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:2", "verse_text": "Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:" }, { "point_text": "Blinded by", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:4", "verse_text": "In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." }, { "point_text": "Deceived by", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:21-22", "verse_text": "And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him. 22 And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so." }, { "point_text": "Ensnared by", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:7", "verse_text": "Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil." }, { "point_text": "Ensnared by", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:26", "verse_text": "And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will." }, { "point_text": "Troubled by", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 16:14", "verse_text": "But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him." }, { "point_text": "Punished, together with", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:41", "verse_text": "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:" }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Afflicted by, only as God permits", "verse_ref": "Job 1:12", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Afflicted by, only as God permits", "verse_ref": "Job 2:4-7", "verse_text": "And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life. 5 But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face. 6 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life. 7 So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown." }, { "point_text": "Tempted by", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 21:1", "verse_text": "And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel." }, { "point_text": "Tempted by", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 3:5", "verse_text": "For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain." }, { "point_text": "Sifted by", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:31", "verse_text": "And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:" }, { "point_text": "Should resist", "verse_ref": "James 4:7", "verse_text": "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." }, { "point_text": "Should resist", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:9", "verse_text": "Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world." }, { "point_text": "Should be armed against", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:11-16", "verse_text": "Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; ..." }, { "point_text": "Should be watchful against", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 2:11", "verse_text": "Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices." }, { "point_text": "Overcome", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:13", "verse_text": "I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father." }, { "point_text": "Overcome", "verse_ref": "Revelation 12:10-11", "verse_text": "And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. 11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death." }, { "point_text": "Shall finally triumph over", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:20", "verse_text": "And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen." }, { "point_text": "TRIUMPH OVER, BY CHRIST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Predicted", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:15", "verse_text": "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." }, { "point_text": "In resisting his temptations", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:11", "verse_text": "Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him." }, { "point_text": "In casting out the spirits of", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:20", "verse_text": "But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you." }, { "point_text": "In casting out the spirits of", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:32", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected." }, { "point_text": "In empowering his disciples to cast out", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:1", "verse_text": "And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease." }, { "point_text": "In empowering his disciples to cast out", "verse_ref": "Mark 16:17", "verse_text": "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;" }, { "point_text": "In destroying the works of", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:8", "verse_text": "He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil." }, { "point_text": "Completed by His death", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:15", "verse_text": "And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it." }, { "point_text": "Completed by His death", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:14", "verse_text": "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;" }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:21-22", "verse_text": "When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: 22 But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils." }, { "point_text": "CHARACTER OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Presumptuous", "verse_ref": "Job 1:6", "verse_text": "Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them." }, { "point_text": "Presumptuous", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:5-6", "verse_text": "Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, 6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone." }, { "point_text": "Proud", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:6", "verse_text": "Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil." }, { "point_text": "Powerful", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:2", "verse_text": "Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:" }, { "point_text": "Powerful", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:12", "verse_text": "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." }, { "point_text": "Wicked", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:13", "verse_text": "I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father." }, { "point_text": "Malignant", "verse_ref": "Job 1:9", "verse_text": "Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?" }, { "point_text": "Malignant", "verse_ref": "Job 2:4", "verse_text": "And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life." }, { "point_text": "Subtle", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:1", "verse_text": "Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?" }, { "point_text": "Subtle", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 11:3", "verse_text": "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ." }, { "point_text": "Deceitful", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 11:14", "verse_text": "And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light." }, { "point_text": "Deceitful", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:11", "verse_text": "Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil." }, { "point_text": "Fierce and cruel", "verse_ref": "Luke 8:29", "verse_text": "(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)" }, { "point_text": "Fierce and cruel", "verse_ref": "Luke 9:39", "verse_text": "And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out; and it teareth him that he foameth again, and bruising him hardly departeth from him." }, { "point_text": "Fierce and cruel", "verse_ref": "Luke 9:42", "verse_text": "And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare him. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his father." }, { "point_text": "Fierce and cruel", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:8", "verse_text": "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:" }, { "point_text": "Cowardly", "verse_ref": "James 4:7", "verse_text": "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." }, { "point_text": "The Apostacy is of", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:9", "verse_text": "Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders," }, { "point_text": "The Apostacy is of", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:1", "verse_text": "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;" }, { "point_text": "Shall be condemned at the judgment", "verse_ref": "Jude 6", "verse_text": "And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day." }, { "point_text": "Shall be condemned at the judgment", "verse_ref": "Revelation 20:10", "verse_text": "And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever." }, { "point_text": "Everlasting fire is prepared for", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:41", "verse_text": "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:" }, { "point_text": "Compared to,\r\n\nA fowler, \nFowls, \nA sower of tares, \n\nA wolf, \nA roaring lion, \nA serpent,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 91:3", "verse_text": "Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence." }, { "point_text": "Compared to,\r\n\nA fowler, \nFowls, \nA sower of tares, \n\nA wolf, \nA roaring lion, \nA serpent,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:4", "verse_text": "And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:" }, { "point_text": "Compared to,\r\n\nA fowler, \nFowls, \nA sower of tares, \n\nA wolf, \nA roaring lion, \nA serpent,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:25", "verse_text": "But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way." }, { "point_text": "Compared to,\r\n\nA fowler, \nFowls, \nA sower of tares, \n\nA wolf, \nA roaring lion, \nA serpent,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:28", "verse_text": "He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?" }, { "point_text": "Compared to,\r\n\nA fowler, \nFowls, \nA sower of tares, \n\nA wolf, \nA roaring lion, \nA serpent,", "verse_ref": "John 10:12", "verse_text": "But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep." }, { "point_text": "Compared to,\r\n\nA fowler, \nFowls, \nA sower of tares, \n\nA wolf, \nA roaring lion, \nA serpent,", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:8", "verse_text": "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:" }, { "point_text": "Compared to,\r\n\nA fowler, \nFowls, \nA sower of tares, \n\nA wolf, \nA roaring lion, \nA serpent,", "verse_ref": "Revelation 12:9", "verse_text": "And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him." }, { "point_text": "Compared to,\r\n\nA fowler, \nFowls, \nA sower of tares, \n\nA wolf, \nA roaring lion, \nA serpent,", "verse_ref": "Revelation 20:2", "verse_text": "And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years," } ] }, { "name": "Despair", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Despair.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Produced in the wicked by divine judgments", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:34", "verse_text": "So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see." }, { "point_text": "Produced in the wicked by divine judgments", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:67", "verse_text": "In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see." }, { "point_text": "LEADS TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Continuing in sin", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:25", "verse_text": "Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go." }, { "point_text": "Continuing in sin", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 18:12", "verse_text": "And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart." }, { "point_text": "Blasphemy", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:21", "verse_text": "And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward." }, { "point_text": "Blasphemy", "verse_ref": "Revelation 16:10-11", "verse_text": "And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, 11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds." }, { "point_text": "Shall seize upon the wicked at the appearing of Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 6:16", "verse_text": "And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:" }, { "point_text": "Saints sometimes tempted to", "verse_ref": "Job 7:6", "verse_text": "My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope." }, { "point_text": "Saints sometimes tempted to", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:18", "verse_text": "And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Saints enabled to overcome", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:8-9", "verse_text": "We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;" }, { "point_text": "Trust in God, a preservative against", "verse_ref": "Psalm 42:5", "verse_text": "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance." }, { "point_text": "Trust in God, a preservative against", "verse_ref": "Psalm 42:11", "verse_text": "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nAhithophel, \nJudas,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:13-14", "verse_text": "And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear. 14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nAhithophel, \nJudas,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 17:23", "verse_text": "And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nAhithophel, \nJudas,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:5", "verse_text": "And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself." } ] }, { "name": "Devotedness to God", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Devotedness-to-God.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "A characteristic of saints", "verse_ref": "Job 23:12", "verse_text": "Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food." }, { "point_text": "Christ, an example of", "verse_ref": "John 4:34", "verse_text": "Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work." }, { "point_text": "Christ, an example of", "verse_ref": "John 17:4", "verse_text": "I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do." }, { "point_text": "GROUNDED UPON", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The mercies of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:1", "verse_text": "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service." }, { "point_text": "The goodness of God", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 12:24", "verse_text": "Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you." }, { "point_text": "The call of God", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:12", "verse_text": "That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory." }, { "point_text": "The death of Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:15", "verse_text": "And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again." }, { "point_text": "Our creation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 86:9", "verse_text": "All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name." }, { "point_text": "Our preservation", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 46:4", "verse_text": "And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you." }, { "point_text": "Our redemption", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:19-20", "verse_text": "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "With our spirit", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:20", "verse_text": "For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." }, { "point_text": "With our spirit", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:6", "verse_text": "For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit." }, { "point_text": "With our bodies", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:1", "verse_text": "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service." }, { "point_text": "With our bodies", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:20", "verse_text": "For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." }, { "point_text": "With our members", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:12-13", "verse_text": "Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. 13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God." }, { "point_text": "With our members", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:2", "verse_text": "That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God." }, { "point_text": "With our substance", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:29", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me." }, { "point_text": "With our substance", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:9", "verse_text": "Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:" }, { "point_text": "Unreserved", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:24", "verse_text": "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." }, { "point_text": "Unreserved", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:33", "verse_text": "So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple." }, { "point_text": "Abounding", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:1", "verse_text": "Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more." }, { "point_text": "Persevering", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:74", "verse_text": "That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear," }, { "point_text": "Persevering", "verse_ref": "Luke 9:62", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "In life and death", "verse_ref": "Romans 14:8", "verse_text": "For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's." }, { "point_text": "In life and death", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:20", "verse_text": "According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE EXHIBITED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Loving God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 6:5", "verse_text": "And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." }, { "point_text": "Loving God", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:27", "verse_text": "And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself." }, { "point_text": "Serving God", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 12:24", "verse_text": "Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you." }, { "point_text": "Serving God", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:11", "verse_text": "Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;" }, { "point_text": "Walking worthy of God", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:12", "verse_text": "That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory." }, { "point_text": "Doing all to God's glory", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:31", "verse_text": "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God." }, { "point_text": "Bearing the cross", "verse_ref": "Mark 8:34", "verse_text": "And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me." }, { "point_text": "Self-denial", "verse_ref": "Mark 8:34", "verse_text": "And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me." }, { "point_text": "Living to Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:15", "verse_text": "And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again." }, { "point_text": "Giving up all for Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:21", "verse_text": "Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me." }, { "point_text": "Giving up all for Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:28-29", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life." }, { "point_text": "Want of, condemned", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:16", "verse_text": "So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoshua, \nPeter, Andrew, James, John, \nJoanna, &c., \nPaul, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus,", "verse_ref": "Joshua 24:15", "verse_text": "And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoshua, \nPeter, Andrew, James, John, \nJoanna, &c., \nPaul, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:20-22", "verse_text": "And they straightway left their nets, and followed him. 21 And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them. 22 And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoshua, \nPeter, Andrew, James, John, \nJoanna, &c., \nPaul, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus,", "verse_ref": "Luke 8:3", "verse_text": "And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoshua, \nPeter, Andrew, James, John, \nJoanna, &c., \nPaul, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus,", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:21", "verse_text": "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoshua, \nPeter, Andrew, James, John, \nJoanna, &c., \nPaul, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus,", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:19-22", "verse_text": "But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state. 20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state. 21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's. 22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoshua, \nPeter, Andrew, James, John, \nJoanna, &c., \nPaul, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus,", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:30", "verse_text": "Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me." } ] }, { "name": "Discipline of the Church", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Discipline-of-the-Church.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Ministers authorized to establish", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:19", "verse_text": "And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." }, { "point_text": "Ministers authorized to establish", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:18", "verse_text": "Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." }, { "point_text": "CONSISTS IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Maintaining sound doctrine", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:3", "verse_text": "As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine," }, { "point_text": "Maintaining sound doctrine", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:13", "verse_text": "This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;" }, { "point_text": "Ordering its affairs", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:34", "verse_text": "And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come." }, { "point_text": "Ordering its affairs", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:5", "verse_text": "For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:" }, { "point_text": "Rebuking offenders", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:20", "verse_text": "Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear." }, { "point_text": "Rebuking offenders", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:2", "verse_text": "Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine." }, { "point_text": "Removing obstinate offenders", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 5:3-5", "verse_text": "For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Removing obstinate offenders", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 5:13", "verse_text": "But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person." }, { "point_text": "Removing obstinate offenders", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:20", "verse_text": "Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme." }, { "point_text": "Should be submitted to", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:17", "verse_text": "Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you." }, { "point_text": "Is for edification", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 10:8", "verse_text": "For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:" }, { "point_text": "Is for edification", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 13:10", "verse_text": "Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction." }, { "point_text": "Decency and order, the objects of", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:40", "verse_text": "Let all things be done decently and in order." }, { "point_text": "Exercise, in a spirit of charity", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:6-8", "verse_text": "Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: 8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory." }, { "point_text": "Prohibits women preaching", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:34", "verse_text": "Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law." }, { "point_text": "Prohibits women preaching", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:12", "verse_text": "But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence." } ] }, { "name": "Diet of the Jews, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Diet-of-the-Jews-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "In patriarchal age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:7", "verse_text": "And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it." }, { "point_text": "In patriarchal age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:4", "verse_text": "And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die." }, { "point_text": "In Egypt", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:3", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger." }, { "point_text": "In Egypt", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:5", "verse_text": "We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:" }, { "point_text": "In the wilderness", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:4-12", "verse_text": "Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no. 5 And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily. 6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out from the land of Egypt: 7 And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the LORD; for that he heareth your murmurings against the LORD: and what are we, that ye murmur against us? ..." }, { "point_text": "Of the poor, frugal", "verse_ref": "Ruth 2:14", "verse_text": "And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left." }, { "point_text": "Of the poor, frugal", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:17", "verse_text": "Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith." }, { "point_text": "Of the rich, luxurious", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:1-3", "verse_text": "When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: 2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. 3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat." }, { "point_text": "Of the rich, luxurious", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 4:5", "verse_text": "They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills." }, { "point_text": "Of the rich, luxurious", "verse_ref": "Amos 6:4-5", "verse_text": "That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; 5 That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;" }, { "point_text": "ARTICLES USED FOR;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Milk", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:12", "verse_text": "His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk." }, { "point_text": "Milk", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:27", "verse_text": "And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens." }, { "point_text": "Butter", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:14", "verse_text": "Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape." }, { "point_text": "Butter", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 17:29", "verse_text": "And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "Cheese", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:18", "verse_text": "And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge." }, { "point_text": "Cheese", "verse_ref": "Job 10:10", "verse_text": "Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?" }, { "point_text": "Bread", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:5", "verse_text": "And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said." }, { "point_text": "Bread", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:17", "verse_text": "And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren;" }, { "point_text": "Parched corn", "verse_ref": "Ruth 2:14", "verse_text": "And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left." }, { "point_text": "Parched corn", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:17", "verse_text": "And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren;" }, { "point_text": "Flesh", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 6:19", "verse_text": "And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine. So all the people departed every one to his house." }, { "point_text": "Flesh", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 9:2", "verse_text": "She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table." }, { "point_text": "Fish", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:10", "verse_text": "Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?" }, { "point_text": "Fish", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:42", "verse_text": "And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb." }, { "point_text": "Herbs", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:17", "verse_text": "Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith." }, { "point_text": "Herbs", "verse_ref": "Romans 14:2", "verse_text": "For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs." }, { "point_text": "Herbs", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:7", "verse_text": "For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:" }, { "point_text": "Fruit", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 16:2", "verse_text": "And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink." }, { "point_text": "Dried fruit", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:18", "verse_text": "Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses." }, { "point_text": "Dried fruit", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 30:12", "verse_text": "And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights." }, { "point_text": "Honey", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:1", "verse_text": "I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved." }, { "point_text": "Honey", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:15", "verse_text": "Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good." }, { "point_text": "Oil", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:17", "verse_text": "Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:" }, { "point_text": "Oil", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:17", "verse_text": "He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich." }, { "point_text": "Oil", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:13", "verse_text": "Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom." }, { "point_text": "Vinegar", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:3", "verse_text": "He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried." }, { "point_text": "Vinegar", "verse_ref": "Ruth 2:14", "verse_text": "And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left." }, { "point_text": "Wine", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 6:19", "verse_text": "And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine. So all the people departed every one to his house." }, { "point_text": "Wine", "verse_ref": "John 2:3", "verse_text": "And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine." }, { "point_text": "Wine", "verse_ref": "John 2:10", "verse_text": "And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now." }, { "point_text": "Water", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:14", "verse_text": "And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba." }, { "point_text": "Water", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:42", "verse_text": "And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward." }, { "point_text": "Expressed by bread and water", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 13:9", "verse_text": "For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest." }, { "point_text": "Expressed by bread and water", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 13:16", "verse_text": "And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:" }, { "point_text": "Generally prepared by females", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:9", "verse_text": "Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:" }, { "point_text": "Generally prepared by females", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:15", "verse_text": "She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens." }, { "point_text": "Generally prepared by females", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:13", "verse_text": "Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread." }, { "point_text": "WAS TAKEN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In the morning, sparingly", "verse_ref": "Judges 19:5", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early in the morning, that he rose up to depart: and the damsel's father said unto his son in law, Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward go your way." }, { "point_text": "In the morning, sparingly", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 10:16-17", "verse_text": "Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning! 17 Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!" }, { "point_text": "At noon", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:16", "verse_text": "And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready; for these men shall dine with me at noon." }, { "point_text": "At noon", "verse_ref": "John 4:6", "verse_text": "Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour." }, { "point_text": "At noon", "verse_ref": "John 4:8", "verse_text": "(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)" }, { "point_text": "In the evening", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:11", "verse_text": "And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water." }, { "point_text": "In the evening", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:33", "verse_text": "And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on." }, { "point_text": "Often sitting", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:19", "verse_text": "And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me." }, { "point_text": "Often sitting", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:33", "verse_text": "And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another." }, { "point_text": "Often reclining", "verse_ref": "Amos 6:4", "verse_text": "That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;" }, { "point_text": "Often reclining", "verse_ref": "John 13:23", "verse_text": "Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved." }, { "point_text": "With the hand", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:23", "verse_text": "And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me." }, { "point_text": "With the hand", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:21", "verse_text": "But, behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table." }, { "point_text": "Thanks given before", "verse_ref": "Mark 8:6", "verse_text": "And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people." }, { "point_text": "Thanks given before", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:35", "verse_text": "And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: and when he had broken it, he began to eat." }, { "point_text": "Purification before", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 3:11", "verse_text": "But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD, that we may inquire of the LORD by him? And one of the king of Israel's servants answered and said, Here is Elisha the son of Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of Elijah." }, { "point_text": "Purification before", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:2", "verse_text": "Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread." }, { "point_text": "A hymn sung after", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:30", "verse_text": "And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives." }, { "point_text": "Men and women did not partake of, together", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:8-9", "verse_text": "And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat. 9 And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent." }, { "point_text": "Articles of, often sent as presents", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:18", "verse_text": "And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge." }, { "point_text": "Articles of, often sent as presents", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:18", "verse_text": "Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses." }, { "point_text": "Articles of, often sent as presents", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:27", "verse_text": "And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord." }, { "point_text": "Articles of, often sent as presents", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 16:1-2", "verse_text": "And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine. 2 And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink." }, { "point_text": "In patriarchal age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:7", "verse_text": "And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it." }, { "point_text": "In patriarchal age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:4", "verse_text": "And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die." }, { "point_text": "In Egypt", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:3", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger." }, { "point_text": "In Egypt", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:5", "verse_text": "We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:" }, { "point_text": "In the wilderness", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:4-12", "verse_text": "Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no. 5 And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily. 6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out from the land of Egypt: 7 And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the LORD; for that he heareth your murmurings against the LORD: and what are we, that ye murmur against us? ..." }, { "point_text": "Of the poor, frugal", "verse_ref": "Ruth 2:14", "verse_text": "And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left." }, { "point_text": "Of the poor, frugal", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:17", "verse_text": "Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith." }, { "point_text": "Of the rich, luxurious", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:1-3", "verse_text": "When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: 2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. 3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat." }, { "point_text": "Of the rich, luxurious", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 4:5", "verse_text": "They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills." }, { "point_text": "Of the rich, luxurious", "verse_ref": "Amos 6:4-5", "verse_text": "That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; 5 That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;" }, { "point_text": "ARTICLES USED FOR;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Milk", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:12", "verse_text": "His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk." }, { "point_text": "Milk", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:27", "verse_text": "And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens." }, { "point_text": "Butter", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:14", "verse_text": "Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape." }, { "point_text": "Butter", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 17:29", "verse_text": "And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "Cheese", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:18", "verse_text": "And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge." }, { "point_text": "Cheese", "verse_ref": "Job 10:10", "verse_text": "Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?" }, { "point_text": "Bread", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:5", "verse_text": "And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said." }, { "point_text": "Bread", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:17", "verse_text": "And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren;" }, { "point_text": "Parched corn", "verse_ref": "Ruth 2:14", "verse_text": "And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left." }, { "point_text": "Parched corn", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:17", "verse_text": "And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren;" }, { "point_text": "Flesh", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 6:19", "verse_text": "And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine. So all the people departed every one to his house." }, { "point_text": "Flesh", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 9:2", "verse_text": "She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table." }, { "point_text": "Fish", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:10", "verse_text": "Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?" }, { "point_text": "Fish", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:42", "verse_text": "And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb." }, { "point_text": "Herbs", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:17", "verse_text": "Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith." }, { "point_text": "Herbs", "verse_ref": "Romans 14:2", "verse_text": "For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs." }, { "point_text": "Herbs", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:7", "verse_text": "For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:" }, { "point_text": "Fruit", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 16:2", "verse_text": "And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink." }, { "point_text": "Dried fruit", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:18", "verse_text": "Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses." }, { "point_text": "Dried fruit", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 30:12", "verse_text": "And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights." }, { "point_text": "Honey", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:1", "verse_text": "I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved." }, { "point_text": "Honey", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:15", "verse_text": "Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good." }, { "point_text": "Oil", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:17", "verse_text": "Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:" }, { "point_text": "Oil", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:17", "verse_text": "He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich." }, { "point_text": "Oil", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:13", "verse_text": "Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom." }, { "point_text": "Vinegar", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:3", "verse_text": "He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried." }, { "point_text": "Vinegar", "verse_ref": "Ruth 2:14", "verse_text": "And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left." }, { "point_text": "Wine", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 6:19", "verse_text": "And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine. So all the people departed every one to his house." }, { "point_text": "Wine", "verse_ref": "John 2:3", "verse_text": "And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine." }, { "point_text": "Wine", "verse_ref": "John 2:10", "verse_text": "And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now." }, { "point_text": "Water", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:14", "verse_text": "And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba." }, { "point_text": "Water", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:42", "verse_text": "And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward." }, { "point_text": "Expressed by bread and water", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 13:9", "verse_text": "For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest." }, { "point_text": "Expressed by bread and water", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 13:16", "verse_text": "And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:" }, { "point_text": "Generally prepared by females", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:9", "verse_text": "Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:" }, { "point_text": "Generally prepared by females", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:15", "verse_text": "She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens." }, { "point_text": "Generally prepared by females", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:13", "verse_text": "Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread." }, { "point_text": "WAS TAKEN", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "In the morning, sparingly", "verse_ref": "Judges 19:5", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early in the morning, that he rose up to depart: and the damsel's father said unto his son in law, Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward go your way." }, { "point_text": "In the morning, sparingly", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 10:16-17", "verse_text": "Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning! 17 Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!" }, { "point_text": "At noon", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:16", "verse_text": "And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready; for these men shall dine with me at noon." }, { "point_text": "At noon", "verse_ref": "John 4:6", "verse_text": "Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour." }, { "point_text": "At noon", "verse_ref": "John 4:8", "verse_text": "(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)" }, { "point_text": "In the evening", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:11", "verse_text": "And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water." }, { "point_text": "In the evening", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:33", "verse_text": "And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on." }, { "point_text": "Often sitting", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:19", "verse_text": "And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me." }, { "point_text": "Often sitting", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:33", "verse_text": "And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another." }, { "point_text": "Often reclining", "verse_ref": "Amos 6:4", "verse_text": "That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;" }, { "point_text": "Often reclining", "verse_ref": "John 13:23", "verse_text": "Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved." }, { "point_text": "With the hand", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:23", "verse_text": "And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me." }, { "point_text": "With the hand", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:21", "verse_text": "But, behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table." }, { "point_text": "Thanks given before", "verse_ref": "Mark 8:6", "verse_text": "And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people." }, { "point_text": "Thanks given before", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:35", "verse_text": "And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: and when he had broken it, he began to eat." }, { "point_text": "Purification before", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 3:11", "verse_text": "But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD, that we may inquire of the LORD by him? And one of the king of Israel's servants answered and said, Here is Elisha the son of Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of Elijah." }, { "point_text": "Purification before", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:2", "verse_text": "Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread." }, { "point_text": "A hymn sung after", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:30", "verse_text": "And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives." }, { "point_text": "Men and women did not partake of, together", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:8-9", "verse_text": "And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat. 9 And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent." }, { "point_text": "Articles of, often sent as presents", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:18", "verse_text": "And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge." }, { "point_text": "Articles of, often sent as presents", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:18", "verse_text": "Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses." }, { "point_text": "Articles of, often sent as presents", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:27", "verse_text": "And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord." }, { "point_text": "Articles of, often sent as presents", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 16:1-2", "verse_text": "And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine. 2 And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink." } ] }, { "name": "Diligence", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Diligence.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Christ, an example", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:35", "verse_text": "And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed." }, { "point_text": "Christ, an example", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:49", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?" }, { "point_text": "REQUIRED BY GOD IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Seeking him", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 22:19", "verse_text": "Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Seeking him", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:6", "verse_text": "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." }, { "point_text": "Obeying him", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 6:17", "verse_text": "Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee." }, { "point_text": "Obeying him", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:13", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul," }, { "point_text": "Hearkening to Him", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 55:2", "verse_text": "Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness." }, { "point_text": "Striving after perfection", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:13-14", "verse_text": "Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Cultivating Christian graces", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:5", "verse_text": "And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;" }, { "point_text": "Keeping the soul", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:9", "verse_text": "Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;" }, { "point_text": "Keeping the heart", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 4:23", "verse_text": "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life." }, { "point_text": "Labors of love", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:10-12", "verse_text": "For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. 11 And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: 12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises." }, { "point_text": "Following every good work", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:10", "verse_text": "Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work." }, { "point_text": "Guarding against defilement", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:15", "verse_text": "Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;" }, { "point_text": "Seeking to be found spotless", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:14", "verse_text": "Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless." }, { "point_text": "Making our call, &c., sure", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:10", "verse_text": "Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:" }, { "point_text": "Self-examination", "verse_ref": "Psalm 77:6", "verse_text": "I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search." }, { "point_text": "Lawful business", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:23", "verse_text": "Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds." }, { "point_text": "Lawful business", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 9:10", "verse_text": "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest." }, { "point_text": "Teaching religion", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:2", "verse_text": "Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine." }, { "point_text": "Teaching religion", "verse_ref": "Jude 3", "verse_text": "Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints." }, { "point_text": "Instructing children", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 6:7", "verse_text": "And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." }, { "point_text": "Instructing children", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:19", "verse_text": "And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." }, { "point_text": "Discharging official duties", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 19:18", "verse_text": "And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;" }, { "point_text": "Saints should abound in", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:7", "verse_text": "Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also." }, { "point_text": "IN THE SERVICE OF GOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Should be preserved in", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:9", "verse_text": "And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." }, { "point_text": "Is not in vain", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:58", "verse_text": "Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Preserves from evil", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:26", "verse_text": "And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee." }, { "point_text": "Leads to assured hope", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:11", "verse_text": "And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:" }, { "point_text": "God rewards", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:14", "verse_text": "That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil." }, { "point_text": "God rewards", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:6", "verse_text": "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." }, { "point_text": "IN TEMPORAL MATTERS, LEADS TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Favor", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:27", "verse_text": "He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him." }, { "point_text": "Prosperity", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:4", "verse_text": "He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich." }, { "point_text": "Prosperity", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 13:4", "verse_text": "The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat." }, { "point_text": "Honor", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:24", "verse_text": "The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute." }, { "point_text": "Honor", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:29", "verse_text": "Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:6-8", "verse_text": "Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: 7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, 8 Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nRuth, \nHezekiah, \nNehemiah, &c., \nPsalmist, \nApostles, \nApollos, \nTitus, \nPaul, \nOnesiphorus,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:40", "verse_text": "Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nRuth, \nHezekiah, \nNehemiah, &c., \nPsalmist, \nApostles, \nApollos, \nTitus, \nPaul, \nOnesiphorus,", "verse_ref": "Ruth 2:17", "verse_text": "So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nRuth, \nHezekiah, \nNehemiah, &c., \nPsalmist, \nApostles, \nApollos, \nTitus, \nPaul, \nOnesiphorus,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:21", "verse_text": "And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nRuth, \nHezekiah, \nNehemiah, &c., \nPsalmist, \nApostles, \nApollos, \nTitus, \nPaul, \nOnesiphorus,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 4:6", "verse_text": "So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nRuth, \nHezekiah, \nNehemiah, &c., \nPsalmist, \nApostles, \nApollos, \nTitus, \nPaul, \nOnesiphorus,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:60", "verse_text": "I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nRuth, \nHezekiah, \nNehemiah, &c., \nPsalmist, \nApostles, \nApollos, \nTitus, \nPaul, \nOnesiphorus,", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:42", "verse_text": "And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nRuth, \nHezekiah, \nNehemiah, &c., \nPsalmist, \nApostles, \nApollos, \nTitus, \nPaul, \nOnesiphorus,", "verse_ref": "Acts 18:25", "verse_text": "This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nRuth, \nHezekiah, \nNehemiah, &c., \nPsalmist, \nApostles, \nApollos, \nTitus, \nPaul, \nOnesiphorus,", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:22", "verse_text": "And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nRuth, \nHezekiah, \nNehemiah, &c., \nPsalmist, \nApostles, \nApollos, \nTitus, \nPaul, \nOnesiphorus,", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:9", "verse_text": "For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nRuth, \nHezekiah, \nNehemiah, &c., \nPsalmist, \nApostles, \nApollos, \nTitus, \nPaul, \nOnesiphorus,", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:17", "verse_text": "But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me." } ] }, { "name": "Disobedience to God", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Disobedience-to-God.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Provokes His anger", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:10", "verse_text": "They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;" }, { "point_text": "Provokes His anger", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:40", "verse_text": "How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!" }, { "point_text": "Forfeits His favor", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:14", "verse_text": "But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee." }, { "point_text": "Forfeits His promised blessings", "verse_ref": "Joshua 5:6", "verse_text": "For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey." }, { "point_text": "Forfeits His promised blessings", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:30", "verse_text": "Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed." }, { "point_text": "Forfeits His promised blessings", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 18:10", "verse_text": "If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them." }, { "point_text": "Brings a curse.\r\n\n\r\n, &c", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:28", "verse_text": "And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known." }, { "point_text": "Brings a curse.\r\n\n\r\n, &c", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:15-68", "verse_text": "But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: 16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. ..." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:2", "verse_text": "Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:" }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:16", "verse_text": "They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:3", "verse_text": "For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another." }, { "point_text": "The wicked persevere in", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:21", "verse_text": "Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?" }, { "point_text": "Heinousness of, illustrated.\r\n\r\n, &c", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 35:14-19", "verse_text": "The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father's commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me. 15 I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me. 16 Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but this people hath not hearkened unto me: 17 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken unto them, but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered. ..." }, { "point_text": "Men prone to excuse", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:12-13", "verse_text": "And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. 13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat." }, { "point_text": "Shall be punished", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:24-25", "verse_text": "Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law. 25 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart." }, { "point_text": "Acknowledge the punishment of, to be just", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:32-33", "verse_text": "Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day. 33 Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:" }, { "point_text": "Warnings against", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 12:15", "verse_text": "But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as it was against your fathers." }, { "point_text": "Warnings against", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 12:17", "verse_text": "But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Bitter results of, illustrated", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:13", "verse_text": "And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;" }, { "point_text": "Bitter results of, illustrated", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:15", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam and Eve, \n\nPharaoh, \nNadab, &c., \nMoses, &c., \n\n\nSaul, \nThe prophet, \nIsrael, \nJonah,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:6", "verse_text": "And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam and Eve, \n\nPharaoh, \nNadab, &c., \nMoses, &c., \n\n\nSaul, \nThe prophet, \nIsrael, \nJonah,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:11", "verse_text": "And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam and Eve, \n\nPharaoh, \nNadab, &c., \nMoses, &c., \n\n\nSaul, \nThe prophet, \nIsrael, \nJonah,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 5:2", "verse_text": "And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam and Eve, \n\nPharaoh, \nNadab, &c., \nMoses, &c., \n\n\nSaul, \nThe prophet, \nIsrael, \nJonah,", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 10:1", "verse_text": "And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam and Eve, \n\nPharaoh, \nNadab, &c., \nMoses, &c., \n\n\nSaul, \nThe prophet, \nIsrael, \nJonah,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:8", "verse_text": "Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam and Eve, \n\nPharaoh, \nNadab, &c., \nMoses, &c., \n\n\nSaul, \nThe prophet, \nIsrael, \nJonah,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:11", "verse_text": "And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam and Eve, \n\nPharaoh, \nNadab, &c., \nMoses, &c., \n\n\nSaul, \nThe prophet, \nIsrael, \nJonah,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:24", "verse_text": "Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam and Eve, \n\nPharaoh, \nNadab, &c., \nMoses, &c., \n\n\nSaul, \nThe prophet, \nIsrael, \nJonah,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 28:18", "verse_text": "Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto thee this day." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam and Eve, \n\nPharaoh, \nNadab, &c., \nMoses, &c., \n\n\nSaul, \nThe prophet, \nIsrael, \nJonah,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 13:20-23", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back: 21 And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee, 22 But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which the LORD did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers. 23 And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam and Eve, \n\nPharaoh, \nNadab, &c., \nMoses, &c., \n\n\nSaul, \nThe prophet, \nIsrael, \nJonah,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:9-12", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it. 10 And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. 11 And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes: 12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam and Eve, \n\nPharaoh, \nNadab, &c., \nMoses, &c., \n\n\nSaul, \nThe prophet, \nIsrael, \nJonah,", "verse_ref": "Jonah 1:2-3", "verse_text": "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. 3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD." } ] }, { "name": "Diseases", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Diseases.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Often sent as punishment", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:21", "verse_text": "The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it." }, { "point_text": "Often sent as punishment", "verse_ref": "John 5:14", "verse_text": "Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Often brought from other countries", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:15", "verse_text": "And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee." }, { "point_text": "Often through Satan", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 16:14-16", "verse_text": "But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him. 15 And Saul's servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee. 16 Let our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well." }, { "point_text": "Often through Satan", "verse_ref": "Job 2:7", "verse_text": "So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown." }, { "point_text": "Regarded as visitations", "verse_ref": "Job 2:7-10", "verse_text": "So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. 8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes. 9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. 10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips." }, { "point_text": "Regarded as visitations", "verse_ref": "Psalm 38:2", "verse_text": "For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore." }, { "point_text": "Regarded as visitations", "verse_ref": "Psalm 38:7", "verse_text": "For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh." }, { "point_text": "Intemperance a cause of", "verse_ref": "Hosea 7:5", "verse_text": "In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners." }, { "point_text": "Sins of youth a cause of", "verse_ref": "Job 20:11", "verse_text": "His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust." }, { "point_text": "Over-excitement a cause of", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:27", "verse_text": "And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it." }, { "point_text": "Were many and divers", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:24", "verse_text": "And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them." }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Ague", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:16", "verse_text": "I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it." }, { "point_text": "Abscess", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:7", "verse_text": "And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered." }, { "point_text": "Atrophy", "verse_ref": "Job 16:8", "verse_text": "And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face." }, { "point_text": "Atrophy", "verse_ref": "Job 19:20", "verse_text": "My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth." }, { "point_text": "Blindness", "verse_ref": "Job 29:15", "verse_text": "I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame." }, { "point_text": "Blindness", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:27", "verse_text": "And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou Son of David, have mercy on us." }, { "point_text": "Boils and blains", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:10", "verse_text": "And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast." }, { "point_text": "Consumption", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:16", "verse_text": "I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it." }, { "point_text": "Consumption", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:22", "verse_text": "The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish." }, { "point_text": "Demoniacal possession", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:22", "verse_text": "And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil." }, { "point_text": "Demoniacal possession", "verse_ref": "Mark 5:15", "verse_text": "And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid." }, { "point_text": "Deafness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 38:13", "verse_text": "But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth." }, { "point_text": "Deafness", "verse_ref": "Mark 7:32", "verse_text": "And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him." }, { "point_text": "Debility", "verse_ref": "Psalm 102:23", "verse_text": "He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days." }, { "point_text": "Debility", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 7:17", "verse_text": "All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water." }, { "point_text": "Dropsy", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:2", "verse_text": "And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy." }, { "point_text": "Dumbness", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:8", "verse_text": "Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction." }, { "point_text": "Dumbness", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:32", "verse_text": "As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil." }, { "point_text": "Dysentery", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 21:12-19", "verse_text": "And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah, 13 But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were better than thyself: 14 Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods: 15 And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day. ..." }, { "point_text": "Dysentery", "verse_ref": "Acts 28:8", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him." }, { "point_text": "Emerods", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:27", "verse_text": "The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed." }, { "point_text": "Emerods", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 5:6", "verse_text": "But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof." }, { "point_text": "Emerods", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 5:12", "verse_text": "And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven." }, { "point_text": "Fever", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:22", "verse_text": "The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish." }, { "point_text": "Fever", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:14", "verse_text": "And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever." }, { "point_text": "Impediment speech", "verse_ref": "Mark 7:32", "verse_text": "And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him." }, { "point_text": "Itch", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:27", "verse_text": "The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed." }, { "point_text": "Inflammation", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:22", "verse_text": "The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish." }, { "point_text": "Issue of blood", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:20", "verse_text": "And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:" }, { "point_text": "Lameness", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 4:4", "verse_text": "And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth." }, { "point_text": "Lameness", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 16:12", "verse_text": "And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians." }, { "point_text": "Leprosy", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:2", "verse_text": "When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests:" }, { "point_text": "Leprosy", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:1", "verse_text": "Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper." }, { "point_text": "Loss of appetite", "verse_ref": "Job 33:20", "verse_text": "So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat." }, { "point_text": "Loss of appetite", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:18", "verse_text": "Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death." }, { "point_text": "Lunacy", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:24", "verse_text": "And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them." }, { "point_text": "Lunacy", "verse_ref": "Matthew 17:15", "verse_text": "Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water." }, { "point_text": "Melancholy", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 16:14", "verse_text": "But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him." }, { "point_text": "Palsy", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:6", "verse_text": "And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented." }, { "point_text": "Palsy", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:2", "verse_text": "And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee." }, { "point_text": "Plague", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:33", "verse_text": "And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague." }, { "point_text": "Plague", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:15", "verse_text": "So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men." }, { "point_text": "Plague", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:21", "verse_text": "And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people." }, { "point_text": "Plague", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:25", "verse_text": "And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel." }, { "point_text": "Scab", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:27", "verse_text": "The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed." }, { "point_text": "Sunstroke", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:18-20", "verse_text": "And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers. 19 And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother. 20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died." }, { "point_text": "Sunstroke", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:10", "verse_text": "They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them." }, { "point_text": "Ulcers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:6", "verse_text": "From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment." }, { "point_text": "Ulcers", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:20", "verse_text": "And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores," }, { "point_text": "Worms", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:23", "verse_text": "And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost." }, { "point_text": "Children subject to", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:15", "verse_text": "And Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick." }, { "point_text": "Children subject to", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 17:17", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him." }, { "point_text": "FREQUENTLY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Loathsome", "verse_ref": "Psalm 38:7", "verse_text": "For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh." }, { "point_text": "Loathsome", "verse_ref": "Psalm 41:8", "verse_text": "An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more." }, { "point_text": "Painful", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 21:15", "verse_text": "And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day." }, { "point_text": "Painful", "verse_ref": "Job 33:19", "verse_text": "He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:" }, { "point_text": "Tedious", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:59", "verse_text": "Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance." }, { "point_text": "Tedious", "verse_ref": "John 5:5", "verse_text": "And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years." }, { "point_text": "Tedious", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:16", "verse_text": "And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?" }, { "point_text": "Complicated", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:60-61", "verse_text": "Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee. 61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed." }, { "point_text": "Incurable", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 21:18", "verse_text": "And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease." }, { "point_text": "Incurable", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:19", "verse_text": "Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!" }, { "point_text": "Physicians undertook the cure of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:22", "verse_text": "Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?" }, { "point_text": "Physicians undertook the cure of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:12", "verse_text": "But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick." }, { "point_text": "Physicians undertook the cure of", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:23", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country." }, { "point_text": "Medicine used for curing", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:22", "verse_text": "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones." }, { "point_text": "Medicine used for curing", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:6", "verse_text": "From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment." }, { "point_text": "Art of curing, defective", "verse_ref": "Job 13:4", "verse_text": "But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value." }, { "point_text": "Art of curing, defective", "verse_ref": "Mark 5:26", "verse_text": "And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse," }, { "point_text": "God often entreated to cure", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:16", "verse_text": "David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "God often entreated to cure", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:1-3", "verse_text": "In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live. 2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying, 3 I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore." }, { "point_text": "God often entreated to cure", "verse_ref": "Psalm 6:2", "verse_text": "Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed." }, { "point_text": "God often entreated to cure", "verse_ref": "James 5:14", "verse_text": "Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:" }, { "point_text": "Not looking to God in, condemned", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 16:12", "verse_text": "And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians." }, { "point_text": "THOSE AFFLICTED WITH,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Anointed", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:13", "verse_text": "And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them." }, { "point_text": "Anointed", "verse_ref": "James 5:14", "verse_text": "Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:" }, { "point_text": "Often laid in the streets to receive advice from passers by", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:56", "verse_text": "And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole." }, { "point_text": "Often laid in the streets to receive advice from passers by", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:15", "verse_text": "Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them." }, { "point_text": "Often divinely supported", "verse_ref": "Psalm 41:3", "verse_text": "The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness." }, { "point_text": "Often divinely cured", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:5", "verse_text": "Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Often divinely cured", "verse_ref": "James 5:15", "verse_text": "And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him." }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of sin", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:5", "verse_text": "Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint." } ] }, { "name": "Divination", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Divination.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "An abominable practice", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:23", "verse_text": "For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king." }, { "point_text": "All who practised it, abominable", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:12", "verse_text": "For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee." }, { "point_text": "PRACTISED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Diviners", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:14", "verse_text": "For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do." }, { "point_text": "Enchanters", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:10", "verse_text": "There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch," }, { "point_text": "Enchanters", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:9", "verse_text": "Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:" }, { "point_text": "Witches", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:18", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." }, { "point_text": "Witches", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:10", "verse_text": "There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch," }, { "point_text": "Charmers", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:11", "verse_text": "Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer." }, { "point_text": "Wizards", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:11", "verse_text": "Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer." }, { "point_text": "Wizards", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 28:3", "verse_text": "Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land." }, { "point_text": "Consulters of familiar spirits", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:11", "verse_text": "Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer." }, { "point_text": "Magicians", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:8", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh." }, { "point_text": "Magicians", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:7", "verse_text": "Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof." }, { "point_text": "Astrologers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 47:13", "verse_text": "Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee." }, { "point_text": "Astrologers", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:7", "verse_text": "Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof." }, { "point_text": "Sorcerers", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:9", "verse_text": "Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:" }, { "point_text": "Sorcerers", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:6", "verse_text": "And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus:" }, { "point_text": "Sorcerers", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:8", "verse_text": "But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith." }, { "point_text": "Necromancers", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:11", "verse_text": "Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer." }, { "point_text": "Soothsayers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:6", "verse_text": "Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers." }, { "point_text": "Soothsayers", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:27", "verse_text": "Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king;" }, { "point_text": "False prophets", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:14", "verse_text": "Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart." }, { "point_text": "False prophets", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 13:3", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!" }, { "point_text": "False prophets", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 13:6", "verse_text": "They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word." }, { "point_text": "EFFECTED THROUGH", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Enchantments", "verse_ref": "Exodus 7:11", "verse_text": "Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments." }, { "point_text": "Enchantments", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:1", "verse_text": "And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "Sorcery", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 47:12", "verse_text": "Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail." }, { "point_text": "Sorcery", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:11", "verse_text": "And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries." }, { "point_text": "Observing times", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 21:6", "verse_text": "And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger." }, { "point_text": "Observing heavenly bodies.\r\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 37:13", "verse_text": "Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?" }, { "point_text": "Raising the dead", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 28:11-12", "verse_text": "Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel. 12 And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice: and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul." }, { "point_text": "Inspecting the inside of beasts", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 21:21", "verse_text": "For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver." }, { "point_text": "The flight of arrows", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 21:21-22", "verse_text": "For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver. 22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort." }, { "point_text": "Cups", "verse_ref": "Genesis 44:2", "verse_text": "And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken." }, { "point_text": "Cups", "verse_ref": "Genesis 44:5", "verse_text": "Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing." }, { "point_text": "Rods", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:12", "verse_text": "My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God." }, { "point_text": "Dreams", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 29:8", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed." }, { "point_text": "Dreams", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 10:2", "verse_text": "For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd." }, { "point_text": "Connected with idolatry", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:5-6", "verse_text": "And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. 6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger." }, { "point_text": "Books of, numerous and expensive", "verse_ref": "Acts 19:19", "verse_text": "Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver." }, { "point_text": "A lucrative employment", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:7", "verse_text": "And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak." }, { "point_text": "A lucrative employment", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:16", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:" }, { "point_text": "THOSE WHO PRACTISED,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Regarded as wise men", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:12", "verse_text": "For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon." }, { "point_text": "Regarded as wise men", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:27", "verse_text": "Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king;" }, { "point_text": "Regarded with awe", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:9", "verse_text": "But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:" }, { "point_text": "Regarded with awe", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:11", "verse_text": "And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries." }, { "point_text": "Consulted in difficulties", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:2", "verse_text": "Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king." }, { "point_text": "Consulted in difficulties", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:6-7", "verse_text": "Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream. 7 Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof." }, { "point_text": "Used mysterious words and gestures", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:19", "verse_text": "And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?" }, { "point_text": "A system of fraud", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 13:6-7", "verse_text": "They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word. 7 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith it; albeit I have not spoken?" }, { "point_text": "Frustrated by God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:25", "verse_text": "That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;" }, { "point_text": "Could not injure the Lord's people", "verse_ref": "Numbers 23:23", "verse_text": "Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!" }, { "point_text": "THE LAW", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Forbade to the Israelites the practice of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:26", "verse_text": "Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times." }, { "point_text": "Forbade to the Israelites the practice of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:10-11", "verse_text": "There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer." }, { "point_text": "Forbade seeking to", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:31", "verse_text": "Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "Forbade seeking to", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:14", "verse_text": "For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do." }, { "point_text": "Punished with death those who used", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:18", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." }, { "point_text": "Punished with death those who used", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 20:27", "verse_text": "A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them." }, { "point_text": "Punished those who sought to", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 20:6", "verse_text": "And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people." }, { "point_text": "The Jews prone to", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:17", "verse_text": "And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger." }, { "point_text": "The Jews prone to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:6", "verse_text": "Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers." } ] }, { "name": "Divisions", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Divisions.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Forbidden in the church", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:10", "verse_text": "Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment." }, { "point_text": "Condemned in the church", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:11-13", "verse_text": "For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. 12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. 13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?" }, { "point_text": "Condemned in the church", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:18", "verse_text": "For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it." }, { "point_text": "Unbecoming in the church", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:24-25", "verse_text": "For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: 25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another." }, { "point_text": "ARE CONTRARY TO THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Unity of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:13", "verse_text": "Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?" }, { "point_text": "Unity of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:13", "verse_text": "For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit." }, { "point_text": "Desire of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 17:21-23", "verse_text": "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me." }, { "point_text": "Purpose of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 10:16", "verse_text": "And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of the primitive church", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:16", "verse_text": "But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God." }, { "point_text": "Are proof of a carnal spirit", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:3", "verse_text": "For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?" }, { "point_text": "Avoid those who cause", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:17", "verse_text": "Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them." }, { "point_text": "Evil of, illustrated", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:25", "verse_text": "And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:" } ] }, { "name": "Divorce", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Divorce.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Law of marriage against", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:24", "verse_text": "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh." }, { "point_text": "Law of marriage against", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:6", "verse_text": "Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." }, { "point_text": "PERMITTED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "By the Mosaic law", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:1", "verse_text": "When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house." }, { "point_text": "On account of hardness of heart", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:8", "verse_text": "He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so." }, { "point_text": "Often sought by the Jews", "verse_ref": "Micah 2:9", "verse_text": "The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever." }, { "point_text": "Often sought by the Jews", "verse_ref": "Malachi 2:14", "verse_text": "Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant." }, { "point_text": "Sought on slight grounds", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:31", "verse_text": "It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:" }, { "point_text": "Sought on slight grounds", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:3", "verse_text": "The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?" }, { "point_text": "Not allowed to those who falsely accused their wives", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 22:18-19", "verse_text": "And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him; 19 And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days." }, { "point_text": "WOMEN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Could obtain", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 2:17", "verse_text": "Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God." }, { "point_text": "Could obtain", "verse_ref": "Mark 10:12", "verse_text": "And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery." }, { "point_text": "Could marry after", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:2", "verse_text": "And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife." }, { "point_text": "Responsible for vows after", "verse_ref": "Numbers 30:9", "verse_text": "But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her." }, { "point_text": "Married after, could not return to first husband", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:3-4", "verse_text": "And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife; 4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance." }, { "point_text": "Afflicted by", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:4", "verse_text": "Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more." }, { "point_text": "Afflicted by", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:6", "verse_text": "For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God." }, { "point_text": "Priests not to marry women after", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 21:14", "verse_text": "A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife." }, { "point_text": "Of servants, regulated by law", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:7", "verse_text": "And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do." }, { "point_text": "Of servants, regulated by law", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:11", "verse_text": "And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money." }, { "point_text": "Of captives, regulated by law", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 21:13-14", "verse_text": "And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. 14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her." }, { "point_text": "Forced on those who had idolatrous wives", "verse_ref": "Ezra 10:2-17", "verse_text": "And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing. 3 Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law. 4 Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be with thee: be of good courage, and do it. 5 Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word. And they sware. ..." }, { "point_text": "Forced on those who had idolatrous wives", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:23", "verse_text": "In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:" }, { "point_text": "Forced on those who had idolatrous wives", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:30", "verse_text": "Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;" }, { "point_text": "Jews condemned for love of", "verse_ref": "Malachi 2:14-16", "verse_text": "Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. 15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. 16 For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden by Christ except for adultery", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:32", "verse_text": "But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden by Christ except for adultery", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:9", "verse_text": "And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery." }, { "point_text": "Prohibition of, offended the Jews", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:10", "verse_text": "His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry." }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of God's casting off of the Jewish church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 50:1", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away." }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of God's casting off of the Jewish church", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:8", "verse_text": "And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also." } ] }, { "name": "Dragon, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Dragon-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Often of a red color", "verse_ref": "Revelation 12:3", "verse_text": "And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Powerful", "verse_ref": "Revelation 12:4", "verse_text": "And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born." }, { "point_text": "Poisonous", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:33", "verse_text": "Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps." }, { "point_text": "Of solitary habits", "verse_ref": "Job 30:29", "verse_text": "I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls." }, { "point_text": "Its mournful voice alluded to", "verse_ref": "Micah 1:8", "verse_text": "Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls." }, { "point_text": "Its wailing alluded to", "verse_ref": "Micah 1:8", "verse_text": "Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls." }, { "point_text": "Its snuffing up the air alluded to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:6", "verse_text": "And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass." }, { "point_text": "Its swallowing of its prey alluded to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:34", "verse_text": "Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out." }, { "point_text": "FOUND IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The wilderness", "verse_ref": "Malachi 1:3", "verse_text": "And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "Deserted cities", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:22", "verse_text": "And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged." }, { "point_text": "Deserted cities", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:11", "verse_text": "And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant." }, { "point_text": "Dry places", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 34:13", "verse_text": "And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls." }, { "point_text": "Dry places", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 43:20", "verse_text": "The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen." }, { "point_text": "A species of, in rivers", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:13", "verse_text": "Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters." }, { "point_text": "A species of, in rivers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 27:1", "verse_text": "In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of cruel and persecuting kings", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 27:1", "verse_text": "In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea." }, { "point_text": "Of cruel and persecuting kings", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 51:9", "verse_text": "Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?" }, { "point_text": "Of cruel and persecuting kings", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 29:3", "verse_text": "Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself." }, { "point_text": "Of enemies of the church", "verse_ref": "Psalm 91:13", "verse_text": "Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet." }, { "point_text": "Of wicked men", "verse_ref": "Psalm 44:19", "verse_text": "Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death." }, { "point_text": "Of the devil", "verse_ref": "Revelation 13:2", "verse_text": "And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority." }, { "point_text": "Of the devil", "verse_ref": "Revelation 20:2", "verse_text": "And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years," }, { "point_text": "Of the devil", "verse_ref": "Revelation 20:7", "verse_text": "And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison," }, { "point_text": "(Poison of,) of wine", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:33", "verse_text": "Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps." } ] }, { "name": "Doctrines, False", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Doctrines-False.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Destructive to faith", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:18", "verse_text": "Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some." }, { "point_text": "Hateful to God", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:14-15", "verse_text": "But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. 15 So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate." }, { "point_text": "Unprofitable and vain", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:9", "verse_text": "But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain." }, { "point_text": "Unprofitable and vain", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:9", "verse_text": "Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE AVOIDED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Ministers", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:4", "verse_text": "Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do." }, { "point_text": "Ministers", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:20", "verse_text": "O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:" }, { "point_text": "Saints", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:14", "verse_text": "That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;" }, { "point_text": "Saints", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:8", "verse_text": "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ." }, { "point_text": "All men", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:16", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "All men", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 29:8", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed." }, { "point_text": "The wicked love", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:3-4", "verse_text": "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." }, { "point_text": "The wicked given up to believe", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:11", "verse_text": "And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:" }, { "point_text": "TEACHERS OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Not to be countenanced", "verse_ref": "2 John 10", "verse_text": "If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:" }, { "point_text": "Should be avoided", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:17-18", "verse_text": "Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. 18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple." }, { "point_text": "Bring reproach on religion", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:2", "verse_text": "And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of." }, { "point_text": "Speak perverse things", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:30", "verse_text": "Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them." }, { "point_text": "Attract many", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:2", "verse_text": "And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of." }, { "point_text": "Deceive many", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:5", "verse_text": "For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many." }, { "point_text": "Shall abound in the latter days", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:1", "verse_text": "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;" }, { "point_text": "Pervert the gospel of Christ", "verse_ref": "Galatians 1:6-7", "verse_text": "I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: 7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ." }, { "point_text": "Shall be exposed", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:9", "verse_text": "But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was." }, { "point_text": "TEACHERS OF, ARE DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Cruel", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:29", "verse_text": "For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock." }, { "point_text": "Deceitful", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 11:13", "verse_text": "For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ." }, { "point_text": "Covetous", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:11", "verse_text": "Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake." }, { "point_text": "Covetous", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:3", "verse_text": "And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not." }, { "point_text": "Ungodly", "verse_ref": "Jude 4", "verse_text": "For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Ungodly", "verse_ref": "Jude 8", "verse_text": "Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities." }, { "point_text": "Proud and ignorant", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:3-4", "verse_text": "If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; 4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings," }, { "point_text": "Corrupt and reprobate", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:8", "verse_text": "Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith." }, { "point_text": "Try, by Scripture", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:20", "verse_text": "To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." }, { "point_text": "Try, by Scripture", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:1", "verse_text": "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world." }, { "point_text": "Curse on those who teach", "verse_ref": "Galatians 1:8-9", "verse_text": "But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. 9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed." }, { "point_text": "Punishment on those who teach", "verse_ref": "Micah 3:6-7", "verse_text": "Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them. 7 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God." }, { "point_text": "Punishment on those who teach", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:1", "verse_text": "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction." }, { "point_text": "Punishment on those who teach", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:3", "verse_text": "And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not." } ] }, { "name": "Dove, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Dove-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Clean and used as food", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:11", "verse_text": "Of all clean birds ye shall eat." }, { "point_text": "Offered in sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:9", "verse_text": "And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon." }, { "point_text": "Offered in sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:14", "verse_text": "And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the LORD be of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons." }, { "point_text": "Impiously sold in the court of the temple", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:12", "verse_text": "And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves," }, { "point_text": "Impiously sold in the court of the temple", "verse_ref": "John 2:16", "verse_text": "And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise." }, { "point_text": "CHARACTERIZED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Simplicity", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:16", "verse_text": "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." }, { "point_text": "Comeliness of countenance", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:14", "verse_text": "O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely." }, { "point_text": "Softness of eyes", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 1:15", "verse_text": "Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes." }, { "point_text": "Sweetness of voice", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:14", "verse_text": "O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely." }, { "point_text": "Richness of plumage", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:13", "verse_text": "Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold." }, { "point_text": "Mournful tabering of, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Nahum 2:7", "verse_text": "And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts." }, { "point_text": "Dwells in rocks", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:14", "verse_text": "O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely." }, { "point_text": "Dwells in rocks", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:28", "verse_text": "O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth." }, { "point_text": "Frequents streams and rivers", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:12", "verse_text": "His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set." }, { "point_text": "Sent from the ark by Noah", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:8", "verse_text": "Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;" }, { "point_text": "Sent from the ark by Noah", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:10", "verse_text": "And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;" }, { "point_text": "Sent from the ark by Noah", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:12", "verse_text": "And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more." }, { "point_text": "Why considered the emblem of peace", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:11", "verse_text": "And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth." }, { "point_text": "The harbinger of spring", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:12", "verse_text": "The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;" }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:16", "verse_text": "And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:" }, { "point_text": "Of the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "John 1:32", "verse_text": "And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him." }, { "point_text": "Of the meekness of Christ", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:12", "verse_text": "His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set." }, { "point_text": "Of the church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:14", "verse_text": "O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely." }, { "point_text": "Of the church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:2", "verse_text": "I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night." }, { "point_text": "Of mourners", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:14", "verse_text": "Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me." }, { "point_text": "Of mourners", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:11", "verse_text": "We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us." }, { "point_text": "Of converts to the church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:8", "verse_text": "Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?" }, { "point_text": "(In its flight,) of the return of Israel from captivity", "verse_ref": "Hosea 11:11", "verse_text": "They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the LORD." } ] }, { "name": "Dog, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Dog-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Despised by the Jews", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 3:8", "verse_text": "Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ishbosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head, which against Judah do shew kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning this woman?" }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Impatient of injury", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:17", "verse_text": "He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears." }, { "point_text": "Unclean", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:21", "verse_text": "And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores." }, { "point_text": "Unclean", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:22", "verse_text": "But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire." }, { "point_text": "Carnivorous", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 14:11", "verse_text": "Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken it." }, { "point_text": "Carnivorous", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 9:35-36", "verse_text": "And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands. 36 Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:" }, { "point_text": "Fond of blood", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:19", "verse_text": "And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine." }, { "point_text": "Fond of blood", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:38", "verse_text": "And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake." }, { "point_text": "Dangerous and destructive", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:16", "verse_text": "For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet." }, { "point_text": "Infested cities by night", "verse_ref": "Psalm 59:14-15", "verse_text": "And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city. 15 Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied." }, { "point_text": "Nothing holy to be given to", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:6", "verse_text": "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you." }, { "point_text": "Nothing holy to be given to", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:26", "verse_text": "But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs." }, { "point_text": "Things torn by beasts given to", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:31", "verse_text": "And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs." }, { "point_text": "Sacrificing of, an abomination", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:3", "verse_text": "He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations." }, { "point_text": "Price of, not to be consecrated", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:18", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God." }, { "point_text": "WHEN DOMESTICATED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Employed in watching flocks", "verse_ref": "Job 30:1", "verse_text": "But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock." }, { "point_text": "Fed with the crumbs, &c", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:27", "verse_text": "And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table." }, { "point_text": "Manner of, in drinking alluded to", "verse_ref": "Judges 7:5", "verse_text": "So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:22", "verse_text": "And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil." }, { "point_text": "Of Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:26", "verse_text": "But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs." }, { "point_text": "Of covetous ministers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:11", "verse_text": "Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter." }, { "point_text": "Of fools", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:11", "verse_text": "As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly." }, { "point_text": "Of apostates", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:22", "verse_text": "But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire." }, { "point_text": "Of persecutors", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:16", "verse_text": "For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet." }, { "point_text": "Of persecutors", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:20", "verse_text": "Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog." }, { "point_text": "Of obstinate sinners", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:6", "verse_text": "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you." }, { "point_text": "Of obstinate sinners", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:15", "verse_text": "For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie." }, { "point_text": "Of false teachers", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:2", "verse_text": "Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision." }, { "point_text": "(Dumb,) of unfaithful ministers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:10", "verse_text": "His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber." }, { "point_text": "(Dead,) of the mean", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 24:14", "verse_text": "After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea." }, { "point_text": "(Dead,) of the mean", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 9:8", "verse_text": "And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?" } ] }, { "name": "Dreams", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Dreams.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Visions in sleep", "verse_ref": "Job 33:15", "verse_text": "In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;" }, { "point_text": "Visions in sleep", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:28", "verse_text": "But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;" }, { "point_text": "Often by imaginary", "verse_ref": "Job 20:8", "verse_text": "He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night." }, { "point_text": "Often by imaginary", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 29:8", "verse_text": "It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion." }, { "point_text": "Excess of business frequently leads to", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 5:3", "verse_text": "For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words." }, { "point_text": "God's will often revealed in", "verse_ref": "Numbers 12:6", "verse_text": "And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream." }, { "point_text": "God's will often revealed in", "verse_ref": "Job 33:15", "verse_text": "In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;" }, { "point_text": "FALSE PROPHETS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Pretended to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:25-28", "verse_text": "I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. 26 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart; 27 Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal. 28 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Pretended to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 29:8", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed." }, { "point_text": "Not to be regarded in", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 13:1-3", "verse_text": "If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, 2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; 3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul." }, { "point_text": "Not to be regarded in", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:9", "verse_text": "Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:" }, { "point_text": "Condemned for pretending to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:32", "verse_text": "Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Vanity of trusting to natural", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 5:7", "verse_text": "For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God." }, { "point_text": "THE ANCIENTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Put great faith in", "verse_ref": "Judges 7:15", "verse_text": "And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian." }, { "point_text": "Often perplexed by", "verse_ref": "Genesis 40:6", "verse_text": "And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad." }, { "point_text": "Often perplexed by", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:8", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh." }, { "point_text": "Often perplexed by", "verse_ref": "Job 7:14", "verse_text": "Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:" }, { "point_text": "Often perplexed by", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:1", "verse_text": "And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him." }, { "point_text": "Often perplexed by", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:5", "verse_text": "I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me." }, { "point_text": "Anxious to have, explained", "verse_ref": "Genesis 40:8", "verse_text": "And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you." }, { "point_text": "Anxious to have, explained", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:3", "verse_text": "And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream." }, { "point_text": "Consulting magicians on", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:8", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh." }, { "point_text": "Consulting magicians on", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:2-4", "verse_text": "Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king. 3 And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream. 4 Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation." }, { "point_text": "God the only interpreter of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 40:8", "verse_text": "And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you." }, { "point_text": "God the only interpreter of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:16", "verse_text": "And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace." }, { "point_text": "God the only interpreter of", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:27-30", "verse_text": "Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king; 28 But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these; 29 As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass. 30 But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart." }, { "point_text": "God the only interpreter of", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:16", "verse_text": "I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things." }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE, OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Abimelech", "verse_ref": "Genesis 20:3-7", "verse_text": "But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife. 4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation? 5 Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this. 6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her. ..." }, { "point_text": "Jacob", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:12", "verse_text": "And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it." }, { "point_text": "Jacob", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:10", "verse_text": "And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled." }, { "point_text": "Laban", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:24", "verse_text": "And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad." }, { "point_text": "Joseph", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:5-9", "verse_text": "And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more. 6 And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed: 7 For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf. 8 And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words. ..." }, { "point_text": "Pharaoh's butler and baker", "verse_ref": "Genesis 40:5-19", "verse_text": "And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison. 6 And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad. 7 And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day? 8 And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you. ..." }, { "point_text": "Pharaoh", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:1-7", "verse_text": "And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river. 2 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow. 3 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river. 4 And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke. ..." }, { "point_text": "Midianite", "verse_ref": "Judges 7:13-15", "verse_text": "And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along. 14 And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host. 15 And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian." }, { "point_text": "Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 3:5-15", "verse_text": "In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee. 6 And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. 7 And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in. 8 And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude. ..." }, { "point_text": "Nebuchadnezzar", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:1", "verse_text": "And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him." }, { "point_text": "Nebuchadnezzar", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:5", "verse_text": "I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me." }, { "point_text": "Nebuchadnezzar", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:8", "verse_text": "But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods: and before him I told the dream, saying," }, { "point_text": "Daniel", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7", "verse_text": "In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters. 2 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. 3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. 4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. ..." }, { "point_text": "Joseph", "verse_ref": "Matthew 1:20", "verse_text": "But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Joseph", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:13", "verse_text": "And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him." }, { "point_text": "Joseph", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:19-20", "verse_text": "But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, 20 Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life." }, { "point_text": "Wise men", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:11-12", "verse_text": "And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh. 12 And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way." }, { "point_text": "Pilate's wife", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:19", "verse_text": "When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Prosperity of sinners", "verse_ref": "Job 20:5-8", "verse_text": "That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? 6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; 7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? 8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night." }, { "point_text": "Prosperity of sinners", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:19-20", "verse_text": "How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. 20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image." }, { "point_text": "Impure imaginations", "verse_ref": "Jude 8", "verse_text": "Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities." }, { "point_text": "Enemies of the church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 29:7-8", "verse_text": "And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision. 8 It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion." } ] }, { "name": "Drink Offering", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Drink-Offering.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:14", "verse_text": "And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon." }, { "point_text": "Sacrifices accompanied by", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:40", "verse_text": "And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering." }, { "point_text": "Sacrifices accompanied by", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:13", "verse_text": "And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin." }, { "point_text": "Quantity appointed to be used for each kind of sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:3-10", "verse_text": "And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock: 4 Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the LORD bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oil. 5 And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb. 6 Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil. ..." }, { "point_text": "For public sacrifices provided by the state", "verse_ref": "Ezra 7:17", "verse_text": "That thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "For public sacrifices provided by the state", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 45:17", "verse_text": "And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Not poured on the altar of incense", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:9", "verse_text": "Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon." }, { "point_text": "Omission of, caused by bad vintage", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:9", "verse_text": "The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn." }, { "point_text": "Omission of, caused by bad vintage", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:13", "verse_text": "Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God." }, { "point_text": "IDOLATROUS JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Offered to the queen of heaven", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:18", "verse_text": "The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger." }, { "point_text": "Offered to the queen of heaven", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 44:17-19", "verse_text": "But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil. 18 But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine. 19 And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?" }, { "point_text": "Reproved for offering, to idols", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:5", "verse_text": "Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?" }, { "point_text": "Reproved for offering, to idols", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:11", "verse_text": "But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number." }, { "point_text": "Reproved for offering, to idols", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 19:13", "verse_text": "And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods." }, { "point_text": "Reproved for offering, to idols", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:28", "verse_text": "For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings." }, { "point_text": "Idolaters often used blood for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 16:4", "verse_text": "Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips." }, { "point_text": "Vanity of offering, to idols", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:37-38", "verse_text": "And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted, 38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Offering of Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:12", "verse_text": "Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." }, { "point_text": "Pouring out of the Spirit", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:28", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:" }, { "point_text": "Devotedness of ministers.\r\n\r\n (Greek.)", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:17", "verse_text": "Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all." } ] }, { "name": "Drunkenness", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Drunkenness.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:18", "verse_text": "And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;" }, { "point_text": "Caution against", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:34", "verse_text": "And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares." }, { "point_text": "Is a work of the flesh", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:21", "verse_text": "Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Is debasing", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:8", "verse_text": "For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean." }, { "point_text": "Is inflaming", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:11", "verse_text": "Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!" }, { "point_text": "Overcharges the heart", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:34", "verse_text": "And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares." }, { "point_text": "Takes away the heart", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:11", "verse_text": "Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart." }, { "point_text": "LEADS TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Poverty", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:17", "verse_text": "He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich." }, { "point_text": "Poverty", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:21", "verse_text": "For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags." }, { "point_text": "Strife", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:29-30", "verse_text": "Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? 30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine." }, { "point_text": "Woe and sorrow", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:29-30", "verse_text": "Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? 30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine." }, { "point_text": "Error", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:7", "verse_text": "But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment." }, { "point_text": "Contempt of God's works", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:12", "verse_text": "And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands." }, { "point_text": "Scorning", "verse_ref": "Hosea 7:5", "verse_text": "In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners." }, { "point_text": "Rioting and wantonness", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:13", "verse_text": "Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying." }, { "point_text": "The wicked addicted to", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:1-4", "verse_text": "Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. 2 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein. 3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. 4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone." }, { "point_text": "False teachers often addicted to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:12", "verse_text": "Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant." }, { "point_text": "Folly of yielding to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:1", "verse_text": "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise." }, { "point_text": "Avoid those given to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:20", "verse_text": "Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:" }, { "point_text": "Avoid those given to", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 5:11", "verse_text": "But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat." }, { "point_text": "DENUNCIATIONS AGAINST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Those given to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:11", "verse_text": "Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!" }, { "point_text": "Those given to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:1-3", "verse_text": "Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine! 2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand. 3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:" }, { "point_text": "Those who encourage", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:15", "verse_text": "Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!" }, { "point_text": "Excludes from heaven", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:10", "verse_text": "Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Excludes from heaven", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:21", "verse_text": "Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 21:20", "verse_text": "And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:5-6", "verse_text": "Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. 6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \nNabal, \nUriah, \nElah, \nBenhadad, \nBelshazzar, \nCorinthians,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:21", "verse_text": "And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \nNabal, \nUriah, \nElah, \nBenhadad, \nBelshazzar, \nCorinthians,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:36", "verse_text": "And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \nNabal, \nUriah, \nElah, \nBenhadad, \nBelshazzar, \nCorinthians,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 11:13", "verse_text": "And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \nNabal, \nUriah, \nElah, \nBenhadad, \nBelshazzar, \nCorinthians,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:9-10", "verse_text": "And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah. 10 And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \nNabal, \nUriah, \nElah, \nBenhadad, \nBelshazzar, \nCorinthians,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:16", "verse_text": "And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \nNabal, \nUriah, \nElah, \nBenhadad, \nBelshazzar, \nCorinthians,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:4", "verse_text": "They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \nNabal, \nUriah, \nElah, \nBenhadad, \nBelshazzar, \nCorinthians,", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:21", "verse_text": "For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken." } ] }, { "name": "Doctrines of the Gospel, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Doctrines-of-the-Gospel-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Are from God", "verse_ref": "John 7:16", "verse_text": "Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me." }, { "point_text": "Are from God", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:12", "verse_text": "Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Are taught by Scripture", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:16", "verse_text": "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:" }, { "point_text": "Are godly", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:3", "verse_text": "If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;" }, { "point_text": "Are godly", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:1", "verse_text": "Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;" }, { "point_text": "Immorality condemned by", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:9-11", "verse_text": "Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; 11 According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust." }, { "point_text": "Lead to fellowship with the Father and with the Son", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:3", "verse_text": "That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Lead to fellowship with the Father and with the Son", "verse_ref": "2 John 9", "verse_text": "Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son." }, { "point_text": "Lead to holiness", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:17-22", "verse_text": "But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. 18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. 19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. 20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. ..." }, { "point_text": "Lead to holiness", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:12", "verse_text": "Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;" }, { "point_text": "Bring no reproach on", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:1", "verse_text": "Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed." }, { "point_text": "Bring no reproach on", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:5", "verse_text": "To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed." }, { "point_text": "MINISTERS SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Be nourished up in", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:6", "verse_text": "If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained." }, { "point_text": "Attend to", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:13", "verse_text": "Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine." }, { "point_text": "Attend to", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:16", "verse_text": "Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee." }, { "point_text": "Hold, in sincerity", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 2:17", "verse_text": "For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ." }, { "point_text": "Hold, in sincerity", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:7", "verse_text": "In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity," }, { "point_text": "Hold steadfastly", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:13", "verse_text": "Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Hold steadfastly", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:9", "verse_text": "Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers." }, { "point_text": "Continue in", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:16", "verse_text": "Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee." }, { "point_text": "Speak things which become", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:1", "verse_text": "But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:" }, { "point_text": "Saints obey, from the heart", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:17", "verse_text": "But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you." }, { "point_text": "Saints abide in", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:42", "verse_text": "And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers." }, { "point_text": "A faithful walk adorns", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:10", "verse_text": "Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things." }, { "point_text": "The obedience of saints leads to surer knowledge of", "verse_ref": "John 7:17", "verse_text": "If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself." }, { "point_text": "THOSE WHO OPPOSE ARE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Proud", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:3-4", "verse_text": "If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; 4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings," }, { "point_text": "Ignorant", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:4", "verse_text": "He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings," }, { "point_text": "Doting about questions, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:4", "verse_text": "He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings," }, { "point_text": "Not to be received", "verse_ref": "2 John 10", "verse_text": "If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:" }, { "point_text": "To be avoided", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:17", "verse_text": "Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them." }, { "point_text": "Not endured by the wicked", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:3", "verse_text": "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;" }, { "point_text": "Are from God", "verse_ref": "John 7:16", "verse_text": "Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me." }, { "point_text": "Are from God", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:12", "verse_text": "Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Are taught by Scripture", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:16", "verse_text": "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:" }, { "point_text": "Are godly", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:3", "verse_text": "If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;" }, { "point_text": "Are godly", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:1", "verse_text": "Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;" }, { "point_text": "Immorality condemned by", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:9-11", "verse_text": "Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; 11 According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust." }, { "point_text": "Lead to fellowship with the Father and with the Son", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:3", "verse_text": "That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Lead to fellowship with the Father and with the Son", "verse_ref": "2 John 9", "verse_text": "Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son." }, { "point_text": "Lead to holiness", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:17-22", "verse_text": "But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. 18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. 19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. 20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. ..." }, { "point_text": "Lead to holiness", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:12", "verse_text": "Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;" }, { "point_text": "Bring no reproach on", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:1", "verse_text": "Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed." }, { "point_text": "Bring no reproach on", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:5", "verse_text": "To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed." }, { "point_text": "MINISTERS SHOULD", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Be nourished up in", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:6", "verse_text": "If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained." }, { "point_text": "Attend to", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:13", "verse_text": "Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine." }, { "point_text": "Attend to", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:16", "verse_text": "Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee." }, { "point_text": "Hold, in sincerity", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 2:17", "verse_text": "For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ." }, { "point_text": "Hold, in sincerity", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:7", "verse_text": "In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity," }, { "point_text": "Hold steadfastly", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:13", "verse_text": "Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Hold steadfastly", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:9", "verse_text": "Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers." }, { "point_text": "Continue in", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:16", "verse_text": "Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee." }, { "point_text": "Speak things which become", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:1", "verse_text": "But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:" }, { "point_text": "Saints obey, from the heart", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:17", "verse_text": "But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you." }, { "point_text": "Saints abide in", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:42", "verse_text": "And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers." }, { "point_text": "A faithful walk adorns", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:10", "verse_text": "Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things." }, { "point_text": "The obedience of saints leads to surer knowledge of", "verse_ref": "John 7:17", "verse_text": "If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself." }, { "point_text": "THOSE WHO OPPOSE ARE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Proud", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:3-4", "verse_text": "If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; 4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings," }, { "point_text": "Ignorant", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:4", "verse_text": "He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings," }, { "point_text": "Doting about questions, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:4", "verse_text": "He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings," }, { "point_text": "Not to be received", "verse_ref": "2 John 10", "verse_text": "If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:" }, { "point_text": "To be avoided", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:17", "verse_text": "Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them." }, { "point_text": "Not endured by the wicked", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:3", "verse_text": "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;" } ] }, { "name": "Ear, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Ear-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The organ of hearing", "verse_ref": "Job 13:1", "verse_text": "Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it." }, { "point_text": "The organ of hearing", "verse_ref": "Job 29:11", "verse_text": "When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:" }, { "point_text": "Capable of trying and distinguishing words", "verse_ref": "Job 12:11", "verse_text": "Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?" }, { "point_text": "GOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Made", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:12", "verse_text": "The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them." }, { "point_text": "Planted", "verse_ref": "Psalm 94:9", "verse_text": "He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?" }, { "point_text": "Opens", "verse_ref": "Job 33:16", "verse_text": "Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction," }, { "point_text": "Opens", "verse_ref": "Job 36:10", "verse_text": "He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Judicially closes", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:10", "verse_text": "Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed." }, { "point_text": "Judicially closes", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:15", "verse_text": "For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them." }, { "point_text": "Christ opens", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 35:5", "verse_text": "Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped." }, { "point_text": "Christ opens", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 43:8", "verse_text": "Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears." }, { "point_text": "Christ opens", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 43:10", "verse_text": "Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me." }, { "point_text": "Instruction received through", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:21", "verse_text": "And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left." }, { "point_text": "That hears and receives the word of God, blessed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:26", "verse_text": "And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee." }, { "point_text": "That hears and receives the word of God, blessed", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:16", "verse_text": "But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Seek knowledge", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 18:15", "verse_text": "The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge." }, { "point_text": "Be bowed down to instructions", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 5:1", "verse_text": "My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:" }, { "point_text": "Be inclined to wisdom", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 2:2", "verse_text": "So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;" }, { "point_text": "Be given to the law of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:10", "verse_text": "Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah." }, { "point_text": "Receive the word of God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:20", "verse_text": "Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation." }, { "point_text": "Hear and obey reproof", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:31", "verse_text": "The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise." }, { "point_text": "Hear and obey reproof", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:12", "verse_text": "As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear." }, { "point_text": "Not satisfied with earthly things", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 1:8", "verse_text": "All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing." }, { "point_text": "OF THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Uncircumcised", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:10", "verse_text": "To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it." }, { "point_text": "Uncircumcised", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:51", "verse_text": "Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye." }, { "point_text": "Itching", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:3", "verse_text": "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;" }, { "point_text": "Not inclined to hear God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:24", "verse_text": "But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward." }, { "point_text": "Not inclined to hear God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 35:15", "verse_text": "I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me." }, { "point_text": "Turned away from God's law", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:9", "verse_text": "He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination." }, { "point_text": "Stopped against God's word", "verse_ref": "Psalm 58:4", "verse_text": "Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;" }, { "point_text": "Stopped against God's word", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 7:11", "verse_text": "But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear." }, { "point_text": "Not to be stopped at cry of the poor", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:13", "verse_text": "Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard." }, { "point_text": "BLOOD PUT ON THE RIGHT EAR OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Priests at consecration", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:20", "verse_text": "Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about." }, { "point_text": "Priests at consecration", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:23", "verse_text": "And he slew it; and Moses took of the blood of it, and put it upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot." }, { "point_text": "The healed leper in cleansing him", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:14", "verse_text": "And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:" }, { "point_text": "Often adorned with rings", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:12", "verse_text": "And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head." }, { "point_text": "Often adorned with rings", "verse_ref": "Hosea 2:13", "verse_text": "And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Of servants who refused to leave their masters, bored to the door", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:6", "verse_text": "Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever." }, { "point_text": "Of servants who refused to leave their masters, bored to the door", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 15:17", "verse_text": "Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise." } ] }, { "name": "Earthquakes", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Earthquakes.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Islands and mountainous districts liable to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 114:4", "verse_text": "The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs." }, { "point_text": "Islands and mountainous districts liable to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 114:6", "verse_text": "Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?" }, { "point_text": "FREQUENTLY ACCOMPANIED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Volcanic eruptions", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:32", "verse_text": "He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke." }, { "point_text": "Volcanic eruptions", "verse_ref": "Nahum 1:5", "verse_text": "The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein." }, { "point_text": "Convulsion and receding of the sea", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 22:8", "verse_text": "Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth." }, { "point_text": "Convulsion and receding of the sea", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 22:16", "verse_text": "And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils." }, { "point_text": "Opening of the earth", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:31-32", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them: 32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods." }, { "point_text": "Overturning of mountains", "verse_ref": "Psalm 46:2", "verse_text": "Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;" }, { "point_text": "Overturning of mountains", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 14:4", "verse_text": "And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south." }, { "point_text": "Rending of rocks", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:51", "verse_text": "And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;" }, { "point_text": "ARE VISIBLE TOKENS OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "God's power", "verse_ref": "Job 9:6", "verse_text": "Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble." }, { "point_text": "God's power", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:26", "verse_text": "Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven." }, { "point_text": "God's presence", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:7", "verse_text": "O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:" }, { "point_text": "God's presence", "verse_ref": "Psalm 114:7", "verse_text": "Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;" }, { "point_text": "God's anger", "verse_ref": "Psalm 18:7", "verse_text": "Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth." }, { "point_text": "God's anger", "verse_ref": "Psalm 60:2", "verse_text": "Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh." }, { "point_text": "God's anger", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:13", "verse_text": "Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger." }, { "point_text": "Men always terrified by", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:34", "verse_text": "And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also." }, { "point_text": "Men always terrified by", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 14:5", "verse_text": "And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee." }, { "point_text": "Men always terrified by", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:54", "verse_text": "Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God." }, { "point_text": "Men always terrified by", "verse_ref": "Revelation 11:13", "verse_text": "And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven." }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "At mount Sinai", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:18", "verse_text": "And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly." }, { "point_text": "In the wilderness", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:31-32", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them: 32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods." }, { "point_text": "In strongholds of Philistines", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:15", "verse_text": "And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling." }, { "point_text": "When Elijah fled from Jezebel", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:11", "verse_text": "And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:" }, { "point_text": "In Uzziah's reign", "verse_ref": "Amos 1:1", "verse_text": "The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake." }, { "point_text": "In Uzziah's reign", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 14:5", "verse_text": "And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee." }, { "point_text": "At our Lord's death", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:51", "verse_text": "And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;" }, { "point_text": "At out Lord's resurrection", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:2", "verse_text": "And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it." }, { "point_text": "At Philippi", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:26", "verse_text": "And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed." }, { "point_text": "Before destruction of Jerusalem, predicted", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:7", "verse_text": "For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places." }, { "point_text": "Before destruction of Jerusalem, predicted", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:11", "verse_text": "And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven." }, { "point_text": "At Christ's second coming, predicted", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 14:4", "verse_text": "And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 24:19", "verse_text": "The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly." }, { "point_text": "The judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 29:6", "verse_text": "Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire." }, { "point_text": "The judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:24", "verse_text": "I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly." }, { "point_text": "The judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Revelation 8:5", "verse_text": "And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake." }, { "point_text": "The overthrow of kingdoms", "verse_ref": "Haggai 2:6", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;" }, { "point_text": "The overthrow of kingdoms", "verse_ref": "Haggai 2:22", "verse_text": "And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother." } ] }, { "name": "Edification", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Edification.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Described", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:12-16", "verse_text": "For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: 13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: 14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; 15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: ..." }, { "point_text": "IS THE OBJECT OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The ministerial office", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:11-12", "verse_text": "And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Ministerial gifts", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:3-5", "verse_text": "But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort. 4 He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church. 5 I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying." }, { "point_text": "Ministerial gifts", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:12", "verse_text": "Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church." }, { "point_text": "Ministerial authority", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 10:8", "verse_text": "For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:" }, { "point_text": "Ministerial authority", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 13:10", "verse_text": "Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction." }, { "point_text": "The Church's union in Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:16", "verse_text": "From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love." }, { "point_text": "The gospel, the instrument of", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:32", "verse_text": "And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified." }, { "point_text": "Love leads to", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 8:1", "verse_text": "Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth." }, { "point_text": "Exhortation to", "verse_ref": "Jude 20-21", "verse_text": "But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, 21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life." }, { "point_text": "Mutual, commanded", "verse_ref": "Romans 14:19", "verse_text": "Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another." }, { "point_text": "Mutual, commanded", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:11", "verse_text": "Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do." }, { "point_text": "All to be done to", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 12:19", "verse_text": "Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying." }, { "point_text": "All to be done to", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:29", "verse_text": "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers." }, { "point_text": "Use self-denial to promote, in others", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:23", "verse_text": "All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not." }, { "point_text": "Use self-denial to promote, in others", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:33", "verse_text": "Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved." }, { "point_text": "The peace of the Church favors", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:31", "verse_text": "Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied." }, { "point_text": "Foolish questions opposed to", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:4", "verse_text": "Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do." } ] }, { "name": "Earth, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Earth-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The world in general", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:2", "verse_text": "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." }, { "point_text": "The dry land as divided from waters", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:10", "verse_text": "And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good." }, { "point_text": "GOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Created", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:1", "verse_text": "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." }, { "point_text": "Created", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:6", "verse_text": "Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee." }, { "point_text": "Laid the foundation of", "verse_ref": "Job 38:4", "verse_text": "Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding." }, { "point_text": "Laid the foundation of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 102:25", "verse_text": "Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands." }, { "point_text": "Formed", "verse_ref": "Psalm 90:2", "verse_text": "Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God." }, { "point_text": "Spread abroad", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:5", "verse_text": "Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:" }, { "point_text": "Spread abroad", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:24", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;" }, { "point_text": "Suspended in space", "verse_ref": "Job 26:7", "verse_text": "He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing." }, { "point_text": "Supports", "verse_ref": "Psalm 75:3", "verse_text": "The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Establishes", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:69", "verse_text": "And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever." }, { "point_text": "Establishes", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:90", "verse_text": "Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth." }, { "point_text": "Enlightens", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:14-16", "verse_text": "And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also." }, { "point_text": "Enlightens", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 33:25", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;" }, { "point_text": "Waters", "verse_ref": "Psalm 65:9", "verse_text": "Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it." }, { "point_text": "Waters", "verse_ref": "Psalm 147:8", "verse_text": "Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains." }, { "point_text": "Makes fruitful", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:11", "verse_text": "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so." }, { "point_text": "Makes fruitful", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:28", "verse_text": "Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:" }, { "point_text": "Inspects", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 4:10", "verse_text": "For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth." }, { "point_text": "Governs supremely", "verse_ref": "Job 34:13", "verse_text": "Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world?" }, { "point_text": "Governs supremely", "verse_ref": "Psalm 135:6", "verse_text": "Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places." }, { "point_text": "Reigns in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 8:22", "verse_text": "And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Reigns in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 97:1", "verse_text": "The LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad thereof." }, { "point_text": "Shall be exalted in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 46:10", "verse_text": "Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth." }, { "point_text": "Is the Lord's", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:29", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the LORD; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know how that the earth is the LORD'S." }, { "point_text": "Is the Lord's", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:26", "verse_text": "For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof." }, { "point_text": "Created to be inhabited", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:18", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else." }, { "point_text": "First division of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 10:25", "verse_text": "And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan." }, { "point_text": "Ideas of the ancients respecting the form of", "verse_ref": "Job 11:9", "verse_text": "The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea." }, { "point_text": "Ideas of the ancients respecting the form of", "verse_ref": "Job 38:18", "verse_text": "Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all." }, { "point_text": "Ideas of the ancients respecting the form of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:3", "verse_text": "The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable." }, { "point_text": "Diversified by hills and mountains", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 3:6", "verse_text": "He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting." }, { "point_text": "Full of minerals", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:9", "verse_text": "A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass." }, { "point_text": "Full of minerals", "verse_ref": "Job 28:1-5", "verse_text": "Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it. 2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone. 3 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death. 4 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men. ..." }, { "point_text": "Full of minerals", "verse_ref": "Job 28:15-19", "verse_text": "It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof. 16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire. 17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold. 18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies. ..." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "God's footstool", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:1", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?" }, { "point_text": "God's footstool", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:35", "verse_text": "Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King." }, { "point_text": "Full of God's goodness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 33:5", "verse_text": "He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Full of God's riches", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:24", "verse_text": "O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches." }, { "point_text": "Full of God's mercy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:64", "verse_text": "The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes." }, { "point_text": "Full of God's glory", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:21", "verse_text": "But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Full of God's glory", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:3", "verse_text": "And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory." }, { "point_text": "Shining with God's glory", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 43:2", "verse_text": "And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory." }, { "point_text": "Trembling before God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:8", "verse_text": "The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Trembling before God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 10:10", "verse_text": "But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation." }, { "point_text": "Melting at God's voice", "verse_ref": "Psalm 46:6", "verse_text": "The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted." }, { "point_text": "Burning at God presence", "verse_ref": "Nahum 1:5", "verse_text": "The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein." }, { "point_text": "MAN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Formed out of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:7", "verse_text": "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." }, { "point_text": "Formed out of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:14", "verse_text": "For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust." }, { "point_text": "Given dominion over", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:26", "verse_text": "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Given dominion over", "verse_ref": "Psalm 115:16", "verse_text": "The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men." }, { "point_text": "By nature is of", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:47-48", "verse_text": "The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. 48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly." }, { "point_text": "By nature minds the thing of", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:19", "verse_text": "Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)" }, { "point_text": "Brought a curse on", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:17", "verse_text": "And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;" }, { "point_text": "Shall return to", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:19", "verse_text": "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." }, { "point_text": "Shall return to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 146:4", "verse_text": "His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish." }, { "point_text": "Subject to God's judgments", "verse_ref": "Psalm 46:8", "verse_text": "Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth." }, { "point_text": "Subject to God's judgments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:4", "verse_text": "But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked." }, { "point_text": "Corrupted by sin", "verse_ref": "Genesis 6:11-12", "verse_text": "The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Made barren by sin", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:23", "verse_text": "And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron." }, { "point_text": "Made barren by sin", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:34", "verse_text": "A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein." }, { "point_text": "Made to mourn and languish by sin", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 24:4", "verse_text": "The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish." }, { "point_text": "Made to mourn and languish by sin", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:28", "verse_text": "For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it." }, { "point_text": "Made to mourn and languish by sin", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 12:4", "verse_text": "How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end." }, { "point_text": "Made to mourn and languish by sin", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:3", "verse_text": "Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away." }, { "point_text": "Satan goes to and fro in", "verse_ref": "Job 1:7", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it." }, { "point_text": "Satan goes to and fro in", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:8", "verse_text": "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:" }, { "point_text": "Shall be filled with the knowledge of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:9", "verse_text": "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea." }, { "point_text": "Shall be filled with the knowledge of God", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:14", "verse_text": "For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea." }, { "point_text": "Once inundated", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:17-24", "verse_text": "And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. 18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. 19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. 20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. ..." }, { "point_text": "Not to be again inundated", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:11", "verse_text": "And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth." }, { "point_text": "Not to be again inundated", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:6-7", "verse_text": "Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men." }, { "point_text": "To be dissolved by fire", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:7", "verse_text": "But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men." }, { "point_text": "To be dissolved by fire", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:10", "verse_text": "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up." }, { "point_text": "To be dissolved by fire", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:12", "verse_text": "Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?" }, { "point_text": "To be renewed", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:17", "verse_text": "For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind." }, { "point_text": "To be renewed", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:13", "verse_text": "Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Saints shall inherit", "verse_ref": "Psalm 25:13", "verse_text": "His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth." }, { "point_text": "Saints shall inherit", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:5", "verse_text": "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth." } ] }, { "name": "Egypt", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Egypt.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Peopled by Mizraim's posterity", "verse_ref": "Genesis 10:6", "verse_text": "And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan." }, { "point_text": "Peopled by Mizraim's posterity", "verse_ref": "Genesis 10:13-14", "verse_text": "And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, 14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim." }, { "point_text": "Boundaries of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 29:10", "verse_text": "Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia." }, { "point_text": "Dry climate of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:10-11", "verse_text": "For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: 11 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:" }, { "point_text": "Watered by the Nile", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:1-3", "verse_text": "And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river. 2 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow. 3 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river." }, { "point_text": "Watered by the Nile", "verse_ref": "Exodus 1:22", "verse_text": "And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive." }, { "point_text": "Inundations of, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Amos 8:8", "verse_text": "Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Subject to plague, &c", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:15", "verse_text": "And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee." }, { "point_text": "Subject to plague, &c", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:27", "verse_text": "The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed." }, { "point_text": "Subject to plague, &c", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:60", "verse_text": "Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes visited by famine", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:30", "verse_text": "And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;" }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The land of Ham", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:23", "verse_text": "Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham." }, { "point_text": "The land of Ham", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:22", "verse_text": "Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea." }, { "point_text": "The South", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 13:19", "verse_text": "The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive." }, { "point_text": "The South", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:14", "verse_text": "And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall." }, { "point_text": "The South", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:25", "verse_text": "And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast devices against him." }, { "point_text": "Sihor", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:3", "verse_text": "And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations." }, { "point_text": "Rahab", "verse_ref": "Psalm 87:4", "verse_text": "I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there." }, { "point_text": "Rahab", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:10", "verse_text": "Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm." }, { "point_text": "House of Bondmen", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:3", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten." }, { "point_text": "House of Bondmen", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:14", "verse_text": "And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:" }, { "point_text": "CELEBRATED FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Fertility", "verse_ref": "Genesis 13:10", "verse_text": "And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar." }, { "point_text": "Fertility", "verse_ref": "Genesis 45:18", "verse_text": "And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land." }, { "point_text": "Wealth", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:26", "verse_text": "Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward." }, { "point_text": "Literature", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:30", "verse_text": "And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Literature", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:22", "verse_text": "And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds." }, { "point_text": "Fine horses", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:28-29", "verse_text": "And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price. 29 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means." }, { "point_text": "Fine linen, &c", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 7:16", "verse_text": "I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Fine linen, &c", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:9", "verse_text": "Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded." }, { "point_text": "Commerce", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:57", "verse_text": "And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands." }, { "point_text": "Commerce", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:7", "verse_text": "Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee." }, { "point_text": "Religion of, idolatrous", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:12", "verse_text": "For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Religion of, idolatrous", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:4", "verse_text": "For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, which the LORD had smitten among them: upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments." }, { "point_text": "Religion of, idolatrous", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:1", "verse_text": "The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it." }, { "point_text": "Religion of, idolatrous", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 29:7", "verse_text": "When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand." }, { "point_text": "Idolatry of, followed by Israel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:4", "verse_text": "And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Idolatry of, followed by Israel", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:8", "verse_text": "But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Idolatry of, followed by Israel", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:19", "verse_text": "I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;" }, { "point_text": "Magic practised in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 7:11-12", "verse_text": "Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments. 12 For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods." }, { "point_text": "Magic practised in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 8:7", "verse_text": "And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Ruled by kings who assumed the name of Pharaoh", "verse_ref": "Genesis 12:14", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair." }, { "point_text": "Ruled by kings who assumed the name of Pharaoh", "verse_ref": "Genesis 40:1-2", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt. 2 And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers." }, { "point_text": "Under a governor", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:41-44", "verse_text": "And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt. 42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck; 43 And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt. 44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Had princes and counsellors", "verse_ref": "Genesis 12:15", "verse_text": "The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house." }, { "point_text": "Had princes and counsellors", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:11", "verse_text": "Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellers of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?" }, { "point_text": "AS A POWER WAS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Proud and arrogant", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 29:3", "verse_text": "Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself." }, { "point_text": "Proud and arrogant", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 30:6", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Pompous", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 32:12", "verse_text": "By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed." }, { "point_text": "Mighty", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:2-3", "verse_text": "That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt! 3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion." }, { "point_text": "Ambitious of conquests", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 46:8", "verse_text": "Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof." }, { "point_text": "Treacherous", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 36:6", "verse_text": "Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him." }, { "point_text": "Treacherous", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 29:6-7", "verse_text": "And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. 7 When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand." }, { "point_text": "INHABITANTS OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Superstitious", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:3", "verse_text": "And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards." }, { "point_text": "Hospitable", "verse_ref": "Genesis 47:5-6", "verse_text": "And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: 6 The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle." }, { "point_text": "Hospitable", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:18", "verse_text": "And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt; which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land." }, { "point_text": "Often intermarried with strangers", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:21", "verse_text": "And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Often intermarried with strangers", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 3:1", "verse_text": "And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about." }, { "point_text": "Often intermarried with strangers", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:19", "verse_text": "And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen." }, { "point_text": "Often intermarried with strangers", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 2:34-35", "verse_text": "Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha. 35 And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife; and she bare him Attai." }, { "point_text": "Abhorred shepherds", "verse_ref": "Genesis 46:34", "verse_text": "That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians." }, { "point_text": "Abhorred the sacrifice of oxen, &c", "verse_ref": "Exodus 8:26", "verse_text": "And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?" }, { "point_text": "Not to be abhorred by Israel", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:7", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land." }, { "point_text": "Might be received into the congregation in the third generation", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:8", "verse_text": "The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation." }, { "point_text": "Mode of entertaining in", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:32-34", "verse_text": "And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians. 33 And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another. 34 And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him." }, { "point_text": "Diet used in", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:5", "verse_text": "We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:" }, { "point_text": "Mode of embalming in", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:3", "verse_text": "And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days." }, { "point_text": "Often a refuge to strangers", "verse_ref": "Genesis 12:10", "verse_text": "And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land." }, { "point_text": "Often a refuge to strangers", "verse_ref": "Genesis 47:4", "verse_text": "They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen." }, { "point_text": "Often a refuge to strangers", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:17", "verse_text": "That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad being yet a little child." }, { "point_text": "Often a refuge to strangers", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:40", "verse_text": "Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon." }, { "point_text": "Often a refuge to strangers", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:26", "verse_text": "And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldees." }, { "point_text": "Often a refuge to strangers", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:12-13", "verse_text": "And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way. 13 And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him." }, { "point_text": "THE ARMIES OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Described", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:7-9", "verse_text": "And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them. 8 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand. 9 But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baalzephon." }, { "point_text": "Destroyed in the Red Sea", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:23-28", "verse_text": "And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. 24 And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians, 25 And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians. 26 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen. ..." }, { "point_text": "Captured and burned Gezer", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 9:16", "verse_text": "For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife." }, { "point_text": "Besieged and plundered Jerusalem in Rehoboam's time", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 14:25-26", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem: 26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made." }, { "point_text": "Invaded Assyria and killed Josiah who assisted it", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:29", "verse_text": "In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him." }, { "point_text": "Deposed Jehoahaz and made Judea tributary", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:31-35", "verse_text": "Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 32 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done. 33 And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold. 34 And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there. ..." }, { "point_text": "Assistance of, sought by Judah against the Chaldees", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:15", "verse_text": "But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?" }, { "point_text": "Assistance of, sought by Judah against the Chaldees", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 37:5", "verse_text": "Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Assistance of, sought by Judah against the Chaldees", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 37:7", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to inquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land." }, { "point_text": "HISTORY OF ISRAEL IN;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Their sojourn in it, foretold", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:13", "verse_text": "And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;" }, { "point_text": "Joseph sold into", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:28", "verse_text": "Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Joseph sold into", "verse_ref": "Genesis 39:1", "verse_text": "And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither." }, { "point_text": "Potiphar blessed for Joseph's sake", "verse_ref": "Genesis 39:2-6", "verse_text": "And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. 3 And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand. 4 And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand. 5 And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field. ..." }, { "point_text": "Joseph unjustly cast into prison", "verse_ref": "Genesis 39:7-20", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me. 8 But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand; 9 There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? 10 And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her. ..." }, { "point_text": "Joseph interprets the chief baker's and the chief butler's dreams", "verse_ref": "Genesis 40:5-19", "verse_text": "And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison. 6 And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad. 7 And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day? 8 And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you. ..." }, { "point_text": "Joseph interprets Pharaoh's dreams", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:14-32", "verse_text": "Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh. 15 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it. 16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace. 17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river: ..." }, { "point_text": "Joseph counsels Pharaoh", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:33-36", "verse_text": "Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. 34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. 35 And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. 36 And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine." }, { "point_text": "Joseph made governor", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:41-44", "verse_text": "And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt. 42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck; 43 And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt. 44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Joseph's successful provision against the years of famine", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:46-56", "verse_text": "And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. 47 And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls. 48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same. 49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number. ..." }, { "point_text": "Joseph's ten brethren arrive", "verse_ref": "Genesis 42:1-6", "verse_text": "Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another? 2 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die. 3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt. 4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him. ..." }, { "point_text": "Joseph recognizes his brethren", "verse_ref": "Genesis 42:7-8", "verse_text": "And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food. 8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him." }, { "point_text": "Benjamin brought", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:15", "verse_text": "And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph." }, { "point_text": "Joseph makes himself known to his brethren", "verse_ref": "Genesis 45:1-8", "verse_text": "Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. 2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard. 3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence. 4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. ..." }, { "point_text": "Joseph sends for his father", "verse_ref": "Genesis 45:9-11", "verse_text": "Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not: 10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast: 11 And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty." }, { "point_text": "Pharaoh invites Jacob into", "verse_ref": "Genesis 45:16-20", "verse_text": "And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants. 17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan; 18 And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land. 19 Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. ..." }, { "point_text": "Jacob's journey", "verse_ref": "Genesis 46:5-7", "verse_text": "And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 6 And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him: 7 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Jacob, &c. presented to Pharaoh", "verse_ref": "Genesis 47:1-10", "verse_text": "Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen. 2 And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. 3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers. 4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen. ..." }, { "point_text": "Israel placed in the land of Goshen", "verse_ref": "Genesis 46:34", "verse_text": "That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians." }, { "point_text": "Israel placed in the land of Goshen", "verse_ref": "Genesis 47:11", "verse_text": "And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded." }, { "point_text": "Israel placed in the land of Goshen", "verse_ref": "Genesis 47:27", "verse_text": "And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly." }, { "point_text": "Joseph enriches the king", "verse_ref": "Genesis 47:13-26", "verse_text": "And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. 14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house. 15 And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth. 16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail. ..." }, { "point_text": "Jacob's death and burial", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:33", "verse_text": "And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people." }, { "point_text": "Jacob's death and burial", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:1-13", "verse_text": "And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. 2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. 3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days. 4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, ..." }, { "point_text": "Israel increase and are oppressed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 1:1-14", "verse_text": "Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob. 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. ..." }, { "point_text": "Male children destroyed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 1:15-22", "verse_text": "And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah: 16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live. 17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive. 18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive? ..." }, { "point_text": "Moses born and hid for three months", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:2", "verse_text": "And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months." }, { "point_text": "Moses exposed on the Nile", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:3-4", "verse_text": "And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink. 4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him." }, { "point_text": "Moses adopted and brought up by Pharaoh's daughter", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:5-10", "verse_text": "And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. 6 And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children. 7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee? 8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother. ..." }, { "point_text": "Moses slays an Egyptian", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:11-12", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren. 12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand." }, { "point_text": "Moses flees to Midian", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:15", "verse_text": "Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well." }, { "point_text": "Moses sent to Pharaoh", "verse_ref": "Exodus 3:2-10", "verse_text": "And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. 3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. 4 And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. 5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. ..." }, { "point_text": "Pharaoh increases their affliction", "verse_ref": "Exodus 5", "verse_text": "And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. 2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go. 3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword. 4 And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens. ..." }, { "point_text": "Moses proves his divine mission by miracles", "verse_ref": "Exodus 4:29-31", "verse_text": "And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel: 30 And Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people. 31 And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped." }, { "point_text": "Moses proves his divine mission by miracles", "verse_ref": "Exodus 7:10", "verse_text": "And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent." }, { "point_text": "Egypt is plagued for Pharaoh's obstinacy", "verse_ref": "Exodus 7:14-10:29", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened, he refuseth to let the people go. 15 Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand. 16 And thou shalt say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear. 17 Thus saith the LORD, In this thou shalt know that I am the LORD: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood. ..." }, { "point_text": "The passover instituted", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:1-28", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. 3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: 4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. ..." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of the first-born", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:29-30", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. 30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead." }, { "point_text": "Israel spoil the Egyptians", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:35-36", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: 36 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians." }, { "point_text": "Israel driven out of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:31-33", "verse_text": "And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said. 32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also. 33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men." }, { "point_text": "Date of the Exodus", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:41", "verse_text": "And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Date of the Exodus", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:27", "verse_text": "By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible." }, { "point_text": "Pharaoh pursues Israel and is miraculously destroyed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:5-25", "verse_text": "And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us? 6 And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him: 7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them. 8 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand. ..." }, { "point_text": "PROPHECIES RESPECTING;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Dismay of its inhabitants", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:1", "verse_text": "The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it." }, { "point_text": "Dismay of its inhabitants", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:16-17", "verse_text": "In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it. 17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it." }, { "point_text": "Infatuation of its princes", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:3", "verse_text": "And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards." }, { "point_text": "Infatuation of its princes", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:11-14", "verse_text": "Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellers of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? 12 Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt. 13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof. 14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit." }, { "point_text": "Failure of internal resources", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:5-10", "verse_text": "And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. 6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither. 7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more. 8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish. ..." }, { "point_text": "Civil war and domestic strife", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:2", "verse_text": "And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom." }, { "point_text": "Armies destroyed by Babylon", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 46:2-12", "verse_text": "Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah. 3 Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. 4 Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines. 5 Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD. ..." }, { "point_text": "Invasion by Babylon", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 46:13", "verse_text": "The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Invasion by Babylon", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 46:24", "verse_text": "The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of its power", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 30:24-25", "verse_text": "And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man. 25 But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of its cities", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 30:14-18", "verse_text": "And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No. 15 And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No. 16 And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily. 17 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity. ..." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of its idols", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 43:12", "verse_text": "And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of its idols", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 46:25", "verse_text": "The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him:" }, { "point_text": "Destruction of its idols", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 30:13", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Spoil of, a reward to Babylon for services against Tyre", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 29:18-20", "verse_text": "Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it: 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. 20 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Captivity of its people", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 20:4", "verse_text": "So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Captivity of its people", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 46:19", "verse_text": "O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant." }, { "point_text": "Captivity of its people", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 46:24", "verse_text": "The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north." }, { "point_text": "Captivity of its people", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 46:26", "verse_text": "And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Utter desolation of, for forty years", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 29:8-12", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee. 9 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it. 10 Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia. 11 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years. ..." }, { "point_text": "Utter desolation of, for forty years", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 30:12", "verse_text": "And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it." }, { "point_text": "Utter desolation of, for forty years", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 32:15", "verse_text": "When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Allies to share its misfortunes", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 30:4", "verse_text": "And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down." }, { "point_text": "Allies to share its misfortunes", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 30:6", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "The Jews who practised its idolatry to share its punishments", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 44:7-28", "verse_text": "Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain; 8 In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth? 9 Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem? 10 They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers. ..." }, { "point_text": "Terror occasioned by its fall", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 32:9-10", "verse_text": "I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known. 10 Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall." }, { "point_text": "Ever to be a base kingdom", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 29:15", "verse_text": "It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations." }, { "point_text": "Christ to be called out of", "verse_ref": "Hosea 11:1", "verse_text": "When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Christ to be called out of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:15", "verse_text": "And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son." }, { "point_text": "Conversion of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:18-20", "verse_text": "In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction. 19 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD. 20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them." }, { "point_text": "To be numbered and blessed along with Israel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:23-25", "verse_text": "In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. 24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: 25 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance." }, { "point_text": "Prophetic illustration of its destruction", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 43:9-10", "verse_text": "Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the clay in the brickkiln, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah; 10 And say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them." } ] }, { "name": "Embalming", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Embalming.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Unknown to early patriarchs", "verse_ref": "Genesis 23:4", "verse_text": "I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight." }, { "point_text": "Learned by the Jews in Egypt", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:2", "verse_text": "And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel." }, { "point_text": "Learned by the Jews in Egypt", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:26", "verse_text": "So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Time required for", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:3", "verse_text": "And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days." }, { "point_text": "How performed by the Jews", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 16:14", "verse_text": "And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him." }, { "point_text": "How performed by the Jews", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:56", "verse_text": "And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment." }, { "point_text": "How performed by the Jews", "verse_ref": "John 19:40", "verse_text": "Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury." }, { "point_text": "Not always practised by the Jews", "verse_ref": "John 11:39", "verse_text": "Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days." }, { "point_text": "An attempt to defeat God's purpose", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:19", "verse_text": "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." } ] }, { "name": "Early Rising", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Early-Rising.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Christ set an example of", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:35", "verse_text": "And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed." }, { "point_text": "Christ set an example of", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:38", "verse_text": "And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, for to hear him." }, { "point_text": "Christ set an example of", "verse_ref": "John 8:2", "verse_text": "And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them." }, { "point_text": "REQUISITE FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Devotion", "verse_ref": "Psalm 5:3", "verse_text": "My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up." }, { "point_text": "Devotion", "verse_ref": "Psalm 59:16", "verse_text": "But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble." }, { "point_text": "Devotion", "verse_ref": "Psalm 63:1", "verse_text": "O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;" }, { "point_text": "Devotion", "verse_ref": "Psalm 88:13", "verse_text": "But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee." }, { "point_text": "Devotion", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:9", "verse_text": "With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Executing God's commands", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:3", "verse_text": "And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him." }, { "point_text": "Discharge of daily duties", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:15", "verse_text": "She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens." }, { "point_text": "Neglect of, leads to poverty", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:9-11", "verse_text": "How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? 10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man." }, { "point_text": "PRACTISED BY THE WICKED, FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Deceit", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:14", "verse_text": "He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him." }, { "point_text": "Executing plans of evil", "verse_ref": "Micah 2:1", "verse_text": "Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand." }, { "point_text": "Illustrates spiritual diligence", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:11-12", "verse_text": "And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. 12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nIsaac, &c. \nJacob, \nJoshua, &c. \nGideon, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nMary, &c. \nApostles,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 19:27", "verse_text": "And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nIsaac, &c. \nJacob, \nJoshua, &c. \nGideon, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nMary, &c. \nApostles,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:31", "verse_text": "And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nIsaac, &c. \nJacob, \nJoshua, &c. \nGideon, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nMary, &c. \nApostles,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:18", "verse_text": "And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nIsaac, &c. \nJacob, \nJoshua, &c. \nGideon, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nMary, &c. \nApostles,", "verse_ref": "Joshua 3:1", "verse_text": "And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nIsaac, &c. \nJacob, \nJoshua, &c. \nGideon, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nMary, &c. \nApostles,", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:38", "verse_text": "And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nIsaac, &c. \nJacob, \nJoshua, &c. \nGideon, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nMary, &c. \nApostles,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:12", "verse_text": "And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nIsaac, &c. \nJacob, \nJoshua, &c. \nGideon, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nMary, &c. \nApostles,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:20", "verse_text": "And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nIsaac, &c. \nJacob, \nJoshua, &c. \nGideon, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nMary, &c. \nApostles,", "verse_ref": "Mark 16:2", "verse_text": "And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nIsaac, &c. \nJacob, \nJoshua, &c. \nGideon, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nMary, &c. \nApostles,", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:21", "verse_text": "And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought." } ] }, { "name": "Edomites, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Edomites-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Descended from Esau", "verse_ref": "Genesis 36:9", "verse_text": "And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:" }, { "point_text": "Dwelt in Mount Seir", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:3", "verse_text": "And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom." }, { "point_text": "Dwelt in Mount Seir", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:4-5", "verse_text": "And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore: 5 Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession." }, { "point_text": "WERE CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Children of Esau", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:4", "verse_text": "And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore:" }, { "point_text": "Brethren of Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:14", "verse_text": "And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:" }, { "point_text": "Governed by dukes", "verse_ref": "Genesis 36:15-30", "verse_text": "These were dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn son of Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho, duke Kenaz, 16 Duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek: these are the dukes that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these were the sons of Adah. 17 And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the dukes that came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife. 18 And these are the sons of Aholibamah Esau's wife; duke Jeush, duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these were the dukes that came of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife. ..." }, { "point_text": "Governed by dukes", "verse_ref": "Genesis 36:40-43", "verse_text": "And these are the names of the dukes that came of Esau, according to their families, after their places, by their names; duke Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth, 41 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon, 42 Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar, 43 Duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these be the dukes of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession: he is Esau the father of the Edomites." }, { "point_text": "Governed by dukes", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:15", "verse_text": "Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away." }, { "point_text": "Afterwards had kings", "verse_ref": "Genesis 36:29-31", "verse_text": "These are the dukes that came of the Horites; duke Lotan, duke Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah, 30 Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan: these are the dukes that came of Hori, among their dukes in the land of Seir. 31 And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Afterwards had kings", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:14", "verse_text": "And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:" }, { "point_text": "Under a deputy or viceroy while subject to Judah", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:47", "verse_text": "There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king." }, { "point_text": "CHARACTER OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Wise", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:7", "verse_text": "Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?" }, { "point_text": "Proud and self-confident", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:16", "verse_text": "Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Proud and self-confident", "verse_ref": "Obadiah 3", "verse_text": "The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?" }, { "point_text": "Strong and cruel", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:19", "verse_text": "Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?" }, { "point_text": "Vindictive", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 25:12", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;" }, { "point_text": "Idolatrous", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 25:14", "verse_text": "Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them." }, { "point_text": "Idolatrous", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 25:20", "verse_text": "But Amaziah would not hear; for it came of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom." }, { "point_text": "Superstitious", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:3", "verse_text": "And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;" }, { "point_text": "Superstitious", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:9", "verse_text": "Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:" }, { "point_text": "Carried on extensive commerce", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:20", "verse_text": "Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots." }, { "point_text": "COUNTRY OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Specially given to them", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:5", "verse_text": "Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession." }, { "point_text": "Fertile and rich", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:39", "verse_text": "And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;" }, { "point_text": "Mountainous and rocky", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:16", "verse_text": "Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Mountainous and rocky", "verse_ref": "Malachi 1:3", "verse_text": "And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "Traversed by roads", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:17", "verse_text": "Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders." }, { "point_text": "Well fortified", "verse_ref": "Psalm 60:9", "verse_text": "Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?" }, { "point_text": "Called Mount Seir", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 35:2", "verse_text": "Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it," }, { "point_text": "Called Mount of Esau", "verse_ref": "Obadiah 21", "verse_text": "And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD'S." }, { "point_text": "Called Dumah", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 21:11", "verse_text": "The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?" }, { "point_text": "Called Idumea", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 34:6", "verse_text": "The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea." }, { "point_text": "Called Idumea", "verse_ref": "Mark 3:8", "verse_text": "And from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him." }, { "point_text": "Called Edom", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:1", "verse_text": "Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save." }, { "point_text": "CITIES OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Dinhabah or Dedan", "verse_ref": "Genesis 36:32", "verse_text": "And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the name of his city was Dinhabah." }, { "point_text": "Dinhabah or Dedan", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:8", "verse_text": "Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him." }, { "point_text": "Avith", "verse_ref": "Genesis 36:35", "verse_text": "And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith." }, { "point_text": "Pau", "verse_ref": "Genesis 36:39", "verse_text": "And Baalhanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab." }, { "point_text": "Bozra", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:22", "verse_text": "Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs." }, { "point_text": "Bozra", "verse_ref": "Amos 1:12", "verse_text": "But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah." }, { "point_text": "Teman", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:7", "verse_text": "Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?" }, { "point_text": "Teman", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 25:13", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword." }, { "point_text": "Ezion-geber, a sea port", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 9:26", "verse_text": "And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom." }, { "point_text": "Implacable enemies of Israel", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 35:5", "verse_text": "Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:" }, { "point_text": "Israel forbidden to hate", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:7", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land." }, { "point_text": "Israel forbidden to spoil", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:4", "verse_text": "And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore:" }, { "point_text": "Israel forbidden to spoil", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:6", "verse_text": "Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink." }, { "point_text": "Israel forbidden to spoil", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 20:10", "verse_text": "And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;" }, { "point_text": "Might be received into the congregation in third generation", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:8", "verse_text": "The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation." }, { "point_text": "Refused Israel a passage", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:21", "verse_text": "Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him." }, { "point_text": "Refused Israel a passage", "verse_ref": "Judges 11:17", "verse_text": "Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not hearken thereto. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but he would not consent: and Israel abode in Kadesh." }, { "point_text": "Saul made war against", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:47", "verse_text": "So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed them." }, { "point_text": "David subdued, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:14", "verse_text": "And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all they of Edom became David's servants. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went." }, { "point_text": "David subdued, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 18:11", "verse_text": "Them also king David dedicated unto the LORD, with the silver and the gold that he brought from all these nations; from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek." }, { "point_text": "David subdued, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 18:13", "verse_text": "And he put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became David's servants. Thus the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went." }, { "point_text": "Slaughter of, by Joab and Abishai", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:16", "verse_text": "(For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:)" }, { "point_text": "Slaughter of, by Joab and Abishai", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 18:12", "verse_text": "Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in the valley of salt eighteen thousand." }, { "point_text": "Took refuge in Egypt", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:17-19", "verse_text": "That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad being yet a little child. 18 And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt; which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land. 19 And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen." }, { "point_text": "Returned after David's death", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:21-22", "verse_text": "And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country. 22 Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country? And he answered, Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise." }, { "point_text": "Were stirred up against Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:14", "verse_text": "And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom." }, { "point_text": "Confederated with enemies of Israel against Jehoshaphat", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 20:10", "verse_text": "And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;" }, { "point_text": "Confederated with enemies of Israel against Jehoshaphat", "verse_ref": "Psalm 83:4-6", "verse_text": "They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. 5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: 6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;" }, { "point_text": "Miraculous overthrow of", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 20:22", "verse_text": "And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten." }, { "point_text": "Revolted from Joram, king of Judah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 8:20-22", "verse_text": "In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves. 21 So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people fled into their tents. 22 Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time." }, { "point_text": "Revolted from Joram, king of Judah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 21:8-10", "verse_text": "In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of Judah, and made themselves a king. 9 Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him in, and the captains of the chariots. 10 So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. The same time also did Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers." }, { "point_text": "Re-conquered by Amaziah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 14:7", "verse_text": "He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Re-conquered by Amaziah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 14:10", "verse_text": "Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up: glory of this, and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?" }, { "point_text": "Re-conquered by Amaziah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 25:11-12", "verse_text": "And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand. 12 And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces." }, { "point_text": "The Jews ensnared by the idols of, and punished", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 25:14-15", "verse_text": "Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them. 15 Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of thine hand?" }, { "point_text": "The Jews ensnared by the idols of, and punished", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 25:20", "verse_text": "But Amaziah would not hear; for it came of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom." }, { "point_text": "Rebelled against Ahaz", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 28:17", "verse_text": "For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives." }, { "point_text": "Aided Babylon against Judah", "verse_ref": "Psalm 137:7", "verse_text": "Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof." }, { "point_text": "Aided Babylon against Judah", "verse_ref": "Obadiah 11", "verse_text": "In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them." }, { "point_text": "PREDICTIONS RESPECTING;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Subjection to Israel", "verse_ref": "Genesis 25:23", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger." }, { "point_text": "Subjection to Israel", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:29", "verse_text": "Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee." }, { "point_text": "Subjection to Israel", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:37", "verse_text": "And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?" }, { "point_text": "Revolt from Israel", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:40", "verse_text": "And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck." }, { "point_text": "Israel's occupation of their country", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:18", "verse_text": "And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly." }, { "point_text": "Israel's occupation of their country", "verse_ref": "Obadiah 17-19", "verse_text": "But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. 18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it. 19 And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead." }, { "point_text": "To share in the punishment of the nations", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:26", "verse_text": "Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart." }, { "point_text": "To share in the punishment of the nations", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 25:15-27", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it. 16 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them. 17 Then took I the cup at the LORD'S hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me: 18 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day; ..." }, { "point_text": "To share in the punishment of the nations", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 32:29", "verse_text": "There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for persecuting Israel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 34:5-8", "verse_text": "For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. 6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea. 7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. 8 For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for persecuting Israel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:1-4", "verse_text": "Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. 2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat? 3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. 4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for persecuting Israel", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 4:21", "verse_text": "Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for persecuting Israel", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 25:13-14", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword. 14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Exterminating slaughter of", "verse_ref": "Obadiah 18", "verse_text": "And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it." }, { "point_text": "Utter desolation of their country", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 34:9-17", "verse_text": "And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. 10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. 11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. 12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing. ..." }, { "point_text": "Utter desolation of their country", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 35:7-15", "verse_text": "Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth. 8 And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword. 9 I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 10 Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there: ..." }, { "point_text": "The king of Babylon an instrument of their punishment", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:3-6", "verse_text": "And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah; 4 And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your masters; 5 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me. 6 And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him." }, { "point_text": "Israel an instrument of their punishment", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 25:14", "verse_text": "And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Israel an instrument of their punishment", "verse_ref": "Obadiah 18", "verse_text": "And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it." }, { "point_text": "Their ruin to be an astonishment", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:17", "verse_text": "Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof." }, { "point_text": "Their ruin to be an astonishment", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:21", "verse_text": "The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea." }, { "point_text": "Their future subjection to the Jews", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:14", "verse_text": "But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them." }, { "point_text": "Their future subjection to the Jews", "verse_ref": "Amos 9:12", "verse_text": "That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nDoeg, \nHadad, \n\nEliphaz,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 22:18", "verse_text": "And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nDoeg, \nHadad, \n\nEliphaz,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:14", "verse_text": "And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nDoeg, \nHadad, \n\nEliphaz,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:19", "verse_text": "And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nDoeg, \nHadad, \n\nEliphaz,", "verse_ref": "Job 2:11", "verse_text": "Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him." } ] }, { "name": "Emblems of the Holy Ghost, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Emblems-of-the-Holy-Ghost-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "WATER", "verse_ref": "John 3:5", "verse_text": "Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "WATER", "verse_ref": "John 7:38-39", "verse_text": "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)" }, { "point_text": "Cleansing", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:9", "verse_text": "Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil." }, { "point_text": "Cleansing", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 36:25", "verse_text": "Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you." }, { "point_text": "Cleansing", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:26", "verse_text": "That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word," }, { "point_text": "Cleansing", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:22", "verse_text": "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water." }, { "point_text": "Fertilizing", "verse_ref": "Psalm 1:3", "verse_text": "And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper." }, { "point_text": "Fertilizing", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 27:3", "verse_text": "I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day." }, { "point_text": "Fertilizing", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:3", "verse_text": "For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:" }, { "point_text": "Fertilizing", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:11", "verse_text": "And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not." }, { "point_text": "Refreshing", "verse_ref": "Psalm 46:4", "verse_text": "There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High." }, { "point_text": "Refreshing", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:17-18", "verse_text": "When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. 18 I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water." }, { "point_text": "Abundant", "verse_ref": "John 7:37-38", "verse_text": "In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. 38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." }, { "point_text": "Freely given", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 55:1", "verse_text": "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price." }, { "point_text": "Freely given", "verse_ref": "John 4:14", "verse_text": "But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life." }, { "point_text": "Freely given", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:17", "verse_text": "And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." }, { "point_text": "FIRE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Purifying", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 4:4", "verse_text": "When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning." }, { "point_text": "Purifying", "verse_ref": "Malachi 3:2-3", "verse_text": "But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: 3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Illuminating", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:21", "verse_text": "And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:" }, { "point_text": "Illuminating", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:14", "verse_text": "In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire." }, { "point_text": "Searching", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 1:12", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil." }, { "point_text": "Searching", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:10", "verse_text": "But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God." }, { "point_text": "WIND", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Independent", "verse_ref": "John 3:8", "verse_text": "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit." }, { "point_text": "Independent", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:11", "verse_text": "But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will." }, { "point_text": "Powerful", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:11", "verse_text": "And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:" }, { "point_text": "Powerful", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:2", "verse_text": "And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting." }, { "point_text": "Sensible in its effects", "verse_ref": "John 3:8", "verse_text": "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit." }, { "point_text": "Reviving", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 37:9-10", "verse_text": "Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army." }, { "point_text": "Reviving", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 37:14", "verse_text": "And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "OIL", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:7", "verse_text": "Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows." }, { "point_text": "Healing", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:34", "verse_text": "And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him." }, { "point_text": "Healing", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:18", "verse_text": "I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see." }, { "point_text": "Comforting", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:3", "verse_text": "To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified." }, { "point_text": "Comforting", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:9", "verse_text": "Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows." }, { "point_text": "Illuminating", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:3-4", "verse_text": "They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: 4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps." }, { "point_text": "Illuminating", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:20", "verse_text": "But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things." }, { "point_text": "Illuminating", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:27", "verse_text": "But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him." }, { "point_text": "Consecrating", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:7", "verse_text": "Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him." }, { "point_text": "Consecrating", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:30", "verse_text": "And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office." }, { "point_text": "Consecrating", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:1", "verse_text": "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;" }, { "point_text": "RAIN AND DEW", "verse_ref": "Psalm 72:6", "verse_text": "He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth." }, { "point_text": "Fertilizing", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 34:26-27", "verse_text": "And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing. 27 And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them." }, { "point_text": "Refreshing", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:9", "verse_text": "Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary." }, { "point_text": "Refreshing", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 18:4", "verse_text": "For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest." }, { "point_text": "Abundant", "verse_ref": "Psalm 133:3", "verse_text": "As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore." }, { "point_text": "Imperceptible", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 17:12", "verse_text": "So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and of him and of all the men that are with him there shall not be left so much as one." }, { "point_text": "Imperceptible", "verse_ref": "Mark 4:26-28", "verse_text": "And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; 27 And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. 28 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear." }, { "point_text": "A DOVE", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:16", "verse_text": "And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:" }, { "point_text": "Gentle", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:16", "verse_text": "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." }, { "point_text": "Gentle", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:22", "verse_text": "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith," }, { "point_text": "A VOICE", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:8", "verse_text": "Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me." }, { "point_text": "Speaking", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:20", "verse_text": "For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you." }, { "point_text": "Guiding", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:21", "verse_text": "And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left." }, { "point_text": "Guiding", "verse_ref": "John 16:13", "verse_text": "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come." }, { "point_text": "Warning", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:7-11", "verse_text": "Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. 10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. ..." }, { "point_text": "A SEAL", "verse_ref": "Revelation 7:2", "verse_text": "And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea," }, { "point_text": "Securing", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:13", "verse_text": "In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise," }, { "point_text": "Securing", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:30", "verse_text": "And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption." }, { "point_text": "Authenticating", "verse_ref": "John 6:27", "verse_text": "Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed." }, { "point_text": "Authenticating", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:22", "verse_text": "Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts." }, { "point_text": "CLOVEN TONGUES", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:3", "verse_text": "And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them." }, { "point_text": "CLOVEN TONGUES", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:6-11", "verse_text": "Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. 7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? 8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? 9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, ..." } ] }, { "name": "Election", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Election.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Of Christ, as Messiah", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:1", "verse_text": "Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles." }, { "point_text": "Of Christ, as Messiah", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:6", "verse_text": "Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded." }, { "point_text": "Of good angels", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:21", "verse_text": "I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality." }, { "point_text": "Of Israel", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:6", "verse_text": "For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Of Israel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:5", "verse_text": "I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:" }, { "point_text": "Of ministers", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:13", "verse_text": "And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles;" }, { "point_text": "Of ministers", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:15", "verse_text": "But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:" }, { "point_text": "Of churches", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:13", "verse_text": "The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son." }, { "point_text": "OF SAINTS, IS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of God", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 1:4", "verse_text": "Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God." }, { "point_text": "Of God", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:1", "verse_text": "Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;" }, { "point_text": "By Christ", "verse_ref": "John 13:18", "verse_text": "I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me." }, { "point_text": "By Christ", "verse_ref": "John 15:16", "verse_text": "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you." }, { "point_text": "In Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:4", "verse_text": "According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:" }, { "point_text": "Personal", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:16", "verse_text": "So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen." }, { "point_text": "Personal", "verse_ref": "John 6:44", "verse_text": "No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day." }, { "point_text": "Personal", "verse_ref": "Acts 22:14", "verse_text": "And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth." }, { "point_text": "Personal", "verse_ref": "2 John 13", "verse_text": "The children of thy elect sister greet thee. Amen." }, { "point_text": "According to the purpose of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:11", "verse_text": "(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)" }, { "point_text": "According to the purpose of God", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:11", "verse_text": "In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:" }, { "point_text": "According to the foreknowledge of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:29", "verse_text": "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren." }, { "point_text": "According to the foreknowledge of God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:2", "verse_text": "Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied." }, { "point_text": "Eternal", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:4", "verse_text": "According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:" }, { "point_text": "Sovereign", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:15-16", "verse_text": "For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. 16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy." }, { "point_text": "Sovereign", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:27", "verse_text": "But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;" }, { "point_text": "Sovereign", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:11", "verse_text": "In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:" }, { "point_text": "Irrespective of merit", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:11", "verse_text": "(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)" }, { "point_text": "Of grace", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:5", "verse_text": "Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace." }, { "point_text": "Recorded in heaven", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:20", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven." }, { "point_text": "For the glory of God", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:6", "verse_text": "To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved." }, { "point_text": "Through faith", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:13", "verse_text": "But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:" }, { "point_text": "Through sanctification of the Spirit", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:2", "verse_text": "Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied." }, { "point_text": "To adoption", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:5", "verse_text": "Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will," }, { "point_text": "To salvation", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:13", "verse_text": "But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:" }, { "point_text": "To conformity with Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:29", "verse_text": "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren." }, { "point_text": "To good works", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:10", "verse_text": "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." }, { "point_text": "To spiritual warfare", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:4", "verse_text": "No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." }, { "point_text": "To eternal glory", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:23", "verse_text": "And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory," }, { "point_text": "ENSURES TO SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Effectual calling", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:30", "verse_text": "Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified." }, { "point_text": "Divine teaching", "verse_ref": "John 17:6", "verse_text": "I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word." }, { "point_text": "Belief in Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:48", "verse_text": "And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed." }, { "point_text": "Acceptance with God", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:7", "verse_text": "What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded" }, { "point_text": "Protection", "verse_ref": "Mark 13:20", "verse_text": "And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days." }, { "point_text": "Vindication of their wrongs", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:7", "verse_text": "And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?" }, { "point_text": "Working of all things for good", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:28", "verse_text": "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 33:12", "verse_text": "Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 65:4", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple." }, { "point_text": "The inheritance", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:9", "verse_text": "And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there." }, { "point_text": "The inheritance", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:4-5", "verse_text": "To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time." }, { "point_text": "Should lead to cultivation of graces", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:12", "verse_text": "Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;" }, { "point_text": "Should be evidenced by diligence", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:10", "verse_text": "Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:" }, { "point_text": "Saints may have assurance of", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 1:4", "verse_text": "Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsaac, \nAbram, \nZerubbabel, \nApostles, \n\nJacob, \nRufus, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:12", "verse_text": "And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsaac, \nAbram, \nZerubbabel, \nApostles, \n\nJacob, \nRufus, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:7", "verse_text": "Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsaac, \nAbram, \nZerubbabel, \nApostles, \n\nJacob, \nRufus, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Haggai 2:23", "verse_text": "In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsaac, \nAbram, \nZerubbabel, \nApostles, \n\nJacob, \nRufus, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "John 13:18", "verse_text": "I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsaac, \nAbram, \nZerubbabel, \nApostles, \n\nJacob, \nRufus, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "John 15:19", "verse_text": "If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsaac, \nAbram, \nZerubbabel, \nApostles, \n\nJacob, \nRufus, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:12-13", "verse_text": "It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. 13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsaac, \nAbram, \nZerubbabel, \nApostles, \n\nJacob, \nRufus, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:13", "verse_text": "Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsaac, \nAbram, \nZerubbabel, \nApostles, \n\nJacob, \nRufus, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Galatians 1:15", "verse_text": "But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace," } ] }, { "name": "Eagle, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Eagle-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "A bird of prey", "verse_ref": "Job 9:26", "verse_text": "They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey." }, { "point_text": "A bird of prey", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:28", "verse_text": "For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together." }, { "point_text": "Unclean", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:13", "verse_text": "And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray," }, { "point_text": "Unclean", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:12", "verse_text": "But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray," }, { "point_text": "Different kinds of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:13", "verse_text": "And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray," }, { "point_text": "Different kinds of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:18", "verse_text": "And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle," }, { "point_text": "Called the eagle of the heavens", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 4:19", "verse_text": "Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Long-sighted", "verse_ref": "Job 39:29", "verse_text": "From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off." }, { "point_text": "Swift", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 1:23", "verse_text": "Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions." }, { "point_text": "Soaring to heaven", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:5", "verse_text": "Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven." }, { "point_text": "Strength of its feathers alluded to", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:33", "verse_text": "The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws." }, { "point_text": "Greatness of its wings alluded to", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:3", "verse_text": "And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:" }, { "point_text": "Greatness of its wings alluded to", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:7", "verse_text": "There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation." }, { "point_text": "Peculiarity of its flight alluded to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:19", "verse_text": "The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid." }, { "point_text": "Delights in the lofty cedars", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:3-4", "verse_text": "And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar: 4 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants." }, { "point_text": "Dwells in the high rocks", "verse_ref": "Job 39:27-28", "verse_text": "Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high? 28 She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place." }, { "point_text": "Feeds her young with blood", "verse_ref": "Job 39:29-30", "verse_text": "From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off. 30 Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Of wisdom and zeal of God's ministers", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 1:10", "verse_text": "As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle." }, { "point_text": "Of wisdom and zeal of God's ministers", "verse_ref": "Revelation 4:7", "verse_text": "And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle." }, { "point_text": "Of great and powerful kings", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:3", "verse_text": "And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:" }, { "point_text": "Of great and powerful kings", "verse_ref": "Hosea 8:1", "verse_text": "Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law." }, { "point_text": "(Renewed strength and beauty of,) of the renewal of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:5", "verse_text": "Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's." }, { "point_text": "(Mode of teaching her young to fly,) of God's care of His church", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:4", "verse_text": "Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself." }, { "point_text": "(Mode of teaching her young to fly,) of God's care of His church", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:11", "verse_text": "As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:" }, { "point_text": "(Wings of,) of protection afforded to the church", "verse_ref": "Revelation 12:14", "verse_text": "And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent." }, { "point_text": "(Upward flight of,) of the saint's rapid progress toward heaven", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:31", "verse_text": "But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." }, { "point_text": "(Swiftness of,) of the melting away of riches", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:5", "verse_text": "Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven." }, { "point_text": "(Swiftness of,) of the swiftness of hostile armies", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:49", "verse_text": "The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;" }, { "point_text": "(Swiftness of,) of the swiftness of hostile armies", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:13", "verse_text": "Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled." }, { "point_text": "(Swiftness of,) of the swiftness of hostile armies", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:40", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab." }, { "point_text": "(Swiftness of,) of the swiftness of hostile armies", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 4:19", "verse_text": "Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "(Height and security of its dwelling,) of the fancied but fatal security of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:16", "verse_text": "Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "(Height and security of its dwelling,) of the fancied but fatal security of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Obadiah 4", "verse_text": "Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "(Increased baldness of, in the moulting season,) of calamities", "verse_ref": "Micah 1:16", "verse_text": "Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee." }, { "point_text": "(Hasting to the prey,) of the swiftness of man's days", "verse_ref": "Job 9:26", "verse_text": "They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey." }, { "point_text": "Was the standard of the Roman armies", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:15", "verse_text": "When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)" }, { "point_text": "Was the standard of the Roman armies", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:28", "verse_text": "For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together." }, { "point_text": "A bird of prey", "verse_ref": "Job 9:26", "verse_text": "They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey." }, { "point_text": "A bird of prey", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:28", "verse_text": "For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together." }, { "point_text": "Unclean", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:13", "verse_text": "And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray," }, { "point_text": "Unclean", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:12", "verse_text": "But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray," }, { "point_text": "Different kinds of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:13", "verse_text": "And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray," }, { "point_text": "Different kinds of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:18", "verse_text": "And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle," }, { "point_text": "Called the eagle of the heavens", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 4:19", "verse_text": "Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Long-sighted", "verse_ref": "Job 39:29", "verse_text": "From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off." }, { "point_text": "Swift", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 1:23", "verse_text": "Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions." }, { "point_text": "Soaring to heaven", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:5", "verse_text": "Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven." }, { "point_text": "Strength of its feathers alluded to", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:33", "verse_text": "The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws." }, { "point_text": "Greatness of its wings alluded to", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:3", "verse_text": "And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:" }, { "point_text": "Greatness of its wings alluded to", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:7", "verse_text": "There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation." }, { "point_text": "Peculiarity of its flight alluded to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:19", "verse_text": "The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid." }, { "point_text": "Delights in the lofty cedars", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:3-4", "verse_text": "And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar: 4 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants." }, { "point_text": "Dwells in the high rocks", "verse_ref": "Job 39:27-28", "verse_text": "Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high? 28 She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place." }, { "point_text": "Feeds her young with blood", "verse_ref": "Job 39:29-30", "verse_text": "From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off. 30 Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of wisdom and zeal of God's ministers", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 1:10", "verse_text": "As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle." }, { "point_text": "Of wisdom and zeal of God's ministers", "verse_ref": "Revelation 4:7", "verse_text": "And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle." }, { "point_text": "Of great and powerful kings", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:3", "verse_text": "And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:" }, { "point_text": "Of great and powerful kings", "verse_ref": "Hosea 8:1", "verse_text": "Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law." }, { "point_text": "(Renewed strength and beauty of,) of the renewal of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:5", "verse_text": "Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's." }, { "point_text": "(Mode of teaching her young to fly,) of God's care of His church", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:4", "verse_text": "Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself." }, { "point_text": "(Mode of teaching her young to fly,) of God's care of His church", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:11", "verse_text": "As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:" }, { "point_text": "(Wings of,) of protection afforded to the church", "verse_ref": "Revelation 12:14", "verse_text": "And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent." }, { "point_text": "(Upward flight of,) of the saint's rapid progress toward heaven", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:31", "verse_text": "But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." }, { "point_text": "(Swiftness of,) of the melting away of riches", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:5", "verse_text": "Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven." }, { "point_text": "(Swiftness of,) of the swiftness of hostile armies", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:49", "verse_text": "The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;" }, { "point_text": "(Swiftness of,) of the swiftness of hostile armies", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:13", "verse_text": "Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled." }, { "point_text": "(Swiftness of,) of the swiftness of hostile armies", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:40", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab." }, { "point_text": "(Swiftness of,) of the swiftness of hostile armies", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 4:19", "verse_text": "Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "(Height and security of its dwelling,) of the fancied but fatal security of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:16", "verse_text": "Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "(Height and security of its dwelling,) of the fancied but fatal security of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Obadiah 4", "verse_text": "Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "(Increased baldness of, in the moulting season,) of calamities", "verse_ref": "Micah 1:16", "verse_text": "Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee." }, { "point_text": "(Hasting to the prey,) of the swiftness of man's days", "verse_ref": "Job 9:26", "verse_text": "They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey." }, { "point_text": "Was the standard of the Roman armies", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:15", "verse_text": "When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)" }, { "point_text": "Was the standard of the Roman armies", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:28", "verse_text": "For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together." } ] }, { "name": "Enemies", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Enemies.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Christ prayed for his", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:34", "verse_text": "Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots." }, { "point_text": "The lives of, to be spared", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 24:10", "verse_text": "Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD'S anointed." }, { "point_text": "The lives of, to be spared", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 16:10-11", "verse_text": "And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so? 11 And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him." }, { "point_text": "The goods of, to be taken care of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:4-5", "verse_text": "If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. 5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Loved", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:44", "verse_text": "But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;" }, { "point_text": "Prayed for", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:60", "verse_text": "And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep." }, { "point_text": "Assisted", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:21", "verse_text": "If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:" }, { "point_text": "Assisted", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:20", "verse_text": "Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head." }, { "point_text": "Overcome by kindness", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 26:21", "verse_text": "Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly." }, { "point_text": "Rejoice not at the misfortunes of", "verse_ref": "Job 31:29", "verse_text": "If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:" }, { "point_text": "Rejoice not at the failings of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 24:17", "verse_text": "Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:" }, { "point_text": "Desire not the death of", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 3:11", "verse_text": "And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;" }, { "point_text": "Curse them not", "verse_ref": "Job 31:30", "verse_text": "Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul." }, { "point_text": "Be affectionately concerned for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 35:13", "verse_text": "But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom." }, { "point_text": "The friendship of, deceitful", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 20:9-10", "verse_text": "And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him. 10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri." }, { "point_text": "God defends against", "verse_ref": "Psalm 59:9", "verse_text": "Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence." }, { "point_text": "God defends against", "verse_ref": "Psalm 61:3", "verse_text": "For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy." }, { "point_text": "God delivers from", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 12:11", "verse_text": "And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe." }, { "point_text": "God delivers from", "verse_ref": "Ezra 8:31", "verse_text": "Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way." }, { "point_text": "God delivers from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 18:48", "verse_text": "He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man." }, { "point_text": "Made to be at peace with saints", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:7", "verse_text": "When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him." }, { "point_text": "Pray for deliverance from", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 12:10", "verse_text": "And they cried unto the LORD, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee." }, { "point_text": "Pray for deliverance from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 17:9", "verse_text": "From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about." }, { "point_text": "Pray for deliverance from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 59:1", "verse_text": "Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me." }, { "point_text": "Pray for deliverance from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 64:1", "verse_text": "Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy." }, { "point_text": "Of saints, God will destroy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 60:12", "verse_text": "Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies." }, { "point_text": "Praise God for deliverance from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 136:24", "verse_text": "And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for ever." } ] }, { "name": "Entertainments", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Entertainments.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Often great", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:8", "verse_text": "And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned." }, { "point_text": "Often great", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:1", "verse_text": "Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand." }, { "point_text": "Often great", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:29", "verse_text": "And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them." }, { "point_text": "GIVEN ON OCCASIONS OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Marriage", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:2", "verse_text": "The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son," }, { "point_text": "Birth days", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:21", "verse_text": "And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee;" }, { "point_text": "Weaning children", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:8", "verse_text": "And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned." }, { "point_text": "Taking leave of friends", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:21", "verse_text": "And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him." }, { "point_text": "Return of friends.\r\n\n\r\n, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:4", "verse_text": "And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him." }, { "point_text": "Return of friends.\r\n\n\r\n, &c", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:23", "verse_text": "And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:" }, { "point_text": "Ratifying covenants", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:30", "verse_text": "And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink." }, { "point_text": "Ratifying covenants", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:54", "verse_text": "Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount." }, { "point_text": "Sheep-shearing", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:2", "verse_text": "And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel." }, { "point_text": "Sheep-shearing", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:36", "verse_text": "And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light." }, { "point_text": "Sheep-shearing", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 13:23", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baalhazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king's sons." }, { "point_text": "Harvest home", "verse_ref": "Ruth 3:2-7", "verse_text": "And now is not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley to night in the threshingfloor. 3 Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: but make not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking. 4 And it shall be, when he lieth down, that thou shalt mark the place where he shall lie, and thou shalt go in, and uncover his feet, and lay thee down; and he will tell thee what thou shalt do. 5 And she said unto her, All that thou sayest unto me I will do. ..." }, { "point_text": "Harvest home", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:3", "verse_text": "Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil." }, { "point_text": "Vintage", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:27", "verse_text": "And they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trode the grapes, and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech." }, { "point_text": "Coronation of Kings", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:9", "verse_text": "And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by Enrogel, and called all his brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants:" }, { "point_text": "Coronation of Kings", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:18-19", "verse_text": "And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king, thou knowest it not: 19 And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the host: but Solomon thy servant hath he not called." }, { "point_text": "Coronation of Kings", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:39-40", "verse_text": "And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them. 40 Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel." }, { "point_text": "Offering voluntary sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:54", "verse_text": "Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount." }, { "point_text": "Offering voluntary sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:6-7", "verse_text": "And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks: 7 And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee." }, { "point_text": "Offering voluntary sacrifice", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:4-5", "verse_text": "And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions: 5 But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb." }, { "point_text": "Offering voluntary sacrifice", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:9", "verse_text": "So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Festivals", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 20:5", "verse_text": "And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third day at even." }, { "point_text": "Festivals", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 20:24-26", "verse_text": "So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat meat. 25 And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon a seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, and David's place was empty. 26 Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean." }, { "point_text": "National deliverance", "verse_ref": "Esther 8:17", "verse_text": "And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them." }, { "point_text": "National deliverance", "verse_ref": "Esther 9:17-19", "verse_text": "On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness. 18 But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness. 19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another." }, { "point_text": "Preparations made for", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:6-7", "verse_text": "And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth. 7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it." }, { "point_text": "KINDS OF, MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Dinner", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:16", "verse_text": "And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready; for these men shall dine with me at noon." }, { "point_text": "Dinner", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:4", "verse_text": "Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage." }, { "point_text": "Dinner", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:12", "verse_text": "Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee." }, { "point_text": "Supper", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:12", "verse_text": "Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee." }, { "point_text": "Supper", "verse_ref": "John 12:2", "verse_text": "There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him." }, { "point_text": "Banquet of wine", "verse_ref": "Esther 5:6", "verse_text": "And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed." }, { "point_text": "Under the direction of a symposiarch or master of the feast", "verse_ref": "John 2:8-9", "verse_text": "And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it. 9 When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom," }, { "point_text": "Served often by hired servants", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:13", "verse_text": "Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." }, { "point_text": "Served often by hired servants", "verse_ref": "John 2:5", "verse_text": "His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it." }, { "point_text": "Served often by members of the family", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:8", "verse_text": "And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat." }, { "point_text": "Served often by members of the family", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:40", "verse_text": "But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me." }, { "point_text": "Served often by members of the family", "verse_ref": "John 12:2", "verse_text": "There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him." }, { "point_text": "INVITATIONS TO,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Often addressed to many", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:16", "verse_text": "Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:" }, { "point_text": "Often only to relatives and friends", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:9", "verse_text": "And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by Enrogel, and called all his brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants:" }, { "point_text": "Often only to relatives and friends", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:12", "verse_text": "Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee." }, { "point_text": "Often by the master in person", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 13:24", "verse_text": "And Absalom came to the king, and said, Behold now, thy servant hath sheepshearers; let the king, I beseech thee, and his servants go with thy servant." }, { "point_text": "Often by the master in person", "verse_ref": "Esther 5:4", "verse_text": "And Esther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him." }, { "point_text": "Often by the master in person", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 1:7", "verse_text": "Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests." }, { "point_text": "Often by the master in person", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:36", "verse_text": "And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat." }, { "point_text": "Repeated through servants when all things were ready", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 9:1-5", "verse_text": "Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: 2 She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. 3 She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city, 4 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, ..." }, { "point_text": "Repeated through servants when all things were ready", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:17", "verse_text": "And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready." }, { "point_text": "Should be sent to the poor, &c", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:29", "verse_text": "And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest." }, { "point_text": "Should be sent to the poor, &c", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:13", "verse_text": "But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:" }, { "point_text": "OFTEN GIVEN IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The house", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:29", "verse_text": "And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them." }, { "point_text": "The air, besides fountains", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:9", "verse_text": "And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by Enrogel, and called all his brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants:" }, { "point_text": "The court of the house", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:5-6", "verse_text": "And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace; 6 Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble." }, { "point_text": "The upper room or guest chamber", "verse_ref": "Mark 14:14-15", "verse_text": "And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the house, The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples? 15 And he will shew you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us." }, { "point_text": "GUESTS AT,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Saluted by the master", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:45", "verse_text": "Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet." }, { "point_text": "Usually anointed", "verse_ref": "Psalm 23:5", "verse_text": "Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over." }, { "point_text": "Usually anointed", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:46", "verse_text": "My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment." }, { "point_text": "Had their feet washed when they came a distance", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:4", "verse_text": "Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:" }, { "point_text": "Had their feet washed when they came a distance", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:24", "verse_text": "And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender." }, { "point_text": "Had their feet washed when they came a distance", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:38", "verse_text": "And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment." }, { "point_text": "Had their feet washed when they came a distance", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:44", "verse_text": "And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head." }, { "point_text": "Arranged according to rank", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:33", "verse_text": "And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another." }, { "point_text": "Arranged according to rank", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 9:22", "verse_text": "And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, which were about thirty persons." }, { "point_text": "Arranged according to rank", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:10", "verse_text": "But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee." }, { "point_text": "Often had separate dishes", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:34", "verse_text": "And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him." }, { "point_text": "Often had separate dishes", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:4", "verse_text": "And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:" }, { "point_text": "Often ate from the same dish", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:23", "verse_text": "And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me." }, { "point_text": "Forwardness to take chief seats at, condemned", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:6", "verse_text": "And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues," }, { "point_text": "Forwardness to take chief seats at, condemned", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:7-8", "verse_text": "And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them, 8 When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him;" }, { "point_text": "A choice portion reserved in, for principal guests", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:34", "verse_text": "And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him." }, { "point_text": "A choice portion reserved in, for principal guests", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:5", "verse_text": "But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb." }, { "point_text": "A choice portion reserved in, for principal guests", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 9:23-24", "verse_text": "And Samuel said unto the cook, Bring the portion which I gave thee, of which I said unto thee, Set it by thee. 24 And the cook took up the shoulder, and that which was upon it, and set it before Saul. And Samuel said, Behold that which is left! set it before thee, and eat: for unto this time hath it been kept for thee since I said, I have invited the people. So Saul did eat with Samuel that day." }, { "point_text": "Custom of presenting the sop at, to one of the guests, alluded to", "verse_ref": "John 13:26", "verse_text": "Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon." }, { "point_text": "Portions of, often sent to the absent", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 11:8", "verse_text": "And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess of meat from the king." }, { "point_text": "Portions of, often sent to the absent", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:10", "verse_text": "Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength." }, { "point_text": "Portions of, often sent to the absent", "verse_ref": "Esther 9:19", "verse_text": "Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another." }, { "point_text": "Offence given by refusing to go to", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:18", "verse_text": "And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused." }, { "point_text": "Offence given by refusing to go to", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:24", "verse_text": "For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper." }, { "point_text": "Anxiety to have many guests at, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:22-23", "verse_text": "And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. 23 And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled." }, { "point_text": "Men and women did not usually meet at", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:8-9", "verse_text": "And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure. 9 Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus." }, { "point_text": "None admitted to, after the master had risen and shut the door", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:24-25", "verse_text": "Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. 25 When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:" }, { "point_text": "Began with thanksgiving", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 9:13", "verse_text": "As soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; and afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for about this time ye shall find him." }, { "point_text": "Began with thanksgiving", "verse_ref": "Mark 8:6", "verse_text": "And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people." }, { "point_text": "Concluded with a hymn", "verse_ref": "Mark 14:26", "verse_text": "And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives." }, { "point_text": "None asked to eat or drink more than he liked at", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:8", "verse_text": "And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure." }, { "point_text": "Music and dancing often introduced at", "verse_ref": "Amos 6:5", "verse_text": "That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;" }, { "point_text": "Music and dancing often introduced at", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:22", "verse_text": "And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee." }, { "point_text": "Music and dancing often introduced at", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:25", "verse_text": "Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing." }, { "point_text": "Often scenes of great intemperance", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:36", "verse_text": "And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light." }, { "point_text": "Often scenes of great intemperance", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:3-4", "verse_text": "Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. 4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone." }, { "point_text": "Given by the guests in return", "verse_ref": "Job 1:4", "verse_text": "And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them." }, { "point_text": "Given by the guests in return", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:12", "verse_text": "Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee." }, { "point_text": "Often great", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:8", "verse_text": "And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned." }, { "point_text": "Often great", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:1", "verse_text": "Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand." }, { "point_text": "Often great", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:29", "verse_text": "And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them." }, { "point_text": "GIVEN ON OCCASIONS OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Marriage", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:2", "verse_text": "The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son," }, { "point_text": "Birth days", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:21", "verse_text": "And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee;" }, { "point_text": "Weaning children", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:8", "verse_text": "And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned." }, { "point_text": "Taking leave of friends", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:21", "verse_text": "And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him." }, { "point_text": "Return of friends.\r\n\n\r\n, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:4", "verse_text": "And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him." }, { "point_text": "Return of friends.\r\n\n\r\n, &c", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:23", "verse_text": "And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:" }, { "point_text": "Ratifying covenants", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:30", "verse_text": "And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink." }, { "point_text": "Ratifying covenants", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:54", "verse_text": "Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount." }, { "point_text": "Sheep-shearing", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:2", "verse_text": "And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel." }, { "point_text": "Sheep-shearing", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:36", "verse_text": "And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light." }, { "point_text": "Sheep-shearing", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 13:23", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baalhazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king's sons." }, { "point_text": "Harvest home", "verse_ref": "Ruth 3:2-7", "verse_text": "And now is not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley to night in the threshingfloor. 3 Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: but make not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking. 4 And it shall be, when he lieth down, that thou shalt mark the place where he shall lie, and thou shalt go in, and uncover his feet, and lay thee down; and he will tell thee what thou shalt do. 5 And she said unto her, All that thou sayest unto me I will do. ..." }, { "point_text": "Harvest home", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:3", "verse_text": "Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil." }, { "point_text": "Vintage", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:27", "verse_text": "And they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trode the grapes, and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech." }, { "point_text": "Coronation of Kings", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:9", "verse_text": "And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by Enrogel, and called all his brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants:" }, { "point_text": "Coronation of Kings", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:18-19", "verse_text": "And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king, thou knowest it not: 19 And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the host: but Solomon thy servant hath he not called." }, { "point_text": "Coronation of Kings", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:39-40", "verse_text": "And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them. 40 Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel." }, { "point_text": "Offering voluntary sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:54", "verse_text": "Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount." }, { "point_text": "Offering voluntary sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:6-7", "verse_text": "And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks: 7 And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee." }, { "point_text": "Offering voluntary sacrifice", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:4-5", "verse_text": "And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions: 5 But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb." }, { "point_text": "Offering voluntary sacrifice", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:9", "verse_text": "So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Festivals", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 20:5", "verse_text": "And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third day at even." }, { "point_text": "Festivals", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 20:24-26", "verse_text": "So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat meat. 25 And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon a seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, and David's place was empty. 26 Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean." }, { "point_text": "National deliverance", "verse_ref": "Esther 8:17", "verse_text": "And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them." }, { "point_text": "National deliverance", "verse_ref": "Esther 9:17-19", "verse_text": "On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness. 18 But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness. 19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another." }, { "point_text": "Preparations made for", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:6-7", "verse_text": "And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth. 7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it." }, { "point_text": "KINDS OF, MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Dinner", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:16", "verse_text": "And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready; for these men shall dine with me at noon." }, { "point_text": "Dinner", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:4", "verse_text": "Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage." }, { "point_text": "Dinner", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:12", "verse_text": "Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee." }, { "point_text": "Supper", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:12", "verse_text": "Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee." }, { "point_text": "Supper", "verse_ref": "John 12:2", "verse_text": "There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him." }, { "point_text": "Banquet of wine", "verse_ref": "Esther 5:6", "verse_text": "And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed." }, { "point_text": "Under the direction of a symposiarch or master of the feast", "verse_ref": "John 2:8-9", "verse_text": "And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it. 9 When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom," }, { "point_text": "Served often by hired servants", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:13", "verse_text": "Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." }, { "point_text": "Served often by hired servants", "verse_ref": "John 2:5", "verse_text": "His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it." }, { "point_text": "Served often by members of the family", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:8", "verse_text": "And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat." }, { "point_text": "Served often by members of the family", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:40", "verse_text": "But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me." }, { "point_text": "Served often by members of the family", "verse_ref": "John 12:2", "verse_text": "There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him." }, { "point_text": "INVITATIONS TO,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Often addressed to many", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:16", "verse_text": "Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:" }, { "point_text": "Often only to relatives and friends", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:9", "verse_text": "And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by Enrogel, and called all his brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants:" }, { "point_text": "Often only to relatives and friends", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:12", "verse_text": "Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee." }, { "point_text": "Often by the master in person", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 13:24", "verse_text": "And Absalom came to the king, and said, Behold now, thy servant hath sheepshearers; let the king, I beseech thee, and his servants go with thy servant." }, { "point_text": "Often by the master in person", "verse_ref": "Esther 5:4", "verse_text": "And Esther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him." }, { "point_text": "Often by the master in person", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 1:7", "verse_text": "Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests." }, { "point_text": "Often by the master in person", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:36", "verse_text": "And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat." }, { "point_text": "Repeated through servants when all things were ready", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 9:1-5", "verse_text": "Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: 2 She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. 3 She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city, 4 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, ..." }, { "point_text": "Repeated through servants when all things were ready", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:17", "verse_text": "And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready." }, { "point_text": "Should be sent to the poor, &c", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:29", "verse_text": "And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest." }, { "point_text": "Should be sent to the poor, &c", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:13", "verse_text": "But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:" }, { "point_text": "OFTEN GIVEN IN", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "The house", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:29", "verse_text": "And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them." }, { "point_text": "The air, besides fountains", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:9", "verse_text": "And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by Enrogel, and called all his brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants:" }, { "point_text": "The court of the house", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:5-6", "verse_text": "And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace; 6 Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble." }, { "point_text": "The upper room or guest chamber", "verse_ref": "Mark 14:14-15", "verse_text": "And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the house, The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples? 15 And he will shew you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us." }, { "point_text": "GUESTS AT,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Saluted by the master", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:45", "verse_text": "Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet." }, { "point_text": "Usually anointed", "verse_ref": "Psalm 23:5", "verse_text": "Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over." }, { "point_text": "Usually anointed", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:46", "verse_text": "My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment." }, { "point_text": "Had their feet washed when they came a distance", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:4", "verse_text": "Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:" }, { "point_text": "Had their feet washed when they came a distance", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:24", "verse_text": "And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender." }, { "point_text": "Had their feet washed when they came a distance", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:38", "verse_text": "And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment." }, { "point_text": "Had their feet washed when they came a distance", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:44", "verse_text": "And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head." }, { "point_text": "Arranged according to rank", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:33", "verse_text": "And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another." }, { "point_text": "Arranged according to rank", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 9:22", "verse_text": "And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, which were about thirty persons." }, { "point_text": "Arranged according to rank", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:10", "verse_text": "But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee." }, { "point_text": "Often had separate dishes", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:34", "verse_text": "And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him." }, { "point_text": "Often had separate dishes", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:4", "verse_text": "And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:" }, { "point_text": "Often ate from the same dish", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:23", "verse_text": "And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me." }, { "point_text": "Forwardness to take chief seats at, condemned", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:6", "verse_text": "And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues," }, { "point_text": "Forwardness to take chief seats at, condemned", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:7-8", "verse_text": "And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them, 8 When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him;" }, { "point_text": "A choice portion reserved in, for principal guests", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:34", "verse_text": "And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him." }, { "point_text": "A choice portion reserved in, for principal guests", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:5", "verse_text": "But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb." }, { "point_text": "A choice portion reserved in, for principal guests", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 9:23-24", "verse_text": "And Samuel said unto the cook, Bring the portion which I gave thee, of which I said unto thee, Set it by thee. 24 And the cook took up the shoulder, and that which was upon it, and set it before Saul. And Samuel said, Behold that which is left! set it before thee, and eat: for unto this time hath it been kept for thee since I said, I have invited the people. So Saul did eat with Samuel that day." }, { "point_text": "Custom of presenting the sop at, to one of the guests, alluded to", "verse_ref": "John 13:26", "verse_text": "Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon." }, { "point_text": "Portions of, often sent to the absent", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 11:8", "verse_text": "And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess of meat from the king." }, { "point_text": "Portions of, often sent to the absent", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:10", "verse_text": "Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength." }, { "point_text": "Portions of, often sent to the absent", "verse_ref": "Esther 9:19", "verse_text": "Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another." }, { "point_text": "Offence given by refusing to go to", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:18", "verse_text": "And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused." }, { "point_text": "Offence given by refusing to go to", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:24", "verse_text": "For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper." }, { "point_text": "Anxiety to have many guests at, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:22-23", "verse_text": "And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. 23 And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled." }, { "point_text": "Men and women did not usually meet at", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:8-9", "verse_text": "And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure. 9 Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus." }, { "point_text": "None admitted to, after the master had risen and shut the door", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:24-25", "verse_text": "Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. 25 When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:" }, { "point_text": "Began with thanksgiving", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 9:13", "verse_text": "As soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; and afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for about this time ye shall find him." }, { "point_text": "Began with thanksgiving", "verse_ref": "Mark 8:6", "verse_text": "And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people." }, { "point_text": "Concluded with a hymn", "verse_ref": "Mark 14:26", "verse_text": "And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives." }, { "point_text": "None asked to eat or drink more than he liked at", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:8", "verse_text": "And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure." }, { "point_text": "Music and dancing often introduced at", "verse_ref": "Amos 6:5", "verse_text": "That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;" }, { "point_text": "Music and dancing often introduced at", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:22", "verse_text": "And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee." }, { "point_text": "Music and dancing often introduced at", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:25", "verse_text": "Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing." }, { "point_text": "Often scenes of great intemperance", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:36", "verse_text": "And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light." }, { "point_text": "Often scenes of great intemperance", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:3-4", "verse_text": "Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. 4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone." }, { "point_text": "Given by the guests in return", "verse_ref": "Job 1:4", "verse_text": "And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them." }, { "point_text": "Given by the guests in return", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:12", "verse_text": "Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee." } ] }, { "name": "Envy", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Envy.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:31", "verse_text": "Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:13", "verse_text": "Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying." }, { "point_text": "Produced by foolish disputations", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:4", "verse_text": "He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings," }, { "point_text": "Excited by good deeds of others", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 4:4", "verse_text": "Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit." }, { "point_text": "A work of the flesh", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:21", "verse_text": "Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "A work of the flesh", "verse_ref": "James 4:5", "verse_text": "Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?" }, { "point_text": "Hurtful to the envious", "verse_ref": "Job 5:2", "verse_text": "For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one." }, { "point_text": "Hurtful to the envious", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:30", "verse_text": "A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones." }, { "point_text": "None can stand before", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:4", "verse_text": "Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?" }, { "point_text": "A proof of carnal-mindedness", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:1", "verse_text": "And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ." }, { "point_text": "A proof of carnal-mindedness", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:3", "verse_text": "For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?" }, { "point_text": "Inconsistent with the gospel", "verse_ref": "James 3:14", "verse_text": "But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth." }, { "point_text": "Hinders growth in grace", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:1-2", "verse_text": "Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, 2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:" }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Are full of", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:29", "verse_text": "Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers," }, { "point_text": "Live in", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:3", "verse_text": "For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another." }, { "point_text": "Leads to every evil work", "verse_ref": "James 3:16", "verse_text": "For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work." }, { "point_text": "Prosperity of the wicked should not excite", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:1", "verse_text": "Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Prosperity of the wicked should not excite", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:3", "verse_text": "For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked." }, { "point_text": "Prosperity of the wicked should not excite", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:17-20", "verse_text": "Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end. 18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. 19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. 20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:11", "verse_text": "LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nPhilistines, \nLaban's sons, \nJoseph's brethren, \nJoshua, \nAaron, &c. \nKorah, &c. \n\nSaul, \nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPrinces of Babylon, \nChief Priests, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:5", "verse_text": "But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nPhilistines, \nLaban's sons, \nJoseph's brethren, \nJoshua, \nAaron, &c. \nKorah, &c. \n\nSaul, \nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPrinces of Babylon, \nChief Priests, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:14", "verse_text": "For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nPhilistines, \nLaban's sons, \nJoseph's brethren, \nJoshua, \nAaron, &c. \nKorah, &c. \n\nSaul, \nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPrinces of Babylon, \nChief Priests, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:1", "verse_text": "And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nPhilistines, \nLaban's sons, \nJoseph's brethren, \nJoshua, \nAaron, &c. \nKorah, &c. \n\nSaul, \nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPrinces of Babylon, \nChief Priests, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:11", "verse_text": "And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nPhilistines, \nLaban's sons, \nJoseph's brethren, \nJoshua, \nAaron, &c. \nKorah, &c. \n\nSaul, \nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPrinces of Babylon, \nChief Priests, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:28-29", "verse_text": "And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them. 29 And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the LORD'S people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nPhilistines, \nLaban's sons, \nJoseph's brethren, \nJoshua, \nAaron, &c. \nKorah, &c. \n\nSaul, \nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPrinces of Babylon, \nChief Priests, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 12:2", "verse_text": "And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nPhilistines, \nLaban's sons, \nJoseph's brethren, \nJoshua, \nAaron, &c. \nKorah, &c. \n\nSaul, \nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPrinces of Babylon, \nChief Priests, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:3", "verse_text": "And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nPhilistines, \nLaban's sons, \nJoseph's brethren, \nJoshua, \nAaron, &c. \nKorah, &c. \n\nSaul, \nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPrinces of Babylon, \nChief Priests, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:16", "verse_text": "They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nPhilistines, \nLaban's sons, \nJoseph's brethren, \nJoshua, \nAaron, &c. \nKorah, &c. \n\nSaul, \nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPrinces of Babylon, \nChief Priests, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 18:8", "verse_text": "And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nPhilistines, \nLaban's sons, \nJoseph's brethren, \nJoshua, \nAaron, &c. \nKorah, &c. \n\nSaul, \nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPrinces of Babylon, \nChief Priests, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 2:10", "verse_text": "When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nPhilistines, \nLaban's sons, \nJoseph's brethren, \nJoshua, \nAaron, &c. \nKorah, &c. \n\nSaul, \nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPrinces of Babylon, \nChief Priests, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Esther 5:13", "verse_text": "Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nPhilistines, \nLaban's sons, \nJoseph's brethren, \nJoshua, \nAaron, &c. \nKorah, &c. \n\nSaul, \nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPrinces of Babylon, \nChief Priests, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 35:11", "verse_text": "Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nPhilistines, \nLaban's sons, \nJoseph's brethren, \nJoshua, \nAaron, &c. \nKorah, &c. \n\nSaul, \nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPrinces of Babylon, \nChief Priests, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:3-4", "verse_text": "Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm. 4 Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nPhilistines, \nLaban's sons, \nJoseph's brethren, \nJoshua, \nAaron, &c. \nKorah, &c. \n\nSaul, \nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPrinces of Babylon, \nChief Priests, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Mark 15:10", "verse_text": "For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nPhilistines, \nLaban's sons, \nJoseph's brethren, \nJoshua, \nAaron, &c. \nKorah, &c. \n\nSaul, \nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPrinces of Babylon, \nChief Priests, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:45", "verse_text": "But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nPhilistines, \nLaban's sons, \nJoseph's brethren, \nJoshua, \nAaron, &c. \nKorah, &c. \n\nSaul, \nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPrinces of Babylon, \nChief Priests, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:5", "verse_text": "But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people." } ] }, { "name": "Euphrates, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Euphrates-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "A branch of the river of Eden", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:14", "verse_text": "And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates." }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The river", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:31", "verse_text": "And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee." }, { "point_text": "The river", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 2:7", "verse_text": "Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah;" }, { "point_text": "The river", "verse_ref": "Psalm 72:8", "verse_text": "He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth." }, { "point_text": "The great river", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:18", "verse_text": "In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:" }, { "point_text": "The great river", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:7", "verse_text": "Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates." }, { "point_text": "The flood", "verse_ref": "Joshua 24:2", "verse_text": "And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods." }, { "point_text": "Waters of, considered wholesome", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:18", "verse_text": "And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?" }, { "point_text": "Often overflowed its banks", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:7-8", "verse_text": "Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks: 8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel." }, { "point_text": "Assyria bounded by", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:29", "verse_text": "In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him." }, { "point_text": "Assyria bounded by", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:20", "verse_text": "In the same day shall the Lord shave with a rasor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard." }, { "point_text": "Babylon situated on", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:13", "verse_text": "O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness." }, { "point_text": "Babylon situated on", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:36", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry." }, { "point_text": "Extreme eastern boundary of the promised land", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:18", "verse_text": "In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:" }, { "point_text": "Extreme eastern boundary of the promised land", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:7", "verse_text": "Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates." }, { "point_text": "Extreme eastern boundary of the promised land", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:24", "verse_text": "Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be." }, { "point_text": "Egyptian army destroyed at", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 46:2", "verse_text": "Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah." }, { "point_text": "Egyptian army destroyed at", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 46:6", "verse_text": "Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates." }, { "point_text": "Egyptian army destroyed at", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 46:10", "verse_text": "For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates." }, { "point_text": "Frequented by the captive Jews", "verse_ref": "Psalm 137:1", "verse_text": "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion." }, { "point_text": "Captivity of Judah represented by the marring of Jeremiah's girdle in", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 13:3-9", "verse_text": "And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, 4 Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock. 5 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me. 6 And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said unto me, Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there. ..." }, { "point_text": "Prophecies respecting Babylon thrown into, as a sign", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:63", "verse_text": "And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:" }, { "point_text": "Shall be the scene of future judgments", "verse_ref": "Revelation 16:12", "verse_text": "And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared." } ] }, { "name": "Evening, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Evening-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The day originally began with.\r\n\r\n, &c", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:5", "verse_text": "And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day." }, { "point_text": "Divided into two, commencing at 3 o'clock, and sunset", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:6", "verse_text": "And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening." }, { "point_text": "Divided into two, commencing at 3 o'clock, and sunset", "verse_ref": "Numbers 9:3", "verse_text": "In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it." }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Even", "verse_ref": "Genesis 19:1", "verse_text": "And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;" }, { "point_text": "Even", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:67", "verse_text": "In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see." }, { "point_text": "Eventide", "verse_ref": "Joshua 8:29", "verse_text": "And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Eventide", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:3", "verse_text": "And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide." }, { "point_text": "Cool of the day", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:8", "verse_text": "And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden." }, { "point_text": "Stretches out its shadows", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:4", "verse_text": "Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out." }, { "point_text": "The outgoings of, praise God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 65:8", "verse_text": "They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice." }, { "point_text": "Man ceases from labor in", "verse_ref": "Ruth 2:17", "verse_text": "So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley." }, { "point_text": "Man ceases from labor in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:23", "verse_text": "Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening." }, { "point_text": "Wild beasts come forth in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 59:6", "verse_text": "They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city." }, { "point_text": "Wild beasts come forth in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 59:14", "verse_text": "And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city." }, { "point_text": "A SEASON FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Meditation", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:63", "verse_text": "And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming." }, { "point_text": "Prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 55:17", "verse_text": "Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice." }, { "point_text": "Prayer", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:15", "verse_text": "And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals." }, { "point_text": "Prayer", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:23", "verse_text": "And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone." }, { "point_text": "Exercise", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 11:2", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon." }, { "point_text": "Taking food", "verse_ref": "Mark 14:17-18", "verse_text": "And in the evening he cometh with the twelve. 18 And as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, One of you which eateth with me shall betray me." }, { "point_text": "Humiliation often continued until", "verse_ref": "Joshua 7:6", "verse_text": "And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads." }, { "point_text": "Humiliation often continued until", "verse_ref": "Judges 20:23", "verse_text": "(And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until even, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the LORD said, Go up against him.)" }, { "point_text": "Humiliation often continued until", "verse_ref": "Judges 21:2", "verse_text": "And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;" }, { "point_text": "Humiliation often continued until", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:4-5", "verse_text": "Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice. 5 And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God," }, { "point_text": "Custom of sitting at the gates in", "verse_ref": "Genesis 19:1", "verse_text": "And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;" }, { "point_text": "All defiled persons unclean until", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:24-28", "verse_text": "And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even. 25 And whosoever beareth ought of the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even. 26 The carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean. 27 And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of beasts that go on all four, those are unclean unto you: whoso toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even. ..." }, { "point_text": "All defiled persons unclean until", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 15:5-7", "verse_text": "And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. 6 And he that sitteth on any thing whereon he sat that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. 7 And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even." }, { "point_text": "All defiled persons unclean until", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 17:15", "verse_text": "And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean." }, { "point_text": "All defiled persons unclean until", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:19", "verse_text": "And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even." }, { "point_text": "Part of the daily sacrifice offered in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:41", "verse_text": "And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Part of the daily sacrifice offered in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 141:2", "verse_text": "Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice." }, { "point_text": "Part of the daily sacrifice offered in", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:21", "verse_text": "Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation." }, { "point_text": "Paschal lamb killed in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:6", "verse_text": "And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening." }, { "point_text": "Paschal lamb killed in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:18", "verse_text": "In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even." }, { "point_text": "The golden candlestick lighted in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 27:21", "verse_text": "In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "The golden candlestick lighted in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:8", "verse_text": "And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations." }, { "point_text": "The sky red in, a token of fair weather", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:2", "verse_text": "He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red." } ] }, { "name": "Ephraim, Tribe of", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Ephraim-Tribe-of.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Descended from Joseph's second son adopted by Jacob", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:52", "verse_text": "And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction." }, { "point_text": "Descended from Joseph's second son adopted by Jacob", "verse_ref": "Genesis 48:5", "verse_text": "And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine." }, { "point_text": "Predictions respecting", "verse_ref": "Genesis 48:20", "verse_text": "And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh." }, { "point_text": "Predictions respecting", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:13-17", "verse_text": "And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath, 14 And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon, 15 And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills, 16 And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren. ..." }, { "point_text": "PERSONS SELECTED FROM,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To number the people", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:10", "verse_text": "Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama the son of Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur." }, { "point_text": "To spy out the land", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:8", "verse_text": "Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun." }, { "point_text": "To divide the land", "verse_ref": "Numbers 34:24", "verse_text": "And the prince of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan." }, { "point_text": "Strength of, on leaving Egypt", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:32-33", "verse_text": "Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 33 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred." }, { "point_text": "Led the third division of Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:22", "verse_text": "And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud." }, { "point_text": "Encamped west of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 2:18", "verse_text": "On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud." }, { "point_text": "Offering of, at the dedication", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:48-53", "verse_text": "On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim, offered: 49 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: 50 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: 51 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: ..." }, { "point_text": "Families of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:35-36", "verse_text": "These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: of Becher, the family of the Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites. 36 And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites." }, { "point_text": "Strength of, on entering Canaan", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:37", "verse_text": "These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families." }, { "point_text": "On Gerizim, said amen to blessings", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 27:12", "verse_text": "These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:" }, { "point_text": "Bounds of its inheritance", "verse_ref": "Joshua 16:5-9", "verse_text": "And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Atarothaddar, unto Bethhoron the upper; 6 And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the north side; and the border went about eastward unto Taanathshiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah; 7 And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan. 8 The border went out from Tappuah westward unto the river Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families. ..." }, { "point_text": "Could not drive out the Canaanites but made them tributary", "verse_ref": "Joshua 16:10", "verse_text": "And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute." }, { "point_text": "Could not drive out the Canaanites but made them tributary", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:29", "verse_text": "Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them." }, { "point_text": "ASSISTED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Manasseh in taking Bethel", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:22-25", "verse_text": "And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel: and the LORD was with them. 23 And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.) 24 And the spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said unto him, Shew us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, and we will shew thee mercy. 25 And when he shewed them the entrance into the city, they smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go the man and all his family." }, { "point_text": "Deborah and Barak against Sisera", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:14", "verse_text": "Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer." }, { "point_text": "Gideon against Midian", "verse_ref": "Judges 7:24-25", "verse_text": "And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan. 25 And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan." }, { "point_text": "Remonstrated with Gideon for not calling them sooner against Midian", "verse_ref": "Judges 8:1-3", "verse_text": "And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? And they did chide with him sharply. 2 And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? 3 God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that." }, { "point_text": "Quarrelled with Jephthah for not seeking their aid against Ammon", "verse_ref": "Judges 12:1-4", "verse_text": "And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire. 2 And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands. 3 And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me? 4 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites." }, { "point_text": "Defeated and many slain", "verse_ref": "Judges 12:5-6", "verse_text": "And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; 6 Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand." }, { "point_text": "Some of, at coronation of David", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:30", "verse_text": "And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valour, famous throughout the house of their fathers." }, { "point_text": "Officers appointed over, by David", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:10", "verse_text": "The seventh captain for the seventh month was Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty and four thousand." }, { "point_text": "Officers appointed over, by David", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:20", "verse_text": "Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah: of the half tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah:" }, { "point_text": "The leading tribe of the kingdom of Israel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:2-17", "verse_text": "And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind. 3 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field; 4 And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. 5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying, ..." }, { "point_text": "The leading tribe of the kingdom of Israel", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:9", "verse_text": "They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn." }, { "point_text": "The leading tribe of the kingdom of Israel", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:20", "verse_text": "Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Many of, joined Judah under Asa", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 15:9", "verse_text": "And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the LORD his God was with him." }, { "point_text": "Many of, joined in Hezekiah's passover and reformation", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 30:18", "verse_text": "For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one" }, { "point_text": "Many of, joined in Hezekiah's passover and reformation", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:1", "verse_text": "Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities." }, { "point_text": "The tabernacle continued a long time in Shiloh, a city of", "verse_ref": "Joshua 18:1", "verse_text": "And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them." }, { "point_text": "The tabernacle continued a long time in Shiloh, a city of", "verse_ref": "Joshua 19:51", "verse_text": "These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they made an end of dividing the country." }, { "point_text": "One of Jeroboam's calves set up in Bethel, a city of", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:29", "verse_text": "And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nJoshua, \n\nAbdon, \nZichri,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:8", "verse_text": "Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nJoshua, \n\nAbdon, \nZichri,", "verse_ref": "Joshua 1:1", "verse_text": "Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying," }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nJoshua, \n\nAbdon, \nZichri,", "verse_ref": "Judges 12:13-15", "verse_text": "And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel. 14 And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years. 15 And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nJoshua, \n\nAbdon, \nZichri,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 28:7", "verse_text": "And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the king." } ] }, { "name": "Excellency and Glory of Christ, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Excellency-and-Glory-of-Christ-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "As God", "verse_ref": "John 1:1-5", "verse_text": "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. ..." }, { "point_text": "As God", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:6", "verse_text": "Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:" }, { "point_text": "As God", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:9-10", "verse_text": "Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;" }, { "point_text": "As the Son of God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:17", "verse_text": "And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." }, { "point_text": "As the Son of God", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:6", "verse_text": "And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him." }, { "point_text": "As the Son of God", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:8", "verse_text": "But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom." }, { "point_text": "As one with the Father", "verse_ref": "John 10:30", "verse_text": "I and my Father are one." }, { "point_text": "As one with the Father", "verse_ref": "John 10:38", "verse_text": "But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him." }, { "point_text": "As the First-born", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:15", "verse_text": "Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:" }, { "point_text": "As the First-born", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:18", "verse_text": "And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence." }, { "point_text": "As the First-begotten", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:6", "verse_text": "And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him." }, { "point_text": "As Lord of lords, &c", "verse_ref": "Revelation 17:14", "verse_text": "These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful." }, { "point_text": "As the image of God", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:15", "verse_text": "Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:" }, { "point_text": "As the image of God", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:3", "verse_text": "Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;" }, { "point_text": "As Creator", "verse_ref": "John 1:3", "verse_text": "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." }, { "point_text": "As Creator", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:16", "verse_text": "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:" }, { "point_text": "As Creator", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:2", "verse_text": "Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;" }, { "point_text": "As the Blessed of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:2", "verse_text": "Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever." }, { "point_text": "As Mediator", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:5", "verse_text": "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;" }, { "point_text": "As Mediator", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 8:6", "verse_text": "But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises." }, { "point_text": "As Prophet", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:15-16", "verse_text": "The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; 16 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not." }, { "point_text": "As Priest", "verse_ref": "Psalm 110:4", "verse_text": "The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek." }, { "point_text": "As Priest", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:15", "verse_text": "For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." }, { "point_text": "As King", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:1-5", "verse_text": "In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. 2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. 3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. 4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. ..." }, { "point_text": "As King", "verse_ref": "John 12:41", "verse_text": "These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him." }, { "point_text": "As Judge", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:27", "verse_text": "For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works." }, { "point_text": "As Judge", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:31", "verse_text": "When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:" }, { "point_text": "As Judge", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:33", "verse_text": "And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left." }, { "point_text": "As Shepherd", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:10-11", "verse_text": "Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. 11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young." }, { "point_text": "As Head of the Church", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:22", "verse_text": "And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church," }, { "point_text": "As the true Light", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:78-79", "verse_text": "Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us, 79 To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace." }, { "point_text": "As the foundation of the Church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:16", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste." }, { "point_text": "As the way", "verse_ref": "John 14:6", "verse_text": "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." }, { "point_text": "As the way", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:19-20", "verse_text": "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;" }, { "point_text": "As the truth", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:20", "verse_text": "And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life." }, { "point_text": "As the truth", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:7", "verse_text": "And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;" }, { "point_text": "As the life", "verse_ref": "John 11:25", "verse_text": "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:" }, { "point_text": "As the life", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:4", "verse_text": "When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory." }, { "point_text": "As the life", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:11", "verse_text": "And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son." }, { "point_text": "As incarnate", "verse_ref": "John 1:14", "verse_text": "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." }, { "point_text": "In His words", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:22", "verse_text": "And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son?" }, { "point_text": "In His words", "verse_ref": "John 7:46", "verse_text": "The officers answered, Never man spake like this man." }, { "point_text": "In His works", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:54", "verse_text": "And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works?" }, { "point_text": "In His works", "verse_ref": "John 2:11", "verse_text": "This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him." }, { "point_text": "In His sinless perfection", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:26-28", "verse_text": "For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; 27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself. 28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore." }, { "point_text": "In the fulness of His grace and truth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:2", "verse_text": "Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever." }, { "point_text": "In the fulness of His grace and truth", "verse_ref": "John 1:14", "verse_text": "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." }, { "point_text": "In his transfiguration", "verse_ref": "Matthew 17:2", "verse_text": "And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light." }, { "point_text": "In his transfiguration", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:16-18", "verse_text": "For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. 18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount." }, { "point_text": "In his exaltation", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:55-56", "verse_text": "But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, 56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God." }, { "point_text": "In the calling of the Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Psalm 72:17", "verse_text": "His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed." }, { "point_text": "In the calling of the Gentiles", "verse_ref": "John 12:21", "verse_text": "The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus." }, { "point_text": "In the calling of the Gentiles", "verse_ref": "John 12:23", "verse_text": "And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified." }, { "point_text": "In the restoration of the Jews", "verse_ref": "Psalm 102:16", "verse_text": "When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory." }, { "point_text": "In His triumph", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:1-3", "verse_text": "Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. 2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat? 3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment." }, { "point_text": "In His triumph", "verse_ref": "Revelation 19:11", "verse_text": "And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war." }, { "point_text": "In His triumph", "verse_ref": "Revelation 19:16", "verse_text": "And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS." }, { "point_text": "Followed His sufferings", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:10-11", "verse_text": "Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: 11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow." }, { "point_text": "Followed His resurrection", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:21", "verse_text": "Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God." }, { "point_text": "Is unchangeable", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:10-12", "verse_text": "And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: 11 They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; 12 And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail." }, { "point_text": "Is incomparable", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:10", "verse_text": "My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand." }, { "point_text": "Is incomparable", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:9", "verse_text": "Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:" }, { "point_text": "Imparted to saints", "verse_ref": "John 17:22", "verse_text": "And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:" }, { "point_text": "Imparted to saints", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 3:18", "verse_text": "But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Celebrated by the redeemed", "verse_ref": "Revelation 5:8-14", "verse_text": "And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. 9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; 10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. 11 And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; ..." }, { "point_text": "Celebrated by the redeemed", "verse_ref": "Revelation 7:9-12", "verse_text": "After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; 10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb. 11 And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God, 12 Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Revealed in the gospel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:5", "verse_text": "And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it." }, { "point_text": "Saints shall rejoice at the revelation of", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:13", "verse_text": "But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy." }, { "point_text": "Saints shall behold, in heaven", "verse_ref": "John 17:24", "verse_text": "Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world." } ] }, { "name": "Excellency and Glory of the Church, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Excellency-and-Glory-of-the-Church-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Derived from God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:5", "verse_text": "In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people," }, { "point_text": "Derived from Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:1", "verse_text": "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee." }, { "point_text": "Derived from Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:34", "verse_text": "And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against;" }, { "point_text": "Result from the favor of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 43:4", "verse_text": "Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life." }, { "point_text": "God delights in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:11", "verse_text": "So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him." }, { "point_text": "God delights in", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 62:3-5", "verse_text": "Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. 4 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. 5 For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee." }, { "point_text": "Saints delight in", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:11", "verse_text": "That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory." }, { "point_text": "CONSIST IN ITS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Being the seat of God's worship", "verse_ref": "Psalm 96:6", "verse_text": "Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary." }, { "point_text": "Being the temple of God", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:16-17", "verse_text": "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are." }, { "point_text": "Being the body of Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:22-23", "verse_text": "And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, 23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all." }, { "point_text": "Being the bride of Christ", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:13-14", "verse_text": "The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold. 14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Being established", "verse_ref": "Psalm 48:8", "verse_text": "As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Being established", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:20", "verse_text": "Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken." }, { "point_text": "Eminent position", "verse_ref": "Psalm 48:2", "verse_text": "Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King." }, { "point_text": "Eminent position", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:2", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it." }, { "point_text": "Graces of character", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:14", "verse_text": "O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely." }, { "point_text": "Perfection of beauty", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:2", "verse_text": "Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined." }, { "point_text": "Members being righteous", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:21", "verse_text": "Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified." }, { "point_text": "Members being righteous", "verse_ref": "Revelation 19:8", "verse_text": "And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints." }, { "point_text": "Strength and defence", "verse_ref": "Psalm 48:12-13", "verse_text": "Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. 13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following." }, { "point_text": "Sanctification", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:26-27", "verse_text": "That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish." }, { "point_text": "Augmented by increase of its members", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:18", "verse_text": "Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth." }, { "point_text": "Augmented by increase of its members", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:4-14", "verse_text": "Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side. 5 Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee. 6 The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD. 7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory. ..." }, { "point_text": "Are abundant", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:11", "verse_text": "That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory." }, { "point_text": "Sin obscures", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 2:14-15", "verse_text": "Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment. 15 All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?" } ] }, { "name": "Ephod, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Ephod-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The emblem of the priestly office", "verse_ref": "Hosea 3:4", "verse_text": "For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:" }, { "point_text": "WORN BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The high priest", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:28", "verse_text": "And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?" }, { "point_text": "The high priest", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:3", "verse_text": "And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD'S priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone." }, { "point_text": "Ordinary priests", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 22:18", "verse_text": "And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod." }, { "point_text": "Persons engaged in the service of God", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:18", "verse_text": "But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod." }, { "point_text": "Persons engaged in the service of God", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 6:14", "verse_text": "And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod." }, { "point_text": "Generally of linen", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:18", "verse_text": "But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod." }, { "point_text": "Generally of linen", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 6:14", "verse_text": "And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod." }, { "point_text": "FOR THE HIGH PRIEST,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Commanded to be made", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:4", "verse_text": "And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office." }, { "point_text": "Made of offerings of the people", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:4", "verse_text": "And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair," }, { "point_text": "Made of offerings of the people", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:7", "verse_text": "Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate." }, { "point_text": "Made of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, &c", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:6", "verse_text": "And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work." }, { "point_text": "Made of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, &c", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:2-3", "verse_text": "And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them. 3 And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams." }, { "point_text": "Shoulders of, joined by onyx stones engraved with names of the twelve tribes of Israel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:7", "verse_text": "It shall have the two shoulderpieces thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and so it shall be joined together." }, { "point_text": "Shoulders of, joined by onyx stones engraved with names of the twelve tribes of Israel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:9-12", "verse_text": "And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel: 10 Six of their names on one stone, and the other six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth. 11 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold. 12 And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial." }, { "point_text": "Shoulders of, joined by onyx stones engraved with names of the twelve tribes of Israel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 39:4", "verse_text": "They made shoulderpieces for it, to couple it together: by the two edges was it coupled together." }, { "point_text": "Shoulders of, joined by onyx stones engraved with names of the twelve tribes of Israel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 39:6-7", "verse_text": "And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel. 7 And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they should be stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "Had a girdle of curious work", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:8", "verse_text": "And the curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen." }, { "point_text": "Breastplate of judgment inseparably united to", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:25-28", "verse_text": "And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt fasten in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod before it. 26 And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them upon the two ends of the breastplate in the border thereof, which is in the side of the ephod inward. 27 And two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart thereof, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod. 28 And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod." }, { "point_text": "Breastplate of judgment inseparably united to", "verse_ref": "Exodus 39:20-21", "verse_text": "And they made two other golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart of it, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod. 21 And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "Worn over the robe", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:31", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue." }, { "point_text": "Worn over the robe", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:7", "verse_text": "And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith." }, { "point_text": "Fastened on with its own girdle", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:7", "verse_text": "And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith." }, { "point_text": "Worn or held by him when consulted", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 23:6", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand." }, { "point_text": "Worn or held by him when consulted", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 23:9-12", "verse_text": "And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod. 10 Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake. 11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And the LORD said, He will come down. 12 Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver thee up." }, { "point_text": "Worn or held by him when consulted", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 30:7-8", "verse_text": "And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David. 8 And David inquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all." }, { "point_text": "Used by idolatrous priests", "verse_ref": "Judges 8:27", "verse_text": "And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house." }, { "point_text": "Used by idolatrous priests", "verse_ref": "Judges 17:5", "verse_text": "And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest." }, { "point_text": "Used by idolatrous priests", "verse_ref": "Judges 18:14", "verse_text": "Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do." }, { "point_text": "Israel deprived of, for sin", "verse_ref": "Hosea 3:4", "verse_text": "For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:" } ] }, { "name": "Example of Christ, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Example-of-Christ-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is perfect", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:26", "verse_text": "For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;" }, { "point_text": "CONFORMITY TO, REQUIRED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Holiness", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:15-16", "verse_text": "But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy." }, { "point_text": "Righteousness", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:6", "verse_text": "He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked." }, { "point_text": "Purity", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:3", "verse_text": "And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure." }, { "point_text": "Love", "verse_ref": "John 13:34", "verse_text": "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." }, { "point_text": "Love", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:2", "verse_text": "And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour." }, { "point_text": "Love", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:16", "verse_text": "Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren." }, { "point_text": "Humility", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:27", "verse_text": "For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth." }, { "point_text": "Humility", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:5", "verse_text": "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:" }, { "point_text": "Humility", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:7", "verse_text": "But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:" }, { "point_text": "Meekness", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:29", "verse_text": "Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls." }, { "point_text": "Obedience", "verse_ref": "John 15:10", "verse_text": "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love." }, { "point_text": "Self-denial", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:24", "verse_text": "Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me." }, { "point_text": "Self-denial", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:3", "verse_text": "For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me." }, { "point_text": "Ministering to others", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:28", "verse_text": "Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many." }, { "point_text": "Ministering to others", "verse_ref": "John 13:14-15", "verse_text": "If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you." }, { "point_text": "Benevolence", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:35", "verse_text": "I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive." }, { "point_text": "Benevolence", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:7", "verse_text": "Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also." }, { "point_text": "Benevolence", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:9", "verse_text": "For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich." }, { "point_text": "Forgiving injuries", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:13", "verse_text": "Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye." }, { "point_text": "Overcoming the world", "verse_ref": "John 16:33", "verse_text": "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." }, { "point_text": "Overcoming the world", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:4", "verse_text": "For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith." }, { "point_text": "Being not of the world", "verse_ref": "John 17:16", "verse_text": "They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world." }, { "point_text": "Being guileless", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:21-22", "verse_text": "For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: 22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:" }, { "point_text": "Suffering wrongfully", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:21-23", "verse_text": "For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: 22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: 23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:" }, { "point_text": "Suffering for righteousness", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:3-4", "verse_text": "For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. 4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin." }, { "point_text": "Saints predestinated to follow", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:29", "verse_text": "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren." }, { "point_text": "Conformity to, progressive", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 3:18", "verse_text": "But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Is perfect", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:26", "verse_text": "For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;" }, { "point_text": "CONFORMITY TO, REQUIRED IN", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Holiness", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:15-16", "verse_text": "But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy." }, { "point_text": "Righteousness", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:6", "verse_text": "He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked." }, { "point_text": "Purity", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:3", "verse_text": "And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure." }, { "point_text": "Love", "verse_ref": "John 13:34", "verse_text": "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." }, { "point_text": "Love", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:2", "verse_text": "And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour." }, { "point_text": "Love", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:16", "verse_text": "Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren." }, { "point_text": "Humility", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:27", "verse_text": "For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth." }, { "point_text": "Humility", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:5", "verse_text": "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:" }, { "point_text": "Humility", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:7", "verse_text": "But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:" }, { "point_text": "Meekness", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:29", "verse_text": "Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls." }, { "point_text": "Obedience", "verse_ref": "John 15:10", "verse_text": "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love." }, { "point_text": "Self-denial", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:24", "verse_text": "Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me." }, { "point_text": "Self-denial", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:3", "verse_text": "For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me." }, { "point_text": "Ministering to others", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:28", "verse_text": "Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many." }, { "point_text": "Ministering to others", "verse_ref": "John 13:14-15", "verse_text": "If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you." }, { "point_text": "Benevolence", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:35", "verse_text": "I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive." }, { "point_text": "Benevolence", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:7", "verse_text": "Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also." }, { "point_text": "Benevolence", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:9", "verse_text": "For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich." }, { "point_text": "Forgiving injuries", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:13", "verse_text": "Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye." }, { "point_text": "Overcoming the world", "verse_ref": "John 16:33", "verse_text": "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." }, { "point_text": "Overcoming the world", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:4", "verse_text": "For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith." }, { "point_text": "Being not of the world", "verse_ref": "John 17:16", "verse_text": "They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world." }, { "point_text": "Being guileless", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:21-22", "verse_text": "For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: 22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:" }, { "point_text": "Suffering wrongfully", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:21-23", "verse_text": "For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: 22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: 23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:" }, { "point_text": "Suffering for righteousness", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:3-4", "verse_text": "For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. 4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin." }, { "point_text": "Saints predestinated to follow", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:29", "verse_text": "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren." }, { "point_text": "Conformity to, progressive", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 3:18", "verse_text": "But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." } ] }, { "name": "Families", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Families.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Of saints blessed", "verse_ref": "Psalm 128:3-6", "verse_text": "Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table. 4 Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD. 5 The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life. 6 Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Be taught the Scriptures", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:9-10", "verse_text": "Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons; 10 Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children." }, { "point_text": "Worship God together", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 16:19", "verse_text": "The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house." }, { "point_text": "Be duly regulated", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:27", "verse_text": "She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness." }, { "point_text": "Be duly regulated", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:4-5", "verse_text": "One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; 5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)" }, { "point_text": "Be duly regulated", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:12", "verse_text": "Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well." }, { "point_text": "Live in unity", "verse_ref": "Genesis 45:24", "verse_text": "So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way." }, { "point_text": "Live in unity", "verse_ref": "Psalm 133:1", "verse_text": "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!" }, { "point_text": "Live in mutual forbearance", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:17-21", "verse_text": "So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him. 18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants. 19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God? 20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. ..." }, { "point_text": "Live in mutual forbearance", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:21-22", "verse_text": "Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? 22 Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven." }, { "point_text": "Rejoice together before God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:26", "verse_text": "And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household," }, { "point_text": "Deceivers and liars should be removed from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 101:7", "verse_text": "He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight." }, { "point_text": "Warning against departing from God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 29:18", "verse_text": "Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;" }, { "point_text": "Punishment of irreligious", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 10:25", "verse_text": "Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nJoshua, \nDavid, \nJob, \nLazarus of Bethany, \nCornelius, \n\nLydia, \nJailor of Philippi, \nCrispus, \nLois,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:19", "verse_text": "For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nJoshua, \nDavid, \nJob, \nLazarus of Bethany, \nCornelius, \n\nLydia, \nJailor of Philippi, \nCrispus, \nLois,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:2", "verse_text": "Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:" }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nJoshua, \nDavid, \nJob, \nLazarus of Bethany, \nCornelius, \n\nLydia, \nJailor of Philippi, \nCrispus, \nLois,", "verse_ref": "Joshua 24:15", "verse_text": "And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nJoshua, \nDavid, \nJob, \nLazarus of Bethany, \nCornelius, \n\nLydia, \nJailor of Philippi, \nCrispus, \nLois,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 6:20", "verse_text": "Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!" }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nJoshua, \nDavid, \nJob, \nLazarus of Bethany, \nCornelius, \n\nLydia, \nJailor of Philippi, \nCrispus, \nLois,", "verse_ref": "Job 1:5", "verse_text": "And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nJoshua, \nDavid, \nJob, \nLazarus of Bethany, \nCornelius, \n\nLydia, \nJailor of Philippi, \nCrispus, \nLois,", "verse_ref": "John 11:1-5", "verse_text": "Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) 3 Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. 4 When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby. ..." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nJoshua, \nDavid, \nJob, \nLazarus of Bethany, \nCornelius, \n\nLydia, \nJailor of Philippi, \nCrispus, \nLois,", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:2", "verse_text": "A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nJoshua, \nDavid, \nJob, \nLazarus of Bethany, \nCornelius, \n\nLydia, \nJailor of Philippi, \nCrispus, \nLois,", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:33", "verse_text": "Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nJoshua, \nDavid, \nJob, \nLazarus of Bethany, \nCornelius, \n\nLydia, \nJailor of Philippi, \nCrispus, \nLois,", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:15", "verse_text": "And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nJoshua, \nDavid, \nJob, \nLazarus of Bethany, \nCornelius, \n\nLydia, \nJailor of Philippi, \nCrispus, \nLois,", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:31-34", "verse_text": "And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. 32 And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house. 33 And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway. 34 And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nJoshua, \nDavid, \nJob, \nLazarus of Bethany, \nCornelius, \n\nLydia, \nJailor of Philippi, \nCrispus, \nLois,", "verse_ref": "Acts 18:8", "verse_text": "And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nJoshua, \nDavid, \nJob, \nLazarus of Bethany, \nCornelius, \n\nLydia, \nJailor of Philippi, \nCrispus, \nLois,", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:5", "verse_text": "When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also." } ] }, { "name": "Famine", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Famine.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Sent by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:16", "verse_text": "Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread." }, { "point_text": "Often on account of sin", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:21", "verse_text": "And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins." }, { "point_text": "Often on account of sin", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:26", "verse_text": "And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied." }, { "point_text": "One of God's four sore judgments", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 14:21", "verse_text": "For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?" }, { "point_text": "CAUSED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "God's blessing withheld", "verse_ref": "Hosea 2:8-9", "verse_text": "For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal. 9 Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness." }, { "point_text": "Want of seasonable rain", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 17:1", "verse_text": "And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word." }, { "point_text": "Want of seasonable rain", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:1-4", "verse_text": "The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth. 2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. 3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads. 4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads." }, { "point_text": "Want of seasonable rain", "verse_ref": "Amos 4:7", "verse_text": "And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered." }, { "point_text": "Rotting of the seed in the ground", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:17", "verse_text": "The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered." }, { "point_text": "Swarms of insects", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:38", "verse_text": "Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it." }, { "point_text": "Swarms of insects", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:42", "verse_text": "All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume." }, { "point_text": "Blasting and mildew", "verse_ref": "Amos 4:9", "verse_text": "I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Blasting and mildew", "verse_ref": "Haggai 2:17", "verse_text": "I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Devastation by enemies", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:33", "verse_text": "The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:" }, { "point_text": "Devastation by enemies", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:51", "verse_text": "And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee." }, { "point_text": "Often long continued", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:27", "verse_text": "And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine." }, { "point_text": "Often long continued", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 8:1-2", "verse_text": "Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years. 2 And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years." }, { "point_text": "Often severe", "verse_ref": "Genesis 12:10", "verse_text": "And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land." }, { "point_text": "Often severe", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:2", "verse_text": "And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria." }, { "point_text": "Often severe", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 52:6", "verse_text": "And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land." }, { "point_text": "EXPRESSED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Taking away the stay of bread, &c", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:1", "verse_text": "For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water," }, { "point_text": "Cleanness of teeth", "verse_ref": "Amos 4:6", "verse_text": "And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The arrows of famine", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 5:16", "verse_text": "When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:" }, { "point_text": "Often accompanied by war", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:15", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed." }, { "point_text": "Often accompanied by war", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 29:18", "verse_text": "And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:" }, { "point_text": "Often followed by pestilence", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 42:17", "verse_text": "So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them." }, { "point_text": "Often followed by pestilence", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 7:15", "verse_text": "The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him." }, { "point_text": "Often followed by pestilence", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:7", "verse_text": "For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places." }, { "point_text": "THINGS EATEN DURING", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Wild herbs", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:39-40", "verse_text": "And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not. 40 So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof." }, { "point_text": "Ass's flesh", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:25", "verse_text": "And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver." }, { "point_text": "Ordure", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:25", "verse_text": "And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver." }, { "point_text": "Ordure", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 4:5", "verse_text": "They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills." }, { "point_text": "Human flesh", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:29", "verse_text": "And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat." }, { "point_text": "Human flesh", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:28-29", "verse_text": "And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow. 29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son." }, { "point_text": "Provisions sold by weight during", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 4:16", "verse_text": "Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:" }, { "point_text": "Suffering of brute creation from", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:5-6", "verse_text": "Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass. 6 And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass." }, { "point_text": "CAUSED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Burning and fever", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:24", "verse_text": "They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust." }, { "point_text": "Blackness of the skin", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 4:8", "verse_text": "Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick." }, { "point_text": "Blackness of the skin", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 5:10", "verse_text": "Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine." }, { "point_text": "Grief and mourning", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:11-13", "verse_text": "Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished. 12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men. 13 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God." }, { "point_text": "Faintness", "verse_ref": "Genesis 47:13", "verse_text": "And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine." }, { "point_text": "Wasting of the body", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 4:8", "verse_text": "Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick." }, { "point_text": "Wasting of the body", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 4:17", "verse_text": "That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Death", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 7:4", "verse_text": "If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die." }, { "point_text": "Death", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 11:22", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:" }, { "point_text": "God provided for His people during", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 17:4", "verse_text": "And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there." }, { "point_text": "God provided for His people during", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 17:9", "verse_text": "Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee." }, { "point_text": "INSTANCES OF, IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In the days of Abraham", "verse_ref": "Genesis 12:10", "verse_text": "And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land." }, { "point_text": "In the days of Isaac", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:1", "verse_text": "And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar." }, { "point_text": "In the days of Joseph", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:53-56", "verse_text": "And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended. 54 And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. 55 And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do. 56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "In the day of the Judges", "verse_ref": "Ruth 1:1", "verse_text": "Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons." }, { "point_text": "In the reign of David", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 21:1", "verse_text": "Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites." }, { "point_text": "In the reign of Ahab", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 17:1", "verse_text": "And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word." }, { "point_text": "In the reign of Ahab", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:5", "verse_text": "And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts." }, { "point_text": "In the time of Elisha", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:38", "verse_text": "And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets." }, { "point_text": "During the siege of Samaria", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:25", "verse_text": "And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver." }, { "point_text": "Of seven years foretold by Elisha", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 8:1", "verse_text": "Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years." }, { "point_text": "In the time of Jeremiah", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:1", "verse_text": "The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth." }, { "point_text": "During the siege of Jerusalem", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:3", "verse_text": "And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land." }, { "point_text": "After the captivity", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 5:3", "verse_text": "Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth." }, { "point_text": "In the reign of Claudius Cæsar", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:28", "verse_text": "And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar." }, { "point_text": "Before destruction of Jerusalem", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:7", "verse_text": "For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places." }, { "point_text": "The Jews in their restored state not to be afflicted by", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 36:29-30", "verse_text": "I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you. 30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "A dearth of the means of grace", "verse_ref": "Amos 8:11-12", "verse_text": "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: 12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of idols", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 2:11", "verse_text": "The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen." } ] }, { "name": "Fasting", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Fasting.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Spirit of, explained", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:6-7", "verse_text": "Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? 7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?" }, { "point_text": "Not to be made a subject of display", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:16-18", "verse_text": "Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. 17 But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; 18 That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly." }, { "point_text": "Should be unto God", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 7:5", "verse_text": "Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?" }, { "point_text": "Should be unto God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:18", "verse_text": "That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly." }, { "point_text": "For the chastening of the soul", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:10", "verse_text": "When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach." }, { "point_text": "For the humbling of the soul", "verse_ref": "Psalm 35:13", "verse_text": "But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom." }, { "point_text": "OBSERVED ON OCCASIONS OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:14", "verse_text": "Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD," }, { "point_text": "Judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:12", "verse_text": "Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:" }, { "point_text": "Public calamities", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 1:12", "verse_text": "And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword." }, { "point_text": "Afflictions of the Church", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:33-35", "verse_text": "And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink? 34 And he said unto them, Can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? 35 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days." }, { "point_text": "Afflictions of others", "verse_ref": "Psalm 35:13", "verse_text": "But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom." }, { "point_text": "Afflictions of others", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:18", "verse_text": "Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him." }, { "point_text": "Private afflictions", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:16", "verse_text": "David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Approaching danger", "verse_ref": "Esther 4:16", "verse_text": "Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish." }, { "point_text": "Ordination of ministers", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:3", "verse_text": "And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away." }, { "point_text": "Ordination of ministers", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:23", "verse_text": "And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed." }, { "point_text": "ACCOMPANIED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Prayer", "verse_ref": "Ezra 8:23", "verse_text": "So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us." }, { "point_text": "Prayer", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:3", "verse_text": "And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:" }, { "point_text": "Confession of sin", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 7:6", "verse_text": "And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh." }, { "point_text": "Confession of sin", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:1-2", "verse_text": "Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them. 2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers." }, { "point_text": "Mourning", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:12", "verse_text": "Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:" }, { "point_text": "Humiliation", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:18", "verse_text": "And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger." }, { "point_text": "Humiliation", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:1", "verse_text": "Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them." }, { "point_text": "Promises connected with", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:8-12", "verse_text": "Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward. 9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; 10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday: 11 And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. ..." }, { "point_text": "Promises connected with", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:18", "verse_text": "That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly." }, { "point_text": "OF HYPOCRITES", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Described", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:4-5", "verse_text": "Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. 5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?" }, { "point_text": "Ostentatious", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:16", "verse_text": "Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward." }, { "point_text": "Boasted of, before God", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:12", "verse_text": "I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess." }, { "point_text": "Rejected", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:3", "verse_text": "Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours." }, { "point_text": "Rejected", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:12", "verse_text": "When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence." }, { "point_text": "Extraordinary--Exemplified.\r\n\nOur Lord, \nMoses, \n\n\nElijah,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:2", "verse_text": "And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred." }, { "point_text": "Extraordinary--Exemplified.\r\n\nOur Lord, \nMoses, \n\n\nElijah,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:28", "verse_text": "And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments." }, { "point_text": "Extraordinary--Exemplified.\r\n\nOur Lord, \nMoses, \n\n\nElijah,", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:9", "verse_text": "When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:" }, { "point_text": "Extraordinary--Exemplified.\r\n\nOur Lord, \nMoses, \n\n\nElijah,", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:18", "verse_text": "And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger." }, { "point_text": "Extraordinary--Exemplified.\r\n\nOur Lord, \nMoses, \n\n\nElijah,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:8", "verse_text": "And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God." }, { "point_text": "National--Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\n\n\nMen of Jabesh-gilead, \nNinevites,", "verse_ref": "Judges 20:26", "verse_text": "Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "National--Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\n\n\nMen of Jabesh-gilead, \nNinevites,", "verse_ref": "Ezra 8:21", "verse_text": "Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance." }, { "point_text": "National--Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\n\n\nMen of Jabesh-gilead, \nNinevites,", "verse_ref": "Esther 4:3", "verse_text": "And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes." }, { "point_text": "National--Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\n\n\nMen of Jabesh-gilead, \nNinevites,", "verse_ref": "Esther 4:16", "verse_text": "Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish." }, { "point_text": "National--Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\n\n\nMen of Jabesh-gilead, \nNinevites,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 31:13", "verse_text": "And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days." }, { "point_text": "National--Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\n\n\nMen of Jabesh-gilead, \nNinevites,", "verse_ref": "Jonah 3:5-8", "verse_text": "So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: 8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands." }, { "point_text": "Of Saints--Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \n\nNehemiah, \nEsther, \nDaniel, \nDisciples of John, \nAnna, \nCornelius, \nPrimitive Christians, \nApostles, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:16", "verse_text": "David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Of Saints--Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \n\nNehemiah, \nEsther, \nDaniel, \nDisciples of John, \nAnna, \nCornelius, \nPrimitive Christians, \nApostles, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 109:24", "verse_text": "My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness." }, { "point_text": "Of Saints--Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \n\nNehemiah, \nEsther, \nDaniel, \nDisciples of John, \nAnna, \nCornelius, \nPrimitive Christians, \nApostles, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 1:4", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven," }, { "point_text": "Of Saints--Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \n\nNehemiah, \nEsther, \nDaniel, \nDisciples of John, \nAnna, \nCornelius, \nPrimitive Christians, \nApostles, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Esther 4:16", "verse_text": "Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish." }, { "point_text": "Of Saints--Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \n\nNehemiah, \nEsther, \nDaniel, \nDisciples of John, \nAnna, \nCornelius, \nPrimitive Christians, \nApostles, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:3", "verse_text": "And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:" }, { "point_text": "Of Saints--Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \n\nNehemiah, \nEsther, \nDaniel, \nDisciples of John, \nAnna, \nCornelius, \nPrimitive Christians, \nApostles, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:14", "verse_text": "Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?" }, { "point_text": "Of Saints--Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \n\nNehemiah, \nEsther, \nDaniel, \nDisciples of John, \nAnna, \nCornelius, \nPrimitive Christians, \nApostles, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:37", "verse_text": "And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day." }, { "point_text": "Of Saints--Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \n\nNehemiah, \nEsther, \nDaniel, \nDisciples of John, \nAnna, \nCornelius, \nPrimitive Christians, \nApostles, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:30", "verse_text": "And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing," }, { "point_text": "Of Saints--Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \n\nNehemiah, \nEsther, \nDaniel, \nDisciples of John, \nAnna, \nCornelius, \nPrimitive Christians, \nApostles, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:2", "verse_text": "As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them." }, { "point_text": "Of Saints--Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \n\nNehemiah, \nEsther, \nDaniel, \nDisciples of John, \nAnna, \nCornelius, \nPrimitive Christians, \nApostles, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:5", "verse_text": "In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;" }, { "point_text": "Of Saints--Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \n\nNehemiah, \nEsther, \nDaniel, \nDisciples of John, \nAnna, \nCornelius, \nPrimitive Christians, \nApostles, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 11:27", "verse_text": "In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness." }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked--Exemplified.\r\n\nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nPharisees,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:12", "verse_text": "They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people." }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked--Exemplified.\r\n\nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nPharisees,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:27", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly." }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked--Exemplified.\r\n\nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nPharisees,", "verse_ref": "Mark 2:18", "verse_text": "And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?" }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked--Exemplified.\r\n\nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nPharisees,", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:12", "verse_text": "I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess." } ] }, { "name": "Fatherless, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Fatherless-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Find mercy in God", "verse_ref": "Hosea 14:3", "verse_text": "Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy." }, { "point_text": "GOD WILL", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Be a father of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:5", "verse_text": "A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation." }, { "point_text": "Be a helper of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 10:14", "verse_text": "Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless." }, { "point_text": "Hear the cry of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:23", "verse_text": "If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;" }, { "point_text": "Execute the judgment of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:18", "verse_text": "He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment." }, { "point_text": "Execute the judgment of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 10:18", "verse_text": "To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress." }, { "point_text": "Punish those who oppress", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:24", "verse_text": "And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless." }, { "point_text": "Punish those who oppress", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:1-3", "verse_text": "Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; 2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless! 3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?" }, { "point_text": "Punish those who oppress", "verse_ref": "Malachi 3:5", "verse_text": "And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Punish those who judge not", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:28-29", "verse_text": "They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge. 29 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?" }, { "point_text": "Visit in affliction", "verse_ref": "James 1:27", "verse_text": "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." }, { "point_text": "Let them share in our blessings", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:29", "verse_text": "And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest." }, { "point_text": "Defend", "verse_ref": "Psalm 82:3", "verse_text": "Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy." }, { "point_text": "Defend", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:17", "verse_text": "Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow." }, { "point_text": "Wrong not, in judgment", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:17", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:" }, { "point_text": "Defraud not", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:10", "verse_text": "Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:" }, { "point_text": "Afflict not", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:22", "verse_text": "Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child." }, { "point_text": "Oppress not", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 7:10", "verse_text": "And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart." }, { "point_text": "Do no violence to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 22:3", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of taking care of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:29", "verse_text": "And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of taking care of", "verse_ref": "Job 29:12-13", "verse_text": "Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. 13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Rob", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:2", "verse_text": "To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!" }, { "point_text": "Overwhelm", "verse_ref": "Job 6:27", "verse_text": "Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend." }, { "point_text": "Vex", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:7", "verse_text": "In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow." }, { "point_text": "Oppress", "verse_ref": "Job 24:3", "verse_text": "They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge." }, { "point_text": "Murder", "verse_ref": "Psalm 94:6", "verse_text": "They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless." }, { "point_text": "Judge not for", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:23", "verse_text": "Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them." }, { "point_text": "Judge not for", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:28", "verse_text": "They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge." }, { "point_text": "A curse on those who oppress", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 27:19", "verse_text": "Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen." }, { "point_text": "Promises with respect to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:11", "verse_text": "Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me." }, { "point_text": "A type of Zion in affliction", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 5:3", "verse_text": "We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \nDaughters of Zelophehad, \nJotham, \nMephibosheth, \nJoash, \nEsther,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 11:27-28", "verse_text": "Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. 28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \nDaughters of Zelophehad, \nJotham, \nMephibosheth, \nJoash, \nEsther,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 27:1-5", "verse_text": "Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah. 2 And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying, 3 Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons. 4 Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \nDaughters of Zelophehad, \nJotham, \nMephibosheth, \nJoash, \nEsther,", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:16-21", "verse_text": "Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands; 17 (For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian: 18 And ye are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother;) 19 If ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you: ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \nDaughters of Zelophehad, \nJotham, \nMephibosheth, \nJoash, \nEsther,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 9:3", "verse_text": "And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may shew the kindness of God unto him? And Ziba said unto the king, Jonathan hath yet a son, which is lame on his feet." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \nDaughters of Zelophehad, \nJotham, \nMephibosheth, \nJoash, \nEsther,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 11:1-12", "verse_text": "And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal. 2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain. 3 And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land. 4 And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king's son. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \nDaughters of Zelophehad, \nJotham, \nMephibosheth, \nJoash, \nEsther,", "verse_ref": "Esther 2:7", "verse_text": "And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter." } ] }, { "name": "Faith", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Faith.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is the substance of things hoped for", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:1", "verse_text": "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." }, { "point_text": "Is the evidence of things not seen", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:1", "verse_text": "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:22", "verse_text": "But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you." }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:23", "verse_text": "And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment." }, { "point_text": "THE OBJECTS OF, ARE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "God", "verse_ref": "John 14:1", "verse_text": "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me." }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "John 6:29", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent." }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:21", "verse_text": "Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Writings of Moses", "verse_ref": "John 5:46", "verse_text": "For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me." }, { "point_text": "Writings of Moses", "verse_ref": "Acts 24:14", "verse_text": "But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:" }, { "point_text": "Writings of the prophets", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 20:20", "verse_text": "And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper." }, { "point_text": "Writings of the prophets", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:27", "verse_text": "King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest." }, { "point_text": "The gospel", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:15", "verse_text": "And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel." }, { "point_text": "Promises of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:21", "verse_text": "And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform." }, { "point_text": "Promises of God", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:13", "verse_text": "These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth." }, { "point_text": "IN CHRIST IS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The gift of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:3", "verse_text": "For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith." }, { "point_text": "The gift of God", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:8", "verse_text": "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:" }, { "point_text": "The gift of God", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:23", "verse_text": "Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "The gift of God", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:29", "verse_text": "For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;" }, { "point_text": "The work of God", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:21", "verse_text": "And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord." }, { "point_text": "The work of God", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:5", "verse_text": "That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God." }, { "point_text": "Precious", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:1", "verse_text": "Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Most holy", "verse_ref": "Jude 20", "verse_text": "But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost," }, { "point_text": "Fruitful", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 1:3", "verse_text": "Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;" }, { "point_text": "Accompanied by repentance", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:15", "verse_text": "And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel." }, { "point_text": "Accompanied by repentance", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:47", "verse_text": "And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Followed by conversion", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:21", "verse_text": "And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Christ is the Author and Finisher of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:2", "verse_text": "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." }, { "point_text": "Is a gift of the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:9", "verse_text": "To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;" }, { "point_text": "The Scriptures designed to produce", "verse_ref": "John 20:31", "verse_text": "But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name." }, { "point_text": "The Scriptures designed to produce", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:15", "verse_text": "And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Preaching designed to produce", "verse_ref": "John 17:20", "verse_text": "Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;" }, { "point_text": "Preaching designed to produce", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:12", "verse_text": "But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women." }, { "point_text": "Preaching designed to produce", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:14-15", "verse_text": "How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!" }, { "point_text": "Preaching designed to produce", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:17", "verse_text": "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." }, { "point_text": "Preaching designed to produce", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:5", "verse_text": "Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?" }, { "point_text": "THROUGH IT IS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Remission of sins", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:43", "verse_text": "To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins." }, { "point_text": "Remission of sins", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:25", "verse_text": "Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;" }, { "point_text": "Justification", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:39", "verse_text": "And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses." }, { "point_text": "Justification", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:21-22", "verse_text": "But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:" }, { "point_text": "Justification", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:28", "verse_text": "Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law." }, { "point_text": "Justification", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:1", "verse_text": "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Justification", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:16", "verse_text": "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified." }, { "point_text": "Salvation", "verse_ref": "Mark 16:16", "verse_text": "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned." }, { "point_text": "Salvation", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:31", "verse_text": "And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." }, { "point_text": "Sanctification", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:9", "verse_text": "And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith." }, { "point_text": "Sanctification", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:18", "verse_text": "To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me." }, { "point_text": "Spiritual light", "verse_ref": "John 12:36", "verse_text": "While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them." }, { "point_text": "Spiritual light", "verse_ref": "John 12:46", "verse_text": "I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness." }, { "point_text": "Spiritual life", "verse_ref": "John 20:31", "verse_text": "But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name." }, { "point_text": "Spiritual life", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:20", "verse_text": "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." }, { "point_text": "Eternal life", "verse_ref": "John 3:15", "verse_text": "That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." }, { "point_text": "Eternal life", "verse_ref": "John 6:40", "verse_text": "And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day." }, { "point_text": "Eternal life", "verse_ref": "John 6:47", "verse_text": "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life." }, { "point_text": "Rest in heaven", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:3", "verse_text": "For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world." }, { "point_text": "Edification", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:4", "verse_text": "Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do." }, { "point_text": "Edification", "verse_ref": "Jude 20", "verse_text": "But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost," }, { "point_text": "Preservation", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:5", "verse_text": "Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time." }, { "point_text": "Adoption", "verse_ref": "John 1:12", "verse_text": "But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:" }, { "point_text": "Adoption", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:26", "verse_text": "For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Access to God", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:2", "verse_text": "By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God." }, { "point_text": "Access to God", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:12", "verse_text": "In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him." }, { "point_text": "Inheritance of the promises", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:22", "verse_text": "But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe." }, { "point_text": "Inheritance of the promises", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:12", "verse_text": "That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises." }, { "point_text": "The gift of the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:15-17", "verse_text": "And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning. 16 Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost. 17 Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?" }, { "point_text": "The gift of the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:14", "verse_text": "That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith." }, { "point_text": "The gift of the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:13", "verse_text": "In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise," }, { "point_text": "Impossible to please God without", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:6", "verse_text": "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." }, { "point_text": "Justification is by, to be of grace", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:16", "verse_text": "Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all," }, { "point_text": "Essential to the profitable reception of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:2", "verse_text": "For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it." }, { "point_text": "Necessary in the Christian warfare", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:18", "verse_text": "This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;" }, { "point_text": "Necessary in the Christian warfare", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:12", "verse_text": "Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses." }, { "point_text": "The gospel effectual in those who have", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:13", "verse_text": "For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe." }, { "point_text": "Excludes self-justification", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:3-4", "verse_text": "For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. 4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth." }, { "point_text": "Excludes boasting", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:27", "verse_text": "Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith." }, { "point_text": "Works by love", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:6", "verse_text": "For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love." }, { "point_text": "Works by love", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:5", "verse_text": "Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:" }, { "point_text": "Works by love", "verse_ref": "Philemon 5", "verse_text": "Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints;" }, { "point_text": "PRODUCES", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Hope", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:2", "verse_text": "By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God." }, { "point_text": "Joy", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:34", "verse_text": "And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house." }, { "point_text": "Joy", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:8", "verse_text": "Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:" }, { "point_text": "Peace", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:13", "verse_text": "Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Confidence", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:16", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste." }, { "point_text": "Confidence", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:6", "verse_text": "Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded." }, { "point_text": "Boldness in preaching", "verse_ref": "Psalm 116:10", "verse_text": "I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:" }, { "point_text": "Boldness in preaching", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:13", "verse_text": "We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;" }, { "point_text": "Christ is precious to those having", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:7", "verse_text": "Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner," }, { "point_text": "Christ dwells in the heart by", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:17", "verse_text": "That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love," }, { "point_text": "Necessary in prayer", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:22", "verse_text": "And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive." }, { "point_text": "Necessary in prayer", "verse_ref": "James 1:6", "verse_text": "But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed." }, { "point_text": "Those who are not Christ's have not", "verse_ref": "John 10:26-27", "verse_text": "But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:" }, { "point_text": "An evidence of the new birth", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:1", "verse_text": "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him." }, { "point_text": "BY IT SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Live", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:20", "verse_text": "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." }, { "point_text": "Stand", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:20", "verse_text": "Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:" }, { "point_text": "Stand", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:24", "verse_text": "Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand." }, { "point_text": "Walk", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:12", "verse_text": "And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised." }, { "point_text": "Walk", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:7", "verse_text": "(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)" }, { "point_text": "Obtain a good report", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:2", "verse_text": "For by it the elders obtained a good report." }, { "point_text": "Overcome the world", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:4-5", "verse_text": "For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. 5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?" }, { "point_text": "Resist the devil", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:9", "verse_text": "Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world." }, { "point_text": "Overcome the devil", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:16", "verse_text": "Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked." }, { "point_text": "Are supported", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:13", "verse_text": "I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living." }, { "point_text": "Are supported", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:10", "verse_text": "For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe." }, { "point_text": "Saints die in", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:13", "verse_text": "These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Be sincere in", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:5", "verse_text": "Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:" }, { "point_text": "Be sincere in", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:5", "verse_text": "When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also." }, { "point_text": "Abound in", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:7", "verse_text": "Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also." }, { "point_text": "Continue in", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:22", "verse_text": "Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Continue in", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:23", "verse_text": "If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;" }, { "point_text": "Be strong in", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:20-24", "verse_text": "He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; 21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. 22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. 23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; ..." }, { "point_text": "Stand fast in", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 16:13", "verse_text": "Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong." }, { "point_text": "Be grounded and settled in", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:23", "verse_text": "If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;" }, { "point_text": "Hold, with a good conscience", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:19", "verse_text": "Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:" }, { "point_text": "Pray for the increase of", "verse_ref": "Luke 17:5", "verse_text": "And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith." }, { "point_text": "Have full assurance of", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:12", "verse_text": "For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day." }, { "point_text": "Have full assurance of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:22", "verse_text": "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water." }, { "point_text": "True, evidenced by its fruits", "verse_ref": "James 2:21-25", "verse_text": "Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? 22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? 23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. 24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. ..." }, { "point_text": "Without fruits, is dead", "verse_ref": "James 2:17", "verse_text": "Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone." }, { "point_text": "Without fruits, is dead", "verse_ref": "James 2:20", "verse_text": "But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?" }, { "point_text": "Without fruits, is dead", "verse_ref": "James 2:26", "verse_text": "For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also." }, { "point_text": "Examine whether you be in", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 13:5", "verse_text": "Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?" }, { "point_text": "All difficulties overcome by", "verse_ref": "Matthew 17:20", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you." }, { "point_text": "All difficulties overcome by", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:21", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done." }, { "point_text": "All difficulties overcome by", "verse_ref": "Mark 9:23", "verse_text": "Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth." }, { "point_text": "All things should be done in", "verse_ref": "Romans 14:22", "verse_text": "Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth." }, { "point_text": "Whatever is not of, is sin", "verse_ref": "Romans 14:23", "verse_text": "And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin." }, { "point_text": "Often tried by affliction", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:6-7", "verse_text": "Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: 7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Trial of, works patience", "verse_ref": "James 1:3", "verse_text": "Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience." }, { "point_text": "The wicked often profess", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:13", "verse_text": "Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done." }, { "point_text": "The wicked often profess", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:21", "verse_text": "Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God." }, { "point_text": "The wicked destitute of", "verse_ref": "John 10:25", "verse_text": "Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me." }, { "point_text": "The wicked destitute of", "verse_ref": "John 12:37", "verse_text": "But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him:" }, { "point_text": "The wicked destitute of", "verse_ref": "Acts 19:9", "verse_text": "But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus." }, { "point_text": "The wicked destitute of", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 3:2", "verse_text": "And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith." }, { "point_text": "Protection of, illustrated.\r\n\nA shield, \nA breastplate,", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:16", "verse_text": "Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked." }, { "point_text": "Protection of, illustrated.\r\n\nA shield, \nA breastplate,", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:8", "verse_text": "But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:30", "verse_text": "And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "Job 19:25", "verse_text": "For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:17", "verse_text": "If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:10", "verse_text": "Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:23", "verse_text": "Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:16", "verse_text": "And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:50", "verse_text": "And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "John 1:49", "verse_text": "Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "John 4:39", "verse_text": "And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "John 11:27", "verse_text": "She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "John 16:30", "verse_text": "Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "John 20:28", "verse_text": "And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:5", "verse_text": "And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:7", "verse_text": "And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:37", "verse_text": "And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:24", "verse_text": "For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:12", "verse_text": "Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:31", "verse_text": "And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:34", "verse_text": "And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:8", "verse_text": "First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:4", "verse_text": "Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 1:3", "verse_text": "Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:5", "verse_text": "When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:7", "verse_text": "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:4", "verse_text": "By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:5", "verse_text": "By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:7", "verse_text": "By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:8", "verse_text": "By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:17", "verse_text": "By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:20", "verse_text": "By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:21", "verse_text": "By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:22", "verse_text": "By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:24", "verse_text": "By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:27", "verse_text": "By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:31", "verse_text": "By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:32-33", "verse_text": "And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets: 33 Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJob, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \n\nPeter, \nWoman who was a sinner, \nNathanael, \nSamaritans, \nMartha, \nThe Disciples, \nThomas, \nStephen, \nPriests, \nEthiopian, \nBarnabas, \nSergius Paulus, \nPhilippian jailor, \n\nRomans, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nLois, \nPaul, \nAbel, \nEnoch, \nNoah, \nAbraham, \n\nIsaac, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\nRahab, \nGideon &c", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:39", "verse_text": "And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:" } ] }, { "name": "Favor of God, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Favor-of-God-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Christ the special object of", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:52", "verse_text": "And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man." }, { "point_text": "IS THE SOURCE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Mercy", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:10", "verse_text": "And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee." }, { "point_text": "Spiritual life", "verse_ref": "Psalm 30:5", "verse_text": "For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." }, { "point_text": "Spiritual wisdom leads to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 8:35", "verse_text": "For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Mercy and truth lead to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:3-4", "verse_text": "Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: 4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Obtain", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:2", "verse_text": "A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn." }, { "point_text": "Encompassed by", "verse_ref": "Psalm 5:12", "verse_text": "For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield." }, { "point_text": "Strengthened by", "verse_ref": "Psalm 30:7", "verse_text": "LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled." }, { "point_text": "Victorious through", "verse_ref": "Psalm 44:3", "verse_text": "For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them." }, { "point_text": "Preserved through", "verse_ref": "Job 10:12", "verse_text": "Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit." }, { "point_text": "Exalted in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:17", "verse_text": "For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes tempted to doubt", "verse_ref": "Psalm 77:7", "verse_text": "Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?" }, { "point_text": "Domestic blessings traced to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 18:22", "verse_text": "Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Disappointment of enemies an assured evidence of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 41:11", "verse_text": "By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me." }, { "point_text": "Given in answer to prayer", "verse_ref": "Job 33:26", "verse_text": "He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Pray for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:4", "verse_text": "Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;" }, { "point_text": "Pray for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:58", "verse_text": "I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word." }, { "point_text": "Plead, in prayer", "verse_ref": "Exodus 33:12", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight." }, { "point_text": "Plead, in prayer", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:15", "verse_text": "And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness." }, { "point_text": "To be acknowledged", "verse_ref": "Psalm 85:1", "verse_text": "LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Uninfluenced by", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:10", "verse_text": "Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Do not obtain", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 27:11", "verse_text": "When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour." }, { "point_text": "Do not obtain", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 16:13", "verse_text": "Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNaphtali, \nSamuel, \nJob, \nThe Virgin Mary, \n\nDavid,", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:23", "verse_text": "And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the west and the south." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNaphtali, \nSamuel, \nJob, \nThe Virgin Mary, \n\nDavid,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:26", "verse_text": "And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the LORD, and also with men." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNaphtali, \nSamuel, \nJob, \nThe Virgin Mary, \n\nDavid,", "verse_ref": "Job 10:12", "verse_text": "Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNaphtali, \nSamuel, \nJob, \nThe Virgin Mary, \n\nDavid,", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:28", "verse_text": "And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNaphtali, \nSamuel, \nJob, \nThe Virgin Mary, \n\nDavid,", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:30", "verse_text": "And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNaphtali, \nSamuel, \nJob, \nThe Virgin Mary, \n\nDavid,", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:46", "verse_text": "Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob." } ] }, { "name": "Fall of Man, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Fall-of-Man-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "By the disobedience of Adam", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:6", "verse_text": "And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat." }, { "point_text": "By the disobedience of Adam", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:11-12", "verse_text": "And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? 12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat." }, { "point_text": "Through temptation of the devil", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:1-5", "verse_text": "Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: ..." }, { "point_text": "Through temptation of the devil", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 11:3", "verse_text": "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ." }, { "point_text": "Through temptation of the devil", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:14", "verse_text": "And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression." }, { "point_text": "MAN IN CONSEQUENCE OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Made in the image of Adam", "verse_ref": "Genesis 5:3", "verse_text": "And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:" }, { "point_text": "Made in the image of Adam", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:48-49", "verse_text": "As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly." }, { "point_text": "Born in sin", "verse_ref": "Job 15:14", "verse_text": "What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?" }, { "point_text": "Born in sin", "verse_ref": "Job 25:4", "verse_text": "How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?" }, { "point_text": "Born in sin", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:5", "verse_text": "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me." }, { "point_text": "Born in sin", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 48:8", "verse_text": "Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb." }, { "point_text": "Born in sin", "verse_ref": "John 3:6", "verse_text": "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." }, { "point_text": "A child of wrath", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:3", "verse_text": "Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others." }, { "point_text": "Evil in heart", "verse_ref": "Genesis 6:5", "verse_text": "And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." }, { "point_text": "Evil in heart", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:21", "verse_text": "And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done." }, { "point_text": "Evil in heart", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 16:12", "verse_text": "And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:" }, { "point_text": "Evil in heart", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:19", "verse_text": "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:" }, { "point_text": "Blinded in heart", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:18", "verse_text": "Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:" }, { "point_text": "Corrupt and perverse in his ways", "verse_ref": "Genesis 6:12", "verse_text": "And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Corrupt and perverse in his ways", "verse_ref": "Psalm 10:5", "verse_text": "His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them." }, { "point_text": "Corrupt and perverse in his ways", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:12-16", "verse_text": "They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: 15 Their feet are swift to shed blood: ..." }, { "point_text": "Depraved in mind", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:5-7", "verse_text": "For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be." }, { "point_text": "Depraved in mind", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:17", "verse_text": "This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind," }, { "point_text": "Depraved in mind", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:21", "verse_text": "And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled" }, { "point_text": "Depraved in mind", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:15", "verse_text": "Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled." }, { "point_text": "Without understanding", "verse_ref": "Psalm 14:2-3", "verse_text": "The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. 3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one." }, { "point_text": "Receives not the things of God", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:14", "verse_text": "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." }, { "point_text": "Comes short of God's glory", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:23", "verse_text": "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" }, { "point_text": "Defiled in conscience", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:15", "verse_text": "Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled." }, { "point_text": "Defiled in conscience", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:22", "verse_text": "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water." }, { "point_text": "Intractable", "verse_ref": "Job 11:12", "verse_text": "For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt." }, { "point_text": "Estranged from God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:8", "verse_text": "And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden." }, { "point_text": "Estranged from God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 58:3", "verse_text": "The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies." }, { "point_text": "Estranged from God", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:18", "verse_text": "Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:" }, { "point_text": "Estranged from God", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:21", "verse_text": "And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled" }, { "point_text": "In bondage to sin", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:19", "verse_text": "I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness." }, { "point_text": "In bondage to sin", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:5", "verse_text": "For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death." }, { "point_text": "In bondage to sin", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:23", "verse_text": "But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members." }, { "point_text": "In bondage to the devil", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:26", "verse_text": "And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will." }, { "point_text": "In bondage to the devil", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:14-15", "verse_text": "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; 15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage." }, { "point_text": "Constant in evil", "verse_ref": "Psalm 10:5", "verse_text": "His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them." }, { "point_text": "Constant in evil", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:14", "verse_text": "Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:" }, { "point_text": "Conscious of guilt", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:7-8", "verse_text": "And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. 8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden." }, { "point_text": "Conscious of guilt", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:10", "verse_text": "And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself." }, { "point_text": "Unrighteous", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 7:20", "verse_text": "For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not." }, { "point_text": "Unrighteous", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:10", "verse_text": "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:" }, { "point_text": "Abominable", "verse_ref": "Job 15:16", "verse_text": "How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?" }, { "point_text": "Abominable", "verse_ref": "Psalm 14:3", "verse_text": "They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one." }, { "point_text": "Turned to his own way", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:6", "verse_text": "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." }, { "point_text": "Loves darkness", "verse_ref": "John 3:19", "verse_text": "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil." }, { "point_text": "Corrupt &c. in speech", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:13-14", "verse_text": "Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:" }, { "point_text": "Devoid of the fear of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:18", "verse_text": "There is no fear of God before their eyes." }, { "point_text": "Totally depraved", "verse_ref": "Genesis 6:5", "verse_text": "And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." }, { "point_text": "Totally depraved", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:18", "verse_text": "For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not." }, { "point_text": "Dead in sin", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:1", "verse_text": "And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;" }, { "point_text": "Dead in sin", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:13", "verse_text": "And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;" }, { "point_text": "All men partake of the effects of", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:46", "verse_text": "If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;" }, { "point_text": "All men partake of the effects of", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:22", "verse_text": "But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe." }, { "point_text": "All men partake of the effects of", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:8", "verse_text": "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." }, { "point_text": "All men partake of the effects of", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:19", "verse_text": "And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness." }, { "point_text": "PUNISHMENT CONSEQUENT UPON,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Banishment from Paradise", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:24", "verse_text": "So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life." }, { "point_text": "Condemnation to labor and sorrow", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:16", "verse_text": "Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee." }, { "point_text": "Condemnation to labor and sorrow", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:19", "verse_text": "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." }, { "point_text": "Temporal death", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:19", "verse_text": "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." }, { "point_text": "Temporal death", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:12", "verse_text": "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:" }, { "point_text": "Temporal death", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:22", "verse_text": "For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." }, { "point_text": "Eternal death", "verse_ref": "Job 21:30", "verse_text": "That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath." }, { "point_text": "Eternal death", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:18", "verse_text": "Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life." }, { "point_text": "Eternal death", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:23", "verse_text": "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." }, { "point_text": "Cannot be remedied by man", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:9", "verse_text": "Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?" }, { "point_text": "Cannot be remedied by man", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:22", "verse_text": "For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Cannot be remedied by man", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 13:23", "verse_text": "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil." }, { "point_text": "Remedy for, provided by God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:15", "verse_text": "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." }, { "point_text": "Remedy for, provided by God", "verse_ref": "John 3:16", "verse_text": "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." } ] }, { "name": "Eye, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Eye-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The light of the body", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:22", "verse_text": "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." }, { "point_text": "The light of the body", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:34", "verse_text": "The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness." }, { "point_text": "GOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Made", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:12", "verse_text": "The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them." }, { "point_text": "Formed", "verse_ref": "Psalm 94:9", "verse_text": "He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?" }, { "point_text": "Opens", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:17", "verse_text": "And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha." }, { "point_text": "Opens", "verse_ref": "Psalm 146:8", "verse_text": "The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:" }, { "point_text": "Enlightens", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:8", "verse_text": "And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage." }, { "point_text": "Enlightens", "verse_ref": "Psalm 13:3", "verse_text": "Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;" }, { "point_text": "Frequently fair.\r\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 16:12", "verse_text": "And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes tender", "verse_ref": "Genesis 29:17", "verse_text": "Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes blemished", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 21:20", "verse_text": "Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;" }, { "point_text": "PARTS OF, MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The apple or ball", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:10", "verse_text": "He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye." }, { "point_text": "The lid", "verse_ref": "Job 16:16", "verse_text": "My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;" }, { "point_text": "The brow", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:9", "verse_text": "But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean." }, { "point_text": "ACTIONS OF, MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Seeing", "verse_ref": "Job 7:8", "verse_text": "The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not." }, { "point_text": "Seeing", "verse_ref": "Job 28:10", "verse_text": "He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing." }, { "point_text": "Winking", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:10", "verse_text": "He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall." }, { "point_text": "Weeping", "verse_ref": "Job 16:20", "verse_text": "My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God." }, { "point_text": "Weeping", "verse_ref": "Psalm 88:9", "verse_text": "Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Weeping", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 1:16", "verse_text": "For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed." }, { "point_text": "Directing", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:31", "verse_text": "And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes." }, { "point_text": "Directing", "verse_ref": "Psalm 32:8", "verse_text": "I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye." }, { "point_text": "The light of, rejoices the heart", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:30", "verse_text": "The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: and a good report maketh the bones fat." }, { "point_text": "Not satisfied with seeing", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:20", "verse_text": "Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied." }, { "point_text": "Not satisfied with seeing", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 1:8", "verse_text": "All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing." }, { "point_text": "Not satisfied with riches", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 4:8", "verse_text": "There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail." }, { "point_text": "Not evil thing to be set before", "verse_ref": "Psalm 101:3", "verse_text": "I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me." }, { "point_text": "A guard to be set on", "verse_ref": "Job 31:1", "verse_text": "I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?" }, { "point_text": "A guard to be set on", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:31", "verse_text": "Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright." }, { "point_text": "Made red by wine", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:12", "verse_text": "His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk." }, { "point_text": "Made red by wine", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:29", "verse_text": "Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?" }, { "point_text": "Grows dim by sorrow", "verse_ref": "Job 17:7", "verse_text": "Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow." }, { "point_text": "Grows dim by age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I." }, { "point_text": "Grows dim by age", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 3:2", "verse_text": "And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see;" }, { "point_text": "Consumed by grief", "verse_ref": "Psalm 6:7", "verse_text": "Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies." }, { "point_text": "Consumed by grief", "verse_ref": "Psalm 31:9", "verse_text": "Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly." }, { "point_text": "Consumed by sickness", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:16", "verse_text": "I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it." }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Wore their phylacteries between", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:16", "verse_text": "And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Wore their phylacteries between", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:5", "verse_text": "But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments," }, { "point_text": "Not to make baldness between", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:1", "verse_text": "Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead." }, { "point_text": "Raised up, in prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 121:1", "verse_text": "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help." }, { "point_text": "Raised up, in prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 123:1", "verse_text": "Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens." }, { "point_text": "Cast, on the ground in humiliation", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:13", "verse_text": "And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner." }, { "point_text": "The Jewish women often painted", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 9:30", "verse_text": "And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window." }, { "point_text": "The Jewish women often painted", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:30", "verse_text": "And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life." }, { "point_text": "The Jewish women often painted", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 23:40", "verse_text": "And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments," }, { "point_text": "Often put out as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:21", "verse_text": "But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house." }, { "point_text": "Often put out as a punishment", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 11:2", "verse_text": "And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel." }, { "point_text": "Often put out as a punishment", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:7", "verse_text": "And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for injuring", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:24", "verse_text": "Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot," }, { "point_text": "Punishment for injuring", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:26", "verse_text": "And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the mind", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:22-23", "verse_text": "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!" }, { "point_text": "(Open,) of spiritual illumination", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:18", "verse_text": "Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law." }, { "point_text": "(Open,) of spiritual illumination", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:37", "verse_text": "Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way." }, { "point_text": "(Anointing with eyesalve,) of healing by the Spirit", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:18", "verse_text": "I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see." }, { "point_text": "The light of the body", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:22", "verse_text": "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." }, { "point_text": "The light of the body", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:34", "verse_text": "The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness." }, { "point_text": "GOD", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Made", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:12", "verse_text": "The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them." }, { "point_text": "Formed", "verse_ref": "Psalm 94:9", "verse_text": "He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?" }, { "point_text": "Opens", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:17", "verse_text": "And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha." }, { "point_text": "Opens", "verse_ref": "Psalm 146:8", "verse_text": "The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:" }, { "point_text": "Enlightens", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:8", "verse_text": "And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage." }, { "point_text": "Enlightens", "verse_ref": "Psalm 13:3", "verse_text": "Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;" }, { "point_text": "Frequently fair.\r\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 16:12", "verse_text": "And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes tender", "verse_ref": "Genesis 29:17", "verse_text": "Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes blemished", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 21:20", "verse_text": "Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;" }, { "point_text": "PARTS OF, MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "The apple or ball", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:10", "verse_text": "He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye." }, { "point_text": "The lid", "verse_ref": "Job 16:16", "verse_text": "My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;" }, { "point_text": "The brow", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:9", "verse_text": "But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean." }, { "point_text": "ACTIONS OF, MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Seeing", "verse_ref": "Job 7:8", "verse_text": "The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not." }, { "point_text": "Seeing", "verse_ref": "Job 28:10", "verse_text": "He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing." }, { "point_text": "Winking", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:10", "verse_text": "He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall." }, { "point_text": "Weeping", "verse_ref": "Job 16:20", "verse_text": "My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God." }, { "point_text": "Weeping", "verse_ref": "Psalm 88:9", "verse_text": "Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Weeping", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 1:16", "verse_text": "For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed." }, { "point_text": "Directing", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:31", "verse_text": "And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes." }, { "point_text": "Directing", "verse_ref": "Psalm 32:8", "verse_text": "I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye." }, { "point_text": "The light of, rejoices the heart", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:30", "verse_text": "The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: and a good report maketh the bones fat." }, { "point_text": "Not satisfied with seeing", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:20", "verse_text": "Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied." }, { "point_text": "Not satisfied with seeing", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 1:8", "verse_text": "All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing." }, { "point_text": "Not satisfied with riches", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 4:8", "verse_text": "There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail." }, { "point_text": "Not evil thing to be set before", "verse_ref": "Psalm 101:3", "verse_text": "I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me." }, { "point_text": "A guard to be set on", "verse_ref": "Job 31:1", "verse_text": "I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?" }, { "point_text": "A guard to be set on", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:31", "verse_text": "Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright." }, { "point_text": "Made red by wine", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:12", "verse_text": "His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk." }, { "point_text": "Made red by wine", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:29", "verse_text": "Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?" }, { "point_text": "Grows dim by sorrow", "verse_ref": "Job 17:7", "verse_text": "Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow." }, { "point_text": "Grows dim by age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I." }, { "point_text": "Grows dim by age", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 3:2", "verse_text": "And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see;" }, { "point_text": "Consumed by grief", "verse_ref": "Psalm 6:7", "verse_text": "Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies." }, { "point_text": "Consumed by grief", "verse_ref": "Psalm 31:9", "verse_text": "Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly." }, { "point_text": "Consumed by sickness", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:16", "verse_text": "I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it." }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Wore their phylacteries between", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:16", "verse_text": "And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Wore their phylacteries between", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:5", "verse_text": "But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments," }, { "point_text": "Not to make baldness between", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:1", "verse_text": "Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead." }, { "point_text": "Raised up, in prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 121:1", "verse_text": "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help." }, { "point_text": "Raised up, in prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 123:1", "verse_text": "Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens." }, { "point_text": "Cast, on the ground in humiliation", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:13", "verse_text": "And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner." }, { "point_text": "The Jewish women often painted", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 9:30", "verse_text": "And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window." }, { "point_text": "The Jewish women often painted", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:30", "verse_text": "And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life." }, { "point_text": "The Jewish women often painted", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 23:40", "verse_text": "And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments," }, { "point_text": "Often put out as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:21", "verse_text": "But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house." }, { "point_text": "Often put out as a punishment", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 11:2", "verse_text": "And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel." }, { "point_text": "Often put out as a punishment", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:7", "verse_text": "And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for injuring", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:24", "verse_text": "Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot," }, { "point_text": "Punishment for injuring", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:26", "verse_text": "And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Of the mind", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:22-23", "verse_text": "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!" }, { "point_text": "(Open,) of spiritual illumination", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:18", "verse_text": "Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law." }, { "point_text": "(Open,) of spiritual illumination", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:37", "verse_text": "Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way." }, { "point_text": "(Anointing with eyesalve,) of healing by the Spirit", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:18", "verse_text": "I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see." } ] }, { "name": "Fear, Unholy", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Fear-Unholy.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "A characteristic of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:8", "verse_text": "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death." }, { "point_text": "IS DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "A fear of idols", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:38", "verse_text": "And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods." }, { "point_text": "A fear of man", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:24", "verse_text": "And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice." }, { "point_text": "A fear of man", "verse_ref": "John 9:22", "verse_text": "These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue." }, { "point_text": "A fear of judgments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:19", "verse_text": "And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth." }, { "point_text": "A fear of judgments", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:26", "verse_text": "Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken." }, { "point_text": "A fear of judgments", "verse_ref": "Revelation 6:16-17", "verse_text": "And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?" }, { "point_text": "A fear of future punishment", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:27", "verse_text": "But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries." }, { "point_text": "Overwhelming", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:16", "verse_text": "Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased." }, { "point_text": "Overwhelming", "verse_ref": "Job 15:21", "verse_text": "A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him." }, { "point_text": "Overwhelming", "verse_ref": "Job 15:24", "verse_text": "Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle." }, { "point_text": "Consuming", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:19", "verse_text": "How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors." }, { "point_text": "A guilty conscience leads to", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:8", "verse_text": "And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden." }, { "point_text": "A guilty conscience leads to", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:10", "verse_text": "And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself." }, { "point_text": "Seizes the wicked", "verse_ref": "Job 15:24", "verse_text": "Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle." }, { "point_text": "Seizes the wicked", "verse_ref": "Job 18:11", "verse_text": "Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet." }, { "point_text": "Surprises the hypocrite", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:14", "verse_text": "The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?" }, { "point_text": "Surprises the hypocrite", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:18", "verse_text": "Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?" }, { "point_text": "The wicked judicially filled with", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:16-17", "verse_text": "I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you." }, { "point_text": "Shall be realized", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:27", "verse_text": "When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you." }, { "point_text": "Shall be realized", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:24", "verse_text": "The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted." }, { "point_text": "God mocks", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:26", "verse_text": "I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;" }, { "point_text": "Saints sometimes tempted to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 55:5", "verse_text": "Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me." }, { "point_text": "Saints delivered from", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:33", "verse_text": "But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil." }, { "point_text": "Saints delivered from", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:3", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve," }, { "point_text": "Trust in God, a preservative from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:1", "verse_text": "The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?" }, { "point_text": "Exhortations against", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:12", "verse_text": "Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations against", "verse_ref": "John 14:27", "verse_text": "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam, \nCain, \nMidianites, \nPhilistines, \nSaul, \n\nAdonijah's guests, \nHaman, \nAhaz, \nBelshazzar, \nPilate, \nFelix,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:10", "verse_text": "And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam, \nCain, \nMidianites, \nPhilistines, \nSaul, \n\nAdonijah's guests, \nHaman, \nAhaz, \nBelshazzar, \nPilate, \nFelix,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:14", "verse_text": "Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam, \nCain, \nMidianites, \nPhilistines, \nSaul, \n\nAdonijah's guests, \nHaman, \nAhaz, \nBelshazzar, \nPilate, \nFelix,", "verse_ref": "Judges 7:21-22", "verse_text": "And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled. 22 And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam, \nCain, \nMidianites, \nPhilistines, \nSaul, \n\nAdonijah's guests, \nHaman, \nAhaz, \nBelshazzar, \nPilate, \nFelix,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:15", "verse_text": "And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam, \nCain, \nMidianites, \nPhilistines, \nSaul, \n\nAdonijah's guests, \nHaman, \nAhaz, \nBelshazzar, \nPilate, \nFelix,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 28:5", "verse_text": "And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam, \nCain, \nMidianites, \nPhilistines, \nSaul, \n\nAdonijah's guests, \nHaman, \nAhaz, \nBelshazzar, \nPilate, \nFelix,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 28:20", "verse_text": "Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam, \nCain, \nMidianites, \nPhilistines, \nSaul, \n\nAdonijah's guests, \nHaman, \nAhaz, \nBelshazzar, \nPilate, \nFelix,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:49", "verse_text": "And all the guests that were with Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and went every man his way." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam, \nCain, \nMidianites, \nPhilistines, \nSaul, \n\nAdonijah's guests, \nHaman, \nAhaz, \nBelshazzar, \nPilate, \nFelix,", "verse_ref": "Esther 7:6", "verse_text": "And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam, \nCain, \nMidianites, \nPhilistines, \nSaul, \n\nAdonijah's guests, \nHaman, \nAhaz, \nBelshazzar, \nPilate, \nFelix,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:2", "verse_text": "And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam, \nCain, \nMidianites, \nPhilistines, \nSaul, \n\nAdonijah's guests, \nHaman, \nAhaz, \nBelshazzar, \nPilate, \nFelix,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:6", "verse_text": "Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam, \nCain, \nMidianites, \nPhilistines, \nSaul, \n\nAdonijah's guests, \nHaman, \nAhaz, \nBelshazzar, \nPilate, \nFelix,", "verse_ref": "John 19:8", "verse_text": "When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAdam, \nCain, \nMidianites, \nPhilistines, \nSaul, \n\nAdonijah's guests, \nHaman, \nAhaz, \nBelshazzar, \nPilate, \nFelix,", "verse_ref": "Acts 24:25", "verse_text": "And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee." } ] }, { "name": "Feast of Dedication, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Feast-of-Dedication-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "To commemorate the cleansing of the temple after its defilement by Antiochus", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:31", "verse_text": "And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate." }, { "point_text": "Held in the winter month, Chisleu", "verse_ref": "John 10:22", "verse_text": "And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter." } ] }, { "name": "Feast of Jubilee, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Feast-of-Jubilee-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Held every fiftieth year", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:8", "verse_text": "And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years." }, { "point_text": "Held every fiftieth year", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:10", "verse_text": "And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family." }, { "point_text": "Began upon the day of atonement", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:9", "verse_text": "Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land." }, { "point_text": "CALLED THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Year of liberty", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 46:17", "verse_text": "But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons' for them." }, { "point_text": "Year of the redeemed", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:4", "verse_text": "For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come." }, { "point_text": "Acceptable year", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:2", "verse_text": "To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;" }, { "point_text": "Was specially holy", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:12", "verse_text": "For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field." }, { "point_text": "Proclaimed by trumpets", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:9", "verse_text": "Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land." }, { "point_text": "Proclaimed by trumpets", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:15", "verse_text": "Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance." }, { "point_text": "ENACTMENTS RESPECTING;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Cessation of all field labor", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:11", "verse_text": "A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed." }, { "point_text": "The fruits of the earth to be common property", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:12", "verse_text": "For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field." }, { "point_text": "Redemption of sold property", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:23-27", "verse_text": "The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me. 24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land. 25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold. 26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it; ..." }, { "point_text": "Restoration of all inheritances", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:10", "verse_text": "And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family." }, { "point_text": "Restoration of all inheritances", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:13", "verse_text": "In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession." }, { "point_text": "Restoration of all inheritances", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 27:24", "verse_text": "In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong." }, { "point_text": "Release of Hebrew servants", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:40-41", "verse_text": "But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile: 41 And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return." }, { "point_text": "Release of Hebrew servants", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:54", "verse_text": "And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him." }, { "point_text": "Houses in walled cities not redeemed within a year, exempted from the benefit of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:30", "verse_text": "And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile." }, { "point_text": "Sale of property calculated from", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:15-16", "verse_text": "According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee: 16 According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Value of devoted property calculated from", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 27:14-23", "verse_text": "And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand. 15 And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his. 16 And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. 17 If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand. ..." }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of the Gospel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:1-2", "verse_text": "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;" } ] }, { "name": "Feast of Purim, or Lots, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Feast-of-Purim-or-Lots-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Instituted by Mordecai", "verse_ref": "Esther 9:20", "verse_text": "And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far," }, { "point_text": "To commemorate the defeat of Haman's wicked design", "verse_ref": "Esther 3:7-15", "verse_text": "In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar. 8 And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them. 9 If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries. 10 And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy. ..." }, { "point_text": "To commemorate the defeat of Haman's wicked design", "verse_ref": "Esther 9:24-26", "verse_text": "Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them; 25 But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. 26 Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them," }, { "point_text": "Began fourteenth of twelfth month", "verse_ref": "Esther 9:17", "verse_text": "On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness." }, { "point_text": "Lasted two days", "verse_ref": "Esther 9:21", "verse_text": "To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly," }, { "point_text": "Mode of celebrating", "verse_ref": "Esther 9:17-19", "verse_text": "On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness. 18 But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness. 19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another." }, { "point_text": "Mode of celebrating", "verse_ref": "Esther 9:22", "verse_text": "As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor." }, { "point_text": "The Jews bound themselves to keep", "verse_ref": "Esther 9:27-28", "verse_text": "The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year; 28 And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed." }, { "point_text": "Confirmed by royal authority", "verse_ref": "Esther 9:29-32", "verse_text": "Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim. 30 And he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth, 31 To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry. 32 And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book." } ] }, { "name": "Feast of Sabbatical Year, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Feast-of-Sabbatical-Year-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "A sabbath for the land", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:2", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Kept every seventh year", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:11", "verse_text": "But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard." }, { "point_text": "Kept every seventh year", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:4", "verse_text": "But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard." }, { "point_text": "Surplus of sixth year to provide for", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:20-22", "verse_text": "And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase: 21 Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years. 22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store." }, { "point_text": "ENACTMENTS RESPECTING;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Cessation of all field labor", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:4-5", "verse_text": "But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. 5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land." }, { "point_text": "The fruits of the earth to be common property", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:11", "verse_text": "But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard." }, { "point_text": "The fruits of the earth to be common property", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:6-7", "verse_text": "And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee, 7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat." }, { "point_text": "Remission of debts", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 15:1-3", "verse_text": "At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release. 2 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD'S release. 3 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;" }, { "point_text": "Remission of debts", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 10:31", "verse_text": "And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt." }, { "point_text": "Release of all Hebrew servants", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:2", "verse_text": "If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing." }, { "point_text": "Release of all Hebrew servants", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 15:12", "verse_text": "And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee." }, { "point_text": "Public reading of the law at feast of tabernacles", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 31:10-13", "verse_text": "And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, 11 When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12 Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law: 13 And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it." }, { "point_text": "No release to strangers during", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 15:3", "verse_text": "Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;" }, { "point_text": "Release of, not to hinder the exercise of benevolence", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 15:9-11", "verse_text": "Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee. 10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto. 11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land." }, { "point_text": "Jews threatened for neglecting", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:34-35", "verse_text": "Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths. 35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it." }, { "point_text": "Jews threatened for neglecting", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:43", "verse_text": "The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes." }, { "point_text": "The seventy years' captivity a punishment for neglecting", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:20-21", "verse_text": "And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia: 21 To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years." }, { "point_text": "Restored after the captivity", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 10:31", "verse_text": "And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt." } ] }, { "name": "Feast of Tabernacles, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Feast-of-Tabernacles-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Held after harvest and vintage", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:13", "verse_text": "Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:" }, { "point_text": "Began fifteenth of seventh month", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:34", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Began fifteenth of seventh month", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:39", "verse_text": "Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath." }, { "point_text": "Lasted seven days", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:34", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Lasted seven days", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:41", "verse_text": "And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month." }, { "point_text": "Called the feast of ingathering", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:22", "verse_text": "And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end." }, { "point_text": "All males obliged to appear at", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:16-17", "verse_text": "And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field. 17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "First and last days of, holy convocations", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:35", "verse_text": "On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein." }, { "point_text": "First and last days of, holy convocations", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:39", "verse_text": "Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath." }, { "point_text": "Sacrifices during", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:36-37", "verse_text": "Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein. 37 These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:" }, { "point_text": "TO BE OBSERVED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "With rejoicing", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:14-15", "verse_text": "And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates. 15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice." }, { "point_text": "Perpetually", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:41", "verse_text": "And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month." }, { "point_text": "The people dwelt in booths during", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:42", "verse_text": "Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:" }, { "point_text": "The people dwelt in booths during", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:15-16", "verse_text": "And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written. 16 So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim." }, { "point_text": "The law publicly read every seventh year at", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 31:10-12", "verse_text": "And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, 11 When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12 Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:" }, { "point_text": "The law publicly read every seventh year at", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:18", "verse_text": "Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner." }, { "point_text": "CUSTOMS OBSERVED AT;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Bearing branches of palms", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:40", "verse_text": "And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days." }, { "point_text": "Bearing branches of palms", "verse_ref": "Revelation 7:9", "verse_text": "After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;" }, { "point_text": "Drawing water from the pool of Siloam", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 12:3", "verse_text": "Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation." }, { "point_text": "Drawing water from the pool of Siloam", "verse_ref": "John 7:2", "verse_text": "Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand." }, { "point_text": "Drawing water from the pool of Siloam", "verse_ref": "John 7:37-39", "verse_text": "In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. 38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)" }, { "point_text": "Singing hosannas", "verse_ref": "Psalm 118:24-29", "verse_text": "This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. 25 Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity. 26 Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD. 27 God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar. ..." }, { "point_text": "Singing hosannas", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:8-9", "verse_text": "And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way. 9 And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest." }, { "point_text": "To commemorate the sojourn of Israel in the desert", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:43", "verse_text": "That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "REMARKABLE CELEBRATIONS OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "At the dedication of Solomon's temple", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:2", "verse_text": "And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month." }, { "point_text": "At the dedication of Solomon's temple", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:65", "verse_text": "And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days." }, { "point_text": "After the captivity", "verse_ref": "Ezra 3:4", "verse_text": "They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;" }, { "point_text": "After the captivity", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:17", "verse_text": "And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness." } ] }, { "name": "Fear, Godly", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Fear-Godly.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "God is the object of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:13", "verse_text": "Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread." }, { "point_text": "God is the author of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 32:39-40", "verse_text": "And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them: 40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me." }, { "point_text": "Searching the Scriptures gives the understanding of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 2:3-5", "verse_text": "Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; 4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; 5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Hatred of evil", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 8:13", "verse_text": "The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate." }, { "point_text": "Wisdom", "verse_ref": "Job 28:28", "verse_text": "And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding." }, { "point_text": "Wisdom", "verse_ref": "Psalm 111:10", "verse_text": "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever." }, { "point_text": "A treasure to saints", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:16", "verse_text": "Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith." }, { "point_text": "A treasure to saints", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:6", "verse_text": "And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure." }, { "point_text": "A fountain of life", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:27", "verse_text": "The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death." }, { "point_text": "Sanctifying", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:9", "verse_text": "The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether." }, { "point_text": "Filial and reverential", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:9", "verse_text": "Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?" }, { "point_text": "Filial and reverential", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:28", "verse_text": "Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:" }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 13:4", "verse_text": "Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him." }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:23", "verse_text": "Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 12:13", "verse_text": "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man." }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:17", "verse_text": "Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king." }, { "point_text": "MOTIVES TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The holiness of God", "verse_ref": "Revelation 15:4", "verse_text": "Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest." }, { "point_text": "The greatness of God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:12", "verse_text": "And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul," }, { "point_text": "The greatness of God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:17", "verse_text": "For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:" }, { "point_text": "The goodness of God", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 12:24", "verse_text": "Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you." }, { "point_text": "The forgiveness of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 130:4", "verse_text": "But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared." }, { "point_text": "Wondrous works of God", "verse_ref": "Joshua 4:23-24", "verse_text": "For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over: 24 That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever." }, { "point_text": "Judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Revelation 14:7", "verse_text": "Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of saints", "verse_ref": "Malachi 3:16", "verse_text": "Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name." }, { "point_text": "Should accompany the joy of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:11", "verse_text": "Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling." }, { "point_text": "NECESSARY TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The worship of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 5:7", "verse_text": "But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple." }, { "point_text": "The worship of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:7", "verse_text": "God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him." }, { "point_text": "The service of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:11", "verse_text": "Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling." }, { "point_text": "The service of God", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:28", "verse_text": "Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:" }, { "point_text": "Avoiding of sin", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:20", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not." }, { "point_text": "Righteous government", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 23:3", "verse_text": "The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God." }, { "point_text": "Impartial administration of justice", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 19:6-9", "verse_text": "And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment. 7 Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts. 8 Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and of the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem. 9 And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of the LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart." }, { "point_text": "Perfecting holiness", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 7:1", "verse_text": "Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God." }, { "point_text": "THOSE WHO HAVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Afford pleasure to God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 147:11", "verse_text": "The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy." }, { "point_text": "Are pitied by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:13", "verse_text": "Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him." }, { "point_text": "Are accepted of God", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:35", "verse_text": "But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him." }, { "point_text": "Receive mercy from God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:11", "verse_text": "For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him." }, { "point_text": "Receive mercy from God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:17", "verse_text": "But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;" }, { "point_text": "Are blessed", "verse_ref": "Psalm 112:1", "verse_text": "Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments." }, { "point_text": "Are blessed", "verse_ref": "Psalm 115:13", "verse_text": "He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and great." }, { "point_text": "Confide in God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 115:11", "verse_text": "Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield." }, { "point_text": "Confide in God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:26", "verse_text": "In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge." }, { "point_text": "Depart from evil", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:6", "verse_text": "By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil." }, { "point_text": "Converse together of holy things", "verse_ref": "Malachi 3:16", "verse_text": "Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name." }, { "point_text": "Should not fear man", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:12-13", "verse_text": "Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. 13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread." }, { "point_text": "Desires of, fulfilled by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:19", "verse_text": "He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them." }, { "point_text": "Days of, prolonged", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:27", "verse_text": "The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Prayed for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 86:11", "verse_text": "Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name." }, { "point_text": "Exhibited in our callings", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:22", "verse_text": "Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:" }, { "point_text": "Exhibited in giving a reason for our hope", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:15", "verse_text": "But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:" }, { "point_text": "Constantly maintained", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:23", "verse_text": "And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always." }, { "point_text": "Constantly maintained", "verse_ref": "Joshua 4:24", "verse_text": "That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever." }, { "point_text": "Constantly maintained", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:17", "verse_text": "Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long." }, { "point_text": "Taught to others", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:11", "verse_text": "Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Advantages of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:16", "verse_text": "Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith." }, { "point_text": "Advantages of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:23", "verse_text": "The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil." }, { "point_text": "Advantages of", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 8:12-13", "verse_text": "Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him: 13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God." }, { "point_text": "The wicked destitute of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 36:1", "verse_text": "The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes." }, { "point_text": "The wicked destitute of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:29", "verse_text": "For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "The wicked destitute of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:19", "verse_text": "Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "The wicked destitute of", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:18", "verse_text": "There is no fear of God before their eyes." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJoseph, \n\nObadiah, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \nCornelius, \nNoah,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:12", "verse_text": "And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJoseph, \n\nObadiah, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \nCornelius, \nNoah,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 39:9", "verse_text": "There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJoseph, \n\nObadiah, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \nCornelius, \nNoah,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 42:18", "verse_text": "And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJoseph, \n\nObadiah, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \nCornelius, \nNoah,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:12", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJoseph, \n\nObadiah, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \nCornelius, \nNoah,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 5:15", "verse_text": "But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJoseph, \n\nObadiah, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \nCornelius, \nNoah,", "verse_ref": "Job 1:1", "verse_text": "There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJoseph, \n\nObadiah, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \nCornelius, \nNoah,", "verse_ref": "Job 1:8", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJoseph, \n\nObadiah, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \nCornelius, \nNoah,", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:31", "verse_text": "Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJoseph, \n\nObadiah, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \nCornelius, \nNoah,", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:2", "verse_text": "A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJoseph, \n\nObadiah, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \nCornelius, \nNoah,", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:7", "verse_text": "By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith." } ] }, { "name": "Feast of Pentecost, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Feast-of-Pentecost-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Held fiftieth day after offering first sheaf of barley harvest", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:15-16", "verse_text": "And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: 16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "CALLED THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Feast of harvest", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:16", "verse_text": "And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field." }, { "point_text": "Feast of weeks", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:22", "verse_text": "And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end." }, { "point_text": "Feast of weeks", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:10", "verse_text": "And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:" }, { "point_text": "Day of the first fruits", "verse_ref": "Numbers 28:26", "verse_text": "Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the LORD, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:" }, { "point_text": "Day of Pentecost", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:1", "verse_text": "And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place." }, { "point_text": "To be perpetually observed", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:21", "verse_text": "And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations." }, { "point_text": "All males to attend", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:16-17", "verse_text": "And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field. 17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "A holy convocation", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:21", "verse_text": "And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations." }, { "point_text": "A holy convocation", "verse_ref": "Numbers 28:26", "verse_text": "Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the LORD, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:" }, { "point_text": "A time of holy rejoicing", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:11-12", "verse_text": "And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there. 12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes." }, { "point_text": "The first fruits of bread presented at", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:17", "verse_text": "Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The first fruits of bread presented at", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:10", "verse_text": "And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:" }, { "point_text": "Sacrifices at", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:18-19", "verse_text": "And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD. 19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings." }, { "point_text": "The law given from Mount Sinai upon", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:6", "verse_text": "And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening." }, { "point_text": "The law given from Mount Sinai upon", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:1", "verse_text": "In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai." }, { "point_text": "The law given from Mount Sinai upon", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:11", "verse_text": "And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai." }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost given to apostles at", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:1-3", "verse_text": "And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them." }, { "point_text": "Observed by early church", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:16", "verse_text": "For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost." }, { "point_text": "Observed by early church", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 16:8", "verse_text": "But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost." } ] }, { "name": "Faithfulness", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Faithfulness.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "A characteristic of saints", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:1", "verse_text": "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:" }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of saints", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:2", "verse_text": "To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of saints", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:2", "verse_text": "And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of saints", "verse_ref": "Revelation 17:14", "verse_text": "These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful." }, { "point_text": "EXHIBITED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The service of God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:45", "verse_text": "Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?" }, { "point_text": "Declaring the word of God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:28", "verse_text": "The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Declaring the word of God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 2:17", "verse_text": "For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ." }, { "point_text": "Declaring the word of God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:2", "verse_text": "But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God." }, { "point_text": "The care of dedicated things", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:12", "verse_text": "And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next." }, { "point_text": "Helping the brethren", "verse_ref": "3 John 5", "verse_text": "Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers;" }, { "point_text": "Bearing witness", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:5", "verse_text": "A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies." }, { "point_text": "Reproving others", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:6", "verse_text": "Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful." }, { "point_text": "Reproving others", "verse_ref": "Psalm 141:5", "verse_text": "Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities." }, { "point_text": "Situations of trust", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 12:15", "verse_text": "Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully." }, { "point_text": "Situations of trust", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:13", "verse_text": "And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah: for they were counted faithful, and their office was to distribute unto their brethren." }, { "point_text": "Situations of trust", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:1-3", "verse_text": "And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. 2 Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. 3 Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business." }, { "point_text": "Doing work", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 34:12", "verse_text": "And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick." }, { "point_text": "Keeping secrets", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:13", "verse_text": "A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter." }, { "point_text": "Conveying messages", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 13:17", "verse_text": "A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health." }, { "point_text": "Conveying messages", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:13", "verse_text": "As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters." }, { "point_text": "All things", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:11", "verse_text": "Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things." }, { "point_text": "The smallest matters", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:10-12", "verse_text": "He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. 11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? 12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?" }, { "point_text": "Should be unto death", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:10", "verse_text": "Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." }, { "point_text": "ESPECIALLY REQUIRED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Ministers", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 4:2", "verse_text": "Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful." }, { "point_text": "Ministers", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:2", "verse_text": "And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also." }, { "point_text": "The wives of ministers", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:11", "verse_text": "Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things." }, { "point_text": "The children of ministers", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:6", "verse_text": "If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly." }, { "point_text": "Difficulty of finding", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:6", "verse_text": "Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?" }, { "point_text": "The wicked devoid of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 5:9", "verse_text": "For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue." }, { "point_text": "Associate with those who exhibit", "verse_ref": "Psalm 101:6", "verse_text": "Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 26:23", "verse_text": "The LORD render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness: for the LORD delivered thee into my hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD'S anointed." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:20", "verse_text": "A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of, illustrated", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:45", "verse_text": "Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?" }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of, illustrated", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:21", "verse_text": "His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of, illustrated", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:23", "verse_text": "His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 39:22-23", "verse_text": "And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it. 23 The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the LORD was with him, and that which he did, the LORD made it to prosper." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 12:7", "verse_text": "My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:2", "verse_text": "Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:5", "verse_text": "And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 22:14", "verse_text": "Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king's son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 7:2", "verse_text": "That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:8", "verse_text": "And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:9", "verse_text": "So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:4", "verse_text": "Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:20", "verse_text": "And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:27", "verse_text": "For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 4:17", "verse_text": "For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:21", "verse_text": "But that ye also may know my affairs, and how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:7", "verse_text": "As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Colossians 4:9", "verse_text": "With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things which are done here." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:12", "verse_text": "By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:13", "verse_text": "I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of saints", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:1", "verse_text": "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:" }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of saints", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:2", "verse_text": "To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of saints", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:2", "verse_text": "And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of saints", "verse_ref": "Revelation 17:14", "verse_text": "These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful." }, { "point_text": "EXHIBITED IN", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "The service of God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:45", "verse_text": "Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?" }, { "point_text": "Declaring the word of God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:28", "verse_text": "The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Declaring the word of God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 2:17", "verse_text": "For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ." }, { "point_text": "Declaring the word of God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:2", "verse_text": "But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God." }, { "point_text": "The care of dedicated things", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:12", "verse_text": "And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next." }, { "point_text": "Helping the brethren", "verse_ref": "3 John 5", "verse_text": "Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers;" }, { "point_text": "Bearing witness", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:5", "verse_text": "A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies." }, { "point_text": "Reproving others", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:6", "verse_text": "Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful." }, { "point_text": "Reproving others", "verse_ref": "Psalm 141:5", "verse_text": "Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities." }, { "point_text": "Situations of trust", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 12:15", "verse_text": "Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully." }, { "point_text": "Situations of trust", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:13", "verse_text": "And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah: for they were counted faithful, and their office was to distribute unto their brethren." }, { "point_text": "Situations of trust", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:1-3", "verse_text": "And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. 2 Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. 3 Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business." }, { "point_text": "Doing work", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 34:12", "verse_text": "And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick." }, { "point_text": "Keeping secrets", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:13", "verse_text": "A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter." }, { "point_text": "Conveying messages", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 13:17", "verse_text": "A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health." }, { "point_text": "Conveying messages", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:13", "verse_text": "As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters." }, { "point_text": "All things", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:11", "verse_text": "Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things." }, { "point_text": "The smallest matters", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:10-12", "verse_text": "He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. 11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? 12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?" }, { "point_text": "Should be unto death", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:10", "verse_text": "Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." }, { "point_text": "ESPECIALLY REQUIRED IN", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Ministers", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 4:2", "verse_text": "Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful." }, { "point_text": "Ministers", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:2", "verse_text": "And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also." }, { "point_text": "The wives of ministers", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:11", "verse_text": "Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things." }, { "point_text": "The children of ministers", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:6", "verse_text": "If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly." }, { "point_text": "Difficulty of finding", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:6", "verse_text": "Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?" }, { "point_text": "The wicked devoid of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 5:9", "verse_text": "For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue." }, { "point_text": "Associate with those who exhibit", "verse_ref": "Psalm 101:6", "verse_text": "Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 26:23", "verse_text": "The LORD render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness: for the LORD delivered thee into my hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD'S anointed." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:20", "verse_text": "A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of, illustrated", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:45", "verse_text": "Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?" }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of, illustrated", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:21", "verse_text": "His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of, illustrated", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:23", "verse_text": "His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 39:22-23", "verse_text": "And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it. 23 The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the LORD was with him, and that which he did, the LORD made it to prosper." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 12:7", "verse_text": "My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:2", "verse_text": "Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:5", "verse_text": "And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 22:14", "verse_text": "Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king's son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 7:2", "verse_text": "That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:8", "verse_text": "And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:9", "verse_text": "So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:4", "verse_text": "Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:20", "verse_text": "And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:27", "verse_text": "For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 4:17", "verse_text": "For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:21", "verse_text": "But that ye also may know my affairs, and how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:7", "verse_text": "As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Colossians 4:9", "verse_text": "With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things which are done here." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:12", "verse_text": "By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nMoses, \n\n\nDavid, \nHananiah, \nAbraham, \n\nDaniel, \nPaul, \n\nTimothy, \nTychicus, \nEpaphras, \nOnesimus, \nSilvanus, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:13", "verse_text": "I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth." } ] }, { "name": "Feast of the New Moon, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Feast-of-the-New-Moon-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Held first day of the month", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:10", "verse_text": "Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "Celebrated with blowing of trumpets", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:10", "verse_text": "Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "Celebrated with blowing of trumpets", "verse_ref": "Psalm 81:3-4", "verse_text": "Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. 4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob." }, { "point_text": "Sacrifices at", "verse_ref": "Numbers 28:11-15", "verse_text": "And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot; 12 And three tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, for one bullock; and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, for one ram; 13 And a several tenth deal of flour mingled with oil for a meat offering unto one lamb; for a burnt offering of a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD. 14 And their drink offerings shall be half an hin of wine unto a bullock, and the third part of an hin unto a ram, and a fourth part of an hin unto a lamb: this is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year. ..." }, { "point_text": "A SEASON FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Inquiring of God's messengers", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:23", "verse_text": "And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well." }, { "point_text": "Worship in God's house", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:23", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Worship in God's house", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 46:1", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened." }, { "point_text": "Entertainments", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 20:5", "verse_text": "And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third day at even." }, { "point_text": "Entertainments", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 20:18", "verse_text": "Then Jonathan said to David, To morrow is the new moon: and thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty." }, { "point_text": "Observed with great solemnity", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:31", "verse_text": "And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD in the sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order commanded unto them, continually before the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Observed with great solemnity", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:4", "verse_text": "Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel." }, { "point_text": "Observed with great solemnity", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 8:13", "verse_text": "Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles." }, { "point_text": "Observed with great solemnity", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:3", "verse_text": "He appointed also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Restored after captivity", "verse_ref": "Ezra 3:5", "verse_text": "And afterward offered the continual burnt offering, both of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of the LORD that were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a freewill offering unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Restored after captivity", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 10:33", "verse_text": "For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God." }, { "point_text": "Mere outward observance of, hateful to God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:13-14", "verse_text": "Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them." }, { "point_text": "Disliked by the ungodly", "verse_ref": "Amos 8:5", "verse_text": "Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?" }, { "point_text": "The Jews deprived of, for sin", "verse_ref": "Hosea 2:11", "verse_text": "I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts." }, { "point_text": "Observance of, by Christians, condemned", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:16", "verse_text": "Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:" }, { "point_text": "Observance of, by Christians, condemned", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:10", "verse_text": "Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years." } ] }, { "name": "Feast of the Passover, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Feast-of-the-Passover-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Ordained by God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:1-2", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you." }, { "point_text": "Commenced the fourteenth of the first month at even", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:2", "verse_text": "This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you." }, { "point_text": "Commenced the fourteenth of the first month at even", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:6", "verse_text": "And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening." }, { "point_text": "Commenced the fourteenth of the first month at even", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:18", "verse_text": "In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even." }, { "point_text": "Lasted seven days", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:15", "verse_text": "Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel." }, { "point_text": "Lasted seven days", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:6", "verse_text": "And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread." }, { "point_text": "CALLED THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Passover", "verse_ref": "Numbers 9:5", "verse_text": "And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Passover", "verse_ref": "John 2:23", "verse_text": "Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did." }, { "point_text": "Jew's passover", "verse_ref": "John 2:13", "verse_text": "And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem," }, { "point_text": "Jew's passover", "verse_ref": "John 11:55", "verse_text": "And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves." }, { "point_text": "Lord's passover", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:11", "verse_text": "And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover." }, { "point_text": "Lord's passover", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:27", "verse_text": "That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped." }, { "point_text": "Feast of unleavened bread", "verse_ref": "Mark 14:1", "verse_text": "After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death." }, { "point_text": "Feast of unleavened bread", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:1", "verse_text": "Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover." }, { "point_text": "Days of unleavened bread", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:3", "verse_text": "And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)" }, { "point_text": "Days of unleavened bread", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:6", "verse_text": "And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days." }, { "point_text": "All males to appear at", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:17", "verse_text": "Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "All males to appear at", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:16", "verse_text": "Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:" }, { "point_text": "Paschal lamb eaten first day of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:6", "verse_text": "And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening." }, { "point_text": "Paschal lamb eaten first day of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:8", "verse_text": "And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it." }, { "point_text": "Unleavened bread eaten at", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:15", "verse_text": "Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel." }, { "point_text": "Unleavened bread eaten at", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:3", "verse_text": "Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life." }, { "point_text": "LEAVEN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Not to be in their houses during", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:19", "verse_text": "Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land." }, { "point_text": "Not to be in any of their quarters", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:7", "verse_text": "Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters." }, { "point_text": "Not to be in any of their quarters", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:4", "verse_text": "And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning." }, { "point_text": "Nothing with, to be eaten", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:20", "verse_text": "Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for eating", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:15", "verse_text": "Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for eating", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:19", "verse_text": "Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land." }, { "point_text": "First and last days of, holy convocations", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:16", "verse_text": "And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you." }, { "point_text": "First and last days of, holy convocations", "verse_ref": "Numbers 28:18", "verse_text": "In the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein:" }, { "point_text": "First and last days of, holy convocations", "verse_ref": "Numbers 28:25", "verse_text": "And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work." }, { "point_text": "Sacrifices during", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:8", "verse_text": "But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein." }, { "point_text": "Sacrifices during", "verse_ref": "Numbers 28:19-24", "verse_text": "But ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire for a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you without blemish: 20 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil: three tenth deals shall ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram; 21 A several tenth deal shalt thou offer for every lamb, throughout the seven lambs: 22 And one goat for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you. ..." }, { "point_text": "The first sheaf of barley harvest offered the day after the Sabbath in", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:10-14", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: 11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD. 13 And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin. ..." }, { "point_text": "TO COMMEMORATE THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Passing over the first-born", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:12-13", "verse_text": "For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. 13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Deliverance of Israel from bondage of Egypt", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:17", "verse_text": "And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever." }, { "point_text": "Deliverance of Israel from bondage of Egypt", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:9", "verse_text": "And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD'S law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Deliverance of Israel from bondage of Egypt", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:3", "verse_text": "Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life." }, { "point_text": "To be perpetually observed during the Mosaic dispensation", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:14", "verse_text": "And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever." }, { "point_text": "To be perpetually observed during the Mosaic dispensation", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:10", "verse_text": "Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year." }, { "point_text": "Children to be taught the nature and design of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:26", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?" }, { "point_text": "Children to be taught the nature and design of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:8", "verse_text": "And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is done because of that which the LORD did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Purification necessary to the due observance of", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 30:15-19", "verse_text": "Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD. 16 And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, which they received of the hand of the Levites. 17 For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD. 18 For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one ..." }, { "point_text": "Purification necessary to the due observance of", "verse_ref": "John 11:55", "verse_text": "And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves." }, { "point_text": "Might be kept in the second month by those who were unclean at the appointed time", "verse_ref": "Numbers 9:6-11", "verse_text": "And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day: 7 And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel? 8 And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you. 9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ..." }, { "point_text": "Might be kept in the second month by those who were unclean at the appointed time", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 30:2-3", "verse_text": "For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month. 3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Might be kept in the second month by those who were unclean at the appointed time", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 30:15", "verse_text": "Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "No uncircumcised person to keep", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:43", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:" }, { "point_text": "No uncircumcised person to keep", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:45", "verse_text": "A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof." }, { "point_text": "Strangers and servants when circumcised might keep", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:44", "verse_text": "But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof." }, { "point_text": "Strangers and servants when circumcised might keep", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:48", "verse_text": "And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof." }, { "point_text": "Neglect of, punished with death", "verse_ref": "Numbers 9:13", "verse_text": "But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin." }, { "point_text": "Improper keeping of, punished", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 30:18", "verse_text": "For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one" }, { "point_text": "Improper keeping of, punished", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 30:20", "verse_text": "And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people." }, { "point_text": "REMARKABLE CELEBRATIONS OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "On leaving Egypt", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:28", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they." }, { "point_text": "On leaving Egypt", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:50", "verse_text": "Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they." }, { "point_text": "In the wilderness of Sinai", "verse_ref": "Numbers 9:3-5", "verse_text": "In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it. 4 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover. 5 And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "On entering the land of promise", "verse_ref": "Joshua 5:10-11", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho. 11 And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day." }, { "point_text": "In Hezekiah's reign", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 30:1", "verse_text": "And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel." }, { "point_text": "In Josiah's reign", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:22-23", "verse_text": "Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah; 23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "In Josiah's reign", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 35:1", "verse_text": "Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month." }, { "point_text": "In Josiah's reign", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 35:18", "verse_text": "And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "After the captivity", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:19-20", "verse_text": "And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month. 20 For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves." }, { "point_text": "Before the death of Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:15", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:" }, { "point_text": "Moses kept through faith", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:28", "verse_text": "Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them." }, { "point_text": "Christ always observed", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:17-20", "verse_text": "Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover? 18 And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples. 19 And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover. 20 Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve." }, { "point_text": "Christ always observed", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:15", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:" }, { "point_text": "Christ always observed", "verse_ref": "John 2:13", "verse_text": "And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem," }, { "point_text": "Christ always observed", "verse_ref": "John 2:23", "verse_text": "Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did." }, { "point_text": "The people of Jerusalem lent their rooms to strangers for", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:11-12", "verse_text": "And ye shall say unto the goodman of the house, The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples? 12 And he shall shew you a large upper room furnished: there make ready." }, { "point_text": "The Lord's Supper instituted at", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:26-28", "verse_text": "And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. 27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; 28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins." }, { "point_text": "Custom of releasing a prisoner at", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:15", "verse_text": "Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would." }, { "point_text": "Custom of releasing a prisoner at", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:16-17", "verse_text": "I will therefore chastise him, and release him. 17 (For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)" }, { "point_text": "The Sabbath in, a high day", "verse_ref": "John 19:31", "verse_text": "The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away." }, { "point_text": "The day before the Sabbath in, called the preparation", "verse_ref": "John 19:14", "verse_text": "And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!" }, { "point_text": "The day before the Sabbath in, called the preparation", "verse_ref": "John 19:31", "verse_text": "The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away." }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of redemption through Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 5:7-8", "verse_text": "Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." } ] }, { "name": "Feasts of Trumpets, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Feasts-of-Trumpets-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Held the first day of seventh month", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:24", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation." }, { "point_text": "Held the first day of seventh month", "verse_ref": "Numbers 29:1", "verse_text": "And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you." }, { "point_text": "A memorial of blowing of trumpets", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:24", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation." }, { "point_text": "A holy convocation and rest", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:24-25", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. 25 Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Sacrifices at", "verse_ref": "Numbers 29:2-6", "verse_text": "And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year without blemish: 3 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram, 4 And one tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs: 5 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you: ..." } ] }, { "name": "Feasts, The Anniversary", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Feasts-The-Anniversary.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Instituted by God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:14", "verse_text": "Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year." }, { "point_text": "Enumerated", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:15-16", "verse_text": "Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:) 16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field." }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Appointed feasts", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:14", "verse_text": "Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them." }, { "point_text": "Feasts of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:4", "verse_text": "These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons." }, { "point_text": "Solemn feasts", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 8:13", "verse_text": "Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles." }, { "point_text": "Solemn feasts", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 1:4", "verse_text": "The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness." }, { "point_text": "Solemn meetings", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:13", "verse_text": "Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting." }, { "point_text": "Were eucharistic", "verse_ref": "Psalm 122:4", "verse_text": "Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "All males to attend", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:17", "verse_text": "Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "All males to attend", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:23", "verse_text": "Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Children commenced attending, when twelve years old", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:42", "verse_text": "And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast." }, { "point_text": "Females often attended", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:3", "verse_text": "And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were there." }, { "point_text": "Females often attended", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:9", "verse_text": "So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The Jews attended gladly", "verse_ref": "Psalm 122:1-2", "verse_text": "I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD. 2 Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "The Jews went up to, in large companies", "verse_ref": "Psalm 42:4", "verse_text": "When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday." }, { "point_text": "The Jews went up to, in large companies", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:44", "verse_text": "But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance." }, { "point_text": "The dangers and difficulties encountered in going up to, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 84:6-7", "verse_text": "Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. 7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God." }, { "point_text": "The land divinely protected during", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:24", "verse_text": "For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year." }, { "point_text": "Offerings to be made at", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:20", "verse_text": "But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty." }, { "point_text": "Offerings to be made at", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:16-17", "verse_text": "Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty: 17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee." }, { "point_text": "WERE SEASONS OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Joy and gladness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 42:4", "verse_text": "When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday." }, { "point_text": "Joy and gladness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:20", "verse_text": "And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:" }, { "point_text": "Sacrificing", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:3", "verse_text": "And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were there." }, { "point_text": "Sacrificing", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 9:25", "verse_text": "And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto the LORD, and he burnt incense upon the altar that was before the LORD. So he finished the house." }, { "point_text": "Sacrificing", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 8:13", "verse_text": "Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles." }, { "point_text": "Entertainments", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:4", "verse_text": "And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:" }, { "point_text": "Entertainments", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:9", "verse_text": "So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The ten tribes seduced by Jeroboam from attending", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:27", "verse_text": "If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah." }, { "point_text": "The Jews dispersed in distant parts often attended", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:5-11", "verse_text": "And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. 6 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. 7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? 8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? ..." }, { "point_text": "The Jews dispersed in distant parts often attended", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:27", "verse_text": "And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship," }, { "point_text": "Christ attended", "verse_ref": "John 5:1", "verse_text": "After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Christ attended", "verse_ref": "John 7:10", "verse_text": "But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret." }, { "point_text": "Rendered unavailing by the impiety of the Jews", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:13-14", "verse_text": "Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them." }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of general assembly of the church", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:23", "verse_text": "To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect," } ] }, { "name": "Feet, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Feet-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Necessary members of the body", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:15", "verse_text": "If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?" }, { "point_text": "Necessary members of the body", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:21", "verse_text": "And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you." }, { "point_text": "PARTS OF, MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Heel", "verse_ref": "Psalm 41:9", "verse_text": "Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me." }, { "point_text": "Heel", "verse_ref": "Psalm 49:5", "verse_text": "Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?" }, { "point_text": "Heel", "verse_ref": "Hosea 12:3", "verse_text": "He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:" }, { "point_text": "Sole", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:24", "verse_text": "Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be." }, { "point_text": "Sole", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:3", "verse_text": "Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet." }, { "point_text": "Toes", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:20", "verse_text": "Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about." }, { "point_text": "Toes", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 21:20", "verse_text": "And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant." }, { "point_text": "Toes", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:41", "verse_text": "And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay." }, { "point_text": "Often swift", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 2:18", "verse_text": "And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe." }, { "point_text": "Often swift", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 22:34", "verse_text": "He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: and setteth me upon my high places." }, { "point_text": "WERE LIABLE TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Disease", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:23", "verse_text": "The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet." }, { "point_text": "Swelling from walking", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:4", "verse_text": "Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years." }, { "point_text": "Injury from stones, &c", "verse_ref": "Psalm 91:12", "verse_text": "They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone." }, { "point_text": "Early use of shoes for", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:11", "verse_text": "And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover." }, { "point_text": "Of women often adorned with tinkling ornaments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:16", "verse_text": "Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:" }, { "point_text": "Of women often adorned with tinkling ornaments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:18", "verse_text": "In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon," }, { "point_text": "OF THE JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Neglected in affliction", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 19:24", "verse_text": "And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace." }, { "point_text": "Neglected in affliction", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 24:17", "verse_text": "Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men." }, { "point_text": "Bare in affliction", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 15:30", "verse_text": "And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that was with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up." }, { "point_text": "Washed frequently", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 11:8", "verse_text": "And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess of meat from the king." }, { "point_text": "Washed frequently", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:3", "verse_text": "I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?" }, { "point_text": "Stamped on the ground in extreme joy or grief", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 6:11", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence." }, { "point_text": "Stamped on the ground in extreme joy or grief", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 25:6", "verse_text": "For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel;" }, { "point_text": "Washing for others, a menial office", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:41", "verse_text": "And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord." }, { "point_text": "Washing for others, a menial office", "verse_ref": "John 13:5-14", "verse_text": "After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded. 6 Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet? 7 Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter. 8 Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me. ..." }, { "point_text": "Of strangers and travellers washed", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:4", "verse_text": "Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:" }, { "point_text": "Of strangers and travellers washed", "verse_ref": "Genesis 19:2", "verse_text": "And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night." }, { "point_text": "Of strangers and travellers washed", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:32", "verse_text": "And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men's feet that were with him." }, { "point_text": "Of strangers and travellers washed", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:10", "verse_text": "Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work." }, { "point_text": "Neglect of washing, disrespectful to guest", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:44", "verse_text": "And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head." }, { "point_text": "Respect exhibited by falling at", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:24", "verse_text": "And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid." }, { "point_text": "Respect exhibited by falling at", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:37", "verse_text": "Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground, and took up her son, and went out." }, { "point_text": "Respect exhibited by falling at", "verse_ref": "Esther 8:3", "verse_text": "And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews." }, { "point_text": "Respect exhibited by falling at", "verse_ref": "Mark 5:22", "verse_text": "And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet," }, { "point_text": "Respect exhibited by falling at", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:25", "verse_text": "And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him." }, { "point_text": "Reverence expressed by kissing", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:38", "verse_text": "And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment." }, { "point_text": "Reverence expressed by kissing", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:45", "verse_text": "Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet." }, { "point_text": "Sleep expressed by covering", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 24:3", "verse_text": "And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave." }, { "point_text": "Subjection expressed by licking the dust of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:23", "verse_text": "And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me." }, { "point_text": "Condemnation expressed by shaking the dust from", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:14", "verse_text": "And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet." }, { "point_text": "Condemnation expressed by shaking the dust from", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:11", "verse_text": "And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city." }, { "point_text": "Subjugation of enemies expressed by placing on their necks", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:24", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them." }, { "point_text": "Subjugation of enemies expressed by placing on their necks", "verse_ref": "Psalm 110:1", "verse_text": "The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool." }, { "point_text": "Origin of uncovering in consecrated places", "verse_ref": "Exodus 3:5", "verse_text": "And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground." }, { "point_text": "Origin of uncovering in consecrated places", "verse_ref": "Joshua 5:15", "verse_text": "And the captain of the LORD'S host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so." }, { "point_text": "Of enemies often maimed and cut off", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:6-7", "verse_text": "But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. 7 And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died." }, { "point_text": "Of enemies often maimed and cut off", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 4:12", "verse_text": "And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron." }, { "point_text": "OF CRIMINALS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Bound with fetters", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:18", "verse_text": "Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:" }, { "point_text": "Placed in stocks", "verse_ref": "Job 13:27", "verse_text": "Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet." }, { "point_text": "Placed in stocks", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:24", "verse_text": "Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks." }, { "point_text": "Path of, to be pondered", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 4:26", "verse_text": "Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established." }, { "point_text": "To be refrained from evil", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:15", "verse_text": "My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:" }, { "point_text": "To be refrained from evil", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:13", "verse_text": "And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed." }, { "point_text": "To be turned to God's testimonies", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:59", "verse_text": "I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies." }, { "point_text": "To be directed by God's word", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:105", "verse_text": "NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." }, { "point_text": "To be guided by wisdom and discretion", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:21", "verse_text": "My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:" }, { "point_text": "To be guided by wisdom and discretion", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:23", "verse_text": "Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble." }, { "point_text": "To be guided by wisdom and discretion", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:26", "verse_text": "For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken." }, { "point_text": "OF THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Swift to mischief", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:18", "verse_text": "An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief," }, { "point_text": "Swift to shed blood", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:16", "verse_text": "For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood." }, { "point_text": "Swift to shed blood", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:15", "verse_text": "Their feet are swift to shed blood:" }, { "point_text": "Ensnared", "verse_ref": "Job 18:8", "verse_text": "For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare." }, { "point_text": "Ensnared", "verse_ref": "Psalm 9:15", "verse_text": "The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken." }, { "point_text": "OF SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "At liberty", "verse_ref": "Psalm 18:36", "verse_text": "Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip." }, { "point_text": "At liberty", "verse_ref": "Psalm 31:8", "verse_text": "And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room." }, { "point_text": "Kept by God", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:9", "verse_text": "He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail." }, { "point_text": "Kept by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 116:8", "verse_text": "For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling." }, { "point_text": "Established by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 66:9", "verse_text": "Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved." }, { "point_text": "Established by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 121:3", "verse_text": "He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber." }, { "point_text": "Guided by Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 48:17", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go." }, { "point_text": "Guided by Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:79", "verse_text": "To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "(Set on a rock,) of stability", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:2", "verse_text": "He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings." }, { "point_text": "(Set in a large place,) of liberty", "verse_ref": "Psalm 31:8", "verse_text": "And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room." }, { "point_text": "(Sliding,) of yielding to temptation", "verse_ref": "Job 12:5", "verse_text": "He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease." }, { "point_text": "(Sliding,) of yielding to temptation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 17:5", "verse_text": "Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not." }, { "point_text": "(Sliding,) of yielding to temptation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 38:16", "verse_text": "For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me." }, { "point_text": "(Sliding,) of yielding to temptation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 94:18", "verse_text": "When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up." }, { "point_text": "(Treading under,) of complete destruction", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 18:7", "verse_text": "In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion." }, { "point_text": "(Treading under,) of complete destruction", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 1:15", "verse_text": "The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress." }, { "point_text": "(Washed or dipped in oil,) of abundance", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:24", "verse_text": "And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil." }, { "point_text": "(Washed or dipped in oil,) of abundance", "verse_ref": "Job 29:6", "verse_text": "When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;" }, { "point_text": "(Dipped in blood,) of victory", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:23", "verse_text": "That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same." } ] }, { "name": "Fig-tree, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Figtree-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Produces a rich sweet fruit", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:11", "verse_text": "But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?" }, { "point_text": "Not found in desert places", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:5", "verse_text": "And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink." }, { "point_text": "ABOUNDED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Egypt", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:33", "verse_text": "He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts." }, { "point_text": "Canaan", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:23", "verse_text": "And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs." }, { "point_text": "Canaan", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:8", "verse_text": "A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;" }, { "point_text": "Often grew wild.\r\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Amos 7:14", "verse_text": "Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:" }, { "point_text": "Sometimes planted in vineyards", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:6", "verse_text": "He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none." }, { "point_text": "Propagated by the Jews", "verse_ref": "Amos 4:9", "verse_text": "I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Required cultivation", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:8", "verse_text": "And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:" }, { "point_text": "Fruit of, formed after winter", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:11", "verse_text": "For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;" }, { "point_text": "Fruit of, formed after winter", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:13", "verse_text": "The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away." }, { "point_text": "Leaves of, put forth, a sign of the approach of summer", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:32", "verse_text": "Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:" }, { "point_text": "Reasonableness of expecting fruit upon, when full of leaves", "verse_ref": "Mark 11:13", "verse_text": "And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet." }, { "point_text": "FRUIT OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Eaten fresh from the tree", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:18-19", "verse_text": "Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered. 19 And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away." }, { "point_text": "Eaten dried in cakes", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 30:12", "verse_text": "And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights." }, { "point_text": "Gathered and kept in baskets", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 24:1", "verse_text": "The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon." }, { "point_text": "First ripe esteemed", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 24:2", "verse_text": "One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad." }, { "point_text": "First ripe esteemed", "verse_ref": "Hosea 9:10", "verse_text": "I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved." }, { "point_text": "Used in the miraculous healing of Hezekiah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:7", "verse_text": "And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered." }, { "point_text": "Used in the miraculous healing of Hezekiah", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:21", "verse_text": "For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover." }, { "point_text": "Sold in the markets", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:15", "verse_text": "In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals." }, { "point_text": "Sent as presents", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:18", "verse_text": "Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses." }, { "point_text": "Sent as presents", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:40", "verse_text": "Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel." }, { "point_text": "A species of, produced vile and worthless fruit", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 29:17", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil." }, { "point_text": "Leaves of, used by Adam for covering", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:7", "verse_text": "And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons." }, { "point_text": "Afforded a thick shade", "verse_ref": "John 1:48", "verse_text": "Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee." }, { "point_text": "Afforded a thick shade", "verse_ref": "John 1:50", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt see greater things than these." }, { "point_text": "Often unfruitful", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:7", "verse_text": "Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?" }, { "point_text": "Failure of, a great calamity", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 3:17", "verse_text": "Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:" }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS PUNISHED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "God's breaking down", "verse_ref": "Hosea 2:12", "verse_text": "And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them." }, { "point_text": "Failure of fruit on", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:13", "verse_text": "I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them." }, { "point_text": "Failure of fruit on", "verse_ref": "Haggai 2:19", "verse_text": "Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you." }, { "point_text": "Enemies devouring fruit of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:17", "verse_text": "And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword." }, { "point_text": "Barking and eating of, by locusts, &c", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:4", "verse_text": "That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten." }, { "point_text": "Barking and eating of, by locusts, &c", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:7", "verse_text": "He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white." }, { "point_text": "Barking and eating of, by locusts, &c", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:12", "verse_text": "The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "(Barren,) of mere professors of religion", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:19", "verse_text": "And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away." }, { "point_text": "(Barren,) of mere professors of religion", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:6-7", "verse_text": "He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. 7 Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?" }, { "point_text": "(Sitting under one's own,) of prosperity and peace", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:25", "verse_text": "And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon." }, { "point_text": "(Sitting under one's own,) of prosperity and peace", "verse_ref": "Micah 4:4", "verse_text": "But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it." }, { "point_text": "FRUIT OF, ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of good works", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:16", "verse_text": "Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?" }, { "point_text": "(Good,) of saints", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 24:2-3", "verse_text": "One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. 3 Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil." }, { "point_text": "(Bad,) of wicked men", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 24:2-8", "verse_text": "One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. 3 Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. 4 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 5 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good. ..." }, { "point_text": "(First ripe,) of the fathers of the Jewish church", "verse_ref": "Hosea 9:10", "verse_text": "I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved." }, { "point_text": "(Untimely and dropping,) of the wicked ripe for judgment", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 34:4", "verse_text": "And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree." }, { "point_text": "(Untimely and dropping,) of the wicked ripe for judgment", "verse_ref": "Nahum 3:12", "verse_text": "All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater." }, { "point_text": "(Untimely and dropping,) of the wicked ripe for judgment", "verse_ref": "Revelation 6:13", "verse_text": "And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind." } ] }, { "name": "First-born, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Firstborn-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Of man and beast dedicated to God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:2", "verse_text": "Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine." }, { "point_text": "Of man and beast dedicated to God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:29", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me." }, { "point_text": "Dedicated to commemorate the sparing of the first-born of Israel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:15", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem." }, { "point_text": "Dedicated to commemorate the sparing of the first-born of Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:13", "verse_text": "Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Dedicated to commemorate the sparing of the first-born of Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:17", "verse_text": "For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself." }, { "point_text": "OF CLEAN BEASTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Not to labor", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 15:19", "verse_text": "All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep." }, { "point_text": "Not shorn", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 15:19", "verse_text": "All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep." }, { "point_text": "Not taken from the dam for seven days", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:30", "verse_text": "Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me." }, { "point_text": "Not taken from the dam for seven days", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:27", "verse_text": "When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Offered in sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:17", "verse_text": "But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Could not be a free-will offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 27:26", "verse_text": "Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the LORD'S firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep: it is the LORD'S." }, { "point_text": "Antiquity of offering", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:4", "verse_text": "And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:" }, { "point_text": "Flesh of, the priests' portion", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:18", "verse_text": "And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine." }, { "point_text": "OF CLEAN BEASTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To be redeemed", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:15", "verse_text": "Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem." }, { "point_text": "Law of redemption for", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:16", "verse_text": "And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs." }, { "point_text": "Of the ass to be redeemed with lamb or its neck broken", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:13", "verse_text": "And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem." }, { "point_text": "Of the ass to be redeemed with lamb or its neck broken", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:20", "verse_text": "But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty." }, { "point_text": "OF ISRAEL,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Tribe of Levi taken for", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:12", "verse_text": "And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine;" }, { "point_text": "Tribe of Levi taken for", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:40-43", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn of the males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names. 41 And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am the LORD) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel. 42 And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel. 43 And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen." }, { "point_text": "Tribe of Levi taken for", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:18", "verse_text": "And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "To be redeemed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:20", "verse_text": "But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty." }, { "point_text": "To be redeemed", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:15", "verse_text": "Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem." }, { "point_text": "Price of redemption for", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:46-47", "verse_text": "And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of Israel, which are more than the Levites; 47 Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)" }, { "point_text": "Price of, given to the priests", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:48-51", "verse_text": "And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons. 49 And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites: 50 Of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money; a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: 51 And Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "Laws respecting, restored after the captivity", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 10:36", "verse_text": "Also the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God:" }, { "point_text": "Laws respecting, observed at Christ's birth", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:22-23", "verse_text": "And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord; 23 (As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)" }, { "point_text": "The beginning of strength and excellency of power", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:3", "verse_text": "Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:" }, { "point_text": "The beginning of strength and excellency of power", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 21:17", "verse_text": "But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his." }, { "point_text": "Precious and valuable", "verse_ref": "Micah 6:7", "verse_text": "Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?" }, { "point_text": "Precious and valuable", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 12:10", "verse_text": "And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn." }, { "point_text": "Objects of special love", "verse_ref": "Genesis 25:28", "verse_text": "And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob." }, { "point_text": "Objects of special love", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:9", "verse_text": "They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn." }, { "point_text": "Objects of special love", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:20", "verse_text": "Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "PRIVILEGES OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Precedence in the family", "verse_ref": "Genesis 48:13-14", "verse_text": "And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him. 14 And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn." }, { "point_text": "Authority over the younger children", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:29", "verse_text": "Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee." }, { "point_text": "Authority over the younger children", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 20:29", "verse_text": "And he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he hath commanded me to be there: and now, if I have found favour in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and see my brethren. Therefore he cometh not unto the king's table." }, { "point_text": "Special blessing by the father", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:4", "verse_text": "And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die." }, { "point_text": "Special blessing by the father", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:35", "verse_text": "And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing." }, { "point_text": "The father's title and power", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 21:3", "verse_text": "And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because he was the firstborn." }, { "point_text": "A double portion of inheritance", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 21:17", "verse_text": "But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his." }, { "point_text": "In case of death the next brother to raise up seed to", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 25:5-6", "verse_text": "If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her. 6 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Not to be alienated by parents through caprice", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 21:15-16", "verse_text": "If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated: 16 Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:" }, { "point_text": "Could be forfeited by misconduct", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:3-4", "verse_text": "Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: 4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch." }, { "point_text": "Could be forfeited by misconduct", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:8", "verse_text": "Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee." }, { "point_text": "Could be forfeited by misconduct", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 5:1", "verse_text": "Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright." }, { "point_text": "Could be sold", "verse_ref": "Genesis 25:31", "verse_text": "And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright." }, { "point_text": "Could be sold", "verse_ref": "Genesis 25:33", "verse_text": "And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob." }, { "point_text": "INSTANCES OF SUPERSEDED;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Cain", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:4-5", "verse_text": "And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: 5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell." }, { "point_text": "Japheth", "verse_ref": "Genesis 10:21", "verse_text": "Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born." }, { "point_text": "Ishmael", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:19-21", "verse_text": "And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him. 20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. 21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year." }, { "point_text": "Esau", "verse_ref": "Genesis 25:23", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger." }, { "point_text": "Esau", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:12-13", "verse_text": "It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. 13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated." }, { "point_text": "Manasseh", "verse_ref": "Genesis 48:15-20", "verse_text": "And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, 16 The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. 17 And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head. 18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head. ..." }, { "point_text": "Reuben, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 5:1-2", "verse_text": "Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright. 2 For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph's:)" }, { "point_text": "Aaron", "verse_ref": "Exodus 7:1-2", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. 2 Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his land." }, { "point_text": "David's brothers", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 16:6-12", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD'S anointed is before him. 7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart. 8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this. 9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this. ..." }, { "point_text": "Adonijah", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:15", "verse_text": "And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's: for it was his from the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Adonijah", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:22", "verse_text": "And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The dignity, &c. of Christ", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:27", "verse_text": "Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth." }, { "point_text": "The dignity, &c. of Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:29", "verse_text": "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren." }, { "point_text": "The dignity, &c. of Christ", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:18", "verse_text": "And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence." }, { "point_text": "The dignity, &c. of the church", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:23", "verse_text": "To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect," } ] }, { "name": "Fire", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Fire.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Can be increased in intensity", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:19", "verse_text": "Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated." }, { "point_text": "Can be increased in intensity", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:22", "verse_text": "Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego." }, { "point_text": "Though small, kindles a great matter", "verse_ref": "James 3:5", "verse_text": "Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!" }, { "point_text": "THINGS CONNECTED WITH;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Burning coals", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:21", "verse_text": "As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife." }, { "point_text": "Flame", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 8:6", "verse_text": "Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame." }, { "point_text": "Flame", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:15", "verse_text": "For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire." }, { "point_text": "Sparks", "verse_ref": "Job 18:5", "verse_text": "Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine." }, { "point_text": "Sparks", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:31", "verse_text": "And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them." }, { "point_text": "Ashes", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 13:3", "verse_text": "And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out." }, { "point_text": "Ashes", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:6", "verse_text": "And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;" }, { "point_text": "Smoke", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 34:10", "verse_text": "It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever." }, { "point_text": "Smoke", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:30", "verse_text": "And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke." }, { "point_text": "Kept alive by fuel", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:20", "verse_text": "Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth." }, { "point_text": "Kept alive by fuel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:5", "verse_text": "For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire." }, { "point_text": "CHARACTERIZED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Bright", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 1:13", "verse_text": "As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning." }, { "point_text": "Spreading", "verse_ref": "James 3:5", "verse_text": "Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!" }, { "point_text": "Enlightening", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:14", "verse_text": "In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire." }, { "point_text": "Enlightening", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:39", "verse_text": "He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night." }, { "point_text": "Heating", "verse_ref": "Mark 14:54", "verse_text": "And Peter followed him afar off, even into the palace of the high priest: and he sat with the servants, and warmed himself at the fire." }, { "point_text": "Melting", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:2", "verse_text": "As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God." }, { "point_text": "Melting", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 64:2", "verse_text": "As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!" }, { "point_text": "Purifying", "verse_ref": "Numbers 31:23", "verse_text": "Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water." }, { "point_text": "Purifying", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:7", "verse_text": "That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Purifying", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:18", "verse_text": "I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see." }, { "point_text": "Drying", "verse_ref": "Job 15:30", "verse_text": "He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away." }, { "point_text": "Drying", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:20", "verse_text": "The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "Consuming", "verse_ref": "Judges 15:4-5", "verse_text": "And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails. 5 And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives." }, { "point_text": "Insatiable", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:16", "verse_text": "The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough." }, { "point_text": "SACRED,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Came from before the Lord", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 9:24", "verse_text": "And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces." }, { "point_text": "Always burning on the altar", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:13", "verse_text": "The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out." }, { "point_text": "All burnt offerings consumed by", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:9", "verse_text": "Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering: It is the burnt offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it." }, { "point_text": "All burnt offerings consumed by", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:12", "verse_text": "And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings." }, { "point_text": "Incense burned with", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:12", "verse_text": "And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail:" }, { "point_text": "Incense burned with", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:46", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun." }, { "point_text": "Guilt of burning incense without", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 10:1", "verse_text": "And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not." }, { "point_text": "Restored to the temple", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:1-3", "verse_text": "Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house. 2 And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD'S house. 3 And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever." }, { "point_text": "Frequently employed as an instrument of divine vengeance", "verse_ref": "Psalm 97:3", "verse_text": "A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about." }, { "point_text": "Frequently employed as an instrument of divine vengeance", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 47:14", "verse_text": "Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it." }, { "point_text": "Frequently employed as an instrument of divine vengeance", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:16", "verse_text": "For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many." }, { "point_text": "MIRACULOUS,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In the burning bush", "verse_ref": "Exodus 3:2", "verse_text": "And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed." }, { "point_text": "Plagued the Egyptians", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:23-24", "verse_text": "And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt. 24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation." }, { "point_text": "Led the people of Israel in the desert", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:22", "verse_text": "He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people." }, { "point_text": "Led the people of Israel in the desert", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:38", "verse_text": "For the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys." }, { "point_text": "On Mount Sinai at giving of law", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:11", "verse_text": "And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness." }, { "point_text": "On Mount Sinai at giving of law", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:36", "verse_text": "Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire." }, { "point_text": "Destroyed Nadab and Abihu", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 10:2", "verse_text": "And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Destroyed the people at Taberah", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:1", "verse_text": "And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp." }, { "point_text": "Consumed the company of Korah", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:35", "verse_text": "And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense." }, { "point_text": "Consumed the sacrifice of Gideon", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:21", "verse_text": "Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD departed out of his sight." }, { "point_text": "Angel ascended in", "verse_ref": "Judges 13:20", "verse_text": "For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground." }, { "point_text": "Consumed the sacrifice of Elijah", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:38", "verse_text": "Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench." }, { "point_text": "Destroyed the enemies of Elijah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 1:10", "verse_text": "And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty." }, { "point_text": "Destroyed the enemies of Elijah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 1:12", "verse_text": "And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty." }, { "point_text": "Elijah taken up in a chariot of", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 2:11", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven." }, { "point_text": "God appeared in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 3:2", "verse_text": "And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed." }, { "point_text": "God appeared in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:18", "verse_text": "And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly." }, { "point_text": "Christ shall appear in", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:10", "verse_text": "A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened." }, { "point_text": "Christ shall appear in", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:8", "verse_text": "In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Punishment of the wicked shall be in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:42", "verse_text": "And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of the wicked shall be in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:41", "verse_text": "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:" }, { "point_text": "IN HOUSES", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Lighted in the winter", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 36:22", "verse_text": "Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him." }, { "point_text": "Lighted in spring mornings", "verse_ref": "John 18:18", "verse_text": "And the servants and officers stood there, who had made a fire of coals; for it was cold: and they warmed themselves: and Peter stood with them, and warmed himself." }, { "point_text": "Not to be lighted on the Sabbath", "verse_ref": "Exodus 35:3", "verse_text": "Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day." }, { "point_text": "Made of charcoal", "verse_ref": "John 18:18", "verse_text": "And the servants and officers stood there, who had made a fire of coals; for it was cold: and they warmed themselves: and Peter stood with them, and warmed himself." }, { "point_text": "Made of wood", "verse_ref": "Acts 28:3", "verse_text": "And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand." }, { "point_text": "Injury from, to be made good by the person who kindled it", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:6", "verse_text": "If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "God's protection", "verse_ref": "Numbers 9:16", "verse_text": "So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night." }, { "point_text": "God's protection", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 2:5", "verse_text": "For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her." }, { "point_text": "God's vengeance", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:24", "verse_text": "For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God." }, { "point_text": "God's vengeance", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:29", "verse_text": "For our God is a consuming fire." }, { "point_text": "Christ as judge", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:17", "verse_text": "And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;" }, { "point_text": "Christ as judge", "verse_ref": "Malachi 3:2", "verse_text": "But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:" }, { "point_text": "The Holy Spirit", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 4:4", "verse_text": "When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning." }, { "point_text": "The Holy Spirit", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:3", "verse_text": "And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them." }, { "point_text": "The church destroying her enemies", "verse_ref": "Obadiah 18", "verse_text": "And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it." }, { "point_text": "The word of God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:14", "verse_text": "Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them." }, { "point_text": "The word of God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:29", "verse_text": "Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?" }, { "point_text": "Zeal of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:3", "verse_text": "My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue," }, { "point_text": "Zeal of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:139", "verse_text": "My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words." }, { "point_text": "Zeal of angels", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:4", "verse_text": "Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:" }, { "point_text": "Zeal of angels", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:7", "verse_text": "And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire." }, { "point_text": "God's enemies", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:17", "verse_text": "And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;" }, { "point_text": "God's enemies", "verse_ref": "Obadiah 18", "verse_text": "And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it." }, { "point_text": "Lust", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:27-28", "verse_text": "Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? 28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?" }, { "point_text": "Wickedness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:18", "verse_text": "For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke." }, { "point_text": "The tongue", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:27", "verse_text": "An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire." }, { "point_text": "The tongue", "verse_ref": "James 3:6", "verse_text": "And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell." }, { "point_text": "The self-righteous", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:5", "verse_text": "Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day." }, { "point_text": "The hope of hypocrites", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 50:11", "verse_text": "Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow." }, { "point_text": "Persecution", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:49-53", "verse_text": "I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled? 50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished! 51 Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: 52 For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. ..." }, { "point_text": "Affliction", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 43:2", "verse_text": "When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee." }, { "point_text": "Judgments", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:45", "verse_text": "They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones." }, { "point_text": "Judgments", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 1:13", "verse_text": "From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day." }, { "point_text": "Judgments", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 39:6", "verse_text": "And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD." } ] }, { "name": "First-fruits, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Firstfruits-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "To be brought to God's house", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:26", "verse_text": "The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk." }, { "point_text": "DIFFERENT KINDS OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Barley harvest", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:10-14", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: 11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD. 13 And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin. ..." }, { "point_text": "Wheat harvest", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:16", "verse_text": "And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field." }, { "point_text": "Wheat harvest", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:16-17", "verse_text": "Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD. 17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Wine and oil", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:4", "verse_text": "The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him." }, { "point_text": "Wool", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:4", "verse_text": "The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him." }, { "point_text": "Honey", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:5", "verse_text": "And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly." }, { "point_text": "Fruit of new trees in fourth year", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:23-24", "verse_text": "And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of. 24 But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the LORD withal." }, { "point_text": "All agricultural produce", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 26:2", "verse_text": "That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there." }, { "point_text": "To be the very best of their kind", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:12", "verse_text": "All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD, them have I given thee." }, { "point_text": "Holy to the Lord", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 48:14", "verse_text": "And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "God honored by the offering of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:9", "verse_text": "Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:" }, { "point_text": "Offering of, consecrated the whole", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:16", "verse_text": "For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches." }, { "point_text": "TO BE OFFERED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Without delay", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:29", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me." }, { "point_text": "In a basket", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 26:2", "verse_text": "That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there." }, { "point_text": "With thanksgiving", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 26:3-10", "verse_text": "And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us. 4 And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God. 5 And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous: 6 And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage: ..." }, { "point_text": "Allotted to the priests", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:12-13", "verse_text": "All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD, them have I given thee. 13 And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it." }, { "point_text": "Law of, restored after the captivity", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 10:35", "verse_text": "And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Law of, restored after the captivity", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:31", "verse_text": "And for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Early Jewish church", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:3", "verse_text": "Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "First converts in any place", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:5", "verse_text": "Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my wellbeloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ." }, { "point_text": "Church of Christ", "verse_ref": "James 1:18", "verse_text": "Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures." }, { "point_text": "Church of Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 14:4", "verse_text": "These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb." }, { "point_text": "Resurrection of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:20", "verse_text": "But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept." }, { "point_text": "Resurrection of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:23", "verse_text": "But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming." } ] }, { "name": "Fishes", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Fishes.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Created by God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:20-21", "verse_text": "And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good." }, { "point_text": "Made for God's glory", "verse_ref": "Job 12:8-9", "verse_text": "Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. 9 Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?" }, { "point_text": "INHABIT", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Seas", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:22", "verse_text": "Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?" }, { "point_text": "Seas", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 47:10", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many." }, { "point_text": "Rivers", "verse_ref": "Exodus 7:18", "verse_text": "And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river." }, { "point_text": "Rivers", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 29:5", "verse_text": "And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven." }, { "point_text": "Ponds", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 7:4", "verse_text": "Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus." }, { "point_text": "Ponds", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:10", "verse_text": "And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish." }, { "point_text": "Number and variety of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:25", "verse_text": "So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts." }, { "point_text": "Different in flesh from beasts, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:39", "verse_text": "All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds." }, { "point_text": "Cannot live without water", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 50:2", "verse_text": "Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst." }, { "point_text": "Man given dominion over", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:26", "verse_text": "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Man given dominion over", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:28", "verse_text": "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Man permitted to eat", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:2-3", "verse_text": "And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. 3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things." }, { "point_text": "USED AS FOOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "By the Egyptians", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:5", "verse_text": "We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:" }, { "point_text": "By the Jews", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:10", "verse_text": "Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?" }, { "point_text": "Mode of cooking alluded to", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:42", "verse_text": "And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb." }, { "point_text": "Mode of cooking alluded to", "verse_ref": "John 21:9", "verse_text": "As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread." }, { "point_text": "The Tyrians traded in", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:16", "verse_text": "There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Sold near the fish gate at Jerusalem", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:14", "verse_text": "Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah." }, { "point_text": "Sold near the fish gate at Jerusalem", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 1:10", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills." }, { "point_text": "Distinction between clean, and unclean", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:9-12", "verse_text": "These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat. 10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you: 11 They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination. 12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you." }, { "point_text": "Distinction between clean, and unclean", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:9-10", "verse_text": "These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat: 10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you." }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Leviathan", "verse_ref": "Job 41:1", "verse_text": "Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?" }, { "point_text": "Leviathan", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:14", "verse_text": "Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "Whale", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:21", "verse_text": "And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good." }, { "point_text": "Whale", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:40", "verse_text": "For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Solomon wrote the history of", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:33", "verse_text": "And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes." }, { "point_text": "No likeness of, to be made for worship", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:4", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:" }, { "point_text": "No likeness of, to be made for worship", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:18", "verse_text": "The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:" }, { "point_text": "Catching of, a trade", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:18", "verse_text": "And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers." }, { "point_text": "Catching of, a trade", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:2", "verse_text": "And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets." }, { "point_text": "TAKEN WITH", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Nets", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:4-6", "verse_text": "Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught. 5 And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net. 6 And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake." }, { "point_text": "Nets", "verse_ref": "John 21:6-8", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes. 7 Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher's coat unto him, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea. 8 And the other disciples came in a little ship; (for they were not far from land, but as it were two hundred cubits,) dragging the net with fishes." }, { "point_text": "Hooks", "verse_ref": "Amos 4:2", "verse_text": "The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks." }, { "point_text": "Hooks", "verse_ref": "Matthew 17:27", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee." }, { "point_text": "Spears", "verse_ref": "Job 41:7", "verse_text": "Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?" }, { "point_text": "Often suffered for man's sin", "verse_ref": "Exodus 7:21", "verse_text": "And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Often suffered for man's sin", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 38:20", "verse_text": "So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground." }, { "point_text": "MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Multiplying a few", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:17-21", "verse_text": "And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes. 18 He said, Bring them hither to me. 19 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. 20 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full. ..." }, { "point_text": "Multiplying a few", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:34", "verse_text": "And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes." }, { "point_text": "Immense draughts of", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:6", "verse_text": "And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake." }, { "point_text": "Immense draughts of", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:9", "verse_text": "For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken:" }, { "point_text": "Procuring tribute money from", "verse_ref": "Matthew 17:27", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee." }, { "point_text": "Dressed on the shore", "verse_ref": "John 21:9", "verse_text": "As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the whole population of Egypt", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 29:4-5", "verse_text": "But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales. 5 And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven." }, { "point_text": "Of the visible church", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:48", "verse_text": "Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away." }, { "point_text": "Of men ignorant of future events", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 9:12", "verse_text": "For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them." }, { "point_text": "Of those ensnared by the wicked", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 1:14", "verse_text": "And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?" }, { "point_text": "(Good,) of saints", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:48-49", "verse_text": "Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away. 49 So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just," }, { "point_text": "(Bad,) of mere professors", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:48-49", "verse_text": "Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away. 49 So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just," } ] }, { "name": "Flattery", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Flattery.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Saints should not used", "verse_ref": "Job 32:21-22", "verse_text": "Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man. 22 For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away." }, { "point_text": "Ministers should not use", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:5", "verse_text": "For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:" }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED USE, TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Others", "verse_ref": "Psalm 5:9", "verse_text": "For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue." }, { "point_text": "Others", "verse_ref": "Psalm 12:2", "verse_text": "They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak." }, { "point_text": "Themselves", "verse_ref": "Psalm 36:2", "verse_text": "For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful." }, { "point_text": "HYPOCRITES USE, TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:36", "verse_text": "Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues." }, { "point_text": "Those in authority", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:34", "verse_text": "Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries." }, { "point_text": "False prophets and teachers use", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 12:24", "verse_text": "For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel." }, { "point_text": "False prophets and teachers use", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:18", "verse_text": "For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple." }, { "point_text": "Wisdom, a preservative against", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 4:5", "verse_text": "Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth." }, { "point_text": "Worldly advantage obtained by", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:21-22", "verse_text": "And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries. 22 And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant." }, { "point_text": "Seldom gains respect", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:23", "verse_text": "He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue." }, { "point_text": "Avoid those given to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:19", "verse_text": "He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips." }, { "point_text": "Danger of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 7:21-23", "verse_text": "With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. 22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; 23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life." }, { "point_text": "Danger of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 29:5", "verse_text": "A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Job 17:5", "verse_text": "He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 12:3", "verse_text": "The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nWoman of Tekoah, \n\nAbsalom, \nFalse prophets, \nDarius's courtiers, \nPharisees, &c. \nTyrians, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 14:17", "verse_text": "Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD thy God will be with thee." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nWoman of Tekoah, \n\nAbsalom, \nFalse prophets, \nDarius's courtiers, \nPharisees, &c. \nTyrians, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 14:20", "verse_text": "To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nWoman of Tekoah, \n\nAbsalom, \nFalse prophets, \nDarius's courtiers, \nPharisees, &c. \nTyrians, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 15:2-6", "verse_text": "And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is of one of the tribes of Israel. 3 And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters are good and right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee. 4 Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice! 5 And it was so, that when any man came nigh to him to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed him. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nWoman of Tekoah, \n\nAbsalom, \nFalse prophets, \nDarius's courtiers, \nPharisees, &c. \nTyrians, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:13", "verse_text": "And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is good." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nWoman of Tekoah, \n\nAbsalom, \nFalse prophets, \nDarius's courtiers, \nPharisees, &c. \nTyrians, &c", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:7", "verse_text": "All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellers, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nWoman of Tekoah, \n\nAbsalom, \nFalse prophets, \nDarius's courtiers, \nPharisees, &c. \nTyrians, &c", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:14", "verse_text": "Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nWoman of Tekoah, \n\nAbsalom, \nFalse prophets, \nDarius's courtiers, \nPharisees, &c. \nTyrians, &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:22", "verse_text": "And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man." } ] }, { "name": "Flowers", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Flowers.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Wild in fields", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:15", "verse_text": "As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth." }, { "point_text": "Cultivated in gardens", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 6:2-3", "verse_text": "My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies. 3 I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Beautiful", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:29", "verse_text": "And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." }, { "point_text": "Sweet", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:13", "verse_text": "His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh." }, { "point_text": "Evanescent", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:16", "verse_text": "For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more." }, { "point_text": "Evanescent", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:8", "verse_text": "The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever." }, { "point_text": "Appear in spring", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:12", "verse_text": "The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;" }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The lily", "verse_ref": "Hosea 14:5", "verse_text": "I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "The lily", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:28", "verse_text": "And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:" }, { "point_text": "The lily of the valley", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:1", "verse_text": "I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys." }, { "point_text": "The rose", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 35:1", "verse_text": "The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose." }, { "point_text": "The rose of Sharon", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:1", "verse_text": "I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys." }, { "point_text": "Of the grass", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:24", "verse_text": "For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:" }, { "point_text": "Garlands of, used in worship of idols", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:13", "verse_text": "Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people." }, { "point_text": "REPRESENTATIONS OF, ON THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Golden candlestick", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:31", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same." }, { "point_text": "Golden candlestick", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:33", "verse_text": "Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick." }, { "point_text": "Golden candlestick", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 4:21", "verse_text": "And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold;" }, { "point_text": "Sea of brass", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 7:26", "verse_text": "And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths." }, { "point_text": "Sea of brass", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 4:5", "verse_text": "And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths." }, { "point_text": "Wood work of the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:18", "verse_text": "And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen." }, { "point_text": "Wood work of the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:29", "verse_text": "And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without." }, { "point_text": "Wood work of the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:33", "verse_text": "So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall." }, { "point_text": "Wood work of the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:35", "verse_text": "And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The graces of Christ", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:13", "verse_text": "His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh." }, { "point_text": "Shortness of man's life", "verse_ref": "Job 14:2", "verse_text": "He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not." }, { "point_text": "Shortness of man's life", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:15", "verse_text": "As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth." }, { "point_text": "Kingdom of Israel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:1", "verse_text": "Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!" }, { "point_text": "Glory of man", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:24", "verse_text": "For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:" }, { "point_text": "Rich men", "verse_ref": "James 1:10-11", "verse_text": "But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. 11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways." } ] }, { "name": "Fools", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Fools.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "All men are, without the knowledge of God", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:3", "verse_text": "For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another." }, { "point_text": "Deny God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 14:1", "verse_text": "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good." }, { "point_text": "Deny God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 53:1", "verse_text": "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good." }, { "point_text": "Blaspheme God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:18", "verse_text": "Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name." }, { "point_text": "Reproach God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:22", "verse_text": "Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily." }, { "point_text": "Make a mock at sin", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:9", "verse_text": "Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour." }, { "point_text": "Despise instruction", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:7", "verse_text": "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction." }, { "point_text": "Despise instruction", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:5", "verse_text": "A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent." }, { "point_text": "Hate knowledge", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:22", "verse_text": "How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?" }, { "point_text": "Delight not in understanding", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 18:2", "verse_text": "A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself." }, { "point_text": "Sport themselves in mischief", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:23", "verse_text": "It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom." }, { "point_text": "Walk in darkness", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:14", "verse_text": "The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all." }, { "point_text": "Hate to depart from evil", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 13:19", "verse_text": "The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil." }, { "point_text": "Worship of, hateful to God", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 5:1", "verse_text": "Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil." }, { "point_text": "ARE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Corrupt and abominable", "verse_ref": "Psalm 14:1", "verse_text": "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good." }, { "point_text": "Self-sufficient", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:15", "verse_text": "The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise." }, { "point_text": "Self-sufficient", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:22", "verse_text": "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools," }, { "point_text": "Self-confident", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:16", "verse_text": "A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident." }, { "point_text": "Self-deceivers", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:8", "verse_text": "The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit." }, { "point_text": "Mere professors of religion", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:2-12", "verse_text": "And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: 4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. ..." }, { "point_text": "Full of words", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 10:14", "verse_text": "A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?" }, { "point_text": "Given to meddling", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:3", "verse_text": "It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling." }, { "point_text": "Slanderers", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:18", "verse_text": "He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool." }, { "point_text": "Liars", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:18", "verse_text": "He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool." }, { "point_text": "Slothful", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 4:5", "verse_text": "The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh." }, { "point_text": "Angry", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 7:9", "verse_text": "Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools." }, { "point_text": "Contentious", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 18:6", "verse_text": "A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes." }, { "point_text": "A grief to parents", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:25", "verse_text": "A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him." }, { "point_text": "A grief to parents", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:13", "verse_text": "A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping." }, { "point_text": "Come to shame", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:35", "verse_text": "The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools." }, { "point_text": "Destroy themselves by their speech", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:8", "verse_text": "The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall." }, { "point_text": "Destroy themselves by their speech", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:14", "verse_text": "Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction." }, { "point_text": "The company of, ruinous", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 13:20", "verse_text": "He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed." }, { "point_text": "Lips of, a snare to the soul", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 18:7", "verse_text": "A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul." }, { "point_text": "Cling to their folly", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:11", "verse_text": "As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly." }, { "point_text": "Cling to their folly", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:22", "verse_text": "Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him." }, { "point_text": "Worship idols", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 10:8", "verse_text": "But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities." }, { "point_text": "Worship idols", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:22-23", "verse_text": "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things." }, { "point_text": "Trust to their own hearts", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:26", "verse_text": "He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered." }, { "point_text": "Depend upon their wealth", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:20", "verse_text": "But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?" }, { "point_text": "Hear the gospel and obey it not", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:26", "verse_text": "And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:" }, { "point_text": "The mouth of, pours out folly", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:2", "verse_text": "The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness." }, { "point_text": "Honor is unbecoming for", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:1", "verse_text": "As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool." }, { "point_text": "Honor is unbecoming for", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:8", "verse_text": "As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool." }, { "point_text": "God has no pleasure in", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 5:4", "verse_text": "When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed." }, { "point_text": "Shall not stand in the presence of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 5:5", "verse_text": "The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Avoid them", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 9:6", "verse_text": "Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding." }, { "point_text": "Avoid them", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:7", "verse_text": "Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge." }, { "point_text": "Exhorted to seek wisdom", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 8:5", "verse_text": "O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:17", "verse_text": "Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:29", "verse_text": "Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:10", "verse_text": "The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nRehoboam, \nIsrael, \nPharisees,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:8", "verse_text": "But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nRehoboam, \nIsrael, \nPharisees,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:22", "verse_text": "For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nRehoboam, \nIsrael, \nPharisees,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:17", "verse_text": "Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nRehoboam, \nIsrael, \nPharisees,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:19", "verse_text": "Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?" } ] }, { "name": "Forgetting God", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Forgetting-God.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "A characteristic of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 2:17", "verse_text": "Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:11", "verse_text": "But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number." }, { "point_text": "Backsliders are guilty of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:21-22", "verse_text": "A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God. 22 Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God." }, { "point_text": "IS FORGETTING HIS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Covenant", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:23", "verse_text": "Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee." }, { "point_text": "Covenant", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:38", "verse_text": "And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods." }, { "point_text": "Works", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:7", "verse_text": "That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:" }, { "point_text": "Works", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:13", "verse_text": "They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:" }, { "point_text": "Benefits", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:2", "verse_text": "Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:" }, { "point_text": "Benefits", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:7", "verse_text": "Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea." }, { "point_text": "Word", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:5", "verse_text": "And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:" }, { "point_text": "Word", "verse_ref": "James 1:25", "verse_text": "But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed." }, { "point_text": "Law", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:153", "verse_text": "RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law." }, { "point_text": "Law", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:176", "verse_text": "I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments." }, { "point_text": "Past deliverance", "verse_ref": "Judges 8:34", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side:" }, { "point_text": "Past deliverance", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:42", "verse_text": "They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy." }, { "point_text": "Power to deliver", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 51:13-15", "verse_text": "And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor? 14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail. 15 But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name." }, { "point_text": "Encouraged by false teachers", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:27", "verse_text": "Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal." }, { "point_text": "Prosperity often leads to", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:12-14", "verse_text": "Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; 13 And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; 14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;" }, { "point_text": "Prosperity often leads to", "verse_ref": "Hosea 13:6", "verse_text": "According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me." }, { "point_text": "Trials should not lead to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 44:17-20", "verse_text": "All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. 18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; 19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;" }, { "point_text": "Resolve against", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:16", "verse_text": "I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word." }, { "point_text": "Resolve against", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:93", "verse_text": "I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me." }, { "point_text": "Cautions against", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 6:12", "verse_text": "Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage." }, { "point_text": "Cautions against", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:11", "verse_text": "Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:" }, { "point_text": "Exhortation to those guilty of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:22", "verse_text": "Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Job 8:12-13", "verse_text": "Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb. 13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:" } ] }, { "name": "Faithfulness of God, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Faithfulness-of-God-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is part of His character", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:7", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee." }, { "point_text": "Is part of His character", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:9", "verse_text": "God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord." }, { "point_text": "Is part of His character", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:24", "verse_text": "Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it." }, { "point_text": "DECLARED TO BE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Great", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:23", "verse_text": "They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness." }, { "point_text": "Established", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:2", "verse_text": "For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens." }, { "point_text": "Incomparable", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:8", "verse_text": "O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?" }, { "point_text": "Unfailing", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:33", "verse_text": "Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail." }, { "point_text": "Unfailing", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:13", "verse_text": "If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself." }, { "point_text": "Infinite", "verse_ref": "Psalm 36:5", "verse_text": "Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds." }, { "point_text": "Everlasting", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:90", "verse_text": "Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth." }, { "point_text": "Everlasting", "verse_ref": "Psalm 146:6", "verse_text": "Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:" }, { "point_text": "Should be pleaded in prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 143:1", "verse_text": "Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Should be proclaimed", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:10", "verse_text": "I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation." }, { "point_text": "Should be proclaimed", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:1", "verse_text": "I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations." }, { "point_text": "MANIFESTED", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "In His counsels", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 25:1", "verse_text": "O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth." }, { "point_text": "In afflicting His saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:75", "verse_text": "I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me." }, { "point_text": "In fulfilling His promises", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:20", "verse_text": "And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel." }, { "point_text": "In fulfilling His promises", "verse_ref": "Psalm 132:11", "verse_text": "The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne." }, { "point_text": "In fulfilling His promises", "verse_ref": "Micah 7:20", "verse_text": "Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old." }, { "point_text": "In fulfilling His promises", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:23", "verse_text": "Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)" }, { "point_text": "In keeping His covenant", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:9", "verse_text": "Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;" }, { "point_text": "In keeping His covenant", "verse_ref": "Psalm 111:5", "verse_text": "He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant." }, { "point_text": "In executing His judgments", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:20", "verse_text": "The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly." }, { "point_text": "In executing His judgments", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:29", "verse_text": "And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant." }, { "point_text": "In forgiving sins", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:9", "verse_text": "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." }, { "point_text": "To His saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:24", "verse_text": "But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted." }, { "point_text": "To His saints", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 3:3", "verse_text": "But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil." }, { "point_text": "Saints encouraged to depend on", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:19", "verse_text": "Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator." }, { "point_text": "Should be magnified", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:5", "verse_text": "And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints." }, { "point_text": "Should be magnified", "verse_ref": "Psalm 92:2", "verse_text": "To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night," }, { "point_text": "Is part of His character", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:7", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee." }, { "point_text": "Is part of His character", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:9", "verse_text": "God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord." }, { "point_text": "Is part of His character", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:24", "verse_text": "Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it." }, { "point_text": "DECLARED TO BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Great", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:23", "verse_text": "They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness." }, { "point_text": "Established", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:2", "verse_text": "For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens." }, { "point_text": "Incomparable", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:8", "verse_text": "O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?" }, { "point_text": "Unfailing", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:33", "verse_text": "Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail." }, { "point_text": "Unfailing", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:13", "verse_text": "If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself." }, { "point_text": "Infinite", "verse_ref": "Psalm 36:5", "verse_text": "Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds." }, { "point_text": "Everlasting", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:90", "verse_text": "Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth." }, { "point_text": "Everlasting", "verse_ref": "Psalm 146:6", "verse_text": "Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:" }, { "point_text": "Should be pleaded in prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 143:1", "verse_text": "Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Should be proclaimed", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:10", "verse_text": "I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation." }, { "point_text": "Should be proclaimed", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:1", "verse_text": "I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations." }, { "point_text": "MANIFESTED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In His counsels", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 25:1", "verse_text": "O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth." }, { "point_text": "In afflicting His saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:75", "verse_text": "I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me." }, { "point_text": "In fulfilling His promises", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:20", "verse_text": "And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel." }, { "point_text": "In fulfilling His promises", "verse_ref": "Psalm 132:11", "verse_text": "The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne." }, { "point_text": "In fulfilling His promises", "verse_ref": "Micah 7:20", "verse_text": "Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old." }, { "point_text": "In fulfilling His promises", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:23", "verse_text": "Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)" }, { "point_text": "In keeping His covenant", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:9", "verse_text": "Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;" }, { "point_text": "In keeping His covenant", "verse_ref": "Psalm 111:5", "verse_text": "He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant." }, { "point_text": "In executing His judgments", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:20", "verse_text": "The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly." }, { "point_text": "In executing His judgments", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:29", "verse_text": "And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant." }, { "point_text": "In forgiving sins", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:9", "verse_text": "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." }, { "point_text": "To His saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:24", "verse_text": "But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted." }, { "point_text": "To His saints", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 3:3", "verse_text": "But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil." }, { "point_text": "Saints encouraged to depend on", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:19", "verse_text": "Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator." }, { "point_text": "Should be magnified", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:5", "verse_text": "And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints." }, { "point_text": "Should be magnified", "verse_ref": "Psalm 92:2", "verse_text": "To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night," } ] }, { "name": "Foundation", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Foundation.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The lowest part of a building, and on which it rests", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:29", "verse_text": "Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him," }, { "point_text": "The lowest part of a building, and on which it rests", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:26", "verse_text": "And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed." }, { "point_text": "FIGURATIVELY APPLIED TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The heavens", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 22:8", "verse_text": "Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth." }, { "point_text": "The earth", "verse_ref": "Job 38:4", "verse_text": "Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding." }, { "point_text": "The earth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:5", "verse_text": "Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever." }, { "point_text": "The world", "verse_ref": "Psalm 18:15", "verse_text": "Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils." }, { "point_text": "The world", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:35", "verse_text": "That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world." }, { "point_text": "The mountains", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:22", "verse_text": "For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains." }, { "point_text": "The ocean", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:8", "verse_text": "They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them." }, { "point_text": "Kingdoms", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:18", "verse_text": "Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now." }, { "point_text": "LAID FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Cities", "verse_ref": "Joshua 6:26", "verse_text": "And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it." }, { "point_text": "Cities", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:34", "verse_text": "In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun." }, { "point_text": "Walls", "verse_ref": "Ezra 4:12", "verse_text": "Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations." }, { "point_text": "Walls", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:14", "verse_text": "And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb." }, { "point_text": "Houses", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:48", "verse_text": "He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock." }, { "point_text": "Temples", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:37", "verse_text": "In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:" }, { "point_text": "Temples", "verse_ref": "Ezra 3:10", "verse_text": "And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Towers", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:28-29", "verse_text": "For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? 29 Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him," }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of stone", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:17", "verse_text": "And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house." }, { "point_text": "Deep laid", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:48", "verse_text": "He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock." }, { "point_text": "Strongly laid", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:3", "verse_text": "In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;" }, { "point_text": "Joined together by corner stones", "verse_ref": "Ezra 4:12", "verse_text": "Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations." }, { "point_text": "Joined together by corner stones", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:6", "verse_text": "Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded." }, { "point_text": "Joined together by corner stones", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:20", "verse_text": "And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;" }, { "point_text": "Security afforded by", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:25", "verse_text": "And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock." }, { "point_text": "Security afforded by", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:48", "verse_text": "He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:16", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste." }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:11", "verse_text": "For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Doctrines of the apostles, &c", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:20", "verse_text": "And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;" }, { "point_text": "First principles of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:1-2", "verse_text": "Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, 2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment." }, { "point_text": "Decrees and purposes of God", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:19", "verse_text": "Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Magistrates", "verse_ref": "Psalm 82:5", "verse_text": "They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course." }, { "point_text": "The righteous", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:25", "verse_text": "As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation." }, { "point_text": "Hope of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 87:1", "verse_text": "His foundation is in the holy mountains." }, { "point_text": "Security of saints' inheritance", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:10", "verse_text": "For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God." } ] }, { "name": "Forgiveness of Injuries", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Forgiveness-of-Injuries.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Christ set an example of", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:34", "verse_text": "Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots." }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Mark 11:25", "verse_text": "And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses." }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:19", "verse_text": "Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord." }, { "point_text": "To be unlimited", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:22", "verse_text": "Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven." }, { "point_text": "To be unlimited", "verse_ref": "Luke 17:4", "verse_text": "And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 7:4", "verse_text": "If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)" }, { "point_text": "MOTIVES TO,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The mercy of God", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:36", "verse_text": "Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful." }, { "point_text": "Our need of forgiveness", "verse_ref": "Mark 11:25", "verse_text": "And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses." }, { "point_text": "God's forgiveness of us", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:32", "verse_text": "And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you." }, { "point_text": "Christ's forgiveness of us", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:13", "verse_text": "Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye." }, { "point_text": "A glory to saints", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:11", "verse_text": "The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE ACCOMPANIED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Forbearance", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:13", "verse_text": "Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye." }, { "point_text": "Kindness", "verse_ref": "Genesis 45:5-11", "verse_text": "Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. 6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest. 7 And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. 8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt. ..." }, { "point_text": "Kindness", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:20", "verse_text": "Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head." }, { "point_text": "Blessing and prayer", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:44", "verse_text": "But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;" }, { "point_text": "Promises to", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:14", "verse_text": "For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:" }, { "point_text": "Promises to", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:37", "verse_text": "Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:" }, { "point_text": "No forgiveness without", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:15", "verse_text": "But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." }, { "point_text": "No forgiveness without", "verse_ref": "James 2:13", "verse_text": "For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:23-35", "verse_text": "Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants. 24 And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents. 25 But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. 26 The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nDavid, \n\n\nSolomon, \nStephen,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:20-21", "verse_text": "But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. 21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nDavid, \n\n\nSolomon, \nStephen,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 24:7", "verse_text": "So David stayed his servants with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nDavid, \n\n\nSolomon, \nStephen,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 18:5", "verse_text": "And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nDavid, \n\n\nSolomon, \nStephen,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 19:23", "verse_text": "Therefore the king said unto Shimei, Thou shalt not die. And the king sware unto him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nDavid, \n\n\nSolomon, \nStephen,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:53", "verse_text": "So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and bowed himself to king Solomon: and Solomon said unto him, Go to thine house." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nDavid, \n\n\nSolomon, \nStephen,", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:60", "verse_text": "And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep." }, { "point_text": "Paul", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:16", "verse_text": "At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge." } ] }, { "name": "Forsaking God", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Forsaking-God.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Idolaters guilty of", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 8:8", "verse_text": "According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Idolaters guilty of", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:33", "verse_text": "Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father." }, { "point_text": "The wicked guilty of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:20", "verse_text": "The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me." }, { "point_text": "Backsliders guilty of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 15:6", "verse_text": "Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting." }, { "point_text": "IS FORSAKING", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "His house", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 29:6", "verse_text": "For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs." }, { "point_text": "His covenant", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 29:25", "verse_text": "Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:" }, { "point_text": "His covenant", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:10", "verse_text": "And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away." }, { "point_text": "His covenant", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 22:9", "verse_text": "Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them." }, { "point_text": "His covenant", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:30", "verse_text": "For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant." }, { "point_text": "His commandments", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:10", "verse_text": "And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments," }, { "point_text": "The right way", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:15", "verse_text": "Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;" }, { "point_text": "Trusting in man is", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:5", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Leads men to follow their own devices", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:13", "verse_text": "For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water." }, { "point_text": "Prosperity tempts to", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 31:20", "verse_text": "For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant." }, { "point_text": "Prosperity tempts to", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:15", "verse_text": "But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation." }, { "point_text": "Wickedness of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:13", "verse_text": "For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water." }, { "point_text": "Wickedness of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:7", "verse_text": "How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses." }, { "point_text": "Unreasonableness and ingratitude of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:5-6", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain? 6 Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?" }, { "point_text": "Brings confusion", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:13", "verse_text": "O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters." }, { "point_text": "Followed by remorse", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 6:9", "verse_text": "And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations." }, { "point_text": "Brings down His wrath", "verse_ref": "Ezra 8:22", "verse_text": "For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him." }, { "point_text": "Provokes God to forsake men", "verse_ref": "Judges 10:13", "verse_text": "Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more." }, { "point_text": "Provokes God to forsake men", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 15:2", "verse_text": "And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you." }, { "point_text": "Provokes God to forsake men", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 24:20", "verse_text": "And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you." }, { "point_text": "Provokes God to forsake men", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 24:24", "verse_text": "For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash." }, { "point_text": "Resolve against", "verse_ref": "Joshua 24:16", "verse_text": "And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;" }, { "point_text": "Resolve against", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 10:29-39", "verse_text": "They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes; 30 And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons: 31 And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt. 32 Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God; ..." }, { "point_text": "Curse pronounced upon", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:5", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Sin of, to be confessed", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:10", "verse_text": "And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments," }, { "point_text": "Warnings against", "verse_ref": "Joshua 24:20", "verse_text": "If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good." }, { "point_text": "Warnings against", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 28:9", "verse_text": "And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:20", "verse_text": "The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 22:16-17", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read: 17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nChildren of Israel, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nAmon, \nKingdom of Judah, \n\n\n\nKingdom of Israel, \n\nMany disciples, \nPhygellus, &c. \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 12:10", "verse_text": "And they cried unto the LORD, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nChildren of Israel, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nAmon, \nKingdom of Judah, \n\n\n\nKingdom of Israel, \n\nMany disciples, \nPhygellus, &c. \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:11", "verse_text": "It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nChildren of Israel, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nAmon, \nKingdom of Judah, \n\n\n\nKingdom of Israel, \n\nMany disciples, \nPhygellus, &c. \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:18", "verse_text": "And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nChildren of Israel, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nAmon, \nKingdom of Judah, \n\n\n\nKingdom of Israel, \n\nMany disciples, \nPhygellus, &c. \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 21:22", "verse_text": "And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nChildren of Israel, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nAmon, \nKingdom of Judah, \n\n\n\nKingdom of Israel, \n\nMany disciples, \nPhygellus, &c. \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 12:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nChildren of Israel, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nAmon, \nKingdom of Judah, \n\n\n\nKingdom of Israel, \n\nMany disciples, \nPhygellus, &c. \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 21:10", "verse_text": "So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. The same time also did Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nChildren of Israel, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nAmon, \nKingdom of Judah, \n\n\n\nKingdom of Israel, \n\nMany disciples, \nPhygellus, &c. \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:4", "verse_text": "Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nChildren of Israel, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nAmon, \nKingdom of Judah, \n\n\n\nKingdom of Israel, \n\nMany disciples, \nPhygellus, &c. \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 15:6", "verse_text": "Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nChildren of Israel, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nAmon, \nKingdom of Judah, \n\n\n\nKingdom of Israel, \n\nMany disciples, \nPhygellus, &c. \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 13:11", "verse_text": "And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nChildren of Israel, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nAmon, \nKingdom of Judah, \n\n\n\nKingdom of Israel, \n\nMany disciples, \nPhygellus, &c. \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:7-18", "verse_text": "For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, 8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. 9 And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. 10 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nChildren of Israel, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nAmon, \nKingdom of Judah, \n\n\n\nKingdom of Israel, \n\nMany disciples, \nPhygellus, &c. \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "John 6:66", "verse_text": "From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nChildren of Israel, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nAmon, \nKingdom of Judah, \n\n\n\nKingdom of Israel, \n\nMany disciples, \nPhygellus, &c. \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:15", "verse_text": "This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nChildren of Israel, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nAmon, \nKingdom of Judah, \n\n\n\nKingdom of Israel, \n\nMany disciples, \nPhygellus, &c. \nBalaam,", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:15", "verse_text": "Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;" } ] }, { "name": "Fortresses", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Fortresses.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Places strong by nature", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:21", "verse_text": "And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock." }, { "point_text": "Places fortified by art", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:53", "verse_text": "Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The security of a nation", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:16", "verse_text": "He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure." }, { "point_text": "The security of a nation", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:10", "verse_text": "But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through: then shall he return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress." }, { "point_text": "PLACES USED AS;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Cities", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:31", "verse_text": "And he sent messengers unto Abimelech privily, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren be come to Shechem; and, behold, they fortify the city against thee." }, { "point_text": "Cities", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 4:2", "verse_text": "And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?" }, { "point_text": "Strong-holds", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:2", "verse_text": "And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds." }, { "point_text": "Strong-holds", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 11:11", "verse_text": "And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine." }, { "point_text": "Forts", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 5:9", "verse_text": "So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward." }, { "point_text": "Forts", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 25:12", "verse_text": "And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust." }, { "point_text": "Strong towers", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:9", "verse_text": "Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them." }, { "point_text": "Afforded protection in danger", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:2", "verse_text": "And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds." }, { "point_text": "Defended against enemies", "verse_ref": "Nahum 2:1", "verse_text": "He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily." }, { "point_text": "OFTEN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Entered by the enemy", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:7", "verse_text": "But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail:" }, { "point_text": "Spoiled", "verse_ref": "Hosea 10:14", "verse_text": "Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children." }, { "point_text": "Levelled", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 25:12", "verse_text": "And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust." }, { "point_text": "Deserted, &c", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 34:13", "verse_text": "And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of, threatened", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 17:3", "verse_text": "The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "God's protection", "verse_ref": "Psalm 18:2", "verse_text": "The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower." }, { "point_text": "God's protection", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 16:19", "verse_text": "O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit." }, { "point_text": "Christ, the defence of saints", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:16", "verse_text": "He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure." }, { "point_text": "Protection afforded to ministers", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:27", "verse_text": "I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way." } ] }, { "name": "Forests", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Forests.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Tracts of land covered with trees", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:14", "verse_text": "He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it." }, { "point_text": "Underwood often in", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:18", "verse_text": "For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke." }, { "point_text": "Infested by wild beasts", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:10", "verse_text": "For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills." }, { "point_text": "Infested by wild beasts", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:20", "verse_text": "Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth." }, { "point_text": "Infested by wild beasts", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:9", "verse_text": "All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest." }, { "point_text": "Infested by wild beasts", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:6", "verse_text": "Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased." }, { "point_text": "Infested by wild beasts", "verse_ref": "Micah 5:8", "verse_text": "And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver." }, { "point_text": "Abounded with wild honey", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:25-26", "verse_text": "And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground. 26 And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath." }, { "point_text": "Often afforded pasture", "verse_ref": "Micah 7:14", "verse_text": "Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old." }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Bashan", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:13", "verse_text": "And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan," }, { "point_text": "Bashan", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:6", "verse_text": "Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim." }, { "point_text": "Bashan", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 11:2", "verse_text": "Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down." }, { "point_text": "Hareth", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 22:5", "verse_text": "And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth." }, { "point_text": "Ephraim", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 18:6", "verse_text": "So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;" }, { "point_text": "Ephraim", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 18:8", "verse_text": "For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured." }, { "point_text": "Lebanon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 7:2", "verse_text": "He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars." }, { "point_text": "Lebanon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:17", "verse_text": "And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Carmel", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:23", "verse_text": "By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel." }, { "point_text": "Carmel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 37:24", "verse_text": "By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel." }, { "point_text": "Arabian", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 21:13", "verse_text": "The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim." }, { "point_text": "The south", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:46-47", "verse_text": "Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field; 47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein." }, { "point_text": "The king's", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 2:8", "verse_text": "And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me." }, { "point_text": "Supplied timber for building", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:6-8", "verse_text": "Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians. 7 And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be the LORD this day, which hath given unto David a wise son over this great people. 8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things which thou sentest to me for: and I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir." }, { "point_text": "Were places of refuge", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 22:5", "verse_text": "And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth." }, { "point_text": "Were places of refuge", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 23:16", "verse_text": "And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God." }, { "point_text": "Jotham built towers, &c. in", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 27:4", "verse_text": "Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers." }, { "point_text": "The power of God extends over", "verse_ref": "Psalm 29:9", "verse_text": "The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory." }, { "point_text": "Called on to rejoice at God's mercy", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:23", "verse_text": "Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel." }, { "point_text": "Often destroyed by enemies", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:23", "verse_text": "By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel." }, { "point_text": "Often destroyed by enemies", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 37:24", "verse_text": "By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel." }, { "point_text": "Often destroyed by enemies", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 46:23", "verse_text": "They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the unfruitful world", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:19", "verse_text": "When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place." }, { "point_text": "(A fruitful field turned into,) of the Jews rejected by God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 29:17", "verse_text": "Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?" }, { "point_text": "(A fruitful field turned into,) of the Jews rejected by God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:15", "verse_text": "Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest." }, { "point_text": "(Destroyed by fire,) of destruction of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:18", "verse_text": "For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke." }, { "point_text": "(Destroyed by fire,) of destruction of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:17-18", "verse_text": "And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day; 18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth." }, { "point_text": "Tracts of land covered with trees", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:14", "verse_text": "He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it." }, { "point_text": "Underwood often in", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:18", "verse_text": "For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke." }, { "point_text": "Infested by wild beasts", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:10", "verse_text": "For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills." }, { "point_text": "Infested by wild beasts", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:20", "verse_text": "Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth." }, { "point_text": "Infested by wild beasts", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:9", "verse_text": "All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest." }, { "point_text": "Infested by wild beasts", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:6", "verse_text": "Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased." }, { "point_text": "Infested by wild beasts", "verse_ref": "Micah 5:8", "verse_text": "And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver." }, { "point_text": "Abounded with wild honey", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:25-26", "verse_text": "And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground. 26 And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath." }, { "point_text": "Often afforded pasture", "verse_ref": "Micah 7:14", "verse_text": "Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old." }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Bashan", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:13", "verse_text": "And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan," }, { "point_text": "Bashan", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:6", "verse_text": "Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim." }, { "point_text": "Bashan", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 11:2", "verse_text": "Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down." }, { "point_text": "Hareth", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 22:5", "verse_text": "And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth." }, { "point_text": "Ephraim", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 18:6", "verse_text": "So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;" }, { "point_text": "Ephraim", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 18:8", "verse_text": "For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured." }, { "point_text": "Lebanon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 7:2", "verse_text": "He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars." }, { "point_text": "Lebanon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:17", "verse_text": "And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Carmel", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:23", "verse_text": "By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel." }, { "point_text": "Carmel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 37:24", "verse_text": "By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel." }, { "point_text": "Arabian", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 21:13", "verse_text": "The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim." }, { "point_text": "The south", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:46-47", "verse_text": "Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field; 47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein." }, { "point_text": "The king's", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 2:8", "verse_text": "And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me." }, { "point_text": "Supplied timber for building", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:6-8", "verse_text": "Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians. 7 And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be the LORD this day, which hath given unto David a wise son over this great people. 8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things which thou sentest to me for: and I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir." }, { "point_text": "Were places of refuge", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 22:5", "verse_text": "And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth." }, { "point_text": "Were places of refuge", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 23:16", "verse_text": "And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God." }, { "point_text": "Jotham built towers, &c. in", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 27:4", "verse_text": "Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers." }, { "point_text": "The power of God extends over", "verse_ref": "Psalm 29:9", "verse_text": "The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory." }, { "point_text": "Called on to rejoice at God's mercy", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:23", "verse_text": "Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel." }, { "point_text": "Often destroyed by enemies", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:23", "verse_text": "By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel." }, { "point_text": "Often destroyed by enemies", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 37:24", "verse_text": "By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel." }, { "point_text": "Often destroyed by enemies", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 46:23", "verse_text": "They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Of the unfruitful world", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:19", "verse_text": "When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place." }, { "point_text": "(A fruitful field turned into,) of the Jews rejected by God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 29:17", "verse_text": "Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?" }, { "point_text": "(A fruitful field turned into,) of the Jews rejected by God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:15", "verse_text": "Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest." }, { "point_text": "(Destroyed by fire,) of destruction of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:18", "verse_text": "For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke." }, { "point_text": "(Destroyed by fire,) of destruction of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:17-18", "verse_text": "And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day; 18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth." } ] }, { "name": "Fountains and Springs", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Fountains-and-Springs.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Created by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:15", "verse_text": "Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers." }, { "point_text": "Created by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:10", "verse_text": "He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills." }, { "point_text": "God to be praised for", "verse_ref": "Revelation 14:7", "verse_text": "Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters." }, { "point_text": "Come from the great deep", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:11", "verse_text": "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." }, { "point_text": "Come from the great deep", "verse_ref": "Job 38:16", "verse_text": "Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?" }, { "point_text": "Found in hills and valleys", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:7", "verse_text": "For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;" }, { "point_text": "Found in hills and valleys", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:10", "verse_text": "He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills." }, { "point_text": "Send forth each but one kind of water", "verse_ref": "James 3:11", "verse_text": "Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?" }, { "point_text": "AFFORD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Drink to the beasts", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:11", "verse_text": "They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst." }, { "point_text": "Refreshment to the birds", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:12", "verse_text": "By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches." }, { "point_text": "Fruitfulness to the earth", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:5", "verse_text": "And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts." }, { "point_text": "Fruitfulness to the earth", "verse_ref": "Joel 3:18", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim." }, { "point_text": "Frequented by travellers", "verse_ref": "Genesis 16:7", "verse_text": "And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur." }, { "point_text": "Abound in Canaan", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:7", "verse_text": "For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;" }, { "point_text": "Abound in Canaan", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:5", "verse_text": "And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes dried up", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:11", "verse_text": "And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not." }, { "point_text": "Drying up of, a severe punishment", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:33-34", "verse_text": "He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground; 34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein." }, { "point_text": "CONSTANTLY FLOWING", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Especially esteemed", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:11", "verse_text": "And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not." }, { "point_text": "Could not be ceremonially defiled", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:36", "verse_text": "Nevertheless a fountain or pit, wherein there is plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes stopped or turned off to distress enemies", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 32:3-4", "verse_text": "He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city: and they did help him. 4 So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?" }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In the way to Shur", "verse_ref": "Genesis 16:7", "verse_text": "And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur." }, { "point_text": "Of the waters of Nephtoah", "verse_ref": "Joshua 15:9", "verse_text": "And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah, which is Kirjathjearim:" }, { "point_text": "Of Jezreel", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 29:1", "verse_text": "Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in Jezreel." }, { "point_text": "Of Pisgah", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:49", "verse_text": "And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah." }, { "point_text": "Upper and nether springs", "verse_ref": "Joshua 15:19", "verse_text": "Who answered, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and the nether springs." }, { "point_text": "Upper and nether springs", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:15", "verse_text": "And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 36:9", "verse_text": "For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light." }, { "point_text": "Of God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:13", "verse_text": "For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water." }, { "point_text": "Of God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:13", "verse_text": "O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters." }, { "point_text": "Of Christ", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 13:1", "verse_text": "In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness." }, { "point_text": "Of the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "John 7:38-39", "verse_text": "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)" }, { "point_text": "Of constant supplies of grace", "verse_ref": "Psalm 87:7", "verse_text": "As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee." }, { "point_text": "Of eternal life", "verse_ref": "John 4:14", "verse_text": "But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life." }, { "point_text": "Of eternal life", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:6", "verse_text": "And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely." }, { "point_text": "Of the means of grace", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:18", "verse_text": "I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water." }, { "point_text": "Of the means of grace", "verse_ref": "Joel 3:18", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim." }, { "point_text": "Of a good wife", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 5:18", "verse_text": "Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth." }, { "point_text": "Of a numerous posterity", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:28", "verse_text": "Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew." }, { "point_text": "Of spiritual wisdom", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:22", "verse_text": "Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly." }, { "point_text": "Of spiritual wisdom", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 18:4", "verse_text": "The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook." }, { "point_text": "Of the law of the wise", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 13:14", "verse_text": "The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death." }, { "point_text": "Of godly fear", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:27", "verse_text": "The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death." }, { "point_text": "(Sealed up,) of the church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:12", "verse_text": "A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed." }, { "point_text": "(Not failing,) of the church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:11", "verse_text": "And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not." }, { "point_text": "(Always flowing,) of unceasing wickedness of the Jews", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:7", "verse_text": "As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds." }, { "point_text": "(Corrupt,) of the natural heart", "verse_ref": "James 3:11", "verse_text": "Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?" }, { "point_text": "(Corrupt,) of the natural heart", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:18-19", "verse_text": "But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:" }, { "point_text": "(Troubled,) of saints led astray", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:26", "verse_text": "A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring." } ] }, { "name": "Fox, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Fox-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Found in deserts", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 13:4", "verse_text": "O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts." }, { "point_text": "Abounded in Palestine", "verse_ref": "Judges 15:4", "verse_text": "And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails." }, { "point_text": "Abounded in Palestine", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 5:18", "verse_text": "Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Active", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 4:3", "verse_text": "Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall." }, { "point_text": "Crafty", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:32", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected." }, { "point_text": "Carnivorous", "verse_ref": "Psalm 63:10", "verse_text": "They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes." }, { "point_text": "Destructive to vines", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:15", "verse_text": "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes." }, { "point_text": "Dwells in holes", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:20", "verse_text": "And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head." }, { "point_text": "Dwells in holes", "verse_ref": "Luke 9:58", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "False prophets", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 13:4", "verse_text": "O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts." }, { "point_text": "Cunning and deceitful persons", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:32", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected." }, { "point_text": "Enemies of the church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:15", "verse_text": "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes." }, { "point_text": "Used by Samson for annoying the Philistines", "verse_ref": "Judges 15:4-6", "verse_text": "And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails. 5 And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives. 6 Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire." } ] }, { "name": "Fruits", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Fruits.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The produce of corn, &c", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 22:9", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled." }, { "point_text": "The produce of corn, &c", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:37", "verse_text": "And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase." }, { "point_text": "The produce of trees", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:29", "verse_text": "And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat." }, { "point_text": "The produce of trees", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:5", "verse_text": "I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:" }, { "point_text": "CALLED THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Fruit of the ground", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:3", "verse_text": "And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Fruit of the ground", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:20", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched." }, { "point_text": "Fruit of the earth", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 4:2", "verse_text": "In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Increase of the land", "verse_ref": "Psalm 85:12", "verse_text": "Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase." }, { "point_text": "Given by God", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:17", "verse_text": "Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness." }, { "point_text": "Preserved to us by God", "verse_ref": "Malachi 3:11", "verse_text": "And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "REQUIRE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "A fruitful land", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:34", "verse_text": "A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein." }, { "point_text": "Rain from heaven", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:13", "verse_text": "He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works." }, { "point_text": "Rain from heaven", "verse_ref": "James 5:18", "verse_text": "And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit." }, { "point_text": "Influence of the sun and moon", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:14", "verse_text": "And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon," }, { "point_text": "Produced in their due seasons", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:41", "verse_text": "They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons." }, { "point_text": "First of, devoted to God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 26:2", "verse_text": "That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there." }, { "point_text": "DIVIDED INTO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Hasty or precocious", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:4", "verse_text": "And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up." }, { "point_text": "Summer fruits", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 16:1", "verse_text": "And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine." }, { "point_text": "New and old", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 7:13", "verse_text": "The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved." }, { "point_text": "Goodly", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 11:16", "verse_text": "The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken." }, { "point_text": "Pleasant", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:16", "verse_text": "Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits." }, { "point_text": "Precious", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:14", "verse_text": "And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon," }, { "point_text": "Evil or bad", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:17", "verse_text": "Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit." }, { "point_text": "To be waited for with patience", "verse_ref": "James 5:7", "verse_text": "Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain." }, { "point_text": "Often sent as presents", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:11", "verse_text": "And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:" }, { "point_text": "OFTEN DESTROYED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In God's anger", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:20", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched." }, { "point_text": "By blight", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:12", "verse_text": "The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men." }, { "point_text": "By locusts, &c", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:38-39", "verse_text": "Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it. 39 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them." }, { "point_text": "By enemies", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 25:4", "verse_text": "Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk." }, { "point_text": "By drought", "verse_ref": "Haggai 1:10", "verse_text": "Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of effects of repentance", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:8", "verse_text": "Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:" }, { "point_text": "Of works of the Spirit", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:22-23", "verse_text": "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law." }, { "point_text": "Of doctrines of Christ", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:3", "verse_text": "As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste." }, { "point_text": "Of good works", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:17-18", "verse_text": "Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit." }, { "point_text": "Of a holy conversation", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:14", "verse_text": "A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompence of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him." }, { "point_text": "Of a holy conversation", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 18:20", "verse_text": "A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled." }, { "point_text": "Of praise", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:15", "verse_text": "By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name." }, { "point_text": "Of the example, &c. of the godly", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:30", "verse_text": "The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise." }, { "point_text": "Of effects of industry", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:16", "verse_text": "She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard." }, { "point_text": "Of effects of industry", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:31", "verse_text": "Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates." }, { "point_text": "Of the reward of saints", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:10", "verse_text": "Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings." }, { "point_text": "Of the reward of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:9-10", "verse_text": "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? 10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings." }, { "point_text": "Of converts to the church", "verse_ref": "Psalm 72:16", "verse_text": "There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Of converts to the church", "verse_ref": "John 4:36", "verse_text": "And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together." }, { "point_text": "(Bad,) of the conduct and conversation of evil men", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:17", "verse_text": "Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit." }, { "point_text": "(Bad,) of the conduct and conversation of evil men", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:33", "verse_text": "Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit." } ] }, { "name": "Gad, The Tribe of", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Gad-The-Tribe-of.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Descended from Jacob's seventh son", "verse_ref": "Genesis 30:11", "verse_text": "And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad." }, { "point_text": "Predictions respecting", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:19", "verse_text": "Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last." }, { "point_text": "Predictions respecting", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:20-21", "verse_text": "And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head. 21 And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel." }, { "point_text": "PERSONS SELECTED FROM,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To number the people", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:14", "verse_text": "Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel." }, { "point_text": "To spy out the land", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:15", "verse_text": "Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi." }, { "point_text": "Strength of, on leaving Egypt", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:24-25", "verse_text": "Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 25 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty." }, { "point_text": "The rear of second division of Israel in their journeys", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:18-20", "verse_text": "And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur. 19 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. 20 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel." }, { "point_text": "Encamped south of the tabernacle under the standard of Reuben", "verse_ref": "Numbers 2:10", "verse_text": "On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur." }, { "point_text": "Encamped south of the tabernacle under the standard of Reuben", "verse_ref": "Numbers 2:14", "verse_text": "Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel." }, { "point_text": "Offering of, at the dedication", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:42-47", "verse_text": "On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad, offered: 43 His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, a silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: 44 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: 45 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: ..." }, { "point_text": "Families of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:15-17", "verse_text": "The children of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the Haggites: of Shuni, the family of the Shunites: 16 Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of the Erites: 17 Of Arod, the family of the Arodites: of Areli, the family of the Arelites." }, { "point_text": "Strength of, on entering Canaan", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:18", "verse_text": "These are the families of the children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred." }, { "point_text": "On Ebal, said amen to the curse", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 27:13", "verse_text": "And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali." }, { "point_text": "Sought and obtained its inheritance east of Jordan", "verse_ref": "Numbers 32:1-33", "verse_text": "Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle; 2 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying, 3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon, 4 Even the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle: ..." }, { "point_text": "Bounds of its inheritance", "verse_ref": "Joshua 13:24-28", "verse_text": "And Moses gave inheritance unto the tribe of Gad, even unto the children of Gad according to their families. 25 And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before Rabbah; 26 And from Heshbon unto Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir; 27 And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and his border, even unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side Jordan eastward. ..." }, { "point_text": "Cities built by", "verse_ref": "Numbers 32:34-36", "verse_text": "And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, 35 And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah, 36 And Bethnimrah, and Bethharan, fenced cities: and folds for sheep." }, { "point_text": "Assisted in conquest of Canaan", "verse_ref": "Joshua 4:12-13", "verse_text": "And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spake unto them: 13 About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho." }, { "point_text": "After the conquest, returned home", "verse_ref": "Joshua 22:9", "verse_text": "And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go unto the country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses." }, { "point_text": "Assisted in building the altar of witness, which excited the jealousy of Israel", "verse_ref": "Joshua 22:10-29", "verse_text": "And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that are in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan, a great altar to see to. 11 And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar over against the land of Canaan, in the borders of Jordan, at the passage of the children of Israel. 12 And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up to war against them. 13 And the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, ..." }, { "point_text": "Many from other tribes sought refuge with, from the Philistines", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:7", "verse_text": "And some of the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling." }, { "point_text": "Eleven of, swam the Jordan, and joined David in the hold", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:8-15", "verse_text": "And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains; 9 Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third, 10 Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth, 11 Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh, ..." }, { "point_text": "Some of, at coronation of David", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:37-38", "verse_text": "And on the other side of Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, an hundred and twenty thousand. 38 All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king." }, { "point_text": "David appointed rulers over", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 26:32", "verse_text": "And his brethren, men of valour, were two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers, whom king David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for every matter pertaining to God, and affairs of the king." }, { "point_text": "Spoiled the Hagarites", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 5:18-22", "verse_text": "The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war. 19 And they made war with the Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish, and Nodab. 20 And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him. 21 And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand. ..." }, { "point_text": "Subdued by Hazael king of Syria", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 10:33", "verse_text": "From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan." }, { "point_text": "Taken captive to Assyria", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 15:29", "verse_text": "In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria." }, { "point_text": "Taken captive to Assyria", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 5:22", "verse_text": "For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity." }, { "point_text": "Taken captive to Assyria", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 5:26", "verse_text": "And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Land of, seized by the Moabites and Ammonites", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:18-24", "verse_text": "Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and he shall destroy thy strong holds. 19 O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is done? 20 Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled, 21 And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath, ..." }, { "point_text": "Land of, seized by the Moabites and Ammonites", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:1", "verse_text": "Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?" } ] }, { "name": "Galilee", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Galilee.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Separated from Judea by Samaria", "verse_ref": "John 4:3-4", "verse_text": "He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee. 4 And he must needs go through Samaria." }, { "point_text": "Upper part of, called Galilee of the Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:1", "verse_text": "Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations." }, { "point_text": "Upper part of, called Galilee of the Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:15", "verse_text": "The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;" }, { "point_text": "Lake of Gennesaret, called the sea of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:29", "verse_text": "And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there." }, { "point_text": "Lake of Gennesaret, called the sea of", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret," }, { "point_text": "Kadesh the city of refuge for", "verse_ref": "Joshua 21:32", "verse_text": "And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Hammothdor with her suburbs, and Kartan with her suburbs; three cities." }, { "point_text": "INHABITANTS OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Called Galileans", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:7", "verse_text": "And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?" }, { "point_text": "Used a peculiar dialect", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:73", "verse_text": "And after a while came unto him they that stood by, and said to Peter, Surely thou also art one of them; for thy speech bewrayeth thee." }, { "point_text": "Used a peculiar dialect", "verse_ref": "Mark 14:70", "verse_text": "And he denied it again. And a little after, they that stood by said again to Peter, Surely thou art one of them: for thou art a Galilaean, and thy speech agreeth thereto." }, { "point_text": "Despised by the Jews", "verse_ref": "John 7:41", "verse_text": "Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee?" }, { "point_text": "Despised by the Jews", "verse_ref": "John 7:52", "verse_text": "They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet." }, { "point_text": "Opposed the Roman taxation", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:37", "verse_text": "After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the taxing, and drew away much people after him: he also perished; and all, even as many as obeyed him, were dispersed." }, { "point_text": "Cruelly treated by Pilate", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:1", "verse_text": "There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices." }, { "point_text": "Twenty cities of, given to Hiram", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 9:11", "verse_text": "(Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee." }, { "point_text": "Conquered by the Syrians", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:20", "verse_text": "So Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelbethmaachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali." }, { "point_text": "Conquered by the Assyrians", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 15:29", "verse_text": "In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria." }, { "point_text": "Jurisdiction of, granted to Herod by the Romans", "verse_ref": "Luke 3:1", "verse_text": "Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene," }, { "point_text": "Jurisdiction of, granted to Herod by the Romans", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:6-7", "verse_text": "When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked whether the man were a Galilaean. 7 And as soon as he knew that he belonged unto Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem at that time." }, { "point_text": "Supplied Tyre, &c. with provisions", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:20", "verse_text": "And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king's country." }, { "point_text": "CHRIST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Brought up in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:22", "verse_text": "But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee:" }, { "point_text": "Brought up in", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:39", "verse_text": "And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth." }, { "point_text": "Brought up in", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:51", "verse_text": "And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart." }, { "point_text": "Despised as of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:69", "verse_text": "Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came unto him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee." }, { "point_text": "Despised as of", "verse_ref": "John 7:52", "verse_text": "They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet." }, { "point_text": "Chose His Apostles from", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:18", "verse_text": "And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers." }, { "point_text": "Chose His Apostles from", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:21", "verse_text": "And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them." }, { "point_text": "Preaching in, predicted", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:1-2", "verse_text": "Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. 2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined." }, { "point_text": "Preached throughout", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:39", "verse_text": "And he preached in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and cast out devils." }, { "point_text": "Preached throughout", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:44", "verse_text": "And he preached in the synagogues of Galilee." }, { "point_text": "Commenced, and wrought many miracles in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:23", "verse_text": "And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people." }, { "point_text": "Commenced, and wrought many miracles in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:29-31", "verse_text": "And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there. 30 And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them: 31 Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Kindly received in", "verse_ref": "John 4:45", "verse_text": "Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast." }, { "point_text": "Followed by the people of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:25", "verse_text": "And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan." }, { "point_text": "Ministered to by women of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:55", "verse_text": "And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:" }, { "point_text": "Ministered to by women of", "verse_ref": "Mark 15:41", "verse_text": "(Who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered unto him;) and many other women which came up with him unto Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Ministered to by women of", "verse_ref": "Luke 8:3", "verse_text": "And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance." }, { "point_text": "Sought refuge in", "verse_ref": "John 4:1", "verse_text": "When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John," }, { "point_text": "Sought refuge in", "verse_ref": "John 4:3", "verse_text": "He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee." }, { "point_text": "Appeared in, to His disciples after His resurrection", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:32", "verse_text": "But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee." }, { "point_text": "Appeared in, to His disciples after His resurrection", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:7", "verse_text": "And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you." }, { "point_text": "MODERN TOWNS OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Accho or Ptolemais", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:31", "verse_text": "Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob:" }, { "point_text": "Tiberias", "verse_ref": "John 6:23", "verse_text": "(Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks:)" }, { "point_text": "Nazareth", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:22-23", "verse_text": "But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee: 23 And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene." }, { "point_text": "Cana", "verse_ref": "John 2:1", "verse_text": "And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:" }, { "point_text": "Cana", "verse_ref": "John 21:2", "verse_text": "There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples." }, { "point_text": "Capernaum", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:13", "verse_text": "And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim:" }, { "point_text": "Chorazin", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:21", "verse_text": "Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes." }, { "point_text": "Bethsaida", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:45", "verse_text": "And straightway he constrained his disciples to get into the ship, and to go to the other side before unto Bethsaida, while he sent away the people." }, { "point_text": "Bethsaida", "verse_ref": "John 1:44", "verse_text": "Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter." }, { "point_text": "Nain", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:11", "verse_text": "And it came to pass the day after, that he went into a city called Nain; and many of his disciples went with him, and much people." }, { "point_text": "Cesarea", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:30", "verse_text": "Which when the brethren knew, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus." }, { "point_text": "Cesarea", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:24", "verse_text": "And the morrow after they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius waited for them, and had called together his kinsmen and near friends." }, { "point_text": "Cesarea Philippi", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:13", "verse_text": "When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?" }, { "point_text": "Cesarea Philippi", "verse_ref": "Mark 8:27", "verse_text": "And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?" }, { "point_text": "Christian churches established in", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:31", "verse_text": "Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied." }, { "point_text": "Separated from Judea by Samaria", "verse_ref": "John 4:3-4", "verse_text": "He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee. 4 And he must needs go through Samaria." }, { "point_text": "Upper part of, called Galilee of the Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:1", "verse_text": "Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations." }, { "point_text": "Upper part of, called Galilee of the Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:15", "verse_text": "The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;" }, { "point_text": "Lake of Gennesaret, called the sea of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:29", "verse_text": "And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there." }, { "point_text": "Lake of Gennesaret, called the sea of", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret," }, { "point_text": "Kadesh the city of refuge for", "verse_ref": "Joshua 21:32", "verse_text": "And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Hammothdor with her suburbs, and Kartan with her suburbs; three cities." }, { "point_text": "INHABITANTS OF,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Called Galileans", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:7", "verse_text": "And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?" }, { "point_text": "Used a peculiar dialect", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:73", "verse_text": "And after a while came unto him they that stood by, and said to Peter, Surely thou also art one of them; for thy speech bewrayeth thee." }, { "point_text": "Used a peculiar dialect", "verse_ref": "Mark 14:70", "verse_text": "And he denied it again. And a little after, they that stood by said again to Peter, Surely thou art one of them: for thou art a Galilaean, and thy speech agreeth thereto." }, { "point_text": "Despised by the Jews", "verse_ref": "John 7:41", "verse_text": "Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee?" }, { "point_text": "Despised by the Jews", "verse_ref": "John 7:52", "verse_text": "They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet." }, { "point_text": "Opposed the Roman taxation", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:37", "verse_text": "After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the taxing, and drew away much people after him: he also perished; and all, even as many as obeyed him, were dispersed." }, { "point_text": "Cruelly treated by Pilate", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:1", "verse_text": "There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices." }, { "point_text": "Twenty cities of, given to Hiram", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 9:11", "verse_text": "(Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee." }, { "point_text": "Conquered by the Syrians", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:20", "verse_text": "So Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelbethmaachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali." }, { "point_text": "Conquered by the Assyrians", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 15:29", "verse_text": "In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria." }, { "point_text": "Jurisdiction of, granted to Herod by the Romans", "verse_ref": "Luke 3:1", "verse_text": "Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene," }, { "point_text": "Jurisdiction of, granted to Herod by the Romans", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:6-7", "verse_text": "When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked whether the man were a Galilaean. 7 And as soon as he knew that he belonged unto Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem at that time." }, { "point_text": "Supplied Tyre, &c. with provisions", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:20", "verse_text": "And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king's country." }, { "point_text": "CHRIST", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Brought up in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:22", "verse_text": "But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee:" }, { "point_text": "Brought up in", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:39", "verse_text": "And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth." }, { "point_text": "Brought up in", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:51", "verse_text": "And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart." }, { "point_text": "Despised as of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:69", "verse_text": "Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came unto him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee." }, { "point_text": "Despised as of", "verse_ref": "John 7:52", "verse_text": "They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet." }, { "point_text": "Chose His Apostles from", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:18", "verse_text": "And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers." }, { "point_text": "Chose His Apostles from", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:21", "verse_text": "And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them." }, { "point_text": "Preaching in, predicted", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:1-2", "verse_text": "Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. 2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined." }, { "point_text": "Preached throughout", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:39", "verse_text": "And he preached in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and cast out devils." }, { "point_text": "Preached throughout", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:44", "verse_text": "And he preached in the synagogues of Galilee." }, { "point_text": "Commenced, and wrought many miracles in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:23", "verse_text": "And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people." }, { "point_text": "Commenced, and wrought many miracles in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:29-31", "verse_text": "And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there. 30 And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them: 31 Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Kindly received in", "verse_ref": "John 4:45", "verse_text": "Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast." }, { "point_text": "Followed by the people of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:25", "verse_text": "And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan." }, { "point_text": "Ministered to by women of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:55", "verse_text": "And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:" }, { "point_text": "Ministered to by women of", "verse_ref": "Mark 15:41", "verse_text": "(Who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered unto him;) and many other women which came up with him unto Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Ministered to by women of", "verse_ref": "Luke 8:3", "verse_text": "And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance." }, { "point_text": "Sought refuge in", "verse_ref": "John 4:1", "verse_text": "When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John," }, { "point_text": "Sought refuge in", "verse_ref": "John 4:3", "verse_text": "He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee." }, { "point_text": "Appeared in, to His disciples after His resurrection", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:32", "verse_text": "But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee." }, { "point_text": "Appeared in, to His disciples after His resurrection", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:7", "verse_text": "And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you." }, { "point_text": "MODERN TOWNS OF;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Accho or Ptolemais", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:31", "verse_text": "Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob:" }, { "point_text": "Tiberias", "verse_ref": "John 6:23", "verse_text": "(Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks:)" }, { "point_text": "Nazareth", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:22-23", "verse_text": "But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee: 23 And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene." }, { "point_text": "Cana", "verse_ref": "John 2:1", "verse_text": "And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:" }, { "point_text": "Cana", "verse_ref": "John 21:2", "verse_text": "There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples." }, { "point_text": "Capernaum", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:13", "verse_text": "And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim:" }, { "point_text": "Chorazin", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:21", "verse_text": "Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes." }, { "point_text": "Bethsaida", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:45", "verse_text": "And straightway he constrained his disciples to get into the ship, and to go to the other side before unto Bethsaida, while he sent away the people." }, { "point_text": "Bethsaida", "verse_ref": "John 1:44", "verse_text": "Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter." }, { "point_text": "Nain", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:11", "verse_text": "And it came to pass the day after, that he went into a city called Nain; and many of his disciples went with him, and much people." }, { "point_text": "Cesarea", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:30", "verse_text": "Which when the brethren knew, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus." }, { "point_text": "Cesarea", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:24", "verse_text": "And the morrow after they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius waited for them, and had called together his kinsmen and near friends." }, { "point_text": "Cesarea Philippi", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:13", "verse_text": "When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?" }, { "point_text": "Cesarea Philippi", "verse_ref": "Mark 8:27", "verse_text": "And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?" }, { "point_text": "Christian churches established in", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:31", "verse_text": "Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied." } ] }, { "name": "Garments", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Garments.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Origin of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:7", "verse_text": "And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons." }, { "point_text": "Origin of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:21", "verse_text": "Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them." }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Raiment", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:20", "verse_text": "And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on," }, { "point_text": "Raiment", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:4", "verse_text": "Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years." }, { "point_text": "Clothes", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:27", "verse_text": "Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?" }, { "point_text": "Clothes", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:39", "verse_text": "And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare." }, { "point_text": "Clothing", "verse_ref": "Job 22:6", "verse_text": "For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing." }, { "point_text": "Clothing", "verse_ref": "Job 31:19", "verse_text": "If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;" }, { "point_text": "Vesture", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:42", "verse_text": "And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;" }, { "point_text": "Vesture", "verse_ref": "Revelation 19:16", "verse_text": "And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS." }, { "point_text": "MATERIALS USED FOR,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Wool", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:26", "verse_text": "The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field." }, { "point_text": "Wool", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 34:3", "verse_text": "Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock." }, { "point_text": "Silk", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:22", "verse_text": "She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple." }, { "point_text": "Linen", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:10", "verse_text": "And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar." }, { "point_text": "Linen", "verse_ref": "Esther 8:15", "verse_text": "And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad." }, { "point_text": "Camel's hair", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:4", "verse_text": "And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey." }, { "point_text": "Skins", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:37", "verse_text": "They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;" }, { "point_text": "Sackcloth", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 3:31", "verse_text": "And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier." }, { "point_text": "Sackcloth", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Not to be made of mixed materials", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 22:11", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together." }, { "point_text": "Of the sexes, not to be interchanged", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 22:5", "verse_text": "The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God." }, { "point_text": "COLORS OF, MENTIONED;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "White", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 9:8", "verse_text": "Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment." }, { "point_text": "Blue", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 23:6", "verse_text": "Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses." }, { "point_text": "Purple", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 7:27", "verse_text": "The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Purple", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:19", "verse_text": "There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:" }, { "point_text": "Scarlet", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 1:24", "verse_text": "Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel." }, { "point_text": "Scarlet", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:7", "verse_text": "The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom." }, { "point_text": "Different colors", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:3", "verse_text": "Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours." }, { "point_text": "Different colors", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 13:18", "verse_text": "And she had a garment of divers colours upon her: for with such robes were the king's daughters that were virgins apparelled. Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her." }, { "point_text": "Were often fringed and bordered", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:38", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:" }, { "point_text": "Were often fringed and bordered", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 22:12", "verse_text": "Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself." }, { "point_text": "Scribes and Pharisees condemned for making broad the borders of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:5", "verse_text": "But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments," }, { "point_text": "Worn long and flowing", "verse_ref": "Luke 20:46", "verse_text": "Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts;" }, { "point_text": "Worn long and flowing", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:13", "verse_text": "And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle." }, { "point_text": "Girt up during employment", "verse_ref": "Luke 17:8", "verse_text": "And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?" }, { "point_text": "Girt up during employment", "verse_ref": "John 13:4", "verse_text": "He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself." }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Hyke or upper garment", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:13", "verse_text": "In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God." }, { "point_text": "Hyke or upper garment", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:8", "verse_text": "And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way." }, { "point_text": "Burnoose or cloak", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:29", "verse_text": "And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not to take thy coat also." }, { "point_text": "Burnoose or cloak", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:13", "verse_text": "The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments." }, { "point_text": "Tunic or coat", "verse_ref": "John 19:23", "verse_text": "Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout." }, { "point_text": "Tunic or coat", "verse_ref": "John 21:7", "verse_text": "Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher's coat unto him, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea." }, { "point_text": "Girdle", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 18:4", "verse_text": "And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle." }, { "point_text": "Girdle", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:11", "verse_text": "And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles." }, { "point_text": "Bonnet or hat", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:13", "verse_text": "And Moses brought Aaron's sons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "Bonnet or hat", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:21", "verse_text": "Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace." }, { "point_text": "Shoe or sandal", "verse_ref": "Exodus 3:5", "verse_text": "And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground." }, { "point_text": "Shoe or sandal", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:9", "verse_text": "But be shod with sandals; and not put on two coats." }, { "point_text": "Vail", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:65", "verse_text": "For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself." }, { "point_text": "Liable to plague and leprosy", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:47-59", "verse_text": "The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment; 48 Whether it be in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin; 49 And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a plague of leprosy, and shall be shewed unto the priest: 50 And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up it that hath the plague seven days: ..." }, { "point_text": "Cleansed by water from ceremonial uncleanness", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:32", "verse_text": "And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed." }, { "point_text": "Cleansed by water from ceremonial uncleanness", "verse_ref": "Numbers 31:20", "verse_text": "And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood." }, { "point_text": "OF THE RICH,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the finest materials", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:8", "verse_text": "But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings' houses." }, { "point_text": "Gay", "verse_ref": "James 2:2-3", "verse_text": "For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; 3 And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:" }, { "point_text": "Gorgeous", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:25", "verse_text": "But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts." }, { "point_text": "Gorgeous", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:21", "verse_text": "And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them." }, { "point_text": "Embroidered", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:14", "verse_text": "She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Embroidered", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:18", "verse_text": "And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them." }, { "point_text": "Perfumed", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:8", "verse_text": "All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad." }, { "point_text": "Perfumed", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:11", "verse_text": "Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Multiplied and heaped up", "verse_ref": "Job 27:17", "verse_text": "He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver." }, { "point_text": "Multiplied and heaped up", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:22", "verse_text": "The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins," }, { "point_text": "Often moth-eaten", "verse_ref": "Job 13:28", "verse_text": "And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten." }, { "point_text": "Often moth-eaten", "verse_ref": "James 5:2", "verse_text": "Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten." }, { "point_text": "OF THE POOR,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Provided specially by God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:18", "verse_text": "He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment." }, { "point_text": "Vile", "verse_ref": "James 2:2", "verse_text": "For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;" }, { "point_text": "Used as a covering by night", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:13", "verse_text": "In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God." }, { "point_text": "Not to be retained in pledge", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:12-13", "verse_text": "And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge: 13 In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God." }, { "point_text": "Grew old and wore out", "verse_ref": "Joshua 9:5", "verse_text": "And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy." }, { "point_text": "Grew old and wore out", "verse_ref": "Psalm 102:26", "verse_text": "They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:" }, { "point_text": "Of Israel preserved for forty years", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:4", "verse_text": "Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years." }, { "point_text": "Were often changed", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:2", "verse_text": "Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:" }, { "point_text": "Were often changed", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:14", "verse_text": "Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh." }, { "point_text": "Of those slain with a sword not used", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:19", "verse_text": "But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet." }, { "point_text": "Given as a token of covenants", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 18:4", "verse_text": "And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle." }, { "point_text": "Given as presents", "verse_ref": "Genesis 45:22", "verse_text": "To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment." }, { "point_text": "Given as presents", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:22", "verse_text": "And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments." }, { "point_text": "Often rent in affliction", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 15:32", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that when David was come to the top of the mount, where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head:" }, { "point_text": "Often rent in affliction", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:3", "verse_text": "And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied." }, { "point_text": "Often rent in affliction", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:5", "verse_text": "And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God," }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "(White,) of righteousness", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:3", "verse_text": "His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:" }, { "point_text": "(White,) of righteousness", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:18", "verse_text": "I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see." }, { "point_text": "(Rolled in blood,) of victory", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:5", "verse_text": "For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire." }, { "point_text": "(Washed in wine,) of abundance", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:11", "verse_text": "Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:" } ] }, { "name": "Gardens", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Gardens.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Often made by the banks of rivers", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:6", "verse_text": "As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters." }, { "point_text": "KINDS OF, MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Herbs", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:10", "verse_text": "For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:" }, { "point_text": "Herbs", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:2", "verse_text": "And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money." }, { "point_text": "Cucumbers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:8", "verse_text": "And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city." }, { "point_text": "Fruit trees", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:5-6", "verse_text": "I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: 6 I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:" }, { "point_text": "Spices, &c", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:16", "verse_text": "Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits." }, { "point_text": "Spices, &c", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 6:2", "verse_text": "My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies." }, { "point_text": "Often enclosed", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:12", "verse_text": "A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed." }, { "point_text": "Often refreshed by fountains", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:15", "verse_text": "A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Taken care of by gardeners", "verse_ref": "John 20:15", "verse_text": "Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away." }, { "point_text": "Lodges erected in", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:8", "verse_text": "And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city." }, { "point_text": "OFTEN USED FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Entertainments", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:1", "verse_text": "I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved." }, { "point_text": "Retirement", "verse_ref": "John 18:1", "verse_text": "When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples." }, { "point_text": "Burial places", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 21:18", "verse_text": "And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead." }, { "point_text": "Burial places", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 21:26", "verse_text": "And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead." }, { "point_text": "Idolatrous worship", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:29", "verse_text": "For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen." }, { "point_text": "Idolatrous worship", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:3", "verse_text": "A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;" }, { "point_text": "Blasting of, a punishment", "verse_ref": "Amos 4:9", "verse_text": "I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Jews ordered to plant, in Babylon", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 29:5", "verse_text": "Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;" }, { "point_text": "Jews ordered to plant, in Babylon", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 29:28", "verse_text": "For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them." }, { "point_text": "OF EDEN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Planted by the Lord", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:8", "verse_text": "And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed." }, { "point_text": "Called the garden of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Genesis 13:10", "verse_text": "And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar." }, { "point_text": "Called the garden of God", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:13", "verse_text": "Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created." }, { "point_text": "Had every tree good for food", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:9", "verse_text": "And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil." }, { "point_text": "Watered by a river", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:10-14", "verse_text": "And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. 11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; 12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. 13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. ..." }, { "point_text": "Man placed in, to dress and keep", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:8", "verse_text": "And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed." }, { "point_text": "Man placed in, to dress and keep", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:15", "verse_text": "And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it." }, { "point_text": "Man driven from, after the fall", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:23-24", "verse_text": "Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life." }, { "point_text": "Fertility of Canaan like", "verse_ref": "Genesis 13:10", "verse_text": "And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar." }, { "point_text": "Fertility of Canaan like", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:3", "verse_text": "A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them." }, { "point_text": "The future state of the Jews shall be like", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 51:3", "verse_text": "For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody." }, { "point_text": "The future state of the Jews shall be like", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 36:35", "verse_text": "And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:1", "verse_text": "I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved." }, { "point_text": "Of the church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 6:2", "verse_text": "My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies." }, { "point_text": "Of the church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 6:11", "verse_text": "I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded." }, { "point_text": "(Enclosed,) of the pleasantness, fruitfulness, and security of the church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:12", "verse_text": "A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed." }, { "point_text": "(Well watered,) of spiritual prosperity of the church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:11", "verse_text": "And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not." }, { "point_text": "(Well watered,) of spiritual prosperity of the church", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:12", "verse_text": "Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all." }, { "point_text": "(When dried up,) of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:30", "verse_text": "For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water." } ] }, { "name": "Genealogies", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Genealogies.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The Jews reckoned by", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 9:1", "verse_text": "So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who were carried away to Babylon for their transgression." }, { "point_text": "The Jews reckoned by", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:19", "verse_text": "Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, which were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites." }, { "point_text": "Public registers kept of", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 12:15", "verse_text": "Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually." }, { "point_text": "Public registers kept of", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 7:5", "verse_text": "And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein," }, { "point_text": "OF CHRIST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Given", "verse_ref": "Matthew 1:1-17", "verse_text": "The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. 2 Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren; 3 And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram; 4 And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon; ..." }, { "point_text": "Given", "verse_ref": "Luke 3:23-38", "verse_text": "And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli, 24 Which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Janna, which was the son of Joseph, 25 Which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Amos, which was the son of Naum, which was the son of Esli, which was the son of Nagge, 26 Which was the son of Maath, which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Semei, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Juda, ..." }, { "point_text": "Prove His descent from Judah", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:14", "verse_text": "For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood." }, { "point_text": "Priests who could not prove their own, excluded from the priesthood", "verse_ref": "Ezra 2:62", "verse_text": "These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood." }, { "point_text": "Priests who could not prove their own, excluded from the priesthood", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 7:64", "verse_text": "These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood." }, { "point_text": "Subject of, to be avoided", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:4", "verse_text": "Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do." }, { "point_text": "Subject of, to be avoided", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:9", "verse_text": "But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain." }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of the record of saints in the book of life", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:20", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven." }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of the record of saints in the book of life", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:23", "verse_text": "To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect," }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of the record of saints in the book of life", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:5", "verse_text": "He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels." } ] }, { "name": "Gates", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Gates.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Design of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 62:10", "verse_text": "Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people." }, { "point_text": "MADE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Brass", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:16", "verse_text": "For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder." }, { "point_text": "Brass", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:2", "verse_text": "I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:" }, { "point_text": "Iron", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:10", "verse_text": "When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him." }, { "point_text": "Often two-leaved", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:1", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;" }, { "point_text": "Fastened with bars of iron", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:16", "verse_text": "For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder." }, { "point_text": "Fastened with bars of iron", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:2", "verse_text": "I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:" }, { "point_text": "MADE TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Cities", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 17:10", "verse_text": "So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink." }, { "point_text": "Houses", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:20", "verse_text": "And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores," }, { "point_text": "Houses", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:14", "verse_text": "And when she knew Peter's voice, she opened not the gate for gladness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate." }, { "point_text": "Temples", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:2", "verse_text": "And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;" }, { "point_text": "Palaces", "verse_ref": "Esther 5:13", "verse_text": "Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate." }, { "point_text": "Prisons", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:10", "verse_text": "When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him." }, { "point_text": "Camps", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:26", "verse_text": "Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD'S side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him." }, { "point_text": "Rivers", "verse_ref": "Nahum 2:6", "verse_text": "The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved." }, { "point_text": "OF CITIES", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Chief places of concourse", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:21", "verse_text": "She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying," }, { "point_text": "Courts of justice held at", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:18", "verse_text": "Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment." }, { "point_text": "Courts of justice held at", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 15:2", "verse_text": "And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is of one of the tribes of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Courts of justice held at", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:22-23", "verse_text": "Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: 23 For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them." }, { "point_text": "Land sold at", "verse_ref": "Genesis 23:10", "verse_text": "And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying," }, { "point_text": "Land sold at", "verse_ref": "Genesis 23:16", "verse_text": "And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant." }, { "point_text": "Land redeemed at", "verse_ref": "Ruth 4:1", "verse_text": "Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down." }, { "point_text": "Markets held at", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 7:1", "verse_text": "Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria." }, { "point_text": "Markets held at", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 7:18", "verse_text": "And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria:" }, { "point_text": "Proclamations made at", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:21", "verse_text": "She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying," }, { "point_text": "Proclamations made at", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:19", "verse_text": "Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;" }, { "point_text": "Councils of state held at", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 18:9", "verse_text": "And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat either of them on his throne, clothed in their robes, and they sat in a void place at the entering in of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them." }, { "point_text": "Councils of state held at", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 39:3", "verse_text": "And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, even Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon." }, { "point_text": "Conferences held at", "verse_ref": "Genesis 34:20", "verse_text": "And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying," }, { "point_text": "Conferences held at", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 3:27", "verse_text": "And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother." }, { "point_text": "Public commendation given at", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:23", "verse_text": "Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land." }, { "point_text": "Public commendation given at", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:31", "verse_text": "Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates." }, { "point_text": "Public censure passed at", "verse_ref": "Job 5:4", "verse_text": "His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them." }, { "point_text": "Public censure passed at", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 29:21", "verse_text": "That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought." }, { "point_text": "Shut at night-fall", "verse_ref": "Joshua 2:5", "verse_text": "And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them." }, { "point_text": "Shut at night-fall", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:19", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day." }, { "point_text": "Chief points of attack in war", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:8", "verse_text": "They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?" }, { "point_text": "Chief points of attack in war", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:7", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate." }, { "point_text": "Chief points of attack in war", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 21:15", "verse_text": "I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter." }, { "point_text": "Battering rams used against", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 21:22", "verse_text": "At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort." }, { "point_text": "Experienced officers placed over", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 7:17", "verse_text": "And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him." }, { "point_text": "Troops reviewed at, going to war", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 18:4", "verse_text": "And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do. And the king stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by hundreds and by thousands." }, { "point_text": "Often razed and burned", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 1:3", "verse_text": "And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire." }, { "point_text": "Often razed and burned", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 2:9", "verse_text": "Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Idolatrous rites performed at", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:13", "verse_text": "Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people." }, { "point_text": "Criminals punished at", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:5", "verse_text": "Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die." }, { "point_text": "Criminals punished at", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 20:2", "verse_text": "Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Custom of sitting at, in the evening, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Genesis 19:1", "verse_text": "And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;" }, { "point_text": "OF THE TEMPLE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Called gates of Zion", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 1:4", "verse_text": "The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness." }, { "point_text": "Called gates of righteousness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 118:19", "verse_text": "Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Called gates of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Psalm 118:20", "verse_text": "This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter." }, { "point_text": "Overlaid with gold", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:16", "verse_text": "At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria." }, { "point_text": "One specially beautiful", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:2", "verse_text": "And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;" }, { "point_text": "Levites the porters of", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 8:14", "verse_text": "And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded." }, { "point_text": "Levites the porters of", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 23:4", "verse_text": "This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you entering on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the doors;" }, { "point_text": "Charge of, given by lot", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 26:13-19", "verse_text": "And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according to the house of their fathers, for every gate. 14 And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counseller, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward. 15 To Obededom southward; and to his sons the house of Asuppim. 16 To Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward. ..." }, { "point_text": "The treasury placed at", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 24:8", "verse_text": "And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The treasury placed at", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:41", "verse_text": "And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much." }, { "point_text": "The pious Israelites delighted to enter", "verse_ref": "Psalm 118:19", "verse_text": "Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "The pious Israelites delighted to enter", "verse_ref": "Psalm 100:4", "verse_text": "Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name." }, { "point_text": "Frequented by beggars", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:2", "verse_text": "And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;" }, { "point_text": "OF JERUSALEM,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "High gate of Benjamin", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 20:2", "verse_text": "Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "High gate of Benjamin", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 37:13", "verse_text": "And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans." }, { "point_text": "Fish gate", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:14", "verse_text": "Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah." }, { "point_text": "Fish gate", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 3:3", "verse_text": "But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who also laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof." }, { "point_text": "Sheep gate.\r\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 3:1", "verse_text": "Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel." }, { "point_text": "Sheep gate.\r\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "John 5:2", "verse_text": "Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches." }, { "point_text": "Gate of Miphkad", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 3:31", "verse_text": "After him repaired Malchiah the goldsmith's son unto the place of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, over against the gate Miphkad, and to the going up of the corner." }, { "point_text": "Gate of Ephraim", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 12:39", "verse_text": "And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate." }, { "point_text": "Valley gate", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:9", "verse_text": "Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them." }, { "point_text": "Valley gate", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 2:13", "verse_text": "And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire." }, { "point_text": "Water gate", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 3:26", "verse_text": "Moreover the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel, unto the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that lieth out." }, { "point_text": "Water gate", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:3", "verse_text": "And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law." }, { "point_text": "Horse gate", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 23:15", "verse_text": "So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king's house, they slew her there." }, { "point_text": "Horse gate", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 3:28", "verse_text": "From above the horse gate repaired the priests, every one over against his house." }, { "point_text": "Old gate", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 3:6", "verse_text": "Moreover the old gate repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks thereof, and the bars thereof." }, { "point_text": "Old gate", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 12:39", "verse_text": "And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate." }, { "point_text": "Corner gate", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:9", "verse_text": "Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them." }, { "point_text": "Dung gate", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 3:14", "verse_text": "But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler of part of Bethhaccerem; he built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof." }, { "point_text": "Dung gate", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 12:31", "verse_text": "Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks, whereof one went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate:" }, { "point_text": "Gate of the fountain", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 3:15", "verse_text": "But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king's garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David." }, { "point_text": "Carcase of sin-offering burned without", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:12", "verse_text": "Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt." }, { "point_text": "Carcase of sin-offering burned without", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:11-13", "verse_text": "For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp. 12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. 13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach." }, { "point_text": "Criminals generally punished without", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 24:23", "verse_text": "And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "Criminals generally punished without", "verse_ref": "John 19:17", "verse_text": "And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:" }, { "point_text": "Criminals generally punished without", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:12", "verse_text": "Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 10:9", "verse_text": "I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture." }, { "point_text": "(Of heaven,) of access to God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:12-17", "verse_text": "And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. 13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; 14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 15 And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of. ..." }, { "point_text": "(Of hell,) of Satan's power", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:18", "verse_text": "And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." }, { "point_text": "(Of the grave,) of death", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:10", "verse_text": "I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years." }, { "point_text": "(Strait,) of the entrance to life", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:14", "verse_text": "Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." }, { "point_text": "(Wide,) of the entrance to ruin", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:13", "verse_text": "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:" } ] }, { "name": "Gibeonites", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Gibeonites.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Descended from the Hivites and Amorites", "verse_ref": "Joshua 9:3", "verse_text": "And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai," }, { "point_text": "Descended from the Hivites and Amorites", "verse_ref": "Joshua 9:7", "verse_text": "And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?" }, { "point_text": "Descended from the Hivites and Amorites", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 21:2", "verse_text": "And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)" }, { "point_text": "A mighty and warlike people", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:2", "verse_text": "That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty." }, { "point_text": "Cities of", "verse_ref": "Joshua 9:17", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjathjearim." }, { "point_text": "ISRAEL", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Deceived by", "verse_ref": "Joshua 9:4-13", "verse_text": "They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up; 5 And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy. 6 And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now therefore make ye a league with us. 7 And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you? ..." }, { "point_text": "Made a league with", "verse_ref": "Joshua 9:15", "verse_text": "And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them." }, { "point_text": "Spared on account of their oath", "verse_ref": "Joshua 9:18-19", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes. 19 But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them." }, { "point_text": "Appointed, hewers of wood, &c", "verse_ref": "Joshua 9:20-27", "verse_text": "This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them. 21 And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them. 22 And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them, saying, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We are very far from you; when ye dwell among us? 23 Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God. ..." }, { "point_text": "Attacked by the kings of Canaan", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:1-5", "verse_text": "Now it came to pass, when Adonizedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them; 2 That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty. 3 Wherefore Adonizedek king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying, 4 Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel. ..." }, { "point_text": "Delivered by Israel", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:6-10", "verse_text": "And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us. 7 So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valour. 8 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee. 9 Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, and went up from Gilgal all night. ..." }, { "point_text": "Saul sought to destroy", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 21:2", "verse_text": "And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)" }, { "point_text": "Israel plagued for Saul's cruelty to", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 21:1", "verse_text": "Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites." }, { "point_text": "Effected the destruction of the remnant of Saul's house", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 21:4-9", "verse_text": "And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you. 5 And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel, 6 Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give them. 7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD'S oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul. ..." }, { "point_text": "The office of the Nethinim probably originated in", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 9:2", "verse_text": "Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were, the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims." }, { "point_text": "Part of, returned from the captivity", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 7:25", "verse_text": "The children of Gibeon, ninety and five." } ] }, { "name": "Gift of the Holy Ghost, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Gift-of-the-Holy-Ghost-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "By the Father", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:20", "verse_text": "Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst." }, { "point_text": "By the Father", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:13", "verse_text": "If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?" }, { "point_text": "By the Son", "verse_ref": "John 20:22", "verse_text": "And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:" }, { "point_text": "To Christ without measure", "verse_ref": "John 3:34", "verse_text": "For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." }, { "point_text": "GIVEN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "According to promise", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:38-39", "verse_text": "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." }, { "point_text": "Upon the exaltation of Christ", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:18", "verse_text": "Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them." }, { "point_text": "Upon the exaltation of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 7:39", "verse_text": "(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)" }, { "point_text": "Through the intercession of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 14:16", "verse_text": "And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;" }, { "point_text": "In answer to prayer", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:13", "verse_text": "If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?" }, { "point_text": "In answer to prayer", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:16-17", "verse_text": "Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; 17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:" }, { "point_text": "For instruction", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:20", "verse_text": "Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst." }, { "point_text": "For comfort of saints", "verse_ref": "John 14:16", "verse_text": "And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;" }, { "point_text": "To those who repent and believe", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:38", "verse_text": "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "To those who obey God", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:32", "verse_text": "And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him." }, { "point_text": "To the Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:44", "verse_text": "While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word." }, { "point_text": "To the Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:17", "verse_text": "Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?" }, { "point_text": "To the Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:8", "verse_text": "And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;" }, { "point_text": "Is abundant", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:9", "verse_text": "Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary." }, { "point_text": "Is abundant", "verse_ref": "John 7:38-39", "verse_text": "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)" }, { "point_text": "Is permanent", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:21", "verse_text": "As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever." }, { "point_text": "Is permanent", "verse_ref": "Haggai 2:5", "verse_text": "According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not." }, { "point_text": "Is permanent", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:14", "verse_text": "If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified." }, { "point_text": "Is fructifying", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:15", "verse_text": "Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest." }, { "point_text": "Received through faith", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:14", "verse_text": "That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith." }, { "point_text": "An evidence of union with Christ", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:24", "verse_text": "And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us." }, { "point_text": "An evidence of union with Christ", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:13", "verse_text": "Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit." }, { "point_text": "An earnest of the inheritance of the saints", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:22", "verse_text": "Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts." }, { "point_text": "An earnest of the inheritance of the saints", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:5", "verse_text": "Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit." }, { "point_text": "An earnest of the inheritance of the saints", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:14", "verse_text": "Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory." }, { "point_text": "A pledge of the continued favor of God", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 39:29", "verse_text": "Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD." } ] }, { "name": "Gentiles", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Gentiles.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Comprehend all nations except the Jews", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:9", "verse_text": "Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;" }, { "point_text": "Comprehend all nations except the Jews", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:9", "verse_text": "What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;" }, { "point_text": "Comprehend all nations except the Jews", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:24", "verse_text": "Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?" }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Heathen", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:1", "verse_text": "Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?" }, { "point_text": "Heathen", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:8", "verse_text": "And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed." }, { "point_text": "Nations", "verse_ref": "Psalm 9:20", "verse_text": "Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Nations", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:28", "verse_text": "For the kingdom is the LORD'S: and he is the governor among the nations." }, { "point_text": "Nations", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:1", "verse_text": "Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations." }, { "point_text": "Uncircumcised", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:6", "verse_text": "And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few." }, { "point_text": "Uncircumcised", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 52:1", "verse_text": "Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean." }, { "point_text": "Uncircumcision", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:26", "verse_text": "Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?" }, { "point_text": "Greeks", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:16", "verse_text": "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek." }, { "point_text": "Greeks", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:12", "verse_text": "For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him." }, { "point_text": "Strangers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:1", "verse_text": "For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob." }, { "point_text": "Strangers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:10", "verse_text": "And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee." }, { "point_text": "Ruled by God", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 20:6", "verse_text": "And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?" }, { "point_text": "Ruled by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 47:8", "verse_text": "God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness." }, { "point_text": "Chastised by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 9:5", "verse_text": "Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever." }, { "point_text": "Chastised by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 94:10", "verse_text": "He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?" }, { "point_text": "Counsel of, brought to nought", "verse_ref": "Psalm 33:10", "verse_text": "The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect." }, { "point_text": "CHARACTERIZED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Ignorant of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:21", "verse_text": "Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened." }, { "point_text": "Ignorant of God", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:5", "verse_text": "Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:" }, { "point_text": "Refusing to know God", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:28", "verse_text": "And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;" }, { "point_text": "Without the law", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:14", "verse_text": "For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:" }, { "point_text": "Idolatrous", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:23", "verse_text": "And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things." }, { "point_text": "Idolatrous", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:25", "verse_text": "Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Idolatrous", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:2", "verse_text": "Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led." }, { "point_text": "Superstitious", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:14", "verse_text": "For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do." }, { "point_text": "Depraved and wicked", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:28-32", "verse_text": "And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: ..." }, { "point_text": "Depraved and wicked", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:19", "verse_text": "Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness." }, { "point_text": "Blasphemous and reproachful", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 5:9", "verse_text": "Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?" }, { "point_text": "Constant to their false gods", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:11", "verse_text": "Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit." }, { "point_text": "Hated and despised the Jews", "verse_ref": "Esther 9:1", "verse_text": "Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)" }, { "point_text": "Hated and despised the Jews", "verse_ref": "Esther 9:5", "verse_text": "Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them." }, { "point_text": "Often ravaged and defiled the holy land and sanctuary", "verse_ref": "Psalm 79:1", "verse_text": "O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps." }, { "point_text": "Often ravaged and defiled the holy land and sanctuary", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 1:10", "verse_text": "The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation." }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Not to follow the ways of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 18:3", "verse_text": "After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances." }, { "point_text": "Not to follow the ways of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 10:2", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them." }, { "point_text": "Not to intermarry with", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:3", "verse_text": "Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son." }, { "point_text": "Permitted to have, as servants", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:44", "verse_text": "Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids." }, { "point_text": "Despised, as if dogs", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:26", "verse_text": "But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs." }, { "point_text": "Never associated with", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:28", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean." }, { "point_text": "Never associated with", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:2-3", "verse_text": "And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him, 3 Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them." }, { "point_text": "Often corrupted by", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:7-8", "verse_text": "For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, 8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made." }, { "point_text": "Dispersed amongst", "verse_ref": "John 7:35", "verse_text": "Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?" }, { "point_text": "Excluded from Israel's privileges", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:11-12", "verse_text": "Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; 12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:" }, { "point_text": "Not allowed to enter the temple", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:28-29", "verse_text": "Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place. 29 (For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)" }, { "point_text": "Outer court of temple for", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:14", "verse_text": "For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;" }, { "point_text": "Outer court of temple for", "verse_ref": "Revelation 11:2", "verse_text": "But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months." }, { "point_text": "Given to Christ as His inheritance", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:8", "verse_text": "Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession." }, { "point_text": "Christ given as a light to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:6", "verse_text": "I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;" }, { "point_text": "Christ given as a light to", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:32", "verse_text": "A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel." }, { "point_text": "Conversion of, predicted", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:2", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it." }, { "point_text": "Conversion of, predicted", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:10", "verse_text": "And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious." }, { "point_text": "United with the Jews against Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:27", "verse_text": "For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together," }, { "point_text": "The gospel not to be preached to, till preached to the Jews", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:5", "verse_text": "These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:" }, { "point_text": "The gospel not to be preached to, till preached to the Jews", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:47", "verse_text": "And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "The gospel not to be preached to, till preached to the Jews", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:46", "verse_text": "Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles." }, { "point_text": "First special introduction of the gospel to", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:34-45", "verse_text": "Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: 35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. 36 The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:) 37 That word, I say, ye know, which was published throughout all Judaea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached; ..." }, { "point_text": "First special introduction of the gospel to", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:14", "verse_text": "Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name." }, { "point_text": "First general introduction of the gospel to", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:48-49", "verse_text": "And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed. 49 And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region." }, { "point_text": "First general introduction of the gospel to", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:12", "verse_text": "Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them." }, { "point_text": "Paul the apostle of", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:15", "verse_text": "But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:" }, { "point_text": "Paul the apostle of", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:7-8", "verse_text": "But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter; 8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)" }, { "point_text": "Jerusalem trodden down by, &c", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:24", "verse_text": "And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled." }, { "point_text": "Israel rejected till the fulness of", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:25", "verse_text": "For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in." } ] }, { "name": "Gifts of God, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Gifts-of-God-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "All blessings are", "verse_ref": "James 1:17", "verse_text": "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." }, { "point_text": "All blessings are", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:3", "verse_text": "According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:" }, { "point_text": "Are dispensed according to His will", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:26", "verse_text": "For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit." }, { "point_text": "Are dispensed according to His will", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:21", "verse_text": "And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:" }, { "point_text": "Are dispensed according to His will", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:6", "verse_text": "Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;" }, { "point_text": "Are dispensed according to His will", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:7", "verse_text": "For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that." }, { "point_text": "Are free and abundant", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:8", "verse_text": "If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey." }, { "point_text": "Are free and abundant", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:32", "verse_text": "He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?" }, { "point_text": "SPIRITUAL", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Christ the chief of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:6", "verse_text": "I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;" }, { "point_text": "Christ the chief of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 55:4", "verse_text": "Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people." }, { "point_text": "Christ the chief of", "verse_ref": "John 3:16", "verse_text": "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." }, { "point_text": "Christ the chief of", "verse_ref": "John 4:10", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water." }, { "point_text": "Christ the chief of", "verse_ref": "John 6:32-33", "verse_text": "Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world." }, { "point_text": "Are through Christ", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:18", "verse_text": "Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them." }, { "point_text": "Are through Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:7-8", "verse_text": "But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. 8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men." }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:13", "verse_text": "If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?" }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:20", "verse_text": "But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money." }, { "point_text": "Grace", "verse_ref": "Psalm 84:11", "verse_text": "For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly." }, { "point_text": "Grace", "verse_ref": "James 4:6", "verse_text": "But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble." }, { "point_text": "Wisdom", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 2:6", "verse_text": "For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding." }, { "point_text": "Wisdom", "verse_ref": "James 1:5", "verse_text": "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him." }, { "point_text": "Repentance", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:18", "verse_text": "When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life." }, { "point_text": "Faith", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:8", "verse_text": "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:" }, { "point_text": "Faith", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:29", "verse_text": "For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;" }, { "point_text": "Righteousness", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:16-17", "verse_text": "And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification. 17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)" }, { "point_text": "Strength and power", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:35", "verse_text": "O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God." }, { "point_text": "A new heart", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 11:19", "verse_text": "And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:" }, { "point_text": "Peace", "verse_ref": "Psalm 29:11", "verse_text": "The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace." }, { "point_text": "Rest", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:28", "verse_text": "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." }, { "point_text": "Rest", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:7", "verse_text": "And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels," }, { "point_text": "Glory", "verse_ref": "Psalm 84:11", "verse_text": "For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly." }, { "point_text": "Glory", "verse_ref": "John 17:22", "verse_text": "And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:" }, { "point_text": "Eternal life", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:23", "verse_text": "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." }, { "point_text": "Not repented of by Him", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:29", "verse_text": "For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance." }, { "point_text": "To be used for mutual profit", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:10", "verse_text": "As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God." }, { "point_text": "Pray for", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:7", "verse_text": "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:" }, { "point_text": "Pray for", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:11", "verse_text": "If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?" }, { "point_text": "Acknowledge", "verse_ref": "Psalm 4:7", "verse_text": "Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased." }, { "point_text": "Acknowledge", "verse_ref": "Psalm 21:2", "verse_text": "Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah." }, { "point_text": "TEMPORAL", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Life", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:5", "verse_text": "Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:" }, { "point_text": "Food and raiment", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:25-33", "verse_text": "Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? 26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? 27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? 28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: ..." }, { "point_text": "Rain and fruitful seasons", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:28", "verse_text": "Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:" }, { "point_text": "Rain and fruitful seasons", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:4-5", "verse_text": "Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely." }, { "point_text": "Wisdom", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 1:12", "verse_text": "Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like." }, { "point_text": "Peace", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:6", "verse_text": "And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land." }, { "point_text": "Peace", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 22:9", "verse_text": "Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about: for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days." }, { "point_text": "All good things", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:10", "verse_text": "The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing." }, { "point_text": "All good things", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:17", "verse_text": "Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;" }, { "point_text": "To be used and enjoyed", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 3:13", "verse_text": "And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God." }, { "point_text": "To be used and enjoyed", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 5:19-20", "verse_text": "Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God. 20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart." }, { "point_text": "To be used and enjoyed", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:4-5", "verse_text": "For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: 5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer." }, { "point_text": "Should cause us to remember God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:18", "verse_text": "But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day." }, { "point_text": "All creatures partake of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 136:25", "verse_text": "Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever." }, { "point_text": "All creatures partake of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:15-16", "verse_text": "The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. 16 Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing." }, { "point_text": "Pray for", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 10:1", "verse_text": "Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field." }, { "point_text": "Pray for", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:11", "verse_text": "Give us this day our daily bread." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:15-30", "verse_text": "And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey. 16 Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents. 17 And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two. 18 But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money. ..." }, { "point_text": "All blessings are", "verse_ref": "James 1:17", "verse_text": "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." }, { "point_text": "All blessings are", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:3", "verse_text": "According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:" }, { "point_text": "Are dispensed according to His will", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:26", "verse_text": "For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit." }, { "point_text": "Are dispensed according to His will", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:21", "verse_text": "And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:" }, { "point_text": "Are dispensed according to His will", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:6", "verse_text": "Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;" }, { "point_text": "Are dispensed according to His will", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:7", "verse_text": "For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that." }, { "point_text": "Are free and abundant", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:8", "verse_text": "If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey." }, { "point_text": "Are free and abundant", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:32", "verse_text": "He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?" }, { "point_text": "SPIRITUAL", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Christ the chief of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:6", "verse_text": "I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;" }, { "point_text": "Christ the chief of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 55:4", "verse_text": "Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people." }, { "point_text": "Christ the chief of", "verse_ref": "John 3:16", "verse_text": "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." }, { "point_text": "Christ the chief of", "verse_ref": "John 4:10", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water." }, { "point_text": "Christ the chief of", "verse_ref": "John 6:32-33", "verse_text": "Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world." }, { "point_text": "Are through Christ", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:18", "verse_text": "Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them." }, { "point_text": "Are through Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:7-8", "verse_text": "But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. 8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men." }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:13", "verse_text": "If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?" }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:20", "verse_text": "But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money." }, { "point_text": "Grace", "verse_ref": "Psalm 84:11", "verse_text": "For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly." }, { "point_text": "Grace", "verse_ref": "James 4:6", "verse_text": "But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble." }, { "point_text": "Wisdom", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 2:6", "verse_text": "For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding." }, { "point_text": "Wisdom", "verse_ref": "James 1:5", "verse_text": "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him." }, { "point_text": "Repentance", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:18", "verse_text": "When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life." }, { "point_text": "Faith", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:8", "verse_text": "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:" }, { "point_text": "Faith", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:29", "verse_text": "For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;" }, { "point_text": "Righteousness", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:16-17", "verse_text": "And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification. 17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)" }, { "point_text": "Strength and power", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:35", "verse_text": "O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God." }, { "point_text": "A new heart", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 11:19", "verse_text": "And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:" }, { "point_text": "Peace", "verse_ref": "Psalm 29:11", "verse_text": "The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace." }, { "point_text": "Rest", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:28", "verse_text": "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." }, { "point_text": "Rest", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:7", "verse_text": "And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels," }, { "point_text": "Glory", "verse_ref": "Psalm 84:11", "verse_text": "For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly." }, { "point_text": "Glory", "verse_ref": "John 17:22", "verse_text": "And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:" }, { "point_text": "Eternal life", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:23", "verse_text": "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." }, { "point_text": "Not repented of by Him", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:29", "verse_text": "For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance." }, { "point_text": "To be used for mutual profit", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:10", "verse_text": "As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God." }, { "point_text": "Pray for", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:7", "verse_text": "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:" }, { "point_text": "Pray for", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:11", "verse_text": "If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?" }, { "point_text": "Acknowledge", "verse_ref": "Psalm 4:7", "verse_text": "Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased." }, { "point_text": "Acknowledge", "verse_ref": "Psalm 21:2", "verse_text": "Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah." }, { "point_text": "TEMPORAL", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Life", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:5", "verse_text": "Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:" }, { "point_text": "Food and raiment", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:25-33", "verse_text": "Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? 26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? 27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? 28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: ..." }, { "point_text": "Rain and fruitful seasons", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:28", "verse_text": "Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:" }, { "point_text": "Rain and fruitful seasons", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:4-5", "verse_text": "Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely." }, { "point_text": "Wisdom", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 1:12", "verse_text": "Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like." }, { "point_text": "Peace", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:6", "verse_text": "And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land." }, { "point_text": "Peace", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 22:9", "verse_text": "Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about: for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days." }, { "point_text": "All good things", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:10", "verse_text": "The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing." }, { "point_text": "All good things", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:17", "verse_text": "Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;" }, { "point_text": "To be used and enjoyed", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 3:13", "verse_text": "And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God." }, { "point_text": "To be used and enjoyed", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 5:19-20", "verse_text": "Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God. 20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart." }, { "point_text": "To be used and enjoyed", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:4-5", "verse_text": "For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: 5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer." }, { "point_text": "Should cause us to remember God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:18", "verse_text": "But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day." }, { "point_text": "All creatures partake of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 136:25", "verse_text": "Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever." }, { "point_text": "All creatures partake of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:15-16", "verse_text": "The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. 16 Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing." }, { "point_text": "Pray for", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 10:1", "verse_text": "Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field." }, { "point_text": "Pray for", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:11", "verse_text": "Give us this day our daily bread." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:15-30", "verse_text": "And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey. 16 Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents. 17 And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two. 18 But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money. ..." } ] }, { "name": "Girdles", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Girdles.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Worn upon the loins", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:5", "verse_text": "Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet." }, { "point_text": "Worn upon the loins", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 13:1", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water." }, { "point_text": "Worn upon the loins", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 13:11", "verse_text": "For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear." }, { "point_text": "Worn by priests about the breasts", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:13", "verse_text": "And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle." }, { "point_text": "MADE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Fine linen", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:10", "verse_text": "I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk." }, { "point_text": "Twined linen with blue purple, &c", "verse_ref": "Exodus 39:29", "verse_text": "And a girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, of needlework; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "Gold", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:13", "verse_text": "And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle." }, { "point_text": "Gold", "verse_ref": "Revelation 15:6", "verse_text": "And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles." }, { "point_text": "Leather", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 1:8", "verse_text": "And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite." }, { "point_text": "Leather", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:4", "verse_text": "And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey." }, { "point_text": "Sackcloth", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:24", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty." }, { "point_text": "Sackcloth", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 2:10", "verse_text": "The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground." }, { "point_text": "Made for sale by industrious women", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:24", "verse_text": "She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant." }, { "point_text": "USED FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Strengthening the loins.\r\n\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:17", "verse_text": "She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms." }, { "point_text": "Strengthening the loins.\r\n\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:21", "verse_text": "And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah." }, { "point_text": "Strengthening the loins.\r\n\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:10", "verse_text": "Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength." }, { "point_text": "Girding up the garments when walking", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:46", "verse_text": "And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel." }, { "point_text": "Girding up the garments when walking", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:29", "verse_text": "Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child." }, { "point_text": "Girding up the garments when working", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:37", "verse_text": "Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them." }, { "point_text": "Girding up the garments when working", "verse_ref": "Luke 17:8", "verse_text": "And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?" }, { "point_text": "Girding up the garments when working", "verse_ref": "John 13:4", "verse_text": "He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself." }, { "point_text": "Suspending the sword", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 20:8", "verse_text": "When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab's garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out." }, { "point_text": "Suspending the sword", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 4:18", "verse_text": "For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me." }, { "point_text": "Suspending the inkhorn.\r\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 9:2", "verse_text": "And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar." }, { "point_text": "Holding money.\r\n\n\r\n (Greek.)", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:9", "verse_text": "Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses," }, { "point_text": "Holding money.\r\n\n\r\n (Greek.)", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:8", "verse_text": "And commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their purse:" }, { "point_text": "Taken off when at rest", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:27", "verse_text": "None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:" }, { "point_text": "Taken off when at rest", "verse_ref": "John 13:4", "verse_text": "He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself." }, { "point_text": "GIVEN AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "A token of friendship", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 18:4", "verse_text": "And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle." }, { "point_text": "A reward of military service", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 18:11", "verse_text": "And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Strength", "verse_ref": "Psalm 18:39", "verse_text": "For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me." }, { "point_text": "Strength", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:21", "verse_text": "And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah." }, { "point_text": "Gladness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 30:11", "verse_text": "Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;" }, { "point_text": "Righteousness of Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:5", "verse_text": "And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins." }, { "point_text": "Faithfulness of Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:5", "verse_text": "And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins." }, { "point_text": "Truth", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:14", "verse_text": "Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;" } ] }, { "name": "Glorifying God", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Glorifying-God.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:28", "verse_text": "Give unto the LORD, ye kindreds of the people, give unto the LORD glory and strength." }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:23", "verse_text": "Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:12", "verse_text": "Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands." }, { "point_text": "Due to Him", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:29", "verse_text": "Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness." }, { "point_text": "FOR HIS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Holiness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 99:9", "verse_text": "Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy." }, { "point_text": "Holiness", "verse_ref": "Revelation 15:4", "verse_text": "Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest." }, { "point_text": "Mercy and truth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 115:1", "verse_text": "Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake." }, { "point_text": "Mercy and truth", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:9", "verse_text": "And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name." }, { "point_text": "Faithfulness and truth", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 25:1", "verse_text": "O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth." }, { "point_text": "Wondrous works", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:31", "verse_text": "Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Wondrous works", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:21", "verse_text": "So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done." }, { "point_text": "Judgments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 25:3", "verse_text": "Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee." }, { "point_text": "Judgments", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:22", "verse_text": "And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her." }, { "point_text": "Judgments", "verse_ref": "Revelation 14:7", "verse_text": "Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters." }, { "point_text": "Deliverance", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:15", "verse_text": "And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me." }, { "point_text": "Grace to others", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:18", "verse_text": "When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life." }, { "point_text": "Grace to others", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 9:13", "verse_text": "Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;" }, { "point_text": "Grace to others", "verse_ref": "Galatians 1:24", "verse_text": "And they glorified God in me." }, { "point_text": "Obligation of saints to", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:20", "verse_text": "For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." }, { "point_text": "Is acceptable through Christ", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:11", "verse_text": "Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God." }, { "point_text": "Is acceptable through Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:11", "verse_text": "If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Christ, an example of", "verse_ref": "John 17:4", "verse_text": "I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do." }, { "point_text": "ACCOMPLISHED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Relying on His promises", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:20", "verse_text": "He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;" }, { "point_text": "Praising Him", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:23", "verse_text": "Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God." }, { "point_text": "Doing all to Him", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:31", "verse_text": "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God." }, { "point_text": "Dying for Him", "verse_ref": "John 21:19", "verse_text": "This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me." }, { "point_text": "Confessing Christ", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:11", "verse_text": "And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." }, { "point_text": "Suffering for Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:14-16", "verse_text": "If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. 15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters. 16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf." }, { "point_text": "Glorifying Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 19:17", "verse_text": "And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified." }, { "point_text": "Glorifying Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:12", "verse_text": "That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Bringing forth fruits of righteousness", "verse_ref": "John 15:8", "verse_text": "Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples." }, { "point_text": "Bringing forth fruits of righteousness", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:11", "verse_text": "Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God." }, { "point_text": "Patience in affliction", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 24:15", "verse_text": "Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea." }, { "point_text": "Faithfulness", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:11", "verse_text": "If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Required in body and spirit", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:20", "verse_text": "For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." }, { "point_text": "Shall be universal", "verse_ref": "Psalm 86:9", "verse_text": "All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name." }, { "point_text": "Shall be universal", "verse_ref": "Revelation 5:13", "verse_text": "And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Resolve on", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:30", "verse_text": "I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving." }, { "point_text": "Resolve on", "verse_ref": "Psalm 118:28", "verse_text": "Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, I will exalt thee." }, { "point_text": "Unite in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:3", "verse_text": "O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together." }, { "point_text": "Unite in", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:6", "verse_text": "That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Persevere in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 86:12", "verse_text": "I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore." }, { "point_text": "All the blessings of God are designed to lead to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:21", "verse_text": "Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified." }, { "point_text": "All the blessings of God are designed to lead to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:3", "verse_text": "To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified." }, { "point_text": "The holy example of saints may lead others to", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:16", "verse_text": "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." }, { "point_text": "The holy example of saints may lead others to", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:12", "verse_text": "Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation." }, { "point_text": "All, by nature, fail in", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:23", "verse_text": "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" }, { "point_text": "The wicked averse to", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:23", "verse_text": "But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:" }, { "point_text": "The wicked averse to", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:21", "verse_text": "Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for not", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:23", "verse_text": "But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:" }, { "point_text": "Punishment for not", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:30", "verse_text": "In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain." }, { "point_text": "Heavenly host engaged in", "verse_ref": "Revelation 4:11", "verse_text": "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nThe Multitude, \n\nThe Virgin Mary, \nAngels, \nShepherds, \nMan sick of the Palsy, \nWoman with infirmity, \nLeper, \nBlind man, \nCenturion, \nThe Church at Jerusalem, \nGentiles at Antioch, \nAbraham, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 57:5", "verse_text": "Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nThe Multitude, \n\nThe Virgin Mary, \nAngels, \nShepherds, \nMan sick of the Palsy, \nWoman with infirmity, \nLeper, \nBlind man, \nCenturion, \nThe Church at Jerusalem, \nGentiles at Antioch, \nAbraham, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:8", "verse_text": "But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nThe Multitude, \n\nThe Virgin Mary, \nAngels, \nShepherds, \nMan sick of the Palsy, \nWoman with infirmity, \nLeper, \nBlind man, \nCenturion, \nThe Church at Jerusalem, \nGentiles at Antioch, \nAbraham, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:31", "verse_text": "Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nThe Multitude, \n\nThe Virgin Mary, \nAngels, \nShepherds, \nMan sick of the Palsy, \nWoman with infirmity, \nLeper, \nBlind man, \nCenturion, \nThe Church at Jerusalem, \nGentiles at Antioch, \nAbraham, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:46", "verse_text": "And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nThe Multitude, \n\nThe Virgin Mary, \nAngels, \nShepherds, \nMan sick of the Palsy, \nWoman with infirmity, \nLeper, \nBlind man, \nCenturion, \nThe Church at Jerusalem, \nGentiles at Antioch, \nAbraham, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:14", "verse_text": "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nThe Multitude, \n\nThe Virgin Mary, \nAngels, \nShepherds, \nMan sick of the Palsy, \nWoman with infirmity, \nLeper, \nBlind man, \nCenturion, \nThe Church at Jerusalem, \nGentiles at Antioch, \nAbraham, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:20", "verse_text": "And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nThe Multitude, \n\nThe Virgin Mary, \nAngels, \nShepherds, \nMan sick of the Palsy, \nWoman with infirmity, \nLeper, \nBlind man, \nCenturion, \nThe Church at Jerusalem, \nGentiles at Antioch, \nAbraham, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:25", "verse_text": "And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nThe Multitude, \n\nThe Virgin Mary, \nAngels, \nShepherds, \nMan sick of the Palsy, \nWoman with infirmity, \nLeper, \nBlind man, \nCenturion, \nThe Church at Jerusalem, \nGentiles at Antioch, \nAbraham, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:13", "verse_text": "And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nThe Multitude, \n\nThe Virgin Mary, \nAngels, \nShepherds, \nMan sick of the Palsy, \nWoman with infirmity, \nLeper, \nBlind man, \nCenturion, \nThe Church at Jerusalem, \nGentiles at Antioch, \nAbraham, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Luke 17:15", "verse_text": "And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nThe Multitude, \n\nThe Virgin Mary, \nAngels, \nShepherds, \nMan sick of the Palsy, \nWoman with infirmity, \nLeper, \nBlind man, \nCenturion, \nThe Church at Jerusalem, \nGentiles at Antioch, \nAbraham, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:43", "verse_text": "And immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise unto God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nThe Multitude, \n\nThe Virgin Mary, \nAngels, \nShepherds, \nMan sick of the Palsy, \nWoman with infirmity, \nLeper, \nBlind man, \nCenturion, \nThe Church at Jerusalem, \nGentiles at Antioch, \nAbraham, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:47", "verse_text": "Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nThe Multitude, \n\nThe Virgin Mary, \nAngels, \nShepherds, \nMan sick of the Palsy, \nWoman with infirmity, \nLeper, \nBlind man, \nCenturion, \nThe Church at Jerusalem, \nGentiles at Antioch, \nAbraham, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:18", "verse_text": "When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nThe Multitude, \n\nThe Virgin Mary, \nAngels, \nShepherds, \nMan sick of the Palsy, \nWoman with infirmity, \nLeper, \nBlind man, \nCenturion, \nThe Church at Jerusalem, \nGentiles at Antioch, \nAbraham, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:48", "verse_text": "And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nThe Multitude, \n\nThe Virgin Mary, \nAngels, \nShepherds, \nMan sick of the Palsy, \nWoman with infirmity, \nLeper, \nBlind man, \nCenturion, \nThe Church at Jerusalem, \nGentiles at Antioch, \nAbraham, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:20", "verse_text": "He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nThe Multitude, \n\nThe Virgin Mary, \nAngels, \nShepherds, \nMan sick of the Palsy, \nWoman with infirmity, \nLeper, \nBlind man, \nCenturion, \nThe Church at Jerusalem, \nGentiles at Antioch, \nAbraham, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:36", "verse_text": "For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen." } ] }, { "name": "Glory", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Glory.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "God is, to His people", "verse_ref": "Psalm 3:3", "verse_text": "But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head." }, { "point_text": "God is, to His people", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 2:5", "verse_text": "For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her." }, { "point_text": "Christ is, to His people", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:1", "verse_text": "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee." }, { "point_text": "Christ is, to His people", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:32", "verse_text": "A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel." }, { "point_text": "The gospel ordained to be, to saints", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:7", "verse_text": "But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:" }, { "point_text": "Of the gospel, exceeds that of the law", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 3:9-10", "verse_text": "For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. 10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth." }, { "point_text": "The joy of saints is full of", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:8", "verse_text": "Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:" }, { "point_text": "SPIRITUAL", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Is given by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 84:11", "verse_text": "For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly." }, { "point_text": "Is given by Christ", "verse_ref": "John 17:22", "verse_text": "And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:" }, { "point_text": "Is the work of the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 3:18", "verse_text": "But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." }, { "point_text": "ETERNAL", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Procured by the death of Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:10", "verse_text": "For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings." }, { "point_text": "Accompanies salvation by Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:10", "verse_text": "Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory." }, { "point_text": "Inherited by saints", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:8", "verse_text": "He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them." }, { "point_text": "Inherited by saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:24", "verse_text": "Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory." }, { "point_text": "Inherited by saints", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:35", "verse_text": "The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools." }, { "point_text": "Inherited by saints", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:4", "verse_text": "When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory." }, { "point_text": "Inherited by saints", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:10", "verse_text": "But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you." }, { "point_text": "Saints called to", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:14", "verse_text": "Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Saints called to", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:10", "verse_text": "But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you." }, { "point_text": "Saints afore prepared to", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:23", "verse_text": "And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory," }, { "point_text": "Enhanced by present afflictions", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:17", "verse_text": "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;" }, { "point_text": "Present afflictions not worthy to be compared with", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:18", "verse_text": "For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." }, { "point_text": "Of the Church shall be rich and abundant", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:11-13", "verse_text": "Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought. 12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted. 13 The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious." }, { "point_text": "The bodies of saints shall be raised in", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:43", "verse_text": "It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:" }, { "point_text": "The bodies of saints shall be raised in", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:21", "verse_text": "Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself." }, { "point_text": "Saints shall be, of their ministers", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:19-20", "verse_text": "For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? 20 For ye are our glory and joy." }, { "point_text": "TEMPORAL", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Is given by God", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:37", "verse_text": "Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory." }, { "point_text": "Passeth away", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:24", "verse_text": "For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:" }, { "point_text": "The devil tries to seduce by", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:8", "verse_text": "Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;" }, { "point_text": "Of hypocrites turned to shame", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:7", "verse_text": "As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame." }, { "point_text": "Seek not, from man", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:2", "verse_text": "Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward." }, { "point_text": "Seek not, from man", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:6", "verse_text": "Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ." }, { "point_text": "OF THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Is in their shame", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:19", "verse_text": "Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)" }, { "point_text": "Ends in destruction", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:14", "verse_text": "Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it." } ] }, { "name": "Glory of God, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Glory-of-God-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Exhibited in Christ", "verse_ref": "John 1:14", "verse_text": "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." }, { "point_text": "Exhibited in Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:6", "verse_text": "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Exhibited in Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:3", "verse_text": "Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;" }, { "point_text": "EXHIBITED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "His name", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:58", "verse_text": "If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;" }, { "point_text": "His name", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:5", "verse_text": "Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise." }, { "point_text": "His majesty", "verse_ref": "Job 37:22", "verse_text": "Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty." }, { "point_text": "His majesty", "verse_ref": "Psalm 93:1", "verse_text": "The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved." }, { "point_text": "His majesty", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:1", "verse_text": "Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty." }, { "point_text": "His majesty", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:5", "verse_text": "I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works." }, { "point_text": "His majesty", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:12", "verse_text": "To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom." }, { "point_text": "His power", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:1", "verse_text": "Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea." }, { "point_text": "His power", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:6", "verse_text": "Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy." }, { "point_text": "His works", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:1", "verse_text": "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork." }, { "point_text": "His works", "verse_ref": "Psalm 111:3", "verse_text": "His work is honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever." }, { "point_text": "His holiness", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:11", "verse_text": "Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?" }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Great", "verse_ref": "Psalm 138:5", "verse_text": "Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is the glory of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Eternal", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:31", "verse_text": "The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the LORD shall rejoice in his works." }, { "point_text": "Rich", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:16", "verse_text": "That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;" }, { "point_text": "Highly exalted", "verse_ref": "Psalm 8:1", "verse_text": "O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens." }, { "point_text": "Highly exalted", "verse_ref": "Psalm 113:4", "verse_text": "The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens." }, { "point_text": "EXHIBITED TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Moses", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:5-7", "verse_text": "And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. 6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation." }, { "point_text": "Moses", "verse_ref": "Exodus 33:18-23", "verse_text": "And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory. 19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy. 20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live. 21 And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock: ..." }, { "point_text": "Stephen", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:55", "verse_text": "But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God," }, { "point_text": "His Church", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:24", "verse_text": "And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth." }, { "point_text": "His Church", "verse_ref": "Psalm 102:16", "verse_text": "When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory." }, { "point_text": "Enlightens the Church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:1-2", "verse_text": "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. 2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee." }, { "point_text": "Saints desire to behold", "verse_ref": "Psalm 63:2", "verse_text": "To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary." }, { "point_text": "Saints desire to behold", "verse_ref": "Psalm 90:16", "verse_text": "Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children." }, { "point_text": "God is jealous of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:8", "verse_text": "I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images." }, { "point_text": "Reverence", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:19", "verse_text": "So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him." }, { "point_text": "Plead in prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 79:9", "verse_text": "Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake." }, { "point_text": "Declare", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:24", "verse_text": "Declare his glory among the heathen; his marvellous works among all nations." }, { "point_text": "Declare", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:5", "verse_text": "I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works." }, { "point_text": "Declare", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:11", "verse_text": "They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power;" }, { "point_text": "Magnify", "verse_ref": "Psalm 57:5", "verse_text": "Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth." }, { "point_text": "The earth is full of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:3", "verse_text": "And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory." }, { "point_text": "The knowledge of, shall fill the earth", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:14", "verse_text": "For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea." } ] }, { "name": "Gluttony", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Gluttony.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Christ was falsely accused of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:19", "verse_text": "The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children." }, { "point_text": "The wicked addicted to", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:19", "verse_text": "Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)" }, { "point_text": "The wicked addicted to", "verse_ref": "Jude 12", "verse_text": "These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;" }, { "point_text": "LEADS TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Carnal security", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:13", "verse_text": "And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die." }, { "point_text": "Carnal security", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:32", "verse_text": "If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die." }, { "point_text": "Carnal security", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:19", "verse_text": "And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry." }, { "point_text": "Poverty", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:21", "verse_text": "For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags." }, { "point_text": "Of princes, ruinous to their people", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 10:16-17", "verse_text": "Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning! 17 Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!" }, { "point_text": "Is inconsistent in saints", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:3", "verse_text": "For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:" }, { "point_text": "Caution against", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:2-3", "verse_text": "And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. 3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat." }, { "point_text": "Pray against temptations to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 141:4", "verse_text": "Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:33-34", "verse_text": "And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague. 34 And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted." }, { "point_text": "Danger of, illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:45-46", "verse_text": "But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken; 46 The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEsau, \n\nIsrael, \n\nSons of Eli, \nBelshazzar,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 25:30-34", "verse_text": "And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. 31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. 32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? 33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEsau, \n\nIsrael, \n\nSons of Eli, \nBelshazzar,", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:16-17", "verse_text": "Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. 17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEsau, \n\nIsrael, \n\nSons of Eli, \nBelshazzar,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:4", "verse_text": "And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEsau, \n\nIsrael, \n\nSons of Eli, \nBelshazzar,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:18", "verse_text": "And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEsau, \n\nIsrael, \n\nSons of Eli, \nBelshazzar,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:12-17", "verse_text": "Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD. 13 And the priests' custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand; 14 And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither. 15 Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEsau, \n\nIsrael, \n\nSons of Eli, \nBelshazzar,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:1", "verse_text": "Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand." } ] }, { "name": "God", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/God.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is a spirit", "verse_ref": "John 4:24", "verse_text": "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." }, { "point_text": "Is a spirit", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 3:17", "verse_text": "Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." }, { "point_text": "IS DECLARED TO BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Light", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:19", "verse_text": "The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory." }, { "point_text": "Light", "verse_ref": "James 1:17", "verse_text": "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." }, { "point_text": "Light", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:5", "verse_text": "This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all." }, { "point_text": "Love", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:8", "verse_text": "He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love." }, { "point_text": "Love", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:16", "verse_text": "And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him." }, { "point_text": "Invisible", "verse_ref": "Job 23:8-9", "verse_text": "Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: 9 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:" }, { "point_text": "Unsearchable", "verse_ref": "Job 11:7", "verse_text": "Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?" }, { "point_text": "Unsearchable", "verse_ref": "Job 37:23", "verse_text": "Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict." }, { "point_text": "Unsearchable", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:3", "verse_text": "Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable." }, { "point_text": "Unsearchable", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:28", "verse_text": "Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding." }, { "point_text": "Unsearchable", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:33", "verse_text": "O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!" }, { "point_text": "Incorruptible", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:23", "verse_text": "And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things." }, { "point_text": "Eternal", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:27", "verse_text": "The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them." }, { "point_text": "Eternal", "verse_ref": "Psalm 90:2", "verse_text": "Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God." }, { "point_text": "Eternal", "verse_ref": "Revelation 4:8-10", "verse_text": "And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. 9 And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever, 10 The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying," }, { "point_text": "Immortal", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:17", "verse_text": "Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Immortal", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:16", "verse_text": "Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Omnipotent", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:1", "verse_text": "And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect." }, { "point_text": "Omnipotent", "verse_ref": "Exodus 6:3", "verse_text": "And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them." }, { "point_text": "Omniscient", "verse_ref": "Psalm 139:1-6", "verse_text": "O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. 2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. 3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. 4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. ..." }, { "point_text": "Omniscient", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 5:21", "verse_text": "For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings." }, { "point_text": "Omnipresent", "verse_ref": "Psalm 139:7", "verse_text": "Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?" }, { "point_text": "Omnipresent", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:23", "verse_text": "Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?" }, { "point_text": "Immutable", "verse_ref": "Psalm 102:26-27", "verse_text": "They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: 27 But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end." }, { "point_text": "Only-wise", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:27", "verse_text": "To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Only-wise", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:17", "verse_text": "Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Glorious", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:11", "verse_text": "Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?" }, { "point_text": "Glorious", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:5", "verse_text": "I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works." }, { "point_text": "Most High", "verse_ref": "Psalm 83:18", "verse_text": "That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth." }, { "point_text": "Most High", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:48", "verse_text": "Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet," }, { "point_text": "Perfect", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:48", "verse_text": "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." }, { "point_text": "Holy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 99:9", "verse_text": "Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy." }, { "point_text": "Holy", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:16", "verse_text": "But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Just", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:4", "verse_text": "He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he." }, { "point_text": "Just", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:21", "verse_text": "Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me." }, { "point_text": "True", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 10:10", "verse_text": "But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation." }, { "point_text": "True", "verse_ref": "John 17:3", "verse_text": "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." }, { "point_text": "Upright", "verse_ref": "Psalm 25:8", "verse_text": "Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way." }, { "point_text": "Upright", "verse_ref": "Psalm 92:15", "verse_text": "To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him." }, { "point_text": "Righteous", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:15", "verse_text": "O LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this." }, { "point_text": "Righteous", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:17", "verse_text": "The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works." }, { "point_text": "Good", "verse_ref": "Psalm 25:8", "verse_text": "Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way." }, { "point_text": "Good", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:68", "verse_text": "Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes." }, { "point_text": "Great", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:5", "verse_text": "And the house which I build is great: for great is our God above all gods." }, { "point_text": "Great", "verse_ref": "Psalm 86:10", "verse_text": "For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone." }, { "point_text": "Gracious", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:6", "verse_text": "And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth," }, { "point_text": "Gracious", "verse_ref": "Psalm 116:5", "verse_text": "Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful." }, { "point_text": "Faithful", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:13", "verse_text": "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it." }, { "point_text": "Faithful", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:19", "verse_text": "Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator." }, { "point_text": "Merciful", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:6-7", "verse_text": "And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation." }, { "point_text": "Long-suffering", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:18", "verse_text": "The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation." }, { "point_text": "Long-suffering", "verse_ref": "Micah 7:1", "verse_text": "Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit." }, { "point_text": "Jealous", "verse_ref": "Joshua 24:19", "verse_text": "And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins." }, { "point_text": "Jealous", "verse_ref": "Nahum 1:2", "verse_text": "God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies." }, { "point_text": "Compassionate", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 13:23", "verse_text": "And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet." }, { "point_text": "A consuming fire", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:29", "verse_text": "For our God is a consuming fire." }, { "point_text": "None beside Him", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:35", "verse_text": "Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him." }, { "point_text": "None beside Him", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:6", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God." }, { "point_text": "None before Him", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 43:10", "verse_text": "Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me." }, { "point_text": "None like to Him", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:14", "verse_text": "For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth." }, { "point_text": "None like to Him", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:26", "verse_text": "There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky." }, { "point_text": "None like to Him", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:22", "verse_text": "Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears." }, { "point_text": "None like to Him", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 46:5", "verse_text": "To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?" }, { "point_text": "None like to Him", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 46:9", "verse_text": "Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me," }, { "point_text": "None good but He", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:17", "verse_text": "And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments." }, { "point_text": "Fills heaven and earth", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:27", "verse_text": "But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?" }, { "point_text": "Fills heaven and earth", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:24", "verse_text": "Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Should be worshipped in spirit and in truth", "verse_ref": "John 4:24", "verse_text": "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." } ] }, { "name": "Goodness of God, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Goodness-of-God-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is part of His character", "verse_ref": "Psalm 25:8", "verse_text": "Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way." }, { "point_text": "Is part of His character", "verse_ref": "Nahum 1:7", "verse_text": "The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him." }, { "point_text": "Is part of His character", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:17", "verse_text": "And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments." }, { "point_text": "DECLARED TO BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Great", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:35", "verse_text": "For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works." }, { "point_text": "Great", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:17", "verse_text": "For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids." }, { "point_text": "Rich", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:24", "verse_text": "O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches." }, { "point_text": "Rich", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:4", "verse_text": "Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?" }, { "point_text": "Abundant", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:6", "verse_text": "And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth," }, { "point_text": "Abundant", "verse_ref": "Psalm 33:5", "verse_text": "He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Satisfying", "verse_ref": "Psalm 65:4", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple." }, { "point_text": "Satisfying", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:12", "verse_text": "Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all." }, { "point_text": "Satisfying", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:14", "verse_text": "And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Enduring", "verse_ref": "Psalm 23:6", "verse_text": "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever." }, { "point_text": "Enduring", "verse_ref": "Psalm 52:1", "verse_text": "Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually." }, { "point_text": "Universal", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:9", "verse_text": "The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works." }, { "point_text": "Universal", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:45", "verse_text": "That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." }, { "point_text": "MANIFESTED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To His Church", "verse_ref": "Psalm 31:19", "verse_text": "Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!" }, { "point_text": "To His Church", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:25", "verse_text": "The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him." }, { "point_text": "In doing good", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:68", "verse_text": "Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes." }, { "point_text": "In doing good", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:9", "verse_text": "The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works." }, { "point_text": "In supplying temporal wants", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:17", "verse_text": "Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness." }, { "point_text": "In providing for the poor", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:10", "verse_text": "Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor." }, { "point_text": "In forgiving sins", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 30:18", "verse_text": "For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one" }, { "point_text": "In forgiving sins", "verse_ref": "Psalm 86:5", "verse_text": "For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee." }, { "point_text": "Leads to repentance", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:4", "verse_text": "Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?" }, { "point_text": "Recognize, in His dealings", "verse_ref": "Ezra 8:18", "verse_text": "And by the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen;" }, { "point_text": "Recognize, in His dealings", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 2:18", "verse_text": "Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work." }, { "point_text": "Pray for the manifestation of", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:11", "verse_text": "Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:" }, { "point_text": "Despise not", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:4", "verse_text": "Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?" }, { "point_text": "Reverence", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 33:9", "verse_text": "And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it." }, { "point_text": "Reverence", "verse_ref": "Hosea 3:5", "verse_text": "Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days." }, { "point_text": "Magnify", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:8", "verse_text": "Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!" }, { "point_text": "Magnify", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 33:11", "verse_text": "The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Urge others to confide in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:8", "verse_text": "O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him." }, { "point_text": "The wicked disregard", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:35", "verse_text": "For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works." } ] }, { "name": "Gold", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Gold.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Found in the earth", "verse_ref": "Job 28:1", "verse_text": "Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it." }, { "point_text": "Found in the earth", "verse_ref": "Job 28:6", "verse_text": "The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold." }, { "point_text": "ABOUNDED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Havilah", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:11", "verse_text": "The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;" }, { "point_text": "Ophir", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 9:28", "verse_text": "And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon." }, { "point_text": "Ophir", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:9", "verse_text": "Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir." }, { "point_text": "Sheba", "verse_ref": "Psalm 72:15", "verse_text": "And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised." }, { "point_text": "Sheba", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:6", "verse_text": "The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Parvaim", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:6", "verse_text": "And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim." }, { "point_text": "Belongs to God", "verse_ref": "Joel 3:5", "verse_text": "Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:" }, { "point_text": "Belongs to God", "verse_ref": "Haggai 2:8", "verse_text": "The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Yellow", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:13", "verse_text": "Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold." }, { "point_text": "Malleable", "verse_ref": "Exodus 39:3", "verse_text": "And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work." }, { "point_text": "Malleable", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:16-17", "verse_text": "And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target. 17 And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Fusible", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:3-4", "verse_text": "And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. 4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Precious", "verse_ref": "Ezra 8:27", "verse_text": "Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold." }, { "point_text": "Precious", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:12", "verse_text": "I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir." }, { "point_text": "Valuable", "verse_ref": "Job 28:15-16", "verse_text": "It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof. 16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire." }, { "point_text": "Most valuable when pure and fine", "verse_ref": "Job 28:19", "verse_text": "The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold." }, { "point_text": "Most valuable when pure and fine", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:10", "verse_text": "More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb." }, { "point_text": "Most valuable when pure and fine", "verse_ref": "Psalm 21:3", "verse_text": "For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head." }, { "point_text": "Most valuable when pure and fine", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:14", "verse_text": "For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold." }, { "point_text": "Refined and tried by fire", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 13:9", "verse_text": "And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God." }, { "point_text": "Refined and tried by fire", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:7", "verse_text": "That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Working in, a trade", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 3:8", "verse_text": "Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son of one of the apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall." }, { "point_text": "Working in, a trade", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:19", "verse_text": "The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains." }, { "point_text": "An article of commerce", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:22", "verse_text": "The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold." }, { "point_text": "The patriarchs were rich in", "verse_ref": "Genesis 13:2", "verse_text": "And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold." }, { "point_text": "Imported by Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 9:11", "verse_text": "(Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee." }, { "point_text": "Imported by Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:11", "verse_text": "And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones." }, { "point_text": "Abundance of, in Solomon's reign", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 1:15", "verse_text": "And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the vale for abundance." }, { "point_text": "Offerings of, for tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 35:22", "verse_text": "And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Offering of, for temple", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 22:14", "verse_text": "Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto." }, { "point_text": "Offering of, for temple", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:4", "verse_text": "Even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses withal:" }, { "point_text": "Offering of, for temple", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:7", "verse_text": "And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron." }, { "point_text": "Used as money", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:9", "verse_text": "Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses," }, { "point_text": "Used as money", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:6", "verse_text": "Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk." }, { "point_text": "Priestly and royal garments adorned with", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:4-6", "verse_text": "And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office. 5 And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen. 6 And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work." }, { "point_text": "Priestly and royal garments adorned with", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:9", "verse_text": "Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir." }, { "point_text": "Priestly and royal garments adorned with", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:13", "verse_text": "The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold." }, { "point_text": "WAS USED FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Overlaying the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 36:34", "verse_text": "And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold." }, { "point_text": "Overlaying the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 36:38", "verse_text": "And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass." }, { "point_text": "Overlaying the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:21-22", "verse_text": "So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold. 22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold." }, { "point_text": "Overlaying cherubims in temple", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:10", "verse_text": "And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold." }, { "point_text": "Overlaying the ark, &c", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:11-13", "verse_text": "And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about. 12 And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it. 13 And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold." }, { "point_text": "Overlaying floor of temple", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:30", "verse_text": "And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without." }, { "point_text": "Overlaying throne of Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:18", "verse_text": "Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold." }, { "point_text": "Mercy seat and cherubims", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:17-18", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof. 18 And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat." }, { "point_text": "Sacred candlesticks", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:31", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same." }, { "point_text": "Sacred candlesticks", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 4:7", "verse_text": "And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left." }, { "point_text": "Sacred candlesticks", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 4:20", "verse_text": "Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;" }, { "point_text": "Sacred utensils", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:29", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt thou make them." }, { "point_text": "Sacred utensils", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:38", "verse_text": "And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold." }, { "point_text": "Sacred utensils", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 4:19-22", "verse_text": "And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the shewbread was set; 20 Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold; 21 And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold; 22 And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold." }, { "point_text": "Crowns", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:30", "verse_text": "And he took their king's crown from off his head, the weight whereof was a talent of gold with the precious stones: and it was set on David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance." }, { "point_text": "Crowns", "verse_ref": "Psalm 21:3", "verse_text": "For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head." }, { "point_text": "Sceptres", "verse_ref": "Esther 4:11", "verse_text": "All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days." }, { "point_text": "Chains", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:42", "verse_text": "And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;" }, { "point_text": "Chains", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:29", "verse_text": "Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom." }, { "point_text": "Rings", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:14", "verse_text": "His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires." }, { "point_text": "Rings", "verse_ref": "James 2:2", "verse_text": "For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;" }, { "point_text": "Earrings", "verse_ref": "Judges 8:24", "verse_text": "And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)" }, { "point_text": "Earrings", "verse_ref": "Judges 8:26", "verse_text": "And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels' necks." }, { "point_text": "Ornaments", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:30", "verse_text": "And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life." }, { "point_text": "Shields", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:7", "verse_text": "And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Shields", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:16-17", "verse_text": "And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target. 17 And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Vessels", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:21", "verse_text": "And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon." }, { "point_text": "Vessels", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:7", "verse_text": "And they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king." }, { "point_text": "Idols", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:23", "verse_text": "Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold." }, { "point_text": "Idols", "verse_ref": "Psalm 115:4", "verse_text": "Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands." }, { "point_text": "Idols", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:4", "verse_text": "They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone." }, { "point_text": "Couches", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:6", "verse_text": "Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble." }, { "point_text": "Footstools", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:18", "verse_text": "And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays:" }, { "point_text": "Estimated by weight", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 28:14", "verse_text": "He gave of gold by weight for things of gold, for all instruments of all manner of service; silver also for all instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of every kind of service:" }, { "point_text": "Given as presents", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:19", "verse_text": "There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me." }, { "point_text": "Given as presents", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:11", "verse_text": "And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh." }, { "point_text": "Exacted as tribute", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:3", "verse_text": "Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine." }, { "point_text": "Exacted as tribute", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:5", "verse_text": "And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Benhadad, saying, Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children;" }, { "point_text": "Exacted as tribute", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:33", "verse_text": "And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold." }, { "point_text": "Exacted as tribute", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:35", "verse_text": "And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaohnechoh." }, { "point_text": "Taken in war, dedicated to God", "verse_ref": "Joshua 6:19", "verse_text": "But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Taken in war, dedicated to God", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:11", "verse_text": "Which also king David did dedicate unto the LORD, with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued;" }, { "point_text": "Taken in war, dedicated to God", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:15", "verse_text": "And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the LORD, silver, and gold, and vessels." }, { "point_text": "Kings of Israel not to multiply", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:17", "verse_text": "Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold." }, { "point_text": "Jews condemned for multiplying", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:7", "verse_text": "Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:" }, { "point_text": "Vanity of heaping up", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:8", "verse_text": "I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts." }, { "point_text": "Vanity of heaping up", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:11", "verse_text": "Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." }, { "point_text": "LIABLE TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Grow dim", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 4:1", "verse_text": "How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street." }, { "point_text": "Canker and rust", "verse_ref": "James 5:3", "verse_text": "Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Saints after affliction", "verse_ref": "Job 23:10", "verse_text": "But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold." }, { "point_text": "Tried faith", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:7", "verse_text": "That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "The doctrines of grace", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:18", "verse_text": "I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see." }, { "point_text": "True converts", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:12", "verse_text": "Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;" }, { "point_text": "Babylonish empire", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:38", "verse_text": "And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold." } ] }, { "name": "Gospel, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Gospel-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is good tidings of great joy for all people", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:10-11", "verse_text": "And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Is good tidings of great joy for all people", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:31-32", "verse_text": "Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; 32 A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel." }, { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:27", "verse_text": "The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings." }, { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 52:7", "verse_text": "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!" }, { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:1-3", "verse_text": "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; 3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified." }, { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:15", "verse_text": "And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel." }, { "point_text": "Preached under the old testament", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:2", "verse_text": "For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it." }, { "point_text": "Exhibits the grace of God", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:3", "verse_text": "Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands." }, { "point_text": "Exhibits the grace of God", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:32", "verse_text": "And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified." }, { "point_text": "The knowledge of the glory of God is by", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:4", "verse_text": "In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." }, { "point_text": "The knowledge of the glory of God is by", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:6", "verse_text": "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Life and immortality are brought to light by Jesus through", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:10", "verse_text": "But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:" }, { "point_text": "Is the power of God unto salvation", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:16", "verse_text": "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek." }, { "point_text": "Is the power of God unto salvation", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:18", "verse_text": "For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God." }, { "point_text": "Is the power of God unto salvation", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 1:5", "verse_text": "For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake." }, { "point_text": "Is glorious", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:4", "verse_text": "In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." }, { "point_text": "Is everlasting", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:25", "verse_text": "But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you." }, { "point_text": "Is everlasting", "verse_ref": "Revelation 14:6", "verse_text": "And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people," }, { "point_text": "Preached by Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:23", "verse_text": "And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people." }, { "point_text": "Preached by Christ", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:14", "verse_text": "Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God," }, { "point_text": "Ministers have a dispensation to preach", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:17", "verse_text": "For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me." }, { "point_text": "Preached beforehand to Abraham", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:18", "verse_text": "And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice." }, { "point_text": "Preached beforehand to Abraham", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:8", "verse_text": "And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed." }, { "point_text": "PREACHED TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The Jews first", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:47", "verse_text": "And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "The Jews first", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:46", "verse_text": "Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles." }, { "point_text": "The Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Mark 13:10", "verse_text": "And the gospel must first be published among all nations." }, { "point_text": "The Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:2", "verse_text": "And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain." }, { "point_text": "The Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:9", "verse_text": "And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision." }, { "point_text": "The poor", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:5", "verse_text": "The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them." }, { "point_text": "The poor", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:18", "verse_text": "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised," }, { "point_text": "Every creature", "verse_ref": "Mark 16:15", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature." }, { "point_text": "Every creature", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:23", "verse_text": "If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;" }, { "point_text": "Must be believed", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:15", "verse_text": "And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel." }, { "point_text": "Must be believed", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:2", "verse_text": "For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it." }, { "point_text": "Brings peace", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:10", "verse_text": "And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people." }, { "point_text": "Brings peace", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:14", "verse_text": "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." }, { "point_text": "Produces hope", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:23", "verse_text": "If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;" }, { "point_text": "Saints have fellowship in", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:5", "verse_text": "For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;" }, { "point_text": "There is fulness of blessing in", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:29", "verse_text": "And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ." }, { "point_text": "THOSE WHO RECEIVE, SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Adhere to the truth of", "verse_ref": "Galatians 1:6", "verse_text": "I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:" }, { "point_text": "Adhere to the truth of", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:14", "verse_text": "But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?" }, { "point_text": "Adhere to the truth of", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:13", "verse_text": "Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Not be ashamed of", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:16", "verse_text": "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek." }, { "point_text": "Not be ashamed of", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:8", "verse_text": "Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;" }, { "point_text": "Live in subjection to", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 9:13", "verse_text": "Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;" }, { "point_text": "Have their conversation becoming", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:27", "verse_text": "Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;" }, { "point_text": "Earnestly contend for the faith of", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:17", "verse_text": "But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel." }, { "point_text": "Earnestly contend for the faith of", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:27", "verse_text": "Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;" }, { "point_text": "Sacrifice friends and property for", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:37", "verse_text": "He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me." }, { "point_text": "Sacrifice life itself for", "verse_ref": "Mark 8:35", "verse_text": "For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it." }, { "point_text": "Profession of, attended by afflictions", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:12", "verse_text": "Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." }, { "point_text": "Promises to sufferers", "verse_ref": "Mark 8:35", "verse_text": "For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it." }, { "point_text": "Promises to sufferers", "verse_ref": "Mark 10:30", "verse_text": "But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life." }, { "point_text": "Be careful not to hinder", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:12", "verse_text": "If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ." }, { "point_text": "Is hid to them that are lost", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:3", "verse_text": "But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:" }, { "point_text": "Testifies to the final judgment", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:16", "verse_text": "In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel." }, { "point_text": "Let him who preached another, be accursed", "verse_ref": "Galatians 1:8", "verse_text": "But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed." }, { "point_text": "Awful consequences of not obeying", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:8-9", "verse_text": "In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: 9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;" }, { "point_text": "IS CALLED THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Dispensation of the grace of God", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:2", "verse_text": "If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:" }, { "point_text": "Gospel of peace", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:15", "verse_text": "And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;" }, { "point_text": "Gospel of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:1", "verse_text": "Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God," }, { "point_text": "Gospel of God", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:8", "verse_text": "So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us." }, { "point_text": "Gospel of God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:17", "verse_text": "For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?" }, { "point_text": "Gospel of Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:9", "verse_text": "For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;" }, { "point_text": "Gospel of Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:16", "verse_text": "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek." }, { "point_text": "Gospel of Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 2:12", "verse_text": "Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord," }, { "point_text": "Gospel of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 3:2", "verse_text": "And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:" }, { "point_text": "Gospel of the grace of God", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:24", "verse_text": "But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God." }, { "point_text": "Gospel of the kingdom", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:14", "verse_text": "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come." }, { "point_text": "Gospel of salvation", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:13", "verse_text": "In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise," }, { "point_text": "Glorious gospel of Jesus Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:4", "verse_text": "In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." }, { "point_text": "Preaching of Jesus Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:25", "verse_text": "Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began," }, { "point_text": "Mystery of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:19", "verse_text": "And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel," }, { "point_text": "Word of God", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:13", "verse_text": "For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe." }, { "point_text": "Word of Christ", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:16", "verse_text": "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Word of grace", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:3", "verse_text": "Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands." }, { "point_text": "Word of grace", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:32", "verse_text": "And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified." }, { "point_text": "Word of salvation", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:26", "verse_text": "Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent." }, { "point_text": "Word of reconciliation", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:19", "verse_text": "To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation." }, { "point_text": "Word of truth", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:13", "verse_text": "In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise," }, { "point_text": "Word of truth", "verse_ref": "James 1:18", "verse_text": "Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures." }, { "point_text": "Word of faith", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:8", "verse_text": "But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;" }, { "point_text": "Word of life", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:16", "verse_text": "Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain." }, { "point_text": "Ministration of the Spirit", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 3:8", "verse_text": "How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?" }, { "point_text": "Doctrine according to godliness", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:3", "verse_text": "If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;" }, { "point_text": "Form of sound words", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:13", "verse_text": "Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Rejection of, by many, foretold", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:1", "verse_text": "Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?" }, { "point_text": "Rejection of, by many, foretold", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:15-16", "verse_text": "And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?" }, { "point_text": "Rejection of, by the Jews, a means of blessing to the Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:28", "verse_text": "As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes." } ] }, { "name": "Grace", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Grace.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "God is the God of all", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:10", "verse_text": "But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you." }, { "point_text": "God is the Giver of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 84:11", "verse_text": "For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly." }, { "point_text": "God is the Giver of", "verse_ref": "James 1:17", "verse_text": "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." }, { "point_text": "God's throne, the throne of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:16", "verse_text": "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 12:10", "verse_text": "And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn." }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:29", "verse_text": "Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?" }, { "point_text": "Was upon Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:40", "verse_text": "And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him." }, { "point_text": "Was upon Christ", "verse_ref": "John 3:24", "verse_text": "For John was not yet cast into prison." }, { "point_text": "Christ spake with", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:2", "verse_text": "Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever." }, { "point_text": "Christ spake with", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:22", "verse_text": "And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son?" }, { "point_text": "Christ was full of", "verse_ref": "John 1:14", "verse_text": "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." }, { "point_text": "Came by Christ", "verse_ref": "John 1:17", "verse_text": "For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Came by Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:15", "verse_text": "But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many." }, { "point_text": "Given by Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:4", "verse_text": "I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;" }, { "point_text": "Foretold by the prophets", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:10", "verse_text": "Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:" }, { "point_text": "Riches of, exhibited in God's kindness through Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:7", "verse_text": "That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Glory of, exhibited in our acceptance in Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:6", "verse_text": "To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved." }, { "point_text": "IS DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Great", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:33", "verse_text": "And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all." }, { "point_text": "Sovereign", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:21", "verse_text": "That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord." }, { "point_text": "Rich", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:7", "verse_text": "In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;" }, { "point_text": "Rich", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:7", "verse_text": "That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Exceeding", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 9:14", "verse_text": "And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you." }, { "point_text": "Manifold", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:10", "verse_text": "As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God." }, { "point_text": "All-sufficient", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 12:9", "verse_text": "And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me." }, { "point_text": "All-abundant", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:15", "verse_text": "But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many." }, { "point_text": "All-abundant", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:17", "verse_text": "For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)" }, { "point_text": "All-abundant", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:20", "verse_text": "Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:" }, { "point_text": "Glorious", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:6", "verse_text": "To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved." }, { "point_text": "The gospel, a declaration of", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:24", "verse_text": "But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God." }, { "point_text": "The gospel, a declaration of", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:32", "verse_text": "And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified." }, { "point_text": "IS THE SOURCE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Election", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:5", "verse_text": "Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace." }, { "point_text": "The call of God", "verse_ref": "Galatians 1:15", "verse_text": "But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace," }, { "point_text": "Justification", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:24", "verse_text": "Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:" }, { "point_text": "Justification", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:7", "verse_text": "That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life." }, { "point_text": "Faith", "verse_ref": "Acts 18:27", "verse_text": "And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace:" }, { "point_text": "Forgiveness of sins", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:7", "verse_text": "In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;" }, { "point_text": "Salvation", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:11", "verse_text": "But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they." }, { "point_text": "Salvation", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:5", "verse_text": "Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)" }, { "point_text": "Salvation", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:8", "verse_text": "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:" }, { "point_text": "Consolation", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:16", "verse_text": "Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace," }, { "point_text": "Hope", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:16", "verse_text": "Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace," }, { "point_text": "Necessary to the service of God", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:28", "verse_text": "Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:" }, { "point_text": "God's work completed in saints by", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:11-12", "verse_text": "Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power: 12 That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "The success and completion of the work of God to be attributed to", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 4:7", "verse_text": "Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it." }, { "point_text": "Inheritance of the promises by", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:16", "verse_text": "Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all," }, { "point_text": "Justification by, opposed to that by works", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:4", "verse_text": "Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt." }, { "point_text": "Justification by, opposed to that by works", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:6", "verse_text": "And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work." }, { "point_text": "Justification by, opposed to that by works", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:4", "verse_text": "Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Are heirs of", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:7", "verse_text": "Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered." }, { "point_text": "Are under", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:14", "verse_text": "For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace." }, { "point_text": "Receive, from Christ", "verse_ref": "John 1:16", "verse_text": "And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace." }, { "point_text": "Are what they are by", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:10", "verse_text": "But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." }, { "point_text": "Are what they are by", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:12", "verse_text": "For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward." }, { "point_text": "Abound in gifts of", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:33", "verse_text": "And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all." }, { "point_text": "Abound in gifts of", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:1", "verse_text": "Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;" }, { "point_text": "Abound in gifts of", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 9:8", "verse_text": "And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:" }, { "point_text": "Abound in gifts of", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 9:14", "verse_text": "And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you." }, { "point_text": "Should be established in", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:9", "verse_text": "Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein." }, { "point_text": "Should be strong in", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:1", "verse_text": "Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Should grow in", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:18", "verse_text": "But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Should speak with", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:29", "verse_text": "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers." }, { "point_text": "Should speak with", "verse_ref": "Colossians 4:6", "verse_text": "Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man." }, { "point_text": "SPECIALLY GIVEN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To ministers", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:3", "verse_text": "For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith." }, { "point_text": "To ministers", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:15", "verse_text": "Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God," }, { "point_text": "To ministers", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:10", "verse_text": "According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon." }, { "point_text": "To ministers", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:9", "verse_text": "And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision." }, { "point_text": "To ministers", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:7", "verse_text": "Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power." }, { "point_text": "To the humble", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:34", "verse_text": "Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly." }, { "point_text": "To the humble", "verse_ref": "James 4:6", "verse_text": "But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble." }, { "point_text": "To those who walk uprightly", "verse_ref": "Psalm 84:11", "verse_text": "For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly." }, { "point_text": "Not to be received in vain", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:1", "verse_text": "We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain." }, { "point_text": "PRAY FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "For yourselves", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:16", "verse_text": "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." }, { "point_text": "For others", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 13:14", "verse_text": "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen." }, { "point_text": "For others", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:24", "verse_text": "Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Beware lest you fail of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:15", "verse_text": "Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;" }, { "point_text": "Manifestation of, in others, a cause of gladness", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:23", "verse_text": "Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Manifestation of, in others, a cause of gladness", "verse_ref": "3 John 3-4", "verse_text": "For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. 4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth." }, { "point_text": "Special manifestation of, at the second coming of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:13", "verse_text": "Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;" }, { "point_text": "Not to be abused", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:8", "verse_text": "And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just." }, { "point_text": "Not to be abused", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:1", "verse_text": "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?" }, { "point_text": "Not to be abused", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:15", "verse_text": "What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid." }, { "point_text": "Antinomians abused", "verse_ref": "Jude 4", "verse_text": "For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ." } ] }, { "name": "Grass", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Grass.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "A green herb", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:39", "verse_text": "And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass." }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Grass of the earth", "verse_ref": "Revelation 9:4", "verse_text": "And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads." }, { "point_text": "Grass of the field", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:4", "verse_text": "And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time." }, { "point_text": "Springs out of the earth", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 23:4", "verse_text": "And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain." }, { "point_text": "GOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Originally created", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:11-12", "verse_text": "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good." }, { "point_text": "The giver of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:15", "verse_text": "And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full." }, { "point_text": "Causes to grow", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:14", "verse_text": "He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;" }, { "point_text": "Causes to grow", "verse_ref": "Psalm 147:8", "verse_text": "Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains." }, { "point_text": "Adorns and clothes", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:30", "verse_text": "Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?" }, { "point_text": "Often grew on the tops of houses", "verse_ref": "Psalm 129:6", "verse_text": "Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:" }, { "point_text": "When young, soft and tender", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:25", "verse_text": "The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered." }, { "point_text": "Refreshed by rain and dew", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:2", "verse_text": "My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:" }, { "point_text": "Refreshed by rain and dew", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:12", "verse_text": "The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass." }, { "point_text": "Cattle fed upon", "verse_ref": "Job 6:5", "verse_text": "Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?" }, { "point_text": "Cattle fed upon", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:11", "verse_text": "Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;" }, { "point_text": "Ovens often heated with", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:30", "verse_text": "Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?" }, { "point_text": "DESTROYED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Locusts", "verse_ref": "Revelation 9:4", "verse_text": "And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads." }, { "point_text": "Hail and lightning", "verse_ref": "Revelation 8:7", "verse_text": "The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up." }, { "point_text": "Drought", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 17:1", "verse_text": "And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word." }, { "point_text": "Drought", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:5", "verse_text": "And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts." }, { "point_text": "Failure of, a great calamity", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 15:5-6", "verse_text": "My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction. 6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing." }, { "point_text": "Sufferings of cattle from failure of, described", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:5-6", "verse_text": "Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass. 6 And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of shortness and uncertainty of life", "verse_ref": "Psalm 90:5", "verse_text": "Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up." }, { "point_text": "Of shortness and uncertainty of life", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:15", "verse_text": "As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth." }, { "point_text": "Of shortness and uncertainty of life", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:6-7", "verse_text": "The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: 7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass." }, { "point_text": "Of shortness and uncertainty of life", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:24", "verse_text": "For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:" }, { "point_text": "Of prosperity of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 92:7", "verse_text": "When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:" }, { "point_text": "(Refreshed by dew and showers,) of the saints refreshed by grace", "verse_ref": "Psalm 72:6", "verse_text": "He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth." }, { "point_text": "(Refreshed by dew and showers,) of the saints refreshed by grace", "verse_ref": "Micah 5:7", "verse_text": "And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men." }, { "point_text": "(On tops of houses,) of the wicked", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:26", "verse_text": "Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up." }, { "point_text": "(On tops of houses,) of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 37:27", "verse_text": "Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up." } ] }, { "name": "Groves", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Groves.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:33", "verse_text": "And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God." }, { "point_text": "Often on tops of hills", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 14:23", "verse_text": "For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree." }, { "point_text": "Often on tops of hills", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:13", "verse_text": "They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery." }, { "point_text": "Often used as resting places.\r\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 22:6", "verse_text": "When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that were with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him;)" }, { "point_text": "Idols were worshipped in", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:2", "verse_text": "Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:" }, { "point_text": "Not to be planted near God's altar", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:21", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee." }, { "point_text": "Of Canaanites, to be destroyed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:13", "verse_text": "But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:" }, { "point_text": "Of Canaanites, to be destroyed", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:5", "verse_text": "But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire." }, { "point_text": "Of Canaanites, to be destroyed", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:3", "verse_text": "And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place." }, { "point_text": "FOR IDOL WORSHIP PLANTED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "By Ahab", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:33", "verse_text": "And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him." }, { "point_text": "By Manasseh", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 21:3", "verse_text": "For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them." }, { "point_text": "By Israelites", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:16", "verse_text": "And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal." }, { "point_text": "Fondness of Israel for", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:2", "verse_text": "Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for making and serving", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 14:15", "verse_text": "For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for making and serving", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:28-29", "verse_text": "And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed. 29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen." }, { "point_text": "DESTROYED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Gideon", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:25-28", "verse_text": "And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it: 26 And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down. 27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared his father's household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night. 28 And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built." }, { "point_text": "Hezekiah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:4", "verse_text": "He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan." }, { "point_text": "Asa", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 14:3", "verse_text": "For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:" }, { "point_text": "Jehoshaphat", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 17:6", "verse_text": "And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah." }, { "point_text": "Josiah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:14", "verse_text": "And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men." }, { "point_text": "Josiah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 34:3", "verse_text": "For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images." }, { "point_text": "Josiah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 34:7", "verse_text": "And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "God promised to wean Israel from", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 17:7-8", "verse_text": "At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel. 8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images." } ] }, { "name": "Hair, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Hair-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The natural covering of the head", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:21", "verse_text": "But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses." }, { "point_text": "Innumerable", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:12", "verse_text": "For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me." }, { "point_text": "Innumerable", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:4", "verse_text": "They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away." }, { "point_text": "Growth of", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:22", "verse_text": "Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven." }, { "point_text": "GOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Numbers", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:30", "verse_text": "But the very hairs of your head are all numbered." }, { "point_text": "Takes care of", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:27", "verse_text": "And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellers, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them." }, { "point_text": "Takes care of", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:18", "verse_text": "But there shall not an hair of your head perish." }, { "point_text": "Black, particularly esteemed", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:11", "verse_text": "His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven." }, { "point_text": "WHITE OR GRAY,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "A token of age", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 12:2", "verse_text": "And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day." }, { "point_text": "A token of age", "verse_ref": "Psalm 71:18", "verse_text": "Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come." }, { "point_text": "A token of weakness and decay", "verse_ref": "Hosea 7:9", "verse_text": "Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not." }, { "point_text": "An emblem of wisdom", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:9", "verse_text": "I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire." }, { "point_text": "An emblem of wisdom", "verse_ref": "Job 12:12", "verse_text": "With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding." }, { "point_text": "With righteousness, a crown of glory", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:31", "verse_text": "The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness." }, { "point_text": "To be reverenced", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:32", "verse_text": "Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Man cannot even change the color of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:36", "verse_text": "Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black." }, { "point_text": "OF WOMEN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Worn long for a covering", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:15", "verse_text": "But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering." }, { "point_text": "Plaited and broidered", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:9", "verse_text": "In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;" }, { "point_text": "Plaited and broidered", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:3", "verse_text": "Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;" }, { "point_text": "Well set and ornamented", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:24", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty." }, { "point_text": "Neglected in grief", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:38", "verse_text": "And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment." }, { "point_text": "Neglected in grief", "verse_ref": "John 12:3", "verse_text": "Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes worn long by men", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 14:26", "verse_text": "And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight." }, { "point_text": "Men condemned for wearing long", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:14", "verse_text": "Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?" }, { "point_text": "Often expensively anointed", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 9:8", "verse_text": "Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment." }, { "point_text": "OF NAZARITES", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Not to be cut or shorn during their vow", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:5", "verse_text": "All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no rasor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow." }, { "point_text": "Not to be cut or shorn during their vow", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:17", "verse_text": "That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a rasor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man." }, { "point_text": "Not to be cut or shorn during their vow", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:19-20", "verse_text": "And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him. 20 And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him." }, { "point_text": "Shorn after completion of vow", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:18", "verse_text": "And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings." }, { "point_text": "Of the healed leper to be shorn", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:9", "verse_text": "But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean." }, { "point_text": "Color of, changed by leprosy", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:3", "verse_text": "And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean." }, { "point_text": "Color of, changed by leprosy", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:10", "verse_text": "And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising;" }, { "point_text": "Cut off in affliction", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:29", "verse_text": "Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath." }, { "point_text": "Plucked out in extreme grief", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:3", "verse_text": "And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied." }, { "point_text": "Plucking out of, a reproach", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:25", "verse_text": "And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves." }, { "point_text": "Plucking out of, a reproach", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 50:6", "verse_text": "I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting." }, { "point_text": "JUDGMENTS EXPRESSED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Sending baldness for", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:24", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty." }, { "point_text": "Sending baldness for", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 47:5", "verse_text": "Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?" }, { "point_text": "Shaving", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:20", "verse_text": "In the same day shall the Lord shave with a rasor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard." } ] }, { "name": "Hands, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Hands-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Necessary members of the body", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:21", "verse_text": "And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you." }, { "point_text": "PARTS OF, MENTIONED;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The palm", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:16", "verse_text": "Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me." }, { "point_text": "The palm", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:67", "verse_text": "Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands," }, { "point_text": "The thumb", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:20", "verse_text": "Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about." }, { "point_text": "The thumb", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:14", "verse_text": "And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:" }, { "point_text": "The thumb", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:17", "verse_text": "And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering:" }, { "point_text": "The fingers", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 21:20", "verse_text": "And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant." }, { "point_text": "The fingers", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:5", "verse_text": "In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote." }, { "point_text": "God strengthens", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:24", "verse_text": "But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)" }, { "point_text": "God makes impotent", "verse_ref": "Job 5:12", "verse_text": "He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise." }, { "point_text": "OPERATIONS OF, MENTIONED;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Feeling", "verse_ref": "Psalm 115:7", "verse_text": "They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat." }, { "point_text": "Feeling", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:1", "verse_text": "That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;" }, { "point_text": "Taking", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:22", "verse_text": "And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:" }, { "point_text": "Taking", "verse_ref": "Exodus 4:4", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:" }, { "point_text": "Holding", "verse_ref": "Judges 7:20", "verse_text": "And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon." }, { "point_text": "Holding", "verse_ref": "Revelation 10:2", "verse_text": "And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth," }, { "point_text": "Working", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:19", "verse_text": "She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff." }, { "point_text": "Working", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:11", "verse_text": "And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;" }, { "point_text": "Writing", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:5", "verse_text": "One shall say, I am the LORD'S; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Writing", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:11", "verse_text": "Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand." }, { "point_text": "Making signs", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:2", "verse_text": "Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles." }, { "point_text": "Making signs", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:17", "verse_text": "But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their peace, declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Go shew these things unto James, and to the brethren. And he departed, and went into another place." }, { "point_text": "Striking", "verse_ref": "Mark 14:65", "verse_text": "And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands." }, { "point_text": "Striking", "verse_ref": "John 19:3", "verse_text": "And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands." }, { "point_text": "DISTINGUISHED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The right", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:7", "verse_text": "And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ancle bones received strength." }, { "point_text": "The left", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:15", "verse_text": "And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus." }, { "point_text": "The left", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:3", "verse_text": "Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden." }, { "point_text": "Many alike expert with both", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:2", "verse_text": "They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin." }, { "point_text": "Many had more command of the left", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:15", "verse_text": "But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab." }, { "point_text": "Many had more command of the left", "verse_ref": "Judges 20:16", "verse_text": "Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss." }, { "point_text": "THE RIGHT HAND", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Place of honor", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:19", "verse_text": "Bathsheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand." }, { "point_text": "Place of honor", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:9", "verse_text": "Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir." }, { "point_text": "Place of power", "verse_ref": "Psalm 110:1", "verse_text": "The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool." }, { "point_text": "Place of power", "verse_ref": "Mark 14:62", "verse_text": "And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven." }, { "point_text": "Signet worn on", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 22:24", "verse_text": "As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;" }, { "point_text": "Given in token of friendship", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:9", "verse_text": "And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision." }, { "point_text": "Used in embracing", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 20:9", "verse_text": "And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him." }, { "point_text": "Used in embracing", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:6", "verse_text": "His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me." }, { "point_text": "Used in embracing", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 8:3", "verse_text": "His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me." }, { "point_text": "Sworn by", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 62:8", "verse_text": "The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:" }, { "point_text": "The accuser stood at, of the accused", "verse_ref": "Psalm 109:6", "verse_text": "Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand." }, { "point_text": "The accuser stood at, of the accused", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 3:1", "verse_text": "And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him." }, { "point_text": "Of priests touched with blood of consecration-ram", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:20", "verse_text": "Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about." }, { "point_text": "Of priests touched with blood of consecration-ram", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:23-24", "verse_text": "And he slew it; and Moses took of the blood of it, and put it upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot. 24 And he brought Aaron's sons, and Moses put of the blood upon the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumbs of their right hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet: and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about." }, { "point_text": "Of healed leper touched with blood of his sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:14", "verse_text": "And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:" }, { "point_text": "Of healed leper touched with blood of his sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:17", "verse_text": "And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering:" }, { "point_text": "Of healed leper touched with blood of his sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:25", "verse_text": "And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:" }, { "point_text": "Of healed leper touched with oil", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:28", "verse_text": "And the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass offering:" }, { "point_text": "The Jews carried a staff in, when walking", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:11", "verse_text": "And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover." }, { "point_text": "The Jews carried a staff in, when walking", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:29", "verse_text": "Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child." }, { "point_text": "The Jews eat with", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:23", "verse_text": "And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me." }, { "point_text": "WERE WASHED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Before eating", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:2", "verse_text": "Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread." }, { "point_text": "Before eating", "verse_ref": "Mark 7:3", "verse_text": "For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders." }, { "point_text": "After touching an unclean person", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 15:11", "verse_text": "And whomsoever he toucheth that hath the issue, and hath not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even." }, { "point_text": "In token of innocency", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 21:6-7", "verse_text": "And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley: 7 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it." }, { "point_text": "Custom of domestics pouring water upon, alluded to", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 3:11", "verse_text": "But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD, that we may inquire of the LORD by him? And one of the king of Israel's servants answered and said, Here is Elisha the son of Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of Elijah." }, { "point_text": "Servants directed by movements of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 123:2", "verse_text": "Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us." }, { "point_text": "Kissed in idolatrous worship", "verse_ref": "Job 31:27", "verse_text": "And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:" }, { "point_text": "Treaties made by joining", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 10:15", "verse_text": "And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart is with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give me thine hand. And he gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot." }, { "point_text": "Treaties made by joining", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:21", "verse_text": "Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered." }, { "point_text": "Suretiship entered into by striking", "verse_ref": "Job 17:3", "verse_text": "Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?" }, { "point_text": "Suretiship entered into by striking", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:1", "verse_text": "My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger," }, { "point_text": "Suretiship entered into by striking", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:18", "verse_text": "A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend." }, { "point_text": "Suretiship entered into by striking", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:26", "verse_text": "Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts." }, { "point_text": "WERE LIFTED UP", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 141:2", "verse_text": "Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice." }, { "point_text": "In prayer", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:41", "verse_text": "Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens." }, { "point_text": "In praise", "verse_ref": "Psalm 134:2", "verse_text": "Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD." }, { "point_text": "In taking an oath", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:22", "verse_text": "And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth," }, { "point_text": "In taking an oath", "verse_ref": "Revelation 10:5", "verse_text": "And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven," }, { "point_text": "In blessing", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 9:22", "verse_text": "And Aaron lifted up his hand toward the people, and blessed them, and came down from offering of the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and peace offerings." }, { "point_text": "Often spread out in prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:31", "verse_text": "Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God." }, { "point_text": "Often spread out in prayer", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:15", "verse_text": "And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood." }, { "point_text": "Placed under the thigh of a person to whom an oath was made", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:2", "verse_text": "And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:" }, { "point_text": "Placed under the thigh of a person to whom an oath was made", "verse_ref": "Genesis 47:29", "verse_text": "And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:" }, { "point_text": "Placed under the thigh of a person to whom an oath was made", "verse_ref": "Genesis 47:31", "verse_text": "And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head." }, { "point_text": "Clapped together in joy", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 11:12", "verse_text": "And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king." }, { "point_text": "Clapped together in joy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 47:1", "verse_text": "O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph." }, { "point_text": "Smitten together in extreme anger", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:10", "verse_text": "And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed them these three times." }, { "point_text": "Smitten together in extreme anger", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 21:14", "verse_text": "Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth into their privy chambers." }, { "point_text": "Smitten together in extreme anger", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 21:17", "verse_text": "I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said it." }, { "point_text": "Stretched out in derision", "verse_ref": "Hosea 7:5", "verse_text": "In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners." }, { "point_text": "Stretched out in derision", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 2:15", "verse_text": "This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand." }, { "point_text": "IMPOSITION OF, USED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Transferring guilt of sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:4", "verse_text": "And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him." }, { "point_text": "Transferring guilt of sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 3:2", "verse_text": "And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about." }, { "point_text": "Transferring guilt of sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:21-22", "verse_text": "And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: 22 And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "Setting apart the Levites", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:10", "verse_text": "And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites:" }, { "point_text": "Conferring civil power", "verse_ref": "Numbers 27:18", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him;" }, { "point_text": "Conferring civil power", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 34:9", "verse_text": "And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "Blessing", "verse_ref": "Genesis 48:14", "verse_text": "And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn." }, { "point_text": "Blessing", "verse_ref": "Mark 10:16", "verse_text": "And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them." }, { "point_text": "Ordaining ministers", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:6", "verse_text": "Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them." }, { "point_text": "Ordaining ministers", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:14", "verse_text": "Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery." }, { "point_text": "Imparting the gifts of the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:17", "verse_text": "Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Imparting the gifts of the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Acts 19:6", "verse_text": "And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied." }, { "point_text": "Imposition of, a first principle of the doctrine of Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:1-2", "verse_text": "Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, 2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE EMPLOYED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Industriously", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:28", "verse_text": "Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth." }, { "point_text": "Industriously", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:11", "verse_text": "And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;" }, { "point_text": "In God's service", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 2:18", "verse_text": "Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work." }, { "point_text": "In God's service", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 8:9", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built." }, { "point_text": "In God's service", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 8:13", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing: fear not, but let your hands be strong." }, { "point_text": "In acts of benevolence", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:27", "verse_text": "Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it." }, { "point_text": "In acts of benevolence", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:20", "verse_text": "She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy." }, { "point_text": "OF THE WICKED, DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Bloody", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:15", "verse_text": "And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood." }, { "point_text": "Bloody", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:3", "verse_text": "For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness." }, { "point_text": "Violent", "verse_ref": "Psalm 58:2", "verse_text": "Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth." }, { "point_text": "Violent", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:6", "verse_text": "Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands." }, { "point_text": "Mischievous", "verse_ref": "Psalm 26:10", "verse_text": "In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes." }, { "point_text": "Mischievous", "verse_ref": "Micah 7:3", "verse_text": "That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up." }, { "point_text": "Slothful", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:10", "verse_text": "Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:" }, { "point_text": "Slothful", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:25", "verse_text": "The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour." }, { "point_text": "Ensnaring to themselves", "verse_ref": "Psalm 9:16", "verse_text": "The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah." }, { "point_text": "The wicked recompensed for the work of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 28:4", "verse_text": "Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert." }, { "point_text": "The wicked recompensed for the work of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:14", "verse_text": "A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompence of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him." }, { "point_text": "The wicked recompensed for the work of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:11", "verse_text": "Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him." }, { "point_text": "Saints blessed in the work of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:7", "verse_text": "For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing." }, { "point_text": "Saints blessed in the work of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 30:9", "verse_text": "And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:" }, { "point_text": "Saints blessed in the work of", "verse_ref": "Job 1:10", "verse_text": "Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land." }, { "point_text": "Saints blessed in the work of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 90:17", "verse_text": "And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it." }, { "point_text": "CRIMINALS OFTEN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Bound by", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:13", "verse_text": "Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." }, { "point_text": "Deprived of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 25:12", "verse_text": "Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her." }, { "point_text": "Deprived of", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 4:12", "verse_text": "And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron." }, { "point_text": "Mutilated in", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:6-7", "verse_text": "But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. 7 And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died." }, { "point_text": "Hung by", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 5:12", "verse_text": "Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of power", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:46", "verse_text": "And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel." }, { "point_text": "Of power", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 13:5", "verse_text": "(And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime." }, { "point_text": "(Lifted up against another,) of rebellion", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 20:21", "verse_text": "The matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall." }, { "point_text": "(Opened,) of liberality", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 15:8", "verse_text": "But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth." }, { "point_text": "(Opened,) of liberality", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:28", "verse_text": "That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good." }, { "point_text": "(Shut,) of illiberality", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 15:7", "verse_text": "If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:" }, { "point_text": "RIGHT HAND, ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of strength and power", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:6", "verse_text": "Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy." }, { "point_text": "Of strength and power", "verse_ref": "Psalm 17:7", "verse_text": "Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them." }, { "point_text": "(Holding by,) of support", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:23", "verse_text": "Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand." }, { "point_text": "(Holding by,) of support", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:13", "verse_text": "For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee." }, { "point_text": "(Standing at,) of protection", "verse_ref": "Psalm 16:8", "verse_text": "I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved." }, { "point_text": "(Standing at,) of protection", "verse_ref": "Psalm 109:31", "verse_text": "For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul." }, { "point_text": "(Standing at,) of protection", "verse_ref": "Psalm 110:5", "verse_text": "The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath." }, { "point_text": "(Full of bribes,) of corruption", "verse_ref": "Psalm 26:10", "verse_text": "In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes." }, { "point_text": "(Full of falsehood,) of deceitfulness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 144:8", "verse_text": "Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood." }, { "point_text": "(Full of falsehood,) of deceitfulness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 144:11", "verse_text": "Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:" }, { "point_text": "(Withdrawn,) of support withheld", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:11", "verse_text": "Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom." }, { "point_text": "(Cutting off,) of extreme self-denial", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:30", "verse_text": "And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell." } ] }, { "name": "Happiness of Saints in This Life", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Happiness-of-Saints-in-This-Life.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is in God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:25-26", "verse_text": "Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. 26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever." }, { "point_text": "Only found in the ways of wisdom", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:17-18", "verse_text": "Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. 18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her." }, { "point_text": "Described by Christ in the beatitudes", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:3-12", "verse_text": "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. 5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. 6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. ..." }, { "point_text": "IS DERIVED FROM", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Fear of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 128:1-2", "verse_text": "Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways. 2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee." }, { "point_text": "Trust in God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:20", "verse_text": "He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the LORD, happy is he." }, { "point_text": "Trust in God", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:6-7", "verse_text": "Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. 7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "The words of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 17:13", "verse_text": "And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves." }, { "point_text": "Obedience to God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:8", "verse_text": "I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart." }, { "point_text": "Obedience to God", "verse_ref": "John 13:17", "verse_text": "If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them." }, { "point_text": "Salvation", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:29", "verse_text": "Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places." }, { "point_text": "Salvation", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 12:2-3", "verse_text": "Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. 3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation." }, { "point_text": "Hope in the Lord", "verse_ref": "Psalm 146:5", "verse_text": "Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:" }, { "point_text": "Hope of glory", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:2", "verse_text": "By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God." }, { "point_text": "God being their Lord", "verse_ref": "Psalm 144:15", "verse_text": "Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD." }, { "point_text": "God being their help", "verse_ref": "Psalm 146:5", "verse_text": "Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:" }, { "point_text": "Praising God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 135:3", "verse_text": "Praise the LORD; for the LORD is good: sing praises unto his name; for it is pleasant." }, { "point_text": "Their mutual love", "verse_ref": "Psalm 133:1", "verse_text": "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!" }, { "point_text": "Divine chastening", "verse_ref": "Job 5:17", "verse_text": "Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:" }, { "point_text": "Divine chastening", "verse_ref": "James 5:11", "verse_text": "Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy." }, { "point_text": "Suffering for Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 12:10", "verse_text": "Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong." }, { "point_text": "Suffering for Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:14", "verse_text": "But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;" }, { "point_text": "Suffering for Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:13-14", "verse_text": "But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. 14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified." }, { "point_text": "Having mercy on the poor", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:21", "verse_text": "He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he." }, { "point_text": "Finding wisdom", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:13", "verse_text": "Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding." }, { "point_text": "Is abundant and satisfying", "verse_ref": "Psalm 36:8", "verse_text": "They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures." }, { "point_text": "Is abundant and satisfying", "verse_ref": "Psalm 63:5", "verse_text": "My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:" } ] }, { "name": "Happiness of the Wicked, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Happiness-of-the-Wicked-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is limited to this life", "verse_ref": "Psalm 17:14", "verse_text": "From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes." }, { "point_text": "Is limited to this life", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:25", "verse_text": "But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented." }, { "point_text": "Is short", "verse_ref": "Job 20:5", "verse_text": "That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?" }, { "point_text": "Is uncertain", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:20", "verse_text": "But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?" }, { "point_text": "Is uncertain", "verse_ref": "James 4:13-14", "verse_text": "Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." }, { "point_text": "Is vain", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:1", "verse_text": "I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity." }, { "point_text": "Is vain", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 7:6", "verse_text": "For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity." }, { "point_text": "IS DERIVED FROM", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Their wealth", "verse_ref": "Job 21:13", "verse_text": "They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave." }, { "point_text": "Their wealth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 52:7", "verse_text": "Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness." }, { "point_text": "Their power", "verse_ref": "Job 21:7", "verse_text": "Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?" }, { "point_text": "Their power", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:35", "verse_text": "I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree." }, { "point_text": "Their worldly prosperity", "verse_ref": "Psalm 17:14", "verse_text": "From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes." }, { "point_text": "Their worldly prosperity", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:3-4", "verse_text": "For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm." }, { "point_text": "Their worldly prosperity", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:7", "verse_text": "Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish." }, { "point_text": "Popular applause", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:22", "verse_text": "And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man." }, { "point_text": "Gluttony", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:13", "verse_text": "And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die." }, { "point_text": "Gluttony", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 1:16", "verse_text": "Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous." }, { "point_text": "Drunkenness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:11", "verse_text": "Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!" }, { "point_text": "Drunkenness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:12", "verse_text": "Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant." }, { "point_text": "Vain pleasure", "verse_ref": "Job 21:12", "verse_text": "They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ." }, { "point_text": "Vain pleasure", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:12", "verse_text": "And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands." }, { "point_text": "Successful oppression", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 1:15", "verse_text": "They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad." }, { "point_text": "Successful oppression", "verse_ref": "James 5:6", "verse_text": "Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you." }, { "point_text": "Marred by jealousy", "verse_ref": "Esther 5:13", "verse_text": "Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate." }, { "point_text": "Often interrupted by judgments", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:33", "verse_text": "And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague." }, { "point_text": "Often interrupted by judgments", "verse_ref": "Job 15:21", "verse_text": "A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him." }, { "point_text": "Often interrupted by judgments", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:18-20", "verse_text": "Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. 19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. 20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image." }, { "point_text": "Often interrupted by judgments", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 25:10-11", "verse_text": "Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle. 11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years." }, { "point_text": "Leads to sorrow", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:13", "verse_text": "Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness." }, { "point_text": "Leads to recklessness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:13", "verse_text": "And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes a stumbling-block to saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:3", "verse_text": "For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes a stumbling-block to saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:16", "verse_text": "When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;" }, { "point_text": "Saints often permitted to see the end of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:17-20", "verse_text": "Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end. 18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. 19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. 20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image." }, { "point_text": "Envy not", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:1", "verse_text": "Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Woe against", "verse_ref": "Amos 6:1", "verse_text": "Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!" }, { "point_text": "Woe against", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:25", "verse_text": "Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:35-36", "verse_text": "I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. 36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \nHaman, \nBelshazzar, \nHerod,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:33", "verse_text": "And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \nHaman, \nBelshazzar, \nHerod,", "verse_ref": "Esther 5:9-11", "verse_text": "Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai. 10 Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife. 11 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \nHaman, \nBelshazzar, \nHerod,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:1", "verse_text": "Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \nHaman, \nBelshazzar, \nHerod,", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:21-23", "verse_text": "And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. 22 And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. 23 And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost." } ] }, { "name": "Goat, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Goat-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Clean and fit for food", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:4-5", "verse_text": "These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, 5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois." }, { "point_text": "Offered in sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:9", "verse_text": "And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon." }, { "point_text": "Offered in sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:5", "verse_text": "And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering." }, { "point_text": "Offered in sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:7", "verse_text": "And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "The male, best for sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:19", "verse_text": "Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats." }, { "point_text": "The male, best for sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:9", "verse_text": "I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds." }, { "point_text": "First-born of, not redeemed", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:17", "verse_text": "But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Jews had large flocks of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:14", "verse_text": "Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams," }, { "point_text": "Jews had large flocks of", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:2", "verse_text": "And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel." }, { "point_text": "Most profitable to the owner", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:26", "verse_text": "The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field." }, { "point_text": "Milk of, used as food", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:27", "verse_text": "And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens." }, { "point_text": "THE YOUNG OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Called kids", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:31", "verse_text": "And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;" }, { "point_text": "Kept in small flocks", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:27", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, and went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country." }, { "point_text": "Fed near the shepherds' tents", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 1:8", "verse_text": "If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents." }, { "point_text": "Not to be seethed in milk of mother", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:19", "verse_text": "The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk." }, { "point_text": "Offered in sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:23", "verse_text": "Or if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish:" }, { "point_text": "Offered in sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:6", "verse_text": "And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin." }, { "point_text": "Offered at the passover", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:5", "verse_text": "Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:" }, { "point_text": "Offered at the passover", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 35:7", "verse_text": "And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king's substance." }, { "point_text": "Considered a delicacy", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:9", "verse_text": "Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:" }, { "point_text": "Considered a delicacy", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:19", "verse_text": "And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it." }, { "point_text": "Given as a present", "verse_ref": "Genesis 38:17", "verse_text": "And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?" }, { "point_text": "Given as a present", "verse_ref": "Judges 15:1", "verse_text": "But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in." }, { "point_text": "THE HAIR OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Offered for tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:4", "verse_text": "And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair," }, { "point_text": "Offered for tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 35:23", "verse_text": "And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, and red skins of rams, and badgers' skins, brought them." }, { "point_text": "Made into curtains, for covering the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 35:26", "verse_text": "And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats' hair." }, { "point_text": "Made into curtains, for covering the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 36:14-18", "verse_text": "And he made curtains of goats' hair for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them. 15 The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains were of one size. 16 And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves. 17 And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second. ..." }, { "point_text": "Made into pillows", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 19:13", "verse_text": "And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth." }, { "point_text": "Skin of, often used as clothing", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:37", "verse_text": "They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;" }, { "point_text": "Bashan celebrated for", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:14", "verse_text": "Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape." }, { "point_text": "The Arabians traded in", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:21", "verse_text": "Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants." }, { "point_text": "Flocks of, always led by a male", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:8", "verse_text": "Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks." }, { "point_text": "When wild dwelt in the hills and rocks", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 24:2", "verse_text": "Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats." }, { "point_text": "When wild dwelt in the hills and rocks", "verse_ref": "Job 39:1", "verse_text": "Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?" }, { "point_text": "When wild dwelt in the hills and rocks", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:18", "verse_text": "The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Of Macedonian empire", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:5", "verse_text": "And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes." }, { "point_text": "Of Macedonian empire", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:21", "verse_text": "And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king." }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 10:3", "verse_text": "Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle." }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:32-33", "verse_text": "And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: 33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left." }, { "point_text": "(Flock of,) of the church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:1", "verse_text": "Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead." }, { "point_text": "Clean and fit for food", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:4-5", "verse_text": "These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, 5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois." }, { "point_text": "Offered in sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:9", "verse_text": "And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon." }, { "point_text": "Offered in sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:5", "verse_text": "And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering." }, { "point_text": "Offered in sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:7", "verse_text": "And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "The male, best for sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:19", "verse_text": "Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats." }, { "point_text": "The male, best for sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:9", "verse_text": "I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds." }, { "point_text": "First-born of, not redeemed", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:17", "verse_text": "But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Jews had large flocks of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:14", "verse_text": "Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams," }, { "point_text": "Jews had large flocks of", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:2", "verse_text": "And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel." }, { "point_text": "Most profitable to the owner", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:26", "verse_text": "The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field." }, { "point_text": "Milk of, used as food", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:27", "verse_text": "And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens." }, { "point_text": "THE YOUNG OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Called kids", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:31", "verse_text": "And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;" }, { "point_text": "Kept in small flocks", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:27", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, and went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country." }, { "point_text": "Fed near the shepherds' tents", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 1:8", "verse_text": "If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents." }, { "point_text": "Not to be seethed in milk of mother", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:19", "verse_text": "The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk." }, { "point_text": "Offered in sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:23", "verse_text": "Or if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish:" }, { "point_text": "Offered in sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:6", "verse_text": "And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin." }, { "point_text": "Offered at the passover", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:5", "verse_text": "Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:" }, { "point_text": "Offered at the passover", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 35:7", "verse_text": "And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king's substance." }, { "point_text": "Considered a delicacy", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:9", "verse_text": "Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:" }, { "point_text": "Considered a delicacy", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:19", "verse_text": "And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it." }, { "point_text": "Given as a present", "verse_ref": "Genesis 38:17", "verse_text": "And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?" }, { "point_text": "Given as a present", "verse_ref": "Judges 15:1", "verse_text": "But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in." }, { "point_text": "THE HAIR OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Offered for tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:4", "verse_text": "And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair," }, { "point_text": "Offered for tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 35:23", "verse_text": "And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, and red skins of rams, and badgers' skins, brought them." }, { "point_text": "Made into curtains, for covering the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 35:26", "verse_text": "And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats' hair." }, { "point_text": "Made into curtains, for covering the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 36:14-18", "verse_text": "And he made curtains of goats' hair for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them. 15 The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains were of one size. 16 And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves. 17 And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second. ..." }, { "point_text": "Made into pillows", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 19:13", "verse_text": "And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth." }, { "point_text": "Skin of, often used as clothing", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:37", "verse_text": "They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;" }, { "point_text": "Bashan celebrated for", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:14", "verse_text": "Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape." }, { "point_text": "The Arabians traded in", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:21", "verse_text": "Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants." }, { "point_text": "Flocks of, always led by a male", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:8", "verse_text": "Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks." }, { "point_text": "When wild dwelt in the hills and rocks", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 24:2", "verse_text": "Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats." }, { "point_text": "When wild dwelt in the hills and rocks", "verse_ref": "Job 39:1", "verse_text": "Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?" }, { "point_text": "When wild dwelt in the hills and rocks", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:18", "verse_text": "The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of Macedonian empire", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:5", "verse_text": "And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes." }, { "point_text": "Of Macedonian empire", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:21", "verse_text": "And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king." }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 10:3", "verse_text": "Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle." }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:32-33", "verse_text": "And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: 33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left." }, { "point_text": "(Flock of,) of the church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:1", "verse_text": "Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead." } ] }, { "name": "Hart, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Hart-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Clean and used as food", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:15", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart." }, { "point_text": "Clean and used as food", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:5", "verse_text": "The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois." }, { "point_text": "Often hunted", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 1:6", "verse_text": "And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer." }, { "point_text": "FEMALE OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Called the hind", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:7", "verse_text": "I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please." }, { "point_text": "Delights in freedom", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:21", "verse_text": "Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words." }, { "point_text": "Kind and affectionate", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 5:19", "verse_text": "Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love." }, { "point_text": "Brings forth at appointed time", "verse_ref": "Job 39:1-2", "verse_text": "Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? 2 Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?" }, { "point_text": "Brings forth with difficulty", "verse_ref": "Job 39:3", "verse_text": "They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows." }, { "point_text": "Brings forth at the voice of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 29:9", "verse_text": "The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory." }, { "point_text": "Forsakes her young in famine", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:5", "verse_text": "Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass." }, { "point_text": "Young of, abundantly provided for", "verse_ref": "Job 39:4", "verse_text": "Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of Christ", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:9", "verse_text": "My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice." }, { "point_text": "Of Christ", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 8:14", "verse_text": "Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices." }, { "point_text": "Of converted sinners", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 35:6", "verse_text": "Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert." }, { "point_text": "(Sure-footedness of,) of experienced saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 18:33", "verse_text": "He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places." }, { "point_text": "(Sure-footedness of,) of experienced saints", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 3:19", "verse_text": "The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments." }, { "point_text": "(Panting for water,) of afflicted saints longing for God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 42:1-2", "verse_text": "As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. 2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?" }, { "point_text": "(Without pasture,) of the persecuted", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 1:6", "verse_text": "And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer." }, { "point_text": "Clean and used as food", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:15", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart." }, { "point_text": "Clean and used as food", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:5", "verse_text": "The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois." }, { "point_text": "Often hunted", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 1:6", "verse_text": "And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer." }, { "point_text": "FEMALE OF,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Called the hind", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:7", "verse_text": "I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please." }, { "point_text": "Delights in freedom", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:21", "verse_text": "Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words." }, { "point_text": "Kind and affectionate", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 5:19", "verse_text": "Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love." }, { "point_text": "Brings forth at appointed time", "verse_ref": "Job 39:1-2", "verse_text": "Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? 2 Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?" }, { "point_text": "Brings forth with difficulty", "verse_ref": "Job 39:3", "verse_text": "They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows." }, { "point_text": "Brings forth at the voice of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 29:9", "verse_text": "The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory." }, { "point_text": "Forsakes her young in famine", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:5", "verse_text": "Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass." }, { "point_text": "Young of, abundantly provided for", "verse_ref": "Job 39:4", "verse_text": "Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Of Christ", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:9", "verse_text": "My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice." }, { "point_text": "Of Christ", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 8:14", "verse_text": "Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices." }, { "point_text": "Of converted sinners", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 35:6", "verse_text": "Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert." }, { "point_text": "(Sure-footedness of,) of experienced saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 18:33", "verse_text": "He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places." }, { "point_text": "(Sure-footedness of,) of experienced saints", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 3:19", "verse_text": "The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments." }, { "point_text": "(Panting for water,) of afflicted saints longing for God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 42:1-2", "verse_text": "As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. 2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?" }, { "point_text": "(Without pasture,) of the persecuted", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 1:6", "verse_text": "And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer." } ] }, { "name": "Harvest, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Harvest-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Ingathering of fruits of the fields", "verse_ref": "Mark 4:29", "verse_text": "But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come." }, { "point_text": "To continue without intermission", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:22", "verse_text": "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." }, { "point_text": "CALLED THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Appointed weeks of harvest", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:24", "verse_text": "Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest." }, { "point_text": "Harvest time", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 23:13", "verse_text": "And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim." }, { "point_text": "Harvest time", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:16", "verse_text": "Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land." }, { "point_text": "Fields appeared white before", "verse_ref": "John 4:35", "verse_text": "Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest." }, { "point_text": "Of barley at the passover", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:6", "verse_text": "And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread." }, { "point_text": "Of barley at the passover", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:10", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:" }, { "point_text": "Of wheat at Pentecost", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:22", "verse_text": "And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end." }, { "point_text": "Of wheat at Pentecost", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 12:17", "verse_text": "Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king." }, { "point_text": "Men and women engaged in", "verse_ref": "Ruth 2:8-9", "verse_text": "Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens: 9 Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn." }, { "point_text": "PERSONS ENGAGED IN,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Reapers", "verse_ref": "Ruth 2:4", "verse_text": "And, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the reapers, The LORD be with you. And they answered him, The LORD bless thee." }, { "point_text": "Binders", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:7", "verse_text": "For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf." }, { "point_text": "Binders", "verse_ref": "Psalm 129:7", "verse_text": "Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom." }, { "point_text": "Called harvest-men", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 17:5", "verse_text": "And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim." }, { "point_text": "Called laborers", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:37", "verse_text": "Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;" }, { "point_text": "Fed by the husbandman during", "verse_ref": "Ruth 2:14", "verse_text": "And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left." }, { "point_text": "Received wages", "verse_ref": "John 4:35", "verse_text": "Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest." }, { "point_text": "Often defrauded of their wages", "verse_ref": "James 5:4", "verse_text": "Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth." }, { "point_text": "Former and latter rain necessary to abundance of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:24", "verse_text": "Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest." }, { "point_text": "Former and latter rain necessary to abundance of", "verse_ref": "Amos 4:7", "verse_text": "And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered." }, { "point_text": "Patience required in waiting for", "verse_ref": "James 5:7", "verse_text": "Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain." }, { "point_text": "Not to be commenced until the first fruits had been offered to God", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:10", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:" }, { "point_text": "Not to be commenced until the first fruits had been offered to God", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:14", "verse_text": "And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings." }, { "point_text": "A time of great joy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 126:6", "verse_text": "He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him." }, { "point_text": "A time of great joy", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:3", "verse_text": "Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil." }, { "point_text": "Omitted in the sabbatical year", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:5", "verse_text": "That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land." }, { "point_text": "Omitted in year of jubilee", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:11-12", "verse_text": "A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed. 12 For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field." }, { "point_text": "The Sabbath to be observed during", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:21", "verse_text": "Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest." }, { "point_text": "Legal provision for the poor during", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:9", "verse_text": "And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest." }, { "point_text": "Legal provision for the poor during", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:22", "verse_text": "And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "Legal provision for the poor during", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:19", "verse_text": "When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands." }, { "point_text": "FAILURE OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Occasioned by drought", "verse_ref": "Amos 4:7", "verse_text": "And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered." }, { "point_text": "Occasioned by locusts", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:4", "verse_text": "That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes continued for years", "verse_ref": "Genesis 45:6", "verse_text": "For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest." }, { "point_text": "A cause of great grief", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 16:9", "verse_text": "Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen." }, { "point_text": "A cause of great grief", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:11", "verse_text": "Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished." }, { "point_text": "A punishment for sin", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 17:10-11", "verse_text": "Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips: 11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow." }, { "point_text": "Slothfulness during, ruinous", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:5", "verse_text": "He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame." }, { "point_text": "Miraculous thunder, &c. in", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 12:17-18", "verse_text": "Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king. 18 So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of seasons of grace", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:20", "verse_text": "The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved." }, { "point_text": "Of the end of the world", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:30", "verse_text": "Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn." }, { "point_text": "Of the end of the world", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:39", "verse_text": "The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels." }, { "point_text": "Of a time when many are ready to receive the gospel", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:37-38", "verse_text": "Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; 38 Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest." }, { "point_text": "Of a time of judgment", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:33", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come." }, { "point_text": "Of a time of judgment", "verse_ref": "Hosea 6:11", "verse_text": "Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people." }, { "point_text": "Of ripeness for wrath", "verse_ref": "Joel 3:13", "verse_text": "Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great." }, { "point_text": "Of ripeness for wrath", "verse_ref": "Revelation 14:15", "verse_text": "And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe." }, { "point_text": "(Dew in,) of God's protection", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 18:4", "verse_text": "For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest." }, { "point_text": "(Cold in,) of a refreshing message", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:13", "verse_text": "As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters." }, { "point_text": "(Rain in,) of honor given to fools", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:1", "verse_text": "As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool." } ] }, { "name": "Hatred", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Hatred.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:17", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:8", "verse_text": "But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth." }, { "point_text": "Is murder", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:15", "verse_text": "Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him." }, { "point_text": "A work of the flesh", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:20", "verse_text": "Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies," }, { "point_text": "Often cloaked by deceit", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:18", "verse_text": "He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool." }, { "point_text": "Often cloaked by deceit", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:26", "verse_text": "Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation." }, { "point_text": "Leads to deceit", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:24-25", "verse_text": "He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him; 25 When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart." }, { "point_text": "Stirs up strife", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:12", "verse_text": "Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins." }, { "point_text": "Embitters life", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:17", "verse_text": "Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith." }, { "point_text": "INCONSISTENT WITH", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The knowledge of God", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:9", "verse_text": "He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now." }, { "point_text": "The knowledge of God", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:11", "verse_text": "But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes." }, { "point_text": "The love of God", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:20", "verse_text": "If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?" }, { "point_text": "Liars prone to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:28", "verse_text": "A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED EXHIBIT,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Towards God", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:30", "verse_text": "Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents," }, { "point_text": "Towards saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 25:19", "verse_text": "Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred." }, { "point_text": "Towards saints", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 29:10", "verse_text": "The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul." }, { "point_text": "Towards each other", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:3", "verse_text": "For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another." }, { "point_text": "Christ experienced", "verse_ref": "Psalm 35:19", "verse_text": "Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause." }, { "point_text": "Christ experienced", "verse_ref": "John 7:7", "verse_text": "The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil." }, { "point_text": "Christ experienced", "verse_ref": "John 15:18", "verse_text": "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you." }, { "point_text": "Christ experienced", "verse_ref": "John 15:24-25", "verse_text": "If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. 25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Expect", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:22", "verse_text": "And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved." }, { "point_text": "Expect", "verse_ref": "John 15:18-19", "verse_text": "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you." }, { "point_text": "Not marvel at", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:13", "verse_text": "Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you." }, { "point_text": "Return good for", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:5", "verse_text": "If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him." }, { "point_text": "Return good for", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:44", "verse_text": "But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;" }, { "point_text": "Not rejoice in the calamities of those who exhibit", "verse_ref": "Job 31:29-30", "verse_text": "If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him: 30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul." }, { "point_text": "Give no cause for", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:17", "verse_text": "Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:21", "verse_text": "Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 44:7", "verse_text": "But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:23", "verse_text": "And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Amos 1:11", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:" }, { "point_text": "WE SHOULD EXHIBIT AGAINST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "False ways", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:104", "verse_text": "Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way." }, { "point_text": "False ways", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:128", "verse_text": "Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way." }, { "point_text": "Lying", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:163", "verse_text": "I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love." }, { "point_text": "Evil", "verse_ref": "Psalm 97:10", "verse_text": "Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked." }, { "point_text": "Evil", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 8:13", "verse_text": "The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate." }, { "point_text": "Backsliding", "verse_ref": "Psalm 101:3", "verse_text": "I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me." }, { "point_text": "Hatred and opposition to God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 139:21-22", "verse_text": "Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? 22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \n\nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nMen of Gilead, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nHaman, \nEnemies of the Jews, \n\nChaldeans, \nEnemies of Daniel, \nHerodias, \n\nThe Jews,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:5", "verse_text": "But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \n\nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nMen of Gilead, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nHaman, \nEnemies of the Jews, \n\nChaldeans, \nEnemies of Daniel, \nHerodias, \n\nThe Jews,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:8", "verse_text": "And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \n\nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nMen of Gilead, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nHaman, \nEnemies of the Jews, \n\nChaldeans, \nEnemies of Daniel, \nHerodias, \n\nThe Jews,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:41", "verse_text": "And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \n\nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nMen of Gilead, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nHaman, \nEnemies of the Jews, \n\nChaldeans, \nEnemies of Daniel, \nHerodias, \n\nThe Jews,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:4", "verse_text": "And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \n\nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nMen of Gilead, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nHaman, \nEnemies of the Jews, \n\nChaldeans, \nEnemies of Daniel, \nHerodias, \n\nThe Jews,", "verse_ref": "Judges 11:7", "verse_text": "And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father's house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \n\nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nMen of Gilead, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nHaman, \nEnemies of the Jews, \n\nChaldeans, \nEnemies of Daniel, \nHerodias, \n\nThe Jews,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 18:8-9", "verse_text": "And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom? 9 And Saul eyed David from that day and forward." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \n\nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nMen of Gilead, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nHaman, \nEnemies of the Jews, \n\nChaldeans, \nEnemies of Daniel, \nHerodias, \n\nThe Jews,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:8", "verse_text": "And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \n\nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nMen of Gilead, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nHaman, \nEnemies of the Jews, \n\nChaldeans, \nEnemies of Daniel, \nHerodias, \n\nThe Jews,", "verse_ref": "Esther 3:5-6", "verse_text": "And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath. 6 And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \n\nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nMen of Gilead, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nHaman, \nEnemies of the Jews, \n\nChaldeans, \nEnemies of Daniel, \nHerodias, \n\nThe Jews,", "verse_ref": "Esther 9:1", "verse_text": "Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \n\nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nMen of Gilead, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nHaman, \nEnemies of the Jews, \n\nChaldeans, \nEnemies of Daniel, \nHerodias, \n\nThe Jews,", "verse_ref": "Esther 9:5", "verse_text": "Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \n\nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nMen of Gilead, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nHaman, \nEnemies of the Jews, \n\nChaldeans, \nEnemies of Daniel, \nHerodias, \n\nThe Jews,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:12", "verse_text": "There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O king, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \n\nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nMen of Gilead, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nHaman, \nEnemies of the Jews, \n\nChaldeans, \nEnemies of Daniel, \nHerodias, \n\nThe Jews,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:4-15", "verse_text": "Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him. 5 Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God. 6 Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever. 7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellers, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \n\nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nMen of Gilead, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nHaman, \nEnemies of the Jews, \n\nChaldeans, \nEnemies of Daniel, \nHerodias, \n\nThe Jews,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:3", "verse_text": "For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \n\nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nMen of Gilead, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nHaman, \nEnemies of the Jews, \n\nChaldeans, \nEnemies of Daniel, \nHerodias, \n\nThe Jews,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:8", "verse_text": "And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \n\nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nMen of Gilead, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nHaman, \nEnemies of the Jews, \n\nChaldeans, \nEnemies of Daniel, \nHerodias, \n\nThe Jews,", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:12", "verse_text": "And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \n\nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nMen of Gilead, \nSaul, \nAhab, \nHaman, \nEnemies of the Jews, \n\nChaldeans, \nEnemies of Daniel, \nHerodias, \n\nThe Jews,", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:14", "verse_text": "And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul." } ] }, { "name": "Head", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Head.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The uppermost and chief member of the body", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:6", "verse_text": "From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment." }, { "point_text": "The uppermost and chief member of the body", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:31", "verse_text": "Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day." }, { "point_text": "All the other members necessary to", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:21", "verse_text": "And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you." }, { "point_text": "The body supported and supplied by", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:16", "verse_text": "From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love." }, { "point_text": "Put for the whole person", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:26", "verse_text": "The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren." }, { "point_text": "Put for the whole person", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:6", "verse_text": "Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked." }, { "point_text": "Put for the life", "verse_ref": "Daniel 1:10", "verse_text": "And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? then shall ye make me endanger my head to the king." }, { "point_text": "Put for the life", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 28:2", "verse_text": "And David said to Achish, Surely thou shalt know what thy servant can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make thee keeper of mine head for ever." }, { "point_text": "PARTS OF MENTIONED;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The skull", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 9:35", "verse_text": "And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands." }, { "point_text": "The skull", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:33", "verse_text": "And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull," }, { "point_text": "The crown", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:26", "verse_text": "The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren." }, { "point_text": "The crown", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:17", "verse_text": "Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts." }, { "point_text": "The forehead", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:49", "verse_text": "And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth." }, { "point_text": "The forehead", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 9:4", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof." }, { "point_text": "The temples", "verse_ref": "Judges 4:21-22", "verse_text": "Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died. 22 And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples." }, { "point_text": "The face", "verse_ref": "Genesis 48:12", "verse_text": "And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth." }, { "point_text": "The face", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 9:30", "verse_text": "And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window." }, { "point_text": "The hair", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:22", "verse_text": "Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven." }, { "point_text": "The hair", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:12", "verse_text": "For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me." }, { "point_text": "The scalp", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:21", "verse_text": "But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses." }, { "point_text": "Often anointed", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 9:8", "verse_text": "Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment." }, { "point_text": "Often anointed", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:17", "verse_text": "But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;" }, { "point_text": "BOWED DOWN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In worshipping God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:26", "verse_text": "And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the LORD." }, { "point_text": "In worshipping God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 4:31", "verse_text": "And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped." }, { "point_text": "As a token of respect", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:23", "verse_text": "And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them." }, { "point_text": "IN GRIEF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Covered up", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 15:30", "verse_text": "And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that was with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up." }, { "point_text": "Covered up", "verse_ref": "Esther 6:12", "verse_text": "And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered." }, { "point_text": "Shorn", "verse_ref": "Job 1:20", "verse_text": "Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped," }, { "point_text": "Sprinkled with dust", "verse_ref": "Joshua 7:6", "verse_text": "And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads." }, { "point_text": "Sprinkled with dust", "verse_ref": "Job 2:12", "verse_text": "And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven." }, { "point_text": "The hands placed on", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 13:19", "verse_text": "And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying." }, { "point_text": "The hands placed on", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:37", "verse_text": "Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them." }, { "point_text": "Priests forbidden to shave, &c", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 21:5", "verse_text": "They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh." }, { "point_text": "Priests forbidden to shave, &c", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 21:10", "verse_text": "And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;" }, { "point_text": "Nazarites forbidden to shave", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:5", "verse_text": "All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no rasor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow." }, { "point_text": "Derision expressed by shaking, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:21", "verse_text": "This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee." }, { "point_text": "Derision expressed by shaking, &c", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:7", "verse_text": "All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying," }, { "point_text": "Derision expressed by shaking, &c", "verse_ref": "Psalm 109:25", "verse_text": "I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads." }, { "point_text": "Derision expressed by shaking, &c", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:39", "verse_text": "And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads," }, { "point_text": "The Jews censured for swearing by", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:36", "verse_text": "Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black." }, { "point_text": "When hoary with age to be respected", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:32", "verse_text": "Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "LIABLE TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Leprosy", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:42-44", "verse_text": "And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore; it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his bald forehead. 43 Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh; 44 He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head." }, { "point_text": "Scab", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:17", "verse_text": "Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts." }, { "point_text": "Internal disease", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:19", "verse_text": "And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother." }, { "point_text": "Internal disease", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:5", "verse_text": "Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint." }, { "point_text": "Baldness", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:40-41", "verse_text": "And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean. 41 And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean." }, { "point_text": "Of the leper always uncovered", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:45", "verse_text": "And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean." }, { "point_text": "Of women generally covered in public", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:65", "verse_text": "For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself." }, { "point_text": "Of women generally covered in public", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:5", "verse_text": "But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven." }, { "point_text": "Of criminals often cut off", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:10", "verse_text": "And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison." }, { "point_text": "Of enemies slain in war, often cut off", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:26", "verse_text": "She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples." }, { "point_text": "Of enemies slain in war, often cut off", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:51", "verse_text": "Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled." }, { "point_text": "Of enemies slain in war, often cut off", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 31:9", "verse_text": "And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of God", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:3", "verse_text": "But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God." }, { "point_text": "Of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:3", "verse_text": "But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God." }, { "point_text": "Of Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:22", "verse_text": "And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church," }, { "point_text": "Of Christ", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:19", "verse_text": "And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God." }, { "point_text": "Of rulers", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:17", "verse_text": "And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?" }, { "point_text": "Of rulers", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:38", "verse_text": "And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold." }, { "point_text": "Of chief men", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:14-15", "verse_text": "Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. 15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail." }, { "point_text": "Of the chief city of a kingdom", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:8", "verse_text": "For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people." }, { "point_text": "(Covered,) of defense and protection", "verse_ref": "Psalm 140:7", "verse_text": "O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle." }, { "point_text": "(Covered,) of subjection", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:5", "verse_text": "But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven." }, { "point_text": "(Covered,) of subjection", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:10", "verse_text": "For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels." }, { "point_text": "(Made bald,) of heavy judgments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:24", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty." }, { "point_text": "(Made bald,) of heavy judgments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 15:2", "verse_text": "He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off." }, { "point_text": "(Made bald,) of heavy judgments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:12", "verse_text": "And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:" }, { "point_text": "(Made bald,) of heavy judgments", "verse_ref": "Micah 1:16", "verse_text": "Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee." }, { "point_text": "(Lifted up,) of joy and confidence", "verse_ref": "Psalm 3:3", "verse_text": "But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head." }, { "point_text": "(Lifted up,) of joy and confidence", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:28", "verse_text": "And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh." }, { "point_text": "(Lifted up,) of pride, &c", "verse_ref": "Psalm 83:2", "verse_text": "For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head." }, { "point_text": "(Lifted up,) of exaltation", "verse_ref": "Genesis 40:13", "verse_text": "Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler." }, { "point_text": "(Lifted up,) of exaltation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:6", "verse_text": "And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "(Anointed,) of joy and prosperity", "verse_ref": "Psalm 23:5", "verse_text": "Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over." }, { "point_text": "(Anointed,) of joy and prosperity", "verse_ref": "Psalm 92:10", "verse_text": "But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil." } ] }, { "name": "Hatred to Christ", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Hatred-to-Christ.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is without cause", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:4", "verse_text": "They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away." }, { "point_text": "Is without cause", "verse_ref": "John 15:25", "verse_text": "But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause." }, { "point_text": "Is on account of His testimony against the world", "verse_ref": "John 7:7", "verse_text": "The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil." }, { "point_text": "INVOLVES", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Hatred to His Father", "verse_ref": "John 15:23-24", "verse_text": "He that hateth me hateth my Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father." }, { "point_text": "Hatred to His people", "verse_ref": "John 15:18", "verse_text": "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:2", "verse_text": "The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying," }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 21:8", "verse_text": "Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee." }, { "point_text": "No escape for those who persevere in", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:25", "verse_text": "For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet." }, { "point_text": "No escape for those who persevere in", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:29-31", "verse_text": "Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:12-14", "verse_text": "He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. 13 And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come. 14 But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:17", "verse_text": "And he said unto him, Well, thou good servant: because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nChief Priests, &c. \nJews, \nScribes, &c", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:1-2", "verse_text": "When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: 2 And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nChief Priests, &c. \nJews, \nScribes, &c", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:22-23", "verse_text": "Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified. 23 And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nChief Priests, &c. \nJews, \nScribes, &c", "verse_ref": "Mark 11:18", "verse_text": "And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nChief Priests, &c. \nJews, \nScribes, &c", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:53-54", "verse_text": "And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things: 54 Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him." } ] }, { "name": "Heart, Character of the Renewed", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Heart-Character-of-the-Renewed.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Prepared to seek God", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 19:3", "verse_text": "Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God." }, { "point_text": "Prepared to seek God", "verse_ref": "Ezra 7:10", "verse_text": "For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments." }, { "point_text": "Prepared to seek God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 10:17", "verse_text": "LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:" }, { "point_text": "Fixed on God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 57:7", "verse_text": "My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise." }, { "point_text": "Fixed on God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 112:7", "verse_text": "He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Joyful in God", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:1", "verse_text": "And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation." }, { "point_text": "Joyful in God", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 10:7", "verse_text": "And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shall see it, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Perfect with God", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:61", "verse_text": "Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day." }, { "point_text": "Perfect with God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 101:2", "verse_text": "I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart." }, { "point_text": "Upright", "verse_ref": "Psalm 97:11", "verse_text": "Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart." }, { "point_text": "Upright", "verse_ref": "Psalm 125:4", "verse_text": "Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts." }, { "point_text": "Clean", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:1", "verse_text": "Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart." }, { "point_text": "Pure", "verse_ref": "Psalm 24:4", "verse_text": "He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully." }, { "point_text": "Pure", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:8", "verse_text": "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God." }, { "point_text": "Tender", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 24:5", "verse_text": "And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt." }, { "point_text": "Tender", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 22:19", "verse_text": "Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Single and sincere", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:46", "verse_text": "And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart," }, { "point_text": "Single and sincere", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:22", "verse_text": "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water." }, { "point_text": "Honest and good", "verse_ref": "Luke 8:15", "verse_text": "But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience." }, { "point_text": "Broken, contrite", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:18", "verse_text": "The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit." }, { "point_text": "Broken, contrite", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:17", "verse_text": "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise." }, { "point_text": "Obedient", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:112", "verse_text": "I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end." }, { "point_text": "Obedient", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:17", "verse_text": "But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you." }, { "point_text": "Filled with the law of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:8", "verse_text": "I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart." }, { "point_text": "Filled with the law of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:11", "verse_text": "Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee." }, { "point_text": "Awed by the word of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:161", "verse_text": "SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word." }, { "point_text": "Filled with the fear of God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 32:40", "verse_text": "And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me." }, { "point_text": "Meditative", "verse_ref": "Psalm 4:4", "verse_text": "Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Meditative", "verse_ref": "Psalm 77:6", "verse_text": "I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search." }, { "point_text": "Circumcised", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 30:6", "verse_text": "And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live." }, { "point_text": "Circumcised", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:29", "verse_text": "But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God." }, { "point_text": "Void of fear", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:3", "verse_text": "Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident." }, { "point_text": "Desirous of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 84:2", "verse_text": "My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God." }, { "point_text": "Enlarged", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:32", "verse_text": "I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart." }, { "point_text": "Enlarged", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:11", "verse_text": "O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged." }, { "point_text": "Faithful to God", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:8", "verse_text": "And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:" }, { "point_text": "Confident in God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 112:7", "verse_text": "He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Sympathizing", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:19", "verse_text": "My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war." }, { "point_text": "Sympathizing", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:51", "verse_text": "Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city." }, { "point_text": "Prayerful", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:13", "verse_text": "Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken." }, { "point_text": "Prayerful", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:8", "verse_text": "When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek." }, { "point_text": "Inclined to obedience", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:112", "verse_text": "I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end." }, { "point_text": "Wholly devoted to God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 9:1", "verse_text": "I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works." }, { "point_text": "Wholly devoted to God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:10", "verse_text": "With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments." }, { "point_text": "Wholly devoted to God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:69", "verse_text": "The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart." }, { "point_text": "Wholly devoted to God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:145", "verse_text": "KOPH. I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes." }, { "point_text": "Zealous", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 17:6", "verse_text": "And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah." }, { "point_text": "Zealous", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 20:9", "verse_text": "Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay." }, { "point_text": "Wise", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:8", "verse_text": "The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall." }, { "point_text": "Wise", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:33", "verse_text": "Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known." }, { "point_text": "Wise", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:15", "verse_text": "My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine." }, { "point_text": "A treasury of good", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:35", "verse_text": "A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things." } ] }, { "name": "Heart, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Heart-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Issues of life are out of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 4:23", "verse_text": "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life." }, { "point_text": "GOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Tries", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:17", "verse_text": "I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Tries", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 12:3", "verse_text": "But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter." }, { "point_text": "Knows", "verse_ref": "Psalm 44:21", "verse_text": "Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart." }, { "point_text": "Knows", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 20:12", "verse_text": "But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause." }, { "point_text": "Searches", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 28:9", "verse_text": "And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever." }, { "point_text": "Searches", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:10", "verse_text": "I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings." }, { "point_text": "Understands the thoughts of", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 28:9", "verse_text": "And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever." }, { "point_text": "Understands the thoughts of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 139:2", "verse_text": "Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off." }, { "point_text": "Ponders", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:2", "verse_text": "Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts." }, { "point_text": "Ponders", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 24:12", "verse_text": "If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?" }, { "point_text": "Influences", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 10:26", "verse_text": "And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched." }, { "point_text": "Influences", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:22", "verse_text": "And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Influences", "verse_ref": "Ezra 7:27", "verse_text": "Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers, which hath put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem:" }, { "point_text": "Influences", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:1", "verse_text": "The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will." }, { "point_text": "Influences", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 20:9", "verse_text": "Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay." }, { "point_text": "Creates a new", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:10", "verse_text": "Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me." }, { "point_text": "Creates a new", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 36:26", "verse_text": "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh." }, { "point_text": "Prepares", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:18", "verse_text": "O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee:" }, { "point_text": "Prepares", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:1", "verse_text": "The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Opens", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:14", "verse_text": "And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul." }, { "point_text": "Enlightens", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:6", "verse_text": "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Enlightens", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:18", "verse_text": "The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints," }, { "point_text": "Strengthens", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:14", "verse_text": "Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Establishes", "verse_ref": "Psalm 112:8", "verse_text": "His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he see his desire upon his enemies." }, { "point_text": "Establishes", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 3:13", "verse_text": "To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Prepared unto God", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 7:3", "verse_text": "And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines." }, { "point_text": "Given to God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:26", "verse_text": "My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways." }, { "point_text": "Perfect with God", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:61", "verse_text": "Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day." }, { "point_text": "Applied unto wisdom", "verse_ref": "Psalm 90:12", "verse_text": "So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." }, { "point_text": "Applied unto wisdom", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 2:2", "verse_text": "So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;" }, { "point_text": "Guided in the right way", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:19", "verse_text": "Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way." }, { "point_text": "Purified", "verse_ref": "James 4:8", "verse_text": "Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded." }, { "point_text": "Single", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:5", "verse_text": "Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;" }, { "point_text": "Single", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:22", "verse_text": "Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:" }, { "point_text": "Tender", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:32", "verse_text": "And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you." }, { "point_text": "Kept with diligence", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 4:23", "verse_text": "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life." }, { "point_text": "WE SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Believe with", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:37", "verse_text": "And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God." }, { "point_text": "Believe with", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:10", "verse_text": "For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." }, { "point_text": "Serve God with all", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:13", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul," }, { "point_text": "Keep God's statutes with all", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 26:16", "verse_text": "This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul." }, { "point_text": "Walk before God with all", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:4", "verse_text": "That the LORD may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Trust in God with all", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:5", "verse_text": "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding." }, { "point_text": "Love God with all", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:37", "verse_text": "Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." }, { "point_text": "Return to God with all", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 30:2", "verse_text": "And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;" }, { "point_text": "Do the will of God from", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:6", "verse_text": "Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;" }, { "point_text": "Sanctify God in", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:15", "verse_text": "But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:" }, { "point_text": "Love one another with a pure", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:22", "verse_text": "Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:" }, { "point_text": "No man can cleanse", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:9", "verse_text": "Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?" }, { "point_text": "Faith, the means of purifying", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:9", "verse_text": "And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith." }, { "point_text": "Renewal of, promised under the gospel", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 11:19", "verse_text": "And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:" }, { "point_text": "Renewal of, promised under the gospel", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 36:26", "verse_text": "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh." }, { "point_text": "Renewal of, promised under the gospel", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:10", "verse_text": "Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways." }, { "point_text": "When broken and contrite, not despised by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:17", "verse_text": "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise." }, { "point_text": "The pure in, shall see God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:8", "verse_text": "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God." }, { "point_text": "PRAY THAT IT MAY BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Cleansed", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:10", "verse_text": "Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me." }, { "point_text": "Inclined to God's testimonies", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:36", "verse_text": "Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness." }, { "point_text": "United to fear God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 86:11", "verse_text": "Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name." }, { "point_text": "Directed into the love of God", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 3:5", "verse_text": "And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ." }, { "point_text": "Harden not, against God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 95:8", "verse_text": "Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:" }, { "point_text": "Harden not, against God", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:7", "verse_text": "Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts." }, { "point_text": "Harden not against the poor", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 15:7", "verse_text": "If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:" }, { "point_text": "Regard not iniquity in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 66:18", "verse_text": "If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:" }, { "point_text": "Take heed lest it be deceived", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:16", "verse_text": "Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;" }, { "point_text": "Know the plague of", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:38", "verse_text": "What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:" }, { "point_text": "He that trusteth in, is a fool", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:26", "verse_text": "He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered." } ] }, { "name": "Heart, Character of the Unrenewed", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Heart-Character-of-the-Unrenewed.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Hateful to God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:16", "verse_text": "These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:" }, { "point_text": "Hateful to God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:20", "verse_text": "They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight." }, { "point_text": "Full of evil", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 9:3", "verse_text": "This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead." }, { "point_text": "Full of evil imaginations", "verse_ref": "Genesis 6:5", "verse_text": "And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." }, { "point_text": "Full of evil imaginations", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:21", "verse_text": "And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done." }, { "point_text": "Full of evil imaginations", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:18", "verse_text": "An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief," }, { "point_text": "Full of vain thoughts", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:14", "verse_text": "O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?" }, { "point_text": "Fully set to do evil", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 8:11", "verse_text": "Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil." }, { "point_text": "Desperately wicked", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:9", "verse_text": "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" }, { "point_text": "Far from God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 29:13", "verse_text": "Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:" }, { "point_text": "Far from God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:8", "verse_text": "This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me." }, { "point_text": "Not perfect with God", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:3", "verse_text": "And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father." }, { "point_text": "Not perfect with God", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:21", "verse_text": "Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God." }, { "point_text": "Not perfect with God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:18", "verse_text": "An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief," }, { "point_text": "Not prepared to seek God", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 12:14", "verse_text": "And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD." }, { "point_text": "A treasury of evil", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:35", "verse_text": "A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things." }, { "point_text": "A treasury of evil", "verse_ref": "Mark 7:21", "verse_text": "For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders," }, { "point_text": "Darkened", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:21", "verse_text": "Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened." }, { "point_text": "Prone to error", "verse_ref": "Psalm 95:10", "verse_text": "Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:" }, { "point_text": "Prone to depart from God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 29:18", "verse_text": "Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;" }, { "point_text": "Prone to depart from God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:5", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Impenitent", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:5", "verse_text": "But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;" }, { "point_text": "Unbelieving", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:12", "verse_text": "Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God." }, { "point_text": "Blind", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:18", "verse_text": "Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:" }, { "point_text": "Uncircumcised", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:41", "verse_text": "And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:" }, { "point_text": "Uncircumcised", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:51", "verse_text": "Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye." }, { "point_text": "Of little worth", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:20", "verse_text": "The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth." }, { "point_text": "Deceitful", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:9", "verse_text": "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" }, { "point_text": "Deceived", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:20", "verse_text": "He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?" }, { "point_text": "Deceived", "verse_ref": "James 1:26", "verse_text": "If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." }, { "point_text": "Divided", "verse_ref": "Hosea 10:2", "verse_text": "Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images." }, { "point_text": "Double", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:33", "verse_text": "Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: they were not of double heart." }, { "point_text": "Double", "verse_ref": "Psalm 12:2", "verse_text": "They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak." }, { "point_text": "Hard", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 3:7", "verse_text": "But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted." }, { "point_text": "Hard", "verse_ref": "Mark 10:5", "verse_text": "And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept." }, { "point_text": "Hard", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:5", "verse_text": "But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;" }, { "point_text": "Haughty", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 18:12", "verse_text": "Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility." }, { "point_text": "Haughty", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:29", "verse_text": "We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart." }, { "point_text": "Influenced by the devil", "verse_ref": "John 13:2", "verse_text": "And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him;" }, { "point_text": "Carnal", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:7", "verse_text": "Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be." }, { "point_text": "Covetous", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 22:17", "verse_text": "But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it." }, { "point_text": "Covetous", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:14", "verse_text": "Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:" }, { "point_text": "Despiteful", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 25:15", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;" }, { "point_text": "Ensnaring", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 7:26", "verse_text": "And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her." }, { "point_text": "Foolish", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:23", "verse_text": "A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness." }, { "point_text": "Foolish", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:15", "verse_text": "Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him." }, { "point_text": "Froward", "verse_ref": "Psalm 101:4", "verse_text": "A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person." }, { "point_text": "Froward", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:14", "verse_text": "Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord." }, { "point_text": "Froward", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:20", "verse_text": "He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief." }, { "point_text": "Fretful against the Lord", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:3", "verse_text": "The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Idolatrous", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 14:3-4", "verse_text": "Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them? 4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;" }, { "point_text": "Mad", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 9:3", "verse_text": "This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead." }, { "point_text": "Mischievous", "verse_ref": "Psalm 28:3", "verse_text": "Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts." }, { "point_text": "Mischievous", "verse_ref": "Psalm 140:2", "verse_text": "Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war." }, { "point_text": "Proud", "verse_ref": "Psalm 101:5", "verse_text": "Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer." }, { "point_text": "Proud", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:16", "verse_text": "Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Rebellious", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:23", "verse_text": "But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone." }, { "point_text": "Perverse", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:8", "verse_text": "A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised." }, { "point_text": "Stiff", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 2:4", "verse_text": "For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Stony", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 11:19", "verse_text": "And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:" }, { "point_text": "Stony", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 36:26", "verse_text": "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh." }, { "point_text": "Stout", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:12", "verse_text": "Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks." }, { "point_text": "Stout", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 46:12", "verse_text": "Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:" }, { "point_text": "Elated by sensual indulgence", "verse_ref": "Hosea 13:6", "verse_text": "According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me." }, { "point_text": "Elated by prosperity", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:16", "verse_text": "But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense." }, { "point_text": "Elated by prosperity", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:20", "verse_text": "But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:" }, { "point_text": "Studieth destruction", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 24:2", "verse_text": "For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief." }, { "point_text": "Often judicially stupefied", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:10", "verse_text": "Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed." }, { "point_text": "Often judicially stupefied", "verse_ref": "Acts 28:26-27", "verse_text": "Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive: 27 For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them." }, { "point_text": "Often judicially hardened", "verse_ref": "Exodus 4:21", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go." }, { "point_text": "Often judicially hardened", "verse_ref": "Joshua 11:20", "verse_text": "For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses." } ] }, { "name": "Hedges", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Hedges.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 4:23", "verse_text": "These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work." }, { "point_text": "Designed for protection", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:2", "verse_text": "And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes." }, { "point_text": "Often made of thorns", "verse_ref": "Micah 7:4", "verse_text": "The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity." }, { "point_text": "PLACED AROUND", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Gardens.\r\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:12", "verse_text": "A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed." }, { "point_text": "Gardens.\r\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 2:6", "verse_text": "And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest." }, { "point_text": "Vineyards", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:33", "verse_text": "Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:" }, { "point_text": "Vineyards", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:1", "verse_text": "And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country." }, { "point_text": "Difficulty of breaking through", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:19", "verse_text": "The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain." }, { "point_text": "Danger of breaking through", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 10:8", "verse_text": "He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him." }, { "point_text": "Desolation caused by removing", "verse_ref": "Psalm 80:12-13", "verse_text": "Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? 13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it." }, { "point_text": "Filled with grasshoppers", "verse_ref": "Nahum 3:17", "verse_text": "Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are." }, { "point_text": "Poor travellers sought rest under", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:23", "verse_text": "And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled." }, { "point_text": "Afforded protection in danger", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:3", "verse_text": "Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together." }, { "point_text": "Making up gaps in, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 13:5", "verse_text": "Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Making up gaps in, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:30", "verse_text": "And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of God's protection", "verse_ref": "Job 1:10", "verse_text": "Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land." }, { "point_text": "Of numerous afflictions", "verse_ref": "Job 3:23", "verse_text": "Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?" }, { "point_text": "Of numerous afflictions", "verse_ref": "Job 19:8", "verse_text": "He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths." }, { "point_text": "Of heavy judgments", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:7", "verse_text": "He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy." }, { "point_text": "Of heavy judgments", "verse_ref": "Hosea 2:6", "verse_text": "Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths." }, { "point_text": "Of holy ordinances, &c", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:2", "verse_text": "And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes." }, { "point_text": "Of holy ordinances, &c", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:33", "verse_text": "Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:" }, { "point_text": "Of the way of the slothful", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:19", "verse_text": "The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain." }, { "point_text": "(Broken down,) of the taking away of protection", "verse_ref": "Psalm 80:12", "verse_text": "Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?" }, { "point_text": "(Broken down,) of the taking away of protection", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:5", "verse_text": "And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:" } ] }, { "name": "Heathen, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Heathen-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Are without God and Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:12", "verse_text": "That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:" }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Ignorant", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:21", "verse_text": "For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe." }, { "point_text": "Ignorant", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:18", "verse_text": "Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:" }, { "point_text": "Idolatrous", "verse_ref": "Psalm 135:15", "verse_text": "The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands." }, { "point_text": "Idolatrous", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:23", "verse_text": "And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things." }, { "point_text": "Idolatrous", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:25", "verse_text": "Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Worshippers of the devil", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:20", "verse_text": "But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils." }, { "point_text": "Cruel", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:20", "verse_text": "Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty." }, { "point_text": "Cruel", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:31", "verse_text": "Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:" }, { "point_text": "Filthy", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:21", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat," }, { "point_text": "Filthy", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:19", "verse_text": "Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness." }, { "point_text": "Filthy", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:12", "verse_text": "For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret." }, { "point_text": "Persecuting", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:1-2", "verse_text": "Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying," }, { "point_text": "Persecuting", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 11:26", "verse_text": "In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;" }, { "point_text": "Scoffing at saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 79:10", "verse_text": "Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed." }, { "point_text": "Strangers to the covenant of promise", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:12", "verse_text": "That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:" }, { "point_text": "Having no hope", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:12", "verse_text": "That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:" }, { "point_text": "Degradation of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:44", "verse_text": "Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids." }, { "point_text": "HAVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Evidence of the power of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:19-20", "verse_text": "Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:" }, { "point_text": "Evidence of the goodness of God", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:17", "verse_text": "Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness." }, { "point_text": "The testimony of conscience", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:14-15", "verse_text": "For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: 15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)" }, { "point_text": "Evil of imitating", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 16:3", "verse_text": "But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Evil of imitating", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 11:12", "verse_text": "And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you." }, { "point_text": "Cautions against imitating", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 10:2", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them." }, { "point_text": "Cautions against imitating", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:7", "verse_text": "But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking." }, { "point_text": "Danger of intercourse with", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:35", "verse_text": "But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works." }, { "point_text": "Employed to chastise the Church", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:33", "verse_text": "And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste." }, { "point_text": "Employed to chastise the Church", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:14", "verse_text": "I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle." }, { "point_text": "Employed to chastise the Church", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 1:3", "verse_text": "Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits." }, { "point_text": "Employed to chastise the Church", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 7:24", "verse_text": "Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled." }, { "point_text": "Employed to chastise the Church", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 25:7", "verse_text": "Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Employed to chastise the Church", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:27", "verse_text": "Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity." }, { "point_text": "Employed to chastise the Church", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 1:5-9", "verse_text": "Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you. 6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs. 7 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves. 8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat. ..." }, { "point_text": "The Church shall be avenged of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 149:7", "verse_text": "To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;" }, { "point_text": "The Church shall be avenged of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 10:25", "verse_text": "Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate." }, { "point_text": "The Church shall be avenged of", "verse_ref": "Obadiah 15", "verse_text": "For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head." }, { "point_text": "GOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Rules over", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 20:6", "verse_text": "And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?" }, { "point_text": "Rules over", "verse_ref": "Psalm 47:8", "verse_text": "God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness." }, { "point_text": "Brings to nought the counsels of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 33:10", "verse_text": "The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect." }, { "point_text": "Will be exalted among", "verse_ref": "Psalm 46:10", "verse_text": "Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth." }, { "point_text": "Will be exalted among", "verse_ref": "Psalm 102:15", "verse_text": "So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory." }, { "point_text": "Punishes", "verse_ref": "Psalm 44:2", "verse_text": "How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out." }, { "point_text": "Punishes", "verse_ref": "Joel 3:11-13", "verse_text": "Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD. 12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. 13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great." }, { "point_text": "Punishes", "verse_ref": "Micah 5:15", "verse_text": "And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard." }, { "point_text": "Punishes", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 3:12", "verse_text": "Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger." }, { "point_text": "Punishes", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 14:18", "verse_text": "And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles." }, { "point_text": "Will finally judge", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:12-16", "verse_text": "For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; 13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. 14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: 15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) ..." }, { "point_text": "Given to Christ", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:8", "verse_text": "Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession." }, { "point_text": "Given to Christ", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:14", "verse_text": "And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed." }, { "point_text": "Salvation of, foretold", "verse_ref": "Genesis 12:3", "verse_text": "And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed." }, { "point_text": "Salvation of, foretold", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:8", "verse_text": "And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed." }, { "point_text": "Salvation of, foretold", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:2-4", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." }, { "point_text": "Salvation of, foretold", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 52:10", "verse_text": "The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God." }, { "point_text": "Salvation of, foretold", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:1-8", "verse_text": "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. 2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. 3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. 4 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side. ..." }, { "point_text": "Salvation provided for", "verse_ref": "Acts 28:28", "verse_text": "Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it." }, { "point_text": "Salvation provided for", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:9-12", "verse_text": "And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name. 10 And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people. 11 And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye people. 12 And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust." }, { "point_text": "The glory of God to be declared amongst", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:24", "verse_text": "Declare his glory among the heathen; his marvellous works among all nations." }, { "point_text": "The glory of God to be declared amongst", "verse_ref": "Psalm 96:3", "verse_text": "Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people." }, { "point_text": "The gospel to be preached to", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:14", "verse_text": "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come." }, { "point_text": "The gospel to be preached to", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:19", "verse_text": "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:" }, { "point_text": "The gospel to be preached to", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:26", "verse_text": "But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:" }, { "point_text": "The gospel to be preached to", "verse_ref": "Galatians 1:16", "verse_text": "To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:" }, { "point_text": "Necessity for preaching to", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:14", "verse_text": "How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?" }, { "point_text": "The gospel received by", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:1", "verse_text": "And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God." }, { "point_text": "The gospel received by", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:48", "verse_text": "And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed." }, { "point_text": "The gospel received by", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:3", "verse_text": "And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren." }, { "point_text": "The gospel received by", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:23", "verse_text": "And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia:" }, { "point_text": "Baptism to be administered to", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:19", "verse_text": "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:" }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost poured out upon", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:44", "verse_text": "While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word." }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost poured out upon", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:8", "verse_text": "And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;" }, { "point_text": "Praise God for success of the gospel amongst", "verse_ref": "Psalm 98:1-3", "verse_text": "O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory. 2 The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen. 3 He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God." }, { "point_text": "Praise God for success of the gospel amongst", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:18", "verse_text": "When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life." }, { "point_text": "Pray for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 67:2-5", "verse_text": "That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations. 3 Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee. 4 O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah. 5 Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee." }, { "point_text": "Aid missions to", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 11:9", "verse_text": "And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself." }, { "point_text": "Aid missions to", "verse_ref": "3 John 6-7", "verse_text": "Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well: 7 Because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles." }, { "point_text": "Conversion of, acceptable to God", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:35", "verse_text": "But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him." }, { "point_text": "Conversion of, acceptable to God", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:16", "verse_text": "That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost." } ] }, { "name": "Heaven", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Heaven.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Created by God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:1", "verse_text": "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." }, { "point_text": "Created by God", "verse_ref": "Revelation 10:6", "verse_text": "And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:" }, { "point_text": "Everlasting", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:29", "verse_text": "His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven." }, { "point_text": "Everlasting", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:1", "verse_text": "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." }, { "point_text": "Immeasurable", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:37", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "High", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:11", "verse_text": "For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him." }, { "point_text": "High", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:15", "verse_text": "For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones." }, { "point_text": "Holy", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 26:15", "verse_text": "Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey." }, { "point_text": "Holy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 20:6", "verse_text": "Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand." }, { "point_text": "Holy", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:15", "verse_text": "For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones." }, { "point_text": "God's dwelling-place", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:30", "verse_text": "And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive." }, { "point_text": "God's dwelling-place", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:9", "verse_text": "After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name." }, { "point_text": "God's throne", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:1", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?" }, { "point_text": "God's throne", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:49", "verse_text": "Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?" }, { "point_text": "GOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Is the Lord of", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:23", "verse_text": "But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:" }, { "point_text": "Is the Lord of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:25", "verse_text": "At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes." }, { "point_text": "Reigns in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 11:4", "verse_text": "The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men." }, { "point_text": "Reigns in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 135:6", "verse_text": "Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places." }, { "point_text": "Reigns in", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:35", "verse_text": "And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?" }, { "point_text": "Fills", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:27", "verse_text": "But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?" }, { "point_text": "Fills", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:24", "verse_text": "Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Answers His people from", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 21:26", "verse_text": "And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering." }, { "point_text": "Answers His people from", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:14", "verse_text": "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." }, { "point_text": "Answers His people from", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:27", "verse_text": "Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies." }, { "point_text": "Answers His people from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 20:6", "verse_text": "Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand." }, { "point_text": "Sends His judgments from", "verse_ref": "Genesis 19:24", "verse_text": "Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;" }, { "point_text": "Sends His judgments from", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:10", "verse_text": "The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed." }, { "point_text": "Sends His judgments from", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:13-14", "verse_text": "I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven; 14 He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches:" }, { "point_text": "CHRIST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "As Mediator, entered into", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:21", "verse_text": "Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began." }, { "point_text": "As Mediator, entered into", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:20", "verse_text": "Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec." }, { "point_text": "As Mediator, entered into", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:12", "verse_text": "Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us." }, { "point_text": "As Mediator, entered into", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:24", "verse_text": "For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:" }, { "point_text": "Is all-powerful in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:18", "verse_text": "And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth." }, { "point_text": "Is all-powerful in", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:22", "verse_text": "Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him." }, { "point_text": "Angels are in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:10", "verse_text": "Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven." }, { "point_text": "Angels are in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:36", "verse_text": "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." }, { "point_text": "Names of saints are written in", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:20", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven." }, { "point_text": "Names of saints are written in", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:23", "verse_text": "To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect," }, { "point_text": "Saints rewarded in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:12", "verse_text": "Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you." }, { "point_text": "Saints rewarded in", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:4", "verse_text": "To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you," }, { "point_text": "Repentance occasions joy in", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:7", "verse_text": "I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance." }, { "point_text": "Lay up treasure in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:20", "verse_text": "But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:" }, { "point_text": "Lay up treasure in", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:33", "verse_text": "Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth." }, { "point_text": "Flesh and blood cannot inherit", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:50", "verse_text": "Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption." }, { "point_text": "Happiness of, described", "verse_ref": "Revelation 7:16-17", "verse_text": "They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. 17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." }, { "point_text": "IS CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "A garner", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:12", "verse_text": "Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire." }, { "point_text": "The kingdom of Christ and of God", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:5", "verse_text": "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God." }, { "point_text": "The Father's house", "verse_ref": "John 14:2", "verse_text": "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you." }, { "point_text": "A heavenly country", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:16", "verse_text": "But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city." }, { "point_text": "A rest", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:9", "verse_text": "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God." }, { "point_text": "Paradise", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 12:2", "verse_text": "I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven." }, { "point_text": "Paradise", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 12:4", "verse_text": "How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter." }, { "point_text": "The wicked excluded from", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:21", "verse_text": "Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "The wicked excluded from", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:5", "verse_text": "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God." }, { "point_text": "The wicked excluded from", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:15", "verse_text": "For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie." }, { "point_text": "Enoch and Elijah were translated into", "verse_ref": "Genesis 5:24", "verse_text": "And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him." }, { "point_text": "Enoch and Elijah were translated into", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:5", "verse_text": "By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God." }, { "point_text": "Enoch and Elijah were translated into", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 2:11", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven." } ] }, { "name": "Heedfulness", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Heedfulness.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:13", "verse_text": "And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth." }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 4:25-27", "verse_text": "Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. 26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. 27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil." }, { "point_text": "NECESSARY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In the care of the soul", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:9", "verse_text": "Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;" }, { "point_text": "In the house and worship of God", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 5:1", "verse_text": "Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil." }, { "point_text": "In what we hear", "verse_ref": "Mark 4:24", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given." }, { "point_text": "In how we hear", "verse_ref": "Luke 8:18", "verse_text": "Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have." }, { "point_text": "In keeping God's commandments", "verse_ref": "Joshua 22:5", "verse_text": "But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul." }, { "point_text": "In conduct", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:15", "verse_text": "See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise," }, { "point_text": "In speech", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 13:3", "verse_text": "He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction." }, { "point_text": "In speech", "verse_ref": "James 1:19", "verse_text": "Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:" }, { "point_text": "In worldly company", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:1", "verse_text": "I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me." }, { "point_text": "In worldly company", "verse_ref": "Colossians 4:5", "verse_text": "Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time." }, { "point_text": "In giving judgment", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 19:6-7", "verse_text": "And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syriamaachah, and out of Zobah. 7 So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle." }, { "point_text": "Against sin", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:15-16", "verse_text": "Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; 16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright." }, { "point_text": "Against unbelief", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:12", "verse_text": "Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God." }, { "point_text": "Against idolatry", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:15-16", "verse_text": "Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: 16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female," }, { "point_text": "Against false Christs, and false prophets", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:4-5", "verse_text": "And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many." }, { "point_text": "Against false Christs, and false prophets", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:23-24", "verse_text": "Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. 24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect." }, { "point_text": "Against false teachers", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:2", "verse_text": "Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision." }, { "point_text": "Against false teachers", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:8", "verse_text": "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ." }, { "point_text": "Against false teachers", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:16-17", "verse_text": "As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. 17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness." }, { "point_text": "Against presumption", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:12", "verse_text": "Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall." }, { "point_text": "Promises to", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:4", "verse_text": "That the LORD may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Promises to", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 22:13", "verse_text": "Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes and judgments which the LORD charged Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, and of good courage; dread not, nor be dismayed." } ] }, { "name": "Heave-offering", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Heaveoffering.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "To brought to God's house", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:6", "verse_text": "And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:" }, { "point_text": "CONSISTED OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "First fruits of bread", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:19-21", "verse_text": "Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD. 20 Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering: as ye do the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it. 21 Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an heave offering in your generations." }, { "point_text": "Right shoulder of peace offerings", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:32", "verse_text": "And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings." }, { "point_text": "Part of the meat offering of all peace offerings", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:14", "verse_text": "And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation for an heave offering unto the LORD, and it shall be the priest's that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings." }, { "point_text": "Shoulder of the priest's consecration-ram", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:27", "verse_text": "And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:" }, { "point_text": "Tenth of all tithes", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:26", "verse_text": "Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe." }, { "point_text": "Part of all gifts", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:29", "verse_text": "Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it." }, { "point_text": "Part of spoil taken in war", "verse_ref": "Numbers 31:26-47", "verse_text": "Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation: 27 And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation: 28 And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep: 29 Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for an heave offering of the LORD. ..." }, { "point_text": "To be the best of their kind", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:29", "verse_text": "Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it." }, { "point_text": "To be heaved up by the priest", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:27", "verse_text": "And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:" }, { "point_text": "Sanctified the whole offering", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:27", "verse_text": "And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress." }, { "point_text": "Sanctified the whole offering", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:30", "verse_text": "Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress." }, { "point_text": "Given to the priests", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:28", "verse_text": "And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it is an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Given to the priests", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:34", "verse_text": "For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute for ever from among the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "To be eaten in a clean place", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 10:12-15", "verse_text": "And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the meat offering that remaineth of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar: for it is most holy: 13 And ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it is thy due, and thy sons' due, of the sacrifices of the LORD made by fire: for so I am commanded. 14 And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for they be thy due, and thy sons' due, which are given out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel. 15 The heave shoulder and the wave breast shall they bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before the LORD; and it shall be thine, and thy sons' with thee, by a statute for ever; as the LORD hath commanded." }, { "point_text": "To brought to God's house", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:6", "verse_text": "And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:" }, { "point_text": "CONSISTED OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "First fruits of bread", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:19-21", "verse_text": "Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD. 20 Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering: as ye do the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it. 21 Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an heave offering in your generations." }, { "point_text": "Right shoulder of peace offerings", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:32", "verse_text": "And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings." }, { "point_text": "Part of the meat offering of all peace offerings", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:14", "verse_text": "And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation for an heave offering unto the LORD, and it shall be the priest's that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings." }, { "point_text": "Shoulder of the priest's consecration-ram", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:27", "verse_text": "And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:" }, { "point_text": "Tenth of all tithes", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:26", "verse_text": "Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe." }, { "point_text": "Part of all gifts", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:29", "verse_text": "Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it." }, { "point_text": "Part of spoil taken in war", "verse_ref": "Numbers 31:26-47", "verse_text": "Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation: 27 And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation: 28 And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep: 29 Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for an heave offering of the LORD. ..." }, { "point_text": "To be the best of their kind", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:29", "verse_text": "Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it." }, { "point_text": "To be heaved up by the priest", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:27", "verse_text": "And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:" }, { "point_text": "Sanctified the whole offering", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:27", "verse_text": "And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress." }, { "point_text": "Sanctified the whole offering", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:30", "verse_text": "Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress." }, { "point_text": "Given to the priests", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:28", "verse_text": "And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it is an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Given to the priests", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:34", "verse_text": "For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute for ever from among the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "To be eaten in a clean place", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 10:12-15", "verse_text": "And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the meat offering that remaineth of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar: for it is most holy: 13 And ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it is thy due, and thy sons' due, of the sacrifices of the LORD made by fire: for so I am commanded. 14 And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for they be thy due, and thy sons' due, which are given out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel. 15 The heave shoulder and the wave breast shall they bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before the LORD; and it shall be thine, and thy sons' with thee, by a statute for ever; as the LORD hath commanded." } ] }, { "name": "Hell", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Hell.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "1. THE PLACE OF DISEMBODIED SPIRITS", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:31", "verse_text": "He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption." }, { "point_text": "Which Christ visited", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:43", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise." }, { "point_text": "Which Christ visited", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:31", "verse_text": "He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption." }, { "point_text": "Which Christ visited", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:19", "verse_text": "By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;" }, { "point_text": "Contains, a place of rest, Abraham's bosom", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:23", "verse_text": "And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom." }, { "point_text": "Paradise", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:43", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise." }, { "point_text": "And a place of torment", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:23", "verse_text": "And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom." }, { "point_text": "2. THE PLACE OF FUTURE PUNISHMENT", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Destruction from the presence of God", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:9", "verse_text": "Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;" }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Everlasting punishment", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:46", "verse_text": "And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal." }, { "point_text": "Everlasting fire", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:41", "verse_text": "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:" }, { "point_text": "Everlasting burnings", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:14", "verse_text": "The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?" }, { "point_text": "A furnace of fire", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:42", "verse_text": "And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." }, { "point_text": "A furnace of fire", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:50", "verse_text": "And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." }, { "point_text": "A lake of fire", "verse_ref": "Revelation 20:15", "verse_text": "And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire." }, { "point_text": "Fire and brimstone", "verse_ref": "Revelation 14:10", "verse_text": "The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:" }, { "point_text": "Unquenchable fire", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:12", "verse_text": "Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire." }, { "point_text": "Devouring fire", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:14", "verse_text": "The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?" }, { "point_text": "Prepared for the devil, &c", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:41", "verse_text": "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:" }, { "point_text": "Devils are confined in, until the judgment-day", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:4", "verse_text": "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;" }, { "point_text": "Devils are confined in, until the judgment-day", "verse_ref": "Jude 6", "verse_text": "And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of, is eternal", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:14", "verse_text": "The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?" }, { "point_text": "Punishment of, is eternal", "verse_ref": "Revelation 20:10", "verse_text": "And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever." }, { "point_text": "The wicked shall be turned into", "verse_ref": "Psalm 9:17", "verse_text": "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God." }, { "point_text": "Human power cannot preserve from", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 32:27", "verse_text": "And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living." }, { "point_text": "The body suffers in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:29", "verse_text": "And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell." }, { "point_text": "The body suffers in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:28", "verse_text": "And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." }, { "point_text": "The soul suffers in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:28", "verse_text": "And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." }, { "point_text": "The wise avoid", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:24", "verse_text": "The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath." }, { "point_text": "Endeavor to keep others from", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:14", "verse_text": "Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell." }, { "point_text": "Endeavor to keep others from", "verse_ref": "Jude 23", "verse_text": "And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh." }, { "point_text": "The society of the wicked leads to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 5:5", "verse_text": "Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell." }, { "point_text": "The society of the wicked leads to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 9:18", "verse_text": "But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell." }, { "point_text": "The beast, false prophets, and the devil shall be cast into", "verse_ref": "Revelation 19:20", "verse_text": "And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone." }, { "point_text": "The beast, false prophets, and the devil shall be cast into", "verse_ref": "Revelation 20:10", "verse_text": "And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever." }, { "point_text": "The powers of, cannot prevail against the Church", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:18", "verse_text": "And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:33", "verse_text": "For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it." } ] }, { "name": "Herbs, &c", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Herbs-c.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Called the green herbs", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:26", "verse_text": "Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up." }, { "point_text": "GOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Created", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:11", "verse_text": "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so." }, { "point_text": "Created", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:5", "verse_text": "And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground." }, { "point_text": "Causes to grow", "verse_ref": "Job 38:27", "verse_text": "To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?" }, { "point_text": "Causes to grow", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:14", "verse_text": "He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;" }, { "point_text": "Each kind of, contains its own seed", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:11-12", "verse_text": "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good." }, { "point_text": "Given as food to man", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:28", "verse_text": "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Given as food to man", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:3", "verse_text": "Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things." }, { "point_text": "FOUND IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The fields", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 12:4", "verse_text": "How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end." }, { "point_text": "The mountains", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:25", "verse_text": "The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered." }, { "point_text": "The marshes", "verse_ref": "Job 8:11", "verse_text": "Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?" }, { "point_text": "The deserts", "verse_ref": "Job 24:5", "verse_text": "Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children." }, { "point_text": "The deserts", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:6", "verse_text": "For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited." }, { "point_text": "Cultivated in gardens", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:10", "verse_text": "For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:" }, { "point_text": "Cultivated in gardens", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:2", "verse_text": "And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money." }, { "point_text": "Cultivated for food", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:17", "verse_text": "Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith." }, { "point_text": "Cultivated for food", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:7", "verse_text": "For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:" }, { "point_text": "Require rain and dew", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:2", "verse_text": "My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:" }, { "point_text": "Require rain and dew", "verse_ref": "Job 38:26-27", "verse_text": "To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man; 27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?" }, { "point_text": "Mode of watering, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:10", "verse_text": "For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:" }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Aloe", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:14", "verse_text": "Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:" }, { "point_text": "Anise", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:23", "verse_text": "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone." }, { "point_text": "Barley", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:31", "verse_text": "And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled." }, { "point_text": "Barley", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 14:30", "verse_text": "Therefore he said unto his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire. And Absalom's servants set the field on fire." }, { "point_text": "Beans", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 17:28", "verse_text": "Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse," }, { "point_text": "Bulrushes", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:3", "verse_text": "And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink." }, { "point_text": "Bulrushes", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:5", "verse_text": "Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?" }, { "point_text": "Calamus", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:14", "verse_text": "Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:" }, { "point_text": "Cummin", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:27", "verse_text": "For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod." }, { "point_text": "Cummin", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:23", "verse_text": "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone." }, { "point_text": "Cucumber", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:5", "verse_text": "We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:" }, { "point_text": "Cucumber", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:8", "verse_text": "And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city." }, { "point_text": "Fitches", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:25", "verse_text": "When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?" }, { "point_text": "Fitches", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:27", "verse_text": "For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod." }, { "point_text": "Flag", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:3", "verse_text": "And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink." }, { "point_text": "Flag", "verse_ref": "Job 8:11", "verse_text": "Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?" }, { "point_text": "Flax", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:31", "verse_text": "And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled." }, { "point_text": "Garlic", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:5", "verse_text": "We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:" }, { "point_text": "Gourds", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:39", "verse_text": "And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not." }, { "point_text": "Grass", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:4", "verse_text": "And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time." }, { "point_text": "Heath", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:6", "verse_text": "For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited." }, { "point_text": "Heath", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:6", "verse_text": "Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "Hyssop", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:22", "verse_text": "And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning." }, { "point_text": "Hyssop", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:33", "verse_text": "And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes." }, { "point_text": "Leeks", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:5", "verse_text": "We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:" }, { "point_text": "Lentiles", "verse_ref": "Genesis 25:34", "verse_text": "Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright." }, { "point_text": "Mandrakes", "verse_ref": "Genesis 30:14", "verse_text": "And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes." }, { "point_text": "Mandrakes", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 7:13", "verse_text": "The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved." }, { "point_text": "Mallows", "verse_ref": "Job 30:4", "verse_text": "Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat." }, { "point_text": "Millet", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 4:9", "verse_text": "Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof." }, { "point_text": "Melon", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:5", "verse_text": "We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:" }, { "point_text": "Mint", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:23", "verse_text": "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone." }, { "point_text": "Myrrh", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:14", "verse_text": "Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:" }, { "point_text": "Onions", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:5", "verse_text": "We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:" }, { "point_text": "Reeds", "verse_ref": "Job 40:21", "verse_text": "He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens." }, { "point_text": "Reeds", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:6", "verse_text": "And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither." }, { "point_text": "Rushes", "verse_ref": "Job 8:11", "verse_text": "Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?" }, { "point_text": "Rye", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:32", "verse_text": "But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up." }, { "point_text": "Saffron", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:14", "verse_text": "Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:" }, { "point_text": "Spikenard", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:14", "verse_text": "Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:" }, { "point_text": "Tares or Darnel", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:30", "verse_text": "Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn." }, { "point_text": "Wheat", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:32", "verse_text": "But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up." }, { "point_text": "Wheat", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 12:13", "verse_text": "They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Bitter, used at passover", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:8", "verse_text": "And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it." }, { "point_text": "Bitter, used at passover", "verse_ref": "Numbers 9:11", "verse_text": "The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs." }, { "point_text": "Poisonous, not fit for man's use", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:39-40", "verse_text": "And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not. 40 So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof." }, { "point_text": "DESTROYED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Hail and lightning", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:22-25", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt. 23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt. 24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. 25 And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field." }, { "point_text": "Locusts, &c", "verse_ref": "Exodus 10:12", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left." }, { "point_text": "Locusts, &c", "verse_ref": "Exodus 10:15", "verse_text": "For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Drought", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:15", "verse_text": "I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools." }, { "point_text": "Titheable among the Jews", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:42", "verse_text": "But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone." }, { "point_text": "Were sometimes used instead of animal food by weak saints", "verse_ref": "Romans 14:2", "verse_text": "For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:26", "verse_text": "Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up." }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:2", "verse_text": "For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb." }, { "point_text": "(Dew on,) of grace given to saints", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 18:4", "verse_text": "For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest." } ] }, { "name": "High Places", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/High-Places.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Used for idolatrous worship", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:7-8", "verse_text": "Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon. 8 And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods." }, { "point_text": "God sometimes worshipped on", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 9:12", "verse_text": "And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, he is before you: make haste now, for he came to day to the city; for there is a sacrifice of the people to day in the high place:" }, { "point_text": "God sometimes worshipped on", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 3:2", "verse_text": "Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days." }, { "point_text": "God sometimes worshipped on", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 3:4", "verse_text": "And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar." }, { "point_text": "God sometimes worshipped on", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:17", "verse_text": "Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only." }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Gibeon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 3:4", "verse_text": "And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar." }, { "point_text": "Arnon", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:28", "verse_text": "For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon." }, { "point_text": "Baal", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:41", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see the utmost part of the people." }, { "point_text": "Tophet", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:31", "verse_text": "And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart." }, { "point_text": "Bamah", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:29", "verse_text": "Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Aven", "verse_ref": "Hosea 10:8", "verse_text": "The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us." }, { "point_text": "Adorned with tapestry", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:16", "verse_text": "And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so." }, { "point_text": "Surrounded with groves", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 14:23", "verse_text": "For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree." }, { "point_text": "BUILT BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:7", "verse_text": "Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon." }, { "point_text": "Jeroboam", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:31", "verse_text": "And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi." }, { "point_text": "Jehoram", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 21:11", "verse_text": "Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto." }, { "point_text": "Ahaz", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 28:25", "verse_text": "And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers." }, { "point_text": "Manasseh", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 21:3", "verse_text": "For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them." }, { "point_text": "Manasseh", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:3", "verse_text": "For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them." }, { "point_text": "People of Judah", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 14:23", "verse_text": "For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree." }, { "point_text": "People of Israel", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:9", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city." }, { "point_text": "Priests ordained for", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:32", "verse_text": "And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made." }, { "point_text": "Priests ordained for", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 13:33", "verse_text": "After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places." }, { "point_text": "Sacrifices and incense offered to idols upon", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 12:3", "verse_text": "But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places." }, { "point_text": "Sacrifices and incense offered to idols upon", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 16:4", "verse_text": "And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree." }, { "point_text": "Enchantments used upon", "verse_ref": "Numbers 23:3", "verse_text": "And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place." }, { "point_text": "Enchantments used upon", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:1", "verse_text": "And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "Of the Canaanites to be destroyed", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:52", "verse_text": "Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:" }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Built, in their cities", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:9", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city." }, { "point_text": "Built, in all their streets", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:24", "verse_text": "That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street." }, { "point_text": "Built, in all their streets", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:31", "verse_text": "In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;" }, { "point_text": "Condemned for building", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:23-35", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD;) 24 That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street. 25 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms. 26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger. ..." }, { "point_text": "Provoked God with", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 14:22-23", "verse_text": "And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done. 23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree." }, { "point_text": "Threatened with destruction of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:30", "verse_text": "And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you." }, { "point_text": "Punished for", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:11", "verse_text": "And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:" }, { "point_text": "Punished for", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:18", "verse_text": "Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only." }, { "point_text": "DESTROYED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Asa, partially", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 14:3", "verse_text": "For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:" }, { "point_text": "Asa, partially", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 15:17", "verse_text": "But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days." }, { "point_text": "Jehoshaphat", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 17:6", "verse_text": "And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah." }, { "point_text": "Hezekiah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:4", "verse_text": "He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan." }, { "point_text": "Hezekiah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:1", "verse_text": "Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities." }, { "point_text": "Josiah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:8", "verse_text": "And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city." }, { "point_text": "Josiah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 34:3", "verse_text": "For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images." }, { "point_text": "NOT REMOVED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Jehoash", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 12:3", "verse_text": "But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places." }, { "point_text": "Amaziah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 14:4", "verse_text": "Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places." }, { "point_text": "Azariah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 15:4", "verse_text": "Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places." }, { "point_text": "Jotham", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 15:35", "verse_text": "Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD." } ] }, { "name": "High Priest, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/High-Priest-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Specially called of God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:1-2", "verse_text": "And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons. 2 And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty." }, { "point_text": "Consecrated to his office", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:13", "verse_text": "And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him, and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the priest's office." }, { "point_text": "Consecrated to his office", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:12", "verse_text": "And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and anointed him, to sanctify him." }, { "point_text": "WAS CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The priest", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:30", "verse_text": "And that son that is priest in his stead shall put them on seven days, when he cometh into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy place." }, { "point_text": "The priest", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 7:65", "verse_text": "And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim." }, { "point_text": "God's high priest", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:4", "verse_text": "And they that stood by said, Revilest thou God's high priest?" }, { "point_text": "Ruler of the people", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:28", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people." }, { "point_text": "Ruler of the people", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:5", "verse_text": "Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people." }, { "point_text": "The office of, hereditary", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:29", "verse_text": "And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons' after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them." }, { "point_text": "Next in rank to the king", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 2:6", "verse_text": "And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest." }, { "point_text": "Often exercised chief civil power", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 4:18", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years." }, { "point_text": "DUTIES OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Offering gifts and sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 5:1", "verse_text": "For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:" }, { "point_text": "Lighting the sacred lamps", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:8", "verse_text": "And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations." }, { "point_text": "Lighting the sacred lamps", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:3", "verse_text": "And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "Making atonement in the most holy place once a year", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the LORD, and died; 2 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat. 3 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering. 4 He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on. ..." }, { "point_text": "Making atonement in the most holy place once a year", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:7", "verse_text": "But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:" }, { "point_text": "Bearing before the Lord the names of Israel for a memorial", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:12", "verse_text": "And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial." }, { "point_text": "Bearing before the Lord the names of Israel for a memorial", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:29", "verse_text": "And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the LORD continually." }, { "point_text": "Enquiring of God by Urim and Thummim", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 23:9-12", "verse_text": "And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod. 10 Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake. 11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And the LORD said, He will come down. 12 Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver thee up." }, { "point_text": "Enquiring of God by Urim and Thummim", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 30:7-8", "verse_text": "And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David. 8 And David inquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all." }, { "point_text": "Consecrating the Levites", "verse_ref": "Numbers 9:11-21", "verse_text": "The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 12 They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it. 13 But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin. 14 And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land. ..." }, { "point_text": "Appointing priests to offices", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:36", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread." }, { "point_text": "Taking charge of money collected in the sacred treasury", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 12:10", "verse_text": "And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Taking charge of money collected in the sacred treasury", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 22:4", "verse_text": "Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people:" }, { "point_text": "Presiding in the superior court", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:3", "verse_text": "Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas," }, { "point_text": "Presiding in the superior court", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:57-62", "verse_text": "And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled. 58 But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end. 59 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death; 60 But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses, ..." }, { "point_text": "Presiding in the superior court", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:21-28", "verse_text": "And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought. 22 But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told, 23 Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within. 24 Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow. ..." }, { "point_text": "Presiding in the superior court", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:1-5", "verse_text": "And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day. 2 And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth. 3 Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law? 4 And they that stood by said, Revilest thou God's high priest? ..." }, { "point_text": "Taking the census of the people", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:3", "verse_text": "From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies." }, { "point_text": "Blessing the people", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 9:22-23", "verse_text": "And Aaron lifted up his hand toward the people, and blessed them, and came down from offering of the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and peace offerings. 23 And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the people." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes enabled to prophesy", "verse_ref": "John 11:49-52", "verse_text": "And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all, 50 Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not. 51 And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation; 52 And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad." }, { "point_text": "Assisted by a deputy", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 15:24", "verse_text": "And lo Zadok also, and all the Levites were with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God: and they set down the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people had done passing out of the city." }, { "point_text": "Assisted by a deputy", "verse_ref": "Luke 3:2", "verse_text": "Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "THE DEPUTY OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Called the second priest", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:18", "verse_text": "And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:" }, { "point_text": "Had oversight of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 4:16", "verse_text": "And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest pertaineth the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the daily meat offering, and the anointing oil, and the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein is, in the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof." }, { "point_text": "Had oversight of the Levites", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:32", "verse_text": "And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary." }, { "point_text": "To marry a virgin of Aaron's family", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 21:13-14", "verse_text": "And he shall take a wife in her virginity. 14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to mourn for any", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 21:1-12", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people: 2 But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, 3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled. 4 But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself. ..." }, { "point_text": "To be tender and compassionate", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 5:2", "verse_text": "Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity." }, { "point_text": "Needed to sacrifice for himself", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 5:1-3", "verse_text": "For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: 2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity. 3 And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins." }, { "point_text": "SPECIAL GARMENTS OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Ephod with its curious girdle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:6-7", "verse_text": "And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work. 7 It shall have the two shoulderpieces thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and so it shall be joined together." }, { "point_text": "Girdle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:4", "verse_text": "And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office." }, { "point_text": "Girdle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:39", "verse_text": "And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt make the mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle of needlework." }, { "point_text": "Broidered coat", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:4", "verse_text": "And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office." }, { "point_text": "Broidered coat", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:39", "verse_text": "And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt make the mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle of needlework." }, { "point_text": "Robe of the ephod", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:31-35", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue. 32 And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent. 33 And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about: 34 A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about. ..." }, { "point_text": "Breastplate", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:15-29", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it. 16 Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof. 17 And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row. 18 And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond. ..." }, { "point_text": "Linen mitre", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:4", "verse_text": "And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office." }, { "point_text": "Linen mitre", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:39", "verse_text": "And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt make the mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle of needlework." }, { "point_text": "Plate or crown of gold, &c", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:36-38", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD. 37 And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be. 38 And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Made by divine wisdom given to Bezaleel, &c", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:3", "verse_text": "And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office." }, { "point_text": "Made by divine wisdom given to Bezaleel, &c", "verse_ref": "Exodus 36:1", "verse_text": "Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD had commanded." }, { "point_text": "Made by divine wisdom given to Bezaleel, &c", "verse_ref": "Exodus 39:1", "verse_text": "And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "Were for beauty and ornament", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:2", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty." }, { "point_text": "Worn at his consecration", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:7", "verse_text": "And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith." }, { "point_text": "Worn at his consecration", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:9", "verse_text": "And he put the mitre upon his head; also upon the mitre, even upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the holy crown; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "Worn seven days after consecration", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:30", "verse_text": "And that son that is priest in his stead shall put them on seven days, when he cometh into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy place." }, { "point_text": "Descended to his successors", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:29", "verse_text": "And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons' after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them." }, { "point_text": "Wore the ordinary priest's garments when making atonement in the holy place", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:4", "verse_text": "He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on." }, { "point_text": "Office of, promised to the posterity of Phinehas for his zeal", "verse_ref": "Numbers 25:12-13", "verse_text": "Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace: 13 And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Family of Eli degraded from office of, for bad conduct", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:27-36", "verse_text": "And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house? 28 And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel? 29 Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people? 30 Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed. ..." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes deposed by the kings", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:27", "verse_text": "So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the LORD; that he might fulfil the word of the LORD, which he spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh." }, { "point_text": "Office of, made annual by the Romans", "verse_ref": "John 11:49-51", "verse_text": "And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all, 50 Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not. 51 And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation;" }, { "point_text": "Office of, made annual by the Romans", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:6", "verse_text": "And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "TYPIFIED CHRIST IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Being called of God", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 5:4-5", "verse_text": "And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron. 5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee." }, { "point_text": "His title", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:1", "verse_text": "Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;" }, { "point_text": "His appointment", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:1", "verse_text": "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;" }, { "point_text": "His appointment", "verse_ref": "John 1:32-34", "verse_text": "And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. 33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. 34 And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God." }, { "point_text": "Making atonement", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:33", "verse_text": "And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "Making atonement", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:17", "verse_text": "Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people." }, { "point_text": "Splendid dress", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:2", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty." }, { "point_text": "Splendid dress", "verse_ref": "John 1:14", "verse_text": "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." }, { "point_text": "Being liable to temptation", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:18", "verse_text": "For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted." }, { "point_text": "Compassion and sympathy for the weak and ignorant", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:15", "verse_text": "For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." }, { "point_text": "Compassion and sympathy for the weak and ignorant", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 5:1-2", "verse_text": "For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: 2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity." }, { "point_text": "Marrying a virgin", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 21:13-14", "verse_text": "And he shall take a wife in her virginity. 14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife." }, { "point_text": "Marrying a virgin", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 11:2", "verse_text": "For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ." }, { "point_text": "Holiness of office", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 21:15", "verse_text": "Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him." }, { "point_text": "Holiness of office", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:26", "verse_text": "For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;" }, { "point_text": "Performing by himself all the services on day of atonement", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the LORD, and died; 2 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat. 3 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering. 4 He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on. ..." }, { "point_text": "Performing by himself all the services on day of atonement", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:3", "verse_text": "Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;" }, { "point_text": "Bearing the names of Israel upon his heart", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:29", "verse_text": "And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the LORD continually." }, { "point_text": "Bearing the names of Israel upon his heart", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 8:6", "verse_text": "Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame." }, { "point_text": "Alone entering into most holy place", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:7", "verse_text": "But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:" }, { "point_text": "Alone entering into most holy place", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:12", "verse_text": "Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us." }, { "point_text": "Alone entering into most holy place", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:14", "verse_text": "Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession." }, { "point_text": "Interceding", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:43-48", "verse_text": "And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation. 44 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 45 Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces. 46 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun. ..." }, { "point_text": "Interceding", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:25", "verse_text": "Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them." }, { "point_text": "Blessing", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 9:22-23", "verse_text": "And Aaron lifted up his hand toward the people, and blessed them, and came down from offering of the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and peace offerings. 23 And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the people." }, { "point_text": "INFERIOR TO CHRIST IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Needing to make atonement for his own sins", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 5:2", "verse_text": "Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity." }, { "point_text": "Needing to make atonement for his own sins", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:26-28", "verse_text": "For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; 27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself. 28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore." }, { "point_text": "Needing to make atonement for his own sins", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:7", "verse_text": "But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:" }, { "point_text": "Being of the order of Aaron", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:20", "verse_text": "Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec." }, { "point_text": "Being of the order of Aaron", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:11-17", "verse_text": "If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron? 12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law. 13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar. 14 For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood. ..." }, { "point_text": "Being of the order of Aaron", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 8:4-5", "verse_text": "For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: 5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount." }, { "point_text": "Being made without an oath", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:20-22", "verse_text": "And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest: 21 (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:) 22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament." }, { "point_text": "Not being able to continue", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:23-24", "verse_text": "And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: 24 But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood." }, { "point_text": "Offering oftentimes the same sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:25-26", "verse_text": "Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; 26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself." }, { "point_text": "Offering oftentimes the same sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:11-12", "verse_text": "And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;" }, { "point_text": "Offering oftentimes the same sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:14", "verse_text": "For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified." }, { "point_text": "Entering into holiest every year", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:7", "verse_text": "But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:" }, { "point_text": "Entering into holiest every year", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:12", "verse_text": "Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us." }, { "point_text": "Entering into holiest every year", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:25", "verse_text": "Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;" } ] }, { "name": "High-ways", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Highways.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Roads for public use", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:19", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing any thing else, go through on my feet." }, { "point_text": "Roads for public use", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:27", "verse_text": "Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left." }, { "point_text": "Called the king's highway", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:17", "verse_text": "Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders." }, { "point_text": "Marked out by heaps of stones", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:21", "verse_text": "Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities." }, { "point_text": "Generally broad", "verse_ref": "Judges 20:32", "verse_text": "And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways." }, { "point_text": "Generally broad", "verse_ref": "Judges 20:45", "verse_text": "And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them." }, { "point_text": "Generally straight", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 6:12", "verse_text": "And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh." }, { "point_text": "Generally straight", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:3", "verse_text": "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God." }, { "point_text": "Made to all cities of refuge", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 19:2-3", "verse_text": "Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it. 3 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither." }, { "point_text": "Often made in deserts", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:3", "verse_text": "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God." }, { "point_text": "INFESTED WITH", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Serpents", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:17", "verse_text": "Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward." }, { "point_text": "Wild beasts", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 13:24", "verse_text": "And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase." }, { "point_text": "Wild beasts", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 35:9", "verse_text": "No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:" }, { "point_text": "Robbers", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:2", "verse_text": "Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness." }, { "point_text": "Robbers", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:30-33", "verse_text": "And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. 31 And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. 32 And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side. 33 But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him," }, { "point_text": "Beggars sat by sides of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:30", "verse_text": "And, behold, two blind men sitting by the way side, when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou Son of David." }, { "point_text": "Beggars sat by sides of", "verse_ref": "Mark 10:46", "verse_text": "And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging." }, { "point_text": "Often obstructed", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 18:15", "verse_text": "Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;" }, { "point_text": "All obstructions removed from, before persons of distinction", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:3-4", "verse_text": "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. 4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:" }, { "point_text": "By-paths more secure in times of danger", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:6", "verse_text": "In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways." }, { "point_text": "Desolation of, threatened as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:22", "verse_text": "I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate." }, { "point_text": "Desolation of, threatened as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:8", "verse_text": "The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 14:6", "verse_text": "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." }, { "point_text": "Of the way of holiness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 35:8", "verse_text": "And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein." }, { "point_text": "Of facilities for the restoration of the Jews", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:16", "verse_text": "And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Of facilities for the restoration of the Jews", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 62:10", "verse_text": "Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people." }, { "point_text": "(Made in the deserts,) of facilities for the spread of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:3", "verse_text": "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God." }, { "point_text": "(Made in the deserts,) of facilities for the spread of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 43:19", "verse_text": "Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert." }, { "point_text": "(Narrow,) of the way of life", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:14", "verse_text": "Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." }, { "point_text": "(Broad,) of the way to destruction", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:13", "verse_text": "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:" } ] }, { "name": "Hittites", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Hittites.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Descended from Canaan's son, Heth", "verse_ref": "Genesis 10:15", "verse_text": "And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth," }, { "point_text": "CALLED THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Sons of Heth", "verse_ref": "Genesis 23:3", "verse_text": "And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying," }, { "point_text": "Sons of Heth", "verse_ref": "Genesis 23:20", "verse_text": "And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth." }, { "point_text": "Children of Heth", "verse_ref": "Genesis 23:5", "verse_text": "And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him," }, { "point_text": "One of the seven nations of Canaan", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:1", "verse_text": "When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;" }, { "point_text": "Dwelt in Hebron", "verse_ref": "Genesis 23:2-3", "verse_text": "And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. 3 And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying," }, { "point_text": "Dwelt in Hebron", "verse_ref": "Genesis 23:19", "verse_text": "And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan." }, { "point_text": "Governed by kings", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:29", "verse_text": "And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means." }, { "point_text": "Governed by kings", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 7:6", "verse_text": "For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us." }, { "point_text": "Land of, promised to Israel", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:20", "verse_text": "And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims," }, { "point_text": "Land of, promised to Israel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 3:8", "verse_text": "And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites." }, { "point_text": "Israel commanded to destroy", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:1-2", "verse_text": "When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; 2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:" }, { "point_text": "Israel commanded to destroy", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:24", "verse_text": "And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them." }, { "point_text": "Part of their land given to Caleb", "verse_ref": "Joshua 14:13", "verse_text": "And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance." }, { "point_text": "Not entirely destroyed by Israel", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:5", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:" }, { "point_text": "The remnant of, made tributary in the reign of Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 9:20-21", "verse_text": "And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel, 21 Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Luz built in the country of", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:26", "verse_text": "And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof Luz: which is the name thereof unto this day." }, { "point_text": "INTERMARRIAGES WITH, BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Esau", "verse_ref": "Genesis 36:2", "verse_text": "Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;" }, { "point_text": "Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:1-2", "verse_text": "But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites; 2 Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love." }, { "point_text": "Israel after conquest of Canaan", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:5-6", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites: 6 And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods." }, { "point_text": "Israelites after the captivity", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:1", "verse_text": "Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites." }, { "point_text": "Descent from, illustrative of the degradation of the Jews", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:3", "verse_text": "And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nEphron, \nAbimelech, \nUriah,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:30", "verse_text": "In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nEphron, \nAbimelech, \nUriah,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 26:6", "verse_text": "Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nEphron, \nAbimelech, \nUriah,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 11:6", "verse_text": "And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nEphron, \nAbimelech, \nUriah,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 11:21", "verse_text": "Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also." } ] }, { "name": "Holiness of God, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Holiness-of-God-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is incomparable", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:11", "verse_text": "Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?" }, { "point_text": "Is incomparable", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:2", "verse_text": "There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God." }, { "point_text": "EXHIBITED IN HIS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Character", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:3", "verse_text": "But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Character", "verse_ref": "John 17:11", "verse_text": "And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are." }, { "point_text": "Name", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:15", "verse_text": "For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones." }, { "point_text": "Name", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:49", "verse_text": "For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name." }, { "point_text": "Words", "verse_ref": "Psalm 60:6", "verse_text": "God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth." }, { "point_text": "Words", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:9", "verse_text": "Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness." }, { "point_text": "Works", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:17", "verse_text": "The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works." }, { "point_text": "Kingdom", "verse_ref": "Psalm 47:8", "verse_text": "God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness." }, { "point_text": "Kingdom", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:41", "verse_text": "The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;" }, { "point_text": "Kingdom", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:27", "verse_text": "And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life." }, { "point_text": "Kingdom", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:9-10", "verse_text": "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "IS PLEDGED FOR THE FULFILMENT OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "His promises", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:35", "verse_text": "Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David." }, { "point_text": "His judgments", "verse_ref": "Amos 4:2", "verse_text": "The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks." }, { "point_text": "Saints are commanded to imitate", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:44", "verse_text": "For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Saints are commanded to imitate", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:15-16", "verse_text": "But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy." }, { "point_text": "Saints should praise", "verse_ref": "Psalm 30:4", "verse_text": "Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness." }, { "point_text": "Should produce reverential fear", "verse_ref": "Revelation 15:4", "verse_text": "Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest." }, { "point_text": "Requires holy service", "verse_ref": "Joshua 24:19", "verse_text": "And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins." }, { "point_text": "Requires holy service", "verse_ref": "Psalm 93:5", "verse_text": "Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever." }, { "point_text": "Heavenly hosts adore", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:3", "verse_text": "And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory." }, { "point_text": "Heavenly hosts adore", "verse_ref": "Revelation 4:8", "verse_text": "And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come." }, { "point_text": "Should be magnified", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:10", "verse_text": "Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Should be magnified", "verse_ref": "Psalm 48:1", "verse_text": "Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness." }, { "point_text": "Should be magnified", "verse_ref": "Psalm 99:3", "verse_text": "Let them praise thy great and terrible name; for it is holy." }, { "point_text": "Should be magnified", "verse_ref": "Psalm 99:5", "verse_text": "Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy." } ] }, { "name": "Hivites", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Hivites.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Descended from Canaan", "verse_ref": "Genesis 10:15", "verse_text": "And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth," }, { "point_text": "Descended from Canaan", "verse_ref": "Genesis 10:17", "verse_text": "And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite," }, { "point_text": "Supposed to be the ancient Avim, or Avites", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:33", "verse_text": "And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people." }, { "point_text": "Supposed to be the ancient Avim, or Avites", "verse_ref": "Joshua 13:3", "verse_text": "From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites:" }, { "point_text": "One of the seven nations of Canaan", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:1", "verse_text": "When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;" }, { "point_text": "Dwelt near Lebanon", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:3", "verse_text": "Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath." }, { "point_text": "The Shechemites a people of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 34:2", "verse_text": "And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her." }, { "point_text": "The Gibeonites a people of", "verse_ref": "Joshua 9:3", "verse_text": "And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai," }, { "point_text": "The Gibeonites a people of", "verse_ref": "Joshua 9:7", "verse_text": "And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?" }, { "point_text": "Esau intermarried with", "verse_ref": "Genesis 36:2", "verse_text": "Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;" }, { "point_text": "Land of, promised to Israel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 3:8", "verse_text": "And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites." }, { "point_text": "Land of, promised to Israel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:23", "verse_text": "For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off." }, { "point_text": "Israel commanded to destroy", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:1-2", "verse_text": "When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; 2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:" }, { "point_text": "Israel commanded to destroy", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:24", "verse_text": "And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them." }, { "point_text": "A part of, left to prove Israel", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:3", "verse_text": "Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath." }, { "point_text": "Remnant of, made tributary in the reign of Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 9:20-21", "verse_text": "And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel, 21 Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day." } ] }, { "name": "Holy Ghost, the Comforter, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Holy-Ghost-the-Comforter-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Proceeds from the Father", "verse_ref": "John 15:26", "verse_text": "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:" }, { "point_text": "GIVEN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "By the Father", "verse_ref": "John 14:16", "verse_text": "And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;" }, { "point_text": "By Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:3", "verse_text": "To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified." }, { "point_text": "Through Christ's intercession", "verse_ref": "John 14:16", "verse_text": "And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;" }, { "point_text": "Sent in the name of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 14:26", "verse_text": "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." }, { "point_text": "Sent by Christ from the Father", "verse_ref": "John 15:26", "verse_text": "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:" }, { "point_text": "Sent by Christ from the Father", "verse_ref": "John 16:7", "verse_text": "Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you." }, { "point_text": "AS SUCH HE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Communicates joy to saints", "verse_ref": "Romans 14:17", "verse_text": "For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Communicates joy to saints", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:22", "verse_text": "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith," }, { "point_text": "Communicates joy to saints", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 1:6", "verse_text": "And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:" }, { "point_text": "Edifies the Church", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:31", "verse_text": "Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied." }, { "point_text": "Testifies of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 15:26", "verse_text": "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:" }, { "point_text": "Imparts the love of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:3-5", "verse_text": "And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; 4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope: 5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us." }, { "point_text": "Imparts hope", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:13", "verse_text": "Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Imparts hope", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:5", "verse_text": "For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith." }, { "point_text": "Teaches saints", "verse_ref": "John 14:26", "verse_text": "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." }, { "point_text": "Dwells with, and in saints", "verse_ref": "John 14:17", "verse_text": "Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you." }, { "point_text": "Abides for ever with saints", "verse_ref": "John 14:16", "verse_text": "And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;" }, { "point_text": "Is known by saints", "verse_ref": "John 14:17", "verse_text": "Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you." }, { "point_text": "The world cannot receive", "verse_ref": "John 14:17", "verse_text": "Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you." } ] }, { "name": "Holiness", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Holiness.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:45", "verse_text": "For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy." }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 20:7", "verse_text": "Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:8", "verse_text": "For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:" }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:12", "verse_text": "Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;" }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:1", "verse_text": "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service." }, { "point_text": "CHRIST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Desires, for His people", "verse_ref": "John 17:17", "verse_text": "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth." }, { "point_text": "Effects, in His people", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:25-27", "verse_text": "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish." }, { "point_text": "An example of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:26", "verse_text": "For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;" }, { "point_text": "An example of", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:21-22", "verse_text": "For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: 22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:" }, { "point_text": "The character of God, the standard of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:2", "verse_text": "Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy." }, { "point_text": "The character of God, the standard of", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:15-16", "verse_text": "But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy." }, { "point_text": "The character of Christ, the standard of", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:29", "verse_text": "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren." }, { "point_text": "The character of Christ, the standard of", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:6", "verse_text": "He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked." }, { "point_text": "The character of Christ, the standard of", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:5", "verse_text": "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:" }, { "point_text": "The gospel the way of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 35:8", "verse_text": "And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein." }, { "point_text": "Necessary to God's worship", "verse_ref": "Psalm 24:3-4", "verse_text": "Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? 4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully." }, { "point_text": "None shall see God without", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:5", "verse_text": "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God." }, { "point_text": "None shall see God without", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:14", "verse_text": "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:" }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Elected to", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:29", "verse_text": "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren." }, { "point_text": "Elected to", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:4", "verse_text": "According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:" }, { "point_text": "Called to", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:7", "verse_text": "For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness." }, { "point_text": "Called to", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:9", "verse_text": "Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began," }, { "point_text": "New created in", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:24", "verse_text": "And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness." }, { "point_text": "Possess", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:17", "verse_text": "If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are." }, { "point_text": "Possess", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:1", "verse_text": "Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;" }, { "point_text": "Have their fruit unto", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:22", "verse_text": "But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life." }, { "point_text": "Should follow after", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:14", "verse_text": "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:" }, { "point_text": "Should serve God in", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:74-75", "verse_text": "That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear, 75 In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life." }, { "point_text": "Should yield their members as instruments of", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:13", "verse_text": "Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God." }, { "point_text": "Should yield their members as instruments of", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:19", "verse_text": "I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness." }, { "point_text": "Should present their bodies to God in", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:1", "verse_text": "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service." }, { "point_text": "Should have their conversation in", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:15", "verse_text": "But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;" }, { "point_text": "Should have their conversation in", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:11", "verse_text": "Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness," }, { "point_text": "Should continue in", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:75", "verse_text": "In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life." }, { "point_text": "Should seek perfection in", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 7:1", "verse_text": "Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God." }, { "point_text": "Shall be presented to God in", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:22", "verse_text": "In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:" }, { "point_text": "Shall be presented to God in", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 3:13", "verse_text": "To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints." }, { "point_text": "Shall continue in, for ever", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:11", "verse_text": "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still." }, { "point_text": "Behavior of aged women should be as becomes", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:3", "verse_text": "The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;" }, { "point_text": "Promise to women who continue in", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:15", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety." }, { "point_text": "Promised to the Church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 35:8", "verse_text": "And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein." }, { "point_text": "Promised to the Church", "verse_ref": "Obadiah 17", "verse_text": "But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions." }, { "point_text": "Promised to the Church", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 14:20-21", "verse_text": "In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD'S house shall be like the bowls before the altar. 21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Becoming in the Church", "verse_ref": "Psalm 93:5", "verse_text": "Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever." }, { "point_text": "The Church is the beauty of", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:29", "verse_text": "Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness." }, { "point_text": "The Church is the beauty of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 29:2", "verse_text": "Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness." }, { "point_text": "The word of God the means of producing", "verse_ref": "John 17:17", "verse_text": "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth." }, { "point_text": "The word of God the means of producing", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:16-17", "verse_text": "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works." }, { "point_text": "IS THE RESULT OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The manifestation of God's grace", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:3", "verse_text": "The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;" }, { "point_text": "The manifestation of God's grace", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:11-12", "verse_text": "For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, 12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;" }, { "point_text": "Subjection to God", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:22", "verse_text": "But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life." }, { "point_text": "God's keeping", "verse_ref": "John 17:15", "verse_text": "I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil." }, { "point_text": "Union with Christ", "verse_ref": "John 15:4", "verse_text": "Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me." }, { "point_text": "Union with Christ", "verse_ref": "John 17:9", "verse_text": "I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine." }, { "point_text": "Required in prayer", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:8", "verse_text": "I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting." }, { "point_text": "MINISTERS SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Possess", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:8", "verse_text": "But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;" }, { "point_text": "Avoid everything inconsistent with", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 21:6", "verse_text": "They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy." }, { "point_text": "Avoid everything inconsistent with", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 52:11", "verse_text": "Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Be examples of", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:12", "verse_text": "Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity." }, { "point_text": "Exhort to", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:14", "verse_text": "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:" }, { "point_text": "Exhort to", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:14-16", "verse_text": "As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: 15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy." }, { "point_text": "MOTIVES TO;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The glory of God", "verse_ref": "John 15:8", "verse_text": "Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples." }, { "point_text": "The glory of God", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:11", "verse_text": "Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God." }, { "point_text": "The love of Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:14-15", "verse_text": "For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: 15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again." }, { "point_text": "The mercies of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:1-2", "verse_text": "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." }, { "point_text": "The dissolution of all things", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:11", "verse_text": "Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness," }, { "point_text": "Chastisements are intended to produce, in saints", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:10", "verse_text": "For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness." }, { "point_text": "Chastisements are intended to produce, in saints", "verse_ref": "James 1:2-3", "verse_text": "My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience." }, { "point_text": "Should lead to separation from the wicked", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:21", "verse_text": "Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment." }, { "point_text": "Should lead to separation from the wicked", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:26", "verse_text": "And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins." }, { "point_text": "Should lead to separation from the wicked", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:17-18", "verse_text": "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, 18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." }, { "point_text": "The wicked are without", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:9", "verse_text": "Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers," }, { "point_text": "The wicked are without", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:2", "verse_text": "For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nIsrael, \nJohn the Baptist, \nProphets, \nPaul, \nWives of Patriarchs,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 86:2", "verse_text": "Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nIsrael, \nJohn the Baptist, \nProphets, \nPaul, \nWives of Patriarchs,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:3", "verse_text": "Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nIsrael, \nJohn the Baptist, \nProphets, \nPaul, \nWives of Patriarchs,", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:20", "verse_text": "For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nIsrael, \nJohn the Baptist, \nProphets, \nPaul, \nWives of Patriarchs,", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:70", "verse_text": "As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nIsrael, \nJohn the Baptist, \nProphets, \nPaul, \nWives of Patriarchs,", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:10", "verse_text": "Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nIsrael, \nJohn the Baptist, \nProphets, \nPaul, \nWives of Patriarchs,", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:5", "verse_text": "For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:" } ] }, { "name": "Holy Ghost, The Personality of", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Holy-Ghost-The-Personality-of.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "He creates and gives life", "verse_ref": "Job 33:4", "verse_text": "The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life." }, { "point_text": "He appoints and commissions ministers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 48:16", "verse_text": "Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me." }, { "point_text": "He appoints and commissions ministers", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:2", "verse_text": "As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them." }, { "point_text": "He appoints and commissions ministers", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:28", "verse_text": "Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood." }, { "point_text": "He directs ministers where to preach", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:29", "verse_text": "Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot." }, { "point_text": "He directs ministers where to preach", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:19-20", "verse_text": "While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee. 20 Arise therefore, and get thee down, and go with them, doubting nothing: for I have sent them." }, { "point_text": "He directs ministers where not to preach", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:6-7", "verse_text": "Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia, 7 After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not." }, { "point_text": "He instructs ministers what to preach", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:13", "verse_text": "Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual." }, { "point_text": "He spoke in, and by, the Prophets", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:16", "verse_text": "Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus." }, { "point_text": "He spoke in, and by, the Prophets", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:11-12", "verse_text": "Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. 12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into." }, { "point_text": "He spoke in, and by, the Prophets", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:21", "verse_text": "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "He strives with sinners", "verse_ref": "Genesis 6:3", "verse_text": "And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years." }, { "point_text": "He reproves", "verse_ref": "John 16:8", "verse_text": "And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:" }, { "point_text": "He comforts", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:31", "verse_text": "Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied." }, { "point_text": "He helps our infirmities", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:26", "verse_text": "Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered." }, { "point_text": "He teaches", "verse_ref": "John 14:26", "verse_text": "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." }, { "point_text": "He teaches", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:3", "verse_text": "Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "He guides", "verse_ref": "John 16:13", "verse_text": "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come." }, { "point_text": "He sanctifies", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:16", "verse_text": "That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "He sanctifies", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:11", "verse_text": "And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God." }, { "point_text": "He testifies of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 15:26", "verse_text": "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:" }, { "point_text": "He glorifies Christ", "verse_ref": "John 16:14", "verse_text": "He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you." }, { "point_text": "He has a power of His own", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:13", "verse_text": "Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "He searches all things", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:33-34", "verse_text": "O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! 34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counseller?" }, { "point_text": "He searches all things", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:10-11", "verse_text": "But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God." }, { "point_text": "He works according to His own will", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:11", "verse_text": "But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will." }, { "point_text": "He dwells with saints", "verse_ref": "John 14:17", "verse_text": "Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you." }, { "point_text": "He can be grieved", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:30", "verse_text": "And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption." }, { "point_text": "He can be vexed", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:10", "verse_text": "But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them." }, { "point_text": "He can be resisted", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:51", "verse_text": "Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye." }, { "point_text": "He can be tempted", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:9", "verse_text": "Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out." } ] }, { "name": "Holy Ghost, the Teacher, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Holy-Ghost-the-Teacher-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Promised", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:23", "verse_text": "Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you." }, { "point_text": "As the Spirit of wisdom", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:2", "verse_text": "And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;" }, { "point_text": "As the Spirit of wisdom", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:13-14", "verse_text": "Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counseller hath taught him? 14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?" }, { "point_text": "GIVEN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In answer to prayer", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:16-17", "verse_text": "Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; 17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:" }, { "point_text": "To saints", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:20", "verse_text": "Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst." }, { "point_text": "To saints", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:12-13", "verse_text": "Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual." }, { "point_text": "Necessity for", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:9-10", "verse_text": "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God." }, { "point_text": "AS SUCH HE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Reveals the things of God", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:10", "verse_text": "But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God." }, { "point_text": "Reveals the things of God", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:13", "verse_text": "Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual." }, { "point_text": "Reveals the things of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 16:14", "verse_text": "He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you." }, { "point_text": "Reveals the future", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:26", "verse_text": "And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ." }, { "point_text": "Reveals the future", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:11", "verse_text": "And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles." }, { "point_text": "Brings the words of Christ to remembrance", "verse_ref": "John 14:26", "verse_text": "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." }, { "point_text": "Directs in the way of godliness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:21", "verse_text": "And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left." }, { "point_text": "Directs in the way of godliness", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 36:27", "verse_text": "And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them." }, { "point_text": "Teaches saints to answer persecutors", "verse_ref": "Mark 13:11", "verse_text": "But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Teaches saints to answer persecutors", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:12", "verse_text": "For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say." }, { "point_text": "Enables ministers to teach", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:8", "verse_text": "For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;" }, { "point_text": "Guides into all truth", "verse_ref": "John 14:26", "verse_text": "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." }, { "point_text": "Guides into all truth", "verse_ref": "John 16:13", "verse_text": "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come." }, { "point_text": "Directs the decisions of the Church", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:28", "verse_text": "For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;" }, { "point_text": "Attend to the instruction of", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:7", "verse_text": "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God." }, { "point_text": "Attend to the instruction of", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:11", "verse_text": "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death." }, { "point_text": "Attend to the instruction of", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:29", "verse_text": "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches." }, { "point_text": "The natural man will not receive the things of", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:14", "verse_text": "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." } ] }, { "name": "Holy Ghost, The, is God", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Holy-Ghost-The-is-God.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "As Jehovah", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:7", "verse_text": "And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?" }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:7-9", "verse_text": "Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years." }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah", "verse_ref": "Numbers 12:6", "verse_text": "And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream." }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:21", "verse_text": "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah of hosts", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:3", "verse_text": "And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory." }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah of hosts", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:8-10", "verse_text": "Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. 9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. 10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed." }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah of hosts", "verse_ref": "Acts 28:25", "verse_text": "And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers," }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah, Most High", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:17", "verse_text": "And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "As Jehovah, Most High", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:21", "verse_text": "Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;" }, { "point_text": "Being invoked as Jehovah", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:26-29", "verse_text": "And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ. 27 And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law, 28 Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said, 29 Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:" }, { "point_text": "Being invoked as Jehovah", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:23-25", "verse_text": "And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them. 24 And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is: 25 Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?" }, { "point_text": "Being invoked as Jehovah", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:16", "verse_text": "Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Being invoked as Jehovah", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:20", "verse_text": "For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take." }, { "point_text": "Being invoked as Jehovah", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 3:5", "verse_text": "And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ." }, { "point_text": "As called God", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:3-4", "verse_text": "But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? 4 Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God." }, { "point_text": "As joined with the Father and the Son in the baptismal formula", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:19", "verse_text": "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:" }, { "point_text": "As eternal", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:14", "verse_text": "How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" }, { "point_text": "As omnipresent", "verse_ref": "Psalm 139:7-13", "verse_text": "Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? 8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. 9 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; 10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. ..." }, { "point_text": "As omniscient", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:10", "verse_text": "But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God." }, { "point_text": "As omnipotent", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:35", "verse_text": "And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." }, { "point_text": "As omnipotent", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:19", "verse_text": "Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ." }, { "point_text": "As the Spirit of glory and of God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:14", "verse_text": "If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified." }, { "point_text": "As Creator", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:26-27", "verse_text": "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." }, { "point_text": "As equal to, and one with the Father", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:19", "verse_text": "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:" }, { "point_text": "As equal to, and one with the Father", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 13:14", "verse_text": "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen." }, { "point_text": "As Sovereign Disposer of all things", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:35", "verse_text": "And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?" }, { "point_text": "As Sovereign Disposer of all things", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:6", "verse_text": "And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all." }, { "point_text": "As Sovereign Disposer of all things", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:11", "verse_text": "But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will." }, { "point_text": "As Author of the new birth", "verse_ref": "John 3:5-6", "verse_text": "Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." }, { "point_text": "As Author of the new birth", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:4", "verse_text": "For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith." }, { "point_text": "As raising Christ from the dead", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:24", "verse_text": "Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it." }, { "point_text": "As raising Christ from the dead", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:18", "verse_text": "For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:" }, { "point_text": "As raising Christ from the dead", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:20", "verse_text": "Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant," }, { "point_text": "As raising Christ from the dead", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:4", "verse_text": "And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:" }, { "point_text": "As inspiring Scripture", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:16", "verse_text": "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:" }, { "point_text": "As inspiring Scripture", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:21", "verse_text": "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "As the source of wisdom", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:8", "verse_text": "For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;" }, { "point_text": "As the source of wisdom", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:2", "verse_text": "And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;" }, { "point_text": "As the source of wisdom", "verse_ref": "John 16:13", "verse_text": "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come." }, { "point_text": "As the source of wisdom", "verse_ref": "John 14:26", "verse_text": "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." }, { "point_text": "As the source of miraculous power", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:28", "verse_text": "But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you." }, { "point_text": "As the source of miraculous power", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:20", "verse_text": "But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you." }, { "point_text": "As the source of miraculous power", "verse_ref": "Acts 19:11", "verse_text": "And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:" }, { "point_text": "As the source of miraculous power", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:19", "verse_text": "Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ." }, { "point_text": "As appointing and sending ministers", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:2", "verse_text": "As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them." }, { "point_text": "As appointing and sending ministers", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:4", "verse_text": "So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus." }, { "point_text": "As directing where the gospel should be preached", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:6-7", "verse_text": "Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia, 7 After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not." }, { "point_text": "As directing where the gospel should be preached", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:10", "verse_text": "And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them." }, { "point_text": "As dwelling in saints", "verse_ref": "John 14:17", "verse_text": "Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you." }, { "point_text": "As dwelling in saints", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:25", "verse_text": "And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth." }, { "point_text": "As dwelling in saints", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:16", "verse_text": "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" }, { "point_text": "As dwelling in saints", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:19", "verse_text": "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?" }, { "point_text": "As Comforter of the Church", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:31", "verse_text": "Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied." }, { "point_text": "As Comforter of the Church", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:3", "verse_text": "Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;" }, { "point_text": "As sanctifying the Church", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 37:28", "verse_text": "And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore." }, { "point_text": "As sanctifying the Church", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:16", "verse_text": "That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "As the Witness", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:15", "verse_text": "Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before," }, { "point_text": "As the Witness", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:9", "verse_text": "If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son." }, { "point_text": "As convincing of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment", "verse_ref": "John 16:8-11", "verse_text": "And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: 9 Of sin, because they believe not on me; 10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; 11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged." } ] }, { "name": "Holy of Holies", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Holy-of-Holies.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Divided from the outward tabernacle by a vail", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:31-33", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made: 32 And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver. 33 And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy." }, { "point_text": "WAS CALLED THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Sanctuary", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:6", "verse_text": "And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the LORD, before the vail of the sanctuary." }, { "point_text": "Sanctuary", "verse_ref": "Psalm 20:2", "verse_text": "Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion;" }, { "point_text": "Holy sanctuary", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:33", "verse_text": "And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "Holy place", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:29", "verse_text": "And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the LORD continually." }, { "point_text": "Holy place", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:2-3", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat. 3 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering." }, { "point_text": "Most holy place", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:31-33", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made: 32 And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver. 33 And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy." }, { "point_text": "Holiest of all", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:3", "verse_text": "And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;" }, { "point_text": "Oracle", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:5", "verse_text": "And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:" }, { "point_text": "Oracle", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:16", "verse_text": "And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place." }, { "point_text": "Oracle", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:20", "verse_text": "And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar." }, { "point_text": "CONTAINED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Ark of testimony", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:33", "verse_text": "And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy." }, { "point_text": "Ark of testimony", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:3", "verse_text": "And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the vail." }, { "point_text": "Ark of testimony", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:21", "verse_text": "And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the vail of the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "Mercy-seat", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:34", "verse_text": "And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place." }, { "point_text": "Cherubim", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:18-22", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat. 19 And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof. 20 And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be. 21 And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee. ..." }, { "point_text": "Cherubim", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:23-28", "verse_text": "And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high. 24 And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits. 25 And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubims were of one measure and one size. 26 The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub. ..." }, { "point_text": "Golden censer", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:4", "verse_text": "Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;" }, { "point_text": "Pot of manna", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:33", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations." }, { "point_text": "Pot of manna", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:4", "verse_text": "Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;" }, { "point_text": "Aaron's rod", "verse_ref": "Numbers 17:10", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not." }, { "point_text": "Aaron's rod", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:4", "verse_text": "Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;" }, { "point_text": "A written copy of the divine law", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 31:26", "verse_text": "Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee." }, { "point_text": "A written copy of the divine law", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 22:8", "verse_text": "And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it." }, { "point_text": "God appeared in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:22", "verse_text": "And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "God appeared in", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:2", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat." }, { "point_text": "THE HIGH PRIEST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Not to enter, at all times", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:2", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat." }, { "point_text": "Alone to enter, once a year", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:7", "verse_text": "But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:" }, { "point_text": "Entered, in ordinary priest's dress", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:4", "verse_text": "He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on." }, { "point_text": "Entered, not without blood of atonement", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:14-15", "verse_text": "And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times. 15 Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:" }, { "point_text": "Offered incense in", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:12", "verse_text": "And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail:" }, { "point_text": "Made atonement for", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:15-16", "verse_text": "Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat: 16 And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness." }, { "point_text": "Made atonement for", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:20", "verse_text": "And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat:" }, { "point_text": "Made atonement for", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:33", "verse_text": "And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "The priests allowed to enter, and prepare the holy things for removal", "verse_ref": "Numbers 4:5", "verse_text": "And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it:" }, { "point_text": "Laid open to view at Christ's death", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:51", "verse_text": "And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;" }, { "point_text": "A type of heaven", "verse_ref": "Psalm 102:19", "verse_text": "For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;" }, { "point_text": "A type of heaven", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:12-13", "verse_text": "Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. 13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:" }, { "point_text": "A type of heaven", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:24", "verse_text": "For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:" }, { "point_text": "Saints have boldness to enter the true", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:19", "verse_text": "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus," } ] }, { "name": "Holy Land", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Holy-Land.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Extremely fruitful", "verse_ref": "Exodus 3:8", "verse_text": "And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites." }, { "point_text": "Extremely fruitful", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:27", "verse_text": "And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it." }, { "point_text": "Extremely fruitful", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:7-9", "verse_text": "For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; 8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; 9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass." }, { "point_text": "Extremely fruitful", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:10-12", "verse_text": "For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: 11 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: 12 A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year." }, { "point_text": "Abounded in minerals", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:9", "verse_text": "A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass." }, { "point_text": "Abounded in minerals", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:25", "verse_text": "Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be." }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The land", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:42", "verse_text": "Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land." }, { "point_text": "The land", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:25", "verse_text": "But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;" }, { "point_text": "The Lord's land", "verse_ref": "Hosea 9:3", "verse_text": "They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria." }, { "point_text": "Land of Canaan", "verse_ref": "Genesis 11:31", "verse_text": "And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there." }, { "point_text": "Land of Canaan", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:34", "verse_text": "When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;" }, { "point_text": "Land of Israel", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:19", "verse_text": "Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:" }, { "point_text": "Land of Israel", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:20-21", "verse_text": "Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life. 21 And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Land of Judah", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:1", "verse_text": "In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks." }, { "point_text": "Land of the Hebrews", "verse_ref": "Genesis 40:15", "verse_text": "For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon." }, { "point_text": "Land of promise", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:9", "verse_text": "By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:" }, { "point_text": "Land of Immanuel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:8", "verse_text": "And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel." }, { "point_text": "Pleasant land", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:24", "verse_text": "Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:" }, { "point_text": "Pleasant land", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:9", "verse_text": "And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land." }, { "point_text": "Good land", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:7", "verse_text": "And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land." }, { "point_text": "Good land", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 3:25", "verse_text": "I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Glorious land", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:16", "verse_text": "But he that cometh against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him: and he shall stand in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed." }, { "point_text": "Palestina", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:14", "verse_text": "The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina." }, { "point_text": "Palestina", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:29", "verse_text": "Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent." }, { "point_text": "Palestina", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:31", "verse_text": "Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times." }, { "point_text": "Original inhabitants of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 10:15-20", "verse_text": "And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, 16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, 17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, 18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad. ..." }, { "point_text": "Original inhabitants of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:1", "verse_text": "When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;" }, { "point_text": "Inhabitants of, expelled for wickedness", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:16", "verse_text": "But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full." }, { "point_text": "Inhabitants of, expelled for wickedness", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:23", "verse_text": "For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off." }, { "point_text": "Inhabitants of, expelled for wickedness", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 18:25", "verse_text": "And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants." }, { "point_text": "Inhabitants of, expelled for wickedness", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:12", "verse_text": "For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee." }, { "point_text": "PROMISED TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Abraham", "verse_ref": "Genesis 12:7", "verse_text": "And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him." }, { "point_text": "Abraham", "verse_ref": "Genesis 13:15", "verse_text": "For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever." }, { "point_text": "Abraham", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:8", "verse_text": "And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God." }, { "point_text": "Isaac", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:3", "verse_text": "Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;" }, { "point_text": "Jacob", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:13", "verse_text": "And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;" }, { "point_text": "Jacob", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:12", "verse_text": "And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land." }, { "point_text": "Given by covenant to Israel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 6:4", "verse_text": "And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers." }, { "point_text": "EXTENT OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "As promised", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:18", "verse_text": "In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:" }, { "point_text": "As promised", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:7", "verse_text": "Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates." }, { "point_text": "As promised", "verse_ref": "Joshua 1:4", "verse_text": "From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast." }, { "point_text": "As at first divided", "verse_ref": "Numbers 34:1-12", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with the coasts thereof:) 3 Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward: 4 And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadeshbarnea, and shall go on to Hazaraddar, and pass on to Azmon: ..." }, { "point_text": "Under Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:21", "verse_text": "And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life." }, { "point_text": "Under Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:24", "verse_text": "For he had dominion over all the region on this side the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the river: and he had peace on all sides round about him." }, { "point_text": "Under Solomon", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:26", "verse_text": "And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Twelve men sent to spy", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them. 3 And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel. 4 And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. ..." }, { "point_text": "Conquered by Joshua", "verse_ref": "Joshua 6-12", "verse_text": "Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in. 2 And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour. 3 And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days. 4 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets. ..." }, { "point_text": "Divided by lot", "verse_ref": "Numbers 34:16-29", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 17 These are the names of the men which shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun. 18 And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance. 19 And the names of the men are these: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. ..." }, { "point_text": "Divided by lot", "verse_ref": "Joshua 13:7-14", "verse_text": "Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh, 8 With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them; 9 From Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon; 10 And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon; ..." }, { "point_text": "Allotment of, specified", "verse_ref": "Joshua 14-19", "verse_text": "And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them. 2 By lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe. 3 For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them. 4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance. ..." }, { "point_text": "All inheritances in, inalienable", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:10", "verse_text": "And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family." }, { "point_text": "All inheritances in, inalienable", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:23", "verse_text": "The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me." }, { "point_text": "A sabbath of rest appointed for", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:2-5", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD. 3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; 4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. 5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land." }, { "point_text": "Obedience the condition of continuing in", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:3", "verse_text": "If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;" }, { "point_text": "Obedience the condition of continuing in", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:33", "verse_text": "Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess." }, { "point_text": "Obedience the condition of continuing in", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:16-17", "verse_text": "Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; 17 And then the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you." }, { "point_text": "Obedience the condition of continuing in", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:22-25", "verse_text": "For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him; 23 Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves. 24 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be. 25 There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you." }, { "point_text": "DIVIDED INTO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Twelve provinces by Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:7-19", "verse_text": "And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision. 8 And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim: 9 The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Bethshemesh, and Elonbethhanan: 10 The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher: ..." }, { "point_text": "Two kingdoms in the time of Rehoboam", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:35", "verse_text": "But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes." }, { "point_text": "Two kingdoms in the time of Rehoboam", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:19-20", "verse_text": "So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day. 20 And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only." }, { "point_text": "Four provinces by the Romans", "verse_ref": "Luke 3:1", "verse_text": "Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene," }, { "point_text": "Numerous population of, in Solomon's reign", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 3:8", "verse_text": "And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude." }, { "point_text": "Numerous population of, in Solomon's reign", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 1:9", "verse_text": "Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father be established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude." }, { "point_text": "Extensive commerce of, in Solomon's reign", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 9:26-28", "verse_text": "And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. 27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. 28 And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon." }, { "point_text": "Extensive commerce of, in Solomon's reign", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:22-29", "verse_text": "For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. 23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom. 24 And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart. 25 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year. ..." }, { "point_text": "Prosperity of, in Solomon's reign", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:20", "verse_text": "Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry." }, { "point_text": "Was the burial place of the patriarchs", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:29-31", "verse_text": "And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30 In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace. 31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah." }, { "point_text": "Was the burial place of the patriarchs", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:13", "verse_text": "For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre." }, { "point_text": "Was the burial place of the patriarchs", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:25", "verse_text": "And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence." }, { "point_text": "A type of the rest that remaineth for saints", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:1-2", "verse_text": "Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. 2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it." }, { "point_text": "A type of the rest that remaineth for saints", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:9", "verse_text": "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God." }, { "point_text": "A type of the rest that remaineth for saints", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:4", "verse_text": "To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you," }, { "point_text": "Extremely fruitful", "verse_ref": "Exodus 3:8", "verse_text": "And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites." }, { "point_text": "Extremely fruitful", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:27", "verse_text": "And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it." }, { "point_text": "Extremely fruitful", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:7-9", "verse_text": "For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; 8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; 9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass." }, { "point_text": "Extremely fruitful", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:10-12", "verse_text": "For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: 11 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: 12 A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year." }, { "point_text": "Abounded in minerals", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:9", "verse_text": "A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass." }, { "point_text": "Abounded in minerals", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:25", "verse_text": "Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be." }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "The land", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:42", "verse_text": "Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land." }, { "point_text": "The land", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:25", "verse_text": "But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;" }, { "point_text": "The Lord's land", "verse_ref": "Hosea 9:3", "verse_text": "They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria." }, { "point_text": "Land of Canaan", "verse_ref": "Genesis 11:31", "verse_text": "And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there." }, { "point_text": "Land of Canaan", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:34", "verse_text": "When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;" }, { "point_text": "Land of Israel", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:19", "verse_text": "Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:" }, { "point_text": "Land of Israel", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:20-21", "verse_text": "Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life. 21 And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Land of Judah", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:1", "verse_text": "In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks." }, { "point_text": "Land of the Hebrews", "verse_ref": "Genesis 40:15", "verse_text": "For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon." }, { "point_text": "Land of promise", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:9", "verse_text": "By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:" }, { "point_text": "Land of Immanuel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:8", "verse_text": "And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel." }, { "point_text": "Pleasant land", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:24", "verse_text": "Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:" }, { "point_text": "Pleasant land", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:9", "verse_text": "And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land." }, { "point_text": "Good land", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:7", "verse_text": "And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land." }, { "point_text": "Good land", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 3:25", "verse_text": "I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Glorious land", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:16", "verse_text": "But he that cometh against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him: and he shall stand in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed." }, { "point_text": "Palestina", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:14", "verse_text": "The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina." }, { "point_text": "Palestina", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:29", "verse_text": "Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent." }, { "point_text": "Palestina", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:31", "verse_text": "Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times." }, { "point_text": "Original inhabitants of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 10:15-20", "verse_text": "And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, 16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, 17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, 18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad. ..." }, { "point_text": "Original inhabitants of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:1", "verse_text": "When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;" }, { "point_text": "Inhabitants of, expelled for wickedness", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:16", "verse_text": "But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full." }, { "point_text": "Inhabitants of, expelled for wickedness", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:23", "verse_text": "For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off." }, { "point_text": "Inhabitants of, expelled for wickedness", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 18:25", "verse_text": "And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants." }, { "point_text": "Inhabitants of, expelled for wickedness", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:12", "verse_text": "For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee." }, { "point_text": "PROMISED TO", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Abraham", "verse_ref": "Genesis 12:7", "verse_text": "And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him." }, { "point_text": "Abraham", "verse_ref": "Genesis 13:15", "verse_text": "For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever." }, { "point_text": "Abraham", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:8", "verse_text": "And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God." }, { "point_text": "Isaac", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:3", "verse_text": "Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;" }, { "point_text": "Jacob", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:13", "verse_text": "And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;" }, { "point_text": "Jacob", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:12", "verse_text": "And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land." }, { "point_text": "Given by covenant to Israel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 6:4", "verse_text": "And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers." }, { "point_text": "EXTENT OF,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "As promised", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:18", "verse_text": "In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:" }, { "point_text": "As promised", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:7", "verse_text": "Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates." }, { "point_text": "As promised", "verse_ref": "Joshua 1:4", "verse_text": "From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast." }, { "point_text": "As at first divided", "verse_ref": "Numbers 34:1-12", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with the coasts thereof:) 3 Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward: 4 And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadeshbarnea, and shall go on to Hazaraddar, and pass on to Azmon: ..." }, { "point_text": "Under Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:21", "verse_text": "And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life." }, { "point_text": "Under Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:24", "verse_text": "For he had dominion over all the region on this side the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the river: and he had peace on all sides round about him." }, { "point_text": "Under Solomon", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:26", "verse_text": "And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Twelve men sent to spy", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them. 3 And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel. 4 And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. ..." }, { "point_text": "Conquered by Joshua", "verse_ref": "Joshua 6-12", "verse_text": "Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in. 2 And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour. 3 And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days. 4 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets. ..." }, { "point_text": "Divided by lot", "verse_ref": "Numbers 34:16-29", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 17 These are the names of the men which shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun. 18 And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance. 19 And the names of the men are these: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. ..." }, { "point_text": "Divided by lot", "verse_ref": "Joshua 13:7-14", "verse_text": "Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh, 8 With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them; 9 From Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon; 10 And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon; ..." }, { "point_text": "Allotment of, specified", "verse_ref": "Joshua 14-19", "verse_text": "And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them. 2 By lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe. 3 For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them. 4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance. ..." }, { "point_text": "All inheritances in, inalienable", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:10", "verse_text": "And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family." }, { "point_text": "All inheritances in, inalienable", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:23", "verse_text": "The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me." }, { "point_text": "A sabbath of rest appointed for", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:2-5", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD. 3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; 4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. 5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land." }, { "point_text": "Obedience the condition of continuing in", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:3", "verse_text": "If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;" }, { "point_text": "Obedience the condition of continuing in", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:33", "verse_text": "Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess." }, { "point_text": "Obedience the condition of continuing in", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:16-17", "verse_text": "Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; 17 And then the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you." }, { "point_text": "Obedience the condition of continuing in", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:22-25", "verse_text": "For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him; 23 Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves. 24 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be. 25 There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you." }, { "point_text": "DIVIDED INTO", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Twelve provinces by Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:7-19", "verse_text": "And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision. 8 And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim: 9 The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Bethshemesh, and Elonbethhanan: 10 The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher: ..." }, { "point_text": "Two kingdoms in the time of Rehoboam", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:35", "verse_text": "But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes." }, { "point_text": "Two kingdoms in the time of Rehoboam", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:19-20", "verse_text": "So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day. 20 And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only." }, { "point_text": "Four provinces by the Romans", "verse_ref": "Luke 3:1", "verse_text": "Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene," }, { "point_text": "Numerous population of, in Solomon's reign", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 3:8", "verse_text": "And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude." }, { "point_text": "Numerous population of, in Solomon's reign", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 1:9", "verse_text": "Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father be established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude." }, { "point_text": "Extensive commerce of, in Solomon's reign", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 9:26-28", "verse_text": "And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. 27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. 28 And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon." }, { "point_text": "Extensive commerce of, in Solomon's reign", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:22-29", "verse_text": "For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. 23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom. 24 And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart. 25 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year. ..." }, { "point_text": "Prosperity of, in Solomon's reign", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:20", "verse_text": "Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry." }, { "point_text": "Was the burial place of the patriarchs", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:29-31", "verse_text": "And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30 In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace. 31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah." }, { "point_text": "Was the burial place of the patriarchs", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:13", "verse_text": "For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre." }, { "point_text": "Was the burial place of the patriarchs", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:25", "verse_text": "And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence." }, { "point_text": "A type of the rest that remaineth for saints", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:1-2", "verse_text": "Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. 2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it." }, { "point_text": "A type of the rest that remaineth for saints", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:9", "verse_text": "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God." }, { "point_text": "A type of the rest that remaineth for saints", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:4", "verse_text": "To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you," } ] }, { "name": "Homicide", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Homicide.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Distinguished from murder", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:13-14", "verse_text": "And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. 14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die." }, { "point_text": "JUSTIFIABLE, DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Killing persons condemned by law", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:6", "verse_text": "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man." }, { "point_text": "Killing persons condemned by law", "verse_ref": "Exodus 35:2", "verse_text": "Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death." }, { "point_text": "Killing persons condemned by law", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 24:16", "verse_text": "And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death." }, { "point_text": "Killing a thief in the night", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:2", "verse_text": "If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him." }, { "point_text": "Killing enemies in battle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 31:7-8", "verse_text": "And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males. 8 And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword." }, { "point_text": "Killing a manslayer by next of kin", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:27", "verse_text": "And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:" }, { "point_text": "UNJUSTIFIABLE, DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Killing without enmity", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:22", "verse_text": "But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait," }, { "point_text": "Killing without lying in wait", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:13", "verse_text": "And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee." }, { "point_text": "Killing without lying in wait", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:22", "verse_text": "But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait," }, { "point_text": "Killing by accident", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:23", "verse_text": "Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, that he die, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm:" }, { "point_text": "Killing by accident", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 19:5", "verse_text": "As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:" }, { "point_text": "The avenger of blood might slay those guilty of unjustifiable", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:19", "verse_text": "The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him." }, { "point_text": "The avenger of blood might slay those guilty of unjustifiable", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:27", "verse_text": "And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:" }, { "point_text": "Protection afforded in the cities of refuge to those guilty of unjustifiable", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:11", "verse_text": "Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares." }, { "point_text": "Protection afforded in the cities of refuge to those guilty of unjustifiable", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:15", "verse_text": "These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither." }, { "point_text": "Confinement in the city of refuge the punishment for unjustifiable", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:25", "verse_text": "And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil." }, { "point_text": "Confinement in the city of refuge the punishment for unjustifiable", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:28", "verse_text": "Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession." } ] }, { "name": "Hospitality", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Hospitality.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:13", "verse_text": "Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality." }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:9", "verse_text": "Use hospitality one to another without grudging." }, { "point_text": "Required in ministers", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:2", "verse_text": "A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;" }, { "point_text": "Required in ministers", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:8", "verse_text": "But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;" }, { "point_text": "A test of Christian character", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:10", "verse_text": "Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work." }, { "point_text": "SPECIALLY TO BE SHOWN TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Strangers", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:2", "verse_text": "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares." }, { "point_text": "The poor", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:7", "verse_text": "Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?" }, { "point_text": "The poor", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:13", "verse_text": "But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:" }, { "point_text": "Enemies", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:22-23", "verse_text": "And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master. 23 And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Encouragement to", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:14", "verse_text": "And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just." }, { "point_text": "Encouragement to", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:2", "verse_text": "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nAbraham, \nLot, \nLaban, \nJethro, \nManoah, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \n\nZaccheus, \nSamaritans, \nLydia, \nJason, \nMnason, \nPeople of Melita, \nPublius, \nGaius,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:18", "verse_text": "And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nAbraham, \nLot, \nLaban, \nJethro, \nManoah, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \n\nZaccheus, \nSamaritans, \nLydia, \nJason, \nMnason, \nPeople of Melita, \nPublius, \nGaius,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:3-8", "verse_text": "And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: 4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree: 5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said. 6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nAbraham, \nLot, \nLaban, \nJethro, \nManoah, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \n\nZaccheus, \nSamaritans, \nLydia, \nJason, \nMnason, \nPeople of Melita, \nPublius, \nGaius,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 19:2-3", "verse_text": "And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night. 3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nAbraham, \nLot, \nLaban, \nJethro, \nManoah, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \n\nZaccheus, \nSamaritans, \nLydia, \nJason, \nMnason, \nPeople of Melita, \nPublius, \nGaius,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:31", "verse_text": "And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nAbraham, \nLot, \nLaban, \nJethro, \nManoah, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \n\nZaccheus, \nSamaritans, \nLydia, \nJason, \nMnason, \nPeople of Melita, \nPublius, \nGaius,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:20", "verse_text": "And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nAbraham, \nLot, \nLaban, \nJethro, \nManoah, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \n\nZaccheus, \nSamaritans, \nLydia, \nJason, \nMnason, \nPeople of Melita, \nPublius, \nGaius,", "verse_ref": "Judges 13:15", "verse_text": "And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nAbraham, \nLot, \nLaban, \nJethro, \nManoah, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \n\nZaccheus, \nSamaritans, \nLydia, \nJason, \nMnason, \nPeople of Melita, \nPublius, \nGaius,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 9:22", "verse_text": "And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, which were about thirty persons." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nAbraham, \nLot, \nLaban, \nJethro, \nManoah, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \n\nZaccheus, \nSamaritans, \nLydia, \nJason, \nMnason, \nPeople of Melita, \nPublius, \nGaius,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 6:19", "verse_text": "And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine. So all the people departed every one to his house." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nAbraham, \nLot, \nLaban, \nJethro, \nManoah, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \n\nZaccheus, \nSamaritans, \nLydia, \nJason, \nMnason, \nPeople of Melita, \nPublius, \nGaius,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 19:32", "verse_text": "Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nAbraham, \nLot, \nLaban, \nJethro, \nManoah, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \n\nZaccheus, \nSamaritans, \nLydia, \nJason, \nMnason, \nPeople of Melita, \nPublius, \nGaius,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:8", "verse_text": "And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nAbraham, \nLot, \nLaban, \nJethro, \nManoah, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \n\nZaccheus, \nSamaritans, \nLydia, \nJason, \nMnason, \nPeople of Melita, \nPublius, \nGaius,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 5:17", "verse_text": "Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that are about us." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nAbraham, \nLot, \nLaban, \nJethro, \nManoah, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \n\nZaccheus, \nSamaritans, \nLydia, \nJason, \nMnason, \nPeople of Melita, \nPublius, \nGaius,", "verse_ref": "Job 31:17", "verse_text": "Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nAbraham, \nLot, \nLaban, \nJethro, \nManoah, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \n\nZaccheus, \nSamaritans, \nLydia, \nJason, \nMnason, \nPeople of Melita, \nPublius, \nGaius,", "verse_ref": "Job 31:32", "verse_text": "The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nAbraham, \nLot, \nLaban, \nJethro, \nManoah, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \n\nZaccheus, \nSamaritans, \nLydia, \nJason, \nMnason, \nPeople of Melita, \nPublius, \nGaius,", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:6", "verse_text": "And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nAbraham, \nLot, \nLaban, \nJethro, \nManoah, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \n\nZaccheus, \nSamaritans, \nLydia, \nJason, \nMnason, \nPeople of Melita, \nPublius, \nGaius,", "verse_ref": "John 4:40", "verse_text": "So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nAbraham, \nLot, \nLaban, \nJethro, \nManoah, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \n\nZaccheus, \nSamaritans, \nLydia, \nJason, \nMnason, \nPeople of Melita, \nPublius, \nGaius,", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:15", "verse_text": "And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nAbraham, \nLot, \nLaban, \nJethro, \nManoah, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \n\nZaccheus, \nSamaritans, \nLydia, \nJason, \nMnason, \nPeople of Melita, \nPublius, \nGaius,", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:7", "verse_text": "Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nAbraham, \nLot, \nLaban, \nJethro, \nManoah, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \n\nZaccheus, \nSamaritans, \nLydia, \nJason, \nMnason, \nPeople of Melita, \nPublius, \nGaius,", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:16", "verse_text": "There went with us also certain of the disciples of Caesarea, and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple, with whom we should lodge." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nAbraham, \nLot, \nLaban, \nJethro, \nManoah, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \n\nZaccheus, \nSamaritans, \nLydia, \nJason, \nMnason, \nPeople of Melita, \nPublius, \nGaius,", "verse_ref": "Acts 28:2", "verse_text": "And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nAbraham, \nLot, \nLaban, \nJethro, \nManoah, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \n\nZaccheus, \nSamaritans, \nLydia, \nJason, \nMnason, \nPeople of Melita, \nPublius, \nGaius,", "verse_ref": "Acts 28:7", "verse_text": "In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three days courteously." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nAbraham, \nLot, \nLaban, \nJethro, \nManoah, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \n\nZaccheus, \nSamaritans, \nLydia, \nJason, \nMnason, \nPeople of Melita, \nPublius, \nGaius,", "verse_ref": "3 John 5-6", "verse_text": "Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers; 6 Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well:" } ] }, { "name": "Hope", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Hope.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "In God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:7", "verse_text": "And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee." }, { "point_text": "In God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:21", "verse_text": "Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God." }, { "point_text": "In Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:19", "verse_text": "If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable." }, { "point_text": "In Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:1", "verse_text": "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope;" }, { "point_text": "In God's promises", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:6-7", "verse_text": "And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: 7 Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews." }, { "point_text": "In the mercy of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 33:18", "verse_text": "Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;" }, { "point_text": "Is the work of the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:13", "verse_text": "Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Is the work of the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:5", "verse_text": "For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith." }, { "point_text": "OBTAINED THROUGH", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Grace", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:16", "verse_text": "Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace," }, { "point_text": "The word", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:81", "verse_text": "CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word." }, { "point_text": "Patience and comfort of the Scriptures", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:4", "verse_text": "For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope." }, { "point_text": "The gospel", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:5", "verse_text": "For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;" }, { "point_text": "The gospel", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:23", "verse_text": "If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;" }, { "point_text": "Faith", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:1-2", "verse_text": "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God." }, { "point_text": "The result of experience", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:4", "verse_text": "And patience, experience; and experience, hope:" }, { "point_text": "A better hope brought in by Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:19", "verse_text": "For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Good", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:16", "verse_text": "Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace," }, { "point_text": "Lively", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:3", "verse_text": "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead," }, { "point_text": "Sure and steadfast", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:19", "verse_text": "Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;" }, { "point_text": "Gladdening", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:28", "verse_text": "The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish." }, { "point_text": "Blessed", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:13", "verse_text": "Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;" }, { "point_text": "Makes not ashamed", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:5", "verse_text": "And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us." }, { "point_text": "Triumphs over difficulties", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:18", "verse_text": "Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be." }, { "point_text": "Is an encouragement to boldness in preaching", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 3:12", "verse_text": "Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:" }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Are called to", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:4", "verse_text": "There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;" }, { "point_text": "Rejoice in", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:2", "verse_text": "By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God." }, { "point_text": "Rejoice in", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:12", "verse_text": "Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;" }, { "point_text": "Have all, the same", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:4", "verse_text": "There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;" }, { "point_text": "Have, in death", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:32", "verse_text": "The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death." }, { "point_text": "Should abound in", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:13", "verse_text": "Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Should look for the object of", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:13", "verse_text": "Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;" }, { "point_text": "Should not be ashamed of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:16", "verse_text": "I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word." }, { "point_text": "Should hold fast", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:6", "verse_text": "But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end." }, { "point_text": "Should not be moved from", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:23", "verse_text": "If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;" }, { "point_text": "Should continue in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 71:14", "verse_text": "But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more." }, { "point_text": "Should continue in", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:13", "verse_text": "Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;" }, { "point_text": "Connected with faith and love", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 13:13", "verse_text": "And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity." }, { "point_text": "OBJECTS OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Salvation", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:8", "verse_text": "But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation." }, { "point_text": "Righteousness", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:5", "verse_text": "For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith." }, { "point_text": "Christ's glorious appearing", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:13", "verse_text": "Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;" }, { "point_text": "A resurrection", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:6", "verse_text": "But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question." }, { "point_text": "A resurrection", "verse_ref": "Acts 24:15", "verse_text": "And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust." }, { "point_text": "Eternal life", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:2", "verse_text": "In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;" }, { "point_text": "Eternal life", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:7", "verse_text": "That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life." }, { "point_text": "Glory", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:2", "verse_text": "By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God." }, { "point_text": "Glory", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:27", "verse_text": "To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:" }, { "point_text": "Leads to purity", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:3", "verse_text": "And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure." }, { "point_text": "Leads to patience", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:25", "verse_text": "But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it." }, { "point_text": "Leads to patience", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 1:3", "verse_text": "Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;" }, { "point_text": "Seek for full assurance of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:11", "verse_text": "And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:" }, { "point_text": "Be ready to give an answer concerning", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:15", "verse_text": "But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:" }, { "point_text": "Encouragement to", "verse_ref": "Hosea 2:15", "verse_text": "And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Encouragement to", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:12", "verse_text": "Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;" }, { "point_text": "Encourage others to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 130:7", "verse_text": "Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption." }, { "point_text": "Happiness of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 146:5", "verse_text": "Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:" }, { "point_text": "Life is the season of", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 9:4", "verse_text": "For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion." }, { "point_text": "Life is the season of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:18", "verse_text": "For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth." }, { "point_text": "The wicked have no ground for", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:12", "verse_text": "That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:" }, { "point_text": "OF THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Is in their worldly possessions", "verse_ref": "Job 31:24", "verse_text": "If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;" }, { "point_text": "Shall make them ashamed", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 20:5-6", "verse_text": "And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. 6 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?" }, { "point_text": "Shall perish", "verse_ref": "Job 8:13", "verse_text": "So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:" }, { "point_text": "Shall perish", "verse_ref": "Job 11:20", "verse_text": "But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost." }, { "point_text": "Shall perish", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:28", "verse_text": "The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish." }, { "point_text": "Shall be extinguished in death", "verse_ref": "Job 27:8", "verse_text": "For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?" }, { "point_text": "Illustrated by.\r\n\nAn Anchor, \nA helmet,", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:19", "verse_text": "Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;" }, { "point_text": "Illustrated by.\r\n\nAn Anchor, \nA helmet,", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:8", "verse_text": "But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nPaul, \nAbraham, \nThessalonians,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:7", "verse_text": "And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nPaul, \nAbraham, \nThessalonians,", "verse_ref": "Acts 24:15", "verse_text": "And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nPaul, \nAbraham, \nThessalonians,", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:18", "verse_text": "Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nPaul, \nAbraham, \nThessalonians,", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 1:3", "verse_text": "Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;" } ] }, { "name": "Horse, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Horse-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Endued with strength by God", "verse_ref": "Job 39:19", "verse_text": "Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?" }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Strong", "verse_ref": "Psalm 33:17", "verse_text": "An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength." }, { "point_text": "Strong", "verse_ref": "Psalm 147:10", "verse_text": "He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man." }, { "point_text": "Swift", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:16", "verse_text": "But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift." }, { "point_text": "Swift", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:13", "verse_text": "Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled." }, { "point_text": "Swift", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 1:8", "verse_text": "Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat." }, { "point_text": "Fearless", "verse_ref": "Job 39:20", "verse_text": "Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible." }, { "point_text": "Fearless", "verse_ref": "Job 39:22", "verse_text": "He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword." }, { "point_text": "Fierce and impetuous", "verse_ref": "Job 39:21", "verse_text": "He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men." }, { "point_text": "Fierce and impetuous", "verse_ref": "Job 39:24", "verse_text": "He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet." }, { "point_text": "Warlike in disposition", "verse_ref": "Job 39:21", "verse_text": "He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men." }, { "point_text": "Warlike in disposition", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:6", "verse_text": "I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle." }, { "point_text": "Sure footed", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:13", "verse_text": "That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?" }, { "point_text": "Want of understanding in, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 32:9", "verse_text": "Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Hard hoofs of, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:28", "verse_text": "Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:" }, { "point_text": "Loud snorting of, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:16", "verse_text": "The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein." }, { "point_text": "Loud snorting of, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Job 39:20", "verse_text": "Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible." }, { "point_text": "COLORS OF, MENTIONED;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "White", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 1:8", "verse_text": "I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white." }, { "point_text": "White", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 6:3", "verse_text": "And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses." }, { "point_text": "White", "verse_ref": "Revelation 6:2", "verse_text": "And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer." }, { "point_text": "Black", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 6:2", "verse_text": "In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;" }, { "point_text": "Black", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 6:6", "verse_text": "The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country." }, { "point_text": "Red", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 1:8", "verse_text": "I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white." }, { "point_text": "Red", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 6:2", "verse_text": "In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;" }, { "point_text": "Red", "verse_ref": "Revelation 6:4", "verse_text": "And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword." }, { "point_text": "Speckled", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 1:8", "verse_text": "I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white." }, { "point_text": "Bay", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 6:3", "verse_text": "And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses." }, { "point_text": "Bay", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 6:7", "verse_text": "And the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth." }, { "point_text": "Grisled", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 6:3", "verse_text": "And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses." }, { "point_text": "Grisled", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 6:6", "verse_text": "The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country." }, { "point_text": "Pale or ash color", "verse_ref": "Revelation 6:8", "verse_text": "And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Fed on grain and herbs", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:23", "verse_text": "Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl." }, { "point_text": "Fed on grain and herbs", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:5", "verse_text": "And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts." }, { "point_text": "USED FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Mounting calvary", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:9", "verse_text": "But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baalzephon." }, { "point_text": "Mounting calvary", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:5", "verse_text": "And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven." }, { "point_text": "Drawing chariots", "verse_ref": "Micah 1:13", "verse_text": "O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee." }, { "point_text": "Drawing chariots", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 6:2", "verse_text": "In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;" }, { "point_text": "Bearing burdens", "verse_ref": "Ezra 2:66", "verse_text": "Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;" }, { "point_text": "Bearing burdens", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 7:68", "verse_text": "Their horses, seven hundred thirty and six: their mules, two hundred forty and five:" }, { "point_text": "Hunting", "verse_ref": "Job 39:18", "verse_text": "What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider." }, { "point_text": "Conveying posts, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 9:17-19", "verse_text": "And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace? 18 So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he cometh not again. 19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to them, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me." }, { "point_text": "Conveying posts, &c", "verse_ref": "Esther 8:10", "verse_text": "And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries:" }, { "point_text": "Kings and princes rode on", "verse_ref": "Esther 6:8-11", "verse_text": "Let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head: 9 And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour. 10 Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken. 11 Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour." }, { "point_text": "Kings and princes rode on", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 23:23", "verse_text": "The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses." }, { "point_text": "Governed by bit and bridle", "verse_ref": "Psalm 32:9", "verse_text": "Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Governed by bit and bridle", "verse_ref": "James 3:3", "verse_text": "Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body." }, { "point_text": "Urged on by whips", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:3", "verse_text": "A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back." }, { "point_text": "Adorned with bells on the neck", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 14:20", "verse_text": "In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD'S house shall be like the bowls before the altar." }, { "point_text": "Numbers of, kept for war", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:27", "verse_text": "Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers." }, { "point_text": "Numbers of, kept for war", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:10", "verse_text": "By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach." }, { "point_text": "Prepared and trained for war", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:31", "verse_text": "The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "In battle protected by armor", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 46:4", "verse_text": "Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines." }, { "point_text": "Vanity of trusting to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 33:17", "verse_text": "An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength." }, { "point_text": "Vanity of trusting to", "verse_ref": "Amos 2:15", "verse_text": "Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself." }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to multiply", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:16", "verse_text": "But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way." }, { "point_text": "Imported from Egypt", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:28-29", "verse_text": "And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price. 29 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means." }, { "point_text": "Multiplied in Solomon's reign", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:26", "verse_text": "And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen." }, { "point_text": "Condemned for multiplying", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:7", "verse_text": "Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:" }, { "point_text": "Not to trust in", "verse_ref": "Hosea 14:3", "verse_text": "Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy." }, { "point_text": "Condemned for trusting to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:16", "verse_text": "But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift." }, { "point_text": "Condemned for trusting to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 31:3", "verse_text": "Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together." }, { "point_text": "Brought back many, from Babylon", "verse_ref": "Ezra 2:66", "verse_text": "Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;" }, { "point_text": "Notice of early traffic in", "verse_ref": "Genesis 47:17", "verse_text": "And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year." }, { "point_text": "Sold in fairs and markets", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:14", "verse_text": "They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules." }, { "point_text": "Sold in fairs and markets", "verse_ref": "Revelation 18:13", "verse_text": "And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men." }, { "point_text": "OFTEN SUFFERED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "From blindness", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 12:4", "verse_text": "In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness." }, { "point_text": "From plague", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 14:15", "verse_text": "And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague." }, { "point_text": "From murrain", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:3", "verse_text": "Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain." }, { "point_text": "From bites of serpents", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:17", "verse_text": "Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward." }, { "point_text": "In the hoof from prancing", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:22", "verse_text": "Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones." }, { "point_text": "In battle", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:21", "verse_text": "And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;" }, { "point_text": "In battle", "verse_ref": "Haggai 2:22", "verse_text": "And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother." }, { "point_text": "Dedicated to the sun by idolaters", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:11", "verse_text": "And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Beauty of the church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 1:9", "verse_text": "I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots." }, { "point_text": "Beauty of the church", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 10:3", "verse_text": "Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle." }, { "point_text": "Glorious and triumphant deliverance of the church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:13", "verse_text": "That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?" }, { "point_text": "A dull headstrong disposition", "verse_ref": "Psalm 32:9", "verse_text": "Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Impetuosity of the wicked in sin", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:6", "verse_text": "I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle." } ] }, { "name": "Honey", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Honey.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "God the giver of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 81:16", "verse_text": "He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee." }, { "point_text": "God the giver of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:19", "verse_text": "My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Gathered and prepared by bees", "verse_ref": "Judges 14:18", "verse_text": "And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle." }, { "point_text": "FOUND IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Rocks", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:13", "verse_text": "He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;" }, { "point_text": "Rocks", "verse_ref": "Psalm 81:16", "verse_text": "He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee." }, { "point_text": "Woods", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:25-26", "verse_text": "And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground. 26 And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath." }, { "point_text": "Carcases of dead animals", "verse_ref": "Judges 14:8", "verse_text": "And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion." }, { "point_text": "Sweetness of", "verse_ref": "Judges 14:18", "verse_text": "And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle." }, { "point_text": "In the honeycomb sweetest and most valuable", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:24", "verse_text": "Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones." }, { "point_text": "In the honeycomb sweetest and most valuable", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 24:13", "verse_text": "My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:" }, { "point_text": "ABOUNDED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Egypt", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:13", "verse_text": "Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?" }, { "point_text": "Assyria", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:32", "verse_text": "Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us." }, { "point_text": "Canaan", "verse_ref": "Exodus 3:8", "verse_text": "And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites." }, { "point_text": "Canaan", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 20:24", "verse_text": "But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people." }, { "point_text": "Canaan", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:8", "verse_text": "A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;" }, { "point_text": "Esteemed a wholesome food", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 24:13", "verse_text": "My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:" }, { "point_text": "Moderation needful in the use of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:16", "verse_text": "Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it." }, { "point_text": "Moderation needful in the use of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:27", "verse_text": "It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory." }, { "point_text": "Loathed by those who are full", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:7", "verse_text": "The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet." }, { "point_text": "WAS EATEN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Plain", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:25-26", "verse_text": "And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground. 26 And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath." }, { "point_text": "Plain", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:29", "verse_text": "Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey." }, { "point_text": "With the comb", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:1", "verse_text": "I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved." }, { "point_text": "With the comb", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:42", "verse_text": "And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb." }, { "point_text": "With milk", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:11", "verse_text": "Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "With butter", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:15", "verse_text": "Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good." }, { "point_text": "With butter", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:22", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land." }, { "point_text": "With locusts", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:4", "verse_text": "And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey." }, { "point_text": "With locusts", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:6", "verse_text": "And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;" }, { "point_text": "Mixed with flour", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:31", "verse_text": "And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey." }, { "point_text": "Mixed with flour", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:13", "verse_text": "Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom." }, { "point_text": "Not to be offered with any sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 2:11", "verse_text": "No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire." }, { "point_text": "First fruits of, offered to God", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:5", "verse_text": "And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly." }, { "point_text": "Often sent as a present", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:11", "verse_text": "And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:" }, { "point_text": "Often sent as a present", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 14:3", "verse_text": "And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child." }, { "point_text": "Exported from Canaan", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:17", "verse_text": "Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The word of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:10", "verse_text": "More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb." }, { "point_text": "The word of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:103", "verse_text": "How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!" }, { "point_text": "Wisdom", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 24:13-14", "verse_text": "My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste: 14 So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off." }, { "point_text": "Holy speech of saints", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:11", "verse_text": "Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Pleasant words", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:24", "verse_text": "Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones." }, { "point_text": "Lips of a strange woman", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 5:3", "verse_text": "For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:" } ] }, { "name": "Houses", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Houses.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 12:1", "verse_text": "Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:" }, { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 19:3", "verse_text": "And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat." }, { "point_text": "Deep and solid foundations required for", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:24", "verse_text": "Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:" }, { "point_text": "Deep and solid foundations required for", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:48", "verse_text": "He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes built without foundation", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:26", "verse_text": "And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:" }, { "point_text": "Sometimes built without foundation", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:49", "verse_text": "But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great." }, { "point_text": "BUILT OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Clay", "verse_ref": "Job 4:19", "verse_text": "How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?" }, { "point_text": "Bricks", "verse_ref": "Exodus 1:11-14", "verse_text": "Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel. 13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: 14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour." }, { "point_text": "Bricks", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:10", "verse_text": "The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars." }, { "point_text": "Stone and wood", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:40", "verse_text": "Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:" }, { "point_text": "Stone and wood", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:42", "verse_text": "And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house." }, { "point_text": "Hewn or cut stone", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:10", "verse_text": "Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings." }, { "point_text": "Hewn or cut stone", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:11", "verse_text": "Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them." }, { "point_text": "In cities, built in streets", "verse_ref": "Genesis 19:2", "verse_text": "And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night." }, { "point_text": "In cities, built in streets", "verse_ref": "Joshua 2:19", "verse_text": "And it shall be, that whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we will be guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him." }, { "point_text": "Often built on city walls", "verse_ref": "Joshua 2:15", "verse_text": "Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall." }, { "point_text": "Often built on city walls", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 11:33", "verse_text": "And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands." }, { "point_text": "THE FLAT ROOFS OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Surrounded with battlements", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 22:8", "verse_text": "When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence." }, { "point_text": "Had often booths on them", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 16:22", "verse_text": "So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel." }, { "point_text": "Had often booths on them", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:16", "verse_text": "So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim." }, { "point_text": "Had often booths on them", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:9", "verse_text": "It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house." }, { "point_text": "Had often idolatrous altars on them", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:12", "verse_text": "And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron." }, { "point_text": "Had often idolatrous altars on them", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 19:13", "verse_text": "And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods." }, { "point_text": "Had often idolatrous altars on them", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 1:5", "verse_text": "And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;" }, { "point_text": "Used for drying flax, &c", "verse_ref": "Joshua 2:6", "verse_text": "But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof." }, { "point_text": "Used for exercise", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 11:2", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon." }, { "point_text": "Used for exercise", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:29", "verse_text": "At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon." }, { "point_text": "Used for devotion", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:9", "verse_text": "On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:" }, { "point_text": "Used for making proclamations", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:3", "verse_text": "Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops." }, { "point_text": "Used for secret conference", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 9:25-26", "verse_text": "And when they were come down from the high place into the city, Samuel communed with Saul upon the top of the house. 26 And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring of the day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house, saying, Up, that I may send thee away. And Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad." }, { "point_text": "Resorted to in grief", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 15:3", "verse_text": "In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly." }, { "point_text": "Resorted to in grief", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:38", "verse_text": "There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Often covered with week grass", "verse_ref": "Psalm 129:6-7", "verse_text": "Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: 7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom." }, { "point_text": "Accessible from the outside", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:17", "verse_text": "Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:" }, { "point_text": "The courts of, large and used as apartments", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:5", "verse_text": "And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace;" }, { "point_text": "The courts of, large and used as apartments", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:19", "verse_text": "And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Entered by a gate or door", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:19", "verse_text": "And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they communed with him at the door of the house," }, { "point_text": "Entered by a gate or door", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:22", "verse_text": "And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning." }, { "point_text": "Entered by a gate or door", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:20", "verse_text": "And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores," }, { "point_text": "Entered by a gate or door", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:17", "verse_text": "Now while Peter doubted in himself what this vision which he had seen should mean, behold, the men which were sent from Cornelius had made inquiry for Simon's house, and stood before the gate," }, { "point_text": "Doors of, low and small for safety", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:19", "verse_text": "He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction." }, { "point_text": "Doors of, how fastened", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 13:18", "verse_text": "And she had a garment of divers colours upon her: for with such robes were the king's daughters that were virgins apparelled. Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her." }, { "point_text": "Doors of, how fastened", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:5", "verse_text": "I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock." }, { "point_text": "Doors of, how fastened", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:7", "verse_text": "And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee." }, { "point_text": "Admission to, gained by knocking at the door", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:13", "verse_text": "And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to hearken, named Rhoda." }, { "point_text": "Admission to, gained by knocking at the door", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:20", "verse_text": "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." }, { "point_text": "Walls of, plastered", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:42-43", "verse_text": "And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house. 43 And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;" }, { "point_text": "Serpents often lodged in walls of", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:19", "verse_text": "As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him." }, { "point_text": "Custom of fastening nails, &c., in walls of, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 12:11", "verse_text": "The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd." }, { "point_text": "Custom of fastening nails, &c., in walls of, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:23", "verse_text": "And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house." }, { "point_text": "Had often several stories", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 41:16", "verse_text": "The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;" }, { "point_text": "Had often several stories", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:9", "verse_text": "And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead." }, { "point_text": "Divided into apartments", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:30", "verse_text": "And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there." }, { "point_text": "Divided into apartments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:20", "verse_text": "Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast." }, { "point_text": "APARTMENTS OF, WERE OFTEN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Large and airy", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 22:14", "verse_text": "That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion." }, { "point_text": "Ceiled and painted", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 22:14", "verse_text": "That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion." }, { "point_text": "Ceiled and painted", "verse_ref": "Haggai 1:4", "verse_text": "Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?" }, { "point_text": "Inlayed with ivory", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:39", "verse_text": "Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?" }, { "point_text": "Inlayed with ivory", "verse_ref": "Amos 3:15", "verse_text": "And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Hung with rich tapestries", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:6", "verse_text": "Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble." }, { "point_text": "Warmed with fires", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 36:22", "verse_text": "Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him." }, { "point_text": "Warmed with fires", "verse_ref": "John 18:18", "verse_text": "And the servants and officers stood there, who had made a fire of coals; for it was cold: and they warmed themselves: and Peter stood with them, and warmed himself." }, { "point_text": "Upper apartments of, the best, and used for entertainments", "verse_ref": "Mark 14:15", "verse_text": "And he will shew you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us." }, { "point_text": "Had often detached apartments for secrecy and for strangers", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:20-23", "verse_text": "And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat. 21 And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly: 22 And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out. 23 Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them." }, { "point_text": "Had often detached apartments for secrecy and for strangers", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:10", "verse_text": "Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither." }, { "point_text": "Had often detached apartments for secrecy and for strangers", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 9:2-3", "verse_text": "And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber; 3 Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not." }, { "point_text": "Lighted by windows", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 7:4", "verse_text": "And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks." }, { "point_text": "Street windows of, high and dangerous", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 1:2", "verse_text": "And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease." }, { "point_text": "Street windows of, high and dangerous", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 9:30", "verse_text": "And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window." }, { "point_text": "Street windows of, high and dangerous", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 9:33", "verse_text": "And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot." }, { "point_text": "OF THE RICH", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Great", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:9", "verse_text": "In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant." }, { "point_text": "Great", "verse_ref": "Amos 6:11", "verse_text": "For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts." }, { "point_text": "Great", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:20", "verse_text": "But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour." }, { "point_text": "Goodly", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:12", "verse_text": "Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;" }, { "point_text": "Pleasant", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:12", "verse_text": "And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water." }, { "point_text": "Pleasant", "verse_ref": "Micah 2:9", "verse_text": "The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever." }, { "point_text": "OF BRICK OR CLAY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Plastered", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 13:10-11", "verse_text": "Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter: 11 Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it." }, { "point_text": "Easily broken through", "verse_ref": "Job 24:16", "verse_text": "In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light." }, { "point_text": "Easily broken through", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 12:5", "verse_text": "Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby." }, { "point_text": "Often swept away by torrents", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 13:13-14", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it. 14 So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered morter, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "When finished were usually dedicated.\r\n\n\r\n (title)", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 20:5", "verse_text": "And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it." }, { "point_text": "When finished were usually dedicated.\r\n\n\r\n (title)", "verse_ref": "Psalm 30:1", "verse_text": "I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me." }, { "point_text": "For summer residence", "verse_ref": "Amos 3:15", "verse_text": "And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Liable to leprosy", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:34-53", "verse_text": "When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession; 35 And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house: 36 Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house: 37 And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall; ..." }, { "point_text": "Not to be coveted", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:17", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's." }, { "point_text": "Not to be coveted", "verse_ref": "Micah 2:2", "verse_text": "And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage." }, { "point_text": "Were hired", "verse_ref": "Acts 28:30", "verse_text": "And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him," }, { "point_text": "Were mortgaged", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 5:3", "verse_text": "Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth." }, { "point_text": "Were sold", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:34", "verse_text": "Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold," }, { "point_text": "Law respecting the sale of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:29-33", "verse_text": "And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it. 30 And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile. 31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile. 32 Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time. ..." }, { "point_text": "Of criminals, desolated", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:5", "verse_text": "The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill." }, { "point_text": "Of criminals, desolated", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:29", "verse_text": "Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort." }, { "point_text": "Desolation of, threatened as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:9", "verse_text": "In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant." }, { "point_text": "Desolation of, threatened as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:16", "verse_text": "Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished." }, { "point_text": "Desolation of, threatened as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:21-22", "verse_text": "But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. 22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged." }, { "point_text": "Often broken down to repair city walls before sieges", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:10", "verse_text": "And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the body", "verse_ref": "Job 4:19", "verse_text": "How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?" }, { "point_text": "Of the body", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:1", "verse_text": "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." }, { "point_text": "Of the grave", "verse_ref": "Job 30:23", "verse_text": "For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living." }, { "point_text": "Of the church", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:6", "verse_text": "But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end." }, { "point_text": "Of the church", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:5", "verse_text": "Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Of saints' inheritance", "verse_ref": "John 14:2", "verse_text": "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you." }, { "point_text": "Of saints' inheritance", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:1", "verse_text": "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." }, { "point_text": "(On sand,) of the delusive hope of hypocrites", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:24-25", "verse_text": "Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: 25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock." }, { "point_text": "(On a rock,) of the hope of saints", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:24-25", "verse_text": "Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: 25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock." }, { "point_text": "(Insecurity of,) of earthly trust", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:19-20", "verse_text": "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:" }, { "point_text": "(Building of,) of great prosperity", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:21", "verse_text": "And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them." }, { "point_text": "(Building of,) of great prosperity", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:26", "verse_text": "And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God." }, { "point_text": "(Built and not inhabited,) of calamity", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:30", "verse_text": "Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof." }, { "point_text": "(Built and not inhabited,) of calamity", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:11", "verse_text": "Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them." }, { "point_text": "(Built and not inhabited,) of calamity", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 1:13", "verse_text": "Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof." }, { "point_text": "(To inhabit those, built by others,) of abundant blessings", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 6:10-11", "verse_text": "And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not, 11 And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;" } ] }, { "name": "Horns", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Horns.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Natural weapons on heads of animals", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:20", "verse_text": "And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows." }, { "point_text": "ANIMALS WITH, MENTIONED;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The ox", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:31", "verse_text": "This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs." }, { "point_text": "The ram", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:13", "verse_text": "And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son." }, { "point_text": "The goat", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:5", "verse_text": "And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes." }, { "point_text": "The unicorn", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:21", "verse_text": "Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns." }, { "point_text": "The unicorn", "verse_ref": "Psalm 92:10", "verse_text": "But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil." }, { "point_text": "Tusks of the elephant so called", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:15", "verse_text": "The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony." }, { "point_text": "Used offensively", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:29", "verse_text": "But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death." }, { "point_text": "Used offensively", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 34:21", "verse_text": "Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;" }, { "point_text": "WERE USED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "For holding oil", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 16:1", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons." }, { "point_text": "For holding oil", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:39", "verse_text": "And Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, God save king Solomon." }, { "point_text": "As musical instruments", "verse_ref": "Joshua 6:4-5", "verse_text": "And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets. 5 And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him." }, { "point_text": "As musical instruments", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 25:5", "verse_text": "All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters." }, { "point_text": "Representations of, placed at the four corners of the altars", "verse_ref": "Exodus 27:2", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass." }, { "point_text": "Representations of, placed at the four corners of the altars", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:2", "verse_text": "A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits shall be the height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of the same." }, { "point_text": "Wearing of, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 75:5", "verse_text": "Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck." }, { "point_text": "Wearing of, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 75:10", "verse_text": "All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of power of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 18:2", "verse_text": "The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower." }, { "point_text": "Of power of God", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 3:4", "verse_text": "And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power." }, { "point_text": "Of power of Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:69", "verse_text": "And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;" }, { "point_text": "Of power of Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 5:6", "verse_text": "And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth." }, { "point_text": "Of power of Ephraim, &c", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:17", "verse_text": "His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh." }, { "point_text": "Of power of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:21", "verse_text": "Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns." }, { "point_text": "Of power of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 75:10", "verse_text": "All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted." }, { "point_text": "Of kings", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:7-8", "verse_text": "After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. 8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things." }, { "point_text": "Of kings", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:3", "verse_text": "Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last." }, { "point_text": "Of kings", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:5", "verse_text": "And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes." }, { "point_text": "Of kings", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:20", "verse_text": "The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia." }, { "point_text": "Of antichristian powers", "verse_ref": "Revelation 13:1", "verse_text": "And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy." }, { "point_text": "Of antichristian powers", "verse_ref": "Revelation 17:3", "verse_text": "So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns." }, { "point_text": "Of antichristian powers", "verse_ref": "Revelation 17:7", "verse_text": "And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns." }, { "point_text": "(Budding of,) of the commencement or revival of a nation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 132:17", "verse_text": "There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed." }, { "point_text": "(Budding of,) of the commencement or revival of a nation", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 29:21", "verse_text": "In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "(Raising up,) of arrogance", "verse_ref": "Psalm 75:4-5", "verse_text": "I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: 5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck." }, { "point_text": "(Exalting,) of increase of power and glory", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:1", "verse_text": "And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation." }, { "point_text": "(Exalting,) of increase of power and glory", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:10", "verse_text": "The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed." }, { "point_text": "(Pushing with,) of conquests", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:17", "verse_text": "His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh." }, { "point_text": "(Pushing with,) of conquests", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:11", "verse_text": "And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have consumed them." }, { "point_text": "(Pushing with,) of conquests", "verse_ref": "Micah 4:13", "verse_text": "Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth." }, { "point_text": "(Bringing down,) of degradation", "verse_ref": "Job 16:15", "verse_text": "I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust." }, { "point_text": "(Cutting off,) of destruction of power", "verse_ref": "Psalm 75:10", "verse_text": "All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted." }, { "point_text": "(Cutting off,) of destruction of power", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:25", "verse_text": "The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "(Cutting off,) of destruction of power", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 2:3", "verse_text": "He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about." } ] }, { "name": "Human Nature of Christ, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Human-Nature-of-Christ-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Was necessary to His mediatorial office", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:5", "verse_text": "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;" }, { "point_text": "Was necessary to His mediatorial office", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:17", "verse_text": "Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people." }, { "point_text": "Was necessary to His mediatorial office", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:4-5", "verse_text": "But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons." }, { "point_text": "Was necessary to His mediatorial office", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:21", "verse_text": "For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead." }, { "point_text": "Was necessary to His mediatorial office", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:15", "verse_text": "What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid." }, { "point_text": "Was necessary to His mediatorial office", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:19", "verse_text": "I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness." }, { "point_text": "IS PROVED BY HIS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Conception in the Virgin's womb", "verse_ref": "Matthew 1:18", "verse_text": "Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Conception in the Virgin's womb", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:31", "verse_text": "And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS." }, { "point_text": "Birth", "verse_ref": "Matthew 1:16", "verse_text": "And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ." }, { "point_text": "Birth", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:2", "verse_text": "Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him." }, { "point_text": "Birth", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:7", "verse_text": "And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn." }, { "point_text": "Birth", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:11", "verse_text": "For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Partaking of flesh and blood", "verse_ref": "John 1:14", "verse_text": "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." }, { "point_text": "Partaking of flesh and blood", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:14", "verse_text": "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;" }, { "point_text": "Having a human soul", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:38", "verse_text": "Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me." }, { "point_text": "Having a human soul", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:46", "verse_text": "And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost." }, { "point_text": "Having a human soul", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:31", "verse_text": "He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption." }, { "point_text": "Circumcision", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:21", "verse_text": "And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb." }, { "point_text": "Increase in wisdom and stature", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:52", "verse_text": "And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man." }, { "point_text": "Weeping", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:41", "verse_text": "And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it," }, { "point_text": "Weeping", "verse_ref": "John 11:35", "verse_text": "Jesus wept." }, { "point_text": "Hungering", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:2", "verse_text": "And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred." }, { "point_text": "Hungering", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:18", "verse_text": "Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered." }, { "point_text": "Thirsting", "verse_ref": "John 4:7", "verse_text": "There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." }, { "point_text": "Thirsting", "verse_ref": "John 19:28", "verse_text": "After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst." }, { "point_text": "Sleeping", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:24", "verse_text": "And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep." }, { "point_text": "Sleeping", "verse_ref": "Mark 4:38", "verse_text": "And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?" }, { "point_text": "Being subject to weariness", "verse_ref": "John 4:6", "verse_text": "Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour." }, { "point_text": "Being a man of sorrows", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:3-4", "verse_text": "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted." }, { "point_text": "Being buffeted", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:67", "verse_text": "Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands," }, { "point_text": "Being buffeted", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:64", "verse_text": "And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee?" }, { "point_text": "Enduring indignities", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:11", "verse_text": "And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate." }, { "point_text": "Being scourged", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:26", "verse_text": "Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified." }, { "point_text": "Being scourged", "verse_ref": "John 19:1", "verse_text": "Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him." }, { "point_text": "Being nailed to the cross", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:16", "verse_text": "For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet." }, { "point_text": "Being nailed to the cross", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:33", "verse_text": "And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left." }, { "point_text": "Death", "verse_ref": "John 19:30", "verse_text": "When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost." }, { "point_text": "Side being pierced", "verse_ref": "John 19:34", "verse_text": "But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water." }, { "point_text": "Burial", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:59-60", "verse_text": "And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed." }, { "point_text": "Resurrection", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:15", "verse_text": "And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses." }, { "point_text": "Resurrection", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:8", "verse_text": "Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:" }, { "point_text": "Was like our own in all things except sin", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:22", "verse_text": "For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you." }, { "point_text": "Was like our own in all things except sin", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:7-8", "verse_text": "But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." }, { "point_text": "Was without sin", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:26", "verse_text": "For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;" }, { "point_text": "Was without sin", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:28", "verse_text": "For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore." }, { "point_text": "Was without sin", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:5", "verse_text": "And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin." }, { "point_text": "Was without sin", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:22", "verse_text": "Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:" }, { "point_text": "Was without sin", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:15", "verse_text": "For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." }, { "point_text": "Was without sin", "verse_ref": "John 18:38", "verse_text": "Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all." }, { "point_text": "Was without sin", "verse_ref": "John 8:46", "verse_text": "Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?" }, { "point_text": "Was submitted to the evidence of the senses", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:39", "verse_text": "Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have." }, { "point_text": "Was submitted to the evidence of the senses", "verse_ref": "John 20:27", "verse_text": "Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing." }, { "point_text": "Was submitted to the evidence of the senses", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:1-2", "verse_text": "That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)" }, { "point_text": "WAS OF THE SEED OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The woman", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:15", "verse_text": "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." }, { "point_text": "The woman", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:4", "verse_text": "And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah." }, { "point_text": "The woman", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:22", "verse_text": "How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man." }, { "point_text": "The woman", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:31", "verse_text": "And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS." }, { "point_text": "The woman", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:4", "verse_text": "But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law," }, { "point_text": "Abraham", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:18", "verse_text": "And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice." }, { "point_text": "Abraham", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:16", "verse_text": "Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ." }, { "point_text": "Abraham", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:16", "verse_text": "For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham." }, { "point_text": "David", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:12", "verse_text": "And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom." }, { "point_text": "David", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:16", "verse_text": "And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever." }, { "point_text": "David", "verse_ref": "Mark 10:47", "verse_text": "And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me." }, { "point_text": "David", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:30", "verse_text": "Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;" }, { "point_text": "David", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:23", "verse_text": "Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:" }, { "point_text": "David", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:3", "verse_text": "Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;" }, { "point_text": "Genealogy of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 1:1-17", "verse_text": "The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. 2 Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren; 3 And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram; 4 And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon; ..." }, { "point_text": "Genealogy of", "verse_ref": "Luke 3:23-38", "verse_text": "And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli, 24 Which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Janna, which was the son of Joseph, 25 Which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Amos, which was the son of Naum, which was the son of Esli, which was the son of Nagge, 26 Which was the son of Maath, which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Semei, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Juda, ..." }, { "point_text": "Attested by Himself", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:20", "verse_text": "And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head." }, { "point_text": "Attested by Himself", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:13", "verse_text": "When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?" }, { "point_text": "Confession of, a test of belonging to God", "verse_ref": "John 4:2", "verse_text": "(Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)" }, { "point_text": "Acknowledged by men", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:3", "verse_text": "Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him." }, { "point_text": "Acknowledged by men", "verse_ref": "John 7:27", "verse_text": "Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is." }, { "point_text": "Acknowledged by men", "verse_ref": "John 19:5", "verse_text": "Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man!" }, { "point_text": "Acknowledged by men", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:22", "verse_text": "Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:" }, { "point_text": "Denied by Antichrist", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:3", "verse_text": "And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world." }, { "point_text": "Denied by Antichrist", "verse_ref": "2 John 7", "verse_text": "For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist." }, { "point_text": "Was necessary to His mediatorial office", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:5", "verse_text": "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;" }, { "point_text": "Was necessary to His mediatorial office", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:17", "verse_text": "Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people." }, { "point_text": "Was necessary to His mediatorial office", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:4-5", "verse_text": "But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons." }, { "point_text": "Was necessary to His mediatorial office", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:21", "verse_text": "For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead." }, { "point_text": "Was necessary to His mediatorial office", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:15", "verse_text": "What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid." }, { "point_text": "Was necessary to His mediatorial office", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:19", "verse_text": "I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness." }, { "point_text": "IS PROVED BY HIS", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Conception in the Virgin's womb", "verse_ref": "Matthew 1:18", "verse_text": "Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Conception in the Virgin's womb", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:31", "verse_text": "And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS." }, { "point_text": "Birth", "verse_ref": "Matthew 1:16", "verse_text": "And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ." }, { "point_text": "Birth", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:2", "verse_text": "Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him." }, { "point_text": "Birth", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:7", "verse_text": "And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn." }, { "point_text": "Birth", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:11", "verse_text": "For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Partaking of flesh and blood", "verse_ref": "John 1:14", "verse_text": "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." }, { "point_text": "Partaking of flesh and blood", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:14", "verse_text": "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;" }, { "point_text": "Having a human soul", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:38", "verse_text": "Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me." }, { "point_text": "Having a human soul", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:46", "verse_text": "And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost." }, { "point_text": "Having a human soul", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:31", "verse_text": "He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption." }, { "point_text": "Circumcision", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:21", "verse_text": "And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb." }, { "point_text": "Increase in wisdom and stature", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:52", "verse_text": "And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man." }, { "point_text": "Weeping", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:41", "verse_text": "And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it," }, { "point_text": "Weeping", "verse_ref": "John 11:35", "verse_text": "Jesus wept." }, { "point_text": "Hungering", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:2", "verse_text": "And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred." }, { "point_text": "Hungering", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:18", "verse_text": "Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered." }, { "point_text": "Thirsting", "verse_ref": "John 4:7", "verse_text": "There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." }, { "point_text": "Thirsting", "verse_ref": "John 19:28", "verse_text": "After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst." }, { "point_text": "Sleeping", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:24", "verse_text": "And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep." }, { "point_text": "Sleeping", "verse_ref": "Mark 4:38", "verse_text": "And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?" }, { "point_text": "Being subject to weariness", "verse_ref": "John 4:6", "verse_text": "Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour." }, { "point_text": "Being a man of sorrows", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:3-4", "verse_text": "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted." }, { "point_text": "Being buffeted", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:67", "verse_text": "Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands," }, { "point_text": "Being buffeted", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:64", "verse_text": "And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee?" }, { "point_text": "Enduring indignities", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:11", "verse_text": "And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate." }, { "point_text": "Being scourged", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:26", "verse_text": "Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified." }, { "point_text": "Being scourged", "verse_ref": "John 19:1", "verse_text": "Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him." }, { "point_text": "Being nailed to the cross", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:16", "verse_text": "For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet." }, { "point_text": "Being nailed to the cross", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:33", "verse_text": "And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left." }, { "point_text": "Death", "verse_ref": "John 19:30", "verse_text": "When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost." }, { "point_text": "Side being pierced", "verse_ref": "John 19:34", "verse_text": "But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water." }, { "point_text": "Burial", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:59-60", "verse_text": "And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed." }, { "point_text": "Resurrection", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:15", "verse_text": "And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses." }, { "point_text": "Resurrection", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:8", "verse_text": "Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:" }, { "point_text": "Was like our own in all things except sin", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:22", "verse_text": "For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you." }, { "point_text": "Was like our own in all things except sin", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:7-8", "verse_text": "But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." }, { "point_text": "Was without sin", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:26", "verse_text": "For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;" }, { "point_text": "Was without sin", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:28", "verse_text": "For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore." }, { "point_text": "Was without sin", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:5", "verse_text": "And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin." }, { "point_text": "Was without sin", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:22", "verse_text": "Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:" }, { "point_text": "Was without sin", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:15", "verse_text": "For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." }, { "point_text": "Was without sin", "verse_ref": "John 18:38", "verse_text": "Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all." }, { "point_text": "Was without sin", "verse_ref": "John 8:46", "verse_text": "Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?" }, { "point_text": "Was submitted to the evidence of the senses", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:39", "verse_text": "Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have." }, { "point_text": "Was submitted to the evidence of the senses", "verse_ref": "John 20:27", "verse_text": "Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing." }, { "point_text": "Was submitted to the evidence of the senses", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:1-2", "verse_text": "That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)" }, { "point_text": "WAS OF THE SEED OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "The woman", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:15", "verse_text": "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." }, { "point_text": "The woman", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:4", "verse_text": "And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah." }, { "point_text": "The woman", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:22", "verse_text": "How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man." }, { "point_text": "The woman", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:31", "verse_text": "And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS." }, { "point_text": "The woman", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:4", "verse_text": "But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law," }, { "point_text": "Abraham", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:18", "verse_text": "And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice." }, { "point_text": "Abraham", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:16", "verse_text": "Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ." }, { "point_text": "Abraham", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:16", "verse_text": "For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham." }, { "point_text": "David", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:12", "verse_text": "And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom." }, { "point_text": "David", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:16", "verse_text": "And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever." }, { "point_text": "David", "verse_ref": "Mark 10:47", "verse_text": "And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me." }, { "point_text": "David", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:30", "verse_text": "Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;" }, { "point_text": "David", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:23", "verse_text": "Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:" }, { "point_text": "David", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:3", "verse_text": "Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;" }, { "point_text": "Genealogy of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 1:1-17", "verse_text": "The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. 2 Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren; 3 And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram; 4 And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon; ..." }, { "point_text": "Genealogy of", "verse_ref": "Luke 3:23-38", "verse_text": "And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli, 24 Which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Janna, which was the son of Joseph, 25 Which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Amos, which was the son of Naum, which was the son of Esli, which was the son of Nagge, 26 Which was the son of Maath, which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Semei, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Juda, ..." }, { "point_text": "Attested by Himself", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:20", "verse_text": "And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head." }, { "point_text": "Attested by Himself", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:13", "verse_text": "When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?" }, { "point_text": "Confession of, a test of belonging to God", "verse_ref": "John 4:2", "verse_text": "(Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)" }, { "point_text": "Acknowledged by men", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:3", "verse_text": "Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him." }, { "point_text": "Acknowledged by men", "verse_ref": "John 7:27", "verse_text": "Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is." }, { "point_text": "Acknowledged by men", "verse_ref": "John 19:5", "verse_text": "Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man!" }, { "point_text": "Acknowledged by men", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:22", "verse_text": "Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:" }, { "point_text": "Denied by Antichrist", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:3", "verse_text": "And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world." }, { "point_text": "Denied by Antichrist", "verse_ref": "2 John 7", "verse_text": "For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist." } ] }, { "name": "Humility of Christ, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Humility-of-Christ-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Declared by Himself", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:29", "verse_text": "Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls." }, { "point_text": "EXHIBITED IN HIS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Taking our nature", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:7", "verse_text": "But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:" }, { "point_text": "Taking our nature", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:16", "verse_text": "For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham." }, { "point_text": "Birth", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:4-7", "verse_text": "And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:) 5 To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. 6 And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. 7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn." }, { "point_text": "Subjection to His parents", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:51", "verse_text": "And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart." }, { "point_text": "Station in life", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:55", "verse_text": "Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?" }, { "point_text": "Station in life", "verse_ref": "John 9:29", "verse_text": "We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is." }, { "point_text": "Poverty", "verse_ref": "Luke 9:58", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head." }, { "point_text": "Poverty", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:9", "verse_text": "For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich." }, { "point_text": "Partaking of our infirmities", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:15", "verse_text": "For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." }, { "point_text": "Partaking of our infirmities", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 5:7", "verse_text": "Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;" }, { "point_text": "Submitting to ordinances", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:13-15", "verse_text": "Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. 14 But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? 15 And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him." }, { "point_text": "Becoming a servant", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:28", "verse_text": "Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many." }, { "point_text": "Becoming a servant", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:27", "verse_text": "For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth." }, { "point_text": "Becoming a servant", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:7", "verse_text": "But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:" }, { "point_text": "Associating with the despised", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:10-11", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. 11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?" }, { "point_text": "Refusing honors", "verse_ref": "John 5:41", "verse_text": "I receive not honour from men." }, { "point_text": "Refusing honors", "verse_ref": "John 6:15", "verse_text": "When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone." }, { "point_text": "Entry into Jerusalem", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:9", "verse_text": "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass." }, { "point_text": "Entry into Jerusalem", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:5", "verse_text": "Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass." }, { "point_text": "Entry into Jerusalem", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:7", "verse_text": "And brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set him thereon." }, { "point_text": "Washing His disciples' feet", "verse_ref": "John 13:5", "verse_text": "After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded." }, { "point_text": "Obedience", "verse_ref": "John 6:38", "verse_text": "For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me." }, { "point_text": "Obedience", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:9", "verse_text": "Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second." }, { "point_text": "Submitting to sufferings", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 50:6", "verse_text": "I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting." }, { "point_text": "Submitting to sufferings", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:7", "verse_text": "He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth." }, { "point_text": "Submitting to sufferings", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:32", "verse_text": "The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:" }, { "point_text": "Submitting to sufferings", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:37-39", "verse_text": "And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. 38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. 39 And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt." }, { "point_text": "Exposing Himself to reproach and contempt", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:6", "verse_text": "But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people." }, { "point_text": "Exposing Himself to reproach and contempt", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:9", "verse_text": "For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me." }, { "point_text": "Exposing Himself to reproach and contempt", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:3", "verse_text": "For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me." }, { "point_text": "Exposing Himself to reproach and contempt", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:3", "verse_text": "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not." }, { "point_text": "Death", "verse_ref": "John 10:15", "verse_text": "As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep." }, { "point_text": "Death", "verse_ref": "John 10:17-18", "verse_text": "Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. 18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father." }, { "point_text": "Saints should imitate", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:5-8", "verse_text": "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." }, { "point_text": "On account of, He was despised", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:3", "verse_text": "Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him." }, { "point_text": "On account of, He was despised", "verse_ref": "John 9:29", "verse_text": "We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is." }, { "point_text": "His exaltation, the result of", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:9", "verse_text": "Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:" } ] }, { "name": "Idleness and Sloth", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Idleness-and-Sloth.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:11", "verse_text": "Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;" }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:12", "verse_text": "That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises." }, { "point_text": "Produce apathy", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:27", "verse_text": "The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious." }, { "point_text": "Produce apathy", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:15", "verse_text": "The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth." }, { "point_text": "Akin to extravagance", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 18:9", "verse_text": "He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster." }, { "point_text": "Accompanied by conceit", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:16", "verse_text": "The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason." }, { "point_text": "LEAD TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Poverty", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:4", "verse_text": "He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich." }, { "point_text": "Poverty", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:13", "verse_text": "Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread." }, { "point_text": "Want", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:4", "verse_text": "The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing." }, { "point_text": "Want", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 24:34", "verse_text": "So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man." }, { "point_text": "Hunger", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:15", "verse_text": "Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger." }, { "point_text": "Hunger", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 24:34", "verse_text": "So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man." }, { "point_text": "Bondage", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:24", "verse_text": "The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute." }, { "point_text": "Disappointment", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 13:4", "verse_text": "The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat." }, { "point_text": "Disappointment", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:25", "verse_text": "The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour." }, { "point_text": "Ruin", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 24:30-31", "verse_text": "I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; 31 And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down." }, { "point_text": "Tattling and meddling", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:13", "verse_text": "And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not." }, { "point_text": "Effects of, afford instruction to others", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 24:30-32", "verse_text": "I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; 31 And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down. 32 Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction." }, { "point_text": "Remonstrance against", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:6", "verse_text": "Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:" }, { "point_text": "Remonstrance against", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:9", "verse_text": "How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?" }, { "point_text": "False excuses for", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:4", "verse_text": "The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing." }, { "point_text": "False excuses for", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:13", "verse_text": "The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:14", "verse_text": "As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:18", "verse_text": "But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:26", "verse_text": "His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nWatchmen, \nAthenians, \nThessalonians,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:10", "verse_text": "His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nWatchmen, \nAthenians, \nThessalonians,", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:21", "verse_text": "(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nWatchmen, \nAthenians, \nThessalonians,", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 3:11", "verse_text": "For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies." } ] }, { "name": "Husbands", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Husbands.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Should have but one wife", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:24", "verse_text": "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh." }, { "point_text": "Should have but one wife", "verse_ref": "Mark 10:6-8", "verse_text": "But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. 7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh." }, { "point_text": "Should have but one wife", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:2-4", "verse_text": "Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. 3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. 4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife." }, { "point_text": "Have authority over their wives", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:16", "verse_text": "Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee." }, { "point_text": "Have authority over their wives", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:3", "verse_text": "But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God." }, { "point_text": "Have authority over their wives", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:23", "verse_text": "For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body." }, { "point_text": "DUTY OF, TO WIVES;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To respect them", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:7", "verse_text": "Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered." }, { "point_text": "To love them", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:25-33", "verse_text": "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. ..." }, { "point_text": "To love them", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:19", "verse_text": "Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them." }, { "point_text": "To regard them as themselves", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:23", "verse_text": "And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." }, { "point_text": "To regard them as themselves", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:5", "verse_text": "And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?" }, { "point_text": "To be faithful to them", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 5:19", "verse_text": "Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love." }, { "point_text": "To be faithful to them", "verse_ref": "Malachi 2:14-15", "verse_text": "Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. 15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth." }, { "point_text": "To dwell with them for life", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:24", "verse_text": "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh." }, { "point_text": "To dwell with them for life", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:3-9", "verse_text": "The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? 4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? 6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. ..." }, { "point_text": "To comfort them", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:8", "verse_text": "Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?" }, { "point_text": "To consult with them", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:4-7", "verse_text": "And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock, 5 And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me. 6 And ye know that with all my power I have served your father. 7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me." }, { "point_text": "Not to leave them, though unbelieving", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:11-12", "verse_text": "But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife. 12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away." }, { "point_text": "Not to leave them, though unbelieving", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:14", "verse_text": "For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy." }, { "point_text": "Not to leave them, though unbelieving", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:16", "verse_text": "For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?" }, { "point_text": "Duties of, not to interfere with their duties to Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:26", "verse_text": "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." }, { "point_text": "Duties of, not to interfere with their duties to Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:29", "verse_text": "And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nIsaac, \nElkanah,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:67", "verse_text": "And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nIsaac, \nElkanah,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:4-5", "verse_text": "And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions: 5 But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb." }, { "point_text": "Bad--Exemplified.\r\n\nSolomon, \nAhasuerus,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:1", "verse_text": "But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;" }, { "point_text": "Bad--Exemplified.\r\n\nSolomon, \nAhasuerus,", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:10-11", "verse_text": "On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king, 11 To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on." } ] }, { "name": "Hypocrites", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Hypocrites.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "God knows and detects", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 29:15-16", "verse_text": "Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? 16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?" }, { "point_text": "Christ knew and detected", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:18", "verse_text": "But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?" }, { "point_text": "God has no pleasure in", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:17", "verse_text": "Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still." }, { "point_text": "Shall not come before God", "verse_ref": "Job 13:16", "verse_text": "He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Wilfully blind", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:17", "verse_text": "Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?" }, { "point_text": "Wilfully blind", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:19", "verse_text": "Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?" }, { "point_text": "Wilfully blind", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:26", "verse_text": "Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also." }, { "point_text": "Vile", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:6", "verse_text": "For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail." }, { "point_text": "Self-righteous", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:5", "verse_text": "Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day." }, { "point_text": "Self-righteous", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:11", "verse_text": "The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican." }, { "point_text": "Covetous", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 33:31", "verse_text": "And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness." }, { "point_text": "Covetous", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:3", "verse_text": "And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not." }, { "point_text": "Ostentatious", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:2", "verse_text": "And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying," }, { "point_text": "Ostentatious", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:5", "verse_text": "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth." }, { "point_text": "Ostentatious", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:5", "verse_text": "But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments," }, { "point_text": "Censorious", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:3-5", "verse_text": "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye." }, { "point_text": "Censorious", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:14-15", "verse_text": "And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day. 15 The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?" }, { "point_text": "Regarding tradition more than the word of God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:1-3", "verse_text": "Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, 2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. 3 But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?" }, { "point_text": "Exact in minor, but neglecting important duties", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:23-24", "verse_text": "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. 24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel." }, { "point_text": "Having but a form of godliness", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:5", "verse_text": "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away." }, { "point_text": "Seeking only outward purity", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:39", "verse_text": "And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness." }, { "point_text": "Professing but not practising", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 33:31-32", "verse_text": "And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness. 32 And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not." }, { "point_text": "Using but lip-worship", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 29:13", "verse_text": "Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:" }, { "point_text": "Using but lip-worship", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:8", "verse_text": "This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me." }, { "point_text": "Glorying in appearance only", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:12", "verse_text": "For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart." }, { "point_text": "Trusting in privileges", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:4", "verse_text": "Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these." }, { "point_text": "Trusting in privileges", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:9", "verse_text": "And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham." }, { "point_text": "Apparently zealous in the things of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:2", "verse_text": "Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God." }, { "point_text": "Zealous in making proselytes", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:15", "verse_text": "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves." }, { "point_text": "Devouring widows' houses", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:14", "verse_text": "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation." }, { "point_text": "Loving pre-eminence", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:6-7", "verse_text": "And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, 7 And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi." }, { "point_text": "Worship of, not acceptable to God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:11-15", "verse_text": "To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. ..." }, { "point_text": "Worship of, not acceptable to God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:3-5", "verse_text": "Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. 4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. 5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?" }, { "point_text": "Worship of, not acceptable to God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:9", "verse_text": "But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." }, { "point_text": "Joy of, but for a moment", "verse_ref": "Job 20:5", "verse_text": "That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?" }, { "point_text": "Hope of perishes", "verse_ref": "Job 8:13", "verse_text": "So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:" }, { "point_text": "Hope of perishes", "verse_ref": "Job 27:8-9", "verse_text": "For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul? 9 Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?" }, { "point_text": "Heap up wrath", "verse_ref": "Job 36:13", "verse_text": "But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them." }, { "point_text": "Fearfulness shall surprise", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:14", "verse_text": "The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?" }, { "point_text": "Destroy others by slander", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:9", "verse_text": "An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered." }, { "point_text": "In power, are a snare", "verse_ref": "Job 34:30", "verse_text": "That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared." }, { "point_text": "The Apostacy to abound with", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:2", "verse_text": "Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;" }, { "point_text": "Beware the principles of", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:1", "verse_text": "In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of, hinders growth in grace", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:1", "verse_text": "Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings," }, { "point_text": "Woe to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 29:15", "verse_text": "Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?" }, { "point_text": "Woe to", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:13", "verse_text": "But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Job 15:34", "verse_text": "For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:6", "verse_text": "I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 42:20", "verse_text": "For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 42:22", "verse_text": "Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:27-28", "verse_text": "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. 28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nAbsalom, \nThe Jews, \nPharisees, &c. \nJudas, \nHerodians, \n\nAnanias, \nSimon,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:3", "verse_text": "And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nAbsalom, \nThe Jews, \nPharisees, &c. \nJudas, \nHerodians, \n\nAnanias, \nSimon,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 15:7-8", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the LORD, in Hebron. 8 For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If the LORD shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will serve the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nAbsalom, \nThe Jews, \nPharisees, &c. \nJudas, \nHerodians, \n\nAnanias, \nSimon,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:10", "verse_text": "And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nAbsalom, \nThe Jews, \nPharisees, &c. \nJudas, \nHerodians, \n\nAnanias, \nSimon,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:3", "verse_text": "And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nAbsalom, \nThe Jews, \nPharisees, &c. \nJudas, \nHerodians, \n\nAnanias, \nSimon,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:49", "verse_text": "And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nAbsalom, \nThe Jews, \nPharisees, &c. \nJudas, \nHerodians, \n\nAnanias, \nSimon,", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:13", "verse_text": "And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nAbsalom, \nThe Jews, \nPharisees, &c. \nJudas, \nHerodians, \n\nAnanias, \nSimon,", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:15", "verse_text": "Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nAbsalom, \nThe Jews, \nPharisees, &c. \nJudas, \nHerodians, \n\nAnanias, \nSimon,", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:1-8", "verse_text": "But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, 2 And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet. 3 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? 4 Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nAbsalom, \nThe Jews, \nPharisees, &c. \nJudas, \nHerodians, \n\nAnanias, \nSimon,", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:13-23", "verse_text": "Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done. 14 Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John: 15 Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost: 16 (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) ..." } ] }, { "name": "Ignorance of God", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Ignorance-of-God.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Ignorance of Christ is", "verse_ref": "John 8:19", "verse_text": "Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also." }, { "point_text": "EVIDENCED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Want of love", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:8", "verse_text": "He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love." }, { "point_text": "Not keeping His commands", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:4", "verse_text": "He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him." }, { "point_text": "Living in sin", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:16", "verse_text": "They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate." }, { "point_text": "Living in sin", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:6", "verse_text": "Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him." }, { "point_text": "LEADS TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Error", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:29", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God." }, { "point_text": "Idolatry", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:19", "verse_text": "And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?" }, { "point_text": "Idolatry", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:29-30", "verse_text": "Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. 30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:" }, { "point_text": "Alienation from God", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:18", "verse_text": "Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:" }, { "point_text": "Sinful lusts", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:5", "verse_text": "Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:" }, { "point_text": "Sinful lusts", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:14", "verse_text": "As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:" }, { "point_text": "Persecuting saints", "verse_ref": "John 15:21", "verse_text": "But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me." }, { "point_text": "Persecuting saints", "verse_ref": "John 16:3", "verse_text": "And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me." }, { "point_text": "Is no excuse for sin", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:2", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them:" }, { "point_text": "Is no excuse for sin", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:48", "verse_text": "But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more." }, { "point_text": "The wicked, in a state of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:3", "verse_text": "And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The wicked, in a state of", "verse_ref": "John 15:21", "verse_text": "But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me." }, { "point_text": "The wicked, in a state of", "verse_ref": "John 17:25", "verse_text": "O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me." }, { "point_text": "The wicked, in a state of", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:30", "verse_text": "And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:" }, { "point_text": "The wicked choose", "verse_ref": "Job 21:14", "verse_text": "Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways." }, { "point_text": "The wicked choose", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:28", "verse_text": "And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;" }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 79:6", "verse_text": "Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:8", "verse_text": "In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "MINISTERS SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Compassionate those in", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 5:2", "verse_text": "Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity." }, { "point_text": "Compassionate those in", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:24-25", "verse_text": "And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, 25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;" }, { "point_text": "Labor to remove", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:23", "verse_text": "For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, \nIsraelites, \n\nFalse prophets, \nJews, \nNicodemus, \nGentiles, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 5:2", "verse_text": "And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, \nIsraelites, \n\nFalse prophets, \nJews, \nNicodemus, \nGentiles, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 95:10", "verse_text": "Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, \nIsraelites, \n\nFalse prophets, \nJews, \nNicodemus, \nGentiles, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:3", "verse_text": "The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, \nIsraelites, \n\nFalse prophets, \nJews, \nNicodemus, \nGentiles, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:10-11", "verse_text": "His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. 11 Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, \nIsraelites, \n\nFalse prophets, \nJews, \nNicodemus, \nGentiles, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:34", "verse_text": "Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, \nIsraelites, \n\nFalse prophets, \nJews, \nNicodemus, \nGentiles, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "John 3:10", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, \nIsraelites, \n\nFalse prophets, \nJews, \nNicodemus, \nGentiles, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:8", "verse_text": "Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, \nIsraelites, \n\nFalse prophets, \nJews, \nNicodemus, \nGentiles, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:13", "verse_text": "Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief." } ] }, { "name": "Hyke or Upper Garment", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Hyke-or-Upper-Garment.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Law respecting fringes of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:38", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:" }, { "point_text": "Law respecting fringes of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 22:12", "verse_text": "Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself." }, { "point_text": "Used by the poor as a covering by night", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:26-27", "verse_text": "If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down: 27 For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious." }, { "point_text": "Burdens often bound up in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:34", "verse_text": "And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders." }, { "point_text": "The skirts of, used to hold things in", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:39", "verse_text": "And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not." }, { "point_text": "The skirts of, used to hold things in", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 5:13", "verse_text": "Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise." }, { "point_text": "The skirts of, used to hold things in", "verse_ref": "Haggai 2:12", "verse_text": "If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No." }, { "point_text": "The skirts of, used to hold things in", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:38", "verse_text": "Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again." }, { "point_text": "Probably used by women as a vail", "verse_ref": "Ruth 3:15", "verse_text": "Also he said, Bring the vail that thou hast upon thee, and hold it. And when she held it, he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her: and she went into the city." }, { "point_text": "REQUIRED TO BE GIRT UP", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "For running", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:46", "verse_text": "And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel." }, { "point_text": "For labor", "verse_ref": "Luke 17:8", "verse_text": "And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?" }, { "point_text": "Often laid aside", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:18", "verse_text": "Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes." }, { "point_text": "Often laid aside", "verse_ref": "Mark 10:50", "verse_text": "And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus." }, { "point_text": "The Jews said to be naked when without", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 6:20", "verse_text": "Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!" }, { "point_text": "The Jews said to be naked when without", "verse_ref": "Mark 14:51-52", "verse_text": "And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him: 52 And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked." }, { "point_text": "WAS THE GARMENT", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Rent in token of anger", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:65", "verse_text": "Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy." }, { "point_text": "Rent in token of grief", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:13", "verse_text": "And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil." }, { "point_text": "Of Samuel rent by Saul", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:27", "verse_text": "And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent." }, { "point_text": "Of Saul which David cut", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 24:4-5", "verse_text": "And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which the LORD said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily. 5 And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt." }, { "point_text": "Of Jeroboam rent by Ahijah", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:30", "verse_text": "And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:" }, { "point_text": "Laid aside by Christ", "verse_ref": "John 13:4", "verse_text": "He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself." }, { "point_text": "Spread before Christ by the Jews", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:8", "verse_text": "And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way." }, { "point_text": "The Jews condemned for making broad the borders of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:5", "verse_text": "But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments," } ] }, { "name": "Humility", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Humility.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Necessary to the service of God", "verse_ref": "Micah 6:8", "verse_text": "He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" }, { "point_text": "Christ an example of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:29", "verse_text": "Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls." }, { "point_text": "Christ an example of", "verse_ref": "John 13:14-15", "verse_text": "If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:2", "verse_text": "My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad." }, { "point_text": "THEY WHO HAVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Regarded by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 138:6", "verse_text": "Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off." }, { "point_text": "Regarded by God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:2", "verse_text": "For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word." }, { "point_text": "Heard by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 9:12", "verse_text": "When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble." }, { "point_text": "Heard by God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:17", "verse_text": "And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;" }, { "point_text": "Enjoy the presence of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:15", "verse_text": "For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones." }, { "point_text": "Delivered by God", "verse_ref": "Job 22:29", "verse_text": "When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person." }, { "point_text": "Lifted up by God", "verse_ref": "James 4:10", "verse_text": "Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up." }, { "point_text": "Exalted by God", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:11", "verse_text": "For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted." }, { "point_text": "Exalted by God", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:14", "verse_text": "I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted." }, { "point_text": "Are greatest in Christ's kingdom", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:4", "verse_text": "Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven." }, { "point_text": "Are greatest in Christ's kingdom", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:26-28", "verse_text": "But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; 27 And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: 28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many." }, { "point_text": "Receive more grace", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:34", "verse_text": "Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly." }, { "point_text": "Receive more grace", "verse_ref": "James 4:6", "verse_text": "But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble." }, { "point_text": "Upheld by honor", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Is before honor", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:33", "verse_text": "The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility." }, { "point_text": "Leads to riches, honor, and life", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:4", "verse_text": "By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Put on", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:12", "verse_text": "Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;" }, { "point_text": "Be clothed with", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:5", "verse_text": "Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble." }, { "point_text": "Walk with", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:1-2", "verse_text": "I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, 2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;" }, { "point_text": "Beware of false", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:18", "verse_text": "Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind," }, { "point_text": "Beware of false", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:23", "verse_text": "Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh." }, { "point_text": "Afflictions intended to produce", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:41", "verse_text": "And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:" }, { "point_text": "Afflictions intended to produce", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:3", "verse_text": "And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live." }, { "point_text": "Afflictions intended to produce", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:20", "verse_text": "My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me." }, { "point_text": "Want of, condemned", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:23", "verse_text": "And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more." }, { "point_text": "Want of, condemned", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:12", "verse_text": "And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Want of, condemned", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 44:10", "verse_text": "They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers." }, { "point_text": "Want of, condemned", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:22", "verse_text": "And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;" }, { "point_text": "Temporal judgments averted by", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:14", "verse_text": "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." }, { "point_text": "Temporal judgments averted by", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 12:6-7", "verse_text": "Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous. 7 And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak." }, { "point_text": "Excellency of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:19", "verse_text": "Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:3", "verse_text": "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nJoshua, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nManasseh, \nJosiah, \nJob, \n\nIsaiah, \nJeremiah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nCenturion, \nWoman of Canaan, \nElizabeth, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:27", "verse_text": "And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nJoshua, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nManasseh, \nJosiah, \nJob, \n\nIsaiah, \nJeremiah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nCenturion, \nWoman of Canaan, \nElizabeth, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:10", "verse_text": "I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nJoshua, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nManasseh, \nJosiah, \nJob, \n\nIsaiah, \nJeremiah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nCenturion, \nWoman of Canaan, \nElizabeth, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 3:11", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nJoshua, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nManasseh, \nJosiah, \nJob, \n\nIsaiah, \nJeremiah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nCenturion, \nWoman of Canaan, \nElizabeth, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 4:10", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nJoshua, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nManasseh, \nJosiah, \nJob, \n\nIsaiah, \nJeremiah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nCenturion, \nWoman of Canaan, \nElizabeth, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Joshua 7:6", "verse_text": "And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nJoshua, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nManasseh, \nJosiah, \nJob, \n\nIsaiah, \nJeremiah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nCenturion, \nWoman of Canaan, \nElizabeth, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:15", "verse_text": "And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nJoshua, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nManasseh, \nJosiah, \nJob, \n\nIsaiah, \nJeremiah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nCenturion, \nWoman of Canaan, \nElizabeth, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:14", "verse_text": "But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nJoshua, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nManasseh, \nJosiah, \nJob, \n\nIsaiah, \nJeremiah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nCenturion, \nWoman of Canaan, \nElizabeth, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 32:26", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nJoshua, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nManasseh, \nJosiah, \nJob, \n\nIsaiah, \nJeremiah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nCenturion, \nWoman of Canaan, \nElizabeth, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:12", "verse_text": "And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nJoshua, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nManasseh, \nJosiah, \nJob, \n\nIsaiah, \nJeremiah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nCenturion, \nWoman of Canaan, \nElizabeth, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 34:27", "verse_text": "Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nJoshua, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nManasseh, \nJosiah, \nJob, \n\nIsaiah, \nJeremiah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nCenturion, \nWoman of Canaan, \nElizabeth, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Job 40:4", "verse_text": "Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nJoshua, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nManasseh, \nJosiah, \nJob, \n\nIsaiah, \nJeremiah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nCenturion, \nWoman of Canaan, \nElizabeth, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Job 42:6", "verse_text": "Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nJoshua, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nManasseh, \nJosiah, \nJob, \n\nIsaiah, \nJeremiah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nCenturion, \nWoman of Canaan, \nElizabeth, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:5", "verse_text": "Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nJoshua, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nManasseh, \nJosiah, \nJob, \n\nIsaiah, \nJeremiah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nCenturion, \nWoman of Canaan, \nElizabeth, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 1:6", "verse_text": "Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nJoshua, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nManasseh, \nJosiah, \nJob, \n\nIsaiah, \nJeremiah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nCenturion, \nWoman of Canaan, \nElizabeth, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:14", "verse_text": "But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nJoshua, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nManasseh, \nJosiah, \nJob, \n\nIsaiah, \nJeremiah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nCenturion, \nWoman of Canaan, \nElizabeth, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:8", "verse_text": "The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nJoshua, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nManasseh, \nJosiah, \nJob, \n\nIsaiah, \nJeremiah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nCenturion, \nWoman of Canaan, \nElizabeth, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:27", "verse_text": "And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nJoshua, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nManasseh, \nJosiah, \nJob, \n\nIsaiah, \nJeremiah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nCenturion, \nWoman of Canaan, \nElizabeth, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:43", "verse_text": "And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nJoshua, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nManasseh, \nJosiah, \nJob, \n\nIsaiah, \nJeremiah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nCenturion, \nWoman of Canaan, \nElizabeth, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:8", "verse_text": "When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nMoses, \n\nJoshua, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nManasseh, \nJosiah, \nJob, \n\nIsaiah, \nJeremiah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nCenturion, \nWoman of Canaan, \nElizabeth, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:19", "verse_text": "Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:" } ] }, { "name": "Indwelling of the Holy Ghost, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Indwelling-of-the-Holy-Ghost-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "In His Church, as His temple", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:16", "verse_text": "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" }, { "point_text": "In the body of saints, as His temple", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:19", "verse_text": "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?" }, { "point_text": "In the body of saints, as His temple", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:16", "verse_text": "And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people." }, { "point_text": "Promised to saints", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 36:27", "verse_text": "And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them." }, { "point_text": "Saints enjoy", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:11", "verse_text": "Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?" }, { "point_text": "Saints enjoy", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:14", "verse_text": "That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us." }, { "point_text": "Saints full of", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:5", "verse_text": "And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:" }, { "point_text": "Saints full of", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:18", "verse_text": "And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;" }, { "point_text": "IS THE MEANS OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Quickening", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:11", "verse_text": "But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you." }, { "point_text": "Guiding", "verse_ref": "John 16:13", "verse_text": "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come." }, { "point_text": "Guiding", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:18", "verse_text": "But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law." }, { "point_text": "Fructifying", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:22", "verse_text": "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith," }, { "point_text": "A proof of being Christ's", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:9", "verse_text": "But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his." }, { "point_text": "A proof of being Christ's", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:13", "verse_text": "Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit." }, { "point_text": "A proof of adoption", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:15", "verse_text": "For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." }, { "point_text": "A proof of adoption", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:5", "verse_text": "To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons." }, { "point_text": "Is abiding", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:27", "verse_text": "But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him." }, { "point_text": "THOSE WHO HAVE NOT", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Are sensual", "verse_ref": "Jude 19", "verse_text": "These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit." }, { "point_text": "Are without Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:9", "verse_text": "But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his." }, { "point_text": "Opposed by the carnal nature", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:17", "verse_text": "For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would." } ] }, { "name": "Industry", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Industry.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:28", "verse_text": "Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth." }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:11", "verse_text": "And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;" }, { "point_text": "Required of man in a state of innocence", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:15", "verse_text": "And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it." }, { "point_text": "Required of man after the fall", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:23", "verse_text": "Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken." }, { "point_text": "To be suspended on the Sabbath", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:10", "verse_text": "But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:" }, { "point_text": "Characteristic of godly women.\r\n\r\n, &c", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:13-31", "verse_text": "She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. 14 She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar. 15 She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. 16 She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard. ..." }, { "point_text": "Early rising necessary to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:15", "verse_text": "She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens." }, { "point_text": "REQUISITE TO SUPPLY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Our own wants", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:34", "verse_text": "Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me." }, { "point_text": "Our own wants", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:9", "verse_text": "For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God." }, { "point_text": "Wants of others", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:35", "verse_text": "I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive." }, { "point_text": "Wants of others", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:28", "verse_text": "Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth." }, { "point_text": "The slothful devoid of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 24:30-31", "verse_text": "I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; 31 And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down." }, { "point_text": "LEADS TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Increase of substance", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 13:11", "verse_text": "Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase." }, { "point_text": "Affection of relatives", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:28", "verse_text": "Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her." }, { "point_text": "General commendation", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:31", "verse_text": "Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:6-8", "verse_text": "Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: 7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, 8 Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nRachel, \nJacob, \nJethro's daughters, \nRuth, \nJeroboam, \nDavid, \nJewish elders, \nDorcas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 29:9", "verse_text": "And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nRachel, \nJacob, \nJethro's daughters, \nRuth, \nJeroboam, \nDavid, \nJewish elders, \nDorcas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:6", "verse_text": "And ye know that with all my power I have served your father." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nRachel, \nJacob, \nJethro's daughters, \nRuth, \nJeroboam, \nDavid, \nJewish elders, \nDorcas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:10", "verse_text": "And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nRachel, \nJacob, \nJethro's daughters, \nRuth, \nJeroboam, \nDavid, \nJewish elders, \nDorcas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Ruth 2:2-3", "verse_text": "And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter. 3 And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nRachel, \nJacob, \nJethro's daughters, \nRuth, \nJeroboam, \nDavid, \nJewish elders, \nDorcas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:28", "verse_text": "And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nRachel, \nJacob, \nJethro's daughters, \nRuth, \nJeroboam, \nDavid, \nJewish elders, \nDorcas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 16:11", "verse_text": "And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nRachel, \nJacob, \nJethro's daughters, \nRuth, \nJeroboam, \nDavid, \nJewish elders, \nDorcas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:14-15", "verse_text": "And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia. 15 And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nRachel, \nJacob, \nJethro's daughters, \nRuth, \nJeroboam, \nDavid, \nJewish elders, \nDorcas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:39", "verse_text": "Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nRachel, \nJacob, \nJethro's daughters, \nRuth, \nJeroboam, \nDavid, \nJewish elders, \nDorcas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 18:3", "verse_text": "And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nRachel, \nJacob, \nJethro's daughters, \nRuth, \nJeroboam, \nDavid, \nJewish elders, \nDorcas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 4:12", "verse_text": "And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:" } ] }, { "name": "Idolatry", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Idolatry.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:2-3", "verse_text": "I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me." }, { "point_text": "CONSISTS IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Bowing down to images", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:5", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;" }, { "point_text": "Bowing down to images", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:9", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Worshipping images", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:17", "verse_text": "And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god." }, { "point_text": "Worshipping images", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:5,10,15", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Sacrificing to images", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:38", "verse_text": "And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood." }, { "point_text": "Sacrificing to images", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:41", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Worshipping other gods", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 30:17", "verse_text": "But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;" }, { "point_text": "Worshipping other gods", "verse_ref": "Psalm 81:9", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Swearing by other gods", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:13", "verse_text": "And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth." }, { "point_text": "Swearing by other gods", "verse_ref": "Joshua 23:7", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Walking after other gods", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:19", "verse_text": "And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish." }, { "point_text": "Speaking in the name of other gods", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:20", "verse_text": "But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die." }, { "point_text": "Looking to other gods", "verse_ref": "Hosea 3:1", "verse_text": "Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine." }, { "point_text": "Serving other gods", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:4", "verse_text": "For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly." }, { "point_text": "Serving other gods", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:19", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Fearing other gods", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:35", "verse_text": "With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:" }, { "point_text": "Sacrificing to other gods", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:20", "verse_text": "He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed." }, { "point_text": "Worshipping the true God by an image, &c", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:4-6", "verse_text": "And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD. 6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play." }, { "point_text": "Worshipping the true God by an image, &c", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:19-20", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Worshipping angels", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:18", "verse_text": "Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind," }, { "point_text": "Worshipping the host of heaven", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:19", "verse_text": "And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven." }, { "point_text": "Worshipping the host of heaven", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:3", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Worshipping demons", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:9-10", "verse_text": "And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. 10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve." }, { "point_text": "Worshipping demons", "verse_ref": "Revelation 9:20", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Worshipping dead men", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:28", "verse_text": "They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead." }, { "point_text": "Setting up idols in the heart", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 14:3-4", "verse_text": "Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them? 4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;" }, { "point_text": "Covetousness", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:5", "verse_text": "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God." }, { "point_text": "Covetousness", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:5", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Sensuality", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:19", "verse_text": "Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)" }, { "point_text": "Is changing the glory of God into an image", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:23", "verse_text": "And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things." }, { "point_text": "Is changing the glory of God into an image", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:29", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Is changing the truth of God into a lie", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:25", "verse_text": "Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Is changing the truth of God into a lie", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:20", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Is a work of the flesh", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:19-20", "verse_text": "Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies," }, { "point_text": "Incompatible with the service of God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:2-3", "verse_text": "Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments: 3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "An abomination to God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:25", "verse_text": "The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God." }, { "point_text": "Hateful to God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:22", "verse_text": "Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth." }, { "point_text": "Hateful to God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 44:4", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Vain and foolish", "verse_ref": "Psalm 115:4-8", "verse_text": "Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. 5 They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: 6 They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: 7 They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. ..." }, { "point_text": "Vain and foolish", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:19; Jeremiah 10:3", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Bloody", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 23:39", "verse_text": "For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house." }, { "point_text": "Abominable", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:3", "verse_text": "For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:" }, { "point_text": "Unprofitable", "verse_ref": "Judges 10:14", "verse_text": "Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation." }, { "point_text": "Unprofitable", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 46:7", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Irrational", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:29", "verse_text": "Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device." }, { "point_text": "Irrational", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:21-23", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Defiling", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:7", "verse_text": "Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "Defiling", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 36:18", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "THEY WHO PRACTICE,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Forget God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:19", "verse_text": "And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish." }, { "point_text": "Forget God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 18:15", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Go astray from God", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 44:10", "verse_text": "And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Pollute the name of God", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:39", "verse_text": "As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols." }, { "point_text": "Defile the sanctuary of God", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 5:11", "verse_text": "Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity." }, { "point_text": "Are estranged from God", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 14:5", "verse_text": "That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols." }, { "point_text": "Forsake God", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 22:17", "verse_text": "Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched." }, { "point_text": "Forsake God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 16:11", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Hate God", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 19:2-3", "verse_text": "And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD. 3 Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God." }, { "point_text": "Provoke God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 31:20", "verse_text": "For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant." }, { "point_text": "Provoke God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:3; Jeremiah 25:6", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Are vain in their imaginations", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:21", "verse_text": "Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened." }, { "point_text": "Are ignorant and foolish", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:21-22", "verse_text": "Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools," }, { "point_text": "Inflame themselves", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:5", "verse_text": "Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?" }, { "point_text": "Hold fast their deceit", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:5", "verse_text": "Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return." }, { "point_text": "Carried away by it", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:2", "verse_text": "Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led." }, { "point_text": "Go after it in heart", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:16", "verse_text": "Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols." }, { "point_text": "Are mad upon it", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:38", "verse_text": "A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols." }, { "point_text": "Boast of it", "verse_ref": "Psalm 97:7", "verse_text": "Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods." }, { "point_text": "Have fellowship with devils", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:12", "verse_text": "My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God." }, { "point_text": "Ask counsel of their idols", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:12", "verse_text": "My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God." }, { "point_text": "Look to idols for deliverance", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:17", "verse_text": "And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god." }, { "point_text": "Look to idols for deliverance", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:20", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Swear by their idols", "verse_ref": "Amos 8:14", "verse_text": "They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again." }, { "point_text": "Objects of, numerous", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 8:5", "verse_text": "For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)" }, { "point_text": "OBJECTS OF, DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Strange gods", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:2", "verse_text": "Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:" }, { "point_text": "Strange gods", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:4", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Other gods", "verse_ref": "Judges 2:12", "verse_text": "And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger." }, { "point_text": "Other gods", "verse_ref": "Judges 2:17; 1 Kings 14:9", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "New gods", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:17", "verse_text": "They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not." }, { "point_text": "New gods", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:8", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Gods that cannot save", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:20", "verse_text": "Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save." }, { "point_text": "Gods that have not made the heavens", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 10:11", "verse_text": "Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens." }, { "point_text": "No gods", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:7", "verse_text": "How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses." }, { "point_text": "No gods", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:8", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Molten gods", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:17", "verse_text": "Thou shalt make thee no molten gods." }, { "point_text": "Molten gods", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:4", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Molten images", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 27:15", "verse_text": "Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen." }, { "point_text": "Molten images", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:18", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Graven images", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:20", "verse_text": "Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save." }, { "point_text": "Graven images", "verse_ref": "Hosea 11:2", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Senseless idols", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:28", "verse_text": "And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell." }, { "point_text": "Senseless idols", "verse_ref": "Psalm 115:5,7", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Dumb idols", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:18", "verse_text": "What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?" }, { "point_text": "Dumb idols", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:2", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Dumb stones", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:19", "verse_text": "Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it." }, { "point_text": "Stocks", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:9", "verse_text": "And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks." }, { "point_text": "Stocks", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:12", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Abominations", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:19", "verse_text": "And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?" }, { "point_text": "Abominations", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 32:34", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Images of abomination", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 7:20", "verse_text": "As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them." }, { "point_text": "Idols of abomination", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:36", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;" }, { "point_text": "Stumbling blocks", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 14:3", "verse_text": "Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?" }, { "point_text": "Teachers of lies", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:18", "verse_text": "What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?" }, { "point_text": "Wind and confusion", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:29", "verse_text": "Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion." }, { "point_text": "Nothing", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:24", "verse_text": "Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you." }, { "point_text": "Nothing", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 8:4", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Helpless", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 10:5", "verse_text": "They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good." }, { "point_text": "Vanity", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 18:15", "verse_text": "Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;" }, { "point_text": "Vanities of the Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:22", "verse_text": "Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things." }, { "point_text": "Making idols for the purpose of, described and ridiculed", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:10-20", "verse_text": "Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing? 11 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together. 12 The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint. 13 The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house. ..." }, { "point_text": "Obstinate sinners judicially given up to", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:28", "verse_text": "And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell." }, { "point_text": "Obstinate sinners judicially given up to", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:64; Hosea 4:17", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Warnings against", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:15-19", "verse_text": "Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: 16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, 17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, 18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth: ..." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to turn from", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 14:6", "verse_text": "Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to turn from", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:7; Acts 14:15", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Renounced on conversion", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 1:9", "verse_text": "For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;" }, { "point_text": "Led to abominable sins", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:26-32", "verse_text": "For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, ..." }, { "point_text": "Led to abominable sins", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:20", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Keep from", "verse_ref": "Joshua 23:7", "verse_text": "That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:" }, { "point_text": "Keep from", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:21", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Flee from", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:14", "verse_text": "Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry." }, { "point_text": "Not have anything connected with, in their houses", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:26", "verse_text": "Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing." }, { "point_text": "Not partake of any thing connected with", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:19-20", "verse_text": "What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? 20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils." }, { "point_text": "Not have religious intercourse with those who practice", "verse_ref": "Joshua 23:7", "verse_text": "That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:" }, { "point_text": "Not have religious intercourse with those who practice", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 5:11", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Not covenant with those who practice", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:12", "verse_text": "Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:" }, { "point_text": "Not covenant with those who practice", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:15", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Not intermarry with those who practice", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:16", "verse_text": "And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods." }, { "point_text": "Not intermarry with those who practice", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:3", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Testify against", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:15", "verse_text": "And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:" }, { "point_text": "Testify against", "verse_ref": "Acts 19:26", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Refuse to engage in, though threatened with death", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:18", "verse_text": "But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up." }, { "point_text": "Saints preserved by God from", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:18", "verse_text": "Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him." }, { "point_text": "Saints preserved by God from", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:4", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Saints refuse to receive the worship of", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:25", "verse_text": "And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him." }, { "point_text": "Saints refuse to receive the worship of", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:11-15", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Angels refuse to receive the worship of", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:8-9", "verse_text": "And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things. 9 Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of, promised", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 36:25", "verse_text": "Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of, promised", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 13:2", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Everything connected with, should be destroyed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:13", "verse_text": "But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:" }, { "point_text": "Everything connected with, should be destroyed", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:5; 2 Samuel 5:21; 2 Kings 23:14", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Woe denounced against", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:19", "verse_text": "Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it." }, { "point_text": "Curse denounced against", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 27:15", "verse_text": "Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen." }, { "point_text": "PUNISHMENT OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Judicial death", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:2-5", "verse_text": "If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant, 3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; 4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and inquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel: 5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die." }, { "point_text": "Dreadful judgments which end in death", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:2", "verse_text": "And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Dreadful judgments which end in death", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 16:1-11", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Banishment", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:3", "verse_text": "And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Banishment", "verse_ref": "Hosea 8:5-8; Amos 5:26-27", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Exclusion from heaven", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:9-10", "verse_text": "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Eternal torments", "verse_ref": "Revelation 14:9-11", "verse_text": "And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, 10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: 11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name." }, { "point_text": "Eternal torments", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:8", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:1", "verse_text": "And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:12", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:23", "verse_text": "Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "Judges 17:4-5", "verse_text": "Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah. 5 And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:28", "verse_text": "Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:13", "verse_text": "And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:31", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:19", "verse_text": "Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:37", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 21:4-7", "verse_text": "And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. 6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 21:21", "verse_text": "And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 28:3", "verse_text": "Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 11:13", "verse_text": "For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:1", "verse_text": "Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:23", "verse_text": "But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:11-12", "verse_text": "And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. 12 And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:16", "verse_text": "Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "Acts 19:28", "verse_text": "And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians." }, { "point_text": "Zeal against--Exemplified.\r\n\nAsa, \nJosiah, \nJehoshaphat, \nIsrael, \nManasseh,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:12", "verse_text": "And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made." }, { "point_text": "Zeal against--Exemplified.\r\n\nAsa, \nJosiah, \nJehoshaphat, \nIsrael, \nManasseh,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:5", "verse_text": "And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven." }, { "point_text": "Zeal against--Exemplified.\r\n\nAsa, \nJosiah, \nJehoshaphat, \nIsrael, \nManasseh,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 17:6", "verse_text": "And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah." }, { "point_text": "Zeal against--Exemplified.\r\n\nAsa, \nJosiah, \nJehoshaphat, \nIsrael, \nManasseh,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:1", "verse_text": "Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities." }, { "point_text": "Zeal against--Exemplified.\r\n\nAsa, \nJosiah, \nJehoshaphat, \nIsrael, \nManasseh,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:15", "verse_text": "And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city." }, { "point_text": "All forms of, forbidden by the law of Moses", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:4-5", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;" }, { "point_text": "All heathen nations given up to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 96:5", "verse_text": "For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens." }, { "point_text": "All heathen nations given up to", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:23,25; 1 Corinthians 12:2", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Led the heathen to think that their gods visited the earth in bodily shapes", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:11", "verse_text": "And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men." }, { "point_text": "Led the heathen to consider their gods to have but a local influence", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:23", "verse_text": "And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their gods are gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they." }, { "point_text": "Led the heathen to consider their gods to have but a local influence", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:26", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "OBJECTS OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The heavenly bodies", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:5", "verse_text": "And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven." }, { "point_text": "The heavenly bodies", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:42", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Angels", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:18", "verse_text": "Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind," }, { "point_text": "Departed spirits", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 28:14-15", "verse_text": "And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself. 15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do." }, { "point_text": "Earthly creatures", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:23", "verse_text": "And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things." }, { "point_text": "Images", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 29:17", "verse_text": "And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)" }, { "point_text": "Images", "verse_ref": "Psalm 115:4; Isaiah 44:17", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Temples built for", "verse_ref": "Hosea 8:14", "verse_text": "For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof." }, { "point_text": "Altars raised for", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:26", "verse_text": "And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made." }, { "point_text": "Altars raised for", "verse_ref": "Hosea 8:11", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Accompanied by feasts", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 10:20", "verse_text": "And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it." }, { "point_text": "Accompanied by feasts", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:27-28", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "OBJECTS OF, WORSHIPPED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "With sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:40", "verse_text": "And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him." }, { "point_text": "With sacrifices", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 10:24", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "With libations", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:6", "verse_text": "Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?" }, { "point_text": "With libations", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 19:13", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "With incense", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:35", "verse_text": "Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the LORD, him that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his gods." }, { "point_text": "With prayer", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:26", "verse_text": "And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made." }, { "point_text": "With prayer", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:17", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "With singing and dancing", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:18-19", "verse_text": "And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear. 19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount." }, { "point_text": "With singing and dancing", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:26; 1 Corinthians 10:7", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "By bowing to them", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:18", "verse_text": "Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him." }, { "point_text": "By bowing to them", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:18", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "By kissing them", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:18", "verse_text": "Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him." }, { "point_text": "By kissing them", "verse_ref": "Hosea 13:2", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "By kissing the hand to them", "verse_ref": "Job 31:26-27", "verse_text": "If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; 27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:" }, { "point_text": "By cutting the flesh", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:28", "verse_text": "And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them." }, { "point_text": "By burning children", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:31", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods." }, { "point_text": "By burning children", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:6; Jeremiah 19:4-5", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "In temples", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:18", "verse_text": "In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing." }, { "point_text": "On high places", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:41", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see the utmost part of the people." }, { "point_text": "On high places", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:20", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "In groves", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:13", "verse_text": "But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:" }, { "point_text": "Under trees", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:5", "verse_text": "Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?" }, { "point_text": "Under trees", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:20", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "In private houses", "verse_ref": "Judges 17:4-5", "verse_text": "Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah. 5 And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest." }, { "point_text": "On the tops of houses", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:12", "verse_text": "And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron." }, { "point_text": "On the tops of houses", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 1:5", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "In secret places", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:8", "verse_text": "Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it." }, { "point_text": "Rites of, obscene and impure", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:25", "verse_text": "And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)" }, { "point_text": "Rites of, obscene and impure", "verse_ref": "Numbers 25:1-3; 2 Kings 17:9; Isaiah 57:6,8-9; 1 Peter 4:3", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Divination connected with", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:6", "verse_text": "And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger." }, { "point_text": "Victims sacrificed in, often adorned with garlands", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:13", "verse_text": "Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people." }, { "point_text": "IDOLS, &C. MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Adrammelech", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:31", "verse_text": "And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim." }, { "point_text": "Anammelech", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:31", "verse_text": "And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim." }, { "point_text": "Ashima", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:30", "verse_text": "And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima," }, { "point_text": "Ashtoreth", "verse_ref": "Judges 2:13", "verse_text": "And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth." }, { "point_text": "Ashtoreth", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:33", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Baal", "verse_ref": "Judges 2:11-13", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim: 12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger. 13 And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth." }, { "point_text": "Baal", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:25", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Baal-berith", "verse_ref": "Judges 8:33", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god." }, { "point_text": "Baal-berith", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:4,46", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Baal-peor", "verse_ref": "Numbers 25:1-3", "verse_text": "And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. 2 And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. 3 And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel." }, { "point_text": "Baal-zebub", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 1:2", "verse_text": "And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease." }, { "point_text": "Baal-zebub", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 1:16", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Baal-zephon", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:2", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalzephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea." }, { "point_text": "Bel", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:2", "verse_text": "Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces." }, { "point_text": "Bel", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:44", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Chemosh", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:29", "verse_text": "Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites." }, { "point_text": "Chemosh", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:33", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Chiun", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:26", "verse_text": "But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves." }, { "point_text": "Dagon", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:23", "verse_text": "Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand." }, { "point_text": "Dagon", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 5:1-3", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Diana", "verse_ref": "Acts 19:24", "verse_text": "For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;" }, { "point_text": "Diana", "verse_ref": "Acts 19:27", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Huzzab", "verse_ref": "Nahum 2:7", "verse_text": "And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts." }, { "point_text": "Jupiter", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:12", "verse_text": "And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker." }, { "point_text": "Mercury", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:12", "verse_text": "And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker." }, { "point_text": "Molech or Milcom", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 18:21", "verse_text": "And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Molech or Milcom", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:5,33", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Merodach", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:2", "verse_text": "Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces." }, { "point_text": "Nergal", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:30", "verse_text": "And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima," }, { "point_text": "Nebo", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 46:1", "verse_text": "Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast." }, { "point_text": "Nibhaz and Tartak", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:31", "verse_text": "And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim." }, { "point_text": "Nisroch", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:37", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead." }, { "point_text": "Queen of heaven", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 44:17", "verse_text": "But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil." }, { "point_text": "Queen of heaven", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 44:25", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Remphan", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:43", "verse_text": "Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon." }, { "point_text": "Rimmon", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:18", "verse_text": "In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing." }, { "point_text": "Succoth-benoth", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:30", "verse_text": "And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima," }, { "point_text": "Tammuz", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 8:14", "verse_text": "Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz." }, { "point_text": "Objects of, carried in procession", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 46:7", "verse_text": "They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble." }, { "point_text": "Objects of, carried in procession", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:26; Acts 7:43", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Early notice of, amongst God's professing people", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:19", "verse_text": "And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's." }, { "point_text": "Early notice of, amongst God's professing people", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:1-4; Joshua 24:2", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Practised, in Egypt", "verse_ref": "Joshua 24:14", "verse_text": "Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Practised, in Egypt", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 23:3,19", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Brought, out of Egypt with them", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 23:8", "verse_text": "Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her." }, { "point_text": "Brought, out of Egypt with them", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:39-41", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to practice", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:1-5", "verse_text": "And God spake all these words, saying, 2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: ..." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to practice", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:24", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Often mixed up, with God's worship", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:1-5", "verse_text": "And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. 2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. 3 And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. 4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. ..." }, { "point_text": "Often mixed up, with God's worship", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:27-28", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Followed the Canaanites in", "verse_ref": "Judges 2:11-13", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim: 12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger. 13 And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth." }, { "point_text": "Followed the Canaanites in", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 5:25", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Followed the Moabites in", "verse_ref": "Numbers 25:1-3", "verse_text": "And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. 2 And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. 3 And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel." }, { "point_text": "Followed the Assyrians in", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:28-30", "verse_text": "Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied. 29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith. 30 How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;" }, { "point_text": "Followed the Assyrians in", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 23:5-7", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Followed the Syrians in", "verse_ref": "Judges 10:6", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him." }, { "point_text": "Adopted by Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:5-8", "verse_text": "For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. 6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father. 7 Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon. 8 And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods." }, { "point_text": "Adopted by the wicked kings", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:26", "verse_text": "And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Adopted by the wicked kings", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 21:21; 2 Chronicles 28:2-4; 33:3,7", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Example of the kings encouraged Israel in", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:30", "verse_text": "And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan." }, { "point_text": "Example of the kings encouraged Israel in", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 21:11; 2 Chronicles 33:9", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Great prevalence of, in Israel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:8", "verse_text": "Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:" }, { "point_text": "Great prevalence of, in Israel", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:28; Ezekiel 8:10", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "A virtual forsaking of God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:9-13", "verse_text": "Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead. 10 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing. 11 Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. 12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD. ..." }, { "point_text": "The good kings of Judah endeavored to destroy", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 15:16", "verse_text": "And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron." }, { "point_text": "The good kings of Judah endeavored to destroy", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 34:7", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Captivity of Israel on account of", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:6-18", "verse_text": "In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. 7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, 8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. 9 And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. ..." }, { "point_text": "Captivity of Judah on account of", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:19-23", "verse_text": "Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. 20 And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight. 21 For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin. 22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them; ..." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:2-3", "verse_text": "I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me." }, { "point_text": "CONSISTS IN", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Bowing down to images", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:5", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;" }, { "point_text": "Bowing down to images", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:9", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Worshipping images", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:17", "verse_text": "And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god." }, { "point_text": "Worshipping images", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:5,10,15", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Sacrificing to images", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:38", "verse_text": "And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood." }, { "point_text": "Sacrificing to images", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:41", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Worshipping other gods", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 30:17", "verse_text": "But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;" }, { "point_text": "Worshipping other gods", "verse_ref": "Psalm 81:9", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Swearing by other gods", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:13", "verse_text": "And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth." }, { "point_text": "Swearing by other gods", "verse_ref": "Joshua 23:7", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Walking after other gods", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:19", "verse_text": "And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish." }, { "point_text": "Speaking in the name of other gods", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:20", "verse_text": "But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die." }, { "point_text": "Looking to other gods", "verse_ref": "Hosea 3:1", "verse_text": "Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine." }, { "point_text": "Serving other gods", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:4", "verse_text": "For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly." }, { "point_text": "Serving other gods", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:19", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Fearing other gods", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:35", "verse_text": "With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:" }, { "point_text": "Sacrificing to other gods", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:20", "verse_text": "He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed." }, { "point_text": "Worshipping the true God by an image, &c", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:4-6", "verse_text": "And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD. 6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play." }, { "point_text": "Worshipping the true God by an image, &c", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:19-20", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Worshipping angels", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:18", "verse_text": "Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind," }, { "point_text": "Worshipping the host of heaven", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:19", "verse_text": "And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven." }, { "point_text": "Worshipping the host of heaven", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:3", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Worshipping demons", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:9-10", "verse_text": "And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. 10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve." }, { "point_text": "Worshipping demons", "verse_ref": "Revelation 9:20", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Worshipping dead men", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:28", "verse_text": "They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead." }, { "point_text": "Setting up idols in the heart", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 14:3-4", "verse_text": "Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them? 4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;" }, { "point_text": "Covetousness", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:5", "verse_text": "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God." }, { "point_text": "Covetousness", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:5", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Sensuality", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:19", "verse_text": "Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)" }, { "point_text": "Is changing the glory of God into an image", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:23", "verse_text": "And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things." }, { "point_text": "Is changing the glory of God into an image", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:29", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Is changing the truth of God into a lie", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:25", "verse_text": "Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Is changing the truth of God into a lie", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:20", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Is a work of the flesh", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:19-20", "verse_text": "Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies," }, { "point_text": "Incompatible with the service of God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:2-3", "verse_text": "Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments: 3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "An abomination to God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:25", "verse_text": "The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God." }, { "point_text": "Hateful to God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:22", "verse_text": "Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth." }, { "point_text": "Hateful to God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 44:4", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Vain and foolish", "verse_ref": "Psalm 115:4-8", "verse_text": "Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. 5 They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: 6 They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: 7 They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. ..." }, { "point_text": "Vain and foolish", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:19; Jeremiah 10:3", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Bloody", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 23:39", "verse_text": "For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house." }, { "point_text": "Abominable", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:3", "verse_text": "For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:" }, { "point_text": "Unprofitable", "verse_ref": "Judges 10:14", "verse_text": "Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation." }, { "point_text": "Unprofitable", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 46:7", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Irrational", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:29", "verse_text": "Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device." }, { "point_text": "Irrational", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:21-23", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Defiling", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:7", "verse_text": "Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "Defiling", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 36:18", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "THEY WHO PRACTICE,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Forget God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:19", "verse_text": "And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish." }, { "point_text": "Forget God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 18:15", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Go astray from God", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 44:10", "verse_text": "And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Pollute the name of God", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:39", "verse_text": "As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols." }, { "point_text": "Defile the sanctuary of God", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 5:11", "verse_text": "Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity." }, { "point_text": "Are estranged from God", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 14:5", "verse_text": "That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols." }, { "point_text": "Forsake God", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 22:17", "verse_text": "Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched." }, { "point_text": "Forsake God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 16:11", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Hate God", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 19:2-3", "verse_text": "And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD. 3 Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God." }, { "point_text": "Provoke God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 31:20", "verse_text": "For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant." }, { "point_text": "Provoke God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:3; Jeremiah 25:6", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Are vain in their imaginations", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:21", "verse_text": "Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened." }, { "point_text": "Are ignorant and foolish", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:21-22", "verse_text": "Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools," }, { "point_text": "Inflame themselves", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:5", "verse_text": "Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?" }, { "point_text": "Hold fast their deceit", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:5", "verse_text": "Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return." }, { "point_text": "Carried away by it", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:2", "verse_text": "Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led." }, { "point_text": "Go after it in heart", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:16", "verse_text": "Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols." }, { "point_text": "Are mad upon it", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:38", "verse_text": "A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols." }, { "point_text": "Boast of it", "verse_ref": "Psalm 97:7", "verse_text": "Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods." }, { "point_text": "Have fellowship with devils", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:12", "verse_text": "My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God." }, { "point_text": "Ask counsel of their idols", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:12", "verse_text": "My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God." }, { "point_text": "Look to idols for deliverance", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:17", "verse_text": "And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god." }, { "point_text": "Look to idols for deliverance", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:20", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Swear by their idols", "verse_ref": "Amos 8:14", "verse_text": "They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again." }, { "point_text": "Objects of, numerous", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 8:5", "verse_text": "For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)" }, { "point_text": "OBJECTS OF, DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Strange gods", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:2", "verse_text": "Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:" }, { "point_text": "Strange gods", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:4", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Other gods", "verse_ref": "Judges 2:12", "verse_text": "And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger." }, { "point_text": "Other gods", "verse_ref": "Judges 2:17; 1 Kings 14:9", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "New gods", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:17", "verse_text": "They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not." }, { "point_text": "New gods", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:8", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Gods that cannot save", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:20", "verse_text": "Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save." }, { "point_text": "Gods that have not made the heavens", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 10:11", "verse_text": "Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens." }, { "point_text": "No gods", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:7", "verse_text": "How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses." }, { "point_text": "No gods", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:8", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Molten gods", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:17", "verse_text": "Thou shalt make thee no molten gods." }, { "point_text": "Molten gods", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:4", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Molten images", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 27:15", "verse_text": "Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen." }, { "point_text": "Molten images", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:18", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Graven images", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:20", "verse_text": "Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save." }, { "point_text": "Graven images", "verse_ref": "Hosea 11:2", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Senseless idols", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:28", "verse_text": "And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell." }, { "point_text": "Senseless idols", "verse_ref": "Psalm 115:5,7", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Dumb idols", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:18", "verse_text": "What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?" }, { "point_text": "Dumb idols", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:2", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Dumb stones", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:19", "verse_text": "Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it." }, { "point_text": "Stocks", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:9", "verse_text": "And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks." }, { "point_text": "Stocks", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:12", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Abominations", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:19", "verse_text": "And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?" }, { "point_text": "Abominations", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 32:34", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Images of abomination", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 7:20", "verse_text": "As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them." }, { "point_text": "Idols of abomination", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:36", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;" }, { "point_text": "Stumbling blocks", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 14:3", "verse_text": "Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?" }, { "point_text": "Teachers of lies", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:18", "verse_text": "What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?" }, { "point_text": "Wind and confusion", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:29", "verse_text": "Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion." }, { "point_text": "Nothing", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:24", "verse_text": "Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you." }, { "point_text": "Nothing", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 8:4", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Helpless", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 10:5", "verse_text": "They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good." }, { "point_text": "Vanity", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 18:15", "verse_text": "Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;" }, { "point_text": "Vanities of the Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:22", "verse_text": "Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things." }, { "point_text": "Making idols for the purpose of, described and ridiculed", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:10-20", "verse_text": "Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing? 11 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together. 12 The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint. 13 The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house. ..." }, { "point_text": "Obstinate sinners judicially given up to", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:28", "verse_text": "And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell." }, { "point_text": "Obstinate sinners judicially given up to", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:64; Hosea 4:17", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Warnings against", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:15-19", "verse_text": "Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: 16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, 17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, 18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth: ..." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to turn from", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 14:6", "verse_text": "Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to turn from", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:7; Acts 14:15", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Renounced on conversion", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 1:9", "verse_text": "For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;" }, { "point_text": "Led to abominable sins", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:26-32", "verse_text": "For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, ..." }, { "point_text": "Led to abominable sins", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:20", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS SHOULD", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Keep from", "verse_ref": "Joshua 23:7", "verse_text": "That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:" }, { "point_text": "Keep from", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:21", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Flee from", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:14", "verse_text": "Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry." }, { "point_text": "Not have anything connected with, in their houses", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:26", "verse_text": "Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing." }, { "point_text": "Not partake of any thing connected with", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:19-20", "verse_text": "What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? 20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils." }, { "point_text": "Not have religious intercourse with those who practice", "verse_ref": "Joshua 23:7", "verse_text": "That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:" }, { "point_text": "Not have religious intercourse with those who practice", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 5:11", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Not covenant with those who practice", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:12", "verse_text": "Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:" }, { "point_text": "Not covenant with those who practice", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:15", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Not intermarry with those who practice", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:16", "verse_text": "And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods." }, { "point_text": "Not intermarry with those who practice", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:3", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Testify against", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:15", "verse_text": "And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:" }, { "point_text": "Testify against", "verse_ref": "Acts 19:26", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Refuse to engage in, though threatened with death", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:18", "verse_text": "But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up." }, { "point_text": "Saints preserved by God from", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:18", "verse_text": "Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him." }, { "point_text": "Saints preserved by God from", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:4", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Saints refuse to receive the worship of", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:25", "verse_text": "And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him." }, { "point_text": "Saints refuse to receive the worship of", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:11-15", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Angels refuse to receive the worship of", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:8-9", "verse_text": "And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things. 9 Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of, promised", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 36:25", "verse_text": "Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of, promised", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 13:2", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Everything connected with, should be destroyed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:13", "verse_text": "But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:" }, { "point_text": "Everything connected with, should be destroyed", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:5; 2 Samuel 5:21; 2 Kings 23:14", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Woe denounced against", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:19", "verse_text": "Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it." }, { "point_text": "Curse denounced against", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 27:15", "verse_text": "Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen." }, { "point_text": "PUNISHMENT OF;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Judicial death", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:2-5", "verse_text": "If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant, 3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; 4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and inquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel: 5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die." }, { "point_text": "Dreadful judgments which end in death", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:2", "verse_text": "And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Dreadful judgments which end in death", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 16:1-11", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Banishment", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:3", "verse_text": "And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Banishment", "verse_ref": "Hosea 8:5-8; Amos 5:26-27", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Exclusion from heaven", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:9-10", "verse_text": "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Eternal torments", "verse_ref": "Revelation 14:9-11", "verse_text": "And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, 10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: 11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name." }, { "point_text": "Eternal torments", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:8", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:1", "verse_text": "And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:12", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:23", "verse_text": "Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "Judges 17:4-5", "verse_text": "Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah. 5 And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:28", "verse_text": "Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:13", "verse_text": "And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:31", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:19", "verse_text": "Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:37", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 21:4-7", "verse_text": "And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. 6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 21:21", "verse_text": "And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 28:3", "verse_text": "Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 11:13", "verse_text": "For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:1", "verse_text": "Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:23", "verse_text": "But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:11-12", "verse_text": "And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. 12 And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:16", "verse_text": "Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \n\nPhilistines, \nMicah, \nJeroboam, \nMaachah, \nAhab, \nJezebel, \nSennacherib, \nManasseh, \nAmon, \nAhaz, \nJudah, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nPeople of Lystra, \nAthenians, \nEphesians,", "verse_ref": "Acts 19:28", "verse_text": "And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians." }, { "point_text": "Zeal against--Exemplified.\r\n\nAsa, \nJosiah, \nJehoshaphat, \nIsrael, \nManasseh,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:12", "verse_text": "And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made." }, { "point_text": "Zeal against--Exemplified.\r\n\nAsa, \nJosiah, \nJehoshaphat, \nIsrael, \nManasseh,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:5", "verse_text": "And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven." }, { "point_text": "Zeal against--Exemplified.\r\n\nAsa, \nJosiah, \nJehoshaphat, \nIsrael, \nManasseh,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 17:6", "verse_text": "And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah." }, { "point_text": "Zeal against--Exemplified.\r\n\nAsa, \nJosiah, \nJehoshaphat, \nIsrael, \nManasseh,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:1", "verse_text": "Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities." }, { "point_text": "Zeal against--Exemplified.\r\n\nAsa, \nJosiah, \nJehoshaphat, \nIsrael, \nManasseh,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:15", "verse_text": "And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city." }, { "point_text": "All forms of, forbidden by the law of Moses", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:4-5", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;" }, { "point_text": "All heathen nations given up to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 96:5", "verse_text": "For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens." }, { "point_text": "All heathen nations given up to", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:23,25; 1 Corinthians 12:2", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Led the heathen to think that their gods visited the earth in bodily shapes", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:11", "verse_text": "And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men." }, { "point_text": "Led the heathen to consider their gods to have but a local influence", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:23", "verse_text": "And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their gods are gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they." }, { "point_text": "Led the heathen to consider their gods to have but a local influence", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:26", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "OBJECTS OF;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "The heavenly bodies", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:5", "verse_text": "And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven." }, { "point_text": "The heavenly bodies", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:42", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Angels", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:18", "verse_text": "Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind," }, { "point_text": "Departed spirits", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 28:14-15", "verse_text": "And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself. 15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do." }, { "point_text": "Earthly creatures", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:23", "verse_text": "And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things." }, { "point_text": "Images", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 29:17", "verse_text": "And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)" }, { "point_text": "Images", "verse_ref": "Psalm 115:4; Isaiah 44:17", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Temples built for", "verse_ref": "Hosea 8:14", "verse_text": "For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof." }, { "point_text": "Altars raised for", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:26", "verse_text": "And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made." }, { "point_text": "Altars raised for", "verse_ref": "Hosea 8:11", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Accompanied by feasts", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 10:20", "verse_text": "And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it." }, { "point_text": "Accompanied by feasts", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:27-28", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "OBJECTS OF, WORSHIPPED", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "With sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:40", "verse_text": "And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him." }, { "point_text": "With sacrifices", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 10:24", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "With libations", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:6", "verse_text": "Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?" }, { "point_text": "With libations", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 19:13", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "With incense", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:35", "verse_text": "Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the LORD, him that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his gods." }, { "point_text": "With prayer", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:26", "verse_text": "And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made." }, { "point_text": "With prayer", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:17", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "With singing and dancing", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:18-19", "verse_text": "And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear. 19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount." }, { "point_text": "With singing and dancing", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:26; 1 Corinthians 10:7", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "By bowing to them", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:18", "verse_text": "Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him." }, { "point_text": "By bowing to them", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:18", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "By kissing them", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:18", "verse_text": "Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him." }, { "point_text": "By kissing them", "verse_ref": "Hosea 13:2", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "By kissing the hand to them", "verse_ref": "Job 31:26-27", "verse_text": "If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; 27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:" }, { "point_text": "By cutting the flesh", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:28", "verse_text": "And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them." }, { "point_text": "By burning children", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:31", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods." }, { "point_text": "By burning children", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:6; Jeremiah 19:4-5", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "In temples", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:18", "verse_text": "In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing." }, { "point_text": "On high places", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:41", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see the utmost part of the people." }, { "point_text": "On high places", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:20", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "In groves", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:13", "verse_text": "But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:" }, { "point_text": "Under trees", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:5", "verse_text": "Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?" }, { "point_text": "Under trees", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:20", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "In private houses", "verse_ref": "Judges 17:4-5", "verse_text": "Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah. 5 And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest." }, { "point_text": "On the tops of houses", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:12", "verse_text": "And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron." }, { "point_text": "On the tops of houses", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 1:5", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "In secret places", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:8", "verse_text": "Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it." }, { "point_text": "Rites of, obscene and impure", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:25", "verse_text": "And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)" }, { "point_text": "Rites of, obscene and impure", "verse_ref": "Numbers 25:1-3; 2 Kings 17:9; Isaiah 57:6,8-9; 1 Peter 4:3", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Divination connected with", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:6", "verse_text": "And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger." }, { "point_text": "Victims sacrificed in, often adorned with garlands", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:13", "verse_text": "Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people." }, { "point_text": "IDOLS, &C. MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Adrammelech", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:31", "verse_text": "And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim." }, { "point_text": "Anammelech", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:31", "verse_text": "And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim." }, { "point_text": "Ashima", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:30", "verse_text": "And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima," }, { "point_text": "Ashtoreth", "verse_ref": "Judges 2:13", "verse_text": "And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth." }, { "point_text": "Ashtoreth", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:33", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Baal", "verse_ref": "Judges 2:11-13", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim: 12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger. 13 And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth." }, { "point_text": "Baal", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:25", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Baal-berith", "verse_ref": "Judges 8:33", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god." }, { "point_text": "Baal-berith", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:4,46", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Baal-peor", "verse_ref": "Numbers 25:1-3", "verse_text": "And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. 2 And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. 3 And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel." }, { "point_text": "Baal-zebub", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 1:2", "verse_text": "And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease." }, { "point_text": "Baal-zebub", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 1:16", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Baal-zephon", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:2", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalzephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea." }, { "point_text": "Bel", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:2", "verse_text": "Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces." }, { "point_text": "Bel", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:44", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Chemosh", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:29", "verse_text": "Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites." }, { "point_text": "Chemosh", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:33", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Chiun", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:26", "verse_text": "But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves." }, { "point_text": "Dagon", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:23", "verse_text": "Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand." }, { "point_text": "Dagon", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 5:1-3", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Diana", "verse_ref": "Acts 19:24", "verse_text": "For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;" }, { "point_text": "Diana", "verse_ref": "Acts 19:27", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Huzzab", "verse_ref": "Nahum 2:7", "verse_text": "And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts." }, { "point_text": "Jupiter", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:12", "verse_text": "And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker." }, { "point_text": "Mercury", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:12", "verse_text": "And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker." }, { "point_text": "Molech or Milcom", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 18:21", "verse_text": "And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Molech or Milcom", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:5,33", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Merodach", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:2", "verse_text": "Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces." }, { "point_text": "Nergal", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:30", "verse_text": "And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima," }, { "point_text": "Nebo", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 46:1", "verse_text": "Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast." }, { "point_text": "Nibhaz and Tartak", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:31", "verse_text": "And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim." }, { "point_text": "Nisroch", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:37", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead." }, { "point_text": "Queen of heaven", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 44:17", "verse_text": "But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil." }, { "point_text": "Queen of heaven", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 44:25", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Remphan", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:43", "verse_text": "Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon." }, { "point_text": "Rimmon", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:18", "verse_text": "In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing." }, { "point_text": "Succoth-benoth", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:30", "verse_text": "And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima," }, { "point_text": "Tammuz", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 8:14", "verse_text": "Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz." }, { "point_text": "Objects of, carried in procession", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 46:7", "verse_text": "They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble." }, { "point_text": "Objects of, carried in procession", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:26; Acts 7:43", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Early notice of, amongst God's professing people", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:19", "verse_text": "And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's." }, { "point_text": "Early notice of, amongst God's professing people", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:1-4; Joshua 24:2", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Practised, in Egypt", "verse_ref": "Joshua 24:14", "verse_text": "Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Practised, in Egypt", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 23:3,19", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Brought, out of Egypt with them", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 23:8", "verse_text": "Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her." }, { "point_text": "Brought, out of Egypt with them", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:39-41", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to practice", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:1-5", "verse_text": "And God spake all these words, saying, 2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: ..." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to practice", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:24", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Often mixed up, with God's worship", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:1-5", "verse_text": "And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. 2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. 3 And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. 4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. ..." }, { "point_text": "Often mixed up, with God's worship", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:27-28", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Followed the Canaanites in", "verse_ref": "Judges 2:11-13", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim: 12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger. 13 And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth." }, { "point_text": "Followed the Canaanites in", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 5:25", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Followed the Moabites in", "verse_ref": "Numbers 25:1-3", "verse_text": "And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. 2 And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. 3 And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel." }, { "point_text": "Followed the Assyrians in", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:28-30", "verse_text": "Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied. 29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith. 30 How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;" }, { "point_text": "Followed the Assyrians in", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 23:5-7", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Followed the Syrians in", "verse_ref": "Judges 10:6", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him." }, { "point_text": "Adopted by Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:5-8", "verse_text": "For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. 6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father. 7 Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon. 8 And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods." }, { "point_text": "Adopted by the wicked kings", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:26", "verse_text": "And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Adopted by the wicked kings", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 21:21; 2 Chronicles 28:2-4; 33:3,7", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Example of the kings encouraged Israel in", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:30", "verse_text": "And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan." }, { "point_text": "Example of the kings encouraged Israel in", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 21:11; 2 Chronicles 33:9", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Great prevalence of, in Israel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:8", "verse_text": "Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:" }, { "point_text": "Great prevalence of, in Israel", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:28; Ezekiel 8:10", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "A virtual forsaking of God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:9-13", "verse_text": "Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead. 10 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing. 11 Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. 12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD. ..." }, { "point_text": "The good kings of Judah endeavored to destroy", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 15:16", "verse_text": "And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron." }, { "point_text": "The good kings of Judah endeavored to destroy", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 34:7", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Captivity of Israel on account of", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:6-18", "verse_text": "In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. 7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, 8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. 9 And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. ..." }, { "point_text": "Captivity of Judah on account of", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:19-23", "verse_text": "Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. 20 And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight. 21 For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin. 22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them; ..." } ] }, { "name": "Incense", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Incense.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Brought from Sheba", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:20", "verse_text": "To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me." }, { "point_text": "Called frankincense", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:6", "verse_text": "Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense." }, { "point_text": "Called frankincense", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:14", "verse_text": "Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:" }, { "point_text": "An article of extensive commerce", "verse_ref": "Revelation 18:13", "verse_text": "And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men." }, { "point_text": "Common, not to be offered to God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:9", "verse_text": "Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon." }, { "point_text": "For God's service mixed with sweet spices", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:6", "verse_text": "Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense," }, { "point_text": "For God's service mixed with sweet spices", "verse_ref": "Exodus 37:29", "verse_text": "And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary." }, { "point_text": "Receipt for mixing", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:34-36", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight: 35 And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy: 36 And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy." }, { "point_text": "None but priest to offer", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:40", "verse_text": "To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses." }, { "point_text": "None but priest to offer", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:10", "verse_text": "They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar." }, { "point_text": "OFFERED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In censers", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 10:1", "verse_text": "And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not." }, { "point_text": "In censers", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:17", "verse_text": "And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring ye before the LORD every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each of you his censer." }, { "point_text": "In censers", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:46", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun." }, { "point_text": "On the altar of gold", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:1", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim wood shalt thou make it." }, { "point_text": "On the altar of gold", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:5", "verse_text": "And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle." }, { "point_text": "Morning and evening", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:7-8", "verse_text": "And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it. 8 And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations." }, { "point_text": "Perpetually", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:8", "verse_text": "And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations." }, { "point_text": "By the high priest in the most holy place on the day of atonement", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:12-13", "verse_text": "And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail: 13 And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not:" }, { "point_text": "With fire from off the altar of burnt-offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:12", "verse_text": "And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail:" }, { "point_text": "With fire from off the altar of burnt-offering", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:46", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun." }, { "point_text": "Offering of, allotted to the priests", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:9", "verse_text": "According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord." }, { "point_text": "The Jews prayed at time of offering", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:10", "verse_text": "And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense." }, { "point_text": "Designed for atonement", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:46-47", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun. 47 And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people." }, { "point_text": "Put on meat offerings", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 2:1-2", "verse_text": "And when any will offer a meat offering unto the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon: 2 And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Put on meat offerings", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 2:15", "verse_text": "And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it is a meat offering." }, { "point_text": "Put on meat offerings", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:15", "verse_text": "And he shall take of it his handful, of the flour of the meat offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which is upon the meat offering, and shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour, even the memorial of it, unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Levites had charge of", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 9:29", "verse_text": "Some of them also were appointed to oversee the vessels, and all the instruments of the sanctuary, and the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices." }, { "point_text": "Used in idolatrous worship", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:35", "verse_text": "Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the LORD, him that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his gods." }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Not accepted in offering, on account of sin", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:13", "verse_text": "Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting." }, { "point_text": "Not accepted in offering, on account of sin", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:3", "verse_text": "He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations." }, { "point_text": "Offered, to idols on altars of brick", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:3", "verse_text": "A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;" }, { "point_text": "Punished for offering, to idols", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 34:25", "verse_text": "Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched." }, { "point_text": "Nadab and Abihu destroyed for offering, with strange fire", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 10:1-2", "verse_text": "And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not. 2 And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Korah and his company punished for offering", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:16-35", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before the LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron, to morrow: 17 And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring ye before the LORD every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each of you his censer. 18 And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron. 19 And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation. ..." }, { "point_text": "Uzziah punished for offering", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:16-21", "verse_text": "But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense. 17 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men: 18 And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD God. 19 Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar. ..." }, { "point_text": "Presented to Christ by the wise men", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:11", "verse_text": "And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The merits of Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 8:3-4", "verse_text": "And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. 4 And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand." }, { "point_text": "Prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 141:2", "verse_text": "Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice." }, { "point_text": "Prayer", "verse_ref": "Malachi 1:11", "verse_text": "For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Prayer", "verse_ref": "Revelation 5:8", "verse_text": "And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints." } ] }, { "name": "Ingratitude to God", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Ingratitude-to-God.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "A characteristic of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:21", "verse_text": "Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened." }, { "point_text": "Inexcusable", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:2-3", "verse_text": "Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. 3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider." }, { "point_text": "Unreasonable", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:5-6", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain? 6 Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?" }, { "point_text": "Unreasonable", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:31", "verse_text": "O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?" }, { "point_text": "Exceeding folly of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:6", "verse_text": "Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?" }, { "point_text": "Guilt of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:7", "verse_text": "Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea." }, { "point_text": "Guilt of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:21", "verse_text": "They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;" }, { "point_text": "Prosperity likely to produce", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 31:20", "verse_text": "For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant." }, { "point_text": "Prosperity likely to produce", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:15", "verse_text": "But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation." }, { "point_text": "Prosperity likely to produce", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:7-11", "verse_text": "How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses. 8 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife. 9 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? 10 Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S. ..." }, { "point_text": "Warnings against", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:11-14", "verse_text": "Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day: 12 Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; 13 And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; 14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;" }, { "point_text": "Warnings against", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 12:24-25", "verse_text": "Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you. 25 But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:20-27", "verse_text": "Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst. 21 Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not. 22 Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan. 23 Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it. ..." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Hosea 2:8-9", "verse_text": "For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal. 9 Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:1-7", "verse_text": "Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: 2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. 3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. 4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? ..." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:1-15", "verse_text": "Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, 3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite. 4 And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \nSaul, \nDavid, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nLepers,", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:18", "verse_text": "Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \nSaul, \nDavid, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nLepers,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:17-19", "verse_text": "And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel? 18 And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed. 19 Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \nSaul, \nDavid, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nLepers,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:7-9", "verse_text": "And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul; 8 And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things. 9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \nSaul, \nDavid, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nLepers,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:18-21", "verse_text": "O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: 19 And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down. 20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: 21 And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsrael, \nSaul, \nDavid, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nLepers,", "verse_ref": "Luke 17:17-18", "verse_text": "And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine? 18 There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger." } ] }, { "name": "Ingratitude", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Ingratitude.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "A characteristic of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 38:20", "verse_text": "They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of the wicked", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:2", "verse_text": "For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy," }, { "point_text": "OFTEN EXHIBITED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "By relations", "verse_ref": "Job 19:14", "verse_text": "My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me." }, { "point_text": "By servants", "verse_ref": "Job 19:15-16", "verse_text": "They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. 16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth." }, { "point_text": "To benefactors", "verse_ref": "Psalm 109:5", "verse_text": "And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love." }, { "point_text": "To benefactors", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 9:15", "verse_text": "Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man." }, { "point_text": "To friends in distress", "verse_ref": "Psalm 38:11", "verse_text": "My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off." }, { "point_text": "Saints should avoid the guilt of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 7:4-5", "verse_text": "If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:) 5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE MET WITH", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 35:12", "verse_text": "They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul." }, { "point_text": "Prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 109:4", "verse_text": "For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer." }, { "point_text": "Faithfulness", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:38-42", "verse_text": "This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. 39 That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night. 40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. 41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times. ..." }, { "point_text": "Persevering love", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 12:15", "verse_text": "And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:13", "verse_text": "Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 18:20-21", "verse_text": "Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them. 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban, \nChief butler, \nIsrael, \nMen of Keilah, \n\nSaul, \nNabal, \n\nAbsalom, \nJoash,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:6-7", "verse_text": "And ye know that with all my power I have served your father. 7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban, \nChief butler, \nIsrael, \nMen of Keilah, \n\nSaul, \nNabal, \n\nAbsalom, \nJoash,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 40:23", "verse_text": "Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban, \nChief butler, \nIsrael, \nMen of Keilah, \n\nSaul, \nNabal, \n\nAbsalom, \nJoash,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:4", "verse_text": "And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban, \nChief butler, \nIsrael, \nMen of Keilah, \n\nSaul, \nNabal, \n\nAbsalom, \nJoash,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 23:5", "verse_text": "So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban, \nChief butler, \nIsrael, \nMen of Keilah, \n\nSaul, \nNabal, \n\nAbsalom, \nJoash,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 23:12", "verse_text": "Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver thee up." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban, \nChief butler, \nIsrael, \nMen of Keilah, \n\nSaul, \nNabal, \n\nAbsalom, \nJoash,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 24:17", "verse_text": "And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban, \nChief butler, \nIsrael, \nMen of Keilah, \n\nSaul, \nNabal, \n\nAbsalom, \nJoash,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:5-11", "verse_text": "And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name: 6 And thus shall ye say to him that liveth in prosperity, Peace be both to thee, and peace be to thine house, and peace be unto all that thou hast. 7 And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel. 8 Ask thy young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban, \nChief butler, \nIsrael, \nMen of Keilah, \n\nSaul, \nNabal, \n\nAbsalom, \nJoash,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:21", "verse_text": "Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban, \nChief butler, \nIsrael, \nMen of Keilah, \n\nSaul, \nNabal, \n\nAbsalom, \nJoash,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 15:6", "verse_text": "And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban, \nChief butler, \nIsrael, \nMen of Keilah, \n\nSaul, \nNabal, \n\nAbsalom, \nJoash,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 24:22", "verse_text": "Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it." } ] }, { "name": "Insects", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Insects.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Created by God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:24-25", "verse_text": "And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. 25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good." }, { "point_text": "DIVIDED INTO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Clean and fit for food", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:21-22", "verse_text": "Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; 22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind." }, { "point_text": "Unclean and abominable", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:23-24", "verse_text": "But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you. 24 And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even." }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Ant", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:6", "verse_text": "Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:" }, { "point_text": "Ant", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:25", "verse_text": "The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;" }, { "point_text": "Bee", "verse_ref": "Judges 14:8", "verse_text": "And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion." }, { "point_text": "Bee", "verse_ref": "Psalm 118:12", "verse_text": "They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them." }, { "point_text": "Bee", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:18", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria." }, { "point_text": "Beetle", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:22", "verse_text": "Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind." }, { "point_text": "Caterpillar", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:46", "verse_text": "He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust." }, { "point_text": "Caterpillar", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:4", "verse_text": "And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them." }, { "point_text": "Cankerworm", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:4", "verse_text": "That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten." }, { "point_text": "Cankerworm", "verse_ref": "Nahum 3:15-16", "verse_text": "There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts. 16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away." }, { "point_text": "Earthworm", "verse_ref": "Job 25:6", "verse_text": "How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?" }, { "point_text": "Earthworm", "verse_ref": "Micah 7:17", "verse_text": "They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee." }, { "point_text": "Flea", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 24:14", "verse_text": "After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea." }, { "point_text": "Fly", "verse_ref": "Exodus 8:22", "verse_text": "And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Fly", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 10:1", "verse_text": "Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour." }, { "point_text": "Fly", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:18", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria." }, { "point_text": "Gnat", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:24", "verse_text": "Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel." }, { "point_text": "Grasshopper", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:22", "verse_text": "Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind." }, { "point_text": "Grasshopper", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:5", "verse_text": "For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it." }, { "point_text": "Grasshopper", "verse_ref": "Job 39:20", "verse_text": "Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible." }, { "point_text": "Hornet", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:20", "verse_text": "Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed." }, { "point_text": "Locust", "verse_ref": "Exodus 10:12-13", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left. 13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts." }, { "point_text": "Bald locust", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:22", "verse_text": "Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind." }, { "point_text": "Lice", "verse_ref": "Exodus 8:16", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Lice", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:31", "verse_text": "He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts." }, { "point_text": "Maggot", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:20", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them." }, { "point_text": "Moth", "verse_ref": "Job 4:19", "verse_text": "How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?" }, { "point_text": "Moth", "verse_ref": "Job 27:18", "verse_text": "He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh." }, { "point_text": "Moth", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 50:9", "verse_text": "Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up." }, { "point_text": "Palmer-worm", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:4", "verse_text": "That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten." }, { "point_text": "Palmer-worm", "verse_ref": "Amos 4:9", "verse_text": "I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Spider", "verse_ref": "Job 8:14", "verse_text": "Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web." }, { "point_text": "Spider", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:28", "verse_text": "The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces." }, { "point_text": "Fed by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:25", "verse_text": "So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts." }, { "point_text": "Fed by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:9", "verse_text": "The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works." }, { "point_text": "Fed by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:15", "verse_text": "The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season." } ] }, { "name": "Injustice", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Injustice.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:15", "verse_text": "Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:35", "verse_text": "Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure." }, { "point_text": "SPECIALLY TO BE AVOIDED TOWARDS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The poor", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:6", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause." }, { "point_text": "The poor", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:16", "verse_text": "He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want." }, { "point_text": "The poor", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:22-23", "verse_text": "Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: 23 For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them." }, { "point_text": "The stranger and fatherless", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:21-22", "verse_text": "Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child." }, { "point_text": "Servants", "verse_ref": "Job 31:13-14", "verse_text": "If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; 14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?" }, { "point_text": "Of the least kind, condemned", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:10", "verse_text": "He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much." }, { "point_text": "GOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Regards", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 5:8", "verse_text": "If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they." }, { "point_text": "Approves not of", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:35-36", "verse_text": "To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High, 36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not." }, { "point_text": "Abominates", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:15", "verse_text": "He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Abominates", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:10", "verse_text": "Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Hears the cry of those who suffer", "verse_ref": "James 5:4", "verse_text": "Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth." }, { "point_text": "Provoked to avenge", "verse_ref": "Psalm 12:5", "verse_text": "For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him." }, { "point_text": "Brings a curse", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 27:17", "verse_text": "Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen." }, { "point_text": "Brings a curse", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 27:19", "verse_text": "Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen." }, { "point_text": "A bad example leads to", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:2", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:" }, { "point_text": "Intemperance leads to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:5", "verse_text": "Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted." }, { "point_text": "Covetousness leads to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:13", "verse_text": "For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely." }, { "point_text": "Covetousness leads to", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:12", "verse_text": "In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Covetousness leads to", "verse_ref": "Micah 2:2", "verse_text": "And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Hate", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 29:27", "verse_text": "An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked." }, { "point_text": "Testify against", "verse_ref": "Psalm 58:1-2", "verse_text": "Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? 2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth." }, { "point_text": "Bear, patiently", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:7", "verse_text": "Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?" }, { "point_text": "Take no vengeance for", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:39", "verse_text": "But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Deal with", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:10", "verse_text": "Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Judge with", "verse_ref": "Psalm 82:2", "verse_text": "How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah." }, { "point_text": "Judge with", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 3:16", "verse_text": "And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there." }, { "point_text": "Judge with", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 1:4", "verse_text": "Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth." }, { "point_text": "Practice, without shame", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:13", "verse_text": "For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely." }, { "point_text": "Practice, without shame", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:15", "verse_text": "Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:7", "verse_text": "When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:8", "verse_text": "He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:11", "verse_text": "Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Amos 8:5", "verse_text": "Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?" }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Amos 8:8", "verse_text": "Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:6", "verse_text": "That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPotiphar, \nSons of Samuel, \nAhab, \n\nJews, \nPrinces, &c. \nJudas, \nPilate, \nPriests, &c. \nFestus,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 39:20", "verse_text": "And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPotiphar, \nSons of Samuel, \nAhab, \n\nJews, \nPrinces, &c. \nJudas, \nPilate, \nPriests, &c. \nFestus,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 8:3", "verse_text": "And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPotiphar, \nSons of Samuel, \nAhab, \n\nJews, \nPrinces, &c. \nJudas, \nPilate, \nPriests, &c. \nFestus,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:10", "verse_text": "And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPotiphar, \nSons of Samuel, \nAhab, \n\nJews, \nPrinces, &c. \nJudas, \nPilate, \nPriests, &c. \nFestus,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:15-16", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead. 16 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPotiphar, \nSons of Samuel, \nAhab, \n\nJews, \nPrinces, &c. \nJudas, \nPilate, \nPriests, &c. \nFestus,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:14", "verse_text": "And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPotiphar, \nSons of Samuel, \nAhab, \n\nJews, \nPrinces, &c. \nJudas, \nPilate, \nPriests, &c. \nFestus,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:4", "verse_text": "Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPotiphar, \nSons of Samuel, \nAhab, \n\nJews, \nPrinces, &c. \nJudas, \nPilate, \nPriests, &c. \nFestus,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:4", "verse_text": "Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPotiphar, \nSons of Samuel, \nAhab, \n\nJews, \nPrinces, &c. \nJudas, \nPilate, \nPriests, &c. \nFestus,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:24-26", "verse_text": "When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it. 25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children. 26 Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPotiphar, \nSons of Samuel, \nAhab, \n\nJews, \nPrinces, &c. \nJudas, \nPilate, \nPriests, &c. \nFestus,", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:3", "verse_text": "And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPotiphar, \nSons of Samuel, \nAhab, \n\nJews, \nPrinces, &c. \nJudas, \nPilate, \nPriests, &c. \nFestus,", "verse_ref": "Acts 24:27", "verse_text": "But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix' room: and Felix, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound." } ] }, { "name": "Iron", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Iron.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Dug out of the earth", "verse_ref": "Job 28:2", "verse_text": "Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Strong and durable", "verse_ref": "Job 40:18", "verse_text": "His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron." }, { "point_text": "Strong and durable", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:40", "verse_text": "And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise." }, { "point_text": "Fusible", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:20", "verse_text": "As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you." }, { "point_text": "Malleable", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:4", "verse_text": "And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." }, { "point_text": "Of greater gravity than water", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:5", "verse_text": "But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed." }, { "point_text": "Admits of a high polish", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:19", "verse_text": "Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market." }, { "point_text": "Hardened into steel", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 22:35", "verse_text": "He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms." }, { "point_text": "Hardened into steel", "verse_ref": "Job 20:24", "verse_text": "He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through." }, { "point_text": "Of small comparative value", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:17", "verse_text": "For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness." }, { "point_text": "The land of Canaan abounded with.\r\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:9", "verse_text": "A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass." }, { "point_text": "The land of Canaan abounded with.\r\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:25", "verse_text": "Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be." }, { "point_text": "From the north hardest and best", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 15:12", "verse_text": "Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?" }, { "point_text": "Used from the earliest age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:22", "verse_text": "And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah." }, { "point_text": "MADE INTO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Armor", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 23:7", "verse_text": "But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place." }, { "point_text": "Armor", "verse_ref": "Revelation 9:9", "verse_text": "And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle." }, { "point_text": "Weapons of war", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:19", "verse_text": "Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:" }, { "point_text": "Weapons of war", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:7", "verse_text": "And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him." }, { "point_text": "Chariots", "verse_ref": "Judges 4:3", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Implements for husbandry", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:20-21", "verse_text": "But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock. 21 Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads." }, { "point_text": "Implements for husbandry", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:31", "verse_text": "And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Tools for artificers", "verse_ref": "Joshua 8:31", "verse_text": "As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings." }, { "point_text": "Tools for artificers", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:7", "verse_text": "And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building." }, { "point_text": "Graving tools", "verse_ref": "Job 19:24", "verse_text": "That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!" }, { "point_text": "Graving tools", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:1", "verse_text": "The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;" }, { "point_text": "Gates", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:10", "verse_text": "When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him." }, { "point_text": "Nails and hinges", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 22:3", "verse_text": "And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight;" }, { "point_text": "Bars", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:16", "verse_text": "For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder." }, { "point_text": "Bars", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:2", "verse_text": "I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:" }, { "point_text": "Fetters", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:18", "verse_text": "Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:" }, { "point_text": "Fetters", "verse_ref": "Psalm 149:8", "verse_text": "To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;" }, { "point_text": "Yokes", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:48", "verse_text": "Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee." }, { "point_text": "Yokes", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 28:13-14", "verse_text": "Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron. 14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also." }, { "point_text": "Idols", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:4", "verse_text": "They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone." }, { "point_text": "Idols", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:23", "verse_text": "But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:" }, { "point_text": "Bedsteads", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 3:11", "verse_text": "For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man." }, { "point_text": "Pillars", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 1:18", "verse_text": "For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land." }, { "point_text": "Rods", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:9", "verse_text": "Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel." }, { "point_text": "Rods", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:27", "verse_text": "And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father." }, { "point_text": "Sharpens things made of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:17", "verse_text": "Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend." }, { "point_text": "Working in, a trade", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:19", "verse_text": "Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:" }, { "point_text": "Working in, a trade", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:7", "verse_text": "Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide." }, { "point_text": "Working in, a trade", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:14", "verse_text": "The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father." }, { "point_text": "An article of commerce", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:12", "verse_text": "Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs." }, { "point_text": "An article of commerce", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:19", "verse_text": "Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market." }, { "point_text": "Great quantity of, provided for the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 22:3", "verse_text": "And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight;" }, { "point_text": "Great quantity of, provided for the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 22:14", "verse_text": "Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto." }, { "point_text": "Great quantity of, provided for the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:2", "verse_text": "Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance." }, { "point_text": "Taken in war, often dedicated to God", "verse_ref": "Joshua 6:19", "verse_text": "But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Taken in war, often dedicated to God", "verse_ref": "Joshua 6:24", "verse_text": "And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Mode of purifying, taken in war", "verse_ref": "Numbers 31:21-23", "verse_text": "And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses; 22 Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, 23 Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water." }, { "point_text": "Miraculously made to swim", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:6", "verse_text": "And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of strength", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:33", "verse_text": "His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay." }, { "point_text": "Of strength", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:40", "verse_text": "And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise." }, { "point_text": "Of stubbornness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 48:4", "verse_text": "Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;" }, { "point_text": "Of severe affliction", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:20", "verse_text": "But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day." }, { "point_text": "Of severe affliction", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:10", "verse_text": "Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;" }, { "point_text": "Of a hard barren soil", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:23", "verse_text": "And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron." }, { "point_text": "Of severe exercise of power", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:9", "verse_text": "Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel." }, { "point_text": "Of severe exercise of power", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:27", "verse_text": "And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father." }, { "point_text": "(Seared with,) of insensibility of conscience", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:2", "verse_text": "Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;" } ] }, { "name": "Issachar, The Tribe of", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Issachar-The-Tribe-of.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Descended from Jacob's fifth son", "verse_ref": "Genesis 30:17-18", "verse_text": "And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son. 18 And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar." }, { "point_text": "Predictions respecting", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:14-15", "verse_text": "Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens: 15 And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute." }, { "point_text": "PERSONS SELECTED FROM,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To number the people", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:8", "verse_text": "Of Issachar; Nethaneel the son of Zuar." }, { "point_text": "To spy out the land", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:7", "verse_text": "Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph." }, { "point_text": "To divide the land", "verse_ref": "Numbers 34:26", "verse_text": "And the prince of the tribe of the children of Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan." }, { "point_text": "Strength of, on leaving Egypt", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:28", "verse_text": "Of the children of Issachar, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;" }, { "point_text": "Strength of, on leaving Egypt", "verse_ref": "Numbers 2:6", "verse_text": "And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred." }, { "point_text": "Encamped under the standard of Judah east of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 2:5", "verse_text": "And those that do pitch next unto him shall be the tribe of Issachar: and Nethaneel the son of Zuar shall be captain of the children of Issachar." }, { "point_text": "Next to and under standard of Judah in the journeys of Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:14-15", "verse_text": "In the first place went the standard of the camp of the children of Judah according to their armies: and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab. 15 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar was Nethaneel the son of Zuar." }, { "point_text": "Offering of, at the dedication", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:18-23", "verse_text": "On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, did offer: 19 He offered for his offering one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: 20 One spoon of gold of ten shekels, full of incense: 21 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: ..." }, { "point_text": "Families of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:23-24", "verse_text": "Of the sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the Punites: 24 Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites." }, { "point_text": "Strength of, on entering Canaan", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:25", "verse_text": "These are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three hundred." }, { "point_text": "On Gerizim said amen to the blessings", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 27:12", "verse_text": "These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:" }, { "point_text": "Bounds of their inheritance", "verse_ref": "Joshua 19:17-23", "verse_text": "And the fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the children of Issachar according to their families. 18 And their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem, 19 And Hapharaim, and Shion, and Anaharath, 20 And Rabbith, and Kishion, and Abez, ..." }, { "point_text": "Assisted Deborah against Sisera", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:15", "verse_text": "And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart." }, { "point_text": "Officers of, appointed by David", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:18", "verse_text": "Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brethren of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael:" }, { "point_text": "Officers of, appointed by Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:17", "verse_text": "Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:" }, { "point_text": "Some of, at David's coronation", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:32", "verse_text": "And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment." }, { "point_text": "Number of warriors belonging to, in David's time", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 7:2", "verse_text": "And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred." }, { "point_text": "Number of warriors belonging to, in David's time", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 7:5", "verse_text": "And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand." }, { "point_text": "Many of, at Hezekiah's passover", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 30:18", "verse_text": "For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one" }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of", "verse_ref": "Judges 10:1", "verse_text": "And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:27", "verse_text": "And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon." } ] }, { "name": "Inspiration of the Holy Ghost, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Inspiration-of-the-Holy-Ghost-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:28", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:" }, { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:16-18", "verse_text": "But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; 17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: 18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:" }, { "point_text": "All Scripture given by", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 23:2", "verse_text": "The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue." }, { "point_text": "All Scripture given by", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:16", "verse_text": "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:" }, { "point_text": "All Scripture given by", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:21", "verse_text": "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "DESIGN OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To reveal future events", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:16", "verse_text": "Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus." }, { "point_text": "To reveal future events", "verse_ref": "Acts 28:25", "verse_text": "And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers," }, { "point_text": "To reveal future events", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:11", "verse_text": "Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow." }, { "point_text": "To reveal the mysteries of God", "verse_ref": "Amos 3:7", "verse_text": "Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets." }, { "point_text": "To reveal the mysteries of God", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:10", "verse_text": "But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God." }, { "point_text": "To give power to ministers", "verse_ref": "Micah 3:8", "verse_text": "But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin." }, { "point_text": "To give power to ministers", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:8", "verse_text": "But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth." }, { "point_text": "To direct ministers", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 3:24-27", "verse_text": "Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house. 25 But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them: 26 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house. 27 But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house." }, { "point_text": "To direct ministers", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:12", "verse_text": "And the spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting. Moreover these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered into the man's house:" }, { "point_text": "To direct ministers", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:2", "verse_text": "As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them." }, { "point_text": "To control ministers", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:6", "verse_text": "Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia," }, { "point_text": "To testify against sin", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:13", "verse_text": "Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets." }, { "point_text": "To testify against sin", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:30", "verse_text": "Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands." }, { "point_text": "To testify against sin", "verse_ref": "Micah 3:8", "verse_text": "But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin." }, { "point_text": "To testify against sin", "verse_ref": "John 16:8-9", "verse_text": "And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: 9 Of sin, because they believe not on me;" }, { "point_text": "MODES OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Various", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:1", "verse_text": "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets," }, { "point_text": "By secret impulse", "verse_ref": "Judges 13:25", "verse_text": "And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol." }, { "point_text": "By secret impulse", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:21", "verse_text": "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "By a voice", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:8", "verse_text": "Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me." }, { "point_text": "By a voice", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:29", "verse_text": "Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot." }, { "point_text": "By a voice", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:10", "verse_text": "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet," }, { "point_text": "By visions", "verse_ref": "Numbers 12:6", "verse_text": "And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream." }, { "point_text": "By visions", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 11:24", "verse_text": "Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me." }, { "point_text": "By dreams", "verse_ref": "Numbers 12:6", "verse_text": "And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream." }, { "point_text": "By dreams", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:1", "verse_text": "In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters." }, { "point_text": "Necessary to prophesying", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:25-27", "verse_text": "And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease. 26 But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were written, but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp. 27 And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp." }, { "point_text": "Necessary to prophesying", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 20:14-17", "verse_text": "Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation; 15 And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's. 16 To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel. 17 Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you." }, { "point_text": "Is irresistible", "verse_ref": "Amos 3:8", "verse_text": "The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?" }, { "point_text": "Despisers of, punished", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:15-16", "verse_text": "And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: 16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy." } ] }, { "name": "Ishmaelites, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Ishmaelites-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Descended from Abraham's son, Ishmael", "verse_ref": "Genesis 16:15-16", "verse_text": "And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. 16 And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram." }, { "point_text": "Descended from Abraham's son, Ishmael", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 1:28", "verse_text": "The sons of Abraham; Isaac, and Ishmael." }, { "point_text": "Divided into twelve tribes", "verse_ref": "Genesis 25:16", "verse_text": "These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations." }, { "point_text": "Heads of tribes", "verse_ref": "Genesis 25:13-15", "verse_text": "And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, 14 And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa, 15 Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:" }, { "point_text": "Heads of tribes", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 1:29-31", "verse_text": "These are their generations: The firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, 30 Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema, 31 Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael." }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Hagarites", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 5:10", "verse_text": "And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east land of Gilead." }, { "point_text": "Hagarenes", "verse_ref": "Psalm 83:6", "verse_text": "The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;" }, { "point_text": "Arabians", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:20", "verse_text": "It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there." }, { "point_text": "Original possessions of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 25:18", "verse_text": "And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brethren." }, { "point_text": "Governed by kings", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 25:24", "verse_text": "And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert," }, { "point_text": "Dwelt in tents", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:20", "verse_text": "It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there." }, { "point_text": "Rich in cattle", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 5:21", "verse_text": "And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand." }, { "point_text": "Wore ornaments of gold", "verse_ref": "Judges 8:24", "verse_text": "And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)" }, { "point_text": "Were the merchants of the east", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:25", "verse_text": "And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Were the merchants of the east", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:20-21", "verse_text": "Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots. 21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants." }, { "point_text": "Travelled in large companies or caravans", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:25", "verse_text": "And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Travelled in large companies or caravans", "verse_ref": "Job 6:19", "verse_text": "The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them." }, { "point_text": "Waylaid and plundered travellers", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:2", "verse_text": "Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness." }, { "point_text": "Often confederate against Israel", "verse_ref": "Psalm 83:6", "verse_text": "The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;" }, { "point_text": "OVERCOME BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Gideon", "verse_ref": "Judges 8:10-24", "verse_text": "Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword. 11 And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was secure. 12 And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host. 13 And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle before the sun was up, ..." }, { "point_text": "Reubenites and Gadites", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 5:10", "verse_text": "And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east land of Gilead." }, { "point_text": "Reubenites and Gadites", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 5:18-20", "verse_text": "The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war. 19 And they made war with the Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish, and Nodab. 20 And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him." }, { "point_text": "Uzziah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:7", "verse_text": "And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims." }, { "point_text": "Sent presents to Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:15", "verse_text": "Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country." }, { "point_text": "Sent presents to Solomon", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:14", "verse_text": "Beside that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon." }, { "point_text": "Sent flocks to Jehoshaphat", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 17:11", "verse_text": "Also some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred he goats." }, { "point_text": "PREDICTIONS RESPECTING;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To be numerous", "verse_ref": "Genesis 16:10", "verse_text": "And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude." }, { "point_text": "To be numerous", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:20", "verse_text": "And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation." }, { "point_text": "To be wild and savage", "verse_ref": "Genesis 16:12", "verse_text": "And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren." }, { "point_text": "To be warlike and predatory", "verse_ref": "Genesis 16:12", "verse_text": "And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren." }, { "point_text": "To be divided into twelve tribes", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:20", "verse_text": "And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation." }, { "point_text": "To continue independent", "verse_ref": "Genesis 16:12", "verse_text": "And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren." }, { "point_text": "To be a great nation", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:13", "verse_text": "And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed." }, { "point_text": "To be a great nation", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:18", "verse_text": "Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation." }, { "point_text": "To be judged with the nations", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 25:23-25", "verse_text": "Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners, 24 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert, 25 And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes," }, { "point_text": "Their glory, &c. to be diminished", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 21:13-17", "verse_text": "The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim. 14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled. 15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war. 16 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail: ..." }, { "point_text": "Their submission to Christ", "verse_ref": "Psalm 72:10", "verse_text": "The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts." }, { "point_text": "Their submission to Christ", "verse_ref": "Psalm 72:15", "verse_text": "And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised." }, { "point_text": "Probably preached to by St. Paul", "verse_ref": "Galatians 1:17", "verse_text": "Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus." } ] }, { "name": "Jerusalem", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Jerusalem.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The ancient Salem", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:18", "verse_text": "And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God." }, { "point_text": "The ancient Salem", "verse_ref": "Psalm 76:2", "verse_text": "In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion." }, { "point_text": "The ancient Jebusi or Jebus", "verse_ref": "Joshua 15:8", "verse_text": "And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward:" }, { "point_text": "The ancient Jebusi or Jebus", "verse_ref": "Joshua 18:28", "verse_text": "And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families." }, { "point_text": "The ancient Jebusi or Jebus", "verse_ref": "Judges 19:10", "verse_text": "But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus, which is Jerusalem; and there were with him two asses saddled, his concubine also was with him." }, { "point_text": "The king of, defeated and slain by Joshua", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:5-23", "verse_text": "Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it. 6 And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us. 7 So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valour. 8 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee. ..." }, { "point_text": "Allotted to the tribe of Benjamin", "verse_ref": "Joshua 18:28", "verse_text": "And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families." }, { "point_text": "Partly taken and burned by Judah", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:8", "verse_text": "Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire." }, { "point_text": "THE JEBUSITES", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Formerly dwelt in", "verse_ref": "Judges 19:10-11", "verse_text": "But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus, which is Jerusalem; and there were with him two asses saddled, his concubine also was with him. 11 And when they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn in into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it." }, { "point_text": "Held possession of, with Judah and Benjamin", "verse_ref": "Joshua 15:63", "verse_text": "As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Held possession of, with Judah and Benjamin", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:21", "verse_text": "And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Finally dispossessed of, by David", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 5:6-8", "verse_text": "And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither. 7 Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David. 8 And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David's soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house." }, { "point_text": "Enlarged by David", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 5:9", "verse_text": "So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward." }, { "point_text": "Made the royal city", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 5:9", "verse_text": "So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward." }, { "point_text": "Made the royal city", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 20:3", "verse_text": "And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood." }, { "point_text": "Specially chosen by God", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 6:6", "verse_text": "But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel." }, { "point_text": "Specially chosen by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 135:21", "verse_text": "Blessed be the LORD out of Zion, which dwelleth at Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The seat of government under the Romans for a time", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:2", "verse_text": "And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor." }, { "point_text": "The seat of government under the Romans for a time", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:19", "verse_text": "When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him." }, { "point_text": "Roman government transferred from, to Caesarea", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:23", "verse_text": "And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;" }, { "point_text": "Roman government transferred from, to Caesarea", "verse_ref": "Acts 25:1-13", "verse_text": "Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem. 2 Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews informed him against Paul, and besought him, 3 And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him. 4 But Festus answered, that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself would depart shortly thither. ..." }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "City of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 46:4", "verse_text": "There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High." }, { "point_text": "City of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 48:1", "verse_text": "Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness." }, { "point_text": "City of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:14", "verse_text": "The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel." }, { "point_text": "City of Judah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 25:28", "verse_text": "And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah." }, { "point_text": "City of the great king", "verse_ref": "Psalm 48:2", "verse_text": "Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King." }, { "point_text": "City of the great king", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:5", "verse_text": "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth." }, { "point_text": "City of solemnities", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:20", "verse_text": "Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken." }, { "point_text": "City of righteousness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:26", "verse_text": "And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellers as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city." }, { "point_text": "City of truth", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 8:3", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain." }, { "point_text": "A city not forsaken", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 62:12", "verse_text": "And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken." }, { "point_text": "Faithful city", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:21", "verse_text": "How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers." }, { "point_text": "Faithful city", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:26", "verse_text": "And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellers as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city." }, { "point_text": "Holy city", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 11:1", "verse_text": "And the rulers of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts to dwell in other cities." }, { "point_text": "Holy city", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 48:2", "verse_text": "For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name." }, { "point_text": "Holy city", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:5", "verse_text": "Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple," }, { "point_text": "Throne of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:17", "verse_text": "At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart." }, { "point_text": "Zion", "verse_ref": "Psalm 48:12", "verse_text": "Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof." }, { "point_text": "Zion", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:20", "verse_text": "Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken." }, { "point_text": "Zion of the holy one of Israel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:14", "verse_text": "The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Surrounded by mountains", "verse_ref": "Psalm 125:2", "verse_text": "As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever." }, { "point_text": "Surrounded by a wall", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 3:1", "verse_text": "And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about." }, { "point_text": "Protected by forts and bulwarks", "verse_ref": "Psalm 48:12-13", "verse_text": "Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. 13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following." }, { "point_text": "Entered by gates", "verse_ref": "Psalm 122:2", "verse_text": "Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Entered by gates", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:19-21", "verse_text": "Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem; 20 And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates: 21 Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;" }, { "point_text": "Hezekiah made an aqueduct for", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:20", "verse_text": "And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?" }, { "point_text": "Spoils of war placed in", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:54", "verse_text": "And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armour in his tent." }, { "point_text": "Spoils of war placed in", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:7", "verse_text": "And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Beautiful for situation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 48:2", "verse_text": "Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King." }, { "point_text": "Compact", "verse_ref": "Psalm 122:3", "verse_text": "Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:" }, { "point_text": "Comely", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 6:4", "verse_text": "Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners." }, { "point_text": "The perfection of beauty", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 2:15", "verse_text": "All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?" }, { "point_text": "Joy of the whole earth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 48:2", "verse_text": "Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King." }, { "point_text": "Joy of the whole earth", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 2:15", "verse_text": "All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?" }, { "point_text": "Princess among the provinces", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 1:1", "verse_text": "How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!" }, { "point_text": "Great", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 22:8", "verse_text": "And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this great city?" }, { "point_text": "Populous", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 1:1", "verse_text": "How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!" }, { "point_text": "Full of business and tumult", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:3", "verse_text": "All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far." }, { "point_text": "Wealth, &c. in the time of Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:26-27", "verse_text": "And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem. 27 And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance." }, { "point_text": "Protected by God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 31:5", "verse_text": "As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it." }, { "point_text": "Instances of God's care and protection of", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:16", "verse_text": "And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite." }, { "point_text": "Instances of God's care and protection of", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:32-34", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it. 33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD. 34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake." }, { "point_text": "Instances of God's care and protection of", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 12:7", "verse_text": "And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak." }, { "point_text": "The temple built in", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:1", "verse_text": "Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite." }, { "point_text": "The temple built in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:29", "verse_text": "Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee." }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Went up to, at the feasts", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:42", "verse_text": "And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast." }, { "point_text": "Went up to, at the feasts", "verse_ref": "Psalm 122:4", "verse_text": "Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Loved", "verse_ref": "Psalm 137:5-6", "verse_text": "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. 6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy." }, { "point_text": "Lamented the affliction of", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 1:2-4", "verse_text": "That Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and certain men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem. 3 And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire. 4 And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven," }, { "point_text": "Prayed for the prosperity of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:18", "verse_text": "Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Prayed for the prosperity of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 122:6", "verse_text": "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee." }, { "point_text": "Prayed towards", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:10", "verse_text": "Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime." }, { "point_text": "Prayed towards", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:41", "verse_text": "Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake;" }, { "point_text": "Wickedness of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:1-4", "verse_text": "The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. 2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. 3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward." }, { "point_text": "Wickedness of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:1-5", "verse_text": "Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it. 2 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely. 3 O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. 4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God. ..." }, { "point_text": "Wickedness of", "verse_ref": "Micah 3:10", "verse_text": "They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Idolatry of", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 28:4", "verse_text": "He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree." }, { "point_text": "Idolatry of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 8:7-10", "verse_text": "And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall. 8 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. 9 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. 10 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about." }, { "point_text": "Wickedness of, the cause of its calamities", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 21:12-15", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle. 13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down. 14 And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies; 15 Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Wickedness of, the cause of its calamities", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 24:18", "verse_text": "And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass." }, { "point_text": "Wickedness of, the cause of its calamities", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 1:8", "verse_text": "Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward." }, { "point_text": "Wickedness of, the cause of its calamities", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 5:5-8", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her. 6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them. 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you; 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations." }, { "point_text": "Was the tomb of the prophets", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:33-34", "verse_text": "Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem. 34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!" }, { "point_text": "CHRIST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Preached in", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:37-38", "verse_text": "And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives. 38 And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, for to hear him." }, { "point_text": "Did many miracles in", "verse_ref": "John 4:45", "verse_text": "Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast." }, { "point_text": "Publicly entered, as king", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:9-10", "verse_text": "And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest. 10 And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this?" }, { "point_text": "Lamented over", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:37", "verse_text": "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!" }, { "point_text": "Lamented over", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:41", "verse_text": "And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it," }, { "point_text": "Put to death at", "verse_ref": "Luke 9:31", "verse_text": "Who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Put to death at", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:27", "verse_text": "For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him." }, { "point_text": "Put to death at", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:29", "verse_text": "And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre." }, { "point_text": "Gospel first preached at", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:47", "verse_text": "And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Gospel first preached at", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:14", "verse_text": "But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:" }, { "point_text": "Miraculous gift of the Holy Ghost first given at", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:4", "verse_text": "And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me." }, { "point_text": "Miraculous gift of the Holy Ghost first given at", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:1-5", "verse_text": "And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. ..." }, { "point_text": "Persecution of the Christian church commenced at", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:1", "verse_text": "And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them," }, { "point_text": "Persecution of the Christian church commenced at", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:1", "verse_text": "And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles." }, { "point_text": "First Christian council held at", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:4", "verse_text": "And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them." }, { "point_text": "First Christian council held at", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:6", "verse_text": "And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter." }, { "point_text": "CALAMITIES OF, MENTIONED;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Taken and plundered by Shishak", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 14:25-26", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem: 26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made." }, { "point_text": "Taken and plundered by Shishak", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 12:1-4", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him. 2 And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD, 3 With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians. 4 And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Taken and plundered by Jehoash king of Israel", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 14:13-14", "verse_text": "And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits. 14 And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria." }, { "point_text": "Besieged but not taken by Rezin and Pekah", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it." }, { "point_text": "Besieged but not taken by Rezin and Pekah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 16:5", "verse_text": "Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him." }, { "point_text": "Besieged but not taken by Sennacherib", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:17", "verse_text": "And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field." }, { "point_text": "Besieged but not taken by Sennacherib", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD. 2 And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. 3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. 4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left. ..." }, { "point_text": "Taken and made tributary by Pharaoh-Necho", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:33-35", "verse_text": "And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold. 34 And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there. 35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaohnechoh." }, { "point_text": "Besieged by Nebuchadnezzar", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 24:10-11", "verse_text": "At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. 11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it." }, { "point_text": "Taken and burned by Nebuchadnezzar", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about. 2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 3 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land. 4 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain. ..." }, { "point_text": "Taken and burned by Nebuchadnezzar", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 39:1-8", "verse_text": "In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it. 2 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up. 3 And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, even Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon. 4 And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain. ..." }, { "point_text": "Threatened by Sanballat", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 4:7-8", "verse_text": "But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth, 8 And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it." }, { "point_text": "Rebuilt after the captivity by order of Cyrus", "verse_ref": "Ezra 1:1-4", "verse_text": "Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, 2 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. 3 Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem. 4 And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "PROPHECIES RESPECTING,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To be taken by king of Babylon", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 20:5", "verse_text": "Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon." }, { "point_text": "To be made a heap of ruins", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:11", "verse_text": "And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant." }, { "point_text": "To be made a heap of ruins", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 26:18", "verse_text": "Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest." }, { "point_text": "To be a wilderness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 64:10", "verse_text": "Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation." }, { "point_text": "To be rebuilt by Cyrus", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:26-28", "verse_text": "That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof: 27 That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers: 28 That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid." }, { "point_text": "To be a quiet habitation", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:20", "verse_text": "Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken." }, { "point_text": "To be a terror to her enemies", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 12:2-3", "verse_text": "Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. 3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it." }, { "point_text": "Christ to enter, as king", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:9", "verse_text": "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass." }, { "point_text": "The gospel to go forth from", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:3", "verse_text": "And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "The gospel to go forth from", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:9", "verse_text": "O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!" }, { "point_text": "To be destroyed by the Romans", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:42-44", "verse_text": "Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. 43 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, 44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation." }, { "point_text": "Its capture accompanied by severe calamities", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:21", "verse_text": "For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be." }, { "point_text": "Its capture accompanied by severe calamities", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:29", "verse_text": "Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:" }, { "point_text": "Signs preceding its destruction", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:6-15", "verse_text": "And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. 9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. ..." }, { "point_text": "Signs preceding its destruction", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:7-11", "verse_text": "And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass? 8 And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them. 9 But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by. 10 Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: ..." }, { "point_text": "Signs preceding its destruction", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:25", "verse_text": "And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;" }, { "point_text": "Signs preceding its destruction", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:28", "verse_text": "And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the church", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:25-26", "verse_text": "For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. 26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all." }, { "point_text": "Of the church glorified", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:12", "verse_text": "Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name." }, { "point_text": "Of the church glorified", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:2", "verse_text": "And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband." }, { "point_text": "Of the church glorified", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:10", "verse_text": "And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God," }, { "point_text": "(Its strong position,) of saints under God's protection", "verse_ref": "Psalm 125:2", "verse_text": "As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever." }, { "point_text": "The ancient Salem", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:18", "verse_text": "And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God." }, { "point_text": "The ancient Salem", "verse_ref": "Psalm 76:2", "verse_text": "In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion." }, { "point_text": "The ancient Jebusi or Jebus", "verse_ref": "Joshua 15:8", "verse_text": "And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward:" }, { "point_text": "The ancient Jebusi or Jebus", "verse_ref": "Joshua 18:28", "verse_text": "And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families." }, { "point_text": "The ancient Jebusi or Jebus", "verse_ref": "Judges 19:10", "verse_text": "But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus, which is Jerusalem; and there were with him two asses saddled, his concubine also was with him." }, { "point_text": "The king of, defeated and slain by Joshua", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:5-23", "verse_text": "Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it. 6 And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us. 7 So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valour. 8 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee. ..." }, { "point_text": "Allotted to the tribe of Benjamin", "verse_ref": "Joshua 18:28", "verse_text": "And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families." }, { "point_text": "Partly taken and burned by Judah", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:8", "verse_text": "Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire." }, { "point_text": "THE JEBUSITES", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Formerly dwelt in", "verse_ref": "Judges 19:10-11", "verse_text": "But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus, which is Jerusalem; and there were with him two asses saddled, his concubine also was with him. 11 And when they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn in into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it." }, { "point_text": "Held possession of, with Judah and Benjamin", "verse_ref": "Joshua 15:63", "verse_text": "As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Held possession of, with Judah and Benjamin", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:21", "verse_text": "And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Finally dispossessed of, by David", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 5:6-8", "verse_text": "And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither. 7 Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David. 8 And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David's soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house." }, { "point_text": "Enlarged by David", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 5:9", "verse_text": "So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward." }, { "point_text": "Made the royal city", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 5:9", "verse_text": "So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward." }, { "point_text": "Made the royal city", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 20:3", "verse_text": "And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood." }, { "point_text": "Specially chosen by God", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 6:6", "verse_text": "But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel." }, { "point_text": "Specially chosen by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 135:21", "verse_text": "Blessed be the LORD out of Zion, which dwelleth at Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The seat of government under the Romans for a time", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:2", "verse_text": "And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor." }, { "point_text": "The seat of government under the Romans for a time", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:19", "verse_text": "When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him." }, { "point_text": "Roman government transferred from, to Caesarea", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:23", "verse_text": "And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;" }, { "point_text": "Roman government transferred from, to Caesarea", "verse_ref": "Acts 25:1-13", "verse_text": "Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem. 2 Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews informed him against Paul, and besought him, 3 And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him. 4 But Festus answered, that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself would depart shortly thither. ..." }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "City of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 46:4", "verse_text": "There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High." }, { "point_text": "City of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 48:1", "verse_text": "Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness." }, { "point_text": "City of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:14", "verse_text": "The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel." }, { "point_text": "City of Judah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 25:28", "verse_text": "And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah." }, { "point_text": "City of the great king", "verse_ref": "Psalm 48:2", "verse_text": "Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King." }, { "point_text": "City of the great king", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:5", "verse_text": "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth." }, { "point_text": "City of solemnities", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:20", "verse_text": "Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken." }, { "point_text": "City of righteousness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:26", "verse_text": "And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellers as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city." }, { "point_text": "City of truth", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 8:3", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain." }, { "point_text": "A city not forsaken", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 62:12", "verse_text": "And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken." }, { "point_text": "Faithful city", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:21", "verse_text": "How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers." }, { "point_text": "Faithful city", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:26", "verse_text": "And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellers as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city." }, { "point_text": "Holy city", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 11:1", "verse_text": "And the rulers of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts to dwell in other cities." }, { "point_text": "Holy city", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 48:2", "verse_text": "For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name." }, { "point_text": "Holy city", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:5", "verse_text": "Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple," }, { "point_text": "Throne of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:17", "verse_text": "At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart." }, { "point_text": "Zion", "verse_ref": "Psalm 48:12", "verse_text": "Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof." }, { "point_text": "Zion", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:20", "verse_text": "Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken." }, { "point_text": "Zion of the holy one of Israel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:14", "verse_text": "The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Surrounded by mountains", "verse_ref": "Psalm 125:2", "verse_text": "As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever." }, { "point_text": "Surrounded by a wall", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 3:1", "verse_text": "And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about." }, { "point_text": "Protected by forts and bulwarks", "verse_ref": "Psalm 48:12-13", "verse_text": "Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. 13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following." }, { "point_text": "Entered by gates", "verse_ref": "Psalm 122:2", "verse_text": "Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Entered by gates", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:19-21", "verse_text": "Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem; 20 And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates: 21 Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;" }, { "point_text": "Hezekiah made an aqueduct for", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:20", "verse_text": "And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?" }, { "point_text": "Spoils of war placed in", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:54", "verse_text": "And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armour in his tent." }, { "point_text": "Spoils of war placed in", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:7", "verse_text": "And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Beautiful for situation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 48:2", "verse_text": "Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King." }, { "point_text": "Compact", "verse_ref": "Psalm 122:3", "verse_text": "Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:" }, { "point_text": "Comely", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 6:4", "verse_text": "Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners." }, { "point_text": "The perfection of beauty", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 2:15", "verse_text": "All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?" }, { "point_text": "Joy of the whole earth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 48:2", "verse_text": "Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King." }, { "point_text": "Joy of the whole earth", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 2:15", "verse_text": "All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?" }, { "point_text": "Princess among the provinces", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 1:1", "verse_text": "How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!" }, { "point_text": "Great", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 22:8", "verse_text": "And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this great city?" }, { "point_text": "Populous", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 1:1", "verse_text": "How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!" }, { "point_text": "Full of business and tumult", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:3", "verse_text": "All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far." }, { "point_text": "Wealth, &c. in the time of Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:26-27", "verse_text": "And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem. 27 And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance." }, { "point_text": "Protected by God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 31:5", "verse_text": "As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it." }, { "point_text": "Instances of God's care and protection of", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:16", "verse_text": "And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite." }, { "point_text": "Instances of God's care and protection of", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:32-34", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it. 33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD. 34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake." }, { "point_text": "Instances of God's care and protection of", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 12:7", "verse_text": "And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak." }, { "point_text": "The temple built in", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:1", "verse_text": "Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite." }, { "point_text": "The temple built in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:29", "verse_text": "Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee." }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Went up to, at the feasts", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:42", "verse_text": "And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast." }, { "point_text": "Went up to, at the feasts", "verse_ref": "Psalm 122:4", "verse_text": "Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Loved", "verse_ref": "Psalm 137:5-6", "verse_text": "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. 6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy." }, { "point_text": "Lamented the affliction of", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 1:2-4", "verse_text": "That Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and certain men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem. 3 And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire. 4 And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven," }, { "point_text": "Prayed for the prosperity of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:18", "verse_text": "Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Prayed for the prosperity of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 122:6", "verse_text": "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee." }, { "point_text": "Prayed towards", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:10", "verse_text": "Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime." }, { "point_text": "Prayed towards", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:41", "verse_text": "Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake;" }, { "point_text": "Wickedness of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:1-4", "verse_text": "The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. 2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. 3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward." }, { "point_text": "Wickedness of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:1-5", "verse_text": "Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it. 2 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely. 3 O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. 4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God. ..." }, { "point_text": "Wickedness of", "verse_ref": "Micah 3:10", "verse_text": "They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Idolatry of", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 28:4", "verse_text": "He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree." }, { "point_text": "Idolatry of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 8:7-10", "verse_text": "And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall. 8 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. 9 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. 10 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about." }, { "point_text": "Wickedness of, the cause of its calamities", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 21:12-15", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle. 13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down. 14 And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies; 15 Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Wickedness of, the cause of its calamities", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 24:18", "verse_text": "And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass." }, { "point_text": "Wickedness of, the cause of its calamities", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 1:8", "verse_text": "Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward." }, { "point_text": "Wickedness of, the cause of its calamities", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 5:5-8", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her. 6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them. 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you; 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations." }, { "point_text": "Was the tomb of the prophets", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:33-34", "verse_text": "Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem. 34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!" }, { "point_text": "CHRIST", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Preached in", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:37-38", "verse_text": "And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives. 38 And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, for to hear him." }, { "point_text": "Did many miracles in", "verse_ref": "John 4:45", "verse_text": "Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast." }, { "point_text": "Publicly entered, as king", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:9-10", "verse_text": "And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest. 10 And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this?" }, { "point_text": "Lamented over", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:37", "verse_text": "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!" }, { "point_text": "Lamented over", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:41", "verse_text": "And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it," }, { "point_text": "Put to death at", "verse_ref": "Luke 9:31", "verse_text": "Who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Put to death at", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:27", "verse_text": "For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him." }, { "point_text": "Put to death at", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:29", "verse_text": "And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre." }, { "point_text": "Gospel first preached at", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:47", "verse_text": "And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Gospel first preached at", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:14", "verse_text": "But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:" }, { "point_text": "Miraculous gift of the Holy Ghost first given at", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:4", "verse_text": "And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me." }, { "point_text": "Miraculous gift of the Holy Ghost first given at", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:1-5", "verse_text": "And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. ..." }, { "point_text": "Persecution of the Christian church commenced at", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:1", "verse_text": "And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them," }, { "point_text": "Persecution of the Christian church commenced at", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:1", "verse_text": "And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles." }, { "point_text": "First Christian council held at", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:4", "verse_text": "And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them." }, { "point_text": "First Christian council held at", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:6", "verse_text": "And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter." }, { "point_text": "CALAMITIES OF, MENTIONED;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Taken and plundered by Shishak", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 14:25-26", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem: 26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made." }, { "point_text": "Taken and plundered by Shishak", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 12:1-4", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him. 2 And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD, 3 With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians. 4 And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Taken and plundered by Jehoash king of Israel", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 14:13-14", "verse_text": "And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits. 14 And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria." }, { "point_text": "Besieged but not taken by Rezin and Pekah", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it." }, { "point_text": "Besieged but not taken by Rezin and Pekah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 16:5", "verse_text": "Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him." }, { "point_text": "Besieged but not taken by Sennacherib", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:17", "verse_text": "And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field." }, { "point_text": "Besieged but not taken by Sennacherib", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD. 2 And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. 3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. 4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left. ..." }, { "point_text": "Taken and made tributary by Pharaoh-Necho", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:33-35", "verse_text": "And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold. 34 And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there. 35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaohnechoh." }, { "point_text": "Besieged by Nebuchadnezzar", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 24:10-11", "verse_text": "At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. 11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it." }, { "point_text": "Taken and burned by Nebuchadnezzar", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about. 2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 3 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land. 4 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain. ..." }, { "point_text": "Taken and burned by Nebuchadnezzar", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 39:1-8", "verse_text": "In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it. 2 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up. 3 And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, even Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon. 4 And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain. ..." }, { "point_text": "Threatened by Sanballat", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 4:7-8", "verse_text": "But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth, 8 And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it." }, { "point_text": "Rebuilt after the captivity by order of Cyrus", "verse_ref": "Ezra 1:1-4", "verse_text": "Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, 2 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. 3 Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem. 4 And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "PROPHECIES RESPECTING,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "To be taken by king of Babylon", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 20:5", "verse_text": "Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon." }, { "point_text": "To be made a heap of ruins", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:11", "verse_text": "And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant." }, { "point_text": "To be made a heap of ruins", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 26:18", "verse_text": "Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest." }, { "point_text": "To be a wilderness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 64:10", "verse_text": "Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation." }, { "point_text": "To be rebuilt by Cyrus", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:26-28", "verse_text": "That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof: 27 That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers: 28 That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid." }, { "point_text": "To be a quiet habitation", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:20", "verse_text": "Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken." }, { "point_text": "To be a terror to her enemies", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 12:2-3", "verse_text": "Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. 3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it." }, { "point_text": "Christ to enter, as king", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:9", "verse_text": "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass." }, { "point_text": "The gospel to go forth from", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:3", "verse_text": "And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "The gospel to go forth from", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:9", "verse_text": "O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!" }, { "point_text": "To be destroyed by the Romans", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:42-44", "verse_text": "Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. 43 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, 44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation." }, { "point_text": "Its capture accompanied by severe calamities", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:21", "verse_text": "For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be." }, { "point_text": "Its capture accompanied by severe calamities", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:29", "verse_text": "Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:" }, { "point_text": "Signs preceding its destruction", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:6-15", "verse_text": "And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. 9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. ..." }, { "point_text": "Signs preceding its destruction", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:7-11", "verse_text": "And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass? 8 And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them. 9 But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by. 10 Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: ..." }, { "point_text": "Signs preceding its destruction", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:25", "verse_text": "And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;" }, { "point_text": "Signs preceding its destruction", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:28", "verse_text": "And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Of the church", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:25-26", "verse_text": "For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. 26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all." }, { "point_text": "Of the church glorified", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:12", "verse_text": "Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name." }, { "point_text": "Of the church glorified", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:2", "verse_text": "And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband." }, { "point_text": "Of the church glorified", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:10", "verse_text": "And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God," }, { "point_text": "(Its strong position,) of saints under God's protection", "verse_ref": "Psalm 125:2", "verse_text": "As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever." } ] }, { "name": "Jews, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Jews-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Descended from Abraham", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 51:2", "verse_text": "Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him." }, { "point_text": "Descended from Abraham", "verse_ref": "John 8:39", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Divided into twelve tribes", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:22", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:" }, { "point_text": "Divided into twelve tribes", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:28", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Hebrews", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:13", "verse_text": "And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram." }, { "point_text": "Hebrews", "verse_ref": "Genesis 40:15; 2 Corinthians 11:22", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Israelites", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:7", "verse_text": "And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go." }, { "point_text": "Israelites", "verse_ref": "Joshua 3:17", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Seed of Abraham", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:6", "verse_text": "O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen." }, { "point_text": "Seed of Abraham", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:8", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Seed of Jacob", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 33:26", "verse_text": "Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them." }, { "point_text": "Seed of Israel", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:13", "verse_text": "O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones." }, { "point_text": "Children of Jacob", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:13", "verse_text": "O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones." }, { "point_text": "Children of Israel", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:25", "verse_text": "And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence." }, { "point_text": "Children of Israel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 27:12", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Jeshurun", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:15", "verse_text": "But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation." }, { "point_text": "Chosen and loved by God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:6-7", "verse_text": "For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. 7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:" }, { "point_text": "Circumcised in token of their covenant relation", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:10-11", "verse_text": "This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised. 11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you." }, { "point_text": "Separated from all other nations", "verse_ref": "Exodus 33:16", "verse_text": "For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Separated from all other nations", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 20:24; 1 Kings 8:53", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "A peculiar people", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:2", "verse_text": "For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "A peculiar treasure", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:5", "verse_text": "Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:" }, { "point_text": "A peculiar treasure", "verse_ref": "Psalm 135:4", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "A holy nation", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:6", "verse_text": "And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "A holy people", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:6", "verse_text": "For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth." }, { "point_text": "A holy people", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:21", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "A kingdom of priests", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:6", "verse_text": "And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "A special people", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:6", "verse_text": "For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth." }, { "point_text": "The Lord's portion", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:9", "verse_text": "For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance." }, { "point_text": "Sojourned in Egypt", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:40-41", "verse_text": "Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. 41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Brought out of Egypt by God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:42", "verse_text": "It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations." }, { "point_text": "Brought out of Egypt by God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:15; 6:12", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "In the desert forty years", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:33", "verse_text": "And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "In the desert forty years", "verse_ref": "Joshua 5:6", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Settled in Canaan", "verse_ref": "Numbers 32:18", "verse_text": "We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance." }, { "point_text": "Settled in Canaan", "verse_ref": "Joshua 14:1-5", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Under the theocracy until the time of Samuel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:4-6", "verse_text": "Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. 5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: 6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Under the theocracy until the time of Samuel", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 8:7", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Desired and obtained kings", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 8:5", "verse_text": "And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations." }, { "point_text": "Desired and obtained kings", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 8:22", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Divided into two kingdoms after Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:31", "verse_text": "And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:" }, { "point_text": "Divided into two kingdoms after Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:19-20", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Often subdued and made tributary", "verse_ref": "Judges 2:13", "verse_text": "And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth." }, { "point_text": "Often subdued and made tributary", "verse_ref": "Judges 4:2; 6:2,6; 2 Kings 23:33", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Taken captive to Assyria and Babylon", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:32", "verse_text": "So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places." }, { "point_text": "Taken captive to Assyria and Babylon", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:11; 24:16; 25:11", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Restored to their own land by Cyrus", "verse_ref": "Ezra 1:1-4", "verse_text": "Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, 2 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. 3 Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem. 4 And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Had courts of justice", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:18", "verse_text": "Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment." }, { "point_text": "Had an ecclesiastical establishment", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:1", "verse_text": "And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons." }, { "point_text": "Had an ecclesiastical establishment", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:6; Malachi 2:4-7", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Had a series of prophets to promote national reformation", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:25", "verse_text": "Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:" }, { "point_text": "Had a series of prophets to promote national reformation", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 26:4; 35:15; 44:4; Ezekiel 38:17", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "The only people who had knowledge of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 76:1", "verse_text": "In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel." }, { "point_text": "The only people who had knowledge of God", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:5; Psalm 48:3; Romans 1:28", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "The only people who worshipped God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 5:17", "verse_text": "But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The only people who worshipped God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 96:5; 115:3-4", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Religion of, according to rites prescribed by God", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 18:4", "verse_text": "Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "Religion of, according to rites prescribed by God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:8-11; Hebrews 9:1", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Religion of, typical", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:8-11", "verse_text": "The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: 9 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; 10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation. 11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;" }, { "point_text": "Religion of, typical", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:1", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Their national greatness", "verse_ref": "Genesis 12:2", "verse_text": "And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:" }, { "point_text": "Their national greatness", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:29", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Their national privileges", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:2", "verse_text": "Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God." }, { "point_text": "Their national privileges", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:4-5", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Their vast numbers", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:17", "verse_text": "That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;" }, { "point_text": "Their vast numbers", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:36", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "NATIONAL CHARACTER OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Pride of descent, &c", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 13:9", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Pride of descent, &c", "verse_ref": "John 8:33,41", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Love of country", "verse_ref": "Psalm 137:6", "verse_text": "If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy." }, { "point_text": "Fondness for their brethren", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:11-12", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren. 12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand." }, { "point_text": "Attachment to Moses", "verse_ref": "John 9:28-29", "verse_text": "Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples. 29 We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is." }, { "point_text": "Attachment to customs of the law", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:14", "verse_text": "For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us." }, { "point_text": "Attachment to customs of the law", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:21; 22:3", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Fondness for traditionary customs", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 44:17", "verse_text": "But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil." }, { "point_text": "Fondness for traditionary customs", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:18,30", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Stubborn and stiffnecked", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:9", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:" }, { "point_text": "Stubborn and stiffnecked", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:51", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Prone to rebellion", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:7", "verse_text": "Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Prone to rebellion", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:24", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Prone to backsliding", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:11-13", "verse_text": "Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. 12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD. 13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water." }, { "point_text": "Prone to backsliding", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:5", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Prone to idolatry", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:8", "verse_text": "Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:" }, { "point_text": "Prone to idolatry", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:5", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Prone to formality in religion", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 29:13", "verse_text": "Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:" }, { "point_text": "Prone to formality in religion", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 33:31; Matthew 15:7-9", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Self-righteous", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:5", "verse_text": "Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day." }, { "point_text": "Self-righteous", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:3", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Unfaithful to covenant engagements", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:6-8", "verse_text": "The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. 7 And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. 8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also." }, { "point_text": "Unfaithful to covenant engagements", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:32; Ezekiel 16:59", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Ungrateful to God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:15", "verse_text": "But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation." }, { "point_text": "Ungrateful to God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:2", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Ignorant of the true sense of Scripture", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:27", "verse_text": "For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him." }, { "point_text": "Ignorant of the true sense of Scripture", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 3:13-15", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Distrustful of God", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:11", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?" }, { "point_text": "Distrustful of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:22", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Covetous", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:13", "verse_text": "For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely." }, { "point_text": "Covetous", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 33:31; Micah 2:2", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Cowardly", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:10", "verse_text": "And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Cowardly", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:3; Isaiah 51:12", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Trusted to their privileges for salvation", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:4", "verse_text": "Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these." }, { "point_text": "Trusted to their privileges for salvation", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:9", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Distinction of castes amongst, noticed", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:5", "verse_text": "Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day." }, { "point_text": "Distinction of castes amongst, noticed", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:39; 15:2; Acts 26:5", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Degenerated as they increased in national greatness", "verse_ref": "Amos 6:4", "verse_text": "That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;" }, { "point_text": "Often displeased God by their sins", "verse_ref": "Numbers 25:3", "verse_text": "And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel." }, { "point_text": "Often displeased God by their sins", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:16; 1 Kings 16:2; Isaiah 1:4; 5:24-25", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "A spiritual seed of true believers always amongst", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:18", "verse_text": "Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him." }, { "point_text": "A spiritual seed of true believers always amongst", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:13; Romans 9:6; 11:1,5", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "MODERN, DIVIDED INTO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Hebrews or pure Jews", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:1", "verse_text": "And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration." }, { "point_text": "Hebrews or pure Jews", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:5", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Hellenists or Grecians", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:1", "verse_text": "And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration." }, { "point_text": "Hellenists or Grecians", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:29", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Many sects and parties", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:6", "verse_text": "Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees." }, { "point_text": "Many sects and parties", "verse_ref": "Mark 8:15", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "An agricultural people", "verse_ref": "Genesis 46:32", "verse_text": "And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have." }, { "point_text": "A commercial people", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:17", "verse_text": "Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm." }, { "point_text": "Obliged to unite against enemies", "verse_ref": "Numbers 32:20-22", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the LORD to war, 21 And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him, 22 And the land be subdued before the LORD: then afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Obliged to unite against enemies", "verse_ref": "Judges 19:29; 20; 1 Samuel 11:7-8", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Often distinguished in war", "verse_ref": "Judges 7:19-23", "verse_text": "So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands. 20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon. 21 And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled. 22 And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath. ..." }, { "point_text": "Often distinguished in war", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:6-13; 17:32-33", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Strengthened By God in war", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:7-8", "verse_text": "And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8 And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword." }, { "point_text": "Under God's special protection", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:10", "verse_text": "He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye." }, { "point_text": "Under God's special protection", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:27-29; Psalm 105:13-15; 121:3-5", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Enemies of, obliged to acknowledge them as divinely protected", "verse_ref": "Joshua 2:9-11", "verse_text": "And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you. 10 For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed. 11 And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath." }, { "point_text": "Enemies of, obliged to acknowledge them as divinely protected", "verse_ref": "Esther 6:13", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "PROHIBITED FROM", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Associating with others", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:28", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean." }, { "point_text": "Covenanting with others", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:32", "verse_text": "Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods." }, { "point_text": "Covenanting with others", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:2", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Marry with others", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:3", "verse_text": "Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son." }, { "point_text": "Marry with others", "verse_ref": "Joshua 23:12", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Following practices of others", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:29-31", "verse_text": "When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land; 30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. 31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods." }, { "point_text": "Following practices of others", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:9-14", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Despised all strangers", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:36", "verse_text": "Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God." }, { "point_text": "Despised all strangers", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:26-27", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Held no intercourse with strangers", "verse_ref": "John 4:9", "verse_text": "Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans." }, { "point_text": "Held no intercourse with strangers", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:2-3", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Condemned for associating with other nations", "verse_ref": "Judges 2:1-3", "verse_text": "And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you. 2 And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this? 3 Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you." }, { "point_text": "Condemned for associating with other nations", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:18", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Received proselytes from other nations", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:10", "verse_text": "Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes," }, { "point_text": "Received proselytes from other nations", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:44,48", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Gentiles made one with, under the gospel", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:15", "verse_text": "And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common." }, { "point_text": "Gentiles made one with, under the gospel", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:8-9", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "ALL OTHER NATIONS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Envied", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 4:1", "verse_text": "But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews." }, { "point_text": "Envied", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:11; Ezekiel 35:11", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Hated", "verse_ref": "Psalm 44:10", "verse_text": "Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves." }, { "point_text": "Hated", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 35:5", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Oppressed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 3:9", "verse_text": "Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them." }, { "point_text": "Oppressed", "verse_ref": "Judges 2:18; 4:3", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Persecuted", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 1:3", "verse_text": "Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits." }, { "point_text": "Persecuted", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 5:5", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Rejoiced at calamities of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 44:13", "verse_text": "Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us." }, { "point_text": "Rejoiced at calamities of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 80:5-6", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "None hated or oppressed, with impunity", "verse_ref": "Psalm 137:8-9", "verse_text": "O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. 9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones." }, { "point_text": "CHRIST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Promised to", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:10", "verse_text": "The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be." }, { "point_text": "Promised to", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:25", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Expected by", "verse_ref": "Psalm 14:7", "verse_text": "Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad." }, { "point_text": "Expected by", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:3; Luke 2:25,38", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Regarded as the restorer of national greatness", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:21", "verse_text": "And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom." }, { "point_text": "Regarded as the restorer of national greatness", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:21; Acts 1:6", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Sprang from", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:5", "verse_text": "Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Sprang from", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:14", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Rejected by", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:3", "verse_text": "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not." }, { "point_text": "Rejected by", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:3; John 1:11", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Murdered by", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:52", "verse_text": "Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:" }, { "point_text": "Murdered by", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:15", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Imprecated the blood of Christ upon themselves and their children", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:25", "verse_text": "Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children." }, { "point_text": "Many of, believed the gospel", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:20", "verse_text": "And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:" }, { "point_text": "Unbelieving, persecuted the Christians", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:5", "verse_text": "But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people." }, { "point_text": "Unbelieving, persecuted the Christians", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:13; 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Cast off for unbelief", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:17", "verse_text": "And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;" }, { "point_text": "Cast off for unbelief", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:20", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Scattered and peeled", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 18:2", "verse_text": "That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!" }, { "point_text": "Scattered and peeled", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 18:7", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Shall finally be saved", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:26-27", "verse_text": "And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: 27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of, for rejecting and killing Christ, illustrated", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:37-43", "verse_text": "But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. 38 But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. 39 And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him. 40 When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? ..." }, { "point_text": "Descendants of Abraham", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:6", "verse_text": "O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen." }, { "point_text": "Descendants of Abraham", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 51:2; John 8:33; Romans 9:7", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "The people of God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:9", "verse_text": "For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance." }, { "point_text": "The people of God", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:24; Isaiah 51:16", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Separated to God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 33:16", "verse_text": "For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Separated to God", "verse_ref": "Numbers 23:9; Deuteronomy 4:34", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Beloved for their father's sake", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:37", "verse_text": "And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;" }, { "point_text": "Beloved for their father's sake", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:15; Romans 11:28", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Christ descended from", "verse_ref": "John 4:22", "verse_text": "Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews." }, { "point_text": "Christ descended from", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:5", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "THE OBJECTS OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "God's love", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:8", "verse_text": "But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "God's love", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:5; Jeremiah 31:3", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "God's choice", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:6", "verse_text": "For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth." }, { "point_text": "God's protection", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:15", "verse_text": "Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm." }, { "point_text": "God's protection", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 2:8", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "The covenant established with", "verse_ref": "Exodus 6:4", "verse_text": "And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers." }, { "point_text": "The covenant established with", "verse_ref": "Exodus 24:6-8; 34:27", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "PROMISES RESPECTING MADE TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Abraham", "verse_ref": "Genesis 12:1-3", "verse_text": "Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed." }, { "point_text": "Abraham", "verse_ref": "Genesis 13:14-17; 15:18; 17:7-8", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Isaac", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:2-5", "verse_text": "And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: 3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; 4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; 5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws." }, { "point_text": "Isaac", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:24", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Jacob", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:12-15", "verse_text": "And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. 13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; 14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 15 And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of." }, { "point_text": "Jacob", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:9-12", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Themselves", "verse_ref": "Exodus 6:7", "verse_text": "And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians." }, { "point_text": "Themselves", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:5-6", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Privileges of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 76:1-2", "verse_text": "In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel. 2 In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion." }, { "point_text": "PUNISHED FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Idolatry", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:58-64", "verse_text": "For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. 59 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: 60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men; 61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand. ..." }, { "point_text": "Idolatry", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:3-7", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Unbelief", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:20", "verse_text": "Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:" }, { "point_text": "Breaking covenant", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 24:5", "verse_text": "The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant." }, { "point_text": "Breaking covenant", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 11:10", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Transgressing the law", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:4", "verse_text": "Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward." }, { "point_text": "Transgressing the law", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 24:5-6", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Changing the ordinances", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 24:5", "verse_text": "The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant." }, { "point_text": "Killing the prophets", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:37-38", "verse_text": "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! 38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate." }, { "point_text": "Imprecating upon themselves the blood of Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:25", "verse_text": "Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children." }, { "point_text": "Scattered among the nations", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:64", "verse_text": "And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone." }, { "point_text": "Scattered among the nations", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 6:8; 36:19", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Despised by the nations", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 36:3", "verse_text": "Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:" }, { "point_text": "Their country trodden under foot by the Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:49-52", "verse_text": "The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; 50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young: 51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee. 52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee." }, { "point_text": "Their country trodden under foot by the Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:24", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Their house left desolate", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:38", "verse_text": "For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark," }, { "point_text": "Deprived of civil and religious privileges", "verse_ref": "Hosea 3:4", "verse_text": "For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:" }, { "point_text": "DENUNCIATIONS AGAINST THOSE WHO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Cursed", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:29", "verse_text": "Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee." }, { "point_text": "Cursed", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:9", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Contended with", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:11", "verse_text": "Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish." }, { "point_text": "Contended with", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:25", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Oppressed", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:26", "verse_text": "And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob." }, { "point_text": "Oppressed", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 51:21-23", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Hated", "verse_ref": "Psalm 129:5", "verse_text": "Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion." }, { "point_text": "Hated", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 35:5-6", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Aggravated the afflictions of", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 1:14-15", "verse_text": "So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy. 15 And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction." }, { "point_text": "Slaughtered", "verse_ref": "Psalm 79:1-7", "verse_text": "O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. 2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. 3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them. 4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. ..." }, { "point_text": "Slaughtered", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 35:5-6", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "God, mindful of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 98:3", "verse_text": "He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God." }, { "point_text": "God, mindful of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:15-16", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Christ was sent to", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:24", "verse_text": "But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Christ was sent to", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:37; Acts 3:20,22,26", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Compassion of Christ for", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:37", "verse_text": "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!" }, { "point_text": "Compassion of Christ for", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:41", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "The gospel preached to, first", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:6", "verse_text": "But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." }, { "point_text": "The gospel preached to, first", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:47; Acts 1:8", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of blessing", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:29", "verse_text": "Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of favoring", "verse_ref": "Genesis 12:3", "verse_text": "And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of favoring", "verse_ref": "Psalm 122:6", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Pray importunately for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 122:6", "verse_text": "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee." }, { "point_text": "Pray importunately for", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 62:1,6-7", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Saints remember", "verse_ref": "Psalm 102:14", "verse_text": "For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof." }, { "point_text": "Saints remember", "verse_ref": "Psalm 137:5; Jeremiah 51:50", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "PROMISES RESPECTING,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The pouring out of the Spirit upon them", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 39:29", "verse_text": "Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "The pouring out of the Spirit upon them", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 12:10", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "The removal of their blindness", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:25", "verse_text": "For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in." }, { "point_text": "The removal of their blindness", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 3:14-16", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Their return and seeking to God", "verse_ref": "Hosea 3:5", "verse_text": "Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days." }, { "point_text": "Their humiliation for the rejection of Christ", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 12:10", "verse_text": "And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn." }, { "point_text": "Pardon of sin", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:22", "verse_text": "I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee." }, { "point_text": "Pardon of sin", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:27", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Salvation", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:20", "verse_text": "And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Salvation", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:26", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Sanctification", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 33:8", "verse_text": "And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me." }, { "point_text": "Sanctification", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 36:25; Zechariah 12:1,9", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Joy occasioned by conversion of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:23", "verse_text": "Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel." }, { "point_text": "Joy occasioned by conversion of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:13; 52:8; 66:10", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Blessing to the Gentiles by conversion of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:1-5", "verse_text": "The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. ..." }, { "point_text": "Blessing to the Gentiles by conversion of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:5; 66:19; Romans 11:12,15", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Re-union of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:18", "verse_text": "In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers." }, { "point_text": "Re-union of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 37:16-17,20-22; Hosea 1:11; Micah 2:12", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Restoration to their own land", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:15", "verse_text": "And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod." }, { "point_text": "Restoration to their own land", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:1-3; 27:12-13", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Restoration to their own land", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 36:24", "verse_text": "For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land." }, { "point_text": "Restoration to their own land", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 37:21; 39:25,28", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Gentiles assisting in their restoration", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:22", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders." }, { "point_text": "Gentiles assisting in their restoration", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:10; 61:4-6", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Subjection of Gentiles to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:11-12", "verse_text": "Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought. 12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted." }, { "point_text": "Subjection of Gentiles to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:14", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Future glory of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:19", "verse_text": "The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory." }, { "point_text": "Future glory of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 62:3-4", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Future prosperity of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:6-7", "verse_text": "The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD. 7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory." }, { "point_text": "Future prosperity of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:9; 61:4-6; Hosea 14:5-6", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "That Christ shall appear amongst", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:20", "verse_text": "And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "That Christ shall appear amongst", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 14:4", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "That Christ shall dwell amongst", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 43:7", "verse_text": "And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places." }, { "point_text": "That Christ shall dwell amongst", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 43:9", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "That Christ shall reign over", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 34:23", "verse_text": "And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd." }, { "point_text": "That Christ shall reign over", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 37:24-25", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Conversion of, illustrated", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 37:1-14", "verse_text": "The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, 2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. 4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. ..." }, { "point_text": "Conversion of, illustrated", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:24", "verse_text": "Also ." } ] }, { "name": "Jordan, The River", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Jordan-The-River.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Eastern boundary of Canaan", "verse_ref": "Numbers 34:12", "verse_text": "And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about." }, { "point_text": "Often overflowed", "verse_ref": "Joshua 3:15", "verse_text": "And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,)" }, { "point_text": "Often overflowed", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:15", "verse_text": "These are they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west." }, { "point_text": "Overflowing of, called the swelling of Jordan", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 12:5", "verse_text": "If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?" }, { "point_text": "Overflowing of, called the swelling of Jordan", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:19", "verse_text": "Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?" }, { "point_text": "Empties itself into the Dead Sea", "verse_ref": "Numbers 34:12", "verse_text": "And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about." }, { "point_text": "THE PLAINS OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Thickly wooded", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:2", "verse_text": "Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye." }, { "point_text": "Exceeding fertile", "verse_ref": "Genesis 13:10", "verse_text": "And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar." }, { "point_text": "Infested with lions", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:19", "verse_text": "Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?" }, { "point_text": "Infested with lions", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:44", "verse_text": "Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?" }, { "point_text": "Afforded clay for molding brass, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 7:46", "verse_text": "In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan." }, { "point_text": "Afforded clay for molding brass, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 4:17", "verse_text": "In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah." }, { "point_text": "Chosen by Lot for a residence", "verse_ref": "Genesis 13:11", "verse_text": "Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other." }, { "point_text": "Fordable in some places", "verse_ref": "Joshua 2:7", "verse_text": "And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the fords: and as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate." }, { "point_text": "Fordable in some places", "verse_ref": "Judges 12:5-6", "verse_text": "And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; 6 Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand." }, { "point_text": "Ferry boats often used on", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 19:18", "verse_text": "And there went over a ferry boat to carry over the king's household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was come over Jordan;" }, { "point_text": "REMARKABLE EVENTS CONNECTED WITH;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Division of its waters to let Israel pass over", "verse_ref": "Joshua 3:12-16", "verse_text": "Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man. 13 And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon an heap. 14 And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people; 15 And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,) ..." }, { "point_text": "Division of its waters to let Israel pass over", "verse_ref": "Joshua 5:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Return of its waters to their place", "verse_ref": "Joshua 4:18", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all his banks, as they did before." }, { "point_text": "Slaughter of Moabites", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:28-29", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over. 29 And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man." }, { "point_text": "Slaughter of the Ephraimites", "verse_ref": "Judges 12:4-6", "verse_text": "Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites. 5 And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; 6 Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand." }, { "point_text": "Its division by Elijah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 2:8", "verse_text": "And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground." }, { "point_text": "Its division by Elisha", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 2:14", "verse_text": "And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over." }, { "point_text": "Healing of Naaman the leper", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:10", "verse_text": "And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean." }, { "point_text": "Healing of Naaman the leper", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:14", "verse_text": "Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean." }, { "point_text": "Baptism of multitudes by John the Baptist", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:6", "verse_text": "And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins." }, { "point_text": "Baptism of multitudes by John the Baptist", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:5", "verse_text": "And there went out unto him all the land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins." }, { "point_text": "Baptism of multitudes by John the Baptist", "verse_ref": "John 1:28", "verse_text": "These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing." }, { "point_text": "Baptism of our Lord", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:13", "verse_text": "Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him." }, { "point_text": "Baptism of our Lord", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:15", "verse_text": "And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him." }, { "point_text": "PASSAGE OF ISRAEL OVER,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Promised", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:22", "verse_text": "But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land." }, { "point_text": "Promised", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:1", "verse_text": "Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven," }, { "point_text": "Promised", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:31", "verse_text": "For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein." }, { "point_text": "In an appointed order", "verse_ref": "Joshua 3:1-8", "verse_text": "And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over. 2 And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went through the host; 3 And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it. 4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed this way heretofore. ..." }, { "point_text": "Preceded by priests with the ark", "verse_ref": "Joshua 3:6", "verse_text": "And Joshua spake unto the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people." }, { "point_text": "Preceded by priests with the ark", "verse_ref": "Joshua 3:11", "verse_text": "Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passeth over before you into Jordan." }, { "point_text": "Preceded by priests with the ark", "verse_ref": "Joshua 3:14", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people;" }, { "point_text": "Successfully effected", "verse_ref": "Joshua 3:17-4:1", "verse_text": "And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan. 1 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying," }, { "point_text": "Successfully effected", "verse_ref": "Joshua 4:10-11", "verse_text": "For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until every thing was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over. 11 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests, in the presence of the people." }, { "point_text": "Commemorated by a pillar of stones raised in it", "verse_ref": "Joshua 4:9", "verse_text": "And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Commemorated by a pillar of stones in Gilgal", "verse_ref": "Joshua 4:2-8", "verse_text": "Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man, 3 And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night. 4 Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man: 5 And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of Jordan, and take ye up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel: ..." }, { "point_text": "Commemorated by a pillar of stones in Gilgal", "verse_ref": "Joshua 4:20-24", "verse_text": "And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal. 21 And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones? 22 Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. 23 For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over: ..." }, { "point_text": "Alluded to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:15", "verse_text": "Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers." }, { "point_text": "Alluded to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 114:3", "verse_text": "The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back." }, { "point_text": "Alluded to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 114:5", "verse_text": "What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?" }, { "point_text": "A pledge that God would drive the Canaanites, &c. out of their land", "verse_ref": "Joshua 3:10", "verse_text": "And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites." }, { "point_text": "The Jews had great pride in", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 11:3", "verse_text": "There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled." }, { "point_text": "Despised by foreigners", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:12", "verse_text": "Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage." }, { "point_text": "Moses not allowed to cross", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 3:27", "verse_text": "Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan." }, { "point_text": "Moses not allowed to cross", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 31:2", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan." } ] }, { "name": "Joy", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Joy.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "God gives", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:26", "verse_text": "For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit." }, { "point_text": "God gives", "verse_ref": "Psalm 4:7", "verse_text": "Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased." }, { "point_text": "Christ appointed to give", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:3", "verse_text": "To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified." }, { "point_text": "Is a fruit of the Spirit", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:22", "verse_text": "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith," }, { "point_text": "The gospel, good tidings of", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:10-11", "verse_text": "And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." }, { "point_text": "God's word affords", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:12", "verse_text": "And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them." }, { "point_text": "God's word affords", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 15:16", "verse_text": "Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts." }, { "point_text": "The gospel to be received with", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 1:6", "verse_text": "And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:" }, { "point_text": "Promised to saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 132:16", "verse_text": "I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy." }, { "point_text": "Promised to saints", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 35:10", "verse_text": "And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away." }, { "point_text": "Promised to saints", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 55:12", "verse_text": "For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands." }, { "point_text": "Promised to saints", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:7", "verse_text": "Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people." }, { "point_text": "Prepared for saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 97:11", "verse_text": "Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart." }, { "point_text": "Enjoined to saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 32:11", "verse_text": "Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart." }, { "point_text": "Enjoined to saints", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:1", "verse_text": "Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe." }, { "point_text": "Fulness of, in God's presence", "verse_ref": "Psalm 16:11", "verse_text": "Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore." }, { "point_text": "Vanity of seeking, from earthly things", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:10", "verse_text": "And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour." }, { "point_text": "Vanity of seeking, from earthly things", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 11:8", "verse_text": "But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity." }, { "point_text": "EXPERIENCED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Believers", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:52", "verse_text": "And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy:" }, { "point_text": "Believers", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:34", "verse_text": "And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house." }, { "point_text": "Peace-makers", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:20", "verse_text": "Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellers of peace is joy." }, { "point_text": "The just", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:15", "verse_text": "It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity." }, { "point_text": "The wise, and discreet", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:23", "verse_text": "A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!" }, { "point_text": "Parents of good children", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:24", "verse_text": "The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him." }, { "point_text": "Increased to the meek", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 29:19", "verse_text": "The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel." }, { "point_text": "OF SAINTS IS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:16", "verse_text": "In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted." }, { "point_text": "In God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 149:2", "verse_text": "Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King." }, { "point_text": "In God", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 3:18", "verse_text": "Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation." }, { "point_text": "In God", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:11", "verse_text": "And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement." }, { "point_text": "In Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:47", "verse_text": "And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour." }, { "point_text": "In Christ", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:3", "verse_text": "For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh." }, { "point_text": "In the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Romans 14:17", "verse_text": "For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "For election", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:20", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven." }, { "point_text": "For salvation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 21:1", "verse_text": "The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!" }, { "point_text": "For salvation", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:10", "verse_text": "I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels." }, { "point_text": "For deliverance from bondage", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:43", "verse_text": "And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness:" }, { "point_text": "For deliverance from bondage", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:10-13", "verse_text": "Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. 11 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he. 12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. 13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow." }, { "point_text": "For manifestation of goodness", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:10", "verse_text": "And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people." }, { "point_text": "For temporal blessings", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:23-24", "verse_text": "Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. 24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil." }, { "point_text": "For supplies of grace", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 12:3", "verse_text": "Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation." }, { "point_text": "For divine protection", "verse_ref": "Psalm 5:11", "verse_text": "But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee." }, { "point_text": "For divine protection", "verse_ref": "Psalm 16:8-9", "verse_text": "I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. 9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope." }, { "point_text": "For divine support", "verse_ref": "Psalm 28:7", "verse_text": "The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him." }, { "point_text": "For divine support", "verse_ref": "Psalm 63:7", "verse_text": "Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice." }, { "point_text": "For the victory of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 16:33", "verse_text": "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." }, { "point_text": "For the hope of glory", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:2", "verse_text": "By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God." }, { "point_text": "For the success of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:3", "verse_text": "And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren." }, { "point_text": "OF SAINTS SHOULD BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Great", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:9", "verse_text": "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass." }, { "point_text": "Great", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:8", "verse_text": "And there was great joy in that city." }, { "point_text": "Abundant", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:2", "verse_text": "How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality." }, { "point_text": "Exceeding", "verse_ref": "Psalm 21:6", "verse_text": "For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance." }, { "point_text": "Exceeding", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:3", "verse_text": "But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice." }, { "point_text": "Animated", "verse_ref": "Psalm 32:11", "verse_text": "Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart." }, { "point_text": "Animated", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:23", "verse_text": "Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets." }, { "point_text": "Unspeakable", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:8", "verse_text": "Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:" }, { "point_text": "Full of glory", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:8", "verse_text": "Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:" }, { "point_text": "Constant", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:10", "verse_text": "As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things." }, { "point_text": "Constant", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:4", "verse_text": "Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice." }, { "point_text": "For evermore", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:16", "verse_text": "Rejoice evermore." }, { "point_text": "With awe", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:11", "verse_text": "Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling." }, { "point_text": "In hope", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:12", "verse_text": "Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;" }, { "point_text": "In sorrow", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:10", "verse_text": "As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things." }, { "point_text": "Under trials", "verse_ref": "James 1:2", "verse_text": "My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;" }, { "point_text": "Under trials", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:6", "verse_text": "Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:" }, { "point_text": "Under persecutions", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:11-12", "verse_text": "Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you." }, { "point_text": "Under calamities", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 3:17-18", "verse_text": "Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: 18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation." }, { "point_text": "Expressed in hymns", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:19", "verse_text": "Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;" }, { "point_text": "Expressed in hymns", "verse_ref": "James 5:13", "verse_text": "Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms." }, { "point_text": "Afflictions of saints succeeded by", "verse_ref": "Psalm 30:5", "verse_text": "For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." }, { "point_text": "Afflictions of saints succeeded by", "verse_ref": "Psalm 126:5", "verse_text": "They that sow in tears shall reap in joy." }, { "point_text": "Afflictions of saints succeeded by", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 35:10", "verse_text": "And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away." }, { "point_text": "Afflictions of saints succeeded by", "verse_ref": "John 16:20", "verse_text": "Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy." }, { "point_text": "Pray for restoration of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:8", "verse_text": "Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice." }, { "point_text": "Pray for restoration of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 85:6", "verse_text": "Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?" }, { "point_text": "Promote, in the afflicted", "verse_ref": "Job 29:13", "verse_text": "The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy." }, { "point_text": "OF SAINTS, MADE FULL BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The favor of God", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:28", "verse_text": "Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance." }, { "point_text": "Faith in Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:13", "verse_text": "Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Abiding in Christ", "verse_ref": "John 15:10-11", "verse_text": "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. 11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full." }, { "point_text": "The word of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 17:13", "verse_text": "And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves." }, { "point_text": "Answers to prayer", "verse_ref": "John 16:24", "verse_text": "Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full." }, { "point_text": "Communion of saints", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:4", "verse_text": "Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;" }, { "point_text": "Communion of saints", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:3-4", "verse_text": "That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. 4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full." }, { "point_text": "Communion of saints", "verse_ref": "2 John 12", "verse_text": "Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full." }, { "point_text": "Saints should afford, to their ministers", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:2", "verse_text": "Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind." }, { "point_text": "Saints should afford, to their ministers", "verse_ref": "Philemon 20", "verse_text": "Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord." }, { "point_text": "MINISTERS SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Esteem their people as their", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:1", "verse_text": "Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved." }, { "point_text": "Esteem their people as their", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:20", "verse_text": "For ye are our glory and joy." }, { "point_text": "Promote, in their people", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:24", "verse_text": "Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand." }, { "point_text": "Promote, in their people", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:25", "verse_text": "And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;" }, { "point_text": "Pray for, for their people", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:13", "verse_text": "Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Have, in the faith and holiness of their people", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 7:4", "verse_text": "Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation." }, { "point_text": "Have, in the faith and holiness of their people", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 3:9", "verse_text": "For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;" }, { "point_text": "Have, in the faith and holiness of their people", "verse_ref": "3 John 4", "verse_text": "I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth." }, { "point_text": "Come to their people with", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:32", "verse_text": "That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed." }, { "point_text": "Finish their course with", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:24", "verse_text": "But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God." }, { "point_text": "Desire to render an account with", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:16", "verse_text": "Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain." }, { "point_text": "Desire to render an account with", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:17", "verse_text": "Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you." }, { "point_text": "Serve God with", "verse_ref": "Psalm 100:2", "verse_text": "Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing." }, { "point_text": "Liberality in God's service should cause", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:9", "verse_text": "Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy." }, { "point_text": "Liberality in God's service should cause", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:17", "verse_text": "I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Is strengthening to saints", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:10", "verse_text": "Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength." }, { "point_text": "Saints should engage in all religious services with", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:22", "verse_text": "And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Saints should engage in all religious services with", "verse_ref": "Psalm 42:4", "verse_text": "When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday." }, { "point_text": "Saints should have, in all their undertakings", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:18", "verse_text": "But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto." }, { "point_text": "Saints shall be presented to God with exceeding", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:13", "verse_text": "But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy." }, { "point_text": "Saints shall be presented to God with exceeding", "verse_ref": "Jude 24", "verse_text": "Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy," }, { "point_text": "The coming of Christ will afford to saints, exceeding", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:13", "verse_text": "But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy." }, { "point_text": "Shall be the final reward of saints at the judgment-day", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:21", "verse_text": "His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord." }, { "point_text": "OF THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Is derived from earthly pleasures", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:10", "verse_text": "And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour." }, { "point_text": "Is derived from earthly pleasures", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 11:9", "verse_text": "Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment." }, { "point_text": "Is derived from folly", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:21", "verse_text": "Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly." }, { "point_text": "Is delusive", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:13", "verse_text": "Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness." }, { "point_text": "Is short-lived", "verse_ref": "Job 20:5", "verse_text": "That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?" }, { "point_text": "Is short-lived", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 7:6", "verse_text": "For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity." }, { "point_text": "Should be turned into mourning", "verse_ref": "James 4:9", "verse_text": "Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness." }, { "point_text": "Shall be taken away", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 16:10", "verse_text": "And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease." }, { "point_text": "Holy--Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:3", "verse_text": "Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil." }, { "point_text": "Holy--Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:44", "verse_text": "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field." }, { "point_text": "Holy--Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nWise men, \nThe Virgin Mary, \nZaccheus, \nConverts, \n\nPeter, &c. \nSamaritans, \nJailor,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:1", "verse_text": "And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation." }, { "point_text": "Holy--Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nWise men, \nThe Virgin Mary, \nZaccheus, \nConverts, \n\nPeter, &c. \nSamaritans, \nJailor,", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:9", "verse_text": "Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy." }, { "point_text": "Holy--Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nWise men, \nThe Virgin Mary, \nZaccheus, \nConverts, \n\nPeter, &c. \nSamaritans, \nJailor,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:10", "verse_text": "When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy." }, { "point_text": "Holy--Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nWise men, \nThe Virgin Mary, \nZaccheus, \nConverts, \n\nPeter, &c. \nSamaritans, \nJailor,", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:47", "verse_text": "And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour." }, { "point_text": "Holy--Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nWise men, \nThe Virgin Mary, \nZaccheus, \nConverts, \n\nPeter, &c. \nSamaritans, \nJailor,", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:6", "verse_text": "And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully." }, { "point_text": "Holy--Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nWise men, \nThe Virgin Mary, \nZaccheus, \nConverts, \n\nPeter, &c. \nSamaritans, \nJailor,", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:46", "verse_text": "And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart," }, { "point_text": "Holy--Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nWise men, \nThe Virgin Mary, \nZaccheus, \nConverts, \n\nPeter, &c. \nSamaritans, \nJailor,", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:52", "verse_text": "And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Holy--Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nWise men, \nThe Virgin Mary, \nZaccheus, \nConverts, \n\nPeter, &c. \nSamaritans, \nJailor,", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:41", "verse_text": "And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name." }, { "point_text": "Holy--Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nWise men, \nThe Virgin Mary, \nZaccheus, \nConverts, \n\nPeter, &c. \nSamaritans, \nJailor,", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:8", "verse_text": "And there was great joy in that city." }, { "point_text": "Holy--Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nWise men, \nThe Virgin Mary, \nZaccheus, \nConverts, \n\nPeter, &c. \nSamaritans, \nJailor,", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:34", "verse_text": "And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house." } ] }, { "name": "Judah, The Tribe of", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Judah-The-Tribe-of.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Descended from Jacob's fourth son", "verse_ref": "Genesis 29:35", "verse_text": "And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing." }, { "point_text": "Predictions respecting", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:8-12", "verse_text": "Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee. 9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? 10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. 11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: ..." }, { "point_text": "Predictions respecting", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:7", "verse_text": "And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies." }, { "point_text": "PERSONS SELECTED FROM,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To number the people", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:7", "verse_text": "Of Judah; Nahshon the son of Amminadab." }, { "point_text": "To spy out the land", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:6", "verse_text": "Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh." }, { "point_text": "To divide the land", "verse_ref": "Numbers 34:19", "verse_text": "And the names of the men are these: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh." }, { "point_text": "Strength of, on leaving Egypt", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:26", "verse_text": "Of the children of Judah, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;" }, { "point_text": "Strength of, on leaving Egypt", "verse_ref": "Numbers 2:4", "verse_text": "And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred." }, { "point_text": "Encamped with its standard east of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 2:3", "verse_text": "And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah." }, { "point_text": "Led the first division of Israel in their journeys", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:14", "verse_text": "In the first place went the standard of the camp of the children of Judah according to their armies: and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab." }, { "point_text": "Offering of, at dedication", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:12-17", "verse_text": "And he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah: 13 And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: 14 One spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense: 15 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: ..." }, { "point_text": "Families of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:19-21", "verse_text": "The sons of Judah were Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. 20 And the sons of Judah after their families were; of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family of the Pharzites: of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites. 21 And the sons of Pharez were; of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites." }, { "point_text": "Strength of on entering Canaan", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:22", "verse_text": "These are the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred." }, { "point_text": "On Gerizim said amen to the blessings", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 27:12", "verse_text": "These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:" }, { "point_text": "Bounds of inheritance", "verse_ref": "Joshua 15:1-12", "verse_text": "This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast. 2 And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward: 3 And it went out to the south side to Maalehacrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadeshbarnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa: 4 From thence it passed toward Azmon, and went out unto the river of Egypt; and the goings out of that coast were at the sea: this shall be your south coast. ..." }, { "point_text": "First and most vigorous in driving out the Canaanites", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:3-20", "verse_text": "And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him. 4 And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men. 5 And they found Adonibezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites. 6 But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. ..." }, { "point_text": "Went first against Gibeah", "verse_ref": "Judges 20:18", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah shall go up first." }, { "point_text": "Furnished to Israel the first judge", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:9", "verse_text": "And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother." }, { "point_text": "Aided Saul in his wars", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 11:8", "verse_text": "And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand." }, { "point_text": "Aided Saul in his wars", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:4", "verse_text": "And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah." }, { "point_text": "After Saul's rebellion appointed to furnish kings to Israel", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:14", "verse_text": "But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee." }, { "point_text": "After Saul's rebellion appointed to furnish kings to Israel", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:28", "verse_text": "And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, that is better than thou." }, { "point_text": "After Saul's rebellion appointed to furnish kings to Israel", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 16:6", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD'S anointed is before him." }, { "point_text": "After Saul's rebellion appointed to furnish kings to Israel", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 16:13", "verse_text": "Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah." }, { "point_text": "After Saul's rebellion appointed to furnish kings to Israel", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 2:4", "verse_text": "And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, That the men of Jabeshgilead were they that buried Saul." }, { "point_text": "After Saul's rebellion appointed to furnish kings to Israel", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:16-17", "verse_text": "And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever. 17 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David." }, { "point_text": "The first to submit to David", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 2:10", "verse_text": "Ishbosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David." }, { "point_text": "Reigned over alone by David seven years and a half", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 2:11", "verse_text": "And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months." }, { "point_text": "Reigned over alone by David seven years and a half", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 5:5", "verse_text": "In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah." }, { "point_text": "Officer placed over by David", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:18", "verse_text": "Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brethren of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael:" }, { "point_text": "Reproved for tardiness in bringing back David after Absalom's rebellion", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 19:11-15", "verse_text": "And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, even to his house. 12 Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king? 13 And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab. 14 And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the heart of one man; so that they sent this word unto the king, Return thou, and all thy servants. ..." }, { "point_text": "Other tribes jealous of, on account of David", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 19:41-42", "verse_text": "And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said unto the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and have brought the king, and his household, and all David's men with him, over Jordan? 42 And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all of the king's cost? or hath he given us any gift?" }, { "point_text": "Other tribes jealous of, on account of David", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 20:1-2", "verse_text": "And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel. 2 So every man of Israel went up from after David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "With Benjamin alone, adhered to the house of David", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:21", "verse_text": "And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon." }, { "point_text": "The last tribe carried into captivity", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:18", "verse_text": "Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only." }, { "point_text": "The last tribe carried into captivity", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:21", "verse_text": "And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land." }, { "point_text": "Out Lord sprang from", "verse_ref": "Matthew 1:3-16", "verse_text": "And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram; 4 And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon; 5 And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse; 6 And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias; ..." }, { "point_text": "Out Lord sprang from", "verse_ref": "Luke 3:23-33", "verse_text": "And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli, 24 Which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Janna, which was the son of Joseph, 25 Which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Amos, which was the son of Naum, which was the son of Esli, which was the son of Nagge, 26 Which was the son of Maath, which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Semei, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Juda, ..." }, { "point_text": "Out Lord sprang from", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:14", "verse_text": "For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nAchan, \nElimelech, \nBoaz, \nObed, \nJesse, \n\nDavid, \n\nSolomon, \nElihu, \nPethahiah, \nBezaleel, \n\nNahshon, \nCaleb, \nAbsalom, \nElhanan, \n\nAdonijah, \nJonathan, \nKings of Judah, 1st and 2nd Books of Kings", "verse_ref": "Joshua 7:18", "verse_text": "And he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nAchan, \nElimelech, \nBoaz, \nObed, \nJesse, \n\nDavid, \n\nSolomon, \nElihu, \nPethahiah, \nBezaleel, \n\nNahshon, \nCaleb, \nAbsalom, \nElhanan, \n\nAdonijah, \nJonathan, \nKings of Judah, 1st and 2nd Books of Kings", "verse_ref": "Ruth 1:1-2", "verse_text": "Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. 2 And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehemjudah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nAchan, \nElimelech, \nBoaz, \nObed, \nJesse, \n\nDavid, \n\nSolomon, \nElihu, \nPethahiah, \nBezaleel, \n\nNahshon, \nCaleb, \nAbsalom, \nElhanan, \n\nAdonijah, \nJonathan, \nKings of Judah, 1st and 2nd Books of Kings", "verse_ref": "Ruth 2:1", "verse_text": "And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nAchan, \nElimelech, \nBoaz, \nObed, \nJesse, \n\nDavid, \n\nSolomon, \nElihu, \nPethahiah, \nBezaleel, \n\nNahshon, \nCaleb, \nAbsalom, \nElhanan, \n\nAdonijah, \nJonathan, \nKings of Judah, 1st and 2nd Books of Kings", "verse_ref": "Ruth 4:21", "verse_text": "And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed," }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nAchan, \nElimelech, \nBoaz, \nObed, \nJesse, \n\nDavid, \n\nSolomon, \nElihu, \nPethahiah, \nBezaleel, \n\nNahshon, \nCaleb, \nAbsalom, \nElhanan, \n\nAdonijah, \nJonathan, \nKings of Judah, 1st and 2nd Books of Kings", "verse_ref": "Ruth 4:22", "verse_text": "And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nAchan, \nElimelech, \nBoaz, \nObed, \nJesse, \n\nDavid, \n\nSolomon, \nElihu, \nPethahiah, \nBezaleel, \n\nNahshon, \nCaleb, \nAbsalom, \nElhanan, \n\nAdonijah, \nJonathan, \nKings of Judah, 1st and 2nd Books of Kings", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 16:1", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nAchan, \nElimelech, \nBoaz, \nObed, \nJesse, \n\nDavid, \n\nSolomon, \nElihu, \nPethahiah, \nBezaleel, \n\nNahshon, \nCaleb, \nAbsalom, \nElhanan, \n\nAdonijah, \nJonathan, \nKings of Judah, 1st and 2nd Books of Kings", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 16:1", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nAchan, \nElimelech, \nBoaz, \nObed, \nJesse, \n\nDavid, \n\nSolomon, \nElihu, \nPethahiah, \nBezaleel, \n\nNahshon, \nCaleb, \nAbsalom, \nElhanan, \n\nAdonijah, \nJonathan, \nKings of Judah, 1st and 2nd Books of Kings", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 16:13", "verse_text": "Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nAchan, \nElimelech, \nBoaz, \nObed, \nJesse, \n\nDavid, \n\nSolomon, \nElihu, \nPethahiah, \nBezaleel, \n\nNahshon, \nCaleb, \nAbsalom, \nElhanan, \n\nAdonijah, \nJonathan, \nKings of Judah, 1st and 2nd Books of Kings", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:32-39", "verse_text": "And king David said, Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the king. 33 The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon: 34 And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel: and blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God save king Solomon. 35 Then ye shall come up after him, that he may come and sit upon my throne; for he shall be king in my stead: and I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah. ..." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nAchan, \nElimelech, \nBoaz, \nObed, \nJesse, \n\nDavid, \n\nSolomon, \nElihu, \nPethahiah, \nBezaleel, \n\nNahshon, \nCaleb, \nAbsalom, \nElhanan, \n\nAdonijah, \nJonathan, \nKings of Judah, 1st and 2nd Books of Kings", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:18", "verse_text": "Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brethren of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael:" }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nAchan, \nElimelech, \nBoaz, \nObed, \nJesse, \n\nDavid, \n\nSolomon, \nElihu, \nPethahiah, \nBezaleel, \n\nNahshon, \nCaleb, \nAbsalom, \nElhanan, \n\nAdonijah, \nJonathan, \nKings of Judah, 1st and 2nd Books of Kings", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 11:24", "verse_text": "And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabeel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king's hand in all matters concerning the people." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nAchan, \nElimelech, \nBoaz, \nObed, \nJesse, \n\nDavid, \n\nSolomon, \nElihu, \nPethahiah, \nBezaleel, \n\nNahshon, \nCaleb, \nAbsalom, \nElhanan, \n\nAdonijah, \nJonathan, \nKings of Judah, 1st and 2nd Books of Kings", "verse_ref": "Exodus 31:2", "verse_text": "See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:" }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nAchan, \nElimelech, \nBoaz, \nObed, \nJesse, \n\nDavid, \n\nSolomon, \nElihu, \nPethahiah, \nBezaleel, \n\nNahshon, \nCaleb, \nAbsalom, \nElhanan, \n\nAdonijah, \nJonathan, \nKings of Judah, 1st and 2nd Books of Kings", "verse_ref": "Exodus 35:30", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the LORD hath called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;" }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nAchan, \nElimelech, \nBoaz, \nObed, \nJesse, \n\nDavid, \n\nSolomon, \nElihu, \nPethahiah, \nBezaleel, \n\nNahshon, \nCaleb, \nAbsalom, \nElhanan, \n\nAdonijah, \nJonathan, \nKings of Judah, 1st and 2nd Books of Kings", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:12", "verse_text": "And he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:" }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nAchan, \nElimelech, \nBoaz, \nObed, \nJesse, \n\nDavid, \n\nSolomon, \nElihu, \nPethahiah, \nBezaleel, \n\nNahshon, \nCaleb, \nAbsalom, \nElhanan, \n\nAdonijah, \nJonathan, \nKings of Judah, 1st and 2nd Books of Kings", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:24", "verse_text": "But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nAchan, \nElimelech, \nBoaz, \nObed, \nJesse, \n\nDavid, \n\nSolomon, \nElihu, \nPethahiah, \nBezaleel, \n\nNahshon, \nCaleb, \nAbsalom, \nElhanan, \n\nAdonijah, \nJonathan, \nKings of Judah, 1st and 2nd Books of Kings", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 15:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nAchan, \nElimelech, \nBoaz, \nObed, \nJesse, \n\nDavid, \n\nSolomon, \nElihu, \nPethahiah, \nBezaleel, \n\nNahshon, \nCaleb, \nAbsalom, \nElhanan, \n\nAdonijah, \nJonathan, \nKings of Judah, 1st and 2nd Books of Kings", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 21:19", "verse_text": "And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nAchan, \nElimelech, \nBoaz, \nObed, \nJesse, \n\nDavid, \n\nSolomon, \nElihu, \nPethahiah, \nBezaleel, \n\nNahshon, \nCaleb, \nAbsalom, \nElhanan, \n\nAdonijah, \nJonathan, \nKings of Judah, 1st and 2nd Books of Kings", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 23:24", "verse_text": "Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem," }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nAchan, \nElimelech, \nBoaz, \nObed, \nJesse, \n\nDavid, \n\nSolomon, \nElihu, \nPethahiah, \nBezaleel, \n\nNahshon, \nCaleb, \nAbsalom, \nElhanan, \n\nAdonijah, \nJonathan, \nKings of Judah, 1st and 2nd Books of Kings", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:5-6", "verse_text": "Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. 6 And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of.\r\n\nAchan, \nElimelech, \nBoaz, \nObed, \nJesse, \n\nDavid, \n\nSolomon, \nElihu, \nPethahiah, \nBezaleel, \n\nNahshon, \nCaleb, \nAbsalom, \nElhanan, \n\nAdonijah, \nJonathan, \nKings of Judah, 1st and 2nd Books of Kings", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 21:21", "verse_text": "And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of David slew him." } ] }, { "name": "Joy of God over His People, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Joy-of-God-over-His-People-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Greatness of, described", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 3:17", "verse_text": "The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing." }, { "point_text": "ON ACCOUNT OF THEIR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Repentance", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:7", "verse_text": "I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance." }, { "point_text": "Repentance", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:10", "verse_text": "Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth." }, { "point_text": "Faith", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:5-6", "verse_text": "By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." }, { "point_text": "Fear of him", "verse_ref": "Psalm 147:11", "verse_text": "The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy." }, { "point_text": "Praying to Him", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:8", "verse_text": "The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight." }, { "point_text": "Hope in His mercy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 147:11", "verse_text": "The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy." }, { "point_text": "Meekness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 149:4", "verse_text": "For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation." }, { "point_text": "Uprightness", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:17", "verse_text": "I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Uprightness", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:20", "verse_text": "They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight." }, { "point_text": "LEADS HIM TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Prosper them", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 30:9", "verse_text": "And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:" }, { "point_text": "Do them good", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:63", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it." }, { "point_text": "Do them good", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 32:41", "verse_text": "Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul." }, { "point_text": "Deliver them", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 22:20", "verse_text": "He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me." }, { "point_text": "Comfort them", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:19", "verse_text": "And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying." }, { "point_text": "Give them the inheritance", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:8", "verse_text": "If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 62:5", "verse_text": "For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:23-24", "verse_text": "And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: 24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSolomon,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:9", "verse_text": "Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice." } ] }, { "name": "Judgment, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Judgment-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Predicted in the Old Testament", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:33", "verse_text": "Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to judge the earth." }, { "point_text": "Predicted in the Old Testament", "verse_ref": "Psalm 9:7", "verse_text": "But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment." }, { "point_text": "Predicted in the Old Testament", "verse_ref": "Psalm 96:13", "verse_text": "Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth." }, { "point_text": "Predicted in the Old Testament", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 3:17", "verse_text": "I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work." }, { "point_text": "A first principle of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:2", "verse_text": "Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment." }, { "point_text": "A day appointed for", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:31", "verse_text": "Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead." }, { "point_text": "A day appointed for", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:16", "verse_text": "In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel." }, { "point_text": "Time of, unknown to us", "verse_ref": "Mark 13:32", "verse_text": "But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father." }, { "point_text": "CALLED THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Day of wrath", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:5", "verse_text": "But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;" }, { "point_text": "Day of wrath", "verse_ref": "Revelation 6:17", "verse_text": "For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?" }, { "point_text": "Revelation of the righteous judgment of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:5", "verse_text": "But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;" }, { "point_text": "Day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:7", "verse_text": "But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men." }, { "point_text": "Day of destruction", "verse_ref": "Job 21:30", "verse_text": "That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath." }, { "point_text": "Judgment of the great day", "verse_ref": "Jude 6", "verse_text": "And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day." }, { "point_text": "Shall be administered by Christ", "verse_ref": "John 5:22", "verse_text": "For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:" }, { "point_text": "Shall be administered by Christ", "verse_ref": "John 5:27", "verse_text": "And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man." }, { "point_text": "Saints shall sit with Christ in", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:2", "verse_text": "Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?" }, { "point_text": "Saints shall sit with Christ in", "verse_ref": "Revelation 20:4", "verse_text": "And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years." }, { "point_text": "Shall take place at the coming of Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:31", "verse_text": "When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:" }, { "point_text": "Shall take place at the coming of Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:1", "verse_text": "I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;" }, { "point_text": "Of Heathens, by the law of conscience", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:12", "verse_text": "For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;" }, { "point_text": "Of Heathens, by the law of conscience", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:14-15", "verse_text": "For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: 15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)" }, { "point_text": "Of Jews, by the law of Moses", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:12", "verse_text": "For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;" }, { "point_text": "Of Christians, by the gospel", "verse_ref": "James 2:12", "verse_text": "So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty." }, { "point_text": "SHALL BE HELD UPON", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "All nations", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:32", "verse_text": "And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:" }, { "point_text": "All men", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:27", "verse_text": "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:" }, { "point_text": "All men", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:23", "verse_text": "To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect," }, { "point_text": "Small and great", "verse_ref": "Revelation 20:12", "verse_text": "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works." }, { "point_text": "The righteous and wicked", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 3:17", "verse_text": "I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work." }, { "point_text": "Quick and dead", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:1", "verse_text": "I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;" }, { "point_text": "Quick and dead", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:5", "verse_text": "Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead." }, { "point_text": "Shall be in righteousness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 98:9", "verse_text": "Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity." }, { "point_text": "Shall be in righteousness", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:31", "verse_text": "Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead." }, { "point_text": "The books shall be opened at", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:10", "verse_text": "A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened." }, { "point_text": "SHALL BE OF ALL", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Actions", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 11:9", "verse_text": "Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment." }, { "point_text": "Actions", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 12:14", "verse_text": "For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil." }, { "point_text": "Actions", "verse_ref": "Revelation 20:13", "verse_text": "And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works." }, { "point_text": "Words", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:36-37", "verse_text": "But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. 37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned." }, { "point_text": "Thoughts", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 12:14", "verse_text": "For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil." }, { "point_text": "Thoughts", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 4:5", "verse_text": "Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God." }, { "point_text": "None, by nature can stand in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 130:3", "verse_text": "If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?" }, { "point_text": "None, by nature can stand in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 143:2", "verse_text": "And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified." }, { "point_text": "None, by nature can stand in", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:19", "verse_text": "Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God." }, { "point_text": "Saints shall, through Christ, be enabled to stand in", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:33-34", "verse_text": "Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. 34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us." }, { "point_text": "Christ will acknowledge saints at", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:34-40", "verse_text": "Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: 36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. 37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? ..." }, { "point_text": "Christ will acknowledge saints at", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:5", "verse_text": "He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels." }, { "point_text": "Perfect love will give boldness in", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:17", "verse_text": "Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world." }, { "point_text": "Saints shall be rewarded at", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:8", "verse_text": "Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing." }, { "point_text": "Saints shall be rewarded at", "verse_ref": "Revelation 11:18", "verse_text": "And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth." }, { "point_text": "The wicked shall be condemned in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:22", "verse_text": "Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?" }, { "point_text": "The wicked shall be condemned in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:41", "verse_text": "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:" }, { "point_text": "Final punishment of the wicked will succeed", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:40-42", "verse_text": "As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. 41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; 42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." }, { "point_text": "Final punishment of the wicked will succeed", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:46", "verse_text": "And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal." }, { "point_text": "The word of Christ shall be a witness against the wicked in", "verse_ref": "John 12:48", "verse_text": "He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day." }, { "point_text": "THE CERTAINTY OF, A MOTIVE TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Repentance", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:30-31", "verse_text": "And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: 31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead." }, { "point_text": "Faith", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:16-17", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. 17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place." }, { "point_text": "Holiness", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:9-10", "verse_text": "Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad." }, { "point_text": "Holiness", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:11", "verse_text": "Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness," }, { "point_text": "Holiness", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:14", "verse_text": "Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless." }, { "point_text": "Prayer and watchfulness", "verse_ref": "Mark 13:33", "verse_text": "Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is." }, { "point_text": "Warn the wicked of", "verse_ref": "Acts 24:25", "verse_text": "And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee." }, { "point_text": "Warn the wicked of", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:11", "verse_text": "Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences." }, { "point_text": "The wicked dread", "verse_ref": "Acts 24:25", "verse_text": "And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee." }, { "point_text": "The wicked dread", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:27", "verse_text": "But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries." }, { "point_text": "Neglected advantages increase condemnation at", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:20-24", "verse_text": "Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not: 21 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you. 23 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. ..." }, { "point_text": "Neglected advantages increase condemnation at", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:31-32", "verse_text": "The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here. 32 The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here." }, { "point_text": "Devils shall be condemned at", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:4", "verse_text": "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;" }, { "point_text": "Devils shall be condemned at", "verse_ref": "Jude 6", "verse_text": "And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day." } ] }, { "name": "Judges, Extraordinary", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Judges-Extraordinary.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Raised up to deliver Israel", "verse_ref": "Judges 2:16", "verse_text": "Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them." }, { "point_text": "Upheld and strengthened by God", "verse_ref": "Judges 2:18", "verse_text": "And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable for their faith", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:32", "verse_text": "And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:" }, { "point_text": "NAMES OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Othniel", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:9-10", "verse_text": "And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother. 10 And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushanrishathaim." }, { "point_text": "Ehud", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:15", "verse_text": "But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab." }, { "point_text": "Shamgar", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:31", "verse_text": "And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel." }, { "point_text": "Deborah", "verse_ref": "Judges 4:4", "verse_text": "And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time." }, { "point_text": "Gideon", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:11", "verse_text": "And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites." }, { "point_text": "Abimelech", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:6", "verse_text": "And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that was in Shechem." }, { "point_text": "Tola", "verse_ref": "Judges 10:1", "verse_text": "And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim." }, { "point_text": "Jair", "verse_ref": "Judges 10:3", "verse_text": "And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years." }, { "point_text": "Jephthah", "verse_ref": "Judges 11:1", "verse_text": "Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah." }, { "point_text": "Ibzan", "verse_ref": "Judges 12:8", "verse_text": "And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel." }, { "point_text": "Elon", "verse_ref": "Judges 12:11", "verse_text": "And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years." }, { "point_text": "Abdon", "verse_ref": "Judges 12:13", "verse_text": "And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel." }, { "point_text": "Samson", "verse_ref": "Judges 13:24", "verse_text": "And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him." }, { "point_text": "Samson", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:31", "verse_text": "Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years." }, { "point_text": "Eli", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 4:18", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years." }, { "point_text": "Samuel", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 7:6", "verse_text": "And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh." }, { "point_text": "Samuel", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 7:15-17", "verse_text": "And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life. 16 And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places. 17 And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "During four hundred and fifty years", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:20", "verse_text": "And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet." }, { "point_text": "Not without intermission", "verse_ref": "Judges 17:6", "verse_text": "In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes." }, { "point_text": "Not without intermission", "verse_ref": "Judges 18:1", "verse_text": "In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Not without intermission", "verse_ref": "Judges 19:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah." }, { "point_text": "Not without intermission", "verse_ref": "Judges 21:25", "verse_text": "In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes." }, { "point_text": "The office of, not always for life, or hereditary", "verse_ref": "Judges 8:23", "verse_text": "And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: the LORD shall rule over you." }, { "point_text": "The office of, not always for life, or hereditary", "verse_ref": "Judges 8:29", "verse_text": "And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house." }, { "point_text": "Israel not permanently or spiritually benefited by", "verse_ref": "Judges 2:17-19", "verse_text": "And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so. 18 And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them. 19 And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way." } ] }, { "name": "Judea, Modern", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Judea-Modern.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "One of the divisions of the Holy Land under the Romans", "verse_ref": "Luke 3:1", "verse_text": "Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene," }, { "point_text": "Comprised the whole of the ancient kingdom of Judah", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:21-24", "verse_text": "And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon. 22 But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying, 23 Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying, 24 Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The land of Judah", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:6", "verse_text": "And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel." }, { "point_text": "Jewry", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:13", "verse_text": "Then was Daniel brought in before the king. And the king spake and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry?" }, { "point_text": "Jewry", "verse_ref": "John 7:1", "verse_text": "After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him." }, { "point_text": "A mountainous district", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:39", "verse_text": "And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda;" }, { "point_text": "A mountainous district", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:65", "verse_text": "And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judaea." }, { "point_text": "Parts of, desert", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:1", "verse_text": "In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea," }, { "point_text": "Parts of, desert", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:26", "verse_text": "And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert." }, { "point_text": "Jerusalem the capital of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:25", "verse_text": "And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan." }, { "point_text": "TOWNS OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Arimathea", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:57", "verse_text": "When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple:" }, { "point_text": "Arimathea", "verse_ref": "John 19:38", "verse_text": "And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Azotus or Ashdod", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:40", "verse_text": "But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea." }, { "point_text": "Bethany", "verse_ref": "John 11:1", "verse_text": "Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha." }, { "point_text": "Bethany", "verse_ref": "John 11:18", "verse_text": "Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:" }, { "point_text": "Bethlehem", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:1", "verse_text": "Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem," }, { "point_text": "Bethlehem", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:6", "verse_text": "And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel." }, { "point_text": "Bethlehem", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:16", "verse_text": "Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men." }, { "point_text": "Bethphage", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:1", "verse_text": "And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples," }, { "point_text": "Emmaus", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:13", "verse_text": "And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs." }, { "point_text": "Ephraim", "verse_ref": "John 11:54", "verse_text": "Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples." }, { "point_text": "Gaza", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:26", "verse_text": "And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert." }, { "point_text": "Jericho", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:30", "verse_text": "And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead." }, { "point_text": "Jericho", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:1", "verse_text": "And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho." }, { "point_text": "Joppa", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:36", "verse_text": "Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did." }, { "point_text": "Joppa", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:5", "verse_text": "And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter:" }, { "point_text": "Joppa", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:8", "verse_text": "And when he had declared all these things unto them, he sent them to Joppa." }, { "point_text": "Lydda", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:32", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all quarters, he came down also to the saints which dwelt at Lydda." }, { "point_text": "Lydda", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:35", "verse_text": "And all that dwelt at Lydda and Saron saw him, and turned to the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Lydda", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:38", "verse_text": "And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent unto him two men, desiring him that he would not delay to come to them." }, { "point_text": "John the Baptist preached in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:1", "verse_text": "In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea," }, { "point_text": "OUR LORD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Born in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:1", "verse_text": "Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem," }, { "point_text": "Born in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:5-6", "verse_text": "And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet, 6 And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel." }, { "point_text": "Tempted in the wilderness of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:1", "verse_text": "Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil." }, { "point_text": "Frequently visited", "verse_ref": "John 11:7", "verse_text": "Then after that saith he to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea again." }, { "point_text": "Often left, to escape persecution", "verse_ref": "John 4:1-3", "verse_text": "When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, 2 (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,) 3 He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee." }, { "point_text": "Several Christian churches in", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:31", "verse_text": "Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied." }, { "point_text": "Several Christian churches in", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:14", "verse_text": "For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:" } ] }, { "name": "Justice", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Justice.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:20", "verse_text": "That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee." }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:1", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed." }, { "point_text": "Christ, an example of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 98:9", "verse_text": "Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity." }, { "point_text": "Christ, an example of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:4", "verse_text": "But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked." }, { "point_text": "Christ, an example of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:5", "verse_text": "Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth." }, { "point_text": "Specially required in rulers", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 23:3", "verse_text": "The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God." }, { "point_text": "Specially required in rulers", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 45:9", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "TO BE DONE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In executing judgment", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:18", "verse_text": "Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment." }, { "point_text": "In executing judgment", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 21:12", "verse_text": "O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings." }, { "point_text": "In buying and selling", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:36", "verse_text": "Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "In buying and selling", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 25:15", "verse_text": "But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee." }, { "point_text": "To the poor", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 29:14", "verse_text": "The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever." }, { "point_text": "To the poor", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:9", "verse_text": "Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy." }, { "point_text": "To the fatherless and widows", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:17", "verse_text": "Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow." }, { "point_text": "To servants", "verse_ref": "Colossians 4:1", "verse_text": "Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven." }, { "point_text": "Gifts impede", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:8", "verse_text": "And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous." }, { "point_text": "GOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Requires", "verse_ref": "Micah 6:8", "verse_text": "He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" }, { "point_text": "Sets the highest value on", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 2:13", "verse_text": "Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;" }, { "point_text": "Delights in", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:1", "verse_text": "A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight." }, { "point_text": "Gives wisdom to execute", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 3:11-12", "verse_text": "And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment; 12 Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Displeased with the want of", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 5:8", "verse_text": "If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they." }, { "point_text": "Brings its own reward", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 22:15", "verse_text": "Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?" }, { "point_text": "SAINTS SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Study the principles of", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:8", "verse_text": "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." }, { "point_text": "Receive instruction in", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:3", "verse_text": "To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;" }, { "point_text": "Pray for wisdom to execute", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 3:9", "verse_text": "Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?" }, { "point_text": "Always do", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:121", "verse_text": "AIN. I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors." }, { "point_text": "Always do", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 18:8-9", "verse_text": "He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man, 9 Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Take pleasure in doing", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:15", "verse_text": "It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Teach others to do", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:19", "verse_text": "For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him." }, { "point_text": "Promises to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:15-16", "verse_text": "He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; 16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Scorn", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:28", "verse_text": "An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Abhor", "verse_ref": "Micah 3:9", "verse_text": "Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity." }, { "point_text": "Call not for", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:4", "verse_text": "None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Banish", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:14", "verse_text": "And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter." }, { "point_text": "Pass over", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:42", "verse_text": "But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone." }, { "point_text": "Afflict those who act with", "verse_ref": "Job 12:4", "verse_text": "I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn." }, { "point_text": "Afflict those who act with", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:12", "verse_text": "For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMoses, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nSolomon, \nJosiah, \nJoseph, \nApostles,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:15", "verse_text": "And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMoses, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nSolomon, \nJosiah, \nJoseph, \nApostles,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 12:4", "verse_text": "And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMoses, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nSolomon, \nJosiah, \nJoseph, \nApostles,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:15", "verse_text": "And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and justice unto all his people." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMoses, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nSolomon, \nJosiah, \nJoseph, \nApostles,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 3:16-27", "verse_text": "Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him. 17 And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house. 18 And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house. 19 And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMoses, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nSolomon, \nJosiah, \nJoseph, \nApostles,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 22:15", "verse_text": "Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMoses, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nSolomon, \nJosiah, \nJoseph, \nApostles,", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:50-51", "verse_text": "And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counseller; and he was a good man, and a just: 51 (The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMoses, \nSamuel, \nDavid, \nSolomon, \nJosiah, \nJoseph, \nApostles,", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:10", "verse_text": "Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:" } ] }, { "name": "Justice of God, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Justice-of-God-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is a part of his character", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:4", "verse_text": "He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he." }, { "point_text": "Is a part of his character", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:21", "verse_text": "Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me." }, { "point_text": "DECLARED TO BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Plenteous", "verse_ref": "Job 37:23", "verse_text": "Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict." }, { "point_text": "Incomparable", "verse_ref": "Job 4:1", "verse_text": "Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said," }, { "point_text": "Incorruptible", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:17", "verse_text": "For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:" }, { "point_text": "Incorruptible", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 19:7", "verse_text": "Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts." }, { "point_text": "Impartial", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 19:7", "verse_text": "Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts." }, { "point_text": "Impartial", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 32:19", "verse_text": "Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:" }, { "point_text": "Unfailing", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 3:5", "verse_text": "The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame." }, { "point_text": "Undeviating", "verse_ref": "Job 8:3", "verse_text": "Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?" }, { "point_text": "Undeviating", "verse_ref": "Job 34:12", "verse_text": "Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment." }, { "point_text": "Without respect of persons", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:11", "verse_text": "For there is no respect of persons with God." }, { "point_text": "Without respect of persons", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:25", "verse_text": "But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons." }, { "point_text": "Without respect of persons", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:17", "verse_text": "And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:" }, { "point_text": "The habitation of His throne", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:14", "verse_text": "Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face." }, { "point_text": "Not to be sinned against", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:7", "verse_text": "All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers." }, { "point_text": "Denied by the ungodly", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 33:17", "verse_text": "Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal." }, { "point_text": "Denied by the ungodly", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 33:20", "verse_text": "Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways." }, { "point_text": "EXHIBITED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Forgiving sins", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:9", "verse_text": "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." }, { "point_text": "Redemption", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:26", "verse_text": "To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus." }, { "point_text": "His government", "verse_ref": "Psalm 9:4", "verse_text": "For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right." }, { "point_text": "His government", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:24", "verse_text": "But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "His judgments", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:25", "verse_text": "That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" }, { "point_text": "His judgments", "verse_ref": "Revelation 19:2", "verse_text": "For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand." }, { "point_text": "All His ways", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 18:25", "verse_text": "Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?" }, { "point_text": "All His ways", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 18:29", "verse_text": "Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?" }, { "point_text": "The final judgment", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:31", "verse_text": "Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead." }, { "point_text": "Acknowledge", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:4", "verse_text": "Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest." }, { "point_text": "Acknowledge", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:4", "verse_text": "God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged." }, { "point_text": "Magnify", "verse_ref": "Psalm 98:9", "verse_text": "Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity." }, { "point_text": "Magnify", "verse_ref": "Psalm 99:3-4", "verse_text": "Let them praise thy great and terrible name; for it is holy. 4 The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob." } ] }, { "name": "Judgments", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Judgments.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Are from God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:39", "verse_text": "See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand." }, { "point_text": "Are from God", "verse_ref": "Job 12:23", "verse_text": "He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again." }, { "point_text": "Are from God", "verse_ref": "Amos 3:6", "verse_text": "Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?" }, { "point_text": "Are from God", "verse_ref": "Micah 6:9", "verse_text": "The LORD'S voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it." }, { "point_text": "DIFFERENT KINDS OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Blotting out the name", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 29:20", "verse_text": "The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven." }, { "point_text": "Abandonment by God", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:17", "verse_text": "Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone." }, { "point_text": "Cursing men's blessings", "verse_ref": "Malachi 2:2", "verse_text": "If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart." }, { "point_text": "Pestilence", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:21-22", "verse_text": "The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it. 22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish." }, { "point_text": "Enemies", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:13", "verse_text": "So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me." }, { "point_text": "Famine", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:38-40", "verse_text": "Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it. 39 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. 40 Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit." }, { "point_text": "Famine", "verse_ref": "Amos 4:7-9", "verse_text": "And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered. 8 So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. 9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Famine of hearing the word", "verse_ref": "Amos 8:11", "verse_text": "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "The sword", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:24", "verse_text": "And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless." }, { "point_text": "The sword", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 19:7", "verse_text": "And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Captivity", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:41", "verse_text": "Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity." }, { "point_text": "Captivity", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 39:23", "verse_text": "And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword." }, { "point_text": "Continued sorrows", "verse_ref": "Psalm 32:10", "verse_text": "Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about." }, { "point_text": "Continued sorrows", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:32-33", "verse_text": "For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works. 33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble." }, { "point_text": "Desolation", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 33:29", "verse_text": "Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed." }, { "point_text": "Desolation", "verse_ref": "Joel 3:19", "verse_text": "Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land." }, { "point_text": "Destruction", "verse_ref": "Job 31:3", "verse_text": "Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?" }, { "point_text": "Destruction", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:16", "verse_text": "The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth." }, { "point_text": "Destruction", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 2:22", "verse_text": "But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it." }, { "point_text": "Destruction", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:4", "verse_text": "But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked." }, { "point_text": "INFLICTED UPON", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Nations", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:14", "verse_text": "And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance." }, { "point_text": "Nations", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:20-21", "verse_text": "Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; 21 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;" }, { "point_text": "Individuals", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 29:20", "verse_text": "The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven." }, { "point_text": "Individuals", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:34", "verse_text": "And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house." }, { "point_text": "False gods", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:12", "verse_text": "For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "False gods", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:4", "verse_text": "For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, which the LORD had smitten among them: upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments." }, { "point_text": "Posterity of sinners", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:5", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;" }, { "point_text": "Posterity of sinners", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:28", "verse_text": "For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off." }, { "point_text": "Posterity of sinners", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 5:7", "verse_text": "Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities." }, { "point_text": "All enemies of saints", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 30:16", "verse_text": "Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey." }, { "point_text": "Sent for correction", "verse_ref": "Job 37:13", "verse_text": "He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy." }, { "point_text": "Sent for correction", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 30:11", "verse_text": "For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished." }, { "point_text": "Sent for the deliverance of saints", "verse_ref": "Exodus 6:6", "verse_text": "Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:" }, { "point_text": "ARE SENT, AS PUNISHMENT FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Disobedience to God", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:14-16", "verse_text": "But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; 15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: 16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it." }, { "point_text": "Disobedience to God", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:19-20", "verse_text": "But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; 20 Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations." }, { "point_text": "Despising the warnings of God", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:16", "verse_text": "But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy." }, { "point_text": "Despising the warnings of God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:24-31", "verse_text": "Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; 25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: 26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; 27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. ..." }, { "point_text": "Despising the warnings of God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 44:4-6", "verse_text": "Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate. 5 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods. 6 Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day." }, { "point_text": "Murmuring against God", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:29", "verse_text": "Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me," }, { "point_text": "Idolatry", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 22:17", "verse_text": "Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched." }, { "point_text": "Idolatry", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 16:18", "verse_text": "And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things." }, { "point_text": "Iniquity", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:21", "verse_text": "For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain." }, { "point_text": "Iniquity", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 24:13-14", "verse_text": "In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee. 14 I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Persecuting saints", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:43", "verse_text": "Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people." }, { "point_text": "Sins of rulers", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 21:2", "verse_text": "And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it." }, { "point_text": "Sins of rulers", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 21:12", "verse_text": "Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me." }, { "point_text": "Manifest the righteous character of God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:14-16", "verse_text": "For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth. 15 For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth. 16 And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth." }, { "point_text": "Manifest the righteous character of God", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 39:21", "verse_text": "And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them." }, { "point_text": "Manifest the righteous character of God", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:14", "verse_text": "Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice." }, { "point_text": "Are in all the earth", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:14", "verse_text": "He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth." }, { "point_text": "Are frequently tempered with mercy", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:27", "verse_text": "For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end." }, { "point_text": "Are frequently tempered with mercy", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:10", "verse_text": "Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S." }, { "point_text": "Are frequently tempered with mercy", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:15-18", "verse_text": "Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say. 16 Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men. 17 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword. 18 Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you." }, { "point_text": "Are frequently tempered with mercy", "verse_ref": "Amos 9:8", "verse_text": "Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD LEAD TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Humiliation", "verse_ref": "Joshua 7:6", "verse_text": "And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads." }, { "point_text": "Humiliation", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 12:6", "verse_text": "Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous." }, { "point_text": "Humiliation", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:1-20", "verse_text": "I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. ..." }, { "point_text": "Humiliation", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:13", "verse_text": "Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God." }, { "point_text": "Humiliation", "verse_ref": "Jonah 3:5-6", "verse_text": "So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes." }, { "point_text": "Prayer", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 20:9", "verse_text": "If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help." }, { "point_text": "Contrition", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 1:4", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven," }, { "point_text": "Contrition", "verse_ref": "Esther 4:3", "verse_text": "And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes." }, { "point_text": "Contrition", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:12", "verse_text": "And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:" }, { "point_text": "Learning righteousness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:9", "verse_text": "With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Should be a warning to others", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:3", "verse_text": "I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish." }, { "point_text": "Should be a warning to others", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:5", "verse_text": "I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish." }, { "point_text": "MAY BE AVERTED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Humiliation", "verse_ref": "Exodus 33:3-4", "verse_text": "Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way. 4 And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments." }, { "point_text": "Humiliation", "verse_ref": "Exodus 33:14", "verse_text": "And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest." }, { "point_text": "Humiliation", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:14", "verse_text": "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." }, { "point_text": "Prayer", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:9-11", "verse_text": "And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother. 10 And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushanrishathaim. 11 And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died." }, { "point_text": "Prayer", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:13-14", "verse_text": "If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; 14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." }, { "point_text": "Forsaking iniquity", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 18:7-8", "verse_text": "At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; 8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them." }, { "point_text": "Turning to God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 30:1-3", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee, 2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; 3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Preserved during", "verse_ref": "Job 5:19-20", "verse_text": "He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. 20 In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword." }, { "point_text": "Provided for, during", "verse_ref": "Genesis 47:12", "verse_text": "And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families." }, { "point_text": "Provided for, during", "verse_ref": "Psalm 33:19", "verse_text": "To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine." }, { "point_text": "Provided for, during", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:19", "verse_text": "They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied." }, { "point_text": "Pray for those under", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:11-13", "verse_text": "And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand? 12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever." }, { "point_text": "Pray for those under", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:2", "verse_text": "And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched." }, { "point_text": "Pray for those under", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:3", "verse_text": "And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:" }, { "point_text": "Sympathize with those under", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:1", "verse_text": "Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!" }, { "point_text": "Sympathize with those under", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 13:17", "verse_text": "But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive." }, { "point_text": "Sympathize with those under", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:48", "verse_text": "Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people." }, { "point_text": "Acknowledge the justice of", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:17", "verse_text": "And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house." }, { "point_text": "Acknowledge the justice of", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:13", "verse_text": "And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;" }, { "point_text": "Acknowledge the justice of", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:33", "verse_text": "Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:" }, { "point_text": "Acknowledge the justice of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:17", "verse_text": "Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow." }, { "point_text": "UPON NATIONS--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe old world, \n\nSodom, &c., \nEgypt, \nIsrael, \n\nPeople of Ashdod, \nPeople of Bethshemesh, \nAmalekites,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 6:7", "verse_text": "And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them." }, { "point_text": "UPON NATIONS--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe old world, \n\nSodom, &c., \nEgypt, \nIsrael, \n\nPeople of Ashdod, \nPeople of Bethshemesh, \nAmalekites,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 6:17", "verse_text": "And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die." }, { "point_text": "UPON NATIONS--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe old world, \n\nSodom, &c., \nEgypt, \nIsrael, \n\nPeople of Ashdod, \nPeople of Bethshemesh, \nAmalekites,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 19:24", "verse_text": "Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;" }, { "point_text": "UPON NATIONS--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe old world, \n\nSodom, &c., \nEgypt, \nIsrael, \n\nPeople of Ashdod, \nPeople of Bethshemesh, \nAmalekites,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:14", "verse_text": "For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth." }, { "point_text": "UPON NATIONS--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe old world, \n\nSodom, &c., \nEgypt, \nIsrael, \n\nPeople of Ashdod, \nPeople of Bethshemesh, \nAmalekites,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:29", "verse_text": "Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me," }, { "point_text": "UPON NATIONS--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe old world, \n\nSodom, &c., \nEgypt, \nIsrael, \n\nPeople of Ashdod, \nPeople of Bethshemesh, \nAmalekites,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:6", "verse_text": "And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died." }, { "point_text": "UPON NATIONS--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe old world, \n\nSodom, &c., \nEgypt, \nIsrael, \n\nPeople of Ashdod, \nPeople of Bethshemesh, \nAmalekites,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 5:6", "verse_text": "But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof." }, { "point_text": "UPON NATIONS--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe old world, \n\nSodom, &c., \nEgypt, \nIsrael, \n\nPeople of Ashdod, \nPeople of Bethshemesh, \nAmalekites,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 6:19", "verse_text": "And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter." }, { "point_text": "UPON NATIONS--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe old world, \n\nSodom, &c., \nEgypt, \nIsrael, \n\nPeople of Ashdod, \nPeople of Bethshemesh, \nAmalekites,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:3", "verse_text": "Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass." }, { "point_text": "UPON INDIVIDUALS--Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nCanaan, \nKorah, &c. \nAchan, \nHophni, &c. \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nJeroboam, \nAhab, \nGehazi, \nJezebel, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nZacharias, \nAnanias, &c. \nHerod, \nElymas,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:11-12", "verse_text": "And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; 12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth." }, { "point_text": "UPON INDIVIDUALS--Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nCanaan, \nKorah, &c. \nAchan, \nHophni, &c. \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nJeroboam, \nAhab, \nGehazi, \nJezebel, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nZacharias, \nAnanias, &c. \nHerod, \nElymas,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:25", "verse_text": "And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren." }, { "point_text": "UPON INDIVIDUALS--Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nCanaan, \nKorah, &c. \nAchan, \nHophni, &c. \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nJeroboam, \nAhab, \nGehazi, \nJezebel, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nZacharias, \nAnanias, &c. \nHerod, \nElymas,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:33-35", "verse_text": "They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation. 34 And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also. 35 And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense." }, { "point_text": "UPON INDIVIDUALS--Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nCanaan, \nKorah, &c. \nAchan, \nHophni, &c. \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nJeroboam, \nAhab, \nGehazi, \nJezebel, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nZacharias, \nAnanias, &c. \nHerod, \nElymas,", "verse_ref": "Joshua 7:25", "verse_text": "And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones." }, { "point_text": "UPON INDIVIDUALS--Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nCanaan, \nKorah, &c. \nAchan, \nHophni, &c. \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nJeroboam, \nAhab, \nGehazi, \nJezebel, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nZacharias, \nAnanias, &c. \nHerod, \nElymas,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:34", "verse_text": "And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them." }, { "point_text": "UPON INDIVIDUALS--Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nCanaan, \nKorah, &c. \nAchan, \nHophni, &c. \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nJeroboam, \nAhab, \nGehazi, \nJezebel, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nZacharias, \nAnanias, &c. \nHerod, \nElymas,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:23", "verse_text": "For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king." }, { "point_text": "UPON INDIVIDUALS--Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nCanaan, \nKorah, &c. \nAchan, \nHophni, &c. \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nJeroboam, \nAhab, \nGehazi, \nJezebel, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nZacharias, \nAnanias, &c. \nHerod, \nElymas,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 6:7", "verse_text": "And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God." }, { "point_text": "UPON INDIVIDUALS--Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nCanaan, \nKorah, &c. \nAchan, \nHophni, &c. \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nJeroboam, \nAhab, \nGehazi, \nJezebel, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nZacharias, \nAnanias, &c. \nHerod, \nElymas,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 13:4", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him." }, { "point_text": "UPON INDIVIDUALS--Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nCanaan, \nKorah, &c. \nAchan, \nHophni, &c. \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nJeroboam, \nAhab, \nGehazi, \nJezebel, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nZacharias, \nAnanias, &c. \nHerod, \nElymas,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:38", "verse_text": "And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake." }, { "point_text": "UPON INDIVIDUALS--Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nCanaan, \nKorah, &c. \nAchan, \nHophni, &c. \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nJeroboam, \nAhab, \nGehazi, \nJezebel, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nZacharias, \nAnanias, &c. \nHerod, \nElymas,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:27", "verse_text": "The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow." }, { "point_text": "UPON INDIVIDUALS--Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nCanaan, \nKorah, &c. \nAchan, \nHophni, &c. \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nJeroboam, \nAhab, \nGehazi, \nJezebel, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nZacharias, \nAnanias, &c. \nHerod, \nElymas,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 9:35", "verse_text": "And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands." }, { "point_text": "UPON INDIVIDUALS--Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nCanaan, \nKorah, &c. \nAchan, \nHophni, &c. \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nJeroboam, \nAhab, \nGehazi, \nJezebel, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nZacharias, \nAnanias, &c. \nHerod, \nElymas,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:31", "verse_text": "While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee." }, { "point_text": "UPON INDIVIDUALS--Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nCanaan, \nKorah, &c. \nAchan, \nHophni, &c. \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nJeroboam, \nAhab, \nGehazi, \nJezebel, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nZacharias, \nAnanias, &c. \nHerod, \nElymas,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:30", "verse_text": "In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain." }, { "point_text": "UPON INDIVIDUALS--Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nCanaan, \nKorah, &c. \nAchan, \nHophni, &c. \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nJeroboam, \nAhab, \nGehazi, \nJezebel, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nZacharias, \nAnanias, &c. \nHerod, \nElymas,", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:20", "verse_text": "And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season." }, { "point_text": "UPON INDIVIDUALS--Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nCanaan, \nKorah, &c. \nAchan, \nHophni, &c. \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nJeroboam, \nAhab, \nGehazi, \nJezebel, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nZacharias, \nAnanias, &c. \nHerod, \nElymas,", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:1-10", "verse_text": "But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, 2 And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet. 3 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? 4 Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. ..." }, { "point_text": "UPON INDIVIDUALS--Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nCanaan, \nKorah, &c. \nAchan, \nHophni, &c. \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nJeroboam, \nAhab, \nGehazi, \nJezebel, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nZacharias, \nAnanias, &c. \nHerod, \nElymas,", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:23", "verse_text": "And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost." }, { "point_text": "UPON INDIVIDUALS--Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nCanaan, \nKorah, &c. \nAchan, \nHophni, &c. \nSaul, \nUzzah, \nJeroboam, \nAhab, \nGehazi, \nJezebel, \nNebuchadnezzar, \nBelshazzar, \nZacharias, \nAnanias, &c. \nHerod, \nElymas,", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:11", "verse_text": "And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand." }, { "point_text": "PRESERVATION DURING--Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \n\nLot, \nJoseph, &c. \nElijah, \nElisha, &c. \nShunammite,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:1", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation." }, { "point_text": "PRESERVATION DURING--Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \n\nLot, \nJoseph, &c. \nElijah, \nElisha, &c. \nShunammite,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:16", "verse_text": "And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in." }, { "point_text": "PRESERVATION DURING--Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \n\nLot, \nJoseph, &c. \nElijah, \nElisha, &c. \nShunammite,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 19:15-17", "verse_text": "And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city. 16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. 17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed." }, { "point_text": "PRESERVATION DURING--Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \n\nLot, \nJoseph, &c. \nElijah, \nElisha, &c. \nShunammite,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 45:7", "verse_text": "And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance." }, { "point_text": "PRESERVATION DURING--Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \n\nLot, \nJoseph, &c. \nElijah, \nElisha, &c. \nShunammite,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 17:9", "verse_text": "Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee." }, { "point_text": "PRESERVATION DURING--Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \n\nLot, \nJoseph, &c. \nElijah, \nElisha, &c. \nShunammite,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:38-41", "verse_text": "And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets. 39 And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not. 40 So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof. 41 But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm in the pot." }, { "point_text": "PRESERVATION DURING--Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \n\nLot, \nJoseph, &c. \nElijah, \nElisha, &c. \nShunammite,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 8:1-2", "verse_text": "Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years. 2 And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years." } ] }, { "name": "Kenites, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Kenites-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Originally a people of Canaan", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:19", "verse_text": "The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites," }, { "point_text": "Connected with the Midianites", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:29", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses' father in law, We are journeying unto the place of which the LORD said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel." }, { "point_text": "Connected with the Midianites", "verse_ref": "Judges 4:11", "verse_text": "Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh." }, { "point_text": "Dwelt in strongholds", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:21", "verse_text": "And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock." }, { "point_text": "Had many cities", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 30:29", "verse_text": "And to them which were in Rachal, and to them which were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them which were in the cities of the Kenites," }, { "point_text": "MOSES", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Intermarried with", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:21", "verse_text": "And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter." }, { "point_text": "Intermarried with", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:16", "verse_text": "And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people." }, { "point_text": "Invited, to accompany Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:29-32", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses' father in law, We are journeying unto the place of which the LORD said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel. 30 And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred. 31 And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes. 32 And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what goodness the LORD shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Part of, dwelt with Israel", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:16", "verse_text": "And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people." }, { "point_text": "Part of, dwelt with Israel", "verse_ref": "Judges 4:11", "verse_text": "Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh." }, { "point_text": "Part of, dwelt with the Amalekites", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:6", "verse_text": "And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites." }, { "point_text": "Showed kindness to Israel in the desert", "verse_ref": "Exodus 18", "verse_text": "When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt; 2 Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back, 3 And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land: 4 And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh: ..." }, { "point_text": "Showed kindness to Israel in the desert", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:6", "verse_text": "And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites." }, { "point_text": "Not destroyed with the Amalekites", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:6", "verse_text": "And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites." }, { "point_text": "The Rechabites descended from", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 2:55", "verse_text": "And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab." }, { "point_text": "Sisera slain by Jael one of", "verse_ref": "Judges 4:22", "verse_text": "And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples." }, { "point_text": "Sisera slain by Jael one of", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:24", "verse_text": "Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent." }, { "point_text": "DAVID", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Pretended that he invaded", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 27:10", "verse_text": "And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites." }, { "point_text": "Sent part of the spoil of war to", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 30:29", "verse_text": "And to them which were in Rachal, and to them which were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them which were in the cities of the Kenites," }, { "point_text": "Ruin of, predicted", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:21-22", "verse_text": "And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock. 22 Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive." } ] }, { "name": "Justification before God", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Justification-before-God.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Promised in Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:25", "verse_text": "In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory." }, { "point_text": "Promised in Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:11", "verse_text": "He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities." }, { "point_text": "Is the act of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 50:8", "verse_text": "He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me." }, { "point_text": "Is the act of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:33", "verse_text": "Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth." }, { "point_text": "UNDER THE LAW", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Requires perfect obedience", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 18:5", "verse_text": "Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Requires perfect obedience", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:5", "verse_text": "For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them." }, { "point_text": "Requires perfect obedience", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:13", "verse_text": "(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified." }, { "point_text": "Requires perfect obedience", "verse_ref": "James 2:10", "verse_text": "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all." }, { "point_text": "Man cannot attain to", "verse_ref": "Job 9:2-3", "verse_text": "I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? 3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand." }, { "point_text": "Man cannot attain to", "verse_ref": "Job 25:4", "verse_text": "How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?" }, { "point_text": "Man cannot attain to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 130:3", "verse_text": "If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?" }, { "point_text": "Man cannot attain to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 143:2", "verse_text": "And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified." }, { "point_text": "Man cannot attain to", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:20", "verse_text": "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin." }, { "point_text": "Man cannot attain to", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:31-32", "verse_text": "But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. 32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;" }, { "point_text": "UNDER THE GOSPEL", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Is not of works", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:39", "verse_text": "And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses." }, { "point_text": "Is not of works", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:3", "verse_text": "For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:" }, { "point_text": "Is not of works", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:16", "verse_text": "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified." }, { "point_text": "Is not of works", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:11", "verse_text": "But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith." }, { "point_text": "Is not of faith and works united", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:1-29", "verse_text": "And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. 2 When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question. 3 And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren. 4 And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them. ..." }, { "point_text": "Is not of faith and works united", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:28", "verse_text": "Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law." }, { "point_text": "Is not of faith and works united", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:6", "verse_text": "And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work." }, { "point_text": "Is not of faith and works united", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:14-21", "verse_text": "But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? 15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, 16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. 17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. ..." }, { "point_text": "Is not of faith and works united", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:4", "verse_text": "Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace." }, { "point_text": "Is by faith alone", "verse_ref": "John 5:24", "verse_text": "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life." }, { "point_text": "Is by faith alone", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:39", "verse_text": "And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses." }, { "point_text": "Is by faith alone", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:30", "verse_text": "Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith." }, { "point_text": "Is by faith alone", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:1", "verse_text": "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Is by faith alone", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:16", "verse_text": "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified." }, { "point_text": "Is of grace", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:24", "verse_text": "Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:" }, { "point_text": "Is of grace", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:16", "verse_text": "Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all," }, { "point_text": "Is of grace", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:17-21", "verse_text": "For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) 18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. 19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. 20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: ..." }, { "point_text": "In the name of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:11", "verse_text": "And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God." }, { "point_text": "By imputation of Christ's righteousness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:10", "verse_text": "I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels." }, { "point_text": "By imputation of Christ's righteousness", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:6", "verse_text": "In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS." }, { "point_text": "By imputation of Christ's righteousness", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:22", "verse_text": "Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:" }, { "point_text": "By imputation of Christ's righteousness", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:18", "verse_text": "Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life." }, { "point_text": "By imputation of Christ's righteousness", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:30", "verse_text": "But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:" }, { "point_text": "By imputation of Christ's righteousness", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:21", "verse_text": "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." }, { "point_text": "By the blood of Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:9", "verse_text": "Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him." }, { "point_text": "By the resurrection of Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:25", "verse_text": "Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification." }, { "point_text": "By the resurrection of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:17", "verse_text": "And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 32:1-2", "verse_text": "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. 2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile." }, { "point_text": "Frees from condemnation", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 50:8", "verse_text": "He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me." }, { "point_text": "Frees from condemnation", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:17", "verse_text": "No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Frees from condemnation", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:33-34", "verse_text": "Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. 34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us." }, { "point_text": "Entitles to an inheritance", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:7", "verse_text": "That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life." }, { "point_text": "Ensures glorification", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:30", "verse_text": "Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified." }, { "point_text": "The wicked shall not attain to", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:7", "verse_text": "Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked." }, { "point_text": "BY FAITH", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Revealed under the old dispensation", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:4", "verse_text": "Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith." }, { "point_text": "Revealed under the old dispensation", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:17", "verse_text": "For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith." }, { "point_text": "Excludes boasting", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:27", "verse_text": "Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith." }, { "point_text": "Excludes boasting", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:2", "verse_text": "For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God." }, { "point_text": "Excludes boasting", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:29", "verse_text": "That no flesh should glory in his presence." }, { "point_text": "Excludes boasting", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:31", "verse_text": "That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Does not make void the law", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:30-31", "verse_text": "Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law." }, { "point_text": "Does not make void the law", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:21", "verse_text": "To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 3:4-5", "verse_text": "And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment. 5 And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the LORD stood by." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:14", "verse_text": "I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:6", "verse_text": "And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:8-9", "verse_text": "Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, 9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:" }, { "point_text": "Promised in Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:25", "verse_text": "In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory." }, { "point_text": "Promised in Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:11", "verse_text": "He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities." }, { "point_text": "Is the act of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 50:8", "verse_text": "He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me." }, { "point_text": "Is the act of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:33", "verse_text": "Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth." }, { "point_text": "UNDER THE LAW", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Requires perfect obedience", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 18:5", "verse_text": "Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Requires perfect obedience", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:5", "verse_text": "For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them." }, { "point_text": "Requires perfect obedience", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:13", "verse_text": "(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified." }, { "point_text": "Requires perfect obedience", "verse_ref": "James 2:10", "verse_text": "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all." }, { "point_text": "Man cannot attain to", "verse_ref": "Job 9:2-3", "verse_text": "I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? 3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand." }, { "point_text": "Man cannot attain to", "verse_ref": "Job 25:4", "verse_text": "How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?" }, { "point_text": "Man cannot attain to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 130:3", "verse_text": "If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?" }, { "point_text": "Man cannot attain to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 143:2", "verse_text": "And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified." }, { "point_text": "Man cannot attain to", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:20", "verse_text": "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin." }, { "point_text": "Man cannot attain to", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:31-32", "verse_text": "But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. 32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;" }, { "point_text": "UNDER THE GOSPEL", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Is not of works", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:39", "verse_text": "And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses." }, { "point_text": "Is not of works", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:3", "verse_text": "For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:" }, { "point_text": "Is not of works", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:16", "verse_text": "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified." }, { "point_text": "Is not of works", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:11", "verse_text": "But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith." }, { "point_text": "Is not of faith and works united", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:1-29", "verse_text": "And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. 2 When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question. 3 And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren. 4 And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them. ..." }, { "point_text": "Is not of faith and works united", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:28", "verse_text": "Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law." }, { "point_text": "Is not of faith and works united", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:6", "verse_text": "And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work." }, { "point_text": "Is not of faith and works united", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:14-21", "verse_text": "But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? 15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, 16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. 17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. ..." }, { "point_text": "Is not of faith and works united", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:4", "verse_text": "Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace." }, { "point_text": "Is by faith alone", "verse_ref": "John 5:24", "verse_text": "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life." }, { "point_text": "Is by faith alone", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:39", "verse_text": "And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses." }, { "point_text": "Is by faith alone", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:30", "verse_text": "Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith." }, { "point_text": "Is by faith alone", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:1", "verse_text": "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Is by faith alone", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:16", "verse_text": "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified." }, { "point_text": "Is of grace", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:24", "verse_text": "Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:" }, { "point_text": "Is of grace", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:16", "verse_text": "Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all," }, { "point_text": "Is of grace", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:17-21", "verse_text": "For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) 18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. 19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. 20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: ..." }, { "point_text": "In the name of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:11", "verse_text": "And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God." }, { "point_text": "By imputation of Christ's righteousness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:10", "verse_text": "I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels." }, { "point_text": "By imputation of Christ's righteousness", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:6", "verse_text": "In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS." }, { "point_text": "By imputation of Christ's righteousness", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:22", "verse_text": "Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:" }, { "point_text": "By imputation of Christ's righteousness", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:18", "verse_text": "Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life." }, { "point_text": "By imputation of Christ's righteousness", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:30", "verse_text": "But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:" }, { "point_text": "By imputation of Christ's righteousness", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:21", "verse_text": "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." }, { "point_text": "By the blood of Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:9", "verse_text": "Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him." }, { "point_text": "By the resurrection of Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:25", "verse_text": "Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification." }, { "point_text": "By the resurrection of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:17", "verse_text": "And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 32:1-2", "verse_text": "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. 2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile." }, { "point_text": "Frees from condemnation", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 50:8", "verse_text": "He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me." }, { "point_text": "Frees from condemnation", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:17", "verse_text": "No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Frees from condemnation", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:33-34", "verse_text": "Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. 34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us." }, { "point_text": "Entitles to an inheritance", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:7", "verse_text": "That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life." }, { "point_text": "Ensures glorification", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:30", "verse_text": "Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified." }, { "point_text": "The wicked shall not attain to", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:7", "verse_text": "Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked." }, { "point_text": "BY FAITH", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Revealed under the old dispensation", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:4", "verse_text": "Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith." }, { "point_text": "Revealed under the old dispensation", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:17", "verse_text": "For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith." }, { "point_text": "Excludes boasting", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:27", "verse_text": "Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith." }, { "point_text": "Excludes boasting", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:2", "verse_text": "For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God." }, { "point_text": "Excludes boasting", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:29", "verse_text": "That no flesh should glory in his presence." }, { "point_text": "Excludes boasting", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:31", "verse_text": "That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Does not make void the law", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:30-31", "verse_text": "Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law." }, { "point_text": "Does not make void the law", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:21", "verse_text": "To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 3:4-5", "verse_text": "And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment. 5 And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the LORD stood by." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:14", "verse_text": "I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:6", "verse_text": "And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:8-9", "verse_text": "Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, 9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:" } ] }, { "name": "Lamb, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Lamb-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The young of the flock", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:5", "verse_text": "Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:" }, { "point_text": "The young of the flock", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 45:15", "verse_text": "And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Patient", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:7", "verse_text": "He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth." }, { "point_text": "Playful", "verse_ref": "Psalm 114:4", "verse_text": "The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs." }, { "point_text": "Playful", "verse_ref": "Psalm 114:6", "verse_text": "Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?" }, { "point_text": "Exposed to danger from wild beasts", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:34", "verse_text": "And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:" }, { "point_text": "The shepherd's care for", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:11", "verse_text": "He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young." }, { "point_text": "USED FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Food", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:14", "verse_text": "Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape." }, { "point_text": "Food", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:4", "verse_text": "And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him." }, { "point_text": "Clothing", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:26", "verse_text": "The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field." }, { "point_text": "Sacrifice", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:21", "verse_text": "And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings unto the LORD, on the morrow after that day, even a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel:" }, { "point_text": "Sacrifice", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 29:32", "verse_text": "And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Considered a great delicacy", "verse_ref": "Amos 6:4", "verse_text": "That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;" }, { "point_text": "OFFERED IN SACRIFICE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Males", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:5", "verse_text": "Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:" }, { "point_text": "Females", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:14", "verse_text": "And he shall offer his offering unto the LORD, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings," }, { "point_text": "While sucking", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 7:9", "verse_text": "And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel cried unto the LORD for Israel; and the LORD heard him." }, { "point_text": "At a year old", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:5", "verse_text": "Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:" }, { "point_text": "At a year old", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:14", "verse_text": "And he shall offer his offering unto the LORD, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings," }, { "point_text": "From the earliest times", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:4", "verse_text": "And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:" }, { "point_text": "From the earliest times", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:7-8", "verse_text": "And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? 8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together." }, { "point_text": "Every morning and evening", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:38-39", "verse_text": "Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually. 39 The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even:" }, { "point_text": "At the passover", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:3", "verse_text": "Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:" }, { "point_text": "At the passover", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:6-7", "verse_text": "And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. 7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it." }, { "point_text": "By the wicked not accepted", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:11", "verse_text": "To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats." }, { "point_text": "By the wicked not accepted", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:3", "verse_text": "He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations." }, { "point_text": "Numbers of, given by Josiah to the people for sacrifice", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 35:7", "verse_text": "And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king's substance." }, { "point_text": "The first-born of an ass to be redeemed with", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:13", "verse_text": "And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem." }, { "point_text": "The first-born of an ass to be redeemed with", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:20", "verse_text": "But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty." }, { "point_text": "An extensive commerce in", "verse_ref": "Ezra 7:17", "verse_text": "That thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "An extensive commerce in", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:21", "verse_text": "Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants." }, { "point_text": "Tribute often paid in", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 3:4", "verse_text": "And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool." }, { "point_text": "Tribute often paid in", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 16:1", "verse_text": "Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion." }, { "point_text": "Covenants confirmed by gift of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:28-30", "verse_text": "And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. 29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves? 30 And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well." }, { "point_text": "The image of, was the first impression of on money", "verse_ref": "Genesis 33:19", "verse_text": "And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money." }, { "point_text": "The image of, was the first impression of on money", "verse_ref": "Joshua 24:32", "verse_text": "And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of purity of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:19", "verse_text": "But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:" }, { "point_text": "Of Christ as a sacrifice", "verse_ref": "John 1:29", "verse_text": "The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." }, { "point_text": "Of Christ as a sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Revelation 5:6", "verse_text": "And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth." }, { "point_text": "Of any thing dear or cherished", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:3", "verse_text": "But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter." }, { "point_text": "Of any thing dear or cherished", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:9", "verse_text": "Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon." }, { "point_text": "Of the Lord's people", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:17", "verse_text": "Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat." }, { "point_text": "Of the Lord's people", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:6", "verse_text": "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them." }, { "point_text": "Of weak believers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:11", "verse_text": "He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young." }, { "point_text": "Of weak believers", "verse_ref": "John 21:15", "verse_text": "So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs." }, { "point_text": "(Patience of,) of the patience of Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:7", "verse_text": "He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth." }, { "point_text": "(Patience of,) of the patience of Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:32", "verse_text": "The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:" }, { "point_text": "(Among wolves,) of ministers among the ungodly", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:3", "verse_text": "Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves." }, { "point_text": "(Deserted and exposed,) of Israel deprived of God's protection", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:16", "verse_text": "For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place." }, { "point_text": "(Brought to slaughter,) of the wicked under judgments", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:40", "verse_text": "I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats." }, { "point_text": "(Consumed in sacrifice,) of complete destruction of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:20", "verse_text": "But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away." } ] }, { "name": "Lamps", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Lamps.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Design of", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:19", "verse_text": "We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:" }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Burning", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:17", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces." }, { "point_text": "Shining", "verse_ref": "John 5:35", "verse_text": "He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light." }, { "point_text": "Lighted with oil", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:3", "verse_text": "They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:" }, { "point_text": "Lighted with oil", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:8", "verse_text": "And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out." }, { "point_text": "Oil for, carried in vessels", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:4", "verse_text": "But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes supplied with oil from a bowl through pipes", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 4:2", "verse_text": "And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:" }, { "point_text": "Required to be constantly trimmed", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:7", "verse_text": "Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps." }, { "point_text": "USED FOR LIGHTING", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:37", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it." }, { "point_text": "Private apartments", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:8", "verse_text": "And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together." }, { "point_text": "Chariots of war by night", "verse_ref": "Nahum 2:3-4", "verse_text": "The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken. 4 The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings." }, { "point_text": "Marriage processions", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:1", "verse_text": "Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom." }, { "point_text": "Persons going out at night", "verse_ref": "John 18:3", "verse_text": "Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons." }, { "point_text": "Often kept lighting all night", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:18", "verse_text": "She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night." }, { "point_text": "Placed on a stand to give light to all in the house", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:15", "verse_text": "Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house." }, { "point_text": "Illumination of the tents of Arab chiefs by, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Job 29:3-4", "verse_text": "When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; 4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;" }, { "point_text": "Probable origin of dark lantern", "verse_ref": "Judges 7:16", "verse_text": "And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the word of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:105", "verse_text": "NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." }, { "point_text": "Of the word of God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:23", "verse_text": "For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:" }, { "point_text": "Of omniscience of Christ", "verse_ref": "Daniel 10:6", "verse_text": "His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude." }, { "point_text": "Of omniscience of Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:14", "verse_text": "His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;" }, { "point_text": "Of graces of the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Revelation 4:5", "verse_text": "And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God." }, { "point_text": "Of salvation of God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:17", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces." }, { "point_text": "Of salvation of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 62:1", "verse_text": "For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth." }, { "point_text": "Of God's guidance", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 22:29", "verse_text": "For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness." }, { "point_text": "Of God's guidance", "verse_ref": "Psalm 18:28", "verse_text": "For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness." }, { "point_text": "Of glory of the cherubim", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 1:13", "verse_text": "As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning." }, { "point_text": "Of spirit of man", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:27", "verse_text": "The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly." }, { "point_text": "Of ministers", "verse_ref": "John 5:35", "verse_text": "He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light." }, { "point_text": "Of wise rulers.\r\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 21:17", "verse_text": "But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Of severe judgments", "verse_ref": "Revelation 8:10", "verse_text": "And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;" }, { "point_text": "Of a succession of heirs", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:36", "verse_text": "And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there." }, { "point_text": "Of a succession of heirs", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:4", "verse_text": "Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:" }, { "point_text": "(Put out,) of destruction of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Job 18:5", "verse_text": "Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine." }, { "point_text": "(Put out,) of destruction of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Job 21:17", "verse_text": "How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger." }, { "point_text": "(Put out,) of destruction of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 13:9", "verse_text": "The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out." }, { "point_text": "(Totally quenched,) of complete destruction of those who curse parents", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:20", "verse_text": "Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness." } ] }, { "name": "Language", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Language.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Of all mankind one at first", "verse_ref": "Genesis 11:1", "verse_text": "And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech." }, { "point_text": "Of all mankind one at first", "verse_ref": "Genesis 11:6", "verse_text": "And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do." }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Speech", "verse_ref": "Mark 14:70", "verse_text": "And he denied it again. And a little after, they that stood by said again to Peter, Surely thou art one of them: for thou art a Galilaean, and thy speech agreeth thereto." }, { "point_text": "Speech", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:11", "verse_text": "And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men." }, { "point_text": "Tongue", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:19", "verse_text": "And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood." }, { "point_text": "Tongue", "verse_ref": "Revelation 5:9", "verse_text": "And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;" }, { "point_text": "CONFUSION OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "A punishment for presumption, &c", "verse_ref": "Genesis 11:2-6", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. ..." }, { "point_text": "Originated the varieties in", "verse_ref": "Genesis 11:7", "verse_text": "Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." }, { "point_text": "Scattered men over the earth", "verse_ref": "Genesis 11:8-9", "verse_text": "So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth." }, { "point_text": "Divided men into separate nations", "verse_ref": "Genesis 10:5", "verse_text": "By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations." }, { "point_text": "Divided men into separate nations", "verse_ref": "Genesis 10:20", "verse_text": "These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations." }, { "point_text": "Divided men into separate nations", "verse_ref": "Genesis 10:31", "verse_text": "These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations." }, { "point_text": "Great variety of, spoken by men", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:10", "verse_text": "There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification." }, { "point_text": "Ancient kingdoms often comprehended nations of different", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:22", "verse_text": "For he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that it should be published according to the language of every people." }, { "point_text": "Ancient kingdoms often comprehended nations of different", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:4", "verse_text": "Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages," }, { "point_text": "Ancient kingdoms often comprehended nations of different", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:25", "verse_text": "Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you." }, { "point_text": "KINDS OF, MENTIONED;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Hebrew", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:28", "verse_text": "Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:" }, { "point_text": "Hebrew", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:14", "verse_text": "And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks." }, { "point_text": "Chaldee", "verse_ref": "Daniel 1:4", "verse_text": "Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans." }, { "point_text": "Syriac", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:26", "verse_text": "Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall." }, { "point_text": "Syriac", "verse_ref": "Ezra 4:7", "verse_text": "And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue." }, { "point_text": "Greek", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:37", "verse_text": "And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said unto the chief captain, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou speak Greek?" }, { "point_text": "Latin", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:38", "verse_text": "And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS." }, { "point_text": "Lycaonian", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:11", "verse_text": "And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men." }, { "point_text": "Arabic, &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:11", "verse_text": "Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God." }, { "point_text": "Egyptian", "verse_ref": "Psalm 81:5", "verse_text": "This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not." }, { "point_text": "Egyptian", "verse_ref": "Psalm 114:1", "verse_text": "When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;" }, { "point_text": "Egyptian", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:10", "verse_text": "Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes," }, { "point_text": "Of some nations difficult", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 3:5-6", "verse_text": "For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel; 6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee." }, { "point_text": "The term barbarian applied to those who spoke a strange", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:11", "verse_text": "Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me." }, { "point_text": "POWER OF SPEAKING DIFFERENT,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "A gift of the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:10", "verse_text": "To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:" }, { "point_text": "Promised", "verse_ref": "Mark 16:17", "verse_text": "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;" }, { "point_text": "Given on the day of Pentecost", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:3-4", "verse_text": "And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance." }, { "point_text": "Followed receiving the gospel", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:44-46", "verse_text": "While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. 45 And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. 46 For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter," }, { "point_text": "Conferred by laying on of the apostles' hands", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:17", "verse_text": "Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Conferred by laying on of the apostles' hands", "verse_ref": "Acts 19:6", "verse_text": "And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied." }, { "point_text": "Necessary to spread of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:7-11", "verse_text": "And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? 8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? 9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, 10 Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, ..." }, { "point_text": "A sign to unbelievers", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:22", "verse_text": "Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes abused", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:2-12", "verse_text": "For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries. 3 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort. 4 He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church. 5 I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying. ..." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes abused", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:23", "verse_text": "If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?" }, { "point_text": "INTERPRETATION OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Antiquity of engaging persons for", "verse_ref": "Genesis 42:23", "verse_text": "And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter." }, { "point_text": "A gift of the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:10", "verse_text": "To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:" }, { "point_text": "Most important in the early church", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:5", "verse_text": "I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying." }, { "point_text": "Most important in the early church", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:13", "verse_text": "Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret." }, { "point_text": "Most important in the early church", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:27-28", "verse_text": "If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret. 28 But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God." }, { "point_text": "The Jews punished by being given up to people of a strange", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:49", "verse_text": "The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;" }, { "point_text": "The Jews punished by being given up to people of a strange", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:11", "verse_text": "For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people." }, { "point_text": "The Jews punished by being given up to people of a strange", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:15", "verse_text": "Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say." } ] }, { "name": "Laver of Brass", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Laver-of-Brass.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Moses was commanded to make", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:18", "verse_text": "Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein." }, { "point_text": "Wisdom given to Bezaleel to make", "verse_ref": "Exodus 31:2", "verse_text": "See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:" }, { "point_text": "Wisdom given to Bezaleel to make", "verse_ref": "Exodus 31:9", "verse_text": "And the altar of burnt offering with all his furniture, and the laver and his foot," }, { "point_text": "Made of brazen mirrors of the women", "verse_ref": "Exodus 38:8", "verse_text": "And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "Was placed in the court between the altar and the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:18", "verse_text": "Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein." }, { "point_text": "Was placed in the court between the altar and the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:7", "verse_text": "And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and shalt put water therein." }, { "point_text": "Was placed in the court between the altar and the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:30", "verse_text": "And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and put water there, to wash withal." }, { "point_text": "Was anointed with holy oil", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:11", "verse_text": "And thou shalt anoint the laver and his foot, and sanctify it." }, { "point_text": "Was anointed with holy oil", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:11", "verse_text": "And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the laver and his foot, to sanctify them." }, { "point_text": "THE PRIESTS WASHED IN,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Before consecration", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:12", "verse_text": "And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with water." }, { "point_text": "Before entering the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:19-20", "verse_text": "For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat: 20 When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Before approaching the altar", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:20", "verse_text": "When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "One made by Solomon for the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 7:23-26", "verse_text": "And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about. 24 And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast. 25 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward. 26 And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths." }, { "point_text": "One made by Solomon for the temple", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:13", "verse_text": "And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon." }, { "point_text": "Called the Brazen sea", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:13", "verse_text": "And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon." }, { "point_text": "Called the Brazen sea", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 52:17", "verse_text": "Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Christ the fountain for sin", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 13:1", "verse_text": "In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness." }, { "point_text": "Christ the fountain for sin", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:5", "verse_text": "And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood," }, { "point_text": "Regeneration", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:5", "verse_text": "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;" }, { "point_text": "Regeneration", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:26", "verse_text": "That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word," } ] }, { "name": "Kings", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Kings.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Israel warned against seeking", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 8:9-18", "verse_text": "Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them. 10 And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king. 11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots. 12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots. ..." }, { "point_text": "Sin of Israel in seeking", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 12:17-20", "verse_text": "Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king. 18 So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel. 19 And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king. 20 And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart;" }, { "point_text": "Israel in seeking, rejected God as their king", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 8:7", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them." }, { "point_text": "Israel in seeking, rejected God as their king", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 10:19", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Israel asked for, that they might be like the nations", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 8:5", "verse_text": "And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations." }, { "point_text": "Israel asked for, that they might be like the nations", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 8:19-20", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "First given to Israel in anger", "verse_ref": "Hosea 13:11", "verse_text": "I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath." }, { "point_text": "God reserved to Himself the choice of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:14-15", "verse_text": "When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me; 15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother." }, { "point_text": "God reserved to Himself the choice of", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 9:16; 16:12", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "When first established in Israel, not hereditary", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:20", "verse_text": "That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel." }, { "point_text": "When first established in Israel, not hereditary", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:13; 15:28-29", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Rendered hereditary in the family of David", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:12-16", "verse_text": "And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever. 14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: 15 But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee. ..." }, { "point_text": "Rendered hereditary in the family of David", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:35-37", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Of Israel not to be foreigners", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:15", "verse_text": "Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother." }, { "point_text": "Laws for the government of the kingdom by, written by Samuel", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 10:25", "verse_text": "Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house." }, { "point_text": "FORBIDDEN TO MULTIPLY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Horses", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:16", "verse_text": "But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way." }, { "point_text": "Wives", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:17", "verse_text": "Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold." }, { "point_text": "Treasure", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:17", "verse_text": "Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold." }, { "point_text": "Required to write and keep by them, a copy of the divine law", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:18-20", "verse_text": "And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites: 19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them: 20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Had power to make war and peace", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 11:5-7", "verse_text": "And, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field; and Saul said, What aileth the people that they weep? And they told him the tidings of the men of Jabesh. 6 And the Spirit of God came upon Saul when he heard those tidings, and his anger was kindled greatly. 7 And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent." }, { "point_text": "Often exercised power arbitrarily", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 22:17-18", "verse_text": "And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD. 18 And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod." }, { "point_text": "Often exercised power arbitrarily", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 1:15; 4:9-12; 1 Kings 2:23,25,31", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "CEREMONIES AT INAUGURATION OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Anointing", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 10:1", "verse_text": "Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because the LORD hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance?" }, { "point_text": "Anointing", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 16:13; Psalm 89:20", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Crowning", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 11:12", "verse_text": "And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king." }, { "point_text": "Crowning", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 23:11; Psalm 21:3", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Proclaiming with trumpets", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 15:10", "verse_text": "But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye shall say, Absalom reigneth in Hebron." }, { "point_text": "Proclaiming with trumpets", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:34; 2 Kings 9:13; 11:14", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Enthroning", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:35", "verse_text": "Then ye shall come up after him, that he may come and sit upon my throne; for he shall be king in my stead: and I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah." }, { "point_text": "Enthroning", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:46; 2 Kings 11:19", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Girding on the sword", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:3", "verse_text": "Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty." }, { "point_text": "Putting into their hands the books of the law", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 11:12", "verse_text": "And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king." }, { "point_text": "Putting into their hands the books of the law", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 23:11", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Covenanting to govern lawfully", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 5:3", "verse_text": "So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD: and they anointed David king over Israel." }, { "point_text": "Receiving homage", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 10:1", "verse_text": "Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because the LORD hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance?" }, { "point_text": "Receiving homage", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:24", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Shouting \"God save the king\"", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 10:24", "verse_text": "And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king." }, { "point_text": "Shouting \"God save the king\"", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 16:16; 2 Kings 11:12", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Offering sacrifice", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 11:15", "verse_text": "And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly." }, { "point_text": "Feasting", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:38", "verse_text": "All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king." }, { "point_text": "Feasting", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:22", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Attended by a body-guard", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:2", "verse_text": "Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent." }, { "point_text": "Attended by a body-guard", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:18; 1 Chronicles 11:25; 2 Chronicles 12:10", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Dwelt in royal palaces", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:11", "verse_text": "And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah." }, { "point_text": "Dwelt in royal palaces", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:15", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Arrayed in royal apparel", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:30", "verse_text": "And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle." }, { "point_text": "Arrayed in royal apparel", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:29", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Names of, often changed at their accession", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:34", "verse_text": "And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there." }, { "point_text": "Names of, often changed at their accession", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 24:17", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "OFFICERS OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Prime minister", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 19:11", "verse_text": "And, behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, for all the king's matters: also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and the LORD shall be with the good." }, { "point_text": "Prime minister", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 28:7", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "First Counsellor", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:33", "verse_text": "And Ahithophel was the king's counseller: and Hushai the Archite was the king's companion:" }, { "point_text": "Confidant or king's special friend", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:5", "verse_text": "And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, and the king's friend:" }, { "point_text": "Confidant or king's special friend", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:33", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Comptroller of the household", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:6", "verse_text": "And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute." }, { "point_text": "Comptroller of the household", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 28:7", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Scribe or secretary", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:17", "verse_text": "And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Seraiah was the scribe;" }, { "point_text": "Scribe or secretary", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:3", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Captain of the host", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:16", "verse_text": "And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;" }, { "point_text": "Captain of the host", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:4", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Captain of the guard", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:18", "verse_text": "And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief rulers." }, { "point_text": "Captain of the guard", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 20:23", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Recorder", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:16", "verse_text": "And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;" }, { "point_text": "Recorder", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:3", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Providers for the king's table", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:7-19", "verse_text": "And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision. 8 And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim: 9 The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Bethshemesh, and Elonbethhanan: 10 The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher: ..." }, { "point_text": "Master of the wardrobe", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 22:14", "verse_text": "So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her." }, { "point_text": "Master of the wardrobe", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 34:22", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Treasurer", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:25", "verse_text": "And over the king's treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the storehouses in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the castles, was Jehonathan the son of Uzziah:" }, { "point_text": "Storekeeper", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:25", "verse_text": "And over the king's treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the storehouses in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the castles, was Jehonathan the son of Uzziah:" }, { "point_text": "Overseer of the tribute", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:6", "verse_text": "And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute." }, { "point_text": "Overseer of the tribute", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:18", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Overseer of royal farms", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:26", "verse_text": "And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:" }, { "point_text": "Overseer of royal vineyards", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:27", "verse_text": "And over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite: over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite:" }, { "point_text": "Overseer of royal plantations", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:28", "verse_text": "And over the olive trees and the sycomore trees that were in the low plains was Baalhanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Joash:" }, { "point_text": "Overseer of royal herds", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 21:7", "verse_text": "Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul." }, { "point_text": "Overseer of royal herds", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:29", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Overseer of royal camels", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:30", "verse_text": "Over the camels also was Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the asses was Jehdeiah the Meronothite:" }, { "point_text": "Overseer of royal flocks", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:31", "verse_text": "And over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagerite. All these were the rulers of the substance which was king David's." }, { "point_text": "Armor-bearer", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 16:21", "verse_text": "And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armourbearer." }, { "point_text": "Cup-bearer", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:5", "verse_text": "And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her." }, { "point_text": "Cup-bearer", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:5", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Approached with greatest reverence", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 24:8", "verse_text": "David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself." }, { "point_text": "Approached with greatest reverence", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 9:8; 14:22; 1 Kings 1:23", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Presented with gifts by strangers", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:2", "verse_text": "And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart." }, { "point_text": "Presented with gifts by strangers", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:10,25; 2 Kings 5:5; Matthew 2:11", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Right hand of, the place of honor", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:19", "verse_text": "Bathsheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand." }, { "point_text": "Right hand of, the place of honor", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:9; 110:1", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Attendants of, stood in their presence", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:8", "verse_text": "Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom." }, { "point_text": "Attendants of, stood in their presence", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:19", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Exercised great hospitality", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 20:25-27", "verse_text": "And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon a seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, and David's place was empty. 26 Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean. 27 And it came to pass on the morrow, which was the second day of the month, that David's place was empty: and Saul said unto Jonathan his son, Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to meat, neither yesterday, nor to day?" }, { "point_text": "Exercised great hospitality", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 9:7-13; 19:33; 1 Kings 4:22-23,28", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "THEIR REVENUES DERIVED FROM", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Voluntary contributions", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 10:27", "verse_text": "But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace." }, { "point_text": "Voluntary contributions", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 16:20; 1 Chronicles 12:39-40", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Tribute from foreign nations", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:21", "verse_text": "And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life." }, { "point_text": "Tribute from foreign nations", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:24-25; 2 Chronicles 8:8; 17:11", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Tax on produce of the land", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:7-19", "verse_text": "And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision. 8 And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim: 9 The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Bethshemesh, and Elonbethhanan: 10 The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher: ..." }, { "point_text": "Tax on foreign merchandise", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:15", "verse_text": "Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country." }, { "point_text": "Their own flocks and herds", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 32:29", "verse_text": "Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much." }, { "point_text": "Produce of their own lands", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:10", "verse_text": "Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes nominated their successors", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:33-34", "verse_text": "The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon: 34 And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel: and blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God save king Solomon." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes nominated their successors", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 11:22-23", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Punished for transgressing the divine law", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:7-12", "verse_text": "And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul; 8 And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things. 9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. 10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. ..." }, { "point_text": "Punished for transgressing the divine law", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:18-24", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "WHO REIGNED OVER ALL ISRAEL;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Saul", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 11:15-31:13", "verse_text": "And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly. 1 And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over you. 2 And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day. 3 Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you. ..." }, { "point_text": "Saul", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 10", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "David", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 2:4", "verse_text": "And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, That the men of Jabeshgilead were they that buried Saul." }, { "point_text": "David", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:11; 1 Chronicles 11-29", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:39-11:43", "verse_text": "And Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, God save king Solomon. 40 And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them. 41 And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar? 42 And while he yet spake, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came: and Adonijah said unto him, Come in; for thou art a valiant man, and bringest good tidings. ..." }, { "point_text": "Solomon", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 1-9", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Rehoboam (first part of his reign)", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:1-20", "verse_text": "And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king. 2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was yet in Egypt, heard of it, (for he was fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;) 3 That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the congregation of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying, 4 Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee. ..." }, { "point_text": "Rehoboam (first part of his reign)", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 10:1-16", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "WHO REIGNED OVER JUDAH;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Rehoboam (latter part of his reign)", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:21-24", "verse_text": "And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon. 22 But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying, 23 Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying, 24 Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Rehoboam (latter part of his reign)", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 14:21-31; 2 Chronicles 10:17-12:16", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Abijam or Abijah", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:1-8", "verse_text": "Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah. 2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. 3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father. 4 Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem: ..." }, { "point_text": "Abijam or Abijah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 13", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Asa", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:9-24", "verse_text": "And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah. 10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. 11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father. 12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. ..." }, { "point_text": "Asa", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 14-16", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Jehoshaphat", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:41-50", "verse_text": "And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel. 42 Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. 43 And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places. 44 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel. ..." }, { "point_text": "Jehoshaphat", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 17:1-21:1", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Jehoram or Joram", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 8:16-24", "verse_text": "And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign. 17 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. 18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the LORD. 19 Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, and to his children. ..." }, { "point_text": "Jehoram or Joram", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 21", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Ahaziah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 8:25-29", "verse_text": "In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign. 26 Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel. 27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the LORD, as did the house of Ahab: for he was the son in law of the house of Ahab. 28 And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king of Syria in Ramothgilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram. ..." }, { "point_text": "Ahaziah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 9:16-29; 2 Chronicles 22:1-9", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Athaliah, mother of Ahaziah (usurper)", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 11:1-3", "verse_text": "And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal. 2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain. 3 And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land." }, { "point_text": "Athaliah, mother of Ahaziah (usurper)", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 22:10-12", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Joash or Jehoash", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 11:4-12:21", "verse_text": "And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king's son. 5 And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's house; 6 And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down. 7 And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king. ..." }, { "point_text": "Joash or Jehoash", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 23-24", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Amaziah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 14:1-20", "verse_text": "In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah. 2 He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. 3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did. 4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places. ..." }, { "point_text": "Amaziah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 25", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Azariah or Uzziah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 14:21", "verse_text": "And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah." }, { "point_text": "Azariah or Uzziah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 15:1-7; 2 Chronicles 26", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Jotham", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 15:32-38", "verse_text": "In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign. 33 Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok. 34 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done. 35 Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD. ..." }, { "point_text": "Jotham", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 27", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Ahaz", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 16", "verse_text": "In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign. 2 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father. 3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel. 4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. ..." }, { "point_text": "Ahaz", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 28", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Hezekiah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18-20", "verse_text": "Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. 2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah. 3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did. 4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan. ..." }, { "point_text": "Hezekiah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 29-32", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Manasseh", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 21:1-18", "verse_text": "Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzibah. 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. 3 For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. 4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. ..." }, { "point_text": "Manasseh", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:1-20", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Amon", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 21:19-26", "verse_text": "Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. 20 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did. 21 And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them: 22 And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD. ..." }, { "point_text": "Amon", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:21-25", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Josiah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 22:1-23:30", "verse_text": "Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath. 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left. 3 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying, 4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people: ..." }, { "point_text": "Josiah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 34-35", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Jehoahaz", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:31-33", "verse_text": "Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 32 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done. 33 And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold." }, { "point_text": "Jehoahaz", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:1-4", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Jehoiakim", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:34-24:6", "verse_text": "And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there. 35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaohnechoh. 36 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. 37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done. ..." }, { "point_text": "Jehoiakim", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:5-8", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Jehoiachin", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 24:8-16", "verse_text": "Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. 9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done. 10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. 11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it. ..." }, { "point_text": "Jehoiachin", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:9-10", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Zedekiah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 24:17-25:7", "verse_text": "And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah. 18 Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 19 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. 20 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. ..." }, { "point_text": "Zedekiah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:11-21", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "WHO REIGNED OVER ISRAEL;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Jeroboam", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:20", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only." }, { "point_text": "Jeroboam", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:25-14:20", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Nadab", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:25-27", "verse_text": "And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years. 26 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin. 27 And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon." }, { "point_text": "Nadab", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:31", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Baasha", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:28-16:7", "verse_text": "Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead. 29 And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite: 30 Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger. 31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? ..." }, { "point_text": "Elah", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:8-14", "verse_text": "In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years. 9 And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah. 10 And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead. 11 And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not one that pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends. ..." }, { "point_text": "Zimri", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:11-12", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not one that pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends. 12 Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet," }, { "point_text": "Zimri", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:15,20", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Omri", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:23-28", "verse_text": "In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign over Israel, twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah. 24 And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria. 25 But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than all that were before him. 26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities. ..." }, { "point_text": "Ahab", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:29-22:40", "verse_text": "And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years. 30 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above all that were before him. 31 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him. 32 And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. ..." }, { "point_text": "Ahaziah", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:51-53", "verse_text": "Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel. 52 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin: 53 For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done." }, { "point_text": "Ahaziah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 1:18", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Jehoram or Joram", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 3:1-9:26", "verse_text": "Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years. 2 And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made. 3 Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom. 4 And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool. ..." }, { "point_text": "Jehu", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 9:3-10:36", "verse_text": "Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not. 4 So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramothgilead. 5 And when he came, behold, the captains of the host were sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And Jehu said, Unto which of all us? And he said, To thee, O captain. 6 And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I have anointed thee king over the people of the LORD, even over Israel. ..." }, { "point_text": "Jehoahaz", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 13:1-9", "verse_text": "In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years. 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom. 3 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, all their days. 4 And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them. ..." }, { "point_text": "Jehoash or Joash", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 13:10-25", "verse_text": "In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen years. 11 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin: but he walked therein. 12 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 13 And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. ..." }, { "point_text": "Jehoash or Joash", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 14:8-16", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Jeroboam the Second", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 14:23-29", "verse_text": "In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years. 24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. 25 He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gathhepher. 26 For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel. ..." }, { "point_text": "Zachariah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 15:8-12", "verse_text": "In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months. 9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. 10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead. 11 And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. ..." }, { "point_text": "Shallum", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 15:13-15", "verse_text": "Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full month in Samaria. 14 For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead. 15 And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Menahem", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 15:16-22", "verse_text": "Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up. 17 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, and reigned ten years in Samaria. 18 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. 19 And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand. ..." }, { "point_text": "Pekahiah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 15:23-26", "verse_text": "In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years. 24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. 25 But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room. 26 And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Pekah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 15:27-31", "verse_text": "In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years. 28 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria. 30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah. ..." }, { "point_text": "Pekah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 16:5", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Hoshea", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:1-6", "verse_text": "In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years. 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him. 3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents. 4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison. ..." }, { "point_text": "Called the Lord's anointed", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 16:6", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD'S anointed is before him." }, { "point_text": "Called the Lord's anointed", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 24:6; 2 Samuel 19:21", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "CONSPIRACIES AGAINST;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Absalom against David", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 15:10", "verse_text": "But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye shall say, Absalom reigneth in Hebron." }, { "point_text": "Adonijah against Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:5-7", "verse_text": "Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. 6 And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom. 7 And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him." }, { "point_text": "Jeroboam against Rehoboam", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:12", "verse_text": "So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day." }, { "point_text": "Jeroboam against Rehoboam", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:16", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Baasha against Nadab", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:27", "verse_text": "And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon." }, { "point_text": "Zimri against Elah", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:9-10", "verse_text": "And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah. 10 And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead." }, { "point_text": "Omri against Zimri", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:17", "verse_text": "And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah." }, { "point_text": "Jehu against Joram", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 9:14", "verse_text": "So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramothgilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria." }, { "point_text": "Shallum against Zachariah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 15:10", "verse_text": "And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead." }, { "point_text": "Menahem against Shallum", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 15:14", "verse_text": "For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead." }, { "point_text": "Pekah against Menahem", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:25", "verse_text": "And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years." }, { "point_text": "God chooses", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:15", "verse_text": "Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother." }, { "point_text": "God chooses", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 28:4-6", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "God ordains", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:1", "verse_text": "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God." }, { "point_text": "God anoints", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 16:12", "verse_text": "And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he." }, { "point_text": "God anoints", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:7", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Set up by God", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 12:13", "verse_text": "Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye have desired! and, behold, the LORD hath set a king over you." }, { "point_text": "Set up by God", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:21", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Removed by God", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:11", "verse_text": "Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant." }, { "point_text": "Removed by God", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:21", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Christ is the Prince of", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:5", "verse_text": "And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood," }, { "point_text": "Christ is the King of", "verse_ref": "Revelation 17:14", "verse_text": "These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful." }, { "point_text": "Reign by direction of Christ", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 8:15", "verse_text": "By me kings reign, and princes decree justice." }, { "point_text": "Supreme judges of nations", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 8:5", "verse_text": "And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations." }, { "point_text": "Resistance to, is resistance to the ordinance of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:2", "verse_text": "Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation." }, { "point_text": "Able to enforce their commands", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 8:4", "verse_text": "Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?" }, { "point_text": "Numerous subjects the honor of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:28", "verse_text": "In the multitude of people is the king's honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince." }, { "point_text": "Not save by their armies", "verse_ref": "Psalm 33:16", "verse_text": "There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength." }, { "point_text": "Dependent on the earth", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 5:9", "verse_text": "Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Fear God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:19", "verse_text": "And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:" }, { "point_text": "Serve Christ", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:10-12", "verse_text": "Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. 11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. 12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him." }, { "point_text": "Keep the law of God", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:3", "verse_text": "And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:" }, { "point_text": "Study the Scriptures", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:19", "verse_text": "And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:" }, { "point_text": "Promote the interests of the Church", "verse_ref": "Ezra 1:2-4", "verse_text": "Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. 3 Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem. 4 And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Promote the interests of the Church", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:1-12", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Nourish the Church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:23", "verse_text": "And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me." }, { "point_text": "Rule in the fear of God", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 23:3", "verse_text": "The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God." }, { "point_text": "Maintain the cause of the poor and oppressed", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:8-9", "verse_text": "Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. 9 Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy." }, { "point_text": "Investigate all matters", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:2", "verse_text": "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter." }, { "point_text": "Not pervert judgment", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:5", "verse_text": "Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted." }, { "point_text": "Prolong their reign by hating covetousness", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:16", "verse_text": "The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days." }, { "point_text": "Throne of, established by righteousness and justice", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:12", "verse_text": "It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Throne of, established by righteousness and justice", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 29:14", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "SPECIALLY WARNED AGAINST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Impurity", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:3", "verse_text": "Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings." }, { "point_text": "Lying", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:7", "verse_text": "Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince." }, { "point_text": "Hearkening to lies", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 29:12", "verse_text": "If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked." }, { "point_text": "Intemperance", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:4-5", "verse_text": "It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: 5 Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted." }, { "point_text": "The gospel to be preached to", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:15", "verse_text": "But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:" }, { "point_text": "The gospel to be preached to", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:27-28", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Without understanding, are oppressors", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:16", "verse_text": "The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days." }, { "point_text": "Often reproved by God", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:21", "verse_text": "He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes," }, { "point_text": "Judgments upon, when opposed to Christ", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:2", "verse_text": "The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying," }, { "point_text": "Judgments upon, when opposed to Christ", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:5,9", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "WHEN GOOD,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Regard God as their strength", "verse_ref": "Psalm 99:4", "verse_text": "The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob." }, { "point_text": "Speak righteously", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:10", "verse_text": "A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment." }, { "point_text": "Love righteous lips", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:13", "verse_text": "Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right." }, { "point_text": "Abhor wickedness", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:12", "verse_text": "It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Discountenance evil", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:8", "verse_text": "A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes." }, { "point_text": "Punish the wicked", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:26", "verse_text": "A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them." }, { "point_text": "Favor the wise", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:35", "verse_text": "The king's favour is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that causeth shame." }, { "point_text": "Honor the diligent", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:29", "verse_text": "Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men." }, { "point_text": "Befriend the good", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:14", "verse_text": "The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein." }, { "point_text": "Are pacified by submission", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:14", "verse_text": "The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it." }, { "point_text": "Are pacified by submission", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:15", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Evil counsellors should be removed from", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 22:3-4", "verse_text": "He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counseller to do wickedly. 4 Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: for they were his counsellers after the death of his father to his destruction." }, { "point_text": "Curse not, even in thought", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:28", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people." }, { "point_text": "Curse not, even in thought", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 10:20", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Speak no evil of", "verse_ref": "Job 34:18", "verse_text": "Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?" }, { "point_text": "Speak no evil of", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:10", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Pay tribute to", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:21", "verse_text": "They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's." }, { "point_text": "Pay tribute to", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:6-7", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Be not presumptuous before", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:6", "verse_text": "Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men:" }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Honored", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:7", "verse_text": "Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour." }, { "point_text": "Honored", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:17", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Feared", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 24:21", "verse_text": "My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:" }, { "point_text": "Reverenced", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 24:8", "verse_text": "David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself." }, { "point_text": "Reverenced", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:23,21", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Obeyed", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:1", "verse_text": "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God." }, { "point_text": "Obeyed", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:5; 1 Peter 2:13", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Prayed for", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:1-2", "verse_text": "I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; 2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty." }, { "point_text": "Folly of resisting", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:12", "verse_text": "The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass." }, { "point_text": "Folly of resisting", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:2", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for resisting the lawful authority of", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:2", "verse_text": "Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation." }, { "point_text": "Guilt and danger of stretching out the hand against", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 26:9", "verse_text": "And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD'S anointed, and be guiltless?" }, { "point_text": "Guilt and danger of stretching out the hand against", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 1:14", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "They that walk after the flesh despise", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:10", "verse_text": "But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities." }, { "point_text": "They that walk after the flesh despise", "verse_ref": "Jude 8", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nAmaziah, &c. \nUzziah, &c. \nHezekiah, \nJosiah,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:15", "verse_text": "And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and justice unto all his people." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nAmaziah, &c. \nUzziah, &c. \nHezekiah, \nJosiah,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:11", "verse_text": "And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nAmaziah, &c. \nUzziah, &c. \nHezekiah, \nJosiah,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:43", "verse_text": "And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nAmaziah, &c. \nUzziah, &c. \nHezekiah, \nJosiah,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 15:3", "verse_text": "And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;" }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nAmaziah, &c. \nUzziah, &c. \nHezekiah, \nJosiah,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 15:34", "verse_text": "And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nAmaziah, &c. \nUzziah, &c. \nHezekiah, \nJosiah,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:3", "verse_text": "And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nAmaziah, &c. \nUzziah, &c. \nHezekiah, \nJosiah,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 22:2", "verse_text": "And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left." } ] }, { "name": "Leaven", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Leaven.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Used in making bread", "verse_ref": "Hosea 7:4", "verse_text": "They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened." }, { "point_text": "Diffusive properties of", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 5:6", "verse_text": "Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?" }, { "point_text": "FORBIDDEN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "During the feast of passover", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:15-20", "verse_text": "Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. 16 And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you. 17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever. 18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even. ..." }, { "point_text": "To be offered with blood", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:25", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning." }, { "point_text": "To be offered, &c. with meat-offerings which were burned", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 2:11", "verse_text": "No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire." }, { "point_text": "To be offered, &c. with meat-offerings which were burned", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 10:12", "verse_text": "And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the meat offering that remaineth of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar: for it is most holy:" }, { "point_text": "Used with thank offerings", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:13", "verse_text": "Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings." }, { "point_text": "Used with thank offerings", "verse_ref": "Amos 4:5", "verse_text": "And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "First fruits of wheat offered with", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:17", "verse_text": "Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The rapid spread of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:33", "verse_text": "Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened." }, { "point_text": "The rapid spread of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:21", "verse_text": "It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened." }, { "point_text": "Doctrines of Pharisees, &c", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:6", "verse_text": "Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees." }, { "point_text": "Doctrines of Pharisees, &c", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:12", "verse_text": "Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees." }, { "point_text": "Ungodly professors", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 5:6-7", "verse_text": "Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? 7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:" }, { "point_text": "False teachers", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:8-9", "verse_text": "This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you. 9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump." }, { "point_text": "Malice and wickedness", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 5:8", "verse_text": "Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." } ] }, { "name": "Lebanon", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Lebanon.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Bounded the land of Canaan on the north", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:7", "verse_text": "Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates." }, { "point_text": "Bounded the land of Canaan on the north", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:24", "verse_text": "Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be." }, { "point_text": "Given to Israel", "verse_ref": "Joshua 13:5-6", "verse_text": "And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath. 6 All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto Misrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee." }, { "point_text": "CELEBRATED FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Cedars", "verse_ref": "Psalm 29:5", "verse_text": "The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Cedars", "verse_ref": "Psalm 92:12", "verse_text": "The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Cedars", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:8", "verse_text": "Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us." }, { "point_text": "Flowers", "verse_ref": "Nahum 1:4", "verse_text": "He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth." }, { "point_text": "Fragrance", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:11", "verse_text": "Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Fragrance of its wines", "verse_ref": "Hosea 14:7", "verse_text": "They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Glorious appearance", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 35:2", "verse_text": "It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God." }, { "point_text": "Great part of, not conquered by the Israelites", "verse_ref": "Joshua 13:2", "verse_text": "This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri," }, { "point_text": "Great part of, not conquered by the Israelites", "verse_ref": "Joshua 13:5", "verse_text": "And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath." }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The mountains", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:2", "verse_text": "And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them." }, { "point_text": "Mount Lebanon", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:3", "verse_text": "Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath." }, { "point_text": "That goodly mountain", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 3:25", "verse_text": "I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Lofty tops of, covered with snow", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 18:14", "verse_text": "Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?" }, { "point_text": "Part of, barren", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 29:17", "verse_text": "Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?" }, { "point_text": "Forests of, infested with wild beasts", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:8", "verse_text": "Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards." }, { "point_text": "Forests of, infested with wild beasts", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:16", "verse_text": "And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering." }, { "point_text": "Forests of, infested with wild beasts", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:17", "verse_text": "For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein." }, { "point_text": "Many streams came from", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:15", "verse_text": "A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Formerly inhabited by the Hivites", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:3", "verse_text": "Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath." }, { "point_text": "Moses anxious to behold", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 3:25", "verse_text": "I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "FURNISHED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Wood for Solomon's temple", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:5-6", "verse_text": "And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name. 6 Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians." }, { "point_text": "Stones for Solomon's temple", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:14", "verse_text": "And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home: and Adoniram was over the levy." }, { "point_text": "Stones for Solomon's temple", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:18", "verse_text": "And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house." }, { "point_text": "Wood for second temple", "verse_ref": "Ezra 3:7", "verse_text": "They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia." }, { "point_text": "SOLOMON BUILT", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The house of the forest of", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 7:2", "verse_text": "He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars." }, { "point_text": "Storehouses in", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 9:19", "verse_text": "And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion." }, { "point_text": "Difficulties of passing, surmounted by Assyrian army", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:23", "verse_text": "By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of great and powerful monarchs", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:24", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Of great and powerful monarchs", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:34", "verse_text": "And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one." }, { "point_text": "Of the Gentile world", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 29:17", "verse_text": "Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?" }, { "point_text": "Of the Jewish nation", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 22:6", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited." }, { "point_text": "Of the Jewish nation", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 22:23", "verse_text": "O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!" }, { "point_text": "Of the temple", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 11:1", "verse_text": "Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars." }, { "point_text": "(Glory of,) of the glory of the church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 35:2", "verse_text": "It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God." }, { "point_text": "(Glory of,) of the glory of the church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:13", "verse_text": "The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious." }, { "point_text": "(Fragrance of,) of the graces of the church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:11", "verse_text": "Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "(Fragrance of,) of the graces of the church", "verse_ref": "Hosea 14:6-7", "verse_text": "His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. 7 They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "(Shaking of its forests,) of prodigious growth of the church", "verse_ref": "Psalm 72:16", "verse_text": "There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth." }, { "point_text": "(Mourning of,) of deep affliction", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 31:15", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him." } ] }, { "name": "Law of God, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Law-of-God-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is absolute and perpetual", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:18", "verse_text": "For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." }, { "point_text": "GIVEN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To Adam", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:16-17", "verse_text": "And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." }, { "point_text": "To Noah", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:6", "verse_text": "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man." }, { "point_text": "To the Israelites", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:2-17", "verse_text": "I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; ..." }, { "point_text": "To the Israelites", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:5", "verse_text": "For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:" }, { "point_text": "Through Moses", "verse_ref": "Exodus 31:18", "verse_text": "And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God." }, { "point_text": "Through Moses", "verse_ref": "John 7:19", "verse_text": "Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?" }, { "point_text": "Through the ministration of angels", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:53", "verse_text": "Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it." }, { "point_text": "Through the ministration of angels", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:19", "verse_text": "Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator." }, { "point_text": "Through the ministration of angels", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:2", "verse_text": "For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;" }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Pure", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:8", "verse_text": "The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes." }, { "point_text": "Spiritual", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:14", "verse_text": "For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin." }, { "point_text": "Holy, just, and good", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:12", "verse_text": "Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good." }, { "point_text": "Exceeding broad", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:96", "verse_text": "I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad." }, { "point_text": "Perfect", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:7", "verse_text": "The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple." }, { "point_text": "Perfect", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:2", "verse_text": "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." }, { "point_text": "Truth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:142", "verse_text": "Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth." }, { "point_text": "Not grievous", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:3", "verse_text": "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous." }, { "point_text": "Requires obedience of the heart", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:6", "verse_text": "Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom." }, { "point_text": "Requires obedience of the heart", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:28", "verse_text": "But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." }, { "point_text": "Requires obedience of the heart", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:37", "verse_text": "Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." }, { "point_text": "Requires perfect obedience", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 27:26", "verse_text": "Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen." }, { "point_text": "Requires perfect obedience", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:10", "verse_text": "For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them." }, { "point_text": "Requires perfect obedience", "verse_ref": "James 2:10", "verse_text": "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all." }, { "point_text": "Love is the fulfilling of", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:8", "verse_text": "Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law." }, { "point_text": "Love is the fulfilling of", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:10", "verse_text": "Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law." }, { "point_text": "It is man's duty to keep", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 12:13", "verse_text": "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man." }, { "point_text": "Man, by nature, not in subjection to", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:5", "verse_text": "For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death." }, { "point_text": "Man, by nature, not in subjection to", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:7", "verse_text": "Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be." }, { "point_text": "Man cannot render perfect obedience to", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:46", "verse_text": "If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;" }, { "point_text": "Man cannot render perfect obedience to", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 7:20", "verse_text": "For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not." }, { "point_text": "Man cannot render perfect obedience to", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:10", "verse_text": "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:" }, { "point_text": "Sin is a transgression of", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:4", "verse_text": "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law." }, { "point_text": "All men have transgressed", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:9", "verse_text": "What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;" }, { "point_text": "All men have transgressed", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:19", "verse_text": "Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God." }, { "point_text": "Man cannot be justified by", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:39", "verse_text": "And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses." }, { "point_text": "Man cannot be justified by", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:20", "verse_text": "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin." }, { "point_text": "Man cannot be justified by", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:28", "verse_text": "Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law." }, { "point_text": "Gives the knowledge of sin", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:20", "verse_text": "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin." }, { "point_text": "Gives the knowledge of sin", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:7", "verse_text": "What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet." }, { "point_text": "Works wrath", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:15", "verse_text": "Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression." }, { "point_text": "Conscience testifies to", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:15", "verse_text": "Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)" }, { "point_text": "Designed to lead to Christ", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:24", "verse_text": "Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith." }, { "point_text": "OBEDIENCE TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of saints", "verse_ref": "Revelation 12:17", "verse_text": "And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "A test of love", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:3", "verse_text": "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous." }, { "point_text": "Of prime importance", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:19", "verse_text": "Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of keeping", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:1", "verse_text": "ALEPH. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of keeping", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:19", "verse_text": "Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of keeping", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:22", "verse_text": "And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of keeping", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:24", "verse_text": "And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us." }, { "point_text": "CHRIST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Came to fulfil", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:17", "verse_text": "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil." }, { "point_text": "Magnified", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:21", "verse_text": "The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable." }, { "point_text": "Explained", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:12", "verse_text": "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets." }, { "point_text": "Explained", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:37-40", "verse_text": "Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." }, { "point_text": "The love of, produces peace", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:165", "verse_text": "Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Freed from the bondage of", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:14", "verse_text": "For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace." }, { "point_text": "Freed from the bondage of", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:4", "verse_text": "Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God." }, { "point_text": "Freed from the bondage of", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:6", "verse_text": "But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter." }, { "point_text": "Freed from the curse of", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:13", "verse_text": "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:" }, { "point_text": "Have, written on their hearts", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:33", "verse_text": "But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people." }, { "point_text": "Have, written on their hearts", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 8:10", "verse_text": "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:" }, { "point_text": "Love", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:97", "verse_text": "MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day." }, { "point_text": "Love", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:113", "verse_text": "SAMECH. I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love." }, { "point_text": "Delight in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:77", "verse_text": "Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight." }, { "point_text": "Delight in", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:22", "verse_text": "For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:" }, { "point_text": "Prepare their hearts to seek", "verse_ref": "Ezra 7:10", "verse_text": "For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments." }, { "point_text": "Pledge themselves to walk in", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 10:29", "verse_text": "They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;" }, { "point_text": "Keep", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:55", "verse_text": "I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law." }, { "point_text": "Pray to understand", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:18", "verse_text": "Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law." }, { "point_text": "Pray for power to keep", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:34", "verse_text": "Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart." }, { "point_text": "Should remember", "verse_ref": "Malachi 4:4", "verse_text": "Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments." }, { "point_text": "Should make the subject of their conversation", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:9", "verse_text": "And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD'S law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Lament over the violation of by others", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:136", "verse_text": "Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Despise", "verse_ref": "Amos 2:4", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:" }, { "point_text": "Forget", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:6", "verse_text": "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children." }, { "point_text": "Forsake", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 12:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him." }, { "point_text": "Forsake", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:13", "verse_text": "And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;" }, { "point_text": "Refuse to hear", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:9", "verse_text": "That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Refuse to hear", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:19", "verse_text": "Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it." }, { "point_text": "Refuse to walk in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:10", "verse_text": "They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;" }, { "point_text": "Cast away", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:24", "verse_text": "Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Is the rule of life to saints", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:21", "verse_text": "To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law." }, { "point_text": "Is the rule of life to saints", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:13-14", "verse_text": "For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." }, { "point_text": "Is the rule of the judgment", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:12", "verse_text": "For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;" }, { "point_text": "To be used lawfully", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:8", "verse_text": "But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;" }, { "point_text": "Established by faith", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:31", "verse_text": "Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for disobeying", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:26-27", "verse_text": "Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations. 27 Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies." }, { "point_text": "Is absolute and perpetual", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:18", "verse_text": "For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." }, { "point_text": "GIVEN", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "To Adam", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:16-17", "verse_text": "And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." }, { "point_text": "To Noah", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:6", "verse_text": "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man." }, { "point_text": "To the Israelites", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:2-17", "verse_text": "I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; ..." }, { "point_text": "To the Israelites", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:5", "verse_text": "For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:" }, { "point_text": "Through Moses", "verse_ref": "Exodus 31:18", "verse_text": "And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God." }, { "point_text": "Through Moses", "verse_ref": "John 7:19", "verse_text": "Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?" }, { "point_text": "Through the ministration of angels", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:53", "verse_text": "Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it." }, { "point_text": "Through the ministration of angels", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:19", "verse_text": "Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator." }, { "point_text": "Through the ministration of angels", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:2", "verse_text": "For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;" }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Pure", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:8", "verse_text": "The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes." }, { "point_text": "Spiritual", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:14", "verse_text": "For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin." }, { "point_text": "Holy, just, and good", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:12", "verse_text": "Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good." }, { "point_text": "Exceeding broad", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:96", "verse_text": "I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad." }, { "point_text": "Perfect", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:7", "verse_text": "The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple." }, { "point_text": "Perfect", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:2", "verse_text": "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." }, { "point_text": "Truth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:142", "verse_text": "Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth." }, { "point_text": "Not grievous", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:3", "verse_text": "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous." }, { "point_text": "Requires obedience of the heart", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:6", "verse_text": "Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom." }, { "point_text": "Requires obedience of the heart", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:28", "verse_text": "But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." }, { "point_text": "Requires obedience of the heart", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:37", "verse_text": "Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." }, { "point_text": "Requires perfect obedience", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 27:26", "verse_text": "Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen." }, { "point_text": "Requires perfect obedience", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:10", "verse_text": "For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them." }, { "point_text": "Requires perfect obedience", "verse_ref": "James 2:10", "verse_text": "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all." }, { "point_text": "Love is the fulfilling of", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:8", "verse_text": "Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law." }, { "point_text": "Love is the fulfilling of", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:10", "verse_text": "Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law." }, { "point_text": "It is man's duty to keep", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 12:13", "verse_text": "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man." }, { "point_text": "Man, by nature, not in subjection to", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:5", "verse_text": "For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death." }, { "point_text": "Man, by nature, not in subjection to", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:7", "verse_text": "Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be." }, { "point_text": "Man cannot render perfect obedience to", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:46", "verse_text": "If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;" }, { "point_text": "Man cannot render perfect obedience to", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 7:20", "verse_text": "For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not." }, { "point_text": "Man cannot render perfect obedience to", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:10", "verse_text": "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:" }, { "point_text": "Sin is a transgression of", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:4", "verse_text": "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law." }, { "point_text": "All men have transgressed", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:9", "verse_text": "What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;" }, { "point_text": "All men have transgressed", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:19", "verse_text": "Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God." }, { "point_text": "Man cannot be justified by", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:39", "verse_text": "And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses." }, { "point_text": "Man cannot be justified by", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:20", "verse_text": "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin." }, { "point_text": "Man cannot be justified by", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:28", "verse_text": "Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law." }, { "point_text": "Gives the knowledge of sin", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:20", "verse_text": "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin." }, { "point_text": "Gives the knowledge of sin", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:7", "verse_text": "What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet." }, { "point_text": "Works wrath", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:15", "verse_text": "Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression." }, { "point_text": "Conscience testifies to", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:15", "verse_text": "Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)" }, { "point_text": "Designed to lead to Christ", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:24", "verse_text": "Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith." }, { "point_text": "OBEDIENCE TO", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of saints", "verse_ref": "Revelation 12:17", "verse_text": "And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "A test of love", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:3", "verse_text": "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous." }, { "point_text": "Of prime importance", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:19", "verse_text": "Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of keeping", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:1", "verse_text": "ALEPH. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of keeping", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:19", "verse_text": "Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of keeping", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:22", "verse_text": "And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of keeping", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:24", "verse_text": "And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us." }, { "point_text": "CHRIST", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Came to fulfil", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:17", "verse_text": "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil." }, { "point_text": "Magnified", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:21", "verse_text": "The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable." }, { "point_text": "Explained", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:12", "verse_text": "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets." }, { "point_text": "Explained", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:37-40", "verse_text": "Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." }, { "point_text": "The love of, produces peace", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:165", "verse_text": "Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Freed from the bondage of", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:14", "verse_text": "For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace." }, { "point_text": "Freed from the bondage of", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:4", "verse_text": "Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God." }, { "point_text": "Freed from the bondage of", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:6", "verse_text": "But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter." }, { "point_text": "Freed from the curse of", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:13", "verse_text": "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:" }, { "point_text": "Have, written on their hearts", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:33", "verse_text": "But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people." }, { "point_text": "Have, written on their hearts", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 8:10", "verse_text": "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:" }, { "point_text": "Love", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:97", "verse_text": "MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day." }, { "point_text": "Love", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:113", "verse_text": "SAMECH. I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love." }, { "point_text": "Delight in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:77", "verse_text": "Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight." }, { "point_text": "Delight in", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:22", "verse_text": "For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:" }, { "point_text": "Prepare their hearts to seek", "verse_ref": "Ezra 7:10", "verse_text": "For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments." }, { "point_text": "Pledge themselves to walk in", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 10:29", "verse_text": "They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;" }, { "point_text": "Keep", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:55", "verse_text": "I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law." }, { "point_text": "Pray to understand", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:18", "verse_text": "Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law." }, { "point_text": "Pray for power to keep", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:34", "verse_text": "Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart." }, { "point_text": "Should remember", "verse_ref": "Malachi 4:4", "verse_text": "Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments." }, { "point_text": "Should make the subject of their conversation", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:9", "verse_text": "And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD'S law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Lament over the violation of by others", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:136", "verse_text": "Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Despise", "verse_ref": "Amos 2:4", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:" }, { "point_text": "Forget", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:6", "verse_text": "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children." }, { "point_text": "Forsake", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 12:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him." }, { "point_text": "Forsake", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:13", "verse_text": "And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;" }, { "point_text": "Refuse to hear", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:9", "verse_text": "That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Refuse to hear", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:19", "verse_text": "Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it." }, { "point_text": "Refuse to walk in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:10", "verse_text": "They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;" }, { "point_text": "Cast away", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:24", "verse_text": "Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Is the rule of life to saints", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:21", "verse_text": "To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law." }, { "point_text": "Is the rule of life to saints", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:13-14", "verse_text": "For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." }, { "point_text": "Is the rule of the judgment", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:12", "verse_text": "For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;" }, { "point_text": "To be used lawfully", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:8", "verse_text": "But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;" }, { "point_text": "Established by faith", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:31", "verse_text": "Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for disobeying", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:26-27", "verse_text": "Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations. 27 Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies." } ] }, { "name": "Leopard", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Leopard.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Inhabited mountains of Canaan", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:8", "verse_text": "Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Spotted", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 13:23", "verse_text": "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil." }, { "point_text": "Fierce and cruel", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:6", "verse_text": "Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased." }, { "point_text": "Swift", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 1:8", "verse_text": "Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat." }, { "point_text": "Lies in wait for its prey", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:6", "verse_text": "Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased." }, { "point_text": "Lies in wait for its prey", "verse_ref": "Hosea 13:7", "verse_text": "Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them:" }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of God in His judgments", "verse_ref": "Hosea 13:7", "verse_text": "Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them:" }, { "point_text": "Of the Macedonian empire", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:6", "verse_text": "After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it." }, { "point_text": "Of antichrist", "verse_ref": "Revelation 13:2", "verse_text": "And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority." }, { "point_text": "(Tamed,) of the wicked subdued by the gospel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:6", "verse_text": "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them." } ] }, { "name": "Leprosy", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Leprosy.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "A common disease among the Jews", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:27", "verse_text": "And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian." }, { "point_text": "INFECTED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Men", "verse_ref": "Luke 17:12", "verse_text": "And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:" }, { "point_text": "Women", "verse_ref": "Numbers 12:10", "verse_text": "And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous." }, { "point_text": "Houses", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:34", "verse_text": "When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;" }, { "point_text": "Garments", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:47", "verse_text": "The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;" }, { "point_text": "An incurable disease", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:7", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me." }, { "point_text": "Often sent as a punishment for sin", "verse_ref": "Numbers 12:9-10", "verse_text": "And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed. 10 And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous." }, { "point_text": "Often sent as a punishment for sin", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:19", "verse_text": "Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar." }, { "point_text": "Often hereditary", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 3:29", "verse_text": "Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread." }, { "point_text": "Often hereditary", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:27", "verse_text": "The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow." }, { "point_text": "PARTS AFFECTED BY;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The hand", "verse_ref": "Exodus 4:6", "verse_text": "And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow." }, { "point_text": "The head", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:44", "verse_text": "He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head." }, { "point_text": "The forehead", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:19", "verse_text": "Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar." }, { "point_text": "The beard", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:30", "verse_text": "Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard." }, { "point_text": "The whole body", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:12", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean." }, { "point_text": "Often began with a bright red spot", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:2", "verse_text": "When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests:" }, { "point_text": "Often began with a bright red spot", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:24", "verse_text": "Or if there be any flesh, in the skin whereof there is a hot burning, and the quick flesh that burneth have a white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white;" }, { "point_text": "Turned the skin white", "verse_ref": "Exodus 4:6", "verse_text": "And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow." }, { "point_text": "Turned the skin white", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:27", "verse_text": "The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow." }, { "point_text": "Turned the hair white or yellow", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:3", "verse_text": "And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean." }, { "point_text": "Turned the hair white or yellow", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:10", "verse_text": "And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising;" }, { "point_text": "Turned the hair white or yellow", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:30", "verse_text": "Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard." }, { "point_text": "THE PRIESTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Judges and directors in cases of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:8", "verse_text": "Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do." }, { "point_text": "Examined persons suspected of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:2", "verse_text": "When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests:" }, { "point_text": "Examined persons suspected of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:9", "verse_text": "When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought unto the priest;" }, { "point_text": "Shut up persons suspected of, seven days", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:4", "verse_text": "If the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and in sight be not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague seven days:" }, { "point_text": "Had rules for distinguishing", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:5-44", "verse_text": "And the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague in his sight be at a stay, and the plague spread not in the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven days more: 6 And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is but a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean. 7 But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin, after that he hath been seen of the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen of the priest again: 8 And if the priest see that, behold, the scab spreadeth in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a leprosy. ..." }, { "point_text": "Examined all persons healed of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:2", "verse_text": "This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:" }, { "point_text": "Examined all persons healed of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:4", "verse_text": "And Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them." }, { "point_text": "Examined all persons healed of", "verse_ref": "Luke 17:14", "verse_text": "And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed." }, { "point_text": "Ceremonies at cleansing of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 17:14", "verse_text": "For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off." }, { "point_text": "THOSE AFFLICTED WITH,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Ceremonially unclean", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:8", "verse_text": "And if the priest see that, behold, the scab spreadeth in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a leprosy." }, { "point_text": "Ceremonially unclean", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:11", "verse_text": "It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he is unclean." }, { "point_text": "Ceremonially unclean", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:22", "verse_text": "And if it spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague." }, { "point_text": "Ceremonially unclean", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:44", "verse_text": "He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head." }, { "point_text": "Separated from intercourse with others", "verse_ref": "Numbers 5:2", "verse_text": "Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:" }, { "point_text": "Separated from intercourse with others", "verse_ref": "Numbers 12:14-15", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again. 15 And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again." }, { "point_text": "Associated together", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 7:3", "verse_text": "And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?" }, { "point_text": "Associated together", "verse_ref": "Luke 17:12", "verse_text": "And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:" }, { "point_text": "Dwelt in a separate house", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 15:5", "verse_text": "And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king's son was over the house, judging the people of the land." }, { "point_text": "Cut off from God's house", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:21", "verse_text": "And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the land." }, { "point_text": "Excluded from priest's office", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:2-4", "verse_text": "Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I am the LORD. 3 Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD. 4 What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;" }, { "point_text": "To have their heads bare, clothes rent, and lip covered", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:45", "verse_text": "And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean." }, { "point_text": "To cry unclean when approached", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:45", "verse_text": "And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean." }, { "point_text": "Less inveterate when it covered the whole body", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:13", "verse_text": "Then the priest shall consider: and, behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: it is all turned white: he is clean." }, { "point_text": "Power of God manifested in curing", "verse_ref": "Numbers 12:13-14", "verse_text": "And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee. 14 And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again." }, { "point_text": "Power of God manifested in curing", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:8-14", "verse_text": "And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel. 9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha. 10 And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean. 11 But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. ..." }, { "point_text": "Power of Christ manifested in curing", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:3", "verse_text": "And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed." }, { "point_text": "Power of Christ manifested in curing", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:13", "verse_text": "And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him." }, { "point_text": "Power of Christ manifested in curing", "verse_ref": "Luke 17:13-14", "verse_text": "And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. 14 And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed." }, { "point_text": "Christ gave power to heal", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:8", "verse_text": "Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give." }, { "point_text": "GARMENTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Suspected of, shown to priest", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:49", "verse_text": "And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a plague of leprosy, and shall be shewed unto the priest:" }, { "point_text": "Suspected of, shut up seven days", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:50", "verse_text": "And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up it that hath the plague seven days:" }, { "point_text": "Infected with, to have the piece first torn out", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:56", "verse_text": "And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:" }, { "point_text": "Incurably infected with, burned", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:51-52", "verse_text": "And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in a skin, or in any work that is made of skin; the plague is a fretting leprosy; it is unclean. 52 He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire." }, { "point_text": "Suspected of, but not having, washed and pronounced clean", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:53-54", "verse_text": "And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; 54 Then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more:" }, { "point_text": "Suspected of, but not having, washed and pronounced clean", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:58-59", "verse_text": "And the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean. 59 This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean." }, { "point_text": "HOUSES", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Suspected of, reported to priest", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:35", "verse_text": "And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house:" }, { "point_text": "Suspected of, emptied", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:36", "verse_text": "Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house:" }, { "point_text": "Suspected of, inspected by priest", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:37", "verse_text": "And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall;" }, { "point_text": "Suspected of, shut up seven days", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:38", "verse_text": "Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days:" }, { "point_text": "To have the part infected with, first removed, and the rest scraped, &c", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:39", "verse_text": "And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house;" }, { "point_text": "To have the part infected with, first removed, and the rest scraped, &c", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:42", "verse_text": "And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house." }, { "point_text": "Incurably infected with, pulled down and removed", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:43-45", "verse_text": "And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered; 44 Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean. 45 And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place." }, { "point_text": "Infected with, communicated uncleanness to everyone who entered them", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:46-47", "verse_text": "Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even. 47 And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes." }, { "point_text": "Suspected of, but not infected, pronounced clean", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:48", "verse_text": "And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed." }, { "point_text": "Ceremonies at cleansing of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:49-53", "verse_text": "And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: 50 And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water: 51 And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times: 52 And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet: ..." } ] }, { "name": "Leviathan", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Leviathan.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Created by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:26", "verse_text": "There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein." }, { "point_text": "Nature and habits of", "verse_ref": "Job 41", "verse_text": "Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? 2 Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? 3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee? 4 Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? ..." }, { "point_text": "God's power, exhibited in destroying", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:14", "verse_text": "Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Powerful and cruel kings", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 27:1", "verse_text": "In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea." }, { "point_text": "Power and severity of God", "verse_ref": "Job 41:10", "verse_text": "None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?" } ] }, { "name": "Law of Moses, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Law-of-Moses-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is the law of God", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:46", "verse_text": "These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses." }, { "point_text": "GIVEN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In the desert", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:10-11", "verse_text": "Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. 11 And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them." }, { "point_text": "At Horeb", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:10", "verse_text": "Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children." }, { "point_text": "At Horeb", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:2", "verse_text": "The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb." }, { "point_text": "From the Mount Sinai", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:11", "verse_text": "And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai." }, { "point_text": "From the Mount Sinai", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:20", "verse_text": "And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up." }, { "point_text": "By disposition of angels", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:53", "verse_text": "Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it." }, { "point_text": "Through Moses as mediator", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:5", "verse_text": "(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying," }, { "point_text": "Through Moses as mediator", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:27-28", "verse_text": "Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it. 28 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me; and the LORD said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said all that they have spoken." }, { "point_text": "To the Jews", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:46", "verse_text": "These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses." }, { "point_text": "To the Jews", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:5", "verse_text": "For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:" }, { "point_text": "After the exodus", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:45", "verse_text": "These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt," }, { "point_text": "After the exodus", "verse_ref": "Psalm 81:4-5", "verse_text": "For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. 5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not." }, { "point_text": "To no other nation", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:8", "verse_text": "And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?" }, { "point_text": "To no other nation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 147:20", "verse_text": "He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD." }, { "point_text": "None to approach the Mount while God gave", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:13", "verse_text": "There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount." }, { "point_text": "None to approach the Mount while God gave", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:21-24", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish. 22 And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them. 23 And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it. 24 And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them." }, { "point_text": "None to approach the Mount while God gave", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:20", "verse_text": "(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:" }, { "point_text": "Remarkable phenomena connected with, at giving of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:16-19", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled. 17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. 18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. 19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice." }, { "point_text": "Terror of Israel at receiving", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:16", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled." }, { "point_text": "Terror of Israel at receiving", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:18-20", "verse_text": "And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. 19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die. 20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not." }, { "point_text": "Terror of Israel at receiving", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:5", "verse_text": "(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying," }, { "point_text": "Terror of Israel at receiving", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:23-25", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; 24 And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth. 25 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die." }, { "point_text": "Additions made to, in the plains of Moab by Jordan", "verse_ref": "Numbers 36:13", "verse_text": "These are the commandments and the judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho." }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "A fiery law", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:2", "verse_text": "And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them." }, { "point_text": "Word spoken by angels", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:2", "verse_text": "For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;" }, { "point_text": "Ministration of death", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 3:7", "verse_text": "But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:" }, { "point_text": "Ministration of condemnation", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 3:9", "verse_text": "For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory." }, { "point_text": "Lively oracles", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:38", "verse_text": "This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:" }, { "point_text": "Royal law", "verse_ref": "James 2:8", "verse_text": "If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:" }, { "point_text": "Book of the law", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 30:10", "verse_text": "If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul." }, { "point_text": "Book of the law", "verse_ref": "Joshua 1:8", "verse_text": "This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success." }, { "point_text": "Book of Moses", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 25:4", "verse_text": "But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin." }, { "point_text": "Book of Moses", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 35:12", "verse_text": "And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer unto the LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen." }, { "point_text": "Rehearsed by Moses", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:1-3", "verse_text": "These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. 2 (There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.) 3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;" }, { "point_text": "Entire of, written in a book", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 31:9", "verse_text": "And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Book of, laid up in the sanctuary", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 31:26", "verse_text": "Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee." }, { "point_text": "Tables of, laid up in the ark", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:5", "verse_text": "And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me." }, { "point_text": "DIVIDED INTO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Moral, embodied in the ten commandments", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:22", "verse_text": "These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me." }, { "point_text": "Moral, embodied in the ten commandments", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:4", "verse_text": "And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me." }, { "point_text": "Ceremonial, relating to manner of worshipping God", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:37-38", "verse_text": "This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings; 38 Which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai." }, { "point_text": "Civil, relating to administration of justice", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:9-11", "verse_text": "And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment: 10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee: 11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left." }, { "point_text": "Civil, relating to administration of justice", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:3", "verse_text": "Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?" }, { "point_text": "Civil, relating to administration of justice", "verse_ref": "Acts 24:6", "verse_text": "Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law." }, { "point_text": "A covenant of works to the Jews as a nation", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:1", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:" }, { "point_text": "A covenant of works to the Jews as a nation", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:15", "verse_text": "But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:" }, { "point_text": "TAUGHT THE JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To love and fear God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 6:5", "verse_text": "And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." }, { "point_text": "To love and fear God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:12-13", "verse_text": "And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, 13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?" }, { "point_text": "To love their neighbor", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:18", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "To love their neighbor", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:39", "verse_text": "And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." }, { "point_text": "Strict justice and impartiality", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:35-36", "verse_text": "Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. 36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "All punishments awarded according to", "verse_ref": "John 8:5", "verse_text": "Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?" }, { "point_text": "All punishments awarded according to", "verse_ref": "John 19:7", "verse_text": "The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God." }, { "point_text": "All punishments awarded according to", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:28", "verse_text": "He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:" }, { "point_text": "ALL ISRAELITES REQUIRED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To know", "verse_ref": "Exodus 18:16", "verse_text": "When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws." }, { "point_text": "To observe", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:6", "verse_text": "Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people." }, { "point_text": "To observe", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 6:2", "verse_text": "That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged." }, { "point_text": "To lay up, in their hearts", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 6:6", "verse_text": "And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:" }, { "point_text": "To lay up, in their hearts", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:18", "verse_text": "Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes." }, { "point_text": "To remember", "verse_ref": "Malachi 4:4", "verse_text": "Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments." }, { "point_text": "To teach their children", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 6:7", "verse_text": "And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." }, { "point_text": "To teach their children", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:19", "verse_text": "And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." }, { "point_text": "Kings to write out and study", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:18-19", "verse_text": "And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites: 19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:" }, { "point_text": "Good kings enforced", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:24-25", "verse_text": "Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD. 25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him." }, { "point_text": "Good kings enforced", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:21", "verse_text": "And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered." }, { "point_text": "Priests and Levites to teach", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:8-10", "verse_text": "And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah; 9 Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant. 10 They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar." }, { "point_text": "Priests and Levites to teach", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:7", "verse_text": "Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place." }, { "point_text": "Priests and Levites to teach", "verse_ref": "Malachi 2:7", "verse_text": "For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "The scribes were learned in, and expounded", "verse_ref": "Ezra 7:6", "verse_text": "This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him." }, { "point_text": "The scribes were learned in, and expounded", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:2", "verse_text": "Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:" }, { "point_text": "Public instruction given to youth in", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:46", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions." }, { "point_text": "Public instruction given to youth in", "verse_ref": "Acts 22:3", "verse_text": "I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day." }, { "point_text": "PUBLICLY READ", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "At the feast of tabernacles in the sabbatical year", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 31:10-13", "verse_text": "And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, 11 When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12 Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law: 13 And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it." }, { "point_text": "By Joshua", "verse_ref": "Joshua 8:34-35", "verse_text": "And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law. 35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them." }, { "point_text": "By Ezra", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:2-3", "verse_text": "And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month. 3 And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law." }, { "point_text": "In the synagogues every Sabbath day", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:15", "verse_text": "And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on." }, { "point_text": "In the synagogues every Sabbath day", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:21", "verse_text": "For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day." }, { "point_text": "A means of national reformation", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 34:19-21", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes. 20 And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying, 21 Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book." }, { "point_text": "A means of national reformation", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:13-18", "verse_text": "And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law. 14 And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month: 15 And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written. 16 So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim. ..." }, { "point_text": "A shadow of good things to come", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:1", "verse_text": "For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect." }, { "point_text": "Could not give righteousness and life", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:21", "verse_text": "Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law." }, { "point_text": "Could not give righteousness and life", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:3-4", "verse_text": "For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." }, { "point_text": "A schoolmaster to lead to Christ", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:24", "verse_text": "Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith." }, { "point_text": "CHRIST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Made under", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:4", "verse_text": "But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law," }, { "point_text": "Circumcised according to", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:21", "verse_text": "And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb." }, { "point_text": "Circumcised according to", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:8", "verse_text": "Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:" }, { "point_text": "Came not to destroy but to fulfil", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:17-18", "verse_text": "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." }, { "point_text": "Attended all feasts of", "verse_ref": "John 2:23", "verse_text": "Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did." }, { "point_text": "Attended all feasts of", "verse_ref": "John 7:2", "verse_text": "Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand." }, { "point_text": "Attended all feasts of", "verse_ref": "John 7:10", "verse_text": "But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret." }, { "point_text": "Attended all feasts of", "verse_ref": "John 7:37", "verse_text": "In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink." }, { "point_text": "Fulfilled all precepts of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:7-8", "verse_text": "Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, 8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart." }, { "point_text": "Fulfilled all types and shadows of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:8", "verse_text": "The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:" }, { "point_text": "Fulfilled all types and shadows of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:11-14", "verse_text": "But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. 13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" }, { "point_text": "Fulfilled all types and shadows of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:1", "verse_text": "For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect." }, { "point_text": "Fulfilled all types and shadows of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:11-14", "verse_text": "And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; 13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. 14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified." }, { "point_text": "Magnified and made honorable", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:21", "verse_text": "The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable." }, { "point_text": "Bore the curse of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 21:23", "verse_text": "His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance." }, { "point_text": "Bore the curse of", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:13", "verse_text": "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:" }, { "point_text": "Abrogated, as a covenant of works", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:4", "verse_text": "Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God." }, { "point_text": "Was not the manifestation of the grace of God", "verse_ref": "John 1:17", "verse_text": "For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Was not the manifestation of the grace of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:3-4", "verse_text": "For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." }, { "point_text": "Could not disannul the covenant of grace made in Christ", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:17", "verse_text": "And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect." }, { "point_text": "Primitive Jewish converts would have all Christians observe", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:1", "verse_text": "And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved." }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Zealous for", "verse_ref": "John 9:28-29", "verse_text": "Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples. 29 We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is." }, { "point_text": "Held those ignorant of, accursed", "verse_ref": "John 7:49", "verse_text": "But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed." }, { "point_text": "From regard to, rejected Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:31-33", "verse_text": "But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. 32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; 33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed." }, { "point_text": "Accused Christ of breaking", "verse_ref": "John 19:7", "verse_text": "The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God." }, { "point_text": "Accused Christians of speaking", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:11-14", "verse_text": "Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God. 12 And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council, 13 And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law: 14 For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us." }, { "point_text": "Accused Christians of speaking", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:28", "verse_text": "Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place." }, { "point_text": "Broke it themselves", "verse_ref": "John 7:19", "verse_text": "Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?" }, { "point_text": "Dishonored God by breaking", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:23", "verse_text": "Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?" }, { "point_text": "Shall be judged by", "verse_ref": "John 5:45", "verse_text": "Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust." }, { "point_text": "Shall be judged by", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:12", "verse_text": "For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;" }, { "point_text": "Was a burdensome yoke", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:10", "verse_text": "Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?" }, { "point_text": "Darkness, &c. at giving of, illustrative of obscurity of Mosaic dispensation", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:18-24", "verse_text": "For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, 19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: 20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: 21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:) ..." } ] }, { "name": "Life, Spiritual", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Life-Spiritual.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "God is the Author of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 36:9", "verse_text": "For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light." }, { "point_text": "God is the Author of", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:13", "verse_text": "And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;" }, { "point_text": "Christ is the Author of", "verse_ref": "John 5:21", "verse_text": "For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will." }, { "point_text": "Christ is the Author of", "verse_ref": "John 6:33", "verse_text": "For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world." }, { "point_text": "Christ is the Author of", "verse_ref": "John 6:51-53", "verse_text": "I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. 52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you." }, { "point_text": "Christ is the Author of", "verse_ref": "John 14:6", "verse_text": "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." }, { "point_text": "Christ is the Author of", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:9", "verse_text": "In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him." }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost is the Author of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 37:14", "verse_text": "And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost is the Author of", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:9-13", "verse_text": "But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. 12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. ..." }, { "point_text": "The word of God is the instrument of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 55:3", "verse_text": "Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David." }, { "point_text": "The word of God is the instrument of", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 3:6", "verse_text": "Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life." }, { "point_text": "The word of God is the instrument of", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:6", "verse_text": "For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit." }, { "point_text": "Is hidden with Christ", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:3", "verse_text": "For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." }, { "point_text": "The fear of God is", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:27", "verse_text": "The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death." }, { "point_text": "The fear of God is", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:23", "verse_text": "The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil." }, { "point_text": "Spiritual-mindedness is", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:6", "verse_text": "For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace." }, { "point_text": "IS MAINTAINED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "John 6:57", "verse_text": "As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me." }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:3-4", "verse_text": "And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ." }, { "point_text": "Faith", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:20", "verse_text": "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." }, { "point_text": "The word of God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:3", "verse_text": "And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live." }, { "point_text": "The word of God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:4", "verse_text": "But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." }, { "point_text": "Prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:32", "verse_text": "The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God." }, { "point_text": "Has its origin in the new-birth", "verse_ref": "John 3:3-8", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? 5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. ..." }, { "point_text": "Has its infancy", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:21", "verse_text": "In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight." }, { "point_text": "Has its infancy", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:1-2", "verse_text": "And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. 2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able." }, { "point_text": "Has its infancy", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:12", "verse_text": "I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake." }, { "point_text": "Has its youth", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:13-14", "verse_text": "I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father. 14 I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one." }, { "point_text": "Has its maturity", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:13", "verse_text": "Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Has its maturity", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:13-14", "verse_text": "I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father. 14 I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one." }, { "point_text": "IS DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "A life unto God", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:11", "verse_text": "Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord." }, { "point_text": "A life unto God", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:19", "verse_text": "For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God." }, { "point_text": "Newness of life", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:4", "verse_text": "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." }, { "point_text": "Living in the Spirit", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:25", "verse_text": "If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit." }, { "point_text": "Revived by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 85:6", "verse_text": "Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?" }, { "point_text": "Revived by God", "verse_ref": "Hosea 6:2", "verse_text": "After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight." }, { "point_text": "Evidenced by love to the brethren", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:14", "verse_text": "We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death." }, { "point_text": "All saints have", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:1", "verse_text": "And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;" }, { "point_text": "All saints have", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:5", "verse_text": "Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)" }, { "point_text": "Should animate the services of saints", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:1", "verse_text": "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service." }, { "point_text": "Should animate the services of saints", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:15", "verse_text": "What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also." }, { "point_text": "Saints praise God for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:175", "verse_text": "Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me." }, { "point_text": "Seek to grow in", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:15", "verse_text": "But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Seek to grow in", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:2", "verse_text": "As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:" }, { "point_text": "Pray for the increase of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:25", "verse_text": "DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word." }, { "point_text": "Pray for the increase of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 143:11", "verse_text": "Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble." }, { "point_text": "The wicked alienated from", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:18", "verse_text": "Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:" }, { "point_text": "Lovers of pleasure destitute of", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:6", "verse_text": "But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth." }, { "point_text": "Hypocrites destitute of", "verse_ref": "Jude 12", "verse_text": "These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;" }, { "point_text": "Hypocrites destitute of", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:1", "verse_text": "And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 37:9-10", "verse_text": "Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army." } ] }, { "name": "Light", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Light.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "God the only source of", "verse_ref": "James 1:17", "verse_text": "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." }, { "point_text": "Created by God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:3", "verse_text": "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light." }, { "point_text": "Created by God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:7", "verse_text": "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things." }, { "point_text": "Separated from darkness", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:4", "verse_text": "And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness." }, { "point_text": "Sun, moon, and stars appointed to communicate to the earth", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:14-17", "verse_text": "And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth," }, { "point_text": "Sun, moon, and stars appointed to communicate to the earth", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:35", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:" }, { "point_text": "DIVIDED INTO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Natural", "verse_ref": "Job 24:14", "verse_text": "The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief." }, { "point_text": "Natural", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:30", "verse_text": "And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof." }, { "point_text": "Extraordinary or miraculous", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:20", "verse_text": "And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night." }, { "point_text": "Extraordinary or miraculous", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:14", "verse_text": "In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire." }, { "point_text": "Extraordinary or miraculous", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:3", "verse_text": "And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:" }, { "point_text": "Extraordinary or miraculous", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:7", "verse_text": "And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands." }, { "point_text": "Artificial", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 25:10", "verse_text": "Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle." }, { "point_text": "Artificial", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:29", "verse_text": "Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas," }, { "point_text": "Communicated to the body through the eye", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:30", "verse_text": "The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: and a good report maketh the bones fat." }, { "point_text": "Communicated to the body through the eye", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:22", "verse_text": "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "White and pure", "verse_ref": "Matthew 17:2", "verse_text": "And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light." }, { "point_text": "Bright", "verse_ref": "Job 37:21", "verse_text": "And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them." }, { "point_text": "Shining", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 23:4", "verse_text": "And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain." }, { "point_text": "Shining", "verse_ref": "Job 41:18", "verse_text": "By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning." }, { "point_text": "Diffusive", "verse_ref": "Job 25:3", "verse_text": "Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?" }, { "point_text": "Diffusive", "verse_ref": "Job 36:30", "verse_text": "Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea." }, { "point_text": "Useful and precious", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:13", "verse_text": "Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness." }, { "point_text": "Agreeable", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 11:7", "verse_text": "Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:" }, { "point_text": "Manifesting objects", "verse_ref": "John 3:20-21", "verse_text": "For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." }, { "point_text": "The theory of, beyond man's comprehension", "verse_ref": "Job 38:19-20", "verse_text": "Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof, 20 That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?" }, { "point_text": "The theory of, beyond man's comprehension", "verse_ref": "Job 38:24", "verse_text": "By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?" }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Glory of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:2", "verse_text": "Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:" }, { "point_text": "Glory of God", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:16", "verse_text": "Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Purity of God", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:5", "verse_text": "This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all." }, { "point_text": "Wisdom of God", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:22", "verse_text": "He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him." }, { "point_text": "Guidance of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:1", "verse_text": "The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?" }, { "point_text": "Guidance of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 36:9", "verse_text": "For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light." }, { "point_text": "Favor of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 4:6", "verse_text": "There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us." }, { "point_text": "Favor of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:5", "verse_text": "O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Christ the source of all wisdom", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:32", "verse_text": "A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel." }, { "point_text": "Christ the source of all wisdom", "verse_ref": "John 1:4", "verse_text": "In him was life; and the life was the light of men." }, { "point_text": "Christ the source of all wisdom", "verse_ref": "John 8:12", "verse_text": "Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." }, { "point_text": "Christ the source of all wisdom", "verse_ref": "John 12:46", "verse_text": "I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness." }, { "point_text": "Glory of Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:3", "verse_text": "And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:" }, { "point_text": "Glory of Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:13", "verse_text": "At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me." }, { "point_text": "Purity of Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 17:2", "verse_text": "And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light." }, { "point_text": "Word of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:105", "verse_text": "NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." }, { "point_text": "Word of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:130", "verse_text": "The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple." }, { "point_text": "Word of God", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:19", "verse_text": "We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:" }, { "point_text": "Gospel", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:4", "verse_text": "In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." }, { "point_text": "Gospel", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:9", "verse_text": "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:" }, { "point_text": "Ministers", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:14", "verse_text": "Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid." }, { "point_text": "Ministers", "verse_ref": "John 5:35", "verse_text": "He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light." }, { "point_text": "Wise rulers", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 21:17", "verse_text": "But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Wise rulers", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 23:4", "verse_text": "And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain." }, { "point_text": "The soul of man", "verse_ref": "Job 18:5-6", "verse_text": "Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. 6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him." }, { "point_text": "Saints", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:8", "verse_text": "And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light." }, { "point_text": "Saints", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:8", "verse_text": "For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:" }, { "point_text": "Saints", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:15", "verse_text": "That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;" }, { "point_text": "Future glory of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 97:11", "verse_text": "Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart." }, { "point_text": "Future glory of saints", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:12", "verse_text": "Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:" }, { "point_text": "The path of the just", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 4:18", "verse_text": "But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day." }, { "point_text": "The glory of the church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:1-3", "verse_text": "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. 2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. 3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising." }, { "point_text": "Whatever makes manifest", "verse_ref": "John 3:21", "verse_text": "But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." }, { "point_text": "Whatever makes manifest", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:13", "verse_text": "But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light." } ] }, { "name": "Life, Natural", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Life-Natural.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "God is the Author of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:7", "verse_text": "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." }, { "point_text": "God is the Author of", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:28", "verse_text": "For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring." }, { "point_text": "God preserves", "verse_ref": "Psalm 36:6", "verse_text": "Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast." }, { "point_text": "God preserves", "verse_ref": "Psalm 66:9", "verse_text": "Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved." }, { "point_text": "Is in the hand of God", "verse_ref": "Job 12:10", "verse_text": "In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind." }, { "point_text": "Is in the hand of God", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:23", "verse_text": "But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:" }, { "point_text": "Forfeited by sin", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:17", "verse_text": "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." }, { "point_text": "Forfeited by sin", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:17-19", "verse_text": "And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." }, { "point_text": "Of others, not to be taken away", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:13", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not kill." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Vain", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 6:12", "verse_text": "For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?" }, { "point_text": "Limited", "verse_ref": "Job 7:1", "verse_text": "Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?" }, { "point_text": "Limited", "verse_ref": "Job 14:5", "verse_text": "Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;" }, { "point_text": "Short", "verse_ref": "Job 14:1", "verse_text": "Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble." }, { "point_text": "Short", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:47", "verse_text": "Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?" }, { "point_text": "Uncertain", "verse_ref": "James 4:13-15", "verse_text": "Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that." }, { "point_text": "Full of trouble", "verse_ref": "Job 14:1", "verse_text": "Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble." }, { "point_text": "God's loving-kindness better than", "verse_ref": "Psalm 63:3", "verse_text": "Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee." }, { "point_text": "The value of", "verse_ref": "Job 2:4", "verse_text": "And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life." }, { "point_text": "The value of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:25", "verse_text": "Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?" }, { "point_text": "Preserved by discretion", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 13:3", "verse_text": "He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes prolonged, in answer to prayer", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:2-5", "verse_text": "Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, 3 And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. 4 Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying, 5 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes prolonged, in answer to prayer", "verse_ref": "James 5:15", "verse_text": "And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him." }, { "point_text": "Obedience to God, tends to prolong", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 30:20", "verse_text": "That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them." }, { "point_text": "Obedience to parents, tends to prolong", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:12", "verse_text": "Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee." }, { "point_text": "Obedience to parents, tends to prolong", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 4:10", "verse_text": "Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many." }, { "point_text": "Cares and pleasures of, dangerous", "verse_ref": "Luke 8:14", "verse_text": "And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection." }, { "point_text": "Cares and pleasures of, dangerous", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:34", "verse_text": "And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares." }, { "point_text": "Cares and pleasures of, dangerous", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:4", "verse_text": "No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." }, { "point_text": "Saints have true enjoyment of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 128:2", "verse_text": "For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee." }, { "point_text": "Saints have true enjoyment of", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:8", "verse_text": "For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." }, { "point_text": "Of saints, specially protected by God", "verse_ref": "Job 2:6", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life." }, { "point_text": "Of saints, specially protected by God", "verse_ref": "Acts 18:10", "verse_text": "For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city." }, { "point_text": "Of saints, specially protected by God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:13", "verse_text": "And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?" }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked, not specially protected by God", "verse_ref": "Job 36:6", "verse_text": "He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor." }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked, not specially protected by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:50", "verse_text": "He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;" }, { "point_text": "The wicked have their portion of good, during", "verse_ref": "Psalm 17:14", "verse_text": "From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes." }, { "point_text": "The wicked have their portion of good, during", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:24", "verse_text": "But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation." }, { "point_text": "The wicked have their portion of good, during", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:25", "verse_text": "But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE SPENT IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The fear of God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:17", "verse_text": "And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:" }, { "point_text": "The service of God", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:75", "verse_text": "In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life." }, { "point_text": "Living unto God", "verse_ref": "Romans 14:8", "verse_text": "For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's." }, { "point_text": "Living unto God", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:21", "verse_text": "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." }, { "point_text": "Peace", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:18", "verse_text": "If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men." }, { "point_text": "Peace", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:2", "verse_text": "For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty." }, { "point_text": "Doing good", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 3:12", "verse_text": "I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life." }, { "point_text": "Should be taken all due care of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:23", "verse_text": "But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come." }, { "point_text": "Should be taken all due care of", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:34", "verse_text": "Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you." }, { "point_text": "Should be laid down, if necessary, for Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:39", "verse_text": "He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." }, { "point_text": "Should be laid down, if necessary, for Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:26", "verse_text": "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." }, { "point_text": "Should be laid down, if necessary, for Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:24", "verse_text": "But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God." }, { "point_text": "Should be laid down, if necessary, for the brethren", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:4", "verse_text": "Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles." }, { "point_text": "Should be laid down, if necessary, for the brethren", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:16", "verse_text": "Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren." }, { "point_text": "BE THANKFUL FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The preservation of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:4", "verse_text": "Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;" }, { "point_text": "The preservation of", "verse_ref": "John 2:6", "verse_text": "And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece." }, { "point_text": "The supply of its wants", "verse_ref": "Genesis 48:15", "verse_text": "And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day," }, { "point_text": "The dissatisfied despise", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:17", "verse_text": "Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit." }, { "point_text": "We know not what is good for us in", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 6:12", "verse_text": "For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?" }, { "point_text": "Be not over-anxious to provide for its wants", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:25", "verse_text": "Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?" }, { "point_text": "The enjoyment of, consists not in abundance of possessions", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:15", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth." }, { "point_text": "IS COMPARED TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "An eagle hasting to the prey", "verse_ref": "Job 9:26", "verse_text": "They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey." }, { "point_text": "A pilgrimage", "verse_ref": "Genesis 47:9", "verse_text": "And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage." }, { "point_text": "A tale told", "verse_ref": "Psalm 90:9", "verse_text": "For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told." }, { "point_text": "A swift post", "verse_ref": "Job 9:25", "verse_text": "Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good." }, { "point_text": "A swift ship", "verse_ref": "Job 9:26", "verse_text": "They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey." }, { "point_text": "A hand-breadth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:5", "verse_text": "Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah." }, { "point_text": "A shepherd's tent removed", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:18", "verse_text": "For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth." }, { "point_text": "A dream", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:20", "verse_text": "As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image." }, { "point_text": "A sleep", "verse_ref": "Psalm 90:5", "verse_text": "Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up." }, { "point_text": "A vapor", "verse_ref": "James 4:14", "verse_text": "Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." }, { "point_text": "A shadow", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 6:12", "verse_text": "For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?" }, { "point_text": "A thread cut by the weaver", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:12", "verse_text": "Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me." }, { "point_text": "A weaver's shuttle", "verse_ref": "Job 7:6", "verse_text": "My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope." }, { "point_text": "A flower", "verse_ref": "Job 14:2", "verse_text": "He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not." }, { "point_text": "Grass", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:24", "verse_text": "For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:" }, { "point_text": "Water spilt on the ground", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 14:14", "verse_text": "For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him." }, { "point_text": "Wind", "verse_ref": "Job 7:7", "verse_text": "O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good." }, { "point_text": "Shortness of, should lead to spiritual improvement", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:29", "verse_text": "O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!" }, { "point_text": "Shortness of, should lead to spiritual improvement", "verse_ref": "Psalm 90:12", "verse_text": "So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes judicially shortened", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:32-33", "verse_text": "And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever. 33 And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age." }, { "point_text": "Miraculously restored by Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:18", "verse_text": "While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live." }, { "point_text": "Miraculously restored by Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:25", "verse_text": "But when the people were put forth, he went in, and took her by the hand, and the maid arose." } ] }, { "name": "Levites, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Levites-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Descended from Jacob's third son", "verse_ref": "Genesis 29:34", "verse_text": "And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi." }, { "point_text": "Descended from Jacob's third son", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:9-10", "verse_text": "And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham. 10 For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him." }, { "point_text": "Prophecies respecting", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:5", "verse_text": "Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations." }, { "point_text": "Prophecies respecting", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:7", "verse_text": "Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel." }, { "point_text": "Originally consisted for three families or divisions", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:17", "verse_text": "And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari." }, { "point_text": "Originally consisted for three families or divisions", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 6:16-48", "verse_text": "The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. 17 And these be the names of the sons of Gershom; Libni, and Shimei. 18 And the sons of Kohath were, Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. 19 The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers. ..." }, { "point_text": "Not numbered with Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:47-49", "verse_text": "But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them. 48 For the LORD had spoken unto Moses, saying, 49 Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:" }, { "point_text": "Numbered separately after the people from a month old", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:14-16", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, 15 Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them. 16 And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded." }, { "point_text": "Numbered separately after the people from a month old", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:39", "verse_text": "All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand." }, { "point_text": "FAMILIES, AS NUMBERED,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of Gershom", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:18", "verse_text": "And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei." }, { "point_text": "Of Gershom", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:21-22", "verse_text": "Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites. 22 Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred." }, { "point_text": "Of Kohath", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:19", "verse_text": "And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel." }, { "point_text": "Of Kohath", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:27-28", "verse_text": "And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites. 28 In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary." }, { "point_text": "Of Merari", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:20", "verse_text": "And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers." }, { "point_text": "Of Merari", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:33-34", "verse_text": "Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari. 34 And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand and two hundred." }, { "point_text": "Chosen by God for service of the sanctuary", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 15:2", "verse_text": "Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister unto him for ever." }, { "point_text": "Chosen by God for service of the sanctuary", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:6", "verse_text": "Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him." }, { "point_text": "Were consecrated", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:6", "verse_text": "Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them." }, { "point_text": "Were consecrated", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:14", "verse_text": "Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine." }, { "point_text": "Taken instead of the first-born of Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:12-13", "verse_text": "And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine; 13 Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Taken instead of the first-born of Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:40-45", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn of the males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names. 41 And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am the LORD) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel. 42 And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel. 43 And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen. ..." }, { "point_text": "Taken instead of the first-born of Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:16-18", "verse_text": "For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel; instead of such as open every womb, even instead of the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me. 17 For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself. 18 And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Zeal against idolatry a cause of their appointment", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:26-28", "verse_text": "Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD'S side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him. 27 And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour. 28 And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men." }, { "point_text": "Zeal against idolatry a cause of their appointment", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:9-10", "verse_text": "Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant. 10 They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar." }, { "point_text": "Entered on their service at twenty-five years of age", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:24", "verse_text": "This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:" }, { "point_text": "Numbered as ministers at thirty", "verse_ref": "Numbers 4:3", "verse_text": "From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "Numbered as ministers at thirty", "verse_ref": "Numbers 4:23-49", "verse_text": "From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation. 24 This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens: 25 And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering of the badgers' skins that is above upon it, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, 26 And the hangings of the court, and the hanging for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and all that is made for them: so shall they serve. ..." }, { "point_text": "Superannuated at fifty", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:25", "verse_text": "And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:" }, { "point_text": "When superannuated, required to perform the less arduous duties", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:26", "verse_text": "But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge." }, { "point_text": "CEREMONIES AT CONSECRATION OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Cleansing and purifying", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:7", "verse_text": "And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean." }, { "point_text": "Making a sin-offering for", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:8", "verse_text": "Then let them take a young bullock with his meat offering, even fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou take for a sin offering." }, { "point_text": "Making a sin-offering for", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:12", "verse_text": "And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, unto the LORD, to make an atonement for the Levites." }, { "point_text": "Elders of Israel laying their hands on them", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:9-10", "verse_text": "And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together: 10 And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites:" }, { "point_text": "Presenting them to God as an offering for the people", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:11", "verse_text": "And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for an offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute the service of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Presenting them to God as an offering for the people", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:15", "verse_text": "And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for an offering." }, { "point_text": "Setting before the priest and presenting them as their offering to God", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:13", "verse_text": "And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for an offering unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Given to Aaron and sons", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:9", "verse_text": "And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Given to Aaron and sons", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:19", "verse_text": "And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary." }, { "point_text": "Encamped round the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:50", "verse_text": "But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle." }, { "point_text": "Encamped round the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:52", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts." }, { "point_text": "Encamped round the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:23", "verse_text": "The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward." }, { "point_text": "Encamped round the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:29", "verse_text": "The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward." }, { "point_text": "Encamped round the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:35", "verse_text": "And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: these shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward." }, { "point_text": "Marched in the centre of Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 2:17", "verse_text": "Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp: as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place by their standards." }, { "point_text": "SERVICES OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Ministering to the Lord", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:8", "verse_text": "At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Ministering to priests", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:6", "verse_text": "Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him." }, { "point_text": "Ministering to priests", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:2", "verse_text": "And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness." }, { "point_text": "Ministering to the people", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 35:3", "verse_text": "And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel," }, { "point_text": "Keeping the charge of the sanctuary", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:3", "verse_text": "And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die." }, { "point_text": "Keeping the charge of the sanctuary", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:32", "verse_text": "And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Keeping sacred instruments and vessels", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:8", "verse_text": "And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle." }, { "point_text": "Keeping sacred instruments and vessels", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 9:28-29", "verse_text": "And certain of them had the charge of the ministering vessels, that they should bring them in and out by tale. 29 Some of them also were appointed to oversee the vessels, and all the instruments of the sanctuary, and the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices." }, { "point_text": "Keeping sacred oil, flour, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 9:29-30", "verse_text": "Some of them also were appointed to oversee the vessels, and all the instruments of the sanctuary, and the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices. 30 And some of the sons of the priests made the ointment of the spices." }, { "point_text": "Keeping sacred treasures", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 26:20", "verse_text": "And of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of the house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things." }, { "point_text": "Taking charge of the tithes, offerings, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:11-19", "verse_text": "Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them, 12 And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next. 13 And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God. 14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the east, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the most holy things. ..." }, { "point_text": "Taking charge of the tithes, offerings, &c", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 12:44", "verse_text": "And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited." }, { "point_text": "Doing the service of tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:19", "verse_text": "And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary." }, { "point_text": "Doing the service of tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:22", "verse_text": "And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and before his sons: as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them." }, { "point_text": "Taking down, putting up, and carrying the tabernacle, &c", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:50", "verse_text": "But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle." }, { "point_text": "Taking down, putting up, and carrying the tabernacle, &c", "verse_ref": "Numbers 4:5-33", "verse_text": "And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it: 6 And shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof. 7 And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon: 8 And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put in the staves thereof. ..." }, { "point_text": "Preparing the sacrifices for the priests", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:31", "verse_text": "And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD in the sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order commanded unto them, continually before the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Preparing the sacrifices for the priests", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 35:11", "verse_text": "And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them." }, { "point_text": "Preparing the show bread", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 9:31", "verse_text": "And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the set office over the things that were made in the pans." }, { "point_text": "Preparing the show bread", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:29", "verse_text": "Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size;" }, { "point_text": "Purifying the holy things", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:28", "verse_text": "Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God;" }, { "point_text": "Regulating weights and measures", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:29", "verse_text": "Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size;" }, { "point_text": "Teaching the people", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 17:8", "verse_text": "And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests." }, { "point_text": "Teaching the people", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 30:22", "verse_text": "And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers." }, { "point_text": "Teaching the people", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 35:3", "verse_text": "And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel," }, { "point_text": "Teaching the people", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:7", "verse_text": "Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place." }, { "point_text": "Blessing the people", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:8", "verse_text": "At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Keeping the gates of the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 9:17-26", "verse_text": "And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief; 18 Who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi. 19 And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: and their fathers, being over the host of the LORD, were keepers of the entry. 20 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them in time past, and the LORD was with him. ..." }, { "point_text": "Keeping the gates of the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:5", "verse_text": "Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith." }, { "point_text": "Keeping the gates of the temple", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 35:15", "verse_text": "And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters waited at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them." }, { "point_text": "Keeping the gates of the temple", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 12:25", "verse_text": "Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates." }, { "point_text": "Conducting the sacred music", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:5-30", "verse_text": "Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith. 6 And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 7 Of the Gershonites were, Laadan, and Shimei. 8 The sons of Laadan; the chief was Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three. ..." }, { "point_text": "Conducting the sacred music", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 5:12-13", "verse_text": "Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:) 13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;" }, { "point_text": "Singing praises before the army", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 20:21-22", "verse_text": "And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy endureth for ever. 22 And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten." }, { "point_text": "Judging and deciding in controversies", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:9", "verse_text": "And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:" }, { "point_text": "Judging and deciding in controversies", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:4", "verse_text": "Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges:" }, { "point_text": "Judging and deciding in controversies", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 19:8", "verse_text": "Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and of the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Guarded king's person and house in times of danger", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 11:5-9", "verse_text": "And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's house; 6 And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down. 7 And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king. 8 And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in. ..." }, { "point_text": "Guarded king's person and house in times of danger", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 23:5-7", "verse_text": "And a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the LORD. 6 But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD. 7 And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever else cometh into the house, he shall be put to death: but be ye with the king when he cometh in, and when he goeth out." }, { "point_text": "Had no inheritance in Israel", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:9", "verse_text": "Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him." }, { "point_text": "Had no inheritance in Israel", "verse_ref": "Joshua 13:33", "verse_text": "But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inheritance: the LORD God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said unto them." }, { "point_text": "Had no inheritance in Israel", "verse_ref": "Joshua 14:3", "verse_text": "For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them." }, { "point_text": "The Jews to be kind and benevolent to", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:12", "verse_text": "And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you." }, { "point_text": "The Jews to be kind and benevolent to", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:18", "verse_text": "But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto." }, { "point_text": "The Jews to be kind and benevolent to", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:29", "verse_text": "And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest." }, { "point_text": "The Jews to be kind and benevolent to", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:11", "verse_text": "And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there." }, { "point_text": "The Jews to be kind and benevolent to", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:14", "verse_text": "And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates." }, { "point_text": "Eight and forty cities with extensive suburbs, appointed for", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:2-8", "verse_text": "Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them. 3 And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts. 4 And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about. 5 And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities. ..." }, { "point_text": "The tithes given to, for their support", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:21", "verse_text": "And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "The tithes given to, for their support", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:24", "verse_text": "But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance." }, { "point_text": "The tithes given to, for their support", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:4-5", "verse_text": "Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD. 5 And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly." }, { "point_text": "Bound to give a tenth of their tithes to the priests", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:26-32", "verse_text": "Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe. 27 And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress. 28 Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the LORD'S heave offering to Aaron the priest. 29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it. ..." }, { "point_text": "Had a part of the offerings", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:1-2", "verse_text": "The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance. 2 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them." }, { "point_text": "DAVID", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Numbered them first from thirty years old", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:2-3", "verse_text": "And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites. 3 Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand." }, { "point_text": "Divided them into four classes", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:4-6", "verse_text": "Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges: 5 Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith. 6 And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari." }, { "point_text": "By his last words had them numbered from twenty years old", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:24", "verse_text": "These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward." }, { "point_text": "By his last words had them numbered from twenty years old", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:27", "verse_text": "For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and above:" }, { "point_text": "Made them serve from twenty on account of the lightness of their duties", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:26", "verse_text": "And also unto the Levites; they shall no more carry the tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for the service thereof." }, { "point_text": "Made them serve from twenty on account of the lightness of their duties", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:28-32", "verse_text": "Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God; 29 Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size; 30 And to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise at even; 31 And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD in the sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order commanded unto them, continually before the LORD: ..." }, { "point_text": "Subdivided them into twenty-four courses", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:6", "verse_text": "And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari." }, { "point_text": "Subdivided them into twenty-four courses", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 25:8-31", "verse_text": "And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar. 9 Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to Gedaliah, who with his brethren and sons were twelve: 10 The third to Zaccur, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 11 The fourth to Izri, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: ..." }, { "point_text": "Made them attend in courses", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 8:14", "verse_text": "And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded." }, { "point_text": "Made them attend in courses", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:17", "verse_text": "Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;" }, { "point_text": "Served in courses after captivity", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:18", "verse_text": "And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses." }, { "point_text": "Had chiefs or officers over them", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:24", "verse_text": "And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael." }, { "point_text": "Had chiefs or officers over them", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:30", "verse_text": "And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel." }, { "point_text": "Had chiefs or officers over them", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:35", "verse_text": "And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: these shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward." }, { "point_text": "Had chiefs or officers over them", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 15:4-10", "verse_text": "And David assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites: 5 Of the sons of Kohath; Uriel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twenty: 6 Of the sons of Merari; Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty: 7 Of the sons of Gershom; Joel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and thirty: ..." }, { "point_text": "Had chiefs or officers over them", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 35:9", "verse_text": "Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen." }, { "point_text": "Had chiefs or officers over them", "verse_ref": "Ezra 8:29", "verse_text": "Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Were all under control of the high priest's deputy", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:32", "verse_text": "And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary." }, { "point_text": "Were all under control of the high priest's deputy", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 9:20", "verse_text": "And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them in time past, and the LORD was with him." }, { "point_text": "While in attendance lodged around the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 9:27", "verse_text": "And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning pertained to them." }, { "point_text": "Punished with death for encroaching on the priestly office", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:3", "verse_text": "And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of Korah and others of, for offering incense", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:1-35", "verse_text": "Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men: 2 And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown: 3 And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD? 4 And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face: ..." }, { "point_text": "Descended from Jacob's third son", "verse_ref": "Genesis 29:34", "verse_text": "And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi." }, { "point_text": "Descended from Jacob's third son", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:9-10", "verse_text": "And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham. 10 For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him." }, { "point_text": "Prophecies respecting", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:5", "verse_text": "Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations." }, { "point_text": "Prophecies respecting", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:7", "verse_text": "Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel." }, { "point_text": "Originally consisted for three families or divisions", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:17", "verse_text": "And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari." }, { "point_text": "Originally consisted for three families or divisions", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 6:16-48", "verse_text": "The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. 17 And these be the names of the sons of Gershom; Libni, and Shimei. 18 And the sons of Kohath were, Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. 19 The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers. ..." }, { "point_text": "Not numbered with Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:47-49", "verse_text": "But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them. 48 For the LORD had spoken unto Moses, saying, 49 Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:" }, { "point_text": "Numbered separately after the people from a month old", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:14-16", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, 15 Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them. 16 And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded." }, { "point_text": "Numbered separately after the people from a month old", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:39", "verse_text": "All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand." }, { "point_text": "FAMILIES, AS NUMBERED,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Of Gershom", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:18", "verse_text": "And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei." }, { "point_text": "Of Gershom", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:21-22", "verse_text": "Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites. 22 Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred." }, { "point_text": "Of Kohath", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:19", "verse_text": "And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel." }, { "point_text": "Of Kohath", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:27-28", "verse_text": "And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites. 28 In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary." }, { "point_text": "Of Merari", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:20", "verse_text": "And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers." }, { "point_text": "Of Merari", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:33-34", "verse_text": "Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari. 34 And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand and two hundred." }, { "point_text": "Chosen by God for service of the sanctuary", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 15:2", "verse_text": "Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister unto him for ever." }, { "point_text": "Chosen by God for service of the sanctuary", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:6", "verse_text": "Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him." }, { "point_text": "Were consecrated", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:6", "verse_text": "Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them." }, { "point_text": "Were consecrated", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:14", "verse_text": "Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine." }, { "point_text": "Taken instead of the first-born of Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:12-13", "verse_text": "And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine; 13 Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Taken instead of the first-born of Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:40-45", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn of the males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names. 41 And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am the LORD) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel. 42 And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel. 43 And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen. ..." }, { "point_text": "Taken instead of the first-born of Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:16-18", "verse_text": "For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel; instead of such as open every womb, even instead of the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me. 17 For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself. 18 And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Zeal against idolatry a cause of their appointment", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:26-28", "verse_text": "Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD'S side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him. 27 And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour. 28 And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men." }, { "point_text": "Zeal against idolatry a cause of their appointment", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:9-10", "verse_text": "Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant. 10 They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar." }, { "point_text": "Entered on their service at twenty-five years of age", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:24", "verse_text": "This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:" }, { "point_text": "Numbered as ministers at thirty", "verse_ref": "Numbers 4:3", "verse_text": "From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "Numbered as ministers at thirty", "verse_ref": "Numbers 4:23-49", "verse_text": "From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation. 24 This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens: 25 And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering of the badgers' skins that is above upon it, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, 26 And the hangings of the court, and the hanging for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and all that is made for them: so shall they serve. ..." }, { "point_text": "Superannuated at fifty", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:25", "verse_text": "And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:" }, { "point_text": "When superannuated, required to perform the less arduous duties", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:26", "verse_text": "But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge." }, { "point_text": "CEREMONIES AT CONSECRATION OF;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Cleansing and purifying", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:7", "verse_text": "And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean." }, { "point_text": "Making a sin-offering for", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:8", "verse_text": "Then let them take a young bullock with his meat offering, even fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou take for a sin offering." }, { "point_text": "Making a sin-offering for", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:12", "verse_text": "And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, unto the LORD, to make an atonement for the Levites." }, { "point_text": "Elders of Israel laying their hands on them", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:9-10", "verse_text": "And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together: 10 And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites:" }, { "point_text": "Presenting them to God as an offering for the people", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:11", "verse_text": "And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for an offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute the service of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Presenting them to God as an offering for the people", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:15", "verse_text": "And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for an offering." }, { "point_text": "Setting before the priest and presenting them as their offering to God", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:13", "verse_text": "And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for an offering unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Given to Aaron and sons", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:9", "verse_text": "And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Given to Aaron and sons", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:19", "verse_text": "And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary." }, { "point_text": "Encamped round the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:50", "verse_text": "But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle." }, { "point_text": "Encamped round the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:52", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts." }, { "point_text": "Encamped round the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:23", "verse_text": "The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward." }, { "point_text": "Encamped round the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:29", "verse_text": "The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward." }, { "point_text": "Encamped round the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:35", "verse_text": "And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: these shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward." }, { "point_text": "Marched in the centre of Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 2:17", "verse_text": "Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp: as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place by their standards." }, { "point_text": "SERVICES OF;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Ministering to the Lord", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:8", "verse_text": "At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Ministering to priests", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:6", "verse_text": "Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him." }, { "point_text": "Ministering to priests", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:2", "verse_text": "And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness." }, { "point_text": "Ministering to the people", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 35:3", "verse_text": "And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel," }, { "point_text": "Keeping the charge of the sanctuary", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:3", "verse_text": "And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die." }, { "point_text": "Keeping the charge of the sanctuary", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:32", "verse_text": "And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Keeping sacred instruments and vessels", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:8", "verse_text": "And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle." }, { "point_text": "Keeping sacred instruments and vessels", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 9:28-29", "verse_text": "And certain of them had the charge of the ministering vessels, that they should bring them in and out by tale. 29 Some of them also were appointed to oversee the vessels, and all the instruments of the sanctuary, and the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices." }, { "point_text": "Keeping sacred oil, flour, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 9:29-30", "verse_text": "Some of them also were appointed to oversee the vessels, and all the instruments of the sanctuary, and the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices. 30 And some of the sons of the priests made the ointment of the spices." }, { "point_text": "Keeping sacred treasures", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 26:20", "verse_text": "And of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of the house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things." }, { "point_text": "Taking charge of the tithes, offerings, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:11-19", "verse_text": "Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them, 12 And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next. 13 And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God. 14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the east, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the most holy things. ..." }, { "point_text": "Taking charge of the tithes, offerings, &c", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 12:44", "verse_text": "And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited." }, { "point_text": "Doing the service of tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:19", "verse_text": "And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary." }, { "point_text": "Doing the service of tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:22", "verse_text": "And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and before his sons: as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them." }, { "point_text": "Taking down, putting up, and carrying the tabernacle, &c", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:50", "verse_text": "But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle." }, { "point_text": "Taking down, putting up, and carrying the tabernacle, &c", "verse_ref": "Numbers 4:5-33", "verse_text": "And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it: 6 And shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof. 7 And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon: 8 And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put in the staves thereof. ..." }, { "point_text": "Preparing the sacrifices for the priests", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:31", "verse_text": "And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD in the sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order commanded unto them, continually before the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Preparing the sacrifices for the priests", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 35:11", "verse_text": "And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them." }, { "point_text": "Preparing the show bread", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 9:31", "verse_text": "And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the set office over the things that were made in the pans." }, { "point_text": "Preparing the show bread", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:29", "verse_text": "Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size;" }, { "point_text": "Purifying the holy things", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:28", "verse_text": "Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God;" }, { "point_text": "Regulating weights and measures", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:29", "verse_text": "Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size;" }, { "point_text": "Teaching the people", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 17:8", "verse_text": "And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests." }, { "point_text": "Teaching the people", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 30:22", "verse_text": "And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers." }, { "point_text": "Teaching the people", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 35:3", "verse_text": "And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel," }, { "point_text": "Teaching the people", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:7", "verse_text": "Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place." }, { "point_text": "Blessing the people", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:8", "verse_text": "At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Keeping the gates of the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 9:17-26", "verse_text": "And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief; 18 Who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi. 19 And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: and their fathers, being over the host of the LORD, were keepers of the entry. 20 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them in time past, and the LORD was with him. ..." }, { "point_text": "Keeping the gates of the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:5", "verse_text": "Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith." }, { "point_text": "Keeping the gates of the temple", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 35:15", "verse_text": "And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters waited at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them." }, { "point_text": "Keeping the gates of the temple", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 12:25", "verse_text": "Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates." }, { "point_text": "Conducting the sacred music", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:5-30", "verse_text": "Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith. 6 And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 7 Of the Gershonites were, Laadan, and Shimei. 8 The sons of Laadan; the chief was Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three. ..." }, { "point_text": "Conducting the sacred music", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 5:12-13", "verse_text": "Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:) 13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;" }, { "point_text": "Singing praises before the army", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 20:21-22", "verse_text": "And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy endureth for ever. 22 And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten." }, { "point_text": "Judging and deciding in controversies", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:9", "verse_text": "And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:" }, { "point_text": "Judging and deciding in controversies", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:4", "verse_text": "Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges:" }, { "point_text": "Judging and deciding in controversies", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 19:8", "verse_text": "Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and of the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Guarded king's person and house in times of danger", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 11:5-9", "verse_text": "And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's house; 6 And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down. 7 And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king. 8 And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in. ..." }, { "point_text": "Guarded king's person and house in times of danger", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 23:5-7", "verse_text": "And a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the LORD. 6 But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD. 7 And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever else cometh into the house, he shall be put to death: but be ye with the king when he cometh in, and when he goeth out." }, { "point_text": "Had no inheritance in Israel", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:9", "verse_text": "Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him." }, { "point_text": "Had no inheritance in Israel", "verse_ref": "Joshua 13:33", "verse_text": "But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inheritance: the LORD God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said unto them." }, { "point_text": "Had no inheritance in Israel", "verse_ref": "Joshua 14:3", "verse_text": "For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them." }, { "point_text": "The Jews to be kind and benevolent to", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:12", "verse_text": "And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you." }, { "point_text": "The Jews to be kind and benevolent to", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:18", "verse_text": "But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto." }, { "point_text": "The Jews to be kind and benevolent to", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:29", "verse_text": "And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest." }, { "point_text": "The Jews to be kind and benevolent to", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:11", "verse_text": "And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there." }, { "point_text": "The Jews to be kind and benevolent to", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:14", "verse_text": "And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates." }, { "point_text": "Eight and forty cities with extensive suburbs, appointed for", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:2-8", "verse_text": "Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them. 3 And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts. 4 And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about. 5 And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities. ..." }, { "point_text": "The tithes given to, for their support", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:21", "verse_text": "And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "The tithes given to, for their support", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:24", "verse_text": "But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance." }, { "point_text": "The tithes given to, for their support", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:4-5", "verse_text": "Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD. 5 And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly." }, { "point_text": "Bound to give a tenth of their tithes to the priests", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:26-32", "verse_text": "Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe. 27 And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress. 28 Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the LORD'S heave offering to Aaron the priest. 29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it. ..." }, { "point_text": "Had a part of the offerings", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:1-2", "verse_text": "The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance. 2 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them." }, { "point_text": "DAVID", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Numbered them first from thirty years old", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:2-3", "verse_text": "And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites. 3 Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand." }, { "point_text": "Divided them into four classes", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:4-6", "verse_text": "Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges: 5 Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith. 6 And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari." }, { "point_text": "By his last words had them numbered from twenty years old", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:24", "verse_text": "These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward." }, { "point_text": "By his last words had them numbered from twenty years old", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:27", "verse_text": "For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and above:" }, { "point_text": "Made them serve from twenty on account of the lightness of their duties", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:26", "verse_text": "And also unto the Levites; they shall no more carry the tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for the service thereof." }, { "point_text": "Made them serve from twenty on account of the lightness of their duties", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:28-32", "verse_text": "Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God; 29 Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size; 30 And to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise at even; 31 And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD in the sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order commanded unto them, continually before the LORD: ..." }, { "point_text": "Subdivided them into twenty-four courses", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:6", "verse_text": "And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari." }, { "point_text": "Subdivided them into twenty-four courses", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 25:8-31", "verse_text": "And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar. 9 Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to Gedaliah, who with his brethren and sons were twelve: 10 The third to Zaccur, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 11 The fourth to Izri, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: ..." }, { "point_text": "Made them attend in courses", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 8:14", "verse_text": "And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded." }, { "point_text": "Made them attend in courses", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:17", "verse_text": "Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;" }, { "point_text": "Served in courses after captivity", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:18", "verse_text": "And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses." }, { "point_text": "Had chiefs or officers over them", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:24", "verse_text": "And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael." }, { "point_text": "Had chiefs or officers over them", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:30", "verse_text": "And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel." }, { "point_text": "Had chiefs or officers over them", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:35", "verse_text": "And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: these shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward." }, { "point_text": "Had chiefs or officers over them", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 15:4-10", "verse_text": "And David assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites: 5 Of the sons of Kohath; Uriel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twenty: 6 Of the sons of Merari; Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty: 7 Of the sons of Gershom; Joel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and thirty: ..." }, { "point_text": "Had chiefs or officers over them", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 35:9", "verse_text": "Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen." }, { "point_text": "Had chiefs or officers over them", "verse_ref": "Ezra 8:29", "verse_text": "Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Were all under control of the high priest's deputy", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:32", "verse_text": "And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary." }, { "point_text": "Were all under control of the high priest's deputy", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 9:20", "verse_text": "And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them in time past, and the LORD was with him." }, { "point_text": "While in attendance lodged around the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 9:27", "verse_text": "And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning pertained to them." }, { "point_text": "Punished with death for encroaching on the priestly office", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:3", "verse_text": "And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of Korah and others of, for offering incense", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:1-35", "verse_text": "Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men: 2 And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown: 3 And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD? 4 And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face: ..." } ] }, { "name": "Locust, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Locust-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "A small insect", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:24", "verse_text": "There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:" }, { "point_text": "A small insect", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:27", "verse_text": "The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;" }, { "point_text": "Clean and fit for food", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:21-22", "verse_text": "Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; 22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Wise", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:24", "verse_text": "There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:" }, { "point_text": "Wise", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:27", "verse_text": "The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;" }, { "point_text": "Voracious", "verse_ref": "Exodus 10:15", "verse_text": "For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Rapid in movement", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:4", "verse_text": "And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them." }, { "point_text": "Like to horses prepared for battle", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:4", "verse_text": "The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run." }, { "point_text": "Like to horses prepared for battle", "verse_ref": "Revelation 9:7", "verse_text": "And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men." }, { "point_text": "Carried every way by the wind", "verse_ref": "Exodus 10:13", "verse_text": "And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts." }, { "point_text": "Carried every way by the wind", "verse_ref": "Exodus 10:19", "verse_text": "And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Immensely numerous", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:34", "verse_text": "He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number," }, { "point_text": "Immensely numerous", "verse_ref": "Nahum 3:15", "verse_text": "There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts." }, { "point_text": "Flies in bands and with order", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:27", "verse_text": "The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;" }, { "point_text": "One of the plagues of Egypt", "verse_ref": "Exodus 10:4-15", "verse_text": "Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast: 5 And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field: 6 And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh. 7 And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed? ..." }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Used as food", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:4", "verse_text": "And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey." }, { "point_text": "Threatened with, as a punishment for sin", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:38", "verse_text": "Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it." }, { "point_text": "Threatened with, as a punishment for sin", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:42", "verse_text": "All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume." }, { "point_text": "Deprecated the plague of", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:37-38", "verse_text": "If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be; 38 What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:" }, { "point_text": "Often plagued by", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:4", "verse_text": "That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten." }, { "point_text": "Often plagued by", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:25", "verse_text": "And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you." }, { "point_text": "Promised deliverance from the plague of, on humiliation, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:13-14", "verse_text": "If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; 14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of destructive enemies", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:6", "verse_text": "For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion." }, { "point_text": "Of destructive enemies", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:2-9", "verse_text": "A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. 3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. 4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. 5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array. ..." }, { "point_text": "Of false teachers of the apostacy", "verse_ref": "Revelation 9:3", "verse_text": "And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power." }, { "point_text": "Of ungodly rulers", "verse_ref": "Nahum 3:17", "verse_text": "Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are." }, { "point_text": "(Destruction of,) of destruction of God's enemies", "verse_ref": "Nahum 3:15", "verse_text": "There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts." } ] }, { "name": "Lion, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Lion-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Canaan infested by", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:25-26", "verse_text": "And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew some of them. 26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Superior in strength", "verse_ref": "Judges 14:18", "verse_text": "And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle." }, { "point_text": "Superior in strength", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:30", "verse_text": "A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any;" }, { "point_text": "Active", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:22", "verse_text": "And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan." }, { "point_text": "Courageous", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 17:10", "verse_text": "And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant men." }, { "point_text": "Fearless even of man", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 31:4", "verse_text": "For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof." }, { "point_text": "Fearless even of man", "verse_ref": "Nahum 2:11", "verse_text": "Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?" }, { "point_text": "Fierce", "verse_ref": "Job 10:16", "verse_text": "For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me." }, { "point_text": "Fierce", "verse_ref": "Job 28:8", "verse_text": "The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it." }, { "point_text": "Voracious", "verse_ref": "Psalm 17:12", "verse_text": "Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places." }, { "point_text": "Majestic in movement", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:29-30", "verse_text": "There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going: 30 A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any;" }, { "point_text": "Greatness of its teeth alluded to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 58:6", "verse_text": "Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD." }, { "point_text": "Greatness of its teeth alluded to", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:6", "verse_text": "For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion." }, { "point_text": "God's power exhibited in restraining", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 13:28", "verse_text": "And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass." }, { "point_text": "God's power exhibited in restraining", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:22", "verse_text": "My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt." }, { "point_text": "God's power exhibited in restraining", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:27", "verse_text": "He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions." }, { "point_text": "God provides for", "verse_ref": "Job 38:39", "verse_text": "Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions," }, { "point_text": "God provides for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:21", "verse_text": "The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God." }, { "point_text": "God provides for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:28", "verse_text": "That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good." }, { "point_text": "Lurketh for its prey", "verse_ref": "Psalm 10:9", "verse_text": "He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net." }, { "point_text": "Roars when seeking prey", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:21", "verse_text": "The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God." }, { "point_text": "Roars when seeking prey", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 31:4", "verse_text": "For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof." }, { "point_text": "Rends its prey", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:20", "verse_text": "And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head." }, { "point_text": "Rends its prey", "verse_ref": "Psalm 7:2", "verse_text": "Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver." }, { "point_text": "Often carries its prey to its den", "verse_ref": "Nahum 2:12", "verse_text": "The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin." }, { "point_text": "Conceals itself by day", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:22", "verse_text": "The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens." }, { "point_text": "Often perishes for lack of food", "verse_ref": "Job 4:11", "verse_text": "The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad." }, { "point_text": "INHABITS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Forests", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:6", "verse_text": "Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased." }, { "point_text": "Thickets", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:7", "verse_text": "The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant." }, { "point_text": "Mountains", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:8", "verse_text": "Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards." }, { "point_text": "Deserts", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:6", "verse_text": "The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them." }, { "point_text": "Attacks the sheepfolds", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:34", "verse_text": "And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:" }, { "point_text": "Attacks the sheepfolds", "verse_ref": "Amos 3:12", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch." }, { "point_text": "Attacks the sheepfolds", "verse_ref": "Micah 5:8", "verse_text": "And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver." }, { "point_text": "Attacks and destroys men", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 13:24", "verse_text": "And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase." }, { "point_text": "Attacks and destroys men", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:36", "verse_text": "Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him." }, { "point_text": "Universal terror caused by roaring of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:15", "verse_text": "The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant." }, { "point_text": "Universal terror caused by roaring of", "verse_ref": "Amos 3:8", "verse_text": "The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?" }, { "point_text": "Criminals often thrown to", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:7", "verse_text": "All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellers, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions." }, { "point_text": "Criminals often thrown to", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:16", "verse_text": "Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee." }, { "point_text": "Criminals often thrown to", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:24", "verse_text": "And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den." }, { "point_text": "Hunting of, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Job 10:16", "verse_text": "For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me." }, { "point_text": "SLAIN BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Samson", "verse_ref": "Judges 14:5-6", "verse_text": "Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him. 6 And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done." }, { "point_text": "David", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:35-36", "verse_text": "And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. 36 Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God." }, { "point_text": "Benaiah", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 23:20", "verse_text": "And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:" }, { "point_text": "A swarm of bees found in the carcass of, by Samson", "verse_ref": "Judges 14:8", "verse_text": "And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion." }, { "point_text": "Disobedient prophet slain by", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 13:24", "verse_text": "And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase." }, { "point_text": "Disobedient prophet slain by", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 13:26", "verse_text": "And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake unto him." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:9", "verse_text": "He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee." }, { "point_text": "Of the tribe of Judah", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:9", "verse_text": "Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?" }, { "point_text": "Of the tribe of Gad", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:20", "verse_text": "And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head." }, { "point_text": "Of Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 5:5", "verse_text": "And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof." }, { "point_text": "Of God in protecting His church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 31:4", "verse_text": "For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof." }, { "point_text": "Of God in executing judgments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:13", "verse_text": "I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me." }, { "point_text": "Of God in executing judgments", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:10", "verse_text": "He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places." }, { "point_text": "Of God in executing judgments", "verse_ref": "Hosea 5:14", "verse_text": "For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him." }, { "point_text": "Of God in executing judgments", "verse_ref": "Hosea 13:8", "verse_text": "I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them." }, { "point_text": "Of boldness of saints", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:1", "verse_text": "The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion." }, { "point_text": "Of brave men", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 1:23", "verse_text": "Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions." }, { "point_text": "Of brave men", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 23:20", "verse_text": "And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:" }, { "point_text": "Of cruel and powerful enemies", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:29", "verse_text": "Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it." }, { "point_text": "Of cruel and powerful enemies", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:19", "verse_text": "Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?" }, { "point_text": "Of cruel and powerful enemies", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:38", "verse_text": "They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps." }, { "point_text": "Of persecutors", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:13", "verse_text": "They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion." }, { "point_text": "Of persecutors", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:17", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion." }, { "point_text": "Of the devil", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:8", "verse_text": "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:" }, { "point_text": "Of imaginary fears of the slothful", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:13", "verse_text": "The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets." }, { "point_text": "Of imaginary fears of the slothful", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:13", "verse_text": "The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets." }, { "point_text": "(Tamed,) of the natural man subdued by grace", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:7", "verse_text": "And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox." }, { "point_text": "(Tamed,) of the natural man subdued by grace", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:25", "verse_text": "The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "(Roaring of,) of a king's wrath", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:12", "verse_text": "The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass." }, { "point_text": "(Roaring of,) of a king's wrath", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:2", "verse_text": "The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul." } ] }, { "name": "Long-suffering of God, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Longsuffering-of-God-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is part of his character", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:6", "verse_text": "And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth," }, { "point_text": "Is part of his character", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:18", "verse_text": "The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation." }, { "point_text": "Is part of his character", "verse_ref": "Psalm 86:15", "verse_text": "But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth." }, { "point_text": "Salvation, the object of", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:15", "verse_text": "And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;" }, { "point_text": "Through Christ's intercession", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:8", "verse_text": "And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:" }, { "point_text": "Should lead to repentance", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:4", "verse_text": "Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?" }, { "point_text": "Should lead to repentance", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:9", "verse_text": "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." }, { "point_text": "An encouragement to repent", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:13", "verse_text": "And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil." }, { "point_text": "Exhibited in forgiving sins", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:25", "verse_text": "Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;" }, { "point_text": "EXERCISED TOWARD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "His people", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:18", "verse_text": "And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him." }, { "point_text": "His people", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:17", "verse_text": "Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "The wicked", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:22", "verse_text": "What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:" }, { "point_text": "The wicked", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:20", "verse_text": "Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water." }, { "point_text": "Plead in prayer", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 15:15", "verse_text": "O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke." }, { "point_text": "Limits set to", "verse_ref": "Genesis 6:3", "verse_text": "And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years." }, { "point_text": "Limits set to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 44:22", "verse_text": "So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Abuse", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 8:11", "verse_text": "Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil." }, { "point_text": "Abuse", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:48-49", "verse_text": "But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; 49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;" }, { "point_text": "Despise", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:4", "verse_text": "Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?" }, { "point_text": "Punished for despising", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:30", "verse_text": "Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands." }, { "point_text": "Punished for despising", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:48-51", "verse_text": "But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; 49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; 50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, 51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." }, { "point_text": "Punished for despising", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:5", "verse_text": "But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;" }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:6", "verse_text": "He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:9", "verse_text": "And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nManasseh, \nIsrael, \n\nJerusalem, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:10-13", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken. 11 Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. 12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, 13 And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nManasseh, \nIsrael, \n\nJerusalem, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:38", "verse_text": "But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nManasseh, \nIsrael, \n\nJerusalem, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 48:9", "verse_text": "For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nManasseh, \nIsrael, \n\nJerusalem, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:37", "verse_text": "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nManasseh, \nIsrael, \n\nJerusalem, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:16", "verse_text": "Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting." } ] }, { "name": "Liberality", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Liberality.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Pleasing to God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 9:7", "verse_text": "Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver." }, { "point_text": "Pleasing to God", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:16", "verse_text": "But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased." }, { "point_text": "God never forgets", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:10", "verse_text": "For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister." }, { "point_text": "Christ set an example of", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:9", "verse_text": "For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich." }, { "point_text": "Characteristic of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 112:9", "verse_text": "He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour." }, { "point_text": "Characteristic of saints", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:8", "verse_text": "But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand." }, { "point_text": "Unprofitable, without love", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 13:3", "verse_text": "And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE EXERCISED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In the service of God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 35:21-29", "verse_text": "And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought the LORD'S offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments. 22 And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the LORD. 23 And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, and red skins of rams, and badgers' skins, brought them. 24 Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought the LORD'S offering: and every man, with whom was found shittim wood for any work of the service, brought it. ..." }, { "point_text": "Toward saints", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:13", "verse_text": "Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality." }, { "point_text": "Toward saints", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:10", "verse_text": "As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith." }, { "point_text": "Toward servants", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 15:12-14", "verse_text": "And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. 13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: 14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him." }, { "point_text": "Toward the poor", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 15:11", "verse_text": "For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land." }, { "point_text": "Toward the poor", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:7", "verse_text": "Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?" }, { "point_text": "Toward strangers", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:35", "verse_text": "And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee." }, { "point_text": "Toward enemies", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:21", "verse_text": "If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:" }, { "point_text": "Toward all men", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:10", "verse_text": "As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith." }, { "point_text": "In leading to those in want", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:42", "verse_text": "Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away." }, { "point_text": "In giving alms", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:33", "verse_text": "Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth." }, { "point_text": "In relieving the destitute", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:7", "verse_text": "Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?" }, { "point_text": "In forwarding missions", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:14-16", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction. 15 Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only. 16 For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity." }, { "point_text": "In rendering personal services", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:30", "verse_text": "Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me." }, { "point_text": "Without ostentation", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:1-3", "verse_text": "Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. 2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. 3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:" }, { "point_text": "With simplicity", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:8", "verse_text": "Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness." }, { "point_text": "According to ability", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:10", "verse_text": "And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:" }, { "point_text": "According to ability", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:17", "verse_text": "Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee." }, { "point_text": "According to ability", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 16:2", "verse_text": "Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come." }, { "point_text": "Willingly", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:2", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering." }, { "point_text": "Willingly", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:12", "verse_text": "For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not." }, { "point_text": "Abundantly", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:7", "verse_text": "Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also." }, { "point_text": "Abundantly", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 9:11-13", "verse_text": "Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God. 12 For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God; 13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;" }, { "point_text": "Exercise of, provokes others to", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 9:2", "verse_text": "For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many." }, { "point_text": "Labor to be enabled to exercise", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:35", "verse_text": "I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive." }, { "point_text": "Labor to be enabled to exercise", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:28", "verse_text": "Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth." }, { "point_text": "WANT OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Brings many a curse", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:27", "verse_text": "He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse." }, { "point_text": "A proof of not loving God", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:17", "verse_text": "But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?" }, { "point_text": "A proof of not having faith", "verse_ref": "James 2:14-16", "verse_text": "What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, 16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?" }, { "point_text": "Blessings connected with", "verse_ref": "Psalm 41:1", "verse_text": "Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble." }, { "point_text": "Blessings connected with", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:9", "verse_text": "He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor." }, { "point_text": "Blessings connected with", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:35", "verse_text": "I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive." }, { "point_text": "Promises to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 112:9", "verse_text": "He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour." }, { "point_text": "Promises to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:25", "verse_text": "The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself." }, { "point_text": "Promises to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:27", "verse_text": "He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse." }, { "point_text": "Promises to", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 11:1-2", "verse_text": "Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. 2 Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to", "verse_ref": "Luke 3:11", "verse_text": "He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:41", "verse_text": "But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:35", "verse_text": "I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 16:1", "verse_text": "Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:17-18", "verse_text": "Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; 18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPrinces of Israel, \nBoaz, \nDavid, \n\nBarzillai, &c. \nAraunah, \nShunammite, \n\nJudah, \nNehemiah, \nJews, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nJoanna, &c. \nZaccheus, \nPrimitive Christians, \nBarnabas, \nDorcas, \nCornelius, \nChurch of Antioch, \nLydia, \nPaul, \nStephanas, &c", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:2", "verse_text": "That the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their fathers, who were the princes of the tribes, and were over them that were numbered, offered:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPrinces of Israel, \nBoaz, \nDavid, \n\nBarzillai, &c. \nAraunah, \nShunammite, \n\nJudah, \nNehemiah, \nJews, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nJoanna, &c. \nZaccheus, \nPrimitive Christians, \nBarnabas, \nDorcas, \nCornelius, \nChurch of Antioch, \nLydia, \nPaul, \nStephanas, &c", "verse_ref": "Ruth 2:16", "verse_text": "And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPrinces of Israel, \nBoaz, \nDavid, \n\nBarzillai, &c. \nAraunah, \nShunammite, \n\nJudah, \nNehemiah, \nJews, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nJoanna, &c. \nZaccheus, \nPrimitive Christians, \nBarnabas, \nDorcas, \nCornelius, \nChurch of Antioch, \nLydia, \nPaul, \nStephanas, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 9:7", "verse_text": "And David said unto him, Fear not: for I will surely shew thee kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPrinces of Israel, \nBoaz, \nDavid, \n\nBarzillai, &c. \nAraunah, \nShunammite, \n\nJudah, \nNehemiah, \nJews, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nJoanna, &c. \nZaccheus, \nPrimitive Christians, \nBarnabas, \nDorcas, \nCornelius, \nChurch of Antioch, \nLydia, \nPaul, \nStephanas, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 9:10", "verse_text": "Thou therefore, and thy sons, and thy servants, shall till the land for him, and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy master's son may have food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread alway at my table. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPrinces of Israel, \nBoaz, \nDavid, \n\nBarzillai, &c. \nAraunah, \nShunammite, \n\nJudah, \nNehemiah, \nJews, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nJoanna, &c. \nZaccheus, \nPrimitive Christians, \nBarnabas, \nDorcas, \nCornelius, \nChurch of Antioch, \nLydia, \nPaul, \nStephanas, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 17:28", "verse_text": "Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPrinces of Israel, \nBoaz, \nDavid, \n\nBarzillai, &c. \nAraunah, \nShunammite, \n\nJudah, \nNehemiah, \nJews, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nJoanna, &c. \nZaccheus, \nPrimitive Christians, \nBarnabas, \nDorcas, \nCornelius, \nChurch of Antioch, \nLydia, \nPaul, \nStephanas, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:22", "verse_text": "And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPrinces of Israel, \nBoaz, \nDavid, \n\nBarzillai, &c. \nAraunah, \nShunammite, \n\nJudah, \nNehemiah, \nJews, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nJoanna, &c. \nZaccheus, \nPrimitive Christians, \nBarnabas, \nDorcas, \nCornelius, \nChurch of Antioch, \nLydia, \nPaul, \nStephanas, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:8", "verse_text": "And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPrinces of Israel, \nBoaz, \nDavid, \n\nBarzillai, &c. \nAraunah, \nShunammite, \n\nJudah, \nNehemiah, \nJews, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nJoanna, &c. \nZaccheus, \nPrimitive Christians, \nBarnabas, \nDorcas, \nCornelius, \nChurch of Antioch, \nLydia, \nPaul, \nStephanas, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:10", "verse_text": "Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPrinces of Israel, \nBoaz, \nDavid, \n\nBarzillai, &c. \nAraunah, \nShunammite, \n\nJudah, \nNehemiah, \nJews, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nJoanna, &c. \nZaccheus, \nPrimitive Christians, \nBarnabas, \nDorcas, \nCornelius, \nChurch of Antioch, \nLydia, \nPaul, \nStephanas, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 24:10-11", "verse_text": "And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end. 11 Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king's office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king's scribe and the high priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPrinces of Israel, \nBoaz, \nDavid, \n\nBarzillai, &c. \nAraunah, \nShunammite, \n\nJudah, \nNehemiah, \nJews, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nJoanna, &c. \nZaccheus, \nPrimitive Christians, \nBarnabas, \nDorcas, \nCornelius, \nChurch of Antioch, \nLydia, \nPaul, \nStephanas, &c", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 7:70", "verse_text": "And some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty basons, five hundred and thirty priests' garments." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPrinces of Israel, \nBoaz, \nDavid, \n\nBarzillai, &c. \nAraunah, \nShunammite, \n\nJudah, \nNehemiah, \nJews, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nJoanna, &c. \nZaccheus, \nPrimitive Christians, \nBarnabas, \nDorcas, \nCornelius, \nChurch of Antioch, \nLydia, \nPaul, \nStephanas, &c", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 7:71-72", "verse_text": "And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pound of silver. 72 And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pound of silver, and threescore and seven priests' garments." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPrinces of Israel, \nBoaz, \nDavid, \n\nBarzillai, &c. \nAraunah, \nShunammite, \n\nJudah, \nNehemiah, \nJews, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nJoanna, &c. \nZaccheus, \nPrimitive Christians, \nBarnabas, \nDorcas, \nCornelius, \nChurch of Antioch, \nLydia, \nPaul, \nStephanas, &c", "verse_ref": "Job 29:15-16", "verse_text": "I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. 16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPrinces of Israel, \nBoaz, \nDavid, \n\nBarzillai, &c. \nAraunah, \nShunammite, \n\nJudah, \nNehemiah, \nJews, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nJoanna, &c. \nZaccheus, \nPrimitive Christians, \nBarnabas, \nDorcas, \nCornelius, \nChurch of Antioch, \nLydia, \nPaul, \nStephanas, &c", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 40:4-5", "verse_text": "And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which were upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land is before thee: whither it seemeth good and convenient for thee to go, thither go. 5 Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward, and let him go." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPrinces of Israel, \nBoaz, \nDavid, \n\nBarzillai, &c. \nAraunah, \nShunammite, \n\nJudah, \nNehemiah, \nJews, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nJoanna, &c. \nZaccheus, \nPrimitive Christians, \nBarnabas, \nDorcas, \nCornelius, \nChurch of Antioch, \nLydia, \nPaul, \nStephanas, &c", "verse_ref": "Luke 8:3", "verse_text": "And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPrinces of Israel, \nBoaz, \nDavid, \n\nBarzillai, &c. \nAraunah, \nShunammite, \n\nJudah, \nNehemiah, \nJews, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nJoanna, &c. \nZaccheus, \nPrimitive Christians, \nBarnabas, \nDorcas, \nCornelius, \nChurch of Antioch, \nLydia, \nPaul, \nStephanas, &c", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:8", "verse_text": "And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPrinces of Israel, \nBoaz, \nDavid, \n\nBarzillai, &c. \nAraunah, \nShunammite, \n\nJudah, \nNehemiah, \nJews, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nJoanna, &c. \nZaccheus, \nPrimitive Christians, \nBarnabas, \nDorcas, \nCornelius, \nChurch of Antioch, \nLydia, \nPaul, \nStephanas, &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:45", "verse_text": "And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPrinces of Israel, \nBoaz, \nDavid, \n\nBarzillai, &c. \nAraunah, \nShunammite, \n\nJudah, \nNehemiah, \nJews, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nJoanna, &c. \nZaccheus, \nPrimitive Christians, \nBarnabas, \nDorcas, \nCornelius, \nChurch of Antioch, \nLydia, \nPaul, \nStephanas, &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:36-37", "verse_text": "And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus, 37 Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPrinces of Israel, \nBoaz, \nDavid, \n\nBarzillai, &c. \nAraunah, \nShunammite, \n\nJudah, \nNehemiah, \nJews, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nJoanna, &c. \nZaccheus, \nPrimitive Christians, \nBarnabas, \nDorcas, \nCornelius, \nChurch of Antioch, \nLydia, \nPaul, \nStephanas, &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:36", "verse_text": "Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPrinces of Israel, \nBoaz, \nDavid, \n\nBarzillai, &c. \nAraunah, \nShunammite, \n\nJudah, \nNehemiah, \nJews, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nJoanna, &c. \nZaccheus, \nPrimitive Christians, \nBarnabas, \nDorcas, \nCornelius, \nChurch of Antioch, \nLydia, \nPaul, \nStephanas, &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:2", "verse_text": "Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPrinces of Israel, \nBoaz, \nDavid, \n\nBarzillai, &c. \nAraunah, \nShunammite, \n\nJudah, \nNehemiah, \nJews, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nJoanna, &c. \nZaccheus, \nPrimitive Christians, \nBarnabas, \nDorcas, \nCornelius, \nChurch of Antioch, \nLydia, \nPaul, \nStephanas, &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:29-30", "verse_text": "Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea: 30 Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPrinces of Israel, \nBoaz, \nDavid, \n\nBarzillai, &c. \nAraunah, \nShunammite, \n\nJudah, \nNehemiah, \nJews, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nJoanna, &c. \nZaccheus, \nPrimitive Christians, \nBarnabas, \nDorcas, \nCornelius, \nChurch of Antioch, \nLydia, \nPaul, \nStephanas, &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:15", "verse_text": "And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPrinces of Israel, \nBoaz, \nDavid, \n\nBarzillai, &c. \nAraunah, \nShunammite, \n\nJudah, \nNehemiah, \nJews, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nJoanna, &c. \nZaccheus, \nPrimitive Christians, \nBarnabas, \nDorcas, \nCornelius, \nChurch of Antioch, \nLydia, \nPaul, \nStephanas, &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:34", "verse_text": "Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPrinces of Israel, \nBoaz, \nDavid, \n\nBarzillai, &c. \nAraunah, \nShunammite, \n\nJudah, \nNehemiah, \nJews, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nJoanna, &c. \nZaccheus, \nPrimitive Christians, \nBarnabas, \nDorcas, \nCornelius, \nChurch of Antioch, \nLydia, \nPaul, \nStephanas, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 16:17", "verse_text": "I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied." }, { "point_text": "Extraordinary--Exemplified.\r\n\nIsraelites, \nPoor widow, \nChurches of Macedonia,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 36:5", "verse_text": "And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which the LORD commanded to make." }, { "point_text": "Extraordinary--Exemplified.\r\n\nIsraelites, \nPoor widow, \nChurches of Macedonia,", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:42-44", "verse_text": "And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. 43 And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: 44 For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living." }, { "point_text": "Extraordinary--Exemplified.\r\n\nIsraelites, \nPoor widow, \nChurches of Macedonia,", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:1-5", "verse_text": "Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; 2 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. 3 For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves; 4 Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. ..." } ] }, { "name": "Love of God, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Love-of-God-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is a part of His character", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 13:11", "verse_text": "Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you." }, { "point_text": "Is a part of His character", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:8", "verse_text": "He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love." }, { "point_text": "Christ, the especial object of", "verse_ref": "John 15:9", "verse_text": "As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love." }, { "point_text": "Christ, the especial object of", "verse_ref": "John 17:26", "verse_text": "And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them." }, { "point_text": "Christ abides in", "verse_ref": "John 15:10", "verse_text": "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Sovereign", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:8", "verse_text": "But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Sovereign", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:15", "verse_text": "Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day." }, { "point_text": "Great", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:4", "verse_text": "But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us," }, { "point_text": "Abiding", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 3:17", "verse_text": "The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing." }, { "point_text": "Unfailing", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:15-16", "verse_text": "Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. 16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me." }, { "point_text": "Unalienable", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:39", "verse_text": "Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." }, { "point_text": "Constraining", "verse_ref": "Hosea 11:4", "verse_text": "I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them." }, { "point_text": "Everlasting", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:3", "verse_text": "The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee." }, { "point_text": "Irrespective of merit", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:7", "verse_text": "The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:" }, { "point_text": "Irrespective of merit", "verse_ref": "Job 7:17", "verse_text": "What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?" }, { "point_text": "MANIFESTED TOWARDS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Perishing sinners", "verse_ref": "John 3:16", "verse_text": "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." }, { "point_text": "Perishing sinners", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:4", "verse_text": "But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared," }, { "point_text": "His saints", "verse_ref": "John 16:27", "verse_text": "For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God." }, { "point_text": "His saints", "verse_ref": "John 17:23", "verse_text": "I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me." }, { "point_text": "His saints", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:16", "verse_text": "Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace," }, { "point_text": "His saints", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:16", "verse_text": "And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him." }, { "point_text": "The destitute", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:18", "verse_text": "He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment." }, { "point_text": "The cheerful giver", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 9:7", "verse_text": "Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver." }, { "point_text": "EXHIBITED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The giving of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 3:16", "verse_text": "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." }, { "point_text": "The sending of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:9", "verse_text": "In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him." }, { "point_text": "Christ's dying for us while sinners", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:8", "verse_text": "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." }, { "point_text": "Christ's dying for us while sinners", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:10", "verse_text": "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins." }, { "point_text": "Election", "verse_ref": "Malachi 1:2-3", "verse_text": "I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, 3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "Adoption", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:1", "verse_text": "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not." }, { "point_text": "Redemption", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 43:3", "verse_text": "For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee." }, { "point_text": "Redemption", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:9", "verse_text": "In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old." }, { "point_text": "Freeness of salvation", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:4-7", "verse_text": "But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, 5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; 6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; 7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life." }, { "point_text": "Forgiving sin", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:17", "verse_text": "Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back." }, { "point_text": "Quickening souls", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:4-5", "verse_text": "But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)" }, { "point_text": "Drawing us to Himself", "verse_ref": "Hosea 11:4", "verse_text": "I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them." }, { "point_text": "Temporal blessings", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:13", "verse_text": "And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee." }, { "point_text": "Chastisements", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:6", "verse_text": "For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth." }, { "point_text": "Defeating evil counsels", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:5", "verse_text": "Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee." }, { "point_text": "Shed abroad in the heart by the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:5", "verse_text": "And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us." }, { "point_text": "Saints know and believe", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:16", "verse_text": "And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him." }, { "point_text": "Saints should abide in", "verse_ref": "Jude 21", "verse_text": "Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life." }, { "point_text": "PERFECTED IN SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "By obedience", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:5", "verse_text": "But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him." }, { "point_text": "By brotherly love", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:12", "verse_text": "No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us." }, { "point_text": "The source of our love to Him", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:19", "verse_text": "We love him, because he first loved us." }, { "point_text": "To be sought in prayer", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 13:14", "verse_text": "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen." } ] }, { "name": "Love to Christ", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Love-to-Christ.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Exhibited by God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 17:5", "verse_text": "While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him." }, { "point_text": "Exhibited by God", "verse_ref": "John 5:20", "verse_text": "For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel." }, { "point_text": "Exhibited by saints", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:8", "verse_text": "Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:" }, { "point_text": "His personal excellence is deserving of", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:9-16", "verse_text": "What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us? 10 My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. 11 His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven. 12 His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set. ..." }, { "point_text": "His love to us a motive to", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:14", "verse_text": "For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:" }, { "point_text": "MANIFESTED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Seeking Him", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 3:2", "verse_text": "I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not." }, { "point_text": "Obeying Him", "verse_ref": "John 14:15", "verse_text": "If ye love me, keep my commandments." }, { "point_text": "Obeying Him", "verse_ref": "John 14:21", "verse_text": "He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him." }, { "point_text": "Obeying Him", "verse_ref": "John 14:23", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him." }, { "point_text": "Ministering to Him", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:55", "verse_text": "And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:" }, { "point_text": "Ministering to Him", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:40", "verse_text": "And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." }, { "point_text": "Preferring Him to all others", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:37", "verse_text": "He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me." }, { "point_text": "Taking up the cross for Him", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:38", "verse_text": "And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of saints", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 1:4", "verse_text": "Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee." }, { "point_text": "An evidence of adoption", "verse_ref": "John 8:42", "verse_text": "Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Sincere", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:24", "verse_text": "Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen." }, { "point_text": "With the soul", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 1:7", "verse_text": "Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?" }, { "point_text": "In proportion to our mercies", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:47", "verse_text": "Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little." }, { "point_text": "Supreme", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:37", "verse_text": "He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me." }, { "point_text": "Ardent", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:5", "verse_text": "Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love." }, { "point_text": "Ardent", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 8:6", "verse_text": "Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame." }, { "point_text": "Unquenchable", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 8:7", "verse_text": "Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned." }, { "point_text": "Even unto death", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:13", "verse_text": "Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Even unto death", "verse_ref": "Revelation 12:11", "verse_text": "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death." }, { "point_text": "Promises to", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:8", "verse_text": "Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing." }, { "point_text": "Promises to", "verse_ref": "James 1:12", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him." }, { "point_text": "Increase of, to be prayed for", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:9", "verse_text": "And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;" }, { "point_text": "Pray for grace to those who have", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:24", "verse_text": "Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen." }, { "point_text": "THEY WHO HAVE,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Are loved by the Father", "verse_ref": "John 14:21", "verse_text": "He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him." }, { "point_text": "Are loved by the Father", "verse_ref": "John 16:27", "verse_text": "For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God." }, { "point_text": "Are loved by Christ", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 8:17", "verse_text": "I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me." }, { "point_text": "Are loved by Christ", "verse_ref": "John 14:21", "verse_text": "He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him." }, { "point_text": "Enjoy communion with God and Christ", "verse_ref": "John 14:23", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him." }, { "point_text": "Decrease of, rebuked", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:4", "verse_text": "Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love." }, { "point_text": "Want of, denounced", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 16:22", "verse_text": "If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha." }, { "point_text": "The wicked, destitute of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 35:19", "verse_text": "Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause." }, { "point_text": "The wicked, destitute of", "verse_ref": "John 15:18", "verse_text": "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you." }, { "point_text": "The wicked, destitute of", "verse_ref": "John 15:25", "verse_text": "But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph of Arimathea, \nPenitent woman, \nCertain women, \nThomas, \nMary Magdalene, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:57-60", "verse_text": "When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple: 58 He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. 59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph of Arimathea, \nPenitent woman, \nCertain women, \nThomas, \nMary Magdalene, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:47", "verse_text": "Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph of Arimathea, \nPenitent woman, \nCertain women, \nThomas, \nMary Magdalene, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:28", "verse_text": "But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph of Arimathea, \nPenitent woman, \nCertain women, \nThomas, \nMary Magdalene, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "John 11:16", "verse_text": "Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellowdisciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph of Arimathea, \nPenitent woman, \nCertain women, \nThomas, \nMary Magdalene, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "John 20:11", "verse_text": "But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph of Arimathea, \nPenitent woman, \nCertain women, \nThomas, \nMary Magdalene, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "John 21:15-17", "verse_text": "So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs. 16 He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep. 17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph of Arimathea, \nPenitent woman, \nCertain women, \nThomas, \nMary Magdalene, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:13", "verse_text": "Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus." } ] }, { "name": "Love to God", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Love-to-God.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:1", "verse_text": "Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway." }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Joshua 22:5", "verse_text": "But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul." }, { "point_text": "The first great commandment", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:38", "verse_text": "This is the first and great commandment." }, { "point_text": "With all the heart", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 6:5", "verse_text": "And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." }, { "point_text": "With all the heart", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:37", "verse_text": "Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." }, { "point_text": "Better than all sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:33", "verse_text": "And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices." }, { "point_text": "PRODUCED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:22", "verse_text": "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith," }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 3:5", "verse_text": "And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ." }, { "point_text": "The love of God to us", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:19", "verse_text": "We love him, because he first loved us." }, { "point_text": "Answers to prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 116:1", "verse_text": "I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications." }, { "point_text": "Exhibited by Christ", "verse_ref": "John 14:31", "verse_text": "But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 5:11", "verse_text": "But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD PRODUCE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Joy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 5:11", "verse_text": "But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee." }, { "point_text": "Love to saints", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:1", "verse_text": "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him." }, { "point_text": "Hatred of sin", "verse_ref": "Psalm 97:10", "verse_text": "Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked." }, { "point_text": "Obedience to God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 30:20", "verse_text": "That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them." }, { "point_text": "Obedience to God", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:3", "verse_text": "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous." }, { "point_text": "Perfected in obedience", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:5", "verse_text": "But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him." }, { "point_text": "Perfected, gives boldness", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:17-18", "verse_text": "Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love." }, { "point_text": "God, faithful to those who have", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:9", "verse_text": "Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;" }, { "point_text": "THEY WHO HAVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Are known of Him", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 8:3", "verse_text": "But if any man love God, the same is known of him." }, { "point_text": "Are preserved by Him", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:20", "verse_text": "The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy." }, { "point_text": "Are delivered by Him", "verse_ref": "Psalm 91:14", "verse_text": "Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name." }, { "point_text": "Partake of His mercy", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:6", "verse_text": "And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments." }, { "point_text": "Partake of His mercy", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:9", "verse_text": "Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;" }, { "point_text": "Have all things working for their good", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:28", "verse_text": "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." }, { "point_text": "Persevere in", "verse_ref": "Jude 21", "verse_text": "Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life." }, { "point_text": "Exhort one another to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 31:23", "verse_text": "O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer." }, { "point_text": "Pray for", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 3:5", "verse_text": "And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ." }, { "point_text": "The love of the world is a proof of not having", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:15", "verse_text": "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." }, { "point_text": "They who love not others, are without", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:20", "verse_text": "If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?" }, { "point_text": "Hypocrites, without", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:42", "verse_text": "But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone." }, { "point_text": "Hypocrites, without", "verse_ref": "John 5:42", "verse_text": "But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you." }, { "point_text": "The uncharitable, without", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:17", "verse_text": "But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?" }, { "point_text": "God tries the sincerity of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 13:3", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul." }, { "point_text": "Promises connected with", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:13-15", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. 15 And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full." }, { "point_text": "Promises connected with", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:36", "verse_text": "The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein." }, { "point_text": "Promises connected with", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:6-7", "verse_text": "Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; 7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people." } ] }, { "name": "Loving-kindness of God, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Lovingkindness-of-God-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is through Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:7", "verse_text": "That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Is through Christ", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:4-6", "verse_text": "But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, 5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; 6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;" }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Great", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:17", "verse_text": "And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not." }, { "point_text": "Excellent", "verse_ref": "Psalm 36:7", "verse_text": "How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings." }, { "point_text": "Good", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:16", "verse_text": "Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies." }, { "point_text": "Marvellous", "verse_ref": "Psalm 17:7", "verse_text": "Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them." }, { "point_text": "Marvellous", "verse_ref": "Psalm 31:21", "verse_text": "Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city." }, { "point_text": "Multitudinous", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:7", "verse_text": "I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses." }, { "point_text": "Everlasting", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:8", "verse_text": "In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer." }, { "point_text": "Merciful", "verse_ref": "Psalm 117:2", "verse_text": "For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Better than life", "verse_ref": "Psalm 63:3", "verse_text": "Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee." }, { "point_text": "Consideration of the dealings of God gives a knowledge of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:43", "verse_text": "Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Betrothed in", "verse_ref": "Hosea 2:19", "verse_text": "And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies." }, { "point_text": "Drawn by", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:3", "verse_text": "The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee." }, { "point_text": "Preserved by", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:11", "verse_text": "Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me." }, { "point_text": "Quickened after", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:88", "verse_text": "Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth." }, { "point_text": "Comforted by", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:76", "verse_text": "Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant." }, { "point_text": "Look for mercy through", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:1", "verse_text": "Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions." }, { "point_text": "Receive mercy through", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:8", "verse_text": "In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer." }, { "point_text": "Are heard according to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:149", "verse_text": "Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment." }, { "point_text": "Are ever mindful of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 26:3", "verse_text": "For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth." }, { "point_text": "Are ever mindful of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 48:9", "verse_text": "We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple." }, { "point_text": "Should expect, in affliction", "verse_ref": "Psalm 42:7-8", "verse_text": "Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. 8 Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life." }, { "point_text": "Crowned with", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:4", "verse_text": "Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;" }, { "point_text": "Never utterly taken from saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:33", "verse_text": "Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail." }, { "point_text": "Never utterly taken from saints", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:10", "verse_text": "For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee." }, { "point_text": "Former manifestations of, to be pleaded in prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 25:6", "verse_text": "Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old." }, { "point_text": "Former manifestations of, to be pleaded in prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:49", "verse_text": "Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?" }, { "point_text": "PRAY FOR THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Exhibition of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 17:7", "verse_text": "Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them." }, { "point_text": "Exhibition of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 143:8", "verse_text": "Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Continuance of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 36:10", "verse_text": "O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart." }, { "point_text": "Extension of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:12", "verse_text": "And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham." }, { "point_text": "Extension of", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 2:6", "verse_text": "And now the LORD shew kindness and truth unto you: and I also will requite you this kindness, because ye have done this thing." }, { "point_text": "Praise God for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 92:2", "verse_text": "To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night," }, { "point_text": "Praise God for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 138:2", "verse_text": "I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name." }, { "point_text": "Proclaim", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:10", "verse_text": "I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation." } ] }, { "name": "Love of Christ, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Love-of-Christ-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "To the Father", "verse_ref": "Psalm 91:14", "verse_text": "Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name." }, { "point_text": "To the Father", "verse_ref": "John 14:31", "verse_text": "But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence." }, { "point_text": "To His church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:8", "verse_text": "Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards." }, { "point_text": "To His church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:1", "verse_text": "I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved." }, { "point_text": "To His church", "verse_ref": "John 15:9", "verse_text": "As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love." }, { "point_text": "To His church", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:25", "verse_text": "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;" }, { "point_text": "To those who love Him", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 8:17", "verse_text": "I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me." }, { "point_text": "To those who love Him", "verse_ref": "John 14:21", "verse_text": "He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him." }, { "point_text": "MANIFESTED IN HIS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Coming to seek the lost", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:10", "verse_text": "For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost." }, { "point_text": "Praying for his enemies", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:34", "verse_text": "Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots." }, { "point_text": "Giving himself for us", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:20", "verse_text": "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." }, { "point_text": "Dying for us", "verse_ref": "John 15:13", "verse_text": "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." }, { "point_text": "Dying for us", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:16", "verse_text": "Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren." }, { "point_text": "Washing away our sins", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:5", "verse_text": "And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood," }, { "point_text": "Interceding for us", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:25", "verse_text": "Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them." }, { "point_text": "Interceding for us", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:24", "verse_text": "For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:" }, { "point_text": "Sending the Spirit", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:18", "verse_text": "Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them." }, { "point_text": "Sending the Spirit", "verse_ref": "John 16:7", "verse_text": "Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you." }, { "point_text": "Rebukes and chastisements", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:19", "verse_text": "As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent." }, { "point_text": "Passeth knowledge", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:19", "verse_text": "And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." }, { "point_text": "To be imitated", "verse_ref": "John 13:34", "verse_text": "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." }, { "point_text": "To be imitated", "verse_ref": "John 15:12", "verse_text": "This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you." }, { "point_text": "To be imitated", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:2", "verse_text": "And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour." }, { "point_text": "To be imitated", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:16", "verse_text": "Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren." }, { "point_text": "TO SAINTS, IS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Unquenchable", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 8:7", "verse_text": "Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned." }, { "point_text": "Constraining", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:14", "verse_text": "For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:" }, { "point_text": "Unchangeable", "verse_ref": "John 13:1", "verse_text": "Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end." }, { "point_text": "Indissoluble", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:35", "verse_text": "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?" }, { "point_text": "Obedient saints abide in", "verse_ref": "John 15:10", "verse_text": "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love." }, { "point_text": "Saints obtain victory through", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:37", "verse_text": "Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us." }, { "point_text": "Is the banner over His saints", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:4", "verse_text": "He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love." }, { "point_text": "Is the ground of His saints love to Him", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:47", "verse_text": "Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little." }, { "point_text": "To saints, shall be acknowledged even by enemies", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:9", "verse_text": "Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:11-13", "verse_text": "For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost. 12 How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? 13 And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified towards.\r\n\nPeter, \n\nLazarus, &c. \n\nHis apostles, \n\nJohn,", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:32", "verse_text": "But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified towards.\r\n\nPeter, \n\nLazarus, &c. \n\nHis apostles, \n\nJohn,", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:61", "verse_text": "And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified towards.\r\n\nPeter, \n\nLazarus, &c. \n\nHis apostles, \n\nJohn,", "verse_ref": "John 11:5", "verse_text": "Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified towards.\r\n\nPeter, \n\nLazarus, &c. \n\nHis apostles, \n\nJohn,", "verse_ref": "John 11:36", "verse_text": "Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him!" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified towards.\r\n\nPeter, \n\nLazarus, &c. \n\nHis apostles, \n\nJohn,", "verse_ref": "John 13:1", "verse_text": "Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified towards.\r\n\nPeter, \n\nLazarus, &c. \n\nHis apostles, \n\nJohn,", "verse_ref": "John 13:34", "verse_text": "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified towards.\r\n\nPeter, \n\nLazarus, &c. \n\nHis apostles, \n\nJohn,", "verse_ref": "John 13:23", "verse_text": "Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved." } ] }, { "name": "Liberty, Christian", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Liberty-Christian.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:7", "verse_text": "To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house." }, { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:1", "verse_text": "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;" }, { "point_text": "CONFERRED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "By God", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:13", "verse_text": "Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:" }, { "point_text": "By Christ", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:3-5", "verse_text": "Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: 4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons." }, { "point_text": "By Christ", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:1", "verse_text": "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage." }, { "point_text": "By the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:15", "verse_text": "For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." }, { "point_text": "By the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 3:17", "verse_text": "Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." }, { "point_text": "Through the gospel", "verse_ref": "John 8:32", "verse_text": "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." }, { "point_text": "Confirmed by Christ", "verse_ref": "John 8:36", "verse_text": "If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." }, { "point_text": "Proclaimed by Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:1", "verse_text": "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;" }, { "point_text": "Proclaimed by Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:18", "verse_text": "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised," }, { "point_text": "The service of Christ is", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:22", "verse_text": "For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant." }, { "point_text": "IS FREEDOM FROM", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The law", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:6", "verse_text": "But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter." }, { "point_text": "The law", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:2", "verse_text": "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." }, { "point_text": "The curse of the law", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:13", "verse_text": "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:" }, { "point_text": "The fear of death", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:15", "verse_text": "And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage." }, { "point_text": "Sin", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:7", "verse_text": "For he that is dead is freed from sin." }, { "point_text": "Sin", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:18", "verse_text": "Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Corruption", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:21", "verse_text": "Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God." }, { "point_text": "Bondage of man", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:19", "verse_text": "For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more." }, { "point_text": "Jewish ordinances", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:3", "verse_text": "Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:" }, { "point_text": "Jewish ordinances", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:20", "verse_text": "Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances," }, { "point_text": "Called the glorious liberty of the children of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:21", "verse_text": "Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God." }, { "point_text": "Saints are called to", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:13", "verse_text": "For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Praise God for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 116:16-17", "verse_text": "O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds. 17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Assert", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:29", "verse_text": "Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?" }, { "point_text": "Walk in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:45", "verse_text": "And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts." }, { "point_text": "Stand fast in", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:5", "verse_text": "To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you." }, { "point_text": "Stand fast in", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:1", "verse_text": "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage." }, { "point_text": "Not abuse", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:13", "verse_text": "For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another." }, { "point_text": "Not abuse", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:16", "verse_text": "As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God." }, { "point_text": "Not offend others by", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 8:9", "verse_text": "But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak." }, { "point_text": "Not offend others by", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:29", "verse_text": "Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?" }, { "point_text": "Not offend others by", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:32", "verse_text": "Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:" }, { "point_text": "The gospel is the law of", "verse_ref": "James 1:25", "verse_text": "But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed." }, { "point_text": "The gospel is the law of", "verse_ref": "James 2:12", "verse_text": "So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty." }, { "point_text": "FALSE TEACHERS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Promise, to others", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:19", "verse_text": "While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage." }, { "point_text": "Abuse", "verse_ref": "Jude 4", "verse_text": "For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Try to destroy", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:4", "verse_text": "And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:" }, { "point_text": "The wicked, devoid of", "verse_ref": "John 8:34", "verse_text": "Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin." }, { "point_text": "The wicked, devoid of", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:20", "verse_text": "For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:10-17", "verse_text": "And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. 11 A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed. 12 For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. 13 In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession. ..." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:22-26", "verse_text": "For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. 23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. 24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. 25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. ..." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:31", "verse_text": "So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free." } ] }, { "name": "Life, Eternal", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Life-Eternal.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Christ is", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:2", "verse_text": "(For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)" }, { "point_text": "Christ is", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:20", "verse_text": "And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life." }, { "point_text": "Revealed by Christ", "verse_ref": "John 6:68", "verse_text": "Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life." }, { "point_text": "Revealed by Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:10", "verse_text": "But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:" }, { "point_text": "To know God and Christ is", "verse_ref": "John 17:3", "verse_text": "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." }, { "point_text": "GIVEN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "By God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 133:3", "verse_text": "As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore." }, { "point_text": "By God", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:23", "verse_text": "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." }, { "point_text": "By Christ", "verse_ref": "John 6:27", "verse_text": "Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed." }, { "point_text": "By Christ", "verse_ref": "John 10:28", "verse_text": "And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand." }, { "point_text": "In Christ", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:11", "verse_text": "And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son." }, { "point_text": "Through Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:21", "verse_text": "That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord." }, { "point_text": "Through Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:23", "verse_text": "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." }, { "point_text": "To all given to Christ", "verse_ref": "John 17:2", "verse_text": "As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him." }, { "point_text": "To those who believe in God", "verse_ref": "John 5:24", "verse_text": "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life." }, { "point_text": "To those who believe in Christ", "verse_ref": "John 3:15", "verse_text": "That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." }, { "point_text": "To those who believe in Christ", "verse_ref": "John 6:40", "verse_text": "And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day." }, { "point_text": "To those who believe in Christ", "verse_ref": "John 6:47", "verse_text": "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life." }, { "point_text": "To those who hate life for Christ", "verse_ref": "John 12:25", "verse_text": "He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal." }, { "point_text": "In answer to prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 21:4", "verse_text": "He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever." }, { "point_text": "Revealed in the Scriptures", "verse_ref": "John 5:39", "verse_text": "Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me." }, { "point_text": "RESULTS FROM", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Drinking the water of life", "verse_ref": "John 4:14", "verse_text": "But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life." }, { "point_text": "Eating the bread of life", "verse_ref": "John 6:50-58", "verse_text": "This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. 52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. ..." }, { "point_text": "Eating of the tree of life", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:7", "verse_text": "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God." }, { "point_text": "They who are ordained to, believe the gospel", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:48", "verse_text": "And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Have promises of", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:8", "verse_text": "For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." }, { "point_text": "Have promises of", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:1", "verse_text": "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus," }, { "point_text": "Have promises of", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:2", "verse_text": "In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;" }, { "point_text": "Have promises of", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:25", "verse_text": "And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life." }, { "point_text": "Have hope of", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:2", "verse_text": "In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;" }, { "point_text": "Have hope of", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:7", "verse_text": "That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life." }, { "point_text": "May have assurance of", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:1", "verse_text": "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." }, { "point_text": "May have assurance of", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:13", "verse_text": "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God." }, { "point_text": "Shall reap, through the Spirit", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:8", "verse_text": "For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting." }, { "point_text": "Shall inherit", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:29", "verse_text": "And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life." }, { "point_text": "Look for the mercy of God unto", "verse_ref": "Jude 21", "verse_text": "Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life." }, { "point_text": "Should lay hold of", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:12", "verse_text": "Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses." }, { "point_text": "Should lay hold of", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:19", "verse_text": "Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life." }, { "point_text": "Are preserved unto", "verse_ref": "John 10:28-29", "verse_text": "And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand." }, { "point_text": "Shall rise unto", "verse_ref": "Daniel 12:2", "verse_text": "And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt." }, { "point_text": "Shall rise unto", "verse_ref": "John 5:29", "verse_text": "And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation." }, { "point_text": "Shall go into", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:46", "verse_text": "And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal." }, { "point_text": "Shall reign in", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:18", "verse_text": "But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever." }, { "point_text": "Shall reign in", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:17", "verse_text": "For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)" }, { "point_text": "The self-righteous think to inherit, by works", "verse_ref": "Mark 10:17", "verse_text": "And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?" }, { "point_text": "Cannot be inherited by works", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:7", "verse_text": "To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:" }, { "point_text": "Cannot be inherited by works", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:10-19", "verse_text": "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: 11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. 12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: ..." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Have not", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:15", "verse_text": "Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him." }, { "point_text": "Judge themselves unworthy of", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:46", "verse_text": "Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles." }, { "point_text": "Exhortation to seek", "verse_ref": "John 6:27", "verse_text": "Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed." } ] }, { "name": "Lying", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Lying.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:11", "verse_text": "Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:9", "verse_text": "Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;" }, { "point_text": "Hateful to God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:16-19", "verse_text": "These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, 19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren." }, { "point_text": "An abomination to God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:22", "verse_text": "Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight." }, { "point_text": "A hindrance to prayer", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:2-3", "verse_text": "But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness." }, { "point_text": "The devil, the father of", "verse_ref": "John 8:44", "verse_text": "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." }, { "point_text": "The devil excites men to", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:22", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so." }, { "point_text": "The devil excites men to", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:3", "verse_text": "But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?" }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Hate", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:163", "verse_text": "I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love." }, { "point_text": "Hate", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 13:5", "verse_text": "A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame." }, { "point_text": "Avoid", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:8", "verse_text": "For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour." }, { "point_text": "Avoid", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 3:13", "verse_text": "The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid." }, { "point_text": "Respect not those who practice", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:4", "verse_text": "Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies." }, { "point_text": "Reject those who practice", "verse_ref": "Psalm 101:7", "verse_text": "He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight." }, { "point_text": "Pray to be preserved from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:29", "verse_text": "Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously." }, { "point_text": "Pray to be preserved from", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:8", "verse_text": "Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:" }, { "point_text": "Unbecoming in rulers", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:7", "verse_text": "Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince." }, { "point_text": "The evil of rulers hearkening to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 29:12", "verse_text": "If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked." }, { "point_text": "False prophets addicted to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:14", "verse_text": "I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah." }, { "point_text": "False prophets addicted to", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:28", "verse_text": "And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken." }, { "point_text": "False witnesses addicted to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:5", "verse_text": "A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies." }, { "point_text": "False witnesses addicted to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:25", "verse_text": "A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies." }, { "point_text": "Antinomians guilty of", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:6", "verse_text": "If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:" }, { "point_text": "Antinomians guilty of", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:4", "verse_text": "He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him." }, { "point_text": "Hypocrites addicted to", "verse_ref": "Hosea 11:12", "verse_text": "Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints." }, { "point_text": "Hypocrites, a seed of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:4", "verse_text": "Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood," }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Addicted to, from their infancy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 58:3", "verse_text": "The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies." }, { "point_text": "Love", "verse_ref": "Psalm 52:3", "verse_text": "Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Delight in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 62:4", "verse_text": "They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Seek after", "verse_ref": "Psalm 4:2", "verse_text": "O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah." }, { "point_text": "Prepare their tongues for", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:3", "verse_text": "And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Prepare their tongues for", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:5", "verse_text": "And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Bring forth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 7:14", "verse_text": "Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood." }, { "point_text": "Give heed to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:4", "verse_text": "A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of the Apostacy", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:9", "verse_text": "Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders," }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of the Apostacy", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:2", "verse_text": "Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;" }, { "point_text": "LEADS TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Hatred", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:28", "verse_text": "A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin." }, { "point_text": "Love of impure conversation", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:4", "verse_text": "A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue." }, { "point_text": "Often accompanied by gross crimes", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:1-2", "verse_text": "Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood." }, { "point_text": "Folly of concealing hatred by", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:18", "verse_text": "He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool." }, { "point_text": "Vanity of getting riches by", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:6", "verse_text": "The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death." }, { "point_text": "Shall be detected", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:19", "verse_text": "The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment." }, { "point_text": "Poverty preferable to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:22", "verse_text": "The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar." }, { "point_text": "Excludes from heaven", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:27", "verse_text": "And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life." }, { "point_text": "Excludes from heaven", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:15", "verse_text": "For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie." }, { "point_text": "They who are guilty of, shall be cast into hell", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:8", "verse_text": "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 5:6", "verse_text": "Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 120:3-4", "verse_text": "What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue? 4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe devil, \nCain, \nSarah, \nJacob, \nJoseph's brethren, \nGibeonites, \nSamson, \nSaul, \nMichal, \nDavid, \nProphet of Bethel, \nGehazi, \nJob's friends, \nNinevites, \nPeter, \nAnanias, &c. \nCretans,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:4", "verse_text": "And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe devil, \nCain, \nSarah, \nJacob, \nJoseph's brethren, \nGibeonites, \nSamson, \nSaul, \nMichal, \nDavid, \nProphet of Bethel, \nGehazi, \nJob's friends, \nNinevites, \nPeter, \nAnanias, &c. \nCretans,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:9", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe devil, \nCain, \nSarah, \nJacob, \nJoseph's brethren, \nGibeonites, \nSamson, \nSaul, \nMichal, \nDavid, \nProphet of Bethel, \nGehazi, \nJob's friends, \nNinevites, \nPeter, \nAnanias, &c. \nCretans,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:15", "verse_text": "Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe devil, \nCain, \nSarah, \nJacob, \nJoseph's brethren, \nGibeonites, \nSamson, \nSaul, \nMichal, \nDavid, \nProphet of Bethel, \nGehazi, \nJob's friends, \nNinevites, \nPeter, \nAnanias, &c. \nCretans,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:19", "verse_text": "And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe devil, \nCain, \nSarah, \nJacob, \nJoseph's brethren, \nGibeonites, \nSamson, \nSaul, \nMichal, \nDavid, \nProphet of Bethel, \nGehazi, \nJob's friends, \nNinevites, \nPeter, \nAnanias, &c. \nCretans,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:31-32", "verse_text": "And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood; 32 And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it be thy son's coat or no." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe devil, \nCain, \nSarah, \nJacob, \nJoseph's brethren, \nGibeonites, \nSamson, \nSaul, \nMichal, \nDavid, \nProphet of Bethel, \nGehazi, \nJob's friends, \nNinevites, \nPeter, \nAnanias, &c. \nCretans,", "verse_ref": "Joshua 9:9-13", "verse_text": "And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the LORD thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt, 10 And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, which was at Ashtaroth. 11 Wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spake to us, saying, Take victuals with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say unto them, We are your servants: therefore now make ye a league with us. 12 This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy: ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe devil, \nCain, \nSarah, \nJacob, \nJoseph's brethren, \nGibeonites, \nSamson, \nSaul, \nMichal, \nDavid, \nProphet of Bethel, \nGehazi, \nJob's friends, \nNinevites, \nPeter, \nAnanias, &c. \nCretans,", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:10", "verse_text": "And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe devil, \nCain, \nSarah, \nJacob, \nJoseph's brethren, \nGibeonites, \nSamson, \nSaul, \nMichal, \nDavid, \nProphet of Bethel, \nGehazi, \nJob's friends, \nNinevites, \nPeter, \nAnanias, &c. \nCretans,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:13", "verse_text": "And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe devil, \nCain, \nSarah, \nJacob, \nJoseph's brethren, \nGibeonites, \nSamson, \nSaul, \nMichal, \nDavid, \nProphet of Bethel, \nGehazi, \nJob's friends, \nNinevites, \nPeter, \nAnanias, &c. \nCretans,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 19:14", "verse_text": "And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe devil, \nCain, \nSarah, \nJacob, \nJoseph's brethren, \nGibeonites, \nSamson, \nSaul, \nMichal, \nDavid, \nProphet of Bethel, \nGehazi, \nJob's friends, \nNinevites, \nPeter, \nAnanias, &c. \nCretans,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 21:2", "verse_text": "And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe devil, \nCain, \nSarah, \nJacob, \nJoseph's brethren, \nGibeonites, \nSamson, \nSaul, \nMichal, \nDavid, \nProphet of Bethel, \nGehazi, \nJob's friends, \nNinevites, \nPeter, \nAnanias, &c. \nCretans,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 13:18", "verse_text": "He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe devil, \nCain, \nSarah, \nJacob, \nJoseph's brethren, \nGibeonites, \nSamson, \nSaul, \nMichal, \nDavid, \nProphet of Bethel, \nGehazi, \nJob's friends, \nNinevites, \nPeter, \nAnanias, &c. \nCretans,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:22", "verse_text": "And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe devil, \nCain, \nSarah, \nJacob, \nJoseph's brethren, \nGibeonites, \nSamson, \nSaul, \nMichal, \nDavid, \nProphet of Bethel, \nGehazi, \nJob's friends, \nNinevites, \nPeter, \nAnanias, &c. \nCretans,", "verse_ref": "Job 13:4", "verse_text": "But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe devil, \nCain, \nSarah, \nJacob, \nJoseph's brethren, \nGibeonites, \nSamson, \nSaul, \nMichal, \nDavid, \nProphet of Bethel, \nGehazi, \nJob's friends, \nNinevites, \nPeter, \nAnanias, &c. \nCretans,", "verse_ref": "Nahum 3:1", "verse_text": "Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe devil, \nCain, \nSarah, \nJacob, \nJoseph's brethren, \nGibeonites, \nSamson, \nSaul, \nMichal, \nDavid, \nProphet of Bethel, \nGehazi, \nJob's friends, \nNinevites, \nPeter, \nAnanias, &c. \nCretans,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:72", "verse_text": "And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe devil, \nCain, \nSarah, \nJacob, \nJoseph's brethren, \nGibeonites, \nSamson, \nSaul, \nMichal, \nDavid, \nProphet of Bethel, \nGehazi, \nJob's friends, \nNinevites, \nPeter, \nAnanias, &c. \nCretans,", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:5", "verse_text": "And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nThe devil, \nCain, \nSarah, \nJacob, \nJoseph's brethren, \nGibeonites, \nSamson, \nSaul, \nMichal, \nDavid, \nProphet of Bethel, \nGehazi, \nJob's friends, \nNinevites, \nPeter, \nAnanias, &c. \nCretans,", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:12", "verse_text": "One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies." } ] }, { "name": "Love to Man", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Love-to-Man.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is of God", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:7", "verse_text": "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God." }, { "point_text": "Commanded by God", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:21", "verse_text": "And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also." }, { "point_text": "Commanded by Christ", "verse_ref": "John 13:34", "verse_text": "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." }, { "point_text": "Commanded by Christ", "verse_ref": "John 15:12", "verse_text": "This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you." }, { "point_text": "Commanded by Christ", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:23", "verse_text": "And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment." }, { "point_text": "After the example of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 13:34", "verse_text": "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." }, { "point_text": "After the example of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 15:12", "verse_text": "This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you." }, { "point_text": "After the example of Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:2", "verse_text": "And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour." }, { "point_text": "Taught by God", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:9", "verse_text": "But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another." }, { "point_text": "Faith worketh by", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:6", "verse_text": "For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love." }, { "point_text": "A fruit of the Spirit", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:22", "verse_text": "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith," }, { "point_text": "A fruit of the Spirit", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:8", "verse_text": "Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit." }, { "point_text": "Purity of heart leads to", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:22", "verse_text": "Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:" }, { "point_text": "Explained", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 13:4-7", "verse_text": "Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things." }, { "point_text": "Is an active principle", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 1:3", "verse_text": "Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;" }, { "point_text": "Is an active principle", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:10", "verse_text": "For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister." }, { "point_text": "Is an abiding principle", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 13:8", "verse_text": "Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away." }, { "point_text": "Is an abiding principle", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 13:13", "verse_text": "And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity." }, { "point_text": "Is the second great commandment", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:37-39", "verse_text": "Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." }, { "point_text": "Is the end of the commandment", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:5", "verse_text": "Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:" }, { "point_text": "Supernatural gifts are nothing without", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 13:1-2", "verse_text": "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing." }, { "point_text": "The greatest sacrifices are nothing without", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 13:3", "verse_text": "And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." }, { "point_text": "Especially enjoined upon ministers", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:12", "verse_text": "Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity." }, { "point_text": "Especially enjoined upon ministers", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:22", "verse_text": "Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Put on", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:14", "verse_text": "And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness." }, { "point_text": "Follow after", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:1", "verse_text": "Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy." }, { "point_text": "Abound in", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:9", "verse_text": "And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;" }, { "point_text": "Abound in", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 3:12", "verse_text": "And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:" }, { "point_text": "Continue in", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:15", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety." }, { "point_text": "Continue in", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:1", "verse_text": "Let brotherly love continue." }, { "point_text": "Provoke each other to", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:7", "verse_text": "Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also." }, { "point_text": "Provoke each other to", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 9:2", "verse_text": "For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many." }, { "point_text": "Provoke each other to", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:24", "verse_text": "And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:" }, { "point_text": "Be sincere in", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:9", "verse_text": "Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good." }, { "point_text": "Be sincere in", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:6", "verse_text": "By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned," }, { "point_text": "Be sincere in", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:8", "verse_text": "I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love." }, { "point_text": "Be sincere in", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:18", "verse_text": "My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth." }, { "point_text": "Be disinterested in", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:24", "verse_text": "Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth." }, { "point_text": "Be disinterested in", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 13:5", "verse_text": "Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;" }, { "point_text": "Be disinterested in", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:4", "verse_text": "Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others." }, { "point_text": "Be fervent in", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:22", "verse_text": "Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:" }, { "point_text": "Be fervent in", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:8", "verse_text": "And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins." }, { "point_text": "Should be connected with brotherly-kindness", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:10", "verse_text": "Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;" }, { "point_text": "Should be connected with brotherly-kindness", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:7", "verse_text": "And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity." }, { "point_text": "Should be with a pure heart", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:22", "verse_text": "Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:" }, { "point_text": "All things should be done with", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 16:14", "verse_text": "Let all your things be done with charity." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE EXHIBITED, TOWARD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Saints", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:17", "verse_text": "Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king." }, { "point_text": "Saints", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:1", "verse_text": "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him." }, { "point_text": "Ministers", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:13", "verse_text": "And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves." }, { "point_text": "Our families", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:25", "verse_text": "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;" }, { "point_text": "Our families", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:4", "verse_text": "That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children," }, { "point_text": "Fellow-countrymen", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:32", "verse_text": "Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written." }, { "point_text": "Fellow-countrymen", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:2", "verse_text": "That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart." }, { "point_text": "Fellow-countrymen", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:1", "verse_text": "Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved." }, { "point_text": "Strangers", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:34", "verse_text": "But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "Strangers", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:19", "verse_text": "Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Enemies", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:4-5", "verse_text": "If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. 5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him." }, { "point_text": "Enemies", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:22", "verse_text": "And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master." }, { "point_text": "Enemies", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:44", "verse_text": "But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;" }, { "point_text": "Enemies", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:14", "verse_text": "Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not." }, { "point_text": "Enemies", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:20", "verse_text": "Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head." }, { "point_text": "Enemies", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:9", "verse_text": "Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing." }, { "point_text": "All men", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:10", "verse_text": "As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE EXHIBITED, IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Ministering to the wants of others", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:35", "verse_text": "For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:" }, { "point_text": "Ministering to the wants of others", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:10", "verse_text": "For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister." }, { "point_text": "Loving each other", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:13", "verse_text": "For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another." }, { "point_text": "Relieving strangers", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:35", "verse_text": "And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee." }, { "point_text": "Relieving strangers", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:35", "verse_text": "For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:" }, { "point_text": "Clothing the naked", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:7", "verse_text": "Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?" }, { "point_text": "Clothing the naked", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:36", "verse_text": "Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me." }, { "point_text": "Visiting the sick, &c", "verse_ref": "Job 31:16-22", "verse_text": "If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; 17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; 18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;) 19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; ..." }, { "point_text": "Visiting the sick, &c", "verse_ref": "James 1:27", "verse_text": "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." }, { "point_text": "Sympathizing", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:15", "verse_text": "Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep." }, { "point_text": "Sympathizing", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:26", "verse_text": "And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it." }, { "point_text": "Supporting the weak", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:2", "verse_text": "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ." }, { "point_text": "Supporting the weak", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:14", "verse_text": "Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men." }, { "point_text": "Covering the faults of others", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:12", "verse_text": "Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins." }, { "point_text": "Covering the faults of others", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:8", "verse_text": "And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins." }, { "point_text": "Forgiving injuries", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:32", "verse_text": "And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you." }, { "point_text": "Forgiving injuries", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:13", "verse_text": "Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye." }, { "point_text": "Forbearing", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:2", "verse_text": "With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;" }, { "point_text": "Rebuking", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:17", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him." }, { "point_text": "Rebuking", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:15", "verse_text": "Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother." }, { "point_text": "Necessary to true happiness", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:17", "verse_text": "Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith." }, { "point_text": "The love of God is a motive to", "verse_ref": "John 13:34", "verse_text": "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." }, { "point_text": "The love of God is a motive to", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:11", "verse_text": "Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another." }, { "point_text": "AN EVIDENCE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Being in the light", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:10", "verse_text": "He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him." }, { "point_text": "Discipleship with Christ", "verse_ref": "John 13:35", "verse_text": "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another." }, { "point_text": "Spiritual life", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:14", "verse_text": "We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death." }, { "point_text": "Is the fulfilling of the law", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:8-10", "verse_text": "Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. 9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law." }, { "point_text": "Is the fulfilling of the law", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:14", "verse_text": "For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." }, { "point_text": "Is the fulfilling of the law", "verse_ref": "James 2:8", "verse_text": "If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:" }, { "point_text": "Love to self is the measure of", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:33", "verse_text": "And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices." }, { "point_text": "Is good and pleasant", "verse_ref": "Psalm 133:1-2", "verse_text": "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! 2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;" }, { "point_text": "Is a bond of union", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:2", "verse_text": "That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;" }, { "point_text": "Is the bond of perfectness", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:14", "verse_text": "And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness." }, { "point_text": "Hypocrites, devoid of", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:9", "verse_text": "He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now." }, { "point_text": "Hypocrites, devoid of", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:20", "verse_text": "If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?" }, { "point_text": "The wicked devoid of", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:10", "verse_text": "In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nRuth, \nJonathan, &c. \n\nObadiah, \nCenturion, \nPrimitive Church, \n\nLydia, \nAquila, &c. \nPaul, \nEpaphroditus, \n\nPhilippians, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon, \nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 45:15", "verse_text": "Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nRuth, \nJonathan, &c. \n\nObadiah, \nCenturion, \nPrimitive Church, \n\nLydia, \nAquila, &c. \nPaul, \nEpaphroditus, \n\nPhilippians, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon, \nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Ruth 1:16-17", "verse_text": "And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: 17 Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nRuth, \nJonathan, &c. \n\nObadiah, \nCenturion, \nPrimitive Church, \n\nLydia, \nAquila, &c. \nPaul, \nEpaphroditus, \n\nPhilippians, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon, \nMoses,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 20:17", "verse_text": "And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nRuth, \nJonathan, &c. \n\nObadiah, \nCenturion, \nPrimitive Church, \n\nLydia, \nAquila, &c. \nPaul, \nEpaphroditus, \n\nPhilippians, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon, \nMoses,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 20:41-42", "verse_text": "And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded. 42 And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, The LORD be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nRuth, \nJonathan, &c. \n\nObadiah, \nCenturion, \nPrimitive Church, \n\nLydia, \nAquila, &c. \nPaul, \nEpaphroditus, \n\nPhilippians, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon, \nMoses,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:4", "verse_text": "For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nRuth, \nJonathan, &c. \n\nObadiah, \nCenturion, \nPrimitive Church, \n\nLydia, \nAquila, &c. \nPaul, \nEpaphroditus, \n\nPhilippians, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon, \nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:5", "verse_text": "For he loveth our nation, and he hath built us a synagogue." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nRuth, \nJonathan, &c. \n\nObadiah, \nCenturion, \nPrimitive Church, \n\nLydia, \nAquila, &c. \nPaul, \nEpaphroditus, \n\nPhilippians, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon, \nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:46", "verse_text": "And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nRuth, \nJonathan, &c. \n\nObadiah, \nCenturion, \nPrimitive Church, \n\nLydia, \nAquila, &c. \nPaul, \nEpaphroditus, \n\nPhilippians, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon, \nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:33-34", "verse_text": "Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used. 34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nRuth, \nJonathan, &c. \n\nObadiah, \nCenturion, \nPrimitive Church, \n\nLydia, \nAquila, &c. \nPaul, \nEpaphroditus, \n\nPhilippians, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon, \nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:15", "verse_text": "And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nRuth, \nJonathan, &c. \n\nObadiah, \nCenturion, \nPrimitive Church, \n\nLydia, \nAquila, &c. \nPaul, \nEpaphroditus, \n\nPhilippians, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon, \nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:3-4", "verse_text": "Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus: 4 Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nRuth, \nJonathan, &c. \n\nObadiah, \nCenturion, \nPrimitive Church, \n\nLydia, \nAquila, &c. \nPaul, \nEpaphroditus, \n\nPhilippians, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon, \nMoses,", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:11-12", "verse_text": "O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. 12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nRuth, \nJonathan, &c. \n\nObadiah, \nCenturion, \nPrimitive Church, \n\nLydia, \nAquila, &c. \nPaul, \nEpaphroditus, \n\nPhilippians, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon, \nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:25-26", "verse_text": "Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants. 26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nRuth, \nJonathan, &c. \n\nObadiah, \nCenturion, \nPrimitive Church, \n\nLydia, \nAquila, &c. \nPaul, \nEpaphroditus, \n\nPhilippians, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon, \nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:30", "verse_text": "Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nRuth, \nJonathan, &c. \n\nObadiah, \nCenturion, \nPrimitive Church, \n\nLydia, \nAquila, &c. \nPaul, \nEpaphroditus, \n\nPhilippians, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon, \nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:15-19", "verse_text": "Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only. 16 For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity. 17 Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account. 18 But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nRuth, \nJonathan, &c. \n\nObadiah, \nCenturion, \nPrimitive Church, \n\nLydia, \nAquila, &c. \nPaul, \nEpaphroditus, \n\nPhilippians, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon, \nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:4", "verse_text": "Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nRuth, \nJonathan, &c. \n\nObadiah, \nCenturion, \nPrimitive Church, \n\nLydia, \nAquila, &c. \nPaul, \nEpaphroditus, \n\nPhilippians, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon, \nMoses,", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 3:6", "verse_text": "But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nRuth, \nJonathan, &c. \n\nObadiah, \nCenturion, \nPrimitive Church, \n\nLydia, \nAquila, &c. \nPaul, \nEpaphroditus, \n\nPhilippians, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon, \nMoses,", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:16-18", "verse_text": "The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain: 17 But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me. 18 The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nRuth, \nJonathan, &c. \n\nObadiah, \nCenturion, \nPrimitive Church, \n\nLydia, \nAquila, &c. \nPaul, \nEpaphroditus, \n\nPhilippians, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon, \nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Philemon 7-9", "verse_text": "For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother. 8 Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, 9 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nRuth, \nJonathan, &c. \n\nObadiah, \nCenturion, \nPrimitive Church, \n\nLydia, \nAquila, &c. \nPaul, \nEpaphroditus, \n\nPhilippians, \nColossians, \nThessalonians, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon, \nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:25", "verse_text": "Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;" } ] }, { "name": "Macedonian Empire, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Macedonian-Empire-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Called the kingdom of Grecia", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:2", "verse_text": "And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATED BY THE,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Brazen part of the image in Nebuchadnezzar's dream", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:32", "verse_text": "This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass," }, { "point_text": "Brazen part of the image in Nebuchadnezzar's dream", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:39", "verse_text": "And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth." }, { "point_text": "Leopard with four wings and four heads", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:6", "verse_text": "After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it." }, { "point_text": "Leopard with four wings and four heads", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:17", "verse_text": "These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Rough goat with notable horn", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:5", "verse_text": "And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes." }, { "point_text": "Rough goat with notable horn", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:21", "verse_text": "And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king." }, { "point_text": "Philippi the chief city of", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:12", "verse_text": "And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, and a colony: and we were in that city abiding certain days." }, { "point_text": "PREDICTIONS RESPECTING,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Conquest of the Medo-Persian kingdom", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:6", "verse_text": "And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power." }, { "point_text": "Conquest of the Medo-Persian kingdom", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:2-3", "verse_text": "And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia. 3 And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will." }, { "point_text": "Power and greatness of Alexander its last king", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:8", "verse_text": "Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven." }, { "point_text": "Power and greatness of Alexander its last king", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:3", "verse_text": "And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will." }, { "point_text": "Division of it into four kingdoms", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:8", "verse_text": "Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven." }, { "point_text": "Division of it into four kingdoms", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:22", "verse_text": "Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power." }, { "point_text": "Divisions of it ruled by strangers", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:4", "verse_text": "And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those." }, { "point_text": "History of its four divisions", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:4-29", "verse_text": "And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those. 5 And the king of the south shall be strong, and one of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion; his dominion shall be a great dominion. 6 And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times. 7 But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail: ..." }, { "point_text": "The little horn to arise out of one of its divisions", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:8-12", "verse_text": "Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven. 9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. 10 And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them. 11 Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. ..." }, { "point_text": "The little horn to arise out of one of its divisions", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:23-25", "verse_text": "And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. 24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. 25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand." }, { "point_text": "Gospel preached in, by God's desire", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:9-10", "verse_text": "And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us. 10 And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them." }, { "point_text": "Liberality of the churches of", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:1-5", "verse_text": "Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; 2 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. 3 For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves; 4 Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. ..." }, { "point_text": "Called the kingdom of Grecia", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:2", "verse_text": "And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATED BY THE,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Brazen part of the image in Nebuchadnezzar's dream", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:32", "verse_text": "This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass," }, { "point_text": "Brazen part of the image in Nebuchadnezzar's dream", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:39", "verse_text": "And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth." }, { "point_text": "Leopard with four wings and four heads", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:6", "verse_text": "After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it." }, { "point_text": "Leopard with four wings and four heads", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:17", "verse_text": "These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Rough goat with notable horn", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:5", "verse_text": "And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes." }, { "point_text": "Rough goat with notable horn", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:21", "verse_text": "And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king." }, { "point_text": "Philippi the chief city of", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:12", "verse_text": "And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, and a colony: and we were in that city abiding certain days." }, { "point_text": "PREDICTIONS RESPECTING,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Conquest of the Medo-Persian kingdom", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:6", "verse_text": "And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power." }, { "point_text": "Conquest of the Medo-Persian kingdom", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:2-3", "verse_text": "And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia. 3 And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will." }, { "point_text": "Power and greatness of Alexander its last king", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:8", "verse_text": "Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven." }, { "point_text": "Power and greatness of Alexander its last king", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:3", "verse_text": "And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will." }, { "point_text": "Division of it into four kingdoms", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:8", "verse_text": "Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven." }, { "point_text": "Division of it into four kingdoms", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:22", "verse_text": "Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power." }, { "point_text": "Divisions of it ruled by strangers", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:4", "verse_text": "And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those." }, { "point_text": "History of its four divisions", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:4-29", "verse_text": "And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those. 5 And the king of the south shall be strong, and one of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion; his dominion shall be a great dominion. 6 And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times. 7 But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail: ..." }, { "point_text": "The little horn to arise out of one of its divisions", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:8-12", "verse_text": "Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven. 9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. 10 And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them. 11 Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. ..." }, { "point_text": "The little horn to arise out of one of its divisions", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:23-25", "verse_text": "And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. 24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. 25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand." }, { "point_text": "Gospel preached in, by God's desire", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:9-10", "verse_text": "And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us. 10 And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them." }, { "point_text": "Liberality of the churches of", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:1-5", "verse_text": "Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; 2 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. 3 For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves; 4 Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. ..." } ] }, { "name": "Magistrates", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Magistrates.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Are appointed by God", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:1", "verse_text": "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God." }, { "point_text": "Are ministers of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:4", "verse_text": "For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil." }, { "point_text": "Are ministers of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:6", "verse_text": "For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing." }, { "point_text": "Purpose of their appointment", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:4", "verse_text": "For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil." }, { "point_text": "Purpose of their appointment", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:14", "verse_text": "Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well." }, { "point_text": "Their office to be respected", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:5", "verse_text": "Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people." }, { "point_text": "Are not a terror to the good, but to the evil", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:3", "verse_text": "For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:" }, { "point_text": "To be wisely selected and appointed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 18:21", "verse_text": "Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:" }, { "point_text": "To be wisely selected and appointed", "verse_ref": "Ezra 7:25", "verse_text": "And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not." }, { "point_text": "To be prayed for", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:1-2", "verse_text": "I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; 2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Seek wisdom from God", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 3:9", "verse_text": "Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?" }, { "point_text": "Rule in the fear of God", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 23:3", "verse_text": "The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God." }, { "point_text": "Rule in the fear of God", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 19:7", "verse_text": "Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts." }, { "point_text": "Know the law of God", "verse_ref": "Ezra 7:25", "verse_text": "And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not." }, { "point_text": "Be faithful to the Sovereign", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:4", "verse_text": "Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him." }, { "point_text": "Enforce the laws", "verse_ref": "Ezra 7:26", "verse_text": "And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment." }, { "point_text": "Judge wisely", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 3:16-28", "verse_text": "Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him. 17 And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house. 18 And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house. 19 And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it. ..." }, { "point_text": "Hate covetousness", "verse_ref": "Exodus 18:21", "verse_text": "Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:" }, { "point_text": "Not take bribes", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:8", "verse_text": "And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous." }, { "point_text": "Not take bribes", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:19", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous." }, { "point_text": "Defend the poor, &c", "verse_ref": "Job 29:12", "verse_text": "Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him." }, { "point_text": "Defend the poor, &c", "verse_ref": "Job 29:16", "verse_text": "I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out." }, { "point_text": "Judge for God, not for man", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 19:6", "verse_text": "And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment." }, { "point_text": "Judge righteously", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:16", "verse_text": "And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him." }, { "point_text": "Judge righteously", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:18", "verse_text": "Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment." }, { "point_text": "Judge righteously", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 25:1", "verse_text": "If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked." }, { "point_text": "Be impartial", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:6", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause." }, { "point_text": "Be impartial", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:17", "verse_text": "Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it." }, { "point_text": "Be diligent in ruling", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:8", "verse_text": "Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness." }, { "point_text": "Subjection to their authority enjoined", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:2-3", "verse_text": "Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: 3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not." }, { "point_text": "Wicked--Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:15", "verse_text": "As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nGideon, \nSamuel, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \nDaniel,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:46", "verse_text": "And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nGideon, \nSamuel, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \nDaniel,", "verse_ref": "Judges 8:35", "verse_text": "Neither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nGideon, \nSamuel, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \nDaniel,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 12:3-4", "verse_text": "Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you. 4 And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nGideon, \nSamuel, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \nDaniel,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 3:15", "verse_text": "But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king's garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nGideon, \nSamuel, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \nDaniel,", "verse_ref": "Job 29:16", "verse_text": "I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph, \nGideon, \nSamuel, \nNehemiah, \nJob, \nDaniel,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:3", "verse_text": "Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm." }, { "point_text": "Wicked--Exemplified.\r\n\nSons of Samuel, \nPilate, \n\nMagistrates in Philippi, \nGallio, \nFelix,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 8:3", "verse_text": "And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment." }, { "point_text": "Wicked--Exemplified.\r\n\nSons of Samuel, \nPilate, \n\nMagistrates in Philippi, \nGallio, \nFelix,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:24", "verse_text": "When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it." }, { "point_text": "Wicked--Exemplified.\r\n\nSons of Samuel, \nPilate, \n\nMagistrates in Philippi, \nGallio, \nFelix,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:26", "verse_text": "Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified." }, { "point_text": "Wicked--Exemplified.\r\n\nSons of Samuel, \nPilate, \n\nMagistrates in Philippi, \nGallio, \nFelix,", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:22-23", "verse_text": "And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them. 23 And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:" }, { "point_text": "Wicked--Exemplified.\r\n\nSons of Samuel, \nPilate, \n\nMagistrates in Philippi, \nGallio, \nFelix,", "verse_ref": "Acts 18:16-17", "verse_text": "And he drave them from the judgment seat. 17 Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things." }, { "point_text": "Wicked--Exemplified.\r\n\nSons of Samuel, \nPilate, \n\nMagistrates in Philippi, \nGallio, \nFelix,", "verse_ref": "Acts 24:26", "verse_text": "He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him." } ] }, { "name": "Malice", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Malice.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Springs from an evil heart", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:19-20", "verse_text": "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: 20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:20", "verse_text": "Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:8", "verse_text": "But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:26-27", "verse_text": "Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: 27 Neither give place to the devil." }, { "point_text": "A hindrance to growth in grace", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:1-2", "verse_text": "Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, 2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:" }, { "point_text": "Incompatible with the worship of God", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 5:7-8", "verse_text": "Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." }, { "point_text": "Christian liberty not to be a cloak for", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:16", "verse_text": "As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God." }, { "point_text": "Saints avoid", "verse_ref": "Job 31:29-30", "verse_text": "If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him: 30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Speak with", "verse_ref": "3 John 10", "verse_text": "Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church." }, { "point_text": "Live in", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:3", "verse_text": "For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another." }, { "point_text": "Conceive", "verse_ref": "Psalm 7:14", "verse_text": "Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood." }, { "point_text": "Filled with", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:29", "verse_text": "Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers," }, { "point_text": "Visit saints with", "verse_ref": "Psalm 83:3", "verse_text": "They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones." }, { "point_text": "Visit saints with", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:6", "verse_text": "And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them." }, { "point_text": "Pray for those who injure you through", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:44", "verse_text": "But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;" }, { "point_text": "Brings its own punishment", "verse_ref": "Psalm 7:15-16", "verse_text": "He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. 16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate." }, { "point_text": "God requites", "verse_ref": "Psalm 10:14", "verse_text": "Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless." }, { "point_text": "God requites", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 36:5", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Amos 1:11-12", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever: 12 But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nSaul, \nShimei, \n\nJoab, \n\n\nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPresidents, &c. \nHerodias, \nScribes, &c. \n\nDiotrephes,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:5", "verse_text": "But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nSaul, \nShimei, \n\nJoab, \n\n\nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPresidents, &c. \nHerodias, \nScribes, &c. \n\nDiotrephes,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:41", "verse_text": "And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nSaul, \nShimei, \n\nJoab, \n\n\nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPresidents, &c. \nHerodias, \nScribes, &c. \n\nDiotrephes,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:19-20", "verse_text": "And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh. 20 Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nSaul, \nShimei, \n\nJoab, \n\n\nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPresidents, &c. \nHerodias, \nScribes, &c. \n\nDiotrephes,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 18:9-11", "verse_text": "And Saul eyed David from that day and forward. 10 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul's hand. 11 And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nSaul, \nShimei, \n\nJoab, \n\n\nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPresidents, &c. \nHerodias, \nScribes, &c. \n\nDiotrephes,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 16:5", "verse_text": "And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nSaul, \nShimei, \n\nJoab, \n\n\nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPresidents, &c. \nHerodias, \nScribes, &c. \n\nDiotrephes,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:8-9", "verse_text": "And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword. 9 Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nSaul, \nShimei, \n\nJoab, \n\n\nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPresidents, &c. \nHerodias, \nScribes, &c. \n\nDiotrephes,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 3:27", "verse_text": "And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nSaul, \nShimei, \n\nJoab, \n\n\nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPresidents, &c. \nHerodias, \nScribes, &c. \n\nDiotrephes,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:5", "verse_text": "Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nSaul, \nShimei, \n\nJoab, \n\n\nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPresidents, &c. \nHerodias, \nScribes, &c. \n\nDiotrephes,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:28-33", "verse_text": "Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar. 29 And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD; and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him. 30 And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the LORD, and said unto him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said, Nay; but I will die here. And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me. 31 And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nSaul, \nShimei, \n\nJoab, \n\n\nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPresidents, &c. \nHerodias, \nScribes, &c. \n\nDiotrephes,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 2:10", "verse_text": "When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nSaul, \nShimei, \n\nJoab, \n\n\nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPresidents, &c. \nHerodias, \nScribes, &c. \n\nDiotrephes,", "verse_ref": "Esther 3:5-6", "verse_text": "And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath. 6 And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nSaul, \nShimei, \n\nJoab, \n\n\nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPresidents, &c. \nHerodias, \nScribes, &c. \n\nDiotrephes,", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 35:5", "verse_text": "Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nSaul, \nShimei, \n\nJoab, \n\n\nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPresidents, &c. \nHerodias, \nScribes, &c. \n\nDiotrephes,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:4-9", "verse_text": "Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him. 5 Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God. 6 Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever. 7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellers, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nSaul, \nShimei, \n\nJoab, \n\n\nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPresidents, &c. \nHerodias, \nScribes, &c. \n\nDiotrephes,", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:19", "verse_text": "Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him; but she could not:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nSaul, \nShimei, \n\nJoab, \n\n\nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPresidents, &c. \nHerodias, \nScribes, &c. \n\nDiotrephes,", "verse_ref": "Mark 11:18", "verse_text": "And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nSaul, \nShimei, \n\nJoab, \n\n\nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPresidents, &c. \nHerodias, \nScribes, &c. \n\nDiotrephes,", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:54", "verse_text": "Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nSaul, \nShimei, \n\nJoab, \n\n\nSanballat, &c. \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPresidents, &c. \nHerodias, \nScribes, &c. \n\nDiotrephes,", "verse_ref": "3 John 10", "verse_text": "Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church." } ] }, { "name": "Man", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Man.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Made for God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:4", "verse_text": "The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil." }, { "point_text": "Made for God", "verse_ref": "Revelation 4:11", "verse_text": "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created." }, { "point_text": "God's purpose in creation completed by making", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:5", "verse_text": "And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground." }, { "point_text": "God's purpose in creation completed by making", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:7", "verse_text": "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." }, { "point_text": "Cannot profit God", "verse_ref": "Job 22:2", "verse_text": "Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?" }, { "point_text": "Cannot profit God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 16:2", "verse_text": "O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;" }, { "point_text": "Unworthy of God's favor", "verse_ref": "Job 7:17", "verse_text": "What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?" }, { "point_text": "Unworthy of God's favor", "verse_ref": "Psalm 8:4", "verse_text": "What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?" }, { "point_text": "CREATED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "By God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:27", "verse_text": "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." }, { "point_text": "By God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:12", "verse_text": "I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded." }, { "point_text": "By Christ", "verse_ref": "John 1:3", "verse_text": "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." }, { "point_text": "By Christ", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:16", "verse_text": "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:" }, { "point_text": "By the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Job 33:4", "verse_text": "The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life." }, { "point_text": "After consultation, by the Trinity", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:26", "verse_text": "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "On the sixth day", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:31", "verse_text": "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day." }, { "point_text": "Upon the earth", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:32", "verse_text": "For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?" }, { "point_text": "Upon the earth", "verse_ref": "Job 20:4", "verse_text": "Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth," }, { "point_text": "From the dust", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:7", "verse_text": "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." }, { "point_text": "From the dust", "verse_ref": "Job 33:6", "verse_text": "Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay." }, { "point_text": "In the image of God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:26-27", "verse_text": "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." }, { "point_text": "In the image of God", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:7", "verse_text": "For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man." }, { "point_text": "After the likeness of God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:26", "verse_text": "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "After the likeness of God", "verse_ref": "James 3:9", "verse_text": "Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God." }, { "point_text": "Male and female", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:27", "verse_text": "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." }, { "point_text": "Male and female", "verse_ref": "Genesis 5:2", "verse_text": "Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created." }, { "point_text": "A living soul", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:7", "verse_text": "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." }, { "point_text": "A living soul", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:45", "verse_text": "And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit." }, { "point_text": "In uprightness", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 7:29", "verse_text": "Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions." }, { "point_text": "In knowledge (inferred)", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:10", "verse_text": "And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:" }, { "point_text": "Under obligations to obedience", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:16-17", "verse_text": "And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." }, { "point_text": "A type of Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:14", "verse_text": "Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come." }, { "point_text": "Approved of by God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:31", "verse_text": "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day." }, { "point_text": "Blessed by God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:28", "verse_text": "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Blessed by God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 5:2", "verse_text": "Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created." }, { "point_text": "Placed in the garden of Eden", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:15", "verse_text": "And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it." }, { "point_text": "Every herb and tree given to, for food", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:29", "verse_text": "And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat." }, { "point_text": "Allowed to eat flesh after the flood", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:3", "verse_text": "Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things." }, { "point_text": "Not good for, to be alone", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:18", "verse_text": "And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him." }, { "point_text": "Woman formed to be a help for", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:2-25", "verse_text": "For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. 3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. 4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him. 5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. ..." }, { "point_text": "POSSESSED OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "A Body", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:25", "verse_text": "Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?" }, { "point_text": "A soul", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:20", "verse_text": "But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?" }, { "point_text": "A soul", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:22", "verse_text": "Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "A soul", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:19", "verse_text": "Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator." }, { "point_text": "A spirit", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 18:14", "verse_text": "The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?" }, { "point_text": "A spirit", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:17", "verse_text": "Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel." }, { "point_text": "A spirit", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:11", "verse_text": "For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God." }, { "point_text": "Understanding", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:18", "verse_text": "The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints," }, { "point_text": "Understanding", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:18", "verse_text": "Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:" }, { "point_text": "Will", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:17", "verse_text": "For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me." }, { "point_text": "Will", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:21", "verse_text": "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Affections", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:3", "verse_text": "Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house," }, { "point_text": "Affections", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:2", "verse_text": "Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth." }, { "point_text": "Conscience", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:15", "verse_text": "Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)" }, { "point_text": "Conscience", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:2", "verse_text": "Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;" }, { "point_text": "Memory", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:9", "verse_text": "Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:" }, { "point_text": "Memory", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:2", "verse_text": "By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain." }, { "point_text": "Made by God in his successive generations", "verse_ref": "Job 10:8-11", "verse_text": "Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. 9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again? 10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? 11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews." }, { "point_text": "Made by God in his successive generations", "verse_ref": "Job 31:15", "verse_text": "Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?" }, { "point_text": "Fearfully and wonderfully made", "verse_ref": "Psalm 139:14", "verse_text": "I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well." }, { "point_text": "Of every nation, made of one blood", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:26", "verse_text": "And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;" }, { "point_text": "Quickened by the breath of God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:7", "verse_text": "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." }, { "point_text": "Quickened by the breath of God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:22", "verse_text": "All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died." }, { "point_text": "Quickened by the breath of God", "verse_ref": "Job 33:4", "verse_text": "The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life." }, { "point_text": "Made wise by the inspiration of the Almighty", "verse_ref": "Job 32:8-9", "verse_text": "But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. 9 Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment." }, { "point_text": "Inferior to angels", "verse_ref": "Psalm 8:5", "verse_text": "For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour." }, { "point_text": "Inferior to angels", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:7", "verse_text": "Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:" }, { "point_text": "Is of the earth earthy", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:47", "verse_text": "The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven." }, { "point_text": "Nature and constitution of, different from other creatures", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:39", "verse_text": "All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds." }, { "point_text": "More valuable than other creatures", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:26", "verse_text": "Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?" }, { "point_text": "More valuable than other creatures", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:31", "verse_text": "Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows." }, { "point_text": "More valuable than other creatures", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:12", "verse_text": "How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days." }, { "point_text": "Wiser than other creatures", "verse_ref": "Job 35:11", "verse_text": "Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?" }, { "point_text": "Received dominion over other creatures", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:28", "verse_text": "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Received dominion over other creatures", "verse_ref": "Psalm 8:6-8", "verse_text": "Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: 7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; 8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas." }, { "point_text": "Gave names to other creatures", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:19-20", "verse_text": "And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. 20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him." }, { "point_text": "Intellect of, matured by age", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 13:11", "verse_text": "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The potsherd of the earth", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:9", "verse_text": "Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?" }, { "point_text": "A worm", "verse_ref": "Job 25:6", "verse_text": "How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?" }, { "point_text": "Vain man", "verse_ref": "Job 11:12", "verse_text": "For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt." }, { "point_text": "Vain man", "verse_ref": "James 2:20", "verse_text": "But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?" }, { "point_text": "Flesh", "verse_ref": "Genesis 6:12", "verse_text": "And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Flesh", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:28", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:" }, { "point_text": "COMPARED TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Grass", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:6-8", "verse_text": "The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: 7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. 8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever." }, { "point_text": "Grass", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:24", "verse_text": "For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:" }, { "point_text": "Clay in the potter's hand", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 64:8", "verse_text": "But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand." }, { "point_text": "Clay in the potter's hand", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 18:2", "verse_text": "Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words." }, { "point_text": "Clay in the potter's hand", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 18:6", "verse_text": "O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Vanity", "verse_ref": "Psalm 144:4", "verse_text": "Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away." }, { "point_text": "A sleep", "verse_ref": "Psalm 90:5", "verse_text": "Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up." }, { "point_text": "A wild ass's colt", "verse_ref": "Job 11:12", "verse_text": "For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt." }, { "point_text": "Originally naked and not ashamed", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:25", "verse_text": "And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed." }, { "point_text": "Disobeyed God by eating part of the forbidden fruit", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:1-12", "verse_text": "Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: ..." }, { "point_text": "Filled with shame after the fall", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:10", "verse_text": "And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself." }, { "point_text": "Covered himself with fig-leaves", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:7", "verse_text": "And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons." }, { "point_text": "Clothed by God with skins", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:21", "verse_text": "Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them." }, { "point_text": "Punished for disobedience", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:16-19", "verse_text": "Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. 17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." }, { "point_text": "Banished from paradise", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:23-24", "verse_text": "Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life." }, { "point_text": "Involved posterity in his ruin", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:12-19", "verse_text": "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: 13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come. 15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. ..." }, { "point_text": "Has sought out many inventions", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 7:29", "verse_text": "Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions." }, { "point_text": "Born in sin", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:5", "verse_text": "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me." }, { "point_text": "Born to trouble", "verse_ref": "Job 5:7", "verse_text": "Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward." }, { "point_text": "Has an appointed time on the earth", "verse_ref": "Job 7:1", "verse_text": "Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?" }, { "point_text": "Days of, compared to a shadow", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:15", "verse_text": "For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding." }, { "point_text": "Days of, as the days of a hireling", "verse_ref": "Job 7:1", "verse_text": "Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?" }, { "point_text": "Has but few days", "verse_ref": "Job 14:1", "verse_text": "Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble." }, { "point_text": "Ordinary limit of his life", "verse_ref": "Psalm 90:10", "verse_text": "The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away." }, { "point_text": "Ignorant of what is good for him", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 6:12", "verse_text": "For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?" }, { "point_text": "Ignorant of what is to come after him", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 10:14", "verse_text": "A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?" }, { "point_text": "Not profited by all his labor and travail", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:22", "verse_text": "For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?" }, { "point_text": "Not profited by all his labor and travail", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 6:12", "verse_text": "For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?" }, { "point_text": "Cannot direct his ways", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 10:23", "verse_text": "O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps." }, { "point_text": "Cannot direct his ways", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:24", "verse_text": "Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?" }, { "point_text": "Walks in a vain show", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:6", "verse_text": "Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them." }, { "point_text": "GOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Instructs", "verse_ref": "Psalm 94:10", "verse_text": "He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?" }, { "point_text": "Orders the goings of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 5:21", "verse_text": "For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings." }, { "point_text": "Orders the goings of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:24", "verse_text": "Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?" }, { "point_text": "Prepares the heart of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:1", "verse_text": "The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Enables to speak", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:1", "verse_text": "The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Preserves", "verse_ref": "Job 7:20", "verse_text": "I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?" }, { "point_text": "Preserves", "verse_ref": "Psalm 36:6", "verse_text": "Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast." }, { "point_text": "Provides for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:15-16", "verse_text": "The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. 16 Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing." }, { "point_text": "Destroys the hopes of", "verse_ref": "Job 14:19", "verse_text": "The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man." }, { "point_text": "Makes the wrath of, to praise Him", "verse_ref": "Psalm 76:10", "verse_text": "Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain." }, { "point_text": "Makes his beauty consume away", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:11", "verse_text": "When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Turns, to destruction", "verse_ref": "Psalm 90:3", "verse_text": "Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men." }, { "point_text": "Cannot be just with God", "verse_ref": "Job 9:2", "verse_text": "I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?" }, { "point_text": "Cannot be just with God", "verse_ref": "Job 25:4", "verse_text": "How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?" }, { "point_text": "Cannot be just with God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 143:2", "verse_text": "And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified." }, { "point_text": "Cannot be just with God", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:20", "verse_text": "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin." }, { "point_text": "Cannot cleanse himself", "verse_ref": "Job 15:14", "verse_text": "What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?" }, { "point_text": "Cannot cleanse himself", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:22", "verse_text": "For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "All the ways of, clean in his own eyes", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:2", "verse_text": "All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits." }, { "point_text": "CHRIST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Knew what was in", "verse_ref": "John 2:25", "verse_text": "And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man." }, { "point_text": "Took on him nature of", "verse_ref": "John 1:14", "verse_text": "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." }, { "point_text": "Took on him nature of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:14", "verse_text": "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;" }, { "point_text": "Took on him nature of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:16", "verse_text": "For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham." }, { "point_text": "Made in the image of", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:7", "verse_text": "But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:" }, { "point_text": "Was found in fashion as", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:8", "verse_text": "And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." }, { "point_text": "Approved of God as", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:22", "verse_text": "Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:" }, { "point_text": "Called the second, as covenant head of the church", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:47", "verse_text": "The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven." }, { "point_text": "Is the head of every", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:3", "verse_text": "But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God." }, { "point_text": "A refuge as, to sinners", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:2", "verse_text": "And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land." }, { "point_text": "As such, is the cause of the resurrection", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:21-22", "verse_text": "For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." }, { "point_text": "Shall be recompensed according to his works", "verse_ref": "Psalm 62:12", "verse_text": "Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work." }, { "point_text": "Shall be recompensed according to his works", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:6", "verse_text": "Who will render to every man according to his deeds:" }, { "point_text": "Cannot retain his spirit from death", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 8:8", "verse_text": "There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it." }, { "point_text": "Would give all his possessions for the preservation of life", "verse_ref": "Job 2:4", "verse_text": "And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life." }, { "point_text": "Able to sustain bodily affliction", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 18:14", "verse_text": "The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?" }, { "point_text": "Sinks under trouble of mind", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 18:14", "verse_text": "The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?" }, { "point_text": "No trust to be placed in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 118:8", "verse_text": "It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man." }, { "point_text": "No trust to be placed in", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:22", "verse_text": "Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?" }, { "point_text": "The help of, vain", "verse_ref": "Psalm 60:11", "verse_text": "Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man." }, { "point_text": "The whole duty of", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 12:13", "verse_text": "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man." } ] }, { "name": "Manasseh, The Tribe of", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Manasseh-The-Tribe-of.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Descended from Joseph's eldest son adopted by Jacob", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:51", "verse_text": "And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house." }, { "point_text": "Descended from Joseph's eldest son adopted by Jacob", "verse_ref": "Genesis 48:5", "verse_text": "And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine." }, { "point_text": "Predictions respecting", "verse_ref": "Genesis 48:20", "verse_text": "And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh." }, { "point_text": "Predictions respecting", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:22-26", "verse_text": "Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: 23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: 24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) 25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: ..." }, { "point_text": "Predictions respecting", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:13-17", "verse_text": "And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath, 14 And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon, 15 And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills, 16 And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren. ..." }, { "point_text": "PERSONS SELECTED FROM,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To number the people", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:10", "verse_text": "Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama the son of Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur." }, { "point_text": "To spy out the land", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:11", "verse_text": "Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi." }, { "point_text": "To divide the land", "verse_ref": "Numbers 34:23", "verse_text": "The prince of the children of Joseph, for the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod." }, { "point_text": "Strength of, on leaving Egypt", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:34-35", "verse_text": "Of the children of Manasseh, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 35 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred." }, { "point_text": "Part of third division of Israel in their journeys", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:22-23", "verse_text": "And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud. 23 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur." }, { "point_text": "Encamped next to, and under the standard of Ephraim west of tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 2:18", "verse_text": "On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud." }, { "point_text": "Encamped next to, and under the standard of Ephraim west of tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 2:20", "verse_text": "And by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the captain of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur." }, { "point_text": "Offering of, at dedication", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:54-59", "verse_text": "On the eighth day offered Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh: 55 His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: 56 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: 57 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: ..." }, { "point_text": "Families of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:29-33", "verse_text": "Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead come the family of the Gileadites. 30 These are the sons of Gilead: of Jeezer, the family of the Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites: 31 And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites: 32 And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites. ..." }, { "point_text": "Strength of, on entering Canaan", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:34", "verse_text": "These are the families of Manasseh, and those that were numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven hundred." }, { "point_text": "On Gerizim said amen to the blessings", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 27:12", "verse_text": "These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:" }, { "point_text": "Half of, obtained inheritance east of Jordan", "verse_ref": "Numbers 32:33", "verse_text": "And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about." }, { "point_text": "Half of, obtained inheritance east of Jordan", "verse_ref": "Numbers 32:39-42", "verse_text": "And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it. 40 And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein. 41 And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havothjair. 42 And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name." }, { "point_text": "Half of, obtained inheritance east of Jordan", "verse_ref": "Joshua 13:29-31", "verse_text": "And Moses gave inheritance unto the half tribe of Manasseh: and this was the possession of the half tribe of the children of Manasseh by their families. 30 And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities: 31 And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were pertaining unto the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even to the one half of the children of Machir by their families." }, { "point_text": "Inheritance of the other half", "verse_ref": "Joshua 17:1-11", "verse_text": "There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn of Joseph; to wit, for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan. 2 There was also a lot for the rest of the children of Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families. 3 But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. 4 And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore according to the commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father. ..." }, { "point_text": "Could not drive out the Canaanites but made them tributary", "verse_ref": "Joshua 17:12-13", "verse_text": "Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land. 13 Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute; but did not utterly drive them out." }, { "point_text": "SOME OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Aided David against Saul", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:19-21", "verse_text": "And there fell some of Manasseh to David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle: but they helped them not: for the lords of the Philistines upon advisement sent him away, saying, He will fall to his master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads. 20 As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah, and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and Zilthai, captains of the thousands that were of Manasseh. 21 And they helped David against the band of the rovers: for they were all mighty men of valour, and were captains in the host." }, { "point_text": "At coronation of David", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:31-37", "verse_text": "And of the half tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, which were expressed by name, to come and make David king. 32 And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment. 33 Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: they were not of double heart. 34 And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand. ..." }, { "point_text": "Returned to their allegiance to the house of David in Asa's reign", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 15:9", "verse_text": "And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the LORD his God was with him." }, { "point_text": "At Hezekiah's passover", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 30:1", "verse_text": "And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel." }, { "point_text": "At Hezekiah's passover", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 30:11", "verse_text": "Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "At Hezekiah's passover", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 30:18", "verse_text": "For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one" }, { "point_text": "David appointed rulers and captains over", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 26:32", "verse_text": "And his brethren, men of valour, were two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers, whom king David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for every matter pertaining to God, and affairs of the king." }, { "point_text": "David appointed rulers and captains over", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:20-21", "verse_text": "Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah: of the half tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah: 21 Of the half tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner:" }, { "point_text": "Often at war with Ephraim", "verse_ref": "Judges 12:1", "verse_text": "And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire." }, { "point_text": "Often at war with Ephraim", "verse_ref": "Judges 12:6", "verse_text": "Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand." }, { "point_text": "Country of, purified from idols by Hezekiah and Josiah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:1", "verse_text": "Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities." }, { "point_text": "Country of, purified from idols by Hezekiah and Josiah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 34:6", "verse_text": "And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of;\r\n\nDaughters of Zelophehad, \nGideon, \nAbimelech, \nJotham, \n\n\nJair, \nJephthah, \nBarzillai, \nElijah,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 27:1-7", "verse_text": "Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah. 2 And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying, 3 Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons. 4 Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father. ..." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of;\r\n\nDaughters of Zelophehad, \nGideon, \nAbimelech, \nJotham, \n\n\nJair, \nJephthah, \nBarzillai, \nElijah,", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:15", "verse_text": "And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of;\r\n\nDaughters of Zelophehad, \nGideon, \nAbimelech, \nJotham, \n\n\nJair, \nJephthah, \nBarzillai, \nElijah,", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:1", "verse_text": "And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother's brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying," }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of;\r\n\nDaughters of Zelophehad, \nGideon, \nAbimelech, \nJotham, \n\n\nJair, \nJephthah, \nBarzillai, \nElijah,", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:5", "verse_text": "And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of;\r\n\nDaughters of Zelophehad, \nGideon, \nAbimelech, \nJotham, \n\n\nJair, \nJephthah, \nBarzillai, \nElijah,", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:7", "verse_text": "And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of;\r\n\nDaughters of Zelophehad, \nGideon, \nAbimelech, \nJotham, \n\n\nJair, \nJephthah, \nBarzillai, \nElijah,", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:21", "verse_text": "And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of;\r\n\nDaughters of Zelophehad, \nGideon, \nAbimelech, \nJotham, \n\n\nJair, \nJephthah, \nBarzillai, \nElijah,", "verse_ref": "Judges 10:3", "verse_text": "And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of;\r\n\nDaughters of Zelophehad, \nGideon, \nAbimelech, \nJotham, \n\n\nJair, \nJephthah, \nBarzillai, \nElijah,", "verse_ref": "Judges 11:1", "verse_text": "Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of;\r\n\nDaughters of Zelophehad, \nGideon, \nAbimelech, \nJotham, \n\n\nJair, \nJephthah, \nBarzillai, \nElijah,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 17:27", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim," }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of;\r\n\nDaughters of Zelophehad, \nGideon, \nAbimelech, \nJotham, \n\n\nJair, \nJephthah, \nBarzillai, \nElijah,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 17:1", "verse_text": "And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word." } ] }, { "name": "Masters", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Masters.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Authority of, established", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:22", "verse_text": "Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:" }, { "point_text": "Authority of, established", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:18", "verse_text": "Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD, WITH THEIR HOUSEHOLDS,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Worship God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:3", "verse_text": "And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went." }, { "point_text": "Fear God", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:2", "verse_text": "A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway." }, { "point_text": "Serve God", "verse_ref": "Joshua 24:15", "verse_text": "And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Observe the Sabbath", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:10", "verse_text": "But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:" }, { "point_text": "Observe the Sabbath", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:12-14", "verse_text": "Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee. 13 Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work: 14 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou." }, { "point_text": "Put away idols", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:2", "verse_text": "Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:" }, { "point_text": "Should select faithful servants", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:2", "verse_text": "And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:" }, { "point_text": "Should select faithful servants", "verse_ref": "Psalm 101:6-7", "verse_text": "Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me. 7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight." }, { "point_text": "Should receive faithful advice from servants", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:13-14", "verse_text": "And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean? 14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean." }, { "point_text": "DUTY OF, TOWARD SERVANTS;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To act justly", "verse_ref": "Job 31:13", "verse_text": "If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;" }, { "point_text": "To act justly", "verse_ref": "Job 31:15", "verse_text": "Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?" }, { "point_text": "To deal with them in the fear of God", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:9", "verse_text": "And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him." }, { "point_text": "To deal with them in the fear of God", "verse_ref": "Colossians 4:1", "verse_text": "Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven." }, { "point_text": "To esteem them highly, if saints", "verse_ref": "Philemon 16", "verse_text": "Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?" }, { "point_text": "To take care of them in sickness", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:3", "verse_text": "And when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant." }, { "point_text": "To forbear threatening them", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:9", "verse_text": "And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him." }, { "point_text": "Not to defraud them", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:7", "verse_text": "And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me." }, { "point_text": "Not to keep back their wages", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:13", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning." }, { "point_text": "Not to keep back their wages", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:15", "verse_text": "At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Not to rule over them with rigor", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:43", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God." }, { "point_text": "Not to rule over them with rigor", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:14", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:" }, { "point_text": "Benevolent, blessed", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 15:18", "verse_text": "It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest." }, { "point_text": "Unjust, denounced", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 22:13", "verse_text": "Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;" }, { "point_text": "Unjust, denounced", "verse_ref": "James 5:4", "verse_text": "Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nJoshua, \nCenturion, \nCornelius,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:19", "verse_text": "For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nJoshua, \nCenturion, \nCornelius,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:2", "verse_text": "Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:" }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nJoshua, \nCenturion, \nCornelius,", "verse_ref": "Joshua 24:15", "verse_text": "And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nJoshua, \nCenturion, \nCornelius,", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:2-3", "verse_text": "And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear unto him, was sick, and ready to die. 3 And when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nJoshua, \nCenturion, \nCornelius,", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:2", "verse_text": "A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway." }, { "point_text": "Bad--Exemplified.\r\n\nEgyptians, \nNabal, \nAmalekite,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 1:13-14", "verse_text": "And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: 14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour." }, { "point_text": "Bad--Exemplified.\r\n\nEgyptians, \nNabal, \nAmalekite,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:17", "verse_text": "Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him." }, { "point_text": "Bad--Exemplified.\r\n\nEgyptians, \nNabal, \nAmalekite,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 30:13", "verse_text": "And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick." } ] }, { "name": "Manna", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Manna.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Miraculously given to Israel for food in the wilderness", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:4", "verse_text": "Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no." }, { "point_text": "Miraculously given to Israel for food in the wilderness", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:15", "verse_text": "And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat." }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "God's manna", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:20", "verse_text": "Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst." }, { "point_text": "Bread of heaven", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:40", "verse_text": "The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven." }, { "point_text": "Bread from heaven", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:4", "verse_text": "Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no." }, { "point_text": "Bread from heaven", "verse_ref": "John 6:31", "verse_text": "Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat." }, { "point_text": "Corn of heaven", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:24", "verse_text": "And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven." }, { "point_text": "Angel's food", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:25", "verse_text": "Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full." }, { "point_text": "Spiritual meat", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:3", "verse_text": "And did all eat the same spiritual meat;" }, { "point_text": "Previously unknown", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:3", "verse_text": "And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live." }, { "point_text": "Previously unknown", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:16", "verse_text": "Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;" }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Like coriander seed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:31", "verse_text": "And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey." }, { "point_text": "Like coriander seed", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:7", "verse_text": "And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium." }, { "point_text": "White", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:31", "verse_text": "And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey." }, { "point_text": "Like in color to bdellium", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:7", "verse_text": "And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium." }, { "point_text": "Like in taste to wafers made with honey", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:31", "verse_text": "And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey." }, { "point_text": "Like in taste to oil", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:8", "verse_text": "And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil." }, { "point_text": "Like hoar frost", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:14", "verse_text": "And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground." }, { "point_text": "Fell after the evening dew", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:9", "verse_text": "And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it." }, { "point_text": "None fell on the Sabbath day", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:26-27", "verse_text": "Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none. 27 And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none." }, { "point_text": "Gathered every morning", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:21", "verse_text": "And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted." }, { "point_text": "An omer of, gathered for each person", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:16", "verse_text": "This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents." }, { "point_text": "Two portions of, gathered the sixth day on account of the Sabbath", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:5", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily." }, { "point_text": "Two portions of, gathered the sixth day on account of the Sabbath", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:22-26", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses. 23 And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning. 24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein. 25 And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto the LORD: to day ye shall not find it in the field. ..." }, { "point_text": "He that gathered much or little had sufficient and nothing over", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:18", "verse_text": "And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating." }, { "point_text": "Melted away by the sun", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:21", "verse_text": "And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted." }, { "point_text": "GIVEN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "When Israel murmured for bread", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:2-3", "verse_text": "And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: 3 And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger." }, { "point_text": "In answer to prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:40", "verse_text": "The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven." }, { "point_text": "Through Moses", "verse_ref": "John 6:31-32", "verse_text": "Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. 32 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven." }, { "point_text": "To exhibit God's glory", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:7", "verse_text": "And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the LORD; for that he heareth your murmurings against the LORD: and what are we, that ye murmur against us?" }, { "point_text": "As a sign of Moses's divine mission", "verse_ref": "John 6:30-31", "verse_text": "They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work? 31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat." }, { "point_text": "For forty years", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:21", "verse_text": "Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not." }, { "point_text": "As a test of obedience", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:4", "verse_text": "Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no." }, { "point_text": "To teach that man does not live by bread only", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:3", "verse_text": "And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live." }, { "point_text": "To teach that man does not live by bread only", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:4", "verse_text": "But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." }, { "point_text": "To humble and prove Israel", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:16", "verse_text": "Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;" }, { "point_text": "Kept longer than a day (except on the Sabbath) became corrupt", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:19-20", "verse_text": "And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning. 20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them." }, { "point_text": "THE ISRAELITES", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "At first covetous of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:17", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less." }, { "point_text": "Ground, made into cakes and baked in pans", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:8", "verse_text": "And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil." }, { "point_text": "Counted inferior to food of Egypt", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:4-6", "verse_text": "And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? 5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: 6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes." }, { "point_text": "Loathed", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:5", "verse_text": "And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread." }, { "point_text": "Punished for despising", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:10-20", "verse_text": "Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased. 11 And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me? 12 Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers? 13 Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat. ..." }, { "point_text": "Punished for loathing", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:6", "verse_text": "And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died." }, { "point_text": "Ceased when Israel entered Canaan", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:35", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan." }, { "point_text": "Ceased when Israel entered Canaan", "verse_ref": "Joshua 5:12", "verse_text": "And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "John 6:32-35", "verse_text": "Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. 34 Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. 35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness given to saints", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:17", "verse_text": "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it." }, { "point_text": "A golden pot of, laid up in the holiest for a memorial", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:32-34", "verse_text": "And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt. 33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations. 34 As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept." }, { "point_text": "A golden pot of, laid up in the holiest for a memorial", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:4", "verse_text": "Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;" } ] }, { "name": "Meat-offerings", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Meatofferings.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Were most holy", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:17", "verse_text": "It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it unto them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering." }, { "point_text": "CONSISTED OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Fine flour", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 2:1", "verse_text": "And when any will offer a meat offering unto the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon:" }, { "point_text": "Unleavened cakes baked in the oven", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 2:4", "verse_text": "And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil." }, { "point_text": "Fine flour baked in a pan", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 2:5", "verse_text": "And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in a pan, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil." }, { "point_text": "Fine flour baked in a frying pan", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 2:7", "verse_text": "And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in the fryingpan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil." }, { "point_text": "Green ears of corn parched", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 2:14", "verse_text": "And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the LORD, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire, even corn beaten out of full ears." }, { "point_text": "Barley meal", "verse_ref": "Numbers 5:15", "verse_text": "Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance." }, { "point_text": "Oil and incense used with", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 2:1", "verse_text": "And when any will offer a meat offering unto the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon:" }, { "point_text": "Oil and incense used with", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 2:4", "verse_text": "And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil." }, { "point_text": "Oil and incense used with", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 2:15", "verse_text": "And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it is a meat offering." }, { "point_text": "Of jealousy, without oil or incense", "verse_ref": "Numbers 5:15", "verse_text": "Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance." }, { "point_text": "Always seasoned with salt", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 2:13", "verse_text": "And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt." }, { "point_text": "No leaven used with", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 2:11", "verse_text": "No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire." }, { "point_text": "No leaven used with", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:17", "verse_text": "It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it unto them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering." }, { "point_text": "Not to be offered on altar of incense", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:9", "verse_text": "Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon." }, { "point_text": "OFFERED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "On the altar of burnt-offering", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:29", "verse_text": "And he put the altar of burnt offering by the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meat offering; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "With the daily sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:40-42", "verse_text": "And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering. 41 And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD. 42 This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee." }, { "point_text": "With all burnt-sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:3-12", "verse_text": "And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock: 4 Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the LORD bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oil. 5 And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb. 6 Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil. ..." }, { "point_text": "By the poor for a trespass-offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:11", "verse_text": "But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense thereon: for it is a sin offering." }, { "point_text": "By the high priest every day, half in the morning and half in the evening", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:20-22", "verse_text": "This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night. 21 In a pan it shall be made with oil; and when it is baken, thou shalt bring it in: and the baken pieces of the meat offering shalt thou offer for a sweet savour unto the LORD. 22 And the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead shall offer it: it is a statute for ever unto the LORD; it shall be wholly burnt." }, { "point_text": "A small part of, was consumed on the altar for a memorial", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 2:2", "verse_text": "And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "A small part of, was consumed on the altar for a memorial", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 2:9", "verse_text": "And the priest shall take from the meat offering a memorial thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "A small part of, was consumed on the altar for a memorial", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:15", "verse_text": "And he shall take of it his handful, of the flour of the meat offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which is upon the meat offering, and shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour, even the memorial of it, unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "When offered for a priest entirely consumed by fire", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:23", "verse_text": "For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten." }, { "point_text": "High priest's deputy had care of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 4:16", "verse_text": "And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest pertaineth the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the daily meat offering, and the anointing oil, and the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein is, in the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof." }, { "point_text": "Laid up in a chamber of the temple", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 10:39", "verse_text": "For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the corn, of the new wine, and the oil, unto the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God." }, { "point_text": "Laid up in a chamber of the temple", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:5", "verse_text": "And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meat offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil, which was commanded to be given to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the offerings of the priests." }, { "point_text": "Laid up in a chamber of the temple", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 42:13", "verse_text": "Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy." }, { "point_text": "The priest's portion", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 2:3", "verse_text": "And the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire." }, { "point_text": "The priest's portion", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:17", "verse_text": "It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it unto them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering." }, { "point_text": "To be eaten by the males of the house of Aaron alone", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:18", "verse_text": "All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the LORD made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy." }, { "point_text": "To be eaten in the holy place", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:16", "verse_text": "And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it." }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Often not accepted in", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:22", "verse_text": "Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts." }, { "point_text": "Condemned for offering, to idols", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:6", "verse_text": "Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?" }, { "point_text": "Often prevented from offering, by judgments", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:9", "verse_text": "The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn." }, { "point_text": "Often prevented from offering, by judgments", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:13", "verse_text": "Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God." }, { "point_text": "Materials for public, often provided by the princes", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:13", "verse_text": "And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:" }, { "point_text": "Materials for public, often provided by the princes", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:19", "verse_text": "He offered for his offering one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:" }, { "point_text": "Materials for public, often provided by the princes", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:25", "verse_text": "His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:" } ] }, { "name": "Martyrdom", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Martyrdom.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is death endured for the word of God, and testimony of Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 6:9", "verse_text": "And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:" }, { "point_text": "Is death endured for the word of God, and testimony of Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 20:4", "verse_text": "And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Forewarned of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:21", "verse_text": "And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death." }, { "point_text": "Forewarned of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:9", "verse_text": "Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake." }, { "point_text": "Forewarned of", "verse_ref": "John 16:2", "verse_text": "They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service." }, { "point_text": "Should not fear", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:28", "verse_text": "And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." }, { "point_text": "Should not fear", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:10", "verse_text": "Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." }, { "point_text": "Should be prepared for", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:24-25", "verse_text": "Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it." }, { "point_text": "Should resist sin unto", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:4", "verse_text": "Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin." }, { "point_text": "Reward of", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:10", "verse_text": "Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." }, { "point_text": "Reward of", "verse_ref": "Revelation 6:11", "verse_text": "And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled." }, { "point_text": "Inflicted at the instigation of the devil", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:10", "verse_text": "Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." }, { "point_text": "Inflicted at the instigation of the devil", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:13", "verse_text": "I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth." }, { "point_text": "The Apostacy guilty of inflicting", "verse_ref": "Revelation 17:6", "verse_text": "And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration." }, { "point_text": "The Apostacy guilty of inflicting", "verse_ref": "Revelation 18:24", "verse_text": "And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Of saints, shall be avenged", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:50-51", "verse_text": "That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; 51 From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbel, \n\nAhimelech and his fellow priests, \nProphets and Saints of old, \n\n\nUrijah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nPeter, \nStephen, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\n\nJames, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:8", "verse_text": "And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbel, \n\nAhimelech and his fellow priests, \nProphets and Saints of old, \n\n\nUrijah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nPeter, \nStephen, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\n\nJames, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:12", "verse_text": "Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbel, \n\nAhimelech and his fellow priests, \nProphets and Saints of old, \n\n\nUrijah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nPeter, \nStephen, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\n\nJames, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 22:18-19", "verse_text": "And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod. 19 And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbel, \n\nAhimelech and his fellow priests, \nProphets and Saints of old, \n\n\nUrijah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nPeter, \nStephen, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\n\nJames, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:4", "verse_text": "For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbel, \n\nAhimelech and his fellow priests, \nProphets and Saints of old, \n\n\nUrijah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nPeter, \nStephen, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\n\nJames, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:10", "verse_text": "And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbel, \n\nAhimelech and his fellow priests, \nProphets and Saints of old, \n\n\nUrijah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nPeter, \nStephen, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\n\nJames, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:50-51", "verse_text": "That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; 51 From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbel, \n\nAhimelech and his fellow priests, \nProphets and Saints of old, \n\n\nUrijah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nPeter, \nStephen, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\n\nJames, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 26:23", "verse_text": "And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbel, \n\nAhimelech and his fellow priests, \nProphets and Saints of old, \n\n\nUrijah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nPeter, \nStephen, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\n\nJames, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:27", "verse_text": "And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbel, \n\nAhimelech and his fellow priests, \nProphets and Saints of old, \n\n\nUrijah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nPeter, \nStephen, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\n\nJames, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "John 21:18-19", "verse_text": "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not. 19 This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbel, \n\nAhimelech and his fellow priests, \nProphets and Saints of old, \n\n\nUrijah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nPeter, \nStephen, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\n\nJames, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:58", "verse_text": "And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbel, \n\nAhimelech and his fellow priests, \nProphets and Saints of old, \n\n\nUrijah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nPeter, \nStephen, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\n\nJames, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:1", "verse_text": "And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbel, \n\nAhimelech and his fellow priests, \nProphets and Saints of old, \n\n\nUrijah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nPeter, \nStephen, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\n\nJames, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Acts 22:4", "verse_text": "And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbel, \n\nAhimelech and his fellow priests, \nProphets and Saints of old, \n\n\nUrijah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nPeter, \nStephen, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\n\nJames, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:10", "verse_text": "Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbel, \n\nAhimelech and his fellow priests, \nProphets and Saints of old, \n\n\nUrijah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nPeter, \nStephen, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\n\nJames, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:2", "verse_text": "And he killed James the brother of John with the sword." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbel, \n\nAhimelech and his fellow priests, \nProphets and Saints of old, \n\n\nUrijah, \nJohn the Baptist, \nPeter, \nStephen, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\n\nJames, \nAntipas,", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:13", "verse_text": "I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth." } ] }, { "name": "Measures", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Measures.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Unjust, an abomination to God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:10", "verse_text": "Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The Jews not to be unjust in", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:35", "verse_text": "Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure." }, { "point_text": "The Jews not to be unjust in", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 25:14-15", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small. 15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee." }, { "point_text": "The Jews often used unjust", "verse_ref": "Micah 6:10", "verse_text": "Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?" }, { "point_text": "OF LIQUIDS AND SOLIDS;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Log", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:10", "verse_text": "And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil." }, { "point_text": "Log", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:15", "verse_text": "And the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand:" }, { "point_text": "Cab", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:25", "verse_text": "And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver." }, { "point_text": "Omer or tenth-deal (the tenth of an ephah)", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:36", "verse_text": "Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah." }, { "point_text": "Omer or tenth-deal (the tenth of an ephah)", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:11", "verse_text": "But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense thereon: for it is a sin offering." }, { "point_text": "Omer or tenth-deal (the tenth of an ephah)", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:10", "verse_text": "And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil." }, { "point_text": "Hin", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:40", "verse_text": "And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering." }, { "point_text": "Bath or ephah", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:10", "verse_text": "Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah." }, { "point_text": "Bath or ephah", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 45:11", "verse_text": "The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer." }, { "point_text": "Homer or Cor", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:10", "verse_text": "Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah." }, { "point_text": "Homer or Cor", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 45:14", "verse_text": "Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer:" }, { "point_text": "Firkin", "verse_ref": "John 2:6", "verse_text": "And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece." }, { "point_text": "OF LENGTH;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Handbreadth", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:25", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about." }, { "point_text": "Handbreadth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:5", "verse_text": "Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Span", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:16", "verse_text": "Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof." }, { "point_text": "Span", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:4", "verse_text": "And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span." }, { "point_text": "Cubit", "verse_ref": "Genesis 6:15-16", "verse_text": "And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. 16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it." }, { "point_text": "Fathom", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:28", "verse_text": "And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms." }, { "point_text": "Furlong", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:13", "verse_text": "And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs." }, { "point_text": "Furlong", "verse_ref": "John 11:18", "verse_text": "Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:" }, { "point_text": "Mile", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:41", "verse_text": "And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain." }, { "point_text": "Distances measured by rods and lines", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:2", "verse_text": "And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts." }, { "point_text": "Distances measured by rods and lines", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:39", "verse_text": "And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath." }, { "point_text": "Distances measured by rods and lines", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 40:3", "verse_text": "And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate." }, { "point_text": "Distances measured by rods and lines", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:16", "verse_text": "And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal." }, { "point_text": "Were regulated by the standard of the sanctuary", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:29", "verse_text": "Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size;" }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "(Correcting in measure,) of mitigated afflictions", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 30:11", "verse_text": "For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished." }, { "point_text": "(Drinking tears in great measure,) of severe afflictions", "verse_ref": "Psalm 80:5", "verse_text": "Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure." }, { "point_text": "(Weighing the waters in a measure,) of God's infinite wisdom", "verse_ref": "Job 28:23", "verse_text": "God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof." }, { "point_text": "(Weighing the waters in a measure,) of God's infinite wisdom", "verse_ref": "Job 28:25", "verse_text": "To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure." }, { "point_text": "(Measuring the dust of the earth,) of God's greatness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:12", "verse_text": "Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?" }, { "point_text": "(The measure of our days,) of the shortness of life", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:4", "verse_text": "LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am." }, { "point_text": "(Drinking water, by measure) of severe famine", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 4:11", "verse_text": "Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink." }, { "point_text": "(Drinking water, by measure) of severe famine", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 4:16", "verse_text": "Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:" }, { "point_text": "(The measure of the stature of Christ,) of perfection", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:13", "verse_text": "Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:" }, { "point_text": "(Opening the mouth without measure,) of the insatiableness of hell", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:14", "verse_text": "Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it." } ] }, { "name": "Marriage", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Marriage.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Divinely instituted", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:24", "verse_text": "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh." }, { "point_text": "A covenant relationship", "verse_ref": "Malachi 2:4", "verse_text": "And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "DESIGNED FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The happiness of man", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:18", "verse_text": "And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him." }, { "point_text": "Increasing the species", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:28", "verse_text": "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Increasing the species", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:1", "verse_text": "And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth." }, { "point_text": "Raising up godly seed", "verse_ref": "Malachi 2:15", "verse_text": "And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth." }, { "point_text": "Preventing fornication", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:2", "verse_text": "Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband." }, { "point_text": "The expectation of the promised seed of the woman an incentive to, in the early age.\r\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:15", "verse_text": "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." }, { "point_text": "The expectation of the promised seed of the woman an incentive to, in the early age.\r\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:1", "verse_text": "And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Lawful in all", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:2", "verse_text": "Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband." }, { "point_text": "Lawful in all", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:28", "verse_text": "But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you." }, { "point_text": "Lawful in all", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:14", "verse_text": "I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully." }, { "point_text": "Honorable for all", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:4", "verse_text": "Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge." }, { "point_text": "Should be only in the Lord", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:39", "verse_text": "The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord." }, { "point_text": "EXPRESSED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Joining together", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:6", "verse_text": "Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." }, { "point_text": "Making affinity", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 3:1", "verse_text": "And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about." }, { "point_text": "Taking to wife", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:1", "verse_text": "And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi." }, { "point_text": "Giving daughters to sons, and sons to daughters", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:3", "verse_text": "Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son." }, { "point_text": "Giving daughters to sons, and sons to daughters", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:12", "verse_text": "Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever." }, { "point_text": "Indissoluble during the joint lives of the parties", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:6", "verse_text": "Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." }, { "point_text": "Indissoluble during the joint lives of the parties", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:2-3", "verse_text": "For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. 3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man." }, { "point_text": "Indissoluble during the joint lives of the parties", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:39", "verse_text": "The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Early introduction of polygamy", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:19", "verse_text": "And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah." }, { "point_text": "Contracted in patriarchal age with near relations", "verse_ref": "Genesis 20:12", "verse_text": "And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife." }, { "point_text": "Contracted in patriarchal age with near relations", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:24", "verse_text": "And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor." }, { "point_text": "Contracted in patriarchal age with near relations", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:2", "verse_text": "Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother." }, { "point_text": "Often contracted by parents for children", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:49-51", "verse_text": "And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left. 50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good. 51 Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD hath spoken." }, { "point_text": "Often contracted by parents for children", "verse_ref": "Genesis 34:6", "verse_text": "And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him." }, { "point_text": "Often contracted by parents for children", "verse_ref": "Genesis 34:8", "verse_text": "And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife." }, { "point_text": "Should be with consent of parents", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:8", "verse_text": "And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;" }, { "point_text": "Should be with consent of parents", "verse_ref": "Judges 14:2-3", "verse_text": "And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife. 3 Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well." }, { "point_text": "Consent of the parties necessary to", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:57-58", "verse_text": "And they said, We will call the damsel, and inquire at her mouth. 58 And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go." }, { "point_text": "Consent of the parties necessary to", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 18:20", "verse_text": "And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him." }, { "point_text": "Consent of the parties necessary to", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:41", "verse_text": "And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord." }, { "point_text": "Parents might refuse to give their children in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:17", "verse_text": "If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins." }, { "point_text": "Parents might refuse to give their children in", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:3", "verse_text": "Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son." }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to contract, with their near relations", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 18:6", "verse_text": "None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to contract with idolaters", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:3-4", "verse_text": "Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. 4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly." }, { "point_text": "Often contracted with foreigners", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:1", "verse_text": "But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;" }, { "point_text": "Often contracted with foreigners", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:23", "verse_text": "In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:" }, { "point_text": "Sometimes guilty of polygamy", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:1", "verse_text": "But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;" }, { "point_text": "Sometimes guilty of polygamy", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:3", "verse_text": "And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart." }, { "point_text": "Careful in contracting for their children", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:2", "verse_text": "And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:" }, { "point_text": "Careful in contracting for their children", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:1-2", "verse_text": "And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. 2 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother." }, { "point_text": "Betrothed themselves some time before", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 20:7", "verse_text": "And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her." }, { "point_text": "Betrothed themselves some time before", "verse_ref": "Judges 14:5", "verse_text": "Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him." }, { "point_text": "Betrothed themselves some time before", "verse_ref": "Judges 14:7-8", "verse_text": "And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well. 8 And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion." }, { "point_text": "Contracted when young", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 2:17", "verse_text": "Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God." }, { "point_text": "Contracted when young", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:8", "verse_text": "Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth." }, { "point_text": "Often contracted, in their own tribe", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:1", "verse_text": "And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi." }, { "point_text": "Often contracted, in their own tribe", "verse_ref": "Numbers 36:6-13", "verse_text": "This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry. 7 So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. 8 And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers. 9 Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance. ..." }, { "point_text": "Often contracted, in their own tribe", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:5", "verse_text": "There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth." }, { "point_text": "Often contracted, in their own tribe", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:27", "verse_text": "To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary." }, { "point_text": "Obliged to contract with a brother's wife who died without seed", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 25:5", "verse_text": "If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her." }, { "point_text": "Obliged to contract with a brother's wife who died without seed", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:24", "verse_text": "Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother." }, { "point_text": "Considered being debarred from, a reproach", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 4:1", "verse_text": "And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach." }, { "point_text": "Considered being debarred from, a cause of grief", "verse_ref": "Judges 11:38", "verse_text": "And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains." }, { "point_text": "Often punished by being debarred from", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:34", "verse_text": "Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate." }, { "point_text": "Often punished by being debarred from", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 16:9", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride." }, { "point_text": "Often punished by being debarred from", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 25:10", "verse_text": "Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle." }, { "point_text": "Were allowed divorce from, because of hardness of their hearts", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:1", "verse_text": "When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house." }, { "point_text": "Were allowed divorce from, because of hardness of their hearts", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:7-8", "verse_text": "They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? 8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so." }, { "point_text": "Exempted from going to war immediately after", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 20:7", "verse_text": "And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her." }, { "point_text": "Priest not to contract, with divorced or improper person", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 21:7", "verse_text": "They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God." }, { "point_text": "The high priest not to contract, with a widow or a divorced or profane person", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 21:14", "verse_text": "A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife." }, { "point_text": "Contracted at the gate and before witnesses", "verse_ref": "Ruth 4:1", "verse_text": "Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down." }, { "point_text": "Contracted at the gate and before witnesses", "verse_ref": "Ruth 4:10-11", "verse_text": "Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day. 11 And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:" }, { "point_text": "Modes of demanding women in", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:3", "verse_text": "And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:" }, { "point_text": "Modes of demanding women in", "verse_ref": "Genesis 34:6", "verse_text": "And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him." }, { "point_text": "Modes of demanding women in", "verse_ref": "Genesis 34:8", "verse_text": "And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife." }, { "point_text": "Modes of demanding women in", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:39-40", "verse_text": "And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife. 40 And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife." }, { "point_text": "Elder daughters usually given in, before the younger", "verse_ref": "Genesis 29:26", "verse_text": "And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn." }, { "point_text": "A dowry given to the woman's parents before", "verse_ref": "Genesis 29:18", "verse_text": "And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter." }, { "point_text": "A dowry given to the woman's parents before", "verse_ref": "Genesis 34:12", "verse_text": "Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife." }, { "point_text": "A dowry given to the woman's parents before", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 18:27-28", "verse_text": "Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife. 28 And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal Saul's daughter loved him." }, { "point_text": "CELEBRATED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "With great rejoicing", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 33:11", "verse_text": "The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "With great rejoicing", "verse_ref": "John 3:29", "verse_text": "He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled." }, { "point_text": "With feasting", "verse_ref": "Genesis 29:22", "verse_text": "And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast." }, { "point_text": "With feasting", "verse_ref": "Judges 14:10", "verse_text": "So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do." }, { "point_text": "With feasting", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:2-3", "verse_text": "The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, 3 And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come." }, { "point_text": "For seven days", "verse_ref": "Judges 14:12", "verse_text": "And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments:" }, { "point_text": "A benediction pronounced after", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:60", "verse_text": "And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them." }, { "point_text": "A benediction pronounced after", "verse_ref": "Ruth 4:11-12", "verse_text": "And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem: 12 And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this young woman." }, { "point_text": "THE BRIDE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Received presents before", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:53", "verse_text": "And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things." }, { "point_text": "Given a handmaid at", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:59", "verse_text": "And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men." }, { "point_text": "Given a handmaid at", "verse_ref": "Genesis 29:24", "verse_text": "And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid." }, { "point_text": "Given a handmaid at", "verse_ref": "Genesis 29:29", "verse_text": "And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid." }, { "point_text": "Adorned with jewels for", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:18", "verse_text": "Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth." }, { "point_text": "Adorned with jewels for", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:10", "verse_text": "I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels." }, { "point_text": "Gorgeously apparelled", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:13-14", "verse_text": "The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold. 14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Attended by bridesmaids", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:9", "verse_text": "Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir." }, { "point_text": "Stood on the right of bridegroom", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:9", "verse_text": "Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir." }, { "point_text": "Called to forget her father's house", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:10", "verse_text": "Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;" }, { "point_text": "THE BRIDEGROOM", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Adorned with ornaments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:10", "verse_text": "I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels." }, { "point_text": "Attended by many friends", "verse_ref": "Judges 14:11", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him." }, { "point_text": "Attended by many friends", "verse_ref": "John 3:29", "verse_text": "He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled." }, { "point_text": "Presented with gifts", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:12", "verse_text": "And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour." }, { "point_text": "Crowned with garlands", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 3:11", "verse_text": "Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart." }, { "point_text": "Rejoiced over the bride", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 62:5", "verse_text": "For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee." }, { "point_text": "Returned with the bride to his house at night", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:1-6", "verse_text": "Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: 4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. ..." }, { "point_text": "Garments provided for guests at", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:12", "verse_text": "And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless." }, { "point_text": "Infidelity of those contracted in, punished as if married", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 22:23-24", "verse_text": "If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; 24 Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "God's union with the Jewish nation", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:5", "verse_text": "For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called." }, { "point_text": "God's union with the Jewish nation", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:14", "verse_text": "Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:" }, { "point_text": "God's union with the Jewish nation", "verse_ref": "Hosea 2:19-20", "verse_text": "And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. 20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Christ's union with His church", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:23-24", "verse_text": "For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing." }, { "point_text": "Christ's union with His church", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:32", "verse_text": "This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church." }, { "point_text": "Divinely instituted", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:24", "verse_text": "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh." }, { "point_text": "A covenant relationship", "verse_ref": "Malachi 2:4", "verse_text": "And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "DESIGNED FOR", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "The happiness of man", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:18", "verse_text": "And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him." }, { "point_text": "Increasing the species", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:28", "verse_text": "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Increasing the species", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:1", "verse_text": "And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth." }, { "point_text": "Raising up godly seed", "verse_ref": "Malachi 2:15", "verse_text": "And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth." }, { "point_text": "Preventing fornication", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:2", "verse_text": "Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband." }, { "point_text": "The expectation of the promised seed of the woman an incentive to, in the early age.\r\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:15", "verse_text": "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." }, { "point_text": "The expectation of the promised seed of the woman an incentive to, in the early age.\r\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:1", "verse_text": "And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Lawful in all", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:2", "verse_text": "Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband." }, { "point_text": "Lawful in all", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:28", "verse_text": "But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you." }, { "point_text": "Lawful in all", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:14", "verse_text": "I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully." }, { "point_text": "Honorable for all", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:4", "verse_text": "Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge." }, { "point_text": "Should be only in the Lord", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:39", "verse_text": "The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord." }, { "point_text": "EXPRESSED BY", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Joining together", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:6", "verse_text": "Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." }, { "point_text": "Making affinity", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 3:1", "verse_text": "And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about." }, { "point_text": "Taking to wife", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:1", "verse_text": "And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi." }, { "point_text": "Giving daughters to sons, and sons to daughters", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:3", "verse_text": "Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son." }, { "point_text": "Giving daughters to sons, and sons to daughters", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:12", "verse_text": "Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever." }, { "point_text": "Indissoluble during the joint lives of the parties", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:6", "verse_text": "Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." }, { "point_text": "Indissoluble during the joint lives of the parties", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:2-3", "verse_text": "For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. 3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man." }, { "point_text": "Indissoluble during the joint lives of the parties", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:39", "verse_text": "The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Early introduction of polygamy", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:19", "verse_text": "And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah." }, { "point_text": "Contracted in patriarchal age with near relations", "verse_ref": "Genesis 20:12", "verse_text": "And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife." }, { "point_text": "Contracted in patriarchal age with near relations", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:24", "verse_text": "And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor." }, { "point_text": "Contracted in patriarchal age with near relations", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:2", "verse_text": "Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother." }, { "point_text": "Often contracted by parents for children", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:49-51", "verse_text": "And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left. 50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good. 51 Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD hath spoken." }, { "point_text": "Often contracted by parents for children", "verse_ref": "Genesis 34:6", "verse_text": "And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him." }, { "point_text": "Often contracted by parents for children", "verse_ref": "Genesis 34:8", "verse_text": "And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife." }, { "point_text": "Should be with consent of parents", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:8", "verse_text": "And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;" }, { "point_text": "Should be with consent of parents", "verse_ref": "Judges 14:2-3", "verse_text": "And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife. 3 Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well." }, { "point_text": "Consent of the parties necessary to", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:57-58", "verse_text": "And they said, We will call the damsel, and inquire at her mouth. 58 And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go." }, { "point_text": "Consent of the parties necessary to", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 18:20", "verse_text": "And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him." }, { "point_text": "Consent of the parties necessary to", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:41", "verse_text": "And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord." }, { "point_text": "Parents might refuse to give their children in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:17", "verse_text": "If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins." }, { "point_text": "Parents might refuse to give their children in", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:3", "verse_text": "Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son." }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to contract, with their near relations", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 18:6", "verse_text": "None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to contract with idolaters", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:3-4", "verse_text": "Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. 4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly." }, { "point_text": "Often contracted with foreigners", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:1", "verse_text": "But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;" }, { "point_text": "Often contracted with foreigners", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:23", "verse_text": "In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:" }, { "point_text": "Sometimes guilty of polygamy", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:1", "verse_text": "But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;" }, { "point_text": "Sometimes guilty of polygamy", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:3", "verse_text": "And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart." }, { "point_text": "Careful in contracting for their children", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:2", "verse_text": "And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:" }, { "point_text": "Careful in contracting for their children", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:1-2", "verse_text": "And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. 2 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother." }, { "point_text": "Betrothed themselves some time before", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 20:7", "verse_text": "And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her." }, { "point_text": "Betrothed themselves some time before", "verse_ref": "Judges 14:5", "verse_text": "Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him." }, { "point_text": "Betrothed themselves some time before", "verse_ref": "Judges 14:7-8", "verse_text": "And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well. 8 And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion." }, { "point_text": "Contracted when young", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 2:17", "verse_text": "Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God." }, { "point_text": "Contracted when young", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:8", "verse_text": "Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth." }, { "point_text": "Often contracted, in their own tribe", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:1", "verse_text": "And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi." }, { "point_text": "Often contracted, in their own tribe", "verse_ref": "Numbers 36:6-13", "verse_text": "This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry. 7 So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. 8 And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers. 9 Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance. ..." }, { "point_text": "Often contracted, in their own tribe", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:5", "verse_text": "There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth." }, { "point_text": "Often contracted, in their own tribe", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:27", "verse_text": "To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary." }, { "point_text": "Obliged to contract with a brother's wife who died without seed", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 25:5", "verse_text": "If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her." }, { "point_text": "Obliged to contract with a brother's wife who died without seed", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:24", "verse_text": "Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother." }, { "point_text": "Considered being debarred from, a reproach", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 4:1", "verse_text": "And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach." }, { "point_text": "Considered being debarred from, a cause of grief", "verse_ref": "Judges 11:38", "verse_text": "And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains." }, { "point_text": "Often punished by being debarred from", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:34", "verse_text": "Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate." }, { "point_text": "Often punished by being debarred from", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 16:9", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride." }, { "point_text": "Often punished by being debarred from", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 25:10", "verse_text": "Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle." }, { "point_text": "Were allowed divorce from, because of hardness of their hearts", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:1", "verse_text": "When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house." }, { "point_text": "Were allowed divorce from, because of hardness of their hearts", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:7-8", "verse_text": "They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? 8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so." }, { "point_text": "Exempted from going to war immediately after", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 20:7", "verse_text": "And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her." }, { "point_text": "Priest not to contract, with divorced or improper person", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 21:7", "verse_text": "They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God." }, { "point_text": "The high priest not to contract, with a widow or a divorced or profane person", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 21:14", "verse_text": "A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife." }, { "point_text": "Contracted at the gate and before witnesses", "verse_ref": "Ruth 4:1", "verse_text": "Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down." }, { "point_text": "Contracted at the gate and before witnesses", "verse_ref": "Ruth 4:10-11", "verse_text": "Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day. 11 And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:" }, { "point_text": "Modes of demanding women in", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:3", "verse_text": "And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:" }, { "point_text": "Modes of demanding women in", "verse_ref": "Genesis 34:6", "verse_text": "And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him." }, { "point_text": "Modes of demanding women in", "verse_ref": "Genesis 34:8", "verse_text": "And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife." }, { "point_text": "Modes of demanding women in", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:39-40", "verse_text": "And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife. 40 And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife." }, { "point_text": "Elder daughters usually given in, before the younger", "verse_ref": "Genesis 29:26", "verse_text": "And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn." }, { "point_text": "A dowry given to the woman's parents before", "verse_ref": "Genesis 29:18", "verse_text": "And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter." }, { "point_text": "A dowry given to the woman's parents before", "verse_ref": "Genesis 34:12", "verse_text": "Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife." }, { "point_text": "A dowry given to the woman's parents before", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 18:27-28", "verse_text": "Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife. 28 And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal Saul's daughter loved him." }, { "point_text": "CELEBRATED", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "With great rejoicing", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 33:11", "verse_text": "The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "With great rejoicing", "verse_ref": "John 3:29", "verse_text": "He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled." }, { "point_text": "With feasting", "verse_ref": "Genesis 29:22", "verse_text": "And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast." }, { "point_text": "With feasting", "verse_ref": "Judges 14:10", "verse_text": "So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do." }, { "point_text": "With feasting", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:2-3", "verse_text": "The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, 3 And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come." }, { "point_text": "For seven days", "verse_ref": "Judges 14:12", "verse_text": "And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments:" }, { "point_text": "A benediction pronounced after", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:60", "verse_text": "And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them." }, { "point_text": "A benediction pronounced after", "verse_ref": "Ruth 4:11-12", "verse_text": "And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem: 12 And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this young woman." }, { "point_text": "THE BRIDE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Received presents before", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:53", "verse_text": "And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things." }, { "point_text": "Given a handmaid at", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:59", "verse_text": "And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men." }, { "point_text": "Given a handmaid at", "verse_ref": "Genesis 29:24", "verse_text": "And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid." }, { "point_text": "Given a handmaid at", "verse_ref": "Genesis 29:29", "verse_text": "And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid." }, { "point_text": "Adorned with jewels for", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:18", "verse_text": "Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth." }, { "point_text": "Adorned with jewels for", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:10", "verse_text": "I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels." }, { "point_text": "Gorgeously apparelled", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:13-14", "verse_text": "The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold. 14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Attended by bridesmaids", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:9", "verse_text": "Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir." }, { "point_text": "Stood on the right of bridegroom", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:9", "verse_text": "Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir." }, { "point_text": "Called to forget her father's house", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:10", "verse_text": "Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;" }, { "point_text": "THE BRIDEGROOM", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Adorned with ornaments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:10", "verse_text": "I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels." }, { "point_text": "Attended by many friends", "verse_ref": "Judges 14:11", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him." }, { "point_text": "Attended by many friends", "verse_ref": "John 3:29", "verse_text": "He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled." }, { "point_text": "Presented with gifts", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:12", "verse_text": "And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour." }, { "point_text": "Crowned with garlands", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 3:11", "verse_text": "Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart." }, { "point_text": "Rejoiced over the bride", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 62:5", "verse_text": "For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee." }, { "point_text": "Returned with the bride to his house at night", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:1-6", "verse_text": "Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: 4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. ..." }, { "point_text": "Garments provided for guests at", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:12", "verse_text": "And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless." }, { "point_text": "Infidelity of those contracted in, punished as if married", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 22:23-24", "verse_text": "If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; 24 Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "God's union with the Jewish nation", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:5", "verse_text": "For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called." }, { "point_text": "God's union with the Jewish nation", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:14", "verse_text": "Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:" }, { "point_text": "God's union with the Jewish nation", "verse_ref": "Hosea 2:19-20", "verse_text": "And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. 20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Christ's union with His church", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:23-24", "verse_text": "For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing." }, { "point_text": "Christ's union with His church", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:32", "verse_text": "This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church." } ] }, { "name": "Medo-Persian Kingdom", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/MedoPersian-Kingdom.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Extended from India to Ethiopia", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:1", "verse_text": "Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)" }, { "point_text": "Peopled by descendants of Elam", "verse_ref": "Genesis 10:22", "verse_text": "The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Silver part of image in Nebuchadnezzar's dream", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:32", "verse_text": "This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass," }, { "point_text": "Silver part of image in Nebuchadnezzar's dream", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:39", "verse_text": "And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth." }, { "point_text": "A bear", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:5", "verse_text": "And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh." }, { "point_text": "A ram with two horns", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:3", "verse_text": "Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last." }, { "point_text": "A ram with two horns", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:20", "verse_text": "The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia." }, { "point_text": "Shushan a chief city of", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:2", "verse_text": "That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace," }, { "point_text": "Shushan a chief city of", "verse_ref": "Esther 8:15", "verse_text": "And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad." }, { "point_text": "Achmetha or Ecbatana a chief city of", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:2", "verse_text": "And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:" }, { "point_text": "Divided into many provinces", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:1", "verse_text": "Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)" }, { "point_text": "Divided into many provinces", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:1", "verse_text": "It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;" }, { "point_text": "Laws of, unalterable", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:12", "verse_text": "Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king's decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not." }, { "point_text": "Laws of, unalterable", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:15", "verse_text": "Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed." }, { "point_text": "Ruled by, absolute kings", "verse_ref": "Esther 3:8", "verse_text": "And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them." }, { "point_text": "Ruled by, absolute kings", "verse_ref": "Esther 7:9", "verse_text": "And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon." }, { "point_text": "KINGS OF, MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Cyrus", "verse_ref": "Ezra 1:1", "verse_text": "Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying," }, { "point_text": "Ahasuerus or Cambyses", "verse_ref": "Ezra 4:6", "verse_text": "And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they unto him an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Artaxerxes Smerdis (an usurper)", "verse_ref": "Ezra 4:7", "verse_text": "And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue." }, { "point_text": "Darius Hystaspes", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:1", "verse_text": "Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon." }, { "point_text": "Darius Hystaspes", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:31", "verse_text": "And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old." }, { "point_text": "Xerxes", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:2", "verse_text": "And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia." }, { "point_text": "Artaxerxes Longimanus or Ahasuerus", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:14", "verse_text": "And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia." }, { "point_text": "Artaxerxes Longimanus or Ahasuerus", "verse_ref": "Ezra 7:1", "verse_text": "Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah," }, { "point_text": "Artaxerxes Longimanus or Ahasuerus", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:1", "verse_text": "Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)" }, { "point_text": "KINGS OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Called kings of Assyria", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:22", "verse_text": "And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Called kings of Babylon", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:6", "verse_text": "But in all this time was not I at Jerusalem: for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon came I unto the king, and after certain days obtained I leave of the king:" }, { "point_text": "Styled themselves king of kings", "verse_ref": "Ezra 7:12", "verse_text": "Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace, and at such a time." }, { "point_text": "Dwelt in royal palaces", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:2", "verse_text": "That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace," }, { "point_text": "Dwelt in royal palaces", "verse_ref": "Esther 8:14", "verse_text": "So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace." }, { "point_text": "Were exceeding rich", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:4", "verse_text": "When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, even an hundred and fourscore days." }, { "point_text": "Were exceeding rich", "verse_ref": "Daniel 12:2", "verse_text": "And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt." }, { "point_text": "Entertained magnificently", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:3", "verse_text": "In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him:" }, { "point_text": "Entertained magnificently", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:5", "verse_text": "And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace;" }, { "point_text": "Entertained magnificently", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:7", "verse_text": "And they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king." }, { "point_text": "Held in their hand a golden sceptre", "verse_ref": "Esther 5:2", "verse_text": "And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre." }, { "point_text": "Put to death all who approached them without permission", "verse_ref": "Esther 4:11", "verse_text": "All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days." }, { "point_text": "Put to death all who approached them without permission", "verse_ref": "Esther 4:16", "verse_text": "Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish." }, { "point_text": "Celebrated for wise men", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:13", "verse_text": "Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so was the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment:" }, { "point_text": "Celebrated for wise men", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:1", "verse_text": "Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem," }, { "point_text": "People of, warlike", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:10", "verse_text": "They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness." }, { "point_text": "People of, warlike", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 38:5", "verse_text": "Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:" }, { "point_text": "Peculiar customs in", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:8", "verse_text": "And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure." }, { "point_text": "Peculiar customs in", "verse_ref": "Esther 2:12-13", "verse_text": "Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;) 13 Then thus came every maiden unto the king; whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king's house." }, { "point_text": "Babylon taken by the king of", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:20", "verse_text": "But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:" }, { "point_text": "Babylon taken by the king of", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:31", "verse_text": "And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old." }, { "point_text": "The Jews delivered from captivity by means of", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:20", "verse_text": "And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:" }, { "point_text": "The Jews delivered from captivity by means of", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:22-23", "verse_text": "Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, 23 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up." }, { "point_text": "PREDICTIONS RESPECTING,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Extensive conquest", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:4", "verse_text": "I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great." }, { "point_text": "Conquest of Babylon", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 21:1-2", "verse_text": "The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. 2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease." }, { "point_text": "Deliverance of the Jews", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:28", "verse_text": "That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid." }, { "point_text": "Deliverance of the Jews", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:1-4", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; 2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: 3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel. 4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me." }, { "point_text": "Invasion of Greece under Xerxes", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:2", "verse_text": "And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia." }, { "point_text": "Downfall by Alexander", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:6", "verse_text": "And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power." }, { "point_text": "Downfall by Alexander", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:3", "verse_text": "And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will." } ] }, { "name": "Meekness", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Meekness.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Christ set an example of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:4", "verse_text": "And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things." }, { "point_text": "Christ set an example of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:7", "verse_text": "He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth." }, { "point_text": "Christ set an example of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:29", "verse_text": "Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls." }, { "point_text": "Christ set an example of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:5", "verse_text": "Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass." }, { "point_text": "Christ set an example of", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 10:1", "verse_text": "Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:" }, { "point_text": "Christ set an example of", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:21-23", "verse_text": "For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: 22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: 23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:" }, { "point_text": "His teaching", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:38-45", "verse_text": "Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: 39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. 40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also. 41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. ..." }, { "point_text": "A fruit of the Spirit", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:22-23", "verse_text": "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Seek", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 2:3", "verse_text": "Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger." }, { "point_text": "Put on", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:12-13", "verse_text": "Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; 13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye." }, { "point_text": "Receive the word of God with", "verse_ref": "James 1:21", "verse_text": "Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls." }, { "point_text": "Exhibit, in conduct, &c", "verse_ref": "James 3:13", "verse_text": "Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom." }, { "point_text": "Answer for their hope with", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:15", "verse_text": "But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:" }, { "point_text": "Show, to all men", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:2", "verse_text": "To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men." }, { "point_text": "Restore the erring with", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:1", "verse_text": "Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted." }, { "point_text": "Precious in the sight of God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:4", "verse_text": "But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price." }, { "point_text": "MINISTERS SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Follow after", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:11", "verse_text": "But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness." }, { "point_text": "Instruct opposers with", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:24-25", "verse_text": "And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, 25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;" }, { "point_text": "Urge, on their people", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:1-2", "verse_text": "Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, 2 To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of wisdom", "verse_ref": "James 3:17", "verse_text": "But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy." }, { "point_text": "Necessary to a Christian walk", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:1-2", "verse_text": "I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, 2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;" }, { "point_text": "Necessary to a Christian walk", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:7", "verse_text": "Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?" }, { "point_text": "THEY WHO ARE GIFTED WITH,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Are preserved", "verse_ref": "Psalm 76:9", "verse_text": "When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Are exalted", "verse_ref": "Psalm 147:6", "verse_text": "The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground." }, { "point_text": "Are exalted", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:12", "verse_text": "And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted." }, { "point_text": "Are guided and taught", "verse_ref": "Psalm 25:9", "verse_text": "The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way." }, { "point_text": "Are richly provided for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:26", "verse_text": "The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever." }, { "point_text": "Are beautified with salvation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 149:4", "verse_text": "For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation." }, { "point_text": "Increase their joy", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 29:19", "verse_text": "The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Shall inherit the earth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:11", "verse_text": "But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace." }, { "point_text": "The gospel to be preached to those who possess", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:1", "verse_text": "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;" }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:5", "verse_text": "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMoses, \nDavid, \n\nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 12:3", "verse_text": "(Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMoses, \nDavid, \n\nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 30:6", "verse_text": "And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMoses, \nDavid, \n\nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 16:9-12", "verse_text": "Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head. 10 And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so? 11 And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him. 12 It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMoses, \nDavid, \n\nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 4:12", "verse_text": "And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMoses, \nDavid, \n\nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:7", "verse_text": "But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:" } ] }, { "name": "Mercy", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Mercy.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "After the example of God", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:36", "verse_text": "Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful." }, { "point_text": "Enjoined", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:21-23", "verse_text": "And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them? 22 And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master. 23 And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Enjoined", "verse_ref": "Hosea 12:6", "verse_text": "Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually." }, { "point_text": "Enjoined", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:20-21", "verse_text": "Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. 21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good." }, { "point_text": "To be engraved on the heart", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:3", "verse_text": "Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:" }, { "point_text": "Characteristic of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:26", "verse_text": "He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed." }, { "point_text": "Characteristic of saints", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:1", "verse_text": "The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE SHOWN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "With cheerfulness", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:8", "verse_text": "Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness." }, { "point_text": "To our brethren", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 7:9", "verse_text": "Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:" }, { "point_text": "To those that are in distress", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:37", "verse_text": "And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise." }, { "point_text": "To the poor", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:31", "verse_text": "He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor." }, { "point_text": "To the poor", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:27", "verse_text": "Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity." }, { "point_text": "To backsliders", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:18-20", "verse_text": "I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, 19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. 20 And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him." }, { "point_text": "To backsliders", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 2:6-8", "verse_text": "Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many. 7 So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. 8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him." }, { "point_text": "To animals", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:10", "verse_text": "A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel." }, { "point_text": "Upholds the throne of kings", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:28", "verse_text": "Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy." }, { "point_text": "Beneficial to those who exercise", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:17", "verse_text": "The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of showing", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:21", "verse_text": "He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of showing", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:7", "verse_text": "Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy." }, { "point_text": "Hypocrites devoid of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:23", "verse_text": "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone." }, { "point_text": "Denunciations against those devoid of", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:1", "verse_text": "Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land." }, { "point_text": "Denunciations against those devoid of", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:3", "verse_text": "Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away." } ] }, { "name": "Mercy of God, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Mercy-of-God-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is part of His character", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:6-7", "verse_text": "And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Great", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:18", "verse_text": "The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation." }, { "point_text": "Great", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:7", "verse_text": "For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee." }, { "point_text": "Rich", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:4", "verse_text": "But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us," }, { "point_text": "Manifold", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:27", "verse_text": "Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies." }, { "point_text": "Manifold", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:32", "verse_text": "But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies." }, { "point_text": "Plenteous", "verse_ref": "Psalm 86:5", "verse_text": "For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee." }, { "point_text": "Plenteous", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:8", "verse_text": "The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy." }, { "point_text": "Abundant", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:3", "verse_text": "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead," }, { "point_text": "Sure", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 55:3", "verse_text": "Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David." }, { "point_text": "Sure", "verse_ref": "Micah 7:20", "verse_text": "Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old." }, { "point_text": "Everlasting", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:34", "verse_text": "O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever." }, { "point_text": "Everlasting", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:28", "verse_text": "My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him." }, { "point_text": "Everlasting", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:1", "verse_text": "Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever." }, { "point_text": "Everlasting", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:1", "verse_text": "O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever." }, { "point_text": "Everlasting", "verse_ref": "Psalm 136", "verse_text": "O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. 2 O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever. 3 O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever. 4 To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever. ..." }, { "point_text": "Tender", "verse_ref": "Psalm 25:6", "verse_text": "Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old." }, { "point_text": "Tender", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:4", "verse_text": "Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;" }, { "point_text": "Tender", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:78", "verse_text": "Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us," }, { "point_text": "New every morning", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:23", "verse_text": "They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness." }, { "point_text": "High as heaven", "verse_ref": "Psalm 36:5", "verse_text": "Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds." }, { "point_text": "High as heaven", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:11", "verse_text": "For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him." }, { "point_text": "Filling the earth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:64", "verse_text": "The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes." }, { "point_text": "Over all His works", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:9", "verse_text": "The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works." }, { "point_text": "Is His delight", "verse_ref": "Micah 7:18", "verse_text": "Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy." }, { "point_text": "MANIFESTED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In the sending of Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:78", "verse_text": "Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us," }, { "point_text": "In salvation", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:5", "verse_text": "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;" }, { "point_text": "In long-suffering", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:22", "verse_text": "It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not." }, { "point_text": "In long-suffering", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:9", "verse_text": "To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;" }, { "point_text": "To His people", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:43", "verse_text": "Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people." }, { "point_text": "To His people", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:23", "verse_text": "And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart:" }, { "point_text": "To them that fear Him", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:17", "verse_text": "But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;" }, { "point_text": "To them that fear Him", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:50", "verse_text": "And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation." }, { "point_text": "To returning backsliders", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:12", "verse_text": "Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever." }, { "point_text": "To returning backsliders", "verse_ref": "Hosea 14:4", "verse_text": "I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him." }, { "point_text": "To returning backsliders", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:13", "verse_text": "And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil." }, { "point_text": "To repentant sinners", "verse_ref": "Psalm 32:5", "verse_text": "I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah." }, { "point_text": "To repentant sinners", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:13", "verse_text": "He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy." }, { "point_text": "To repentant sinners", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 55:7", "verse_text": "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon." }, { "point_text": "To repentant sinners", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:18-20", "verse_text": "I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, 19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. 20 And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him." }, { "point_text": "To the afflicted", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:13", "verse_text": "Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted." }, { "point_text": "To the afflicted", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:7", "verse_text": "For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee." }, { "point_text": "To the fatherless", "verse_ref": "Hosea 14:3", "verse_text": "Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy." }, { "point_text": "To whom He will", "verse_ref": "Hosea 2:23", "verse_text": "And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God." }, { "point_text": "To whom He will", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:15", "verse_text": "For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion." }, { "point_text": "To whom He will", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:18", "verse_text": "Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth." }, { "point_text": "With everlasting kindness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:8", "verse_text": "In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer." }, { "point_text": "A ground of hope", "verse_ref": "Psalm 130:7", "verse_text": "Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption." }, { "point_text": "A ground of hope", "verse_ref": "Psalm 147:11", "verse_text": "The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy." }, { "point_text": "A ground of trust", "verse_ref": "Psalm 52:8", "verse_text": "But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Sought for ourselves", "verse_ref": "Psalm 6:2", "verse_text": "Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed." }, { "point_text": "Sought for others", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:16", "verse_text": "And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God." }, { "point_text": "Sought for others", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:2", "verse_text": "Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord." }, { "point_text": "Sought for others", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:18", "verse_text": "The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well." }, { "point_text": "Pleaded in prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 6:4", "verse_text": "Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake." }, { "point_text": "Pleaded in prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 25:6", "verse_text": "Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old." }, { "point_text": "Pleaded in prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:1", "verse_text": "Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions." }, { "point_text": "Rejoiced in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 31:7", "verse_text": "I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;" }, { "point_text": "Magnified", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:34", "verse_text": "O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever." }, { "point_text": "Magnified", "verse_ref": "Psalm 115:1", "verse_text": "Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake." }, { "point_text": "Magnified", "verse_ref": "Psalm 118:1-4", "verse_text": "O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever. 2 Let Israel now say, that his mercy endureth for ever. 3 Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endureth for ever. 4 Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy endureth for ever." }, { "point_text": "Magnified", "verse_ref": "Psalm 118:29", "verse_text": "O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever." }, { "point_text": "Typified.\r\n\nMercy-seat,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:17", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \n\nEpaphroditus, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 19:16", "verse_text": "And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \n\nEpaphroditus, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 19:19", "verse_text": "Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \n\nEpaphroditus, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:27", "verse_text": "For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \n\nEpaphroditus, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:13", "verse_text": "Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief." } ] }, { "name": "Mercy-seat", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Mercyseat.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Moses commanded to make", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:17", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof." }, { "point_text": "Bezaleel given wisdom to make", "verse_ref": "Exodus 31:2-3", "verse_text": "See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah: 3 And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship," }, { "point_text": "Bezaleel given wisdom to make", "verse_ref": "Exodus 31:7", "verse_text": "The tabernacle of the congregation, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that is thereupon, and all the furniture of the tabernacle," }, { "point_text": "Made of pure gold", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:17", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof." }, { "point_text": "Made of pure gold", "verse_ref": "Exodus 37:6", "verse_text": "And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof." }, { "point_text": "The cherubim formed out of, and at each end of it", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:18-20", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat. 19 And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof. 20 And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be." }, { "point_text": "The cherubim formed out of, and at each end of it", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:5", "verse_text": "And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly." }, { "point_text": "Placed upon the ark of testimony", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:21", "verse_text": "And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee." }, { "point_text": "Placed upon the ark of testimony", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:34", "verse_text": "And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place." }, { "point_text": "Placed upon the ark of testimony", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:20", "verse_text": "And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark:" }, { "point_text": "GOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Appeared over in the cloud", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:2", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat." }, { "point_text": "Dwelt over", "verse_ref": "Psalm 80:1", "verse_text": "Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth." }, { "point_text": "Spake from above", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:22", "verse_text": "And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Spake from above", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:89", "verse_text": "And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him." }, { "point_text": "Covered with a cloud of incense on the day of atonement", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:13", "verse_text": "And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not:" }, { "point_text": "The blood of sacrifices on the day of atonement sprinkled upon and before", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:14-15", "verse_text": "And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times. 15 Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:" }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Christ.\r\n\n\r\n (Greek.)", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:25", "verse_text": "Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;" }, { "point_text": "Christ.\r\n\n\r\n (Greek.)", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:3", "verse_text": "And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;" }, { "point_text": "The throne of grace", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:16", "verse_text": "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." } ] }, { "name": "Milk", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Milk.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "An animal secretion, of a white color", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 4:7", "verse_text": "Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:" }, { "point_text": "Used as food by the Jews", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:8", "verse_text": "And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat." }, { "point_text": "Used as food by the Jews", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:25", "verse_text": "He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish." }, { "point_text": "DIFFERENT KINDS MENTIONED;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of cows", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:14", "verse_text": "Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape." }, { "point_text": "Of cows", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 6:7", "verse_text": "Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:" }, { "point_text": "Of camels", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:15", "verse_text": "Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals." }, { "point_text": "Of goats", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:27", "verse_text": "And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens." }, { "point_text": "Of sheep", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:14", "verse_text": "Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape." }, { "point_text": "Of sea-monsters", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 4:3", "verse_text": "Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "Flocks and herds fed for supply of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:23", "verse_text": "Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds." }, { "point_text": "Flocks and herds fed for supply of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:27", "verse_text": "And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens." }, { "point_text": "Canaan abounded with", "verse_ref": "Exodus 3:8", "verse_text": "And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites." }, { "point_text": "Canaan abounded with", "verse_ref": "Exodus 3:17", "verse_text": "And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey." }, { "point_text": "MADE INTO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Butter", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:33", "verse_text": "Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife." }, { "point_text": "Cheese", "verse_ref": "Job 10:10", "verse_text": "Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?" }, { "point_text": "Kept by the Jews in bottles", "verse_ref": "Judges 4:19", "verse_text": "And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him." }, { "point_text": "Young animals not to be seethed in that of the mother", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:19", "verse_text": "The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Temporal blessings", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:12", "verse_text": "His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk." }, { "point_text": "Blessings of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 55:1", "verse_text": "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price." }, { "point_text": "Blessings of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Joel 3:18", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim." }, { "point_text": "First principles of God's word", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:2", "verse_text": "I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able." }, { "point_text": "First principles of God's word", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 5:12", "verse_text": "For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat." }, { "point_text": "First principles of God's word", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:2", "verse_text": "As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:" }, { "point_text": "Godly and edifying discourses", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:11", "verse_text": "Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Wealth of the Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:16", "verse_text": "Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob." }, { "point_text": "Doctrines of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:1", "verse_text": "I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved." } ] }, { "name": "Miracles of Christ, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Miracles-of-Christ-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Water turned to wine", "verse_ref": "John 2:6-10", "verse_text": "And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece. 7 Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim. 8 And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it. 9 When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom, ..." }, { "point_text": "Nobleman's son healed", "verse_ref": "John 4:46-53", "verse_text": "So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum. 47 When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death. 48 Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe. 49 The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die. ..." }, { "point_text": "Centurion's servant healed", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:5-13", "verse_text": "And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, 6 And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. 7 And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him. 8 The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. ..." }, { "point_text": "Draughts of fish", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:4-6", "verse_text": "Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught. 5 And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net. 6 And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake." }, { "point_text": "Draughts of fish", "verse_ref": "John 21:6", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes." }, { "point_text": "Devils cast out", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:28-32", "verse_text": "And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way. 29 And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time? 30 And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding. 31 So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine. ..." }, { "point_text": "Devils cast out", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:32", "verse_text": "As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil." }, { "point_text": "Devils cast out", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:22-28", "verse_text": "And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. 23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. 24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 25 Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. ..." }, { "point_text": "Devils cast out", "verse_ref": "Matthew 17:14-18", "verse_text": "And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying, 15 Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water. 16 And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him. 17 Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me. ..." }, { "point_text": "Devils cast out", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:23-27", "verse_text": "And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, 24 Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God. 25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. 26 And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him. ..." }, { "point_text": "Peter's wife's mother healed", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:14-15", "verse_text": "And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever. 15 And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them." }, { "point_text": "Lepers cleansed", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:3", "verse_text": "And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed." }, { "point_text": "Lepers cleansed", "verse_ref": "Luke 17:14", "verse_text": "And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed." }, { "point_text": "Paralytic healed", "verse_ref": "Mark 2:3-12", "verse_text": "And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four. 4 And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay. 5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee. 6 But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, ..." }, { "point_text": "Withered hand restored", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:10-13", "verse_text": "And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him. 11 And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out? 12 How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days. 13 Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other." }, { "point_text": "Impotent man healed", "verse_ref": "John 5:5-9", "verse_text": "And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? 7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. 8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. ..." }, { "point_text": "The dead raised to life", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:18", "verse_text": "While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live." }, { "point_text": "The dead raised to life", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:23-25", "verse_text": "Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. 24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. 25 When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?" }, { "point_text": "The dead raised to life", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:12-15", "verse_text": "Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her. 13 And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not. 14 And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise. 15 And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother." }, { "point_text": "The dead raised to life", "verse_ref": "John 11:11-44", "verse_text": "These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. 12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well. 13 Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. 14 Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead. ..." }, { "point_text": "Issue of blood stopped", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:20-22", "verse_text": "And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: 21 For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. 22 But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour." }, { "point_text": "The blind restored to sight", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:27-30", "verse_text": "And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou Son of David, have mercy on us. 28 And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord. 29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you. 30 And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it." }, { "point_text": "The blind restored to sight", "verse_ref": "Mark 8:22-25", "verse_text": "And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him. 23 And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought. 24 And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking. 25 After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly." }, { "point_text": "The blind restored to sight", "verse_ref": "John 9:1-7", "verse_text": "And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? 3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. 4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. ..." }, { "point_text": "The deaf and dumb cured", "verse_ref": "Mark 7:32-35", "verse_text": "And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him. 33 And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue; 34 And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. 35 And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain." }, { "point_text": "The multitude fed", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:15-21", "verse_text": "And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals. 16 But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat. 17 And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes. 18 He said, Bring them hither to me. ..." }, { "point_text": "The multitude fed", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:32-38", "verse_text": "Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way. 33 And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude? 34 And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes. 35 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground. ..." }, { "point_text": "His walking on the sea", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:25-27", "verse_text": "And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea. 26 And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear. 27 But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid." }, { "point_text": "Peter walking on the sea", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:29", "verse_text": "And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Tempest stilled", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:23-26", "verse_text": "And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. 24 And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep. 25 And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish. 26 And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm." }, { "point_text": "Tempest stilled", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:32", "verse_text": "And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased." }, { "point_text": "Sudden arrival of the ship", "verse_ref": "John 6:21", "verse_text": "Then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went." }, { "point_text": "Tribute-money", "verse_ref": "Matthew 17:27", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee." }, { "point_text": "Woman healed of infirmity", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:11-13", "verse_text": "And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. 12 And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. 13 And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God." }, { "point_text": "Dropsy cured", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:2-4", "verse_text": "And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy. 3 And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? 4 And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go;" }, { "point_text": "Fig-tree blighted", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:19", "verse_text": "And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away." }, { "point_text": "Malchus healed", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:50-51", "verse_text": "And one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear. 51 And Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye thus far. And he touched his ear, and healed him." }, { "point_text": "Performed before the messengers of John", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:21-22", "verse_text": "And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight. 22 Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached." }, { "point_text": "Many and divers diseases healed", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:23", "verse_text": "And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people." }, { "point_text": "Many and divers diseases healed", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:14", "verse_text": "And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick." }, { "point_text": "Many and divers diseases healed", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:30", "verse_text": "And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them:" }, { "point_text": "Many and divers diseases healed", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:34", "verse_text": "And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew him." }, { "point_text": "Many and divers diseases healed", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:17-19", "verse_text": "And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases; 18 And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed. 19 And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all." }, { "point_text": "His transfiguration", "verse_ref": "Matthew 17:1-8", "verse_text": "And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, 2 And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. 3 And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him. 4 Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. ..." }, { "point_text": "His resurrection", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:6", "verse_text": "He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee," }, { "point_text": "His resurrection", "verse_ref": "John 10:18", "verse_text": "No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father." }, { "point_text": "His appearance to His disciples, the doors being shut", "verse_ref": "John 20:19", "verse_text": "Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you." }, { "point_text": "His ascension", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:9", "verse_text": "And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight." } ] }, { "name": "Miracles", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Miracles.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Power of God necessary to", "verse_ref": "John 3:2", "verse_text": "The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Marvellous things", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:12", "verse_text": "Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan." }, { "point_text": "Marvellous works", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 29:14", "verse_text": "Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid." }, { "point_text": "Marvellous works", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:5", "verse_text": "Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;" }, { "point_text": "Signs and wonders", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 32:21", "verse_text": "And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror;" }, { "point_text": "Signs and wonders", "verse_ref": "John 4:48", "verse_text": "Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe." }, { "point_text": "Signs and wonders", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 12:12", "verse_text": "Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds." }, { "point_text": "MANIFEST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The glory of God", "verse_ref": "John 11:4", "verse_text": "When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby." }, { "point_text": "The glory of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 2:11", "verse_text": "This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him." }, { "point_text": "The glory of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 11:4", "verse_text": "When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby." }, { "point_text": "The works of God", "verse_ref": "John 9:3", "verse_text": "Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him." }, { "point_text": "Were evidences of a divine commission", "verse_ref": "Exodus 4:1-5", "verse_text": "And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee. 2 And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod. 3 And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it. 4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand: ..." }, { "point_text": "Were evidences of a divine commission", "verse_ref": "Mark 16:20", "verse_text": "And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen." }, { "point_text": "The Messiah was expected to perform", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:2-3", "verse_text": "Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples, 3 And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?" }, { "point_text": "Jesus was proved to be the Messiah by", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:4-6", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: 5 The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them. 6 And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me." }, { "point_text": "Jesus was proved to be the Messiah by", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:20-22", "verse_text": "When the men were come unto him, they said, John Baptist hath sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another? 21 And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight. 22 Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached." }, { "point_text": "Jesus was proved to be the Messiah by", "verse_ref": "John 5:36", "verse_text": "But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me." }, { "point_text": "Jesus was proved to be the Messiah by", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:22", "verse_text": "Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:" }, { "point_text": "Jesus was followed on account of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:23-25", "verse_text": "And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. 24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them. 25 And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan." }, { "point_text": "Jesus was followed on account of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:35-36", "verse_text": "And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased; 36 And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole." }, { "point_text": "A gift of the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:10", "verse_text": "To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:" }, { "point_text": "WERE PERFORMED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "By the power of God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 8:19", "verse_text": "Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said." }, { "point_text": "By the power of God", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:3", "verse_text": "Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands." }, { "point_text": "By the power of God", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:12", "verse_text": "Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them." }, { "point_text": "By the power of God", "verse_ref": "Acts 19:11", "verse_text": "And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:" }, { "point_text": "By the power of Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:1", "verse_text": "And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease." }, { "point_text": "By the power of the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:28", "verse_text": "But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you." }, { "point_text": "By the power of the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:19", "verse_text": "Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ." }, { "point_text": "In the name of Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:17", "verse_text": "And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven." }, { "point_text": "In the name of Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:16", "verse_text": "And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all." }, { "point_text": "In the name of Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:30", "verse_text": "By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus." }, { "point_text": "First preaching of the gospel confirmed by", "verse_ref": "Mark 16:20", "verse_text": "And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen." }, { "point_text": "First preaching of the gospel confirmed by", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:4", "verse_text": "God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?" }, { "point_text": "The who wrought, disclaimed all power of their own", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:12", "verse_text": "And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?" }, { "point_text": "Should produce faith", "verse_ref": "John 2:23", "verse_text": "Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did." }, { "point_text": "Should produce faith", "verse_ref": "John 20:30-31", "verse_text": "And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: 31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name." }, { "point_text": "Should produce obedience", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:1-3", "verse_text": "Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway. 2 And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm, 3 And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land;" }, { "point_text": "Should produce obedience", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 29:2-3", "verse_text": "And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land; 3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:" }, { "point_text": "Should produce obedience", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 29:9", "verse_text": "Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do." }, { "point_text": "Instrumental to the early propagation of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:6", "verse_text": "And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did." }, { "point_text": "Instrumental to the early propagation of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:18-19", "verse_text": "For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed, 19 Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ." }, { "point_text": "FAITH REQUIRED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Those who performed", "verse_ref": "Matthew 17:20", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you." }, { "point_text": "Those who performed", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:21", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done." }, { "point_text": "Those who performed", "verse_ref": "John 14:12", "verse_text": "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father." }, { "point_text": "Those who performed", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:16", "verse_text": "And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all." }, { "point_text": "Those who performed", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:8", "verse_text": "And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people." }, { "point_text": "Those for whom they were performed", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:28", "verse_text": "And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord." }, { "point_text": "Those for whom they were performed", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:58", "verse_text": "And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief." }, { "point_text": "Those for whom they were performed", "verse_ref": "Mark 9:22-24", "verse_text": "And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us. 23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. 24 And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief." }, { "point_text": "Those for whom they were performed", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:9", "verse_text": "The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed," }, { "point_text": "Should be remembered", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:12", "verse_text": "Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;" }, { "point_text": "Should be remembered", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:5", "verse_text": "Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;" }, { "point_text": "Should be told to future generations", "verse_ref": "Exodus 10:2", "verse_text": "And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Should be told to future generations", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:13", "verse_text": "And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites." }, { "point_text": "Insufficient of themselves, to produce conversion", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:31", "verse_text": "And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Desire to see", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:42", "verse_text": "He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him." }, { "point_text": "Desire to see", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:29", "verse_text": "And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet." }, { "point_text": "Desire to see", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:8", "verse_text": "And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him." }, { "point_text": "Often acknowledge", "verse_ref": "John 11:47", "verse_text": "Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles." }, { "point_text": "Often acknowledge", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:16", "verse_text": "Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it." }, { "point_text": "Do not understand", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:7", "verse_text": "Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea." }, { "point_text": "Do not consider", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:52", "verse_text": "For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened." }, { "point_text": "Forget", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:17", "verse_text": "And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not." }, { "point_text": "Forget", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:1", "verse_text": "Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth." }, { "point_text": "Forget", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:11", "verse_text": "And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them." }, { "point_text": "Proof against", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:22", "verse_text": "Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;" }, { "point_text": "Proof against", "verse_ref": "John 12:37", "verse_text": "But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him:" }, { "point_text": "Guilt of rejecting the evidence afforded by", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:20-24", "verse_text": "Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not: 21 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you. 23 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. ..." }, { "point_text": "Guilt of rejecting the evidence afforded by", "verse_ref": "John 15:24", "verse_text": "If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father." } ] }, { "name": "Miracles through Evil Agents", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Miracles-through-Evil-Agents.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Performed through the power of the devil", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:9", "verse_text": "Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders," }, { "point_text": "Performed through the power of the devil", "verse_ref": "Revelation 16:14", "verse_text": "For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty." }, { "point_text": "WROUGHT", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In support of false religions", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 13:1-2", "verse_text": "If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, 2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;" }, { "point_text": "By false christs", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:24", "verse_text": "For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect." }, { "point_text": "By false prophets", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:24", "verse_text": "For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect." }, { "point_text": "By false prophets", "verse_ref": "Revelation 19:20", "verse_text": "And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone." }, { "point_text": "A mark of the Apostacy", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:3", "verse_text": "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;" }, { "point_text": "A mark of the Apostacy", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:9", "verse_text": "Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders," }, { "point_text": "Not to be regarded", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 13:3", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul." }, { "point_text": "Deceive the ungodly", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:10-12", "verse_text": "And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." }, { "point_text": "Deceive the ungodly", "verse_ref": "Revelation 13:14", "verse_text": "And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live." }, { "point_text": "Deceive the ungodly", "verse_ref": "Revelation 19:20", "verse_text": "And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMagicians of Egypt, \n\nWitch of Endor, \nSimon Magus,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 7:11", "verse_text": "Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMagicians of Egypt, \n\nWitch of Endor, \nSimon Magus,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 8:7", "verse_text": "And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMagicians of Egypt, \n\nWitch of Endor, \nSimon Magus,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 28:7-14", "verse_text": "Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor. 8 And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto thee. 9 And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die? 10 And Saul sware to her by the LORD, saying, As the LORD liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMagicians of Egypt, \n\nWitch of Endor, \nSimon Magus,", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:9-11", "verse_text": "But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one: 10 To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God. 11 And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries." } ] }, { "name": "Metals", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Metals.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Dug out of the earth", "verse_ref": "Job 28:1-2", "verse_text": "Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it. 2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone." }, { "point_text": "Dug out of the earth", "verse_ref": "Job 28:6", "verse_text": "The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold." }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Gold", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:11-12", "verse_text": "The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; 12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone." }, { "point_text": "Silver", "verse_ref": "Genesis 44:2", "verse_text": "And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken." }, { "point_text": "Brass", "verse_ref": "Exodus 27:2", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass." }, { "point_text": "Brass", "verse_ref": "Exodus 27:4", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof." }, { "point_text": "Brass", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 12:10", "verse_text": "Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard, that kept the entrance of the king's house." }, { "point_text": "Copper", "verse_ref": "Ezra 8:27", "verse_text": "Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold." }, { "point_text": "Copper", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:14", "verse_text": "Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:" }, { "point_text": "Iron", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:16", "verse_text": "And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death." }, { "point_text": "Iron", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:17", "verse_text": "Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend." }, { "point_text": "Lead", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:10", "verse_text": "Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters." }, { "point_text": "Lead", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:29", "verse_text": "The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away." }, { "point_text": "Tin", "verse_ref": "Numbers 31:22", "verse_text": "Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead," }, { "point_text": "Comparative value of.\r\n\n\r\n, &c", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:17", "verse_text": "For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Comparative value of.\r\n\n\r\n, &c", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:32-45", "verse_text": "This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, 33 His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. 34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. 35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. ..." }, { "point_text": "Often mixed with dross", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:25", "verse_text": "And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:" }, { "point_text": "The holy land abounded in", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:9", "verse_text": "A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass." }, { "point_text": "Antiquity of the art of working in", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:21", "verse_text": "And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ." }, { "point_text": "Freed from dross by fire", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:18", "verse_text": "Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver." }, { "point_text": "Freed from dross by fire", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:20", "verse_text": "As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you." }, { "point_text": "Ceremonially cleansed by fire", "verse_ref": "Numbers 31:21-23", "verse_text": "And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses; 22 Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, 23 Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water." }, { "point_text": "Cast in mold", "verse_ref": "Judges 17:4", "verse_text": "Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah." }, { "point_text": "Cast in mold", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:29", "verse_text": "The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away." }, { "point_text": "Clay of Jordan used for molding", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 7:46", "verse_text": "In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan." }, { "point_text": "An extensive commerce in", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:12", "verse_text": "Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs." } ] }, { "name": "Midianites", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Midianites.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Descended from Midian, son of Abraham by Keturah", "verse_ref": "Genesis 25:1-2", "verse_text": "Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah. 2 And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah." }, { "point_text": "Descended from Midian, son of Abraham by Keturah", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 1:32", "verse_text": "Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan." }, { "point_text": "Dwelt east of Jordan, beside Moab", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:1", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho." }, { "point_text": "Dwelt east of Jordan, beside Moab", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:4", "verse_text": "And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time." }, { "point_text": "A SMALL PART OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Dwelt near Horeb", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:15", "verse_text": "Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well." }, { "point_text": "Dwelt near Horeb", "verse_ref": "Exodus 3:1", "verse_text": "Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb." }, { "point_text": "Retained the knowledge and worship of Jehovah", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:16", "verse_text": "Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock." }, { "point_text": "Retained the knowledge and worship of Jehovah", "verse_ref": "Exodus 18:9-12", "verse_text": "And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians. 10 And Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. 11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them. 12 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father in law before God." }, { "point_text": "Governed by kings", "verse_ref": "Numbers 31:8", "verse_text": "And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword." }, { "point_text": "Governed by kings", "verse_ref": "Judges 8:5", "verse_text": "And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian." }, { "point_text": "Dwelt in tents", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 3:7", "verse_text": "I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble." }, { "point_text": "Engaged in commerce", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:28", "verse_text": "Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Engaged in commerce", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:36", "verse_text": "And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard." }, { "point_text": "Conquered by Hadad", "verse_ref": "Genesis 36:25", "verse_text": "And the children of Anah were these; Dishon, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah." }, { "point_text": "Conquered by Hadad", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 1:46", "verse_text": "And when Husham was dead, Hadad the son of Bedad, which smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith." }, { "point_text": "Excited by Moab against Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:4", "verse_text": "And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time." }, { "point_text": "Terrified at approach of Israel", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 3:3-7", "verse_text": "God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. 4 And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power. 5 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. 6 He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting. ..." }, { "point_text": "WITH THE MOABITES,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Sent for Balaam to curse Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:5-7", "verse_text": "He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me: 6 Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed. 7 And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak." }, { "point_text": "Seduced Israel to idolatry, &c", "verse_ref": "Numbers 25:1-6", "verse_text": "And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. 2 And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. 3 And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel. 4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel. ..." }, { "point_text": "Punished for seducing Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 25:16-18", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 17 Vex the Midianites, and smite them: 18 For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake." }, { "point_text": "Punished for seducing Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 31:1-12", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people. 3 And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian. 4 Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war. ..." }, { "point_text": "Allowed to oppress Israel", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:1-6", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. 2 And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds. 3 And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them; 4 And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass. ..." }, { "point_text": "Gideon raised up against", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:11-14", "verse_text": "And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. 12 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour. 13 And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites. 14 And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee?" }, { "point_text": "With Amalek, &c. opposed Gideon", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:33", "verse_text": "Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the valley of Jezreel." }, { "point_text": "Miraculously defeated and destroyed by Gideon", "verse_ref": "Judges 7:16-22", "verse_text": "And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers. 17 And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do. 18 When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon. 19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands. ..." }, { "point_text": "Miraculously defeated and destroyed by Gideon", "verse_ref": "Judges 8:10-11", "verse_text": "Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword. 11 And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was secure." }, { "point_text": "Princes of, slain", "verse_ref": "Judges 7:24", "verse_text": "And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan." }, { "point_text": "Princes of, slain", "verse_ref": "Judges 8:12", "verse_text": "And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host." }, { "point_text": "Princes of, slain", "verse_ref": "Judges 8:21", "verse_text": "Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that were on their camels' necks." }, { "point_text": "Completeness of their destruction, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 83:9-11", "verse_text": "Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison: 10 Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth. 11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:" }, { "point_text": "Completeness of their destruction, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:4", "verse_text": "For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian." }, { "point_text": "Completeness of their destruction, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:26", "verse_text": "And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Shall minister to future glory of the church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:6", "verse_text": "The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD." } ] }, { "name": "Mills", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Mills.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 11:5", "verse_text": "And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts." }, { "point_text": "USED FOR GRINDING", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Manna in the wilderness", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:8", "verse_text": "And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil." }, { "point_text": "Corn", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 47:2", "verse_text": "Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers." }, { "point_text": "Female servants usually employed at", "verse_ref": "Exodus 11:5", "verse_text": "And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts." }, { "point_text": "Female servants usually employed at", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:41", "verse_text": "Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left." }, { "point_text": "Male captives often employed at", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:24", "verse_text": "And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us." }, { "point_text": "Male captives often employed at", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 5:13", "verse_text": "They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood." }, { "point_text": "STONES USED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Hard", "verse_ref": "Job 41:24", "verse_text": "His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone." }, { "point_text": "Heavy", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:6", "verse_text": "But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." }, { "point_text": "Large", "verse_ref": "Revelation 18:21", "verse_text": "And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all." }, { "point_text": "Not to be taken in pledge", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:6", "verse_text": "No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge." }, { "point_text": "Often thrown down on enemies during sieges", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:53", "verse_text": "And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull." }, { "point_text": "Often thrown down on enemies during sieges", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 11:21", "verse_text": "Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "(Grinding at,) of degradation, &c", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 47:1-2", "verse_text": "Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. 2 Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers." }, { "point_text": "(Ceasing,) of desolation", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 25:10", "verse_text": "Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle." }, { "point_text": "(Ceasing,) of desolation", "verse_ref": "Revelation 18:22", "verse_text": "And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;" } ] }, { "name": "Miraculous Gifts of the Holy Ghost", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Miraculous-Gifts-of-the-Holy-Ghost.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 35:4-6", "verse_text": "Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you. 5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. 6 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert." }, { "point_text": "Foretold", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:28-29", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: 29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit." }, { "point_text": "Of different kinds", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:4-6", "verse_text": "Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. 6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all." }, { "point_text": "Enumerated", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:8-10", "verse_text": "For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; 9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; 10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:" }, { "point_text": "Enumerated", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:1", "verse_text": "Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy." }, { "point_text": "Christ was endued with", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:28", "verse_text": "But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you." }, { "point_text": "Poured out on the day of Pentecost", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:1-4", "verse_text": "And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance." }, { "point_text": "COMMUNICATED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Upon the preaching of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:44-46", "verse_text": "While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. 45 And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. 46 For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter," }, { "point_text": "By the laying on of the Apostles' hands", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:17", "verse_text": "Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "By the laying on of the Apostles' hands", "verse_ref": "Acts 19:6", "verse_text": "And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied." }, { "point_text": "For the confirmation of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Mark 16:20", "verse_text": "And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen." }, { "point_text": "For the confirmation of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:3", "verse_text": "Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands." }, { "point_text": "For the confirmation of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:19", "verse_text": "Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ." }, { "point_text": "For the confirmation of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:4", "verse_text": "God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?" }, { "point_text": "For the edification of the Church", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:7", "verse_text": "But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal." }, { "point_text": "For the edification of the Church", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:12-13", "verse_text": "Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church. 13 Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret." }, { "point_text": "Dispensed according to his sovereign will", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:11", "verse_text": "But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will." }, { "point_text": "Were to be sought after", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:31", "verse_text": "But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way." }, { "point_text": "Were to be sought after", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:1", "verse_text": "Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy." }, { "point_text": "Temporary nature of", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 13:8", "verse_text": "Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away." }, { "point_text": "WERE NOT TO BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Neglected", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:14", "verse_text": "Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery." }, { "point_text": "Neglected", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:6", "verse_text": "Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands." }, { "point_text": "Despised", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:20", "verse_text": "Despise not prophesyings." }, { "point_text": "Purchased", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:20", "verse_text": "But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money." }, { "point_text": "Might be possessed without saving grace", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:22-23", "verse_text": "Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Might be possessed without saving grace", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 13:1-2", "verse_text": "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing." }, { "point_text": "Counterfeited by Antichrist", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:24", "verse_text": "For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect." }, { "point_text": "Counterfeited by Antichrist", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:9", "verse_text": "Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders," }, { "point_text": "Counterfeited by Antichrist", "verse_ref": "Revelation 13:13-14", "verse_text": "And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, 14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live." } ] }, { "name": "Miracles wrought through Servants of God", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Miracles-wrought-through-Servants-of-God.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "MOSES AND AARON", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Rod turned into a serpent", "verse_ref": "Exodus 4:3", "verse_text": "And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it." }, { "point_text": "Rod turned into a serpent", "verse_ref": "Exodus 7:10", "verse_text": "And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent." }, { "point_text": "Rod restored", "verse_ref": "Exodus 4:4", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:" }, { "point_text": "Hand made leprous", "verse_ref": "Exodus 4:6", "verse_text": "And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow." }, { "point_text": "Hand healed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 4:7", "verse_text": "And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh." }, { "point_text": "Water turned into blood", "verse_ref": "Exodus 4:9", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land." }, { "point_text": "Water turned into blood", "verse_ref": "Exodus 4:30", "verse_text": "And Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people." }, { "point_text": "River turned into blood", "verse_ref": "Exodus 7:20", "verse_text": "And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood." }, { "point_text": "Frogs brought", "verse_ref": "Exodus 8:6", "verse_text": "And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Frogs removed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 8:13", "verse_text": "And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields." }, { "point_text": "Lice brought", "verse_ref": "Exodus 8:17", "verse_text": "And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Flies brought", "verse_ref": "Exodus 8:21-24", "verse_text": "Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are. 22 And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth. 23 And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to morrow shall this sign be. 24 And the LORD did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies." }, { "point_text": "Flies removed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 8:31", "verse_text": "And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; there remained not one." }, { "point_text": "Murrain of beasts", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:3-6", "verse_text": "Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain. 4 And the LORD shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is the children's of Israel. 5 And the LORD appointed a set time, saying, To morrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land. 6 And the LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one." }, { "point_text": "Boils and blains brought", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:10-11", "verse_text": "And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast. 11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians." }, { "point_text": "Hail brought", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:23", "verse_text": "And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Hail removed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:33", "verse_text": "And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto the LORD: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Locusts brought", "verse_ref": "Exodus 10:13", "verse_text": "And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts." }, { "point_text": "Locust removed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 10:19", "verse_text": "And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Darkness brought", "verse_ref": "Exodus 10:22", "verse_text": "And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:" }, { "point_text": "The first-born destroyed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:29", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle." }, { "point_text": "The red-sea divided", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:21-22", "verse_text": "And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. 22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left." }, { "point_text": "Egyptians overwhelmed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:26-28", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen. 27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. 28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them." }, { "point_text": "Water sweetened", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:25", "verse_text": "And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them," }, { "point_text": "Water from rock in Horeb", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:6", "verse_text": "Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Amalek vanquished", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:11-13", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. 12 But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. 13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of Korah", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:28-32", "verse_text": "And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind. 29 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath not sent me. 30 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD. 31 And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them: ..." }, { "point_text": "Water from rock in Kadesh", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:11", "verse_text": "And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also." }, { "point_text": "Healing by brazen serpent", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:8-9", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. 9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived." }, { "point_text": "JOSHUA", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Waters of Jordan divided", "verse_ref": "Joshua 3:10-17", "verse_text": "And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites. 11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passeth over before you into Jordan. 12 Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man. 13 And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon an heap. ..." }, { "point_text": "Jordan restored to its course", "verse_ref": "Joshua 4:18", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all his banks, as they did before." }, { "point_text": "Jericho taken", "verse_ref": "Joshua 6:6-20", "verse_text": "And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD. 7 And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD. 8 And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns passed on before the LORD, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them. 9 And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trumpets, and the rereward came after the ark, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets. ..." }, { "point_text": "The sun and moon stayed", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:12-14", "verse_text": "Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. 13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. 14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel." }, { "point_text": "GIDEON", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Midianites destroyed", "verse_ref": "Judges 7:16-22", "verse_text": "And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers. 17 And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do. 18 When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon. 19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands. ..." }, { "point_text": "SAMSON", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "A lion killed", "verse_ref": "Judges 14:6", "verse_text": "And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done." }, { "point_text": "Philistines killed", "verse_ref": "Judges 14:19", "verse_text": "And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house." }, { "point_text": "Philistines killed", "verse_ref": "Judges 15:15", "verse_text": "And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith." }, { "point_text": "The gates of Gaza carried away", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:3", "verse_text": "And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron." }, { "point_text": "Dagon's house pulled down", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:30", "verse_text": "And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life." }, { "point_text": "SAMUEL", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Thunder and rain in harvest", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 12:18", "verse_text": "So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel." }, { "point_text": "THE PROPHET OF JUDAH", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Jeroboam's hand withered", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 13:4", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him." }, { "point_text": "The altar rent", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 13:5", "verse_text": "The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The withered hand restored", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 13:6", "verse_text": "And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Intreat now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as it was before." }, { "point_text": "ELIJAH", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Drought caused", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 17:1", "verse_text": "And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word." }, { "point_text": "Drought caused", "verse_ref": "James 5:17", "verse_text": "Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months." }, { "point_text": "Meal and oil multiplied", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 17:14-16", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth. 15 And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days. 16 And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah." }, { "point_text": "A child restored to life", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 17:22-23", "verse_text": "And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. 23 And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth." }, { "point_text": "Sacrifice consumed by fire", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:36", "verse_text": "And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word." }, { "point_text": "Sacrifice consumed by fire", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:38", "verse_text": "Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench." }, { "point_text": "Men destroyed by fire", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 1:10-12", "verse_text": "And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty. 11 Again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty with his fifty. And he answered and said unto him, O man of God, thus hath the king said, Come down quickly. 12 And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty." }, { "point_text": "Rain brought", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:41-45", "verse_text": "And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain. 42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees, 43 And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times. 44 And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not. ..." }, { "point_text": "Rain brought", "verse_ref": "James 5:18", "verse_text": "And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit." }, { "point_text": "Waters of Jordan divided", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 2:8", "verse_text": "And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground." }, { "point_text": "Taken to heaven", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 2:11", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven." }, { "point_text": "ELISHA", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Waters of Jordan divided", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 2:14", "verse_text": "And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over." }, { "point_text": "Waters healed", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 2:21-22", "verse_text": "And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land. 22 So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake." }, { "point_text": "Children torn by bears", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 2:24", "verse_text": "And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them." }, { "point_text": "Oil multiplied", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:1-7", "verse_text": "Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen. 2 And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil. 3 Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few. 4 And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full. ..." }, { "point_text": "Child restored to life", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:32-35", "verse_text": "And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed. 33 He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the LORD. 34 And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm. 35 Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes." }, { "point_text": "Naaman healed", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:10", "verse_text": "And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean." }, { "point_text": "Naaman healed", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:14", "verse_text": "Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean." }, { "point_text": "Gehazi struck with leprosy", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:27", "verse_text": "The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow." }, { "point_text": "Iron caused to swim", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:6", "verse_text": "And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim." }, { "point_text": "Syrians smitten with blindness", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:18", "verse_text": "And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha." }, { "point_text": "Syrians restored to sight", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:20", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria." }, { "point_text": "A man restored to life", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 13:21", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet." }, { "point_text": "ISAIAH", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Hezekiah healed", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:7", "verse_text": "And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered." }, { "point_text": "Shadow put back on the dial", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:11", "verse_text": "And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz." }, { "point_text": "THE SEVENTY DISCIPLES", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Various miracles", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:9", "verse_text": "And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you." }, { "point_text": "Various miracles", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:17", "verse_text": "And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name." }, { "point_text": "THE APOSTLES, &c", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Many miracles", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:43", "verse_text": "And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles." }, { "point_text": "Many miracles", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:12", "verse_text": "And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch." }, { "point_text": "PETER", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Lame man cured", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:7", "verse_text": "And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ancle bones received strength." }, { "point_text": "Death of Ananias", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:5", "verse_text": "And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things." }, { "point_text": "Death of Sapphira", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:10", "verse_text": "Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband." }, { "point_text": "The sick healed", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:15-16", "verse_text": "Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them. 16 There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one." }, { "point_text": "Eneas made whole", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:34", "verse_text": "And Peter said unto him, AEneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole: arise, and make thy bed. And he arose immediately." }, { "point_text": "Dorcas restored to life", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:40", "verse_text": "But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed; and turning him to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up." }, { "point_text": "STEPHEN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Great miracles", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:8", "verse_text": "And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people." }, { "point_text": "PHILIP", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Various miracles", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:6-7", "verse_text": "And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. 7 For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed." }, { "point_text": "Various miracles", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:13", "verse_text": "Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done." }, { "point_text": "PAUL", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Elymas smitten with blindness", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:11", "verse_text": "And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand." }, { "point_text": "Lame man cured", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:10", "verse_text": "Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked." }, { "point_text": "An unclean spirit cast out", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:18", "verse_text": "And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour." }, { "point_text": "Special miracles", "verse_ref": "Acts 19:11-12", "verse_text": "And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: 12 So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them." }, { "point_text": "Eutychus restored to life", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:10-12", "verse_text": "And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him. 11 When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed. 12 And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted." }, { "point_text": "Viper's bite made harmless", "verse_ref": "Acts 28:5", "verse_text": "And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm." }, { "point_text": "Father of Publius healed", "verse_ref": "Acts 28:8", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him." }, { "point_text": "PAUL AND BARNABAS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Various miracles", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:3", "verse_text": "Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands." } ] }, { "name": "Missionaries, all Christians should be as", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Missionaries-all-Christians-should-be-as.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "After the example of Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:38", "verse_text": "How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him." }, { "point_text": "Women and children as well as men", "verse_ref": "Psalm 8:2", "verse_text": "Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger." }, { "point_text": "Women and children as well as men", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:26", "verse_text": "She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness." }, { "point_text": "Women and children as well as men", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:15-16", "verse_text": "And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; they were sore displeased, 16 And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?" }, { "point_text": "The zeal of idolaters should provoke to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:18", "verse_text": "The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger." }, { "point_text": "The zeal of hypocrites should provoke to", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:15", "verse_text": "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves." }, { "point_text": "An imperative duty", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:23", "verse_text": "Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty." }, { "point_text": "An imperative duty", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:40", "verse_text": "And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out." }, { "point_text": "The principle on which", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:14-15", "verse_text": "For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: 15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again." }, { "point_text": "However weak they may be", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:27", "verse_text": "But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;" }, { "point_text": "From their calling as saints", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:6", "verse_text": "And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "From their calling as saints", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:9", "verse_text": "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:" }, { "point_text": "As faithful stewards", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:10-11", "verse_text": "As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "In youth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 71:17", "verse_text": "O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works." }, { "point_text": "In youth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:12-13", "verse_text": "Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children: 13 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven." }, { "point_text": "In old age", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:7", "verse_text": "Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee." }, { "point_text": "In old age", "verse_ref": "Psalm 71:18", "verse_text": "Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come." }, { "point_text": "In the family", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 6:7", "verse_text": "And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." }, { "point_text": "In the family", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:5-8", "verse_text": "For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: 6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: 7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: 8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God." }, { "point_text": "In the family", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:19", "verse_text": "The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth." }, { "point_text": "In the family", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:16", "verse_text": "For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?" }, { "point_text": "In their intercourse with the world", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:16", "verse_text": "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." }, { "point_text": "In their intercourse with the world", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:15-16", "verse_text": "That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; 16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain." }, { "point_text": "In their intercourse with the world", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:12", "verse_text": "Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation." }, { "point_text": "In first giving their own selves to the Lord", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:5", "verse_text": "And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God." }, { "point_text": "In declaring what God has done for them", "verse_ref": "Psalm 66:16", "verse_text": "Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul." }, { "point_text": "In declaring what God has done for them", "verse_ref": "Psalm 116:16-19", "verse_text": "O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds. 17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD. 18 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people, 19 In the courts of the LORD'S house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD." }, { "point_text": "In hating life for Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:26", "verse_text": "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." }, { "point_text": "In openly confessing Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:32", "verse_text": "Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven." }, { "point_text": "In following Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:27", "verse_text": "And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple." }, { "point_text": "In following Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:22", "verse_text": "Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me." }, { "point_text": "In preferring Christ above all relations", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:26", "verse_text": "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." }, { "point_text": "In preferring Christ above all relations", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:2", "verse_text": "For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified." }, { "point_text": "In joyfully suffering for Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:34", "verse_text": "For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance." }, { "point_text": "In forsaking all for Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:11", "verse_text": "And when they had brought their ships to land, they forsook all, and followed him." }, { "point_text": "In a holy example", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:16", "verse_text": "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." }, { "point_text": "In a holy example", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:15", "verse_text": "That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;" }, { "point_text": "In a holy example", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 1:7", "verse_text": "So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia." }, { "point_text": "In holy conduct", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:12", "verse_text": "Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation." }, { "point_text": "In holy boldness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:46", "verse_text": "I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed." }, { "point_text": "In dedicating themselves to the service of God", "verse_ref": "Joshua 24:15", "verse_text": "And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." }, { "point_text": "In dedicating themselves to the service of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:4", "verse_text": "One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple." }, { "point_text": "In devoting all property to God", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:2-3", "verse_text": "Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance. 3 Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house," }, { "point_text": "In devoting all property to God", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:14", "verse_text": "But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee." }, { "point_text": "In devoting all property to God", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:16", "verse_text": "O LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine holy name cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own." }, { "point_text": "In devoting all property to God", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:33", "verse_text": "Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth." }, { "point_text": "In devoting all property to God", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:22", "verse_text": "Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me." }, { "point_text": "In devoting all property to God", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:28", "verse_text": "Then Peter said, Lo, we have left all, and followed thee." }, { "point_text": "In holy conservation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:30", "verse_text": "The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment." }, { "point_text": "In holy conservation", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:31", "verse_text": "The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out." }, { "point_text": "In holy conservation", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:7", "verse_text": "The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so." }, { "point_text": "In holy conservation", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:29", "verse_text": "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers." }, { "point_text": "In holy conservation", "verse_ref": "Colossians 4:6", "verse_text": "Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man." }, { "point_text": "In talking of God and his works", "verse_ref": "Psalm 71:24", "verse_text": "My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt." }, { "point_text": "In talking of God and his works", "verse_ref": "Psalm 77:12", "verse_text": "I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings." }, { "point_text": "In talking of God and his works", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:27", "verse_text": "Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works." }, { "point_text": "In talking of God and his works", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:11-12", "verse_text": "They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power; 12 To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom." }, { "point_text": "In showing forth God's praises", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 43:21", "verse_text": "This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise." }, { "point_text": "In inviting others to embrace the gospel", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:8", "verse_text": "O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him." }, { "point_text": "In inviting others to embrace the gospel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:3", "verse_text": "And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "In inviting others to embrace the gospel", "verse_ref": "John 1:46", "verse_text": "And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see." }, { "point_text": "In inviting others to embrace the gospel", "verse_ref": "John 4:29", "verse_text": "Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" }, { "point_text": "In seeking the edification of others", "verse_ref": "Romans 14:19", "verse_text": "Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another." }, { "point_text": "In seeking the edification of others", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:2", "verse_text": "Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification." }, { "point_text": "In seeking the edification of others", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:11", "verse_text": "Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do." }, { "point_text": "In admonishing others", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:14", "verse_text": "Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men." }, { "point_text": "In admonishing others", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 3:15", "verse_text": "Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother." }, { "point_text": "In reproving others", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:17", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him." }, { "point_text": "In reproving others", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:11", "verse_text": "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." }, { "point_text": "In teaching and exhorting", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:11", "verse_text": "Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "In teaching and exhorting", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:13", "verse_text": "Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee." }, { "point_text": "In teaching and exhorting", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:16", "verse_text": "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord." }, { "point_text": "In teaching and exhorting", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:13", "verse_text": "But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin." }, { "point_text": "In teaching and exhorting", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:25", "verse_text": "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." }, { "point_text": "In interceding for others", "verse_ref": "Colossians 4:3", "verse_text": "Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:" }, { "point_text": "In interceding for others", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:18", "verse_text": "Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly." }, { "point_text": "In interceding for others", "verse_ref": "James 5:16", "verse_text": "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." }, { "point_text": "In aiding ministers in their labors", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:3", "verse_text": "Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:" }, { "point_text": "In aiding ministers in their labors", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:9", "verse_text": "Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved." }, { "point_text": "In aiding ministers in their labors", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 11:9", "verse_text": "And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself." }, { "point_text": "In aiding ministers in their labors", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:14-16", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction. 15 Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only. 16 For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity." }, { "point_text": "In aiding ministers in their labors", "verse_ref": "3 John 6", "verse_text": "Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well:" }, { "point_text": "In giving a reason for their faith", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:26-27", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? 27 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped." }, { "point_text": "In encouraging the weak", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 35:3-4", "verse_text": "Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. 4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you." }, { "point_text": "In visiting and relieving the poor, the sick, &c", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:35", "verse_text": "And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee." }, { "point_text": "In visiting and relieving the poor, the sick, &c", "verse_ref": "Psalm 112:9", "verse_text": "He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour." }, { "point_text": "In visiting and relieving the poor, the sick, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 9:9", "verse_text": "(As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever." }, { "point_text": "In visiting and relieving the poor, the sick, &c", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:36", "verse_text": "Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me." }, { "point_text": "In visiting and relieving the poor, the sick, &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:35", "verse_text": "I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive." }, { "point_text": "In visiting and relieving the poor, the sick, &c", "verse_ref": "James 1:27", "verse_text": "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." }, { "point_text": "With a willing heart", "verse_ref": "Exodus 35:29", "verse_text": "The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses." }, { "point_text": "With a willing heart", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:9", "verse_text": "Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy." }, { "point_text": "With a willing heart", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:14", "verse_text": "But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee." }, { "point_text": "With a superabundant liberality", "verse_ref": "Exodus 36:5-7", "verse_text": "And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which the LORD commanded to make. 6 And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing. 7 For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much." }, { "point_text": "With a superabundant liberality", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:3", "verse_text": "For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;" }, { "point_text": "Encouragement to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:25", "verse_text": "The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself." }, { "point_text": "Encouragement to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:30", "verse_text": "The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise." }, { "point_text": "Encouragement to", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:27", "verse_text": "But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;" }, { "point_text": "Encouragement to", "verse_ref": "James 5:19-20", "verse_text": "Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; 20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of", "verse_ref": "Daniel 12:3", "verse_text": "And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated.\r\n\n\r\n, &c., &c", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:14", "verse_text": "For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated.\r\n\n\r\n, &c., &c", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:13", "verse_text": "And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nCaptive maid, \nChief of the Fathers, &c. \nShadrach, &c. \nRestored demoniac, \nShepherds, \nAnna, \nJoanna, &c. \nLeper, \nDisciples, \nCenturion, \nAndrew, \nPhilip, \nWoman of Samaria, \nBarnabas, \nPersecuted Saints, \n\nApollos, \nAquila, &c. \nVarious individuals, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:1-10", "verse_text": "And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation. 2 There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God. 3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. 4 The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nCaptive maid, \nChief of the Fathers, &c. \nShadrach, &c. \nRestored demoniac, \nShepherds, \nAnna, \nJoanna, &c. \nLeper, \nDisciples, \nCenturion, \nAndrew, \nPhilip, \nWoman of Samaria, \nBarnabas, \nPersecuted Saints, \n\nApollos, \nAquila, &c. \nVarious individuals, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:3", "verse_text": "And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nCaptive maid, \nChief of the Fathers, &c. \nShadrach, &c. \nRestored demoniac, \nShepherds, \nAnna, \nJoanna, &c. \nLeper, \nDisciples, \nCenturion, \nAndrew, \nPhilip, \nWoman of Samaria, \nBarnabas, \nPersecuted Saints, \n\nApollos, \nAquila, &c. \nVarious individuals, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "Ezra 1:5", "verse_text": "Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nCaptive maid, \nChief of the Fathers, &c. \nShadrach, &c. \nRestored demoniac, \nShepherds, \nAnna, \nJoanna, &c. \nLeper, \nDisciples, \nCenturion, \nAndrew, \nPhilip, \nWoman of Samaria, \nBarnabas, \nPersecuted Saints, \n\nApollos, \nAquila, &c. \nVarious individuals, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:16-18", "verse_text": "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter. 17 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. 18 But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nCaptive maid, \nChief of the Fathers, &c. \nShadrach, &c. \nRestored demoniac, \nShepherds, \nAnna, \nJoanna, &c. \nLeper, \nDisciples, \nCenturion, \nAndrew, \nPhilip, \nWoman of Samaria, \nBarnabas, \nPersecuted Saints, \n\nApollos, \nAquila, &c. \nVarious individuals, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "Mark 5:20", "verse_text": "And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nCaptive maid, \nChief of the Fathers, &c. \nShadrach, &c. \nRestored demoniac, \nShepherds, \nAnna, \nJoanna, &c. \nLeper, \nDisciples, \nCenturion, \nAndrew, \nPhilip, \nWoman of Samaria, \nBarnabas, \nPersecuted Saints, \n\nApollos, \nAquila, &c. \nVarious individuals, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:17", "verse_text": "And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nCaptive maid, \nChief of the Fathers, &c. \nShadrach, &c. \nRestored demoniac, \nShepherds, \nAnna, \nJoanna, &c. \nLeper, \nDisciples, \nCenturion, \nAndrew, \nPhilip, \nWoman of Samaria, \nBarnabas, \nPersecuted Saints, \n\nApollos, \nAquila, &c. \nVarious individuals, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:38", "verse_text": "And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nCaptive maid, \nChief of the Fathers, &c. \nShadrach, &c. \nRestored demoniac, \nShepherds, \nAnna, \nJoanna, &c. \nLeper, \nDisciples, \nCenturion, \nAndrew, \nPhilip, \nWoman of Samaria, \nBarnabas, \nPersecuted Saints, \n\nApollos, \nAquila, &c. \nVarious individuals, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "Luke 8:3", "verse_text": "And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nCaptive maid, \nChief of the Fathers, &c. \nShadrach, &c. \nRestored demoniac, \nShepherds, \nAnna, \nJoanna, &c. \nLeper, \nDisciples, \nCenturion, \nAndrew, \nPhilip, \nWoman of Samaria, \nBarnabas, \nPersecuted Saints, \n\nApollos, \nAquila, &c. \nVarious individuals, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "Luke 17:15", "verse_text": "And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nCaptive maid, \nChief of the Fathers, &c. \nShadrach, &c. \nRestored demoniac, \nShepherds, \nAnna, \nJoanna, &c. \nLeper, \nDisciples, \nCenturion, \nAndrew, \nPhilip, \nWoman of Samaria, \nBarnabas, \nPersecuted Saints, \n\nApollos, \nAquila, &c. \nVarious individuals, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:37-38", "verse_text": "And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen; 38 Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nCaptive maid, \nChief of the Fathers, &c. \nShadrach, &c. \nRestored demoniac, \nShepherds, \nAnna, \nJoanna, &c. \nLeper, \nDisciples, \nCenturion, \nAndrew, \nPhilip, \nWoman of Samaria, \nBarnabas, \nPersecuted Saints, \n\nApollos, \nAquila, &c. \nVarious individuals, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:47", "verse_text": "Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nCaptive maid, \nChief of the Fathers, &c. \nShadrach, &c. \nRestored demoniac, \nShepherds, \nAnna, \nJoanna, &c. \nLeper, \nDisciples, \nCenturion, \nAndrew, \nPhilip, \nWoman of Samaria, \nBarnabas, \nPersecuted Saints, \n\nApollos, \nAquila, &c. \nVarious individuals, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "John 1:41-42", "verse_text": "He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. 42 And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nCaptive maid, \nChief of the Fathers, &c. \nShadrach, &c. \nRestored demoniac, \nShepherds, \nAnna, \nJoanna, &c. \nLeper, \nDisciples, \nCenturion, \nAndrew, \nPhilip, \nWoman of Samaria, \nBarnabas, \nPersecuted Saints, \n\nApollos, \nAquila, &c. \nVarious individuals, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "John 1:46", "verse_text": "And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nCaptive maid, \nChief of the Fathers, &c. \nShadrach, &c. \nRestored demoniac, \nShepherds, \nAnna, \nJoanna, &c. \nLeper, \nDisciples, \nCenturion, \nAndrew, \nPhilip, \nWoman of Samaria, \nBarnabas, \nPersecuted Saints, \n\nApollos, \nAquila, &c. \nVarious individuals, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "John 4:29", "verse_text": "Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nCaptive maid, \nChief of the Fathers, &c. \nShadrach, &c. \nRestored demoniac, \nShepherds, \nAnna, \nJoanna, &c. \nLeper, \nDisciples, \nCenturion, \nAndrew, \nPhilip, \nWoman of Samaria, \nBarnabas, \nPersecuted Saints, \n\nApollos, \nAquila, &c. \nVarious individuals, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:36-37", "verse_text": "And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus, 37 Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nCaptive maid, \nChief of the Fathers, &c. \nShadrach, &c. \nRestored demoniac, \nShepherds, \nAnna, \nJoanna, &c. \nLeper, \nDisciples, \nCenturion, \nAndrew, \nPhilip, \nWoman of Samaria, \nBarnabas, \nPersecuted Saints, \n\nApollos, \nAquila, &c. \nVarious individuals, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:4", "verse_text": "Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nCaptive maid, \nChief of the Fathers, &c. \nShadrach, &c. \nRestored demoniac, \nShepherds, \nAnna, \nJoanna, &c. \nLeper, \nDisciples, \nCenturion, \nAndrew, \nPhilip, \nWoman of Samaria, \nBarnabas, \nPersecuted Saints, \n\nApollos, \nAquila, &c. \nVarious individuals, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:19-20", "verse_text": "Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only. 20 And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nCaptive maid, \nChief of the Fathers, &c. \nShadrach, &c. \nRestored demoniac, \nShepherds, \nAnna, \nJoanna, &c. \nLeper, \nDisciples, \nCenturion, \nAndrew, \nPhilip, \nWoman of Samaria, \nBarnabas, \nPersecuted Saints, \n\nApollos, \nAquila, &c. \nVarious individuals, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "Acts 18:25", "verse_text": "This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nCaptive maid, \nChief of the Fathers, &c. \nShadrach, &c. \nRestored demoniac, \nShepherds, \nAnna, \nJoanna, &c. \nLeper, \nDisciples, \nCenturion, \nAndrew, \nPhilip, \nWoman of Samaria, \nBarnabas, \nPersecuted Saints, \n\nApollos, \nAquila, &c. \nVarious individuals, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "Acts 18:26", "verse_text": "And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nCaptive maid, \nChief of the Fathers, &c. \nShadrach, &c. \nRestored demoniac, \nShepherds, \nAnna, \nJoanna, &c. \nLeper, \nDisciples, \nCenturion, \nAndrew, \nPhilip, \nWoman of Samaria, \nBarnabas, \nPersecuted Saints, \n\nApollos, \nAquila, &c. \nVarious individuals, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "Romans 16", "verse_text": "I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea: 2 That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also. 3 Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus: 4 Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nCaptive maid, \nChief of the Fathers, &c. \nShadrach, &c. \nRestored demoniac, \nShepherds, \nAnna, \nJoanna, &c. \nLeper, \nDisciples, \nCenturion, \nAndrew, \nPhilip, \nWoman of Samaria, \nBarnabas, \nPersecuted Saints, \n\nApollos, \nAquila, &c. \nVarious individuals, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:16", "verse_text": "The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHannah, \nCaptive maid, \nChief of the Fathers, &c. \nShadrach, &c. \nRestored demoniac, \nShepherds, \nAnna, \nJoanna, &c. \nLeper, \nDisciples, \nCenturion, \nAndrew, \nPhilip, \nWoman of Samaria, \nBarnabas, \nPersecuted Saints, \n\nApollos, \nAquila, &c. \nVarious individuals, \nOnesiphorus, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "Philemon 1-6", "verse_text": "Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer, 2 And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to the church in thy house: 3 Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 4 I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers, ..." } ] }, { "name": "Missionary-work by Ministers", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Missionarywork-by-Ministers.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:19", "verse_text": "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:" }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Mark 16:15", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature." }, { "point_text": "Warranted by predictions concerning the heathen, &c", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:10-12", "verse_text": "Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof. 11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains. 12 Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands." }, { "point_text": "Warranted by predictions concerning the heathen, &c", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:19", "verse_text": "And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles." }, { "point_text": "Is according to the purpose of God", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:46-47", "verse_text": "And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: 47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Directed by the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:2", "verse_text": "As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them." }, { "point_text": "Required", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:2", "verse_text": "Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest." }, { "point_text": "Required", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:14-15", "verse_text": "How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!" }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost calls to", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:2", "verse_text": "As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them." }, { "point_text": "Christ engaged in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:17", "verse_text": "From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." }, { "point_text": "Christ engaged in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities." }, { "point_text": "Christ engaged in", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:38-39", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also: for therefore came I forth. 39 And he preached in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and cast out devils." }, { "point_text": "Christ sent His disciples to labor in", "verse_ref": "Mark 3:14", "verse_text": "And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach," }, { "point_text": "Christ sent His disciples to labor in", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:7", "verse_text": "And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits;" }, { "point_text": "Christ sent His disciples to labor in", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:1-11", "verse_text": "After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come. 2 Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest. 3 Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves. 4 Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way. ..." }, { "point_text": "Obligations to engage in", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:19-20", "verse_text": "But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. 20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard." }, { "point_text": "Excellency of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 52:7", "verse_text": "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!" }, { "point_text": "Excellency of", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:15", "verse_text": "And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!" }, { "point_text": "Worldly concerns should not delay", "verse_ref": "Luke 9:59-62", "verse_text": "And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. 60 Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God. 61 And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house. 62 And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "God qualifies for", "verse_ref": "Exodus 3:11", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?" }, { "point_text": "God qualifies for", "verse_ref": "Exodus 4:11-12", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD? 12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say." }, { "point_text": "God qualifies for", "verse_ref": "Exodus 4:15", "verse_text": "And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do." }, { "point_text": "God strengthens for", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 1:7-9", "verse_text": "But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. 8 Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD. 9 Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth." }, { "point_text": "Guilt and danger of shrinking from", "verse_ref": "Jonah 1:3-4", "verse_text": "But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. 4 But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken." }, { "point_text": "Requires wisdom and meekness", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:16", "verse_text": "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." }, { "point_text": "Be ready to engage in", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:8", "verse_text": "Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me." }, { "point_text": "Aid those engaged in", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:1-2", "verse_text": "I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea: 2 That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also." }, { "point_text": "Aid those engaged in", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 11:9", "verse_text": "And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself." }, { "point_text": "Aid those engaged in", "verse_ref": "3 John 5-8", "verse_text": "Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers; 6 Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well: 7 Because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles. 8 We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth." }, { "point_text": "Harmony should subsist amongst those engaged in", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:9", "verse_text": "And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision." }, { "point_text": "SUCCESS OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To be prayed for", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:18-19", "verse_text": "Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; 19 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel," }, { "point_text": "A cause of joy", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:3", "verse_text": "And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren." }, { "point_text": "A cause of praise", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:18", "verse_text": "When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life." }, { "point_text": "A cause of praise", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:19-20", "verse_text": "And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry. 20 And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:" }, { "point_text": "No limits to the sphere of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:9", "verse_text": "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea." }, { "point_text": "No limits to the sphere of", "verse_ref": "Mark 16:15", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature." }, { "point_text": "No limits to the sphere of", "verse_ref": "Revelation 14:6", "verse_text": "And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people," }, { "point_text": "Opportunities for, not to be neglected", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 16:9", "verse_text": "For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLevites, \nJonah, \nThe Seventy, \n\nApostles, \n\nPhilip, \nPaul, &c. \nSilas, \nTimotheus, \nNoah,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 17:8-9", "verse_text": "And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests. 9 And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLevites, \nJonah, \nThe Seventy, \n\nApostles, \n\nPhilip, \nPaul, &c. \nSilas, \nTimotheus, \nNoah,", "verse_ref": "Jonah 3:2", "verse_text": "Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLevites, \nJonah, \nThe Seventy, \n\nApostles, \n\nPhilip, \nPaul, &c. \nSilas, \nTimotheus, \nNoah,", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:1", "verse_text": "After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLevites, \nJonah, \nThe Seventy, \n\nApostles, \n\nPhilip, \nPaul, &c. \nSilas, \nTimotheus, \nNoah,", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:17", "verse_text": "And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLevites, \nJonah, \nThe Seventy, \n\nApostles, \n\nPhilip, \nPaul, &c. \nSilas, \nTimotheus, \nNoah,", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:12", "verse_text": "And they went out, and preached that men should repent." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLevites, \nJonah, \nThe Seventy, \n\nApostles, \n\nPhilip, \nPaul, &c. \nSilas, \nTimotheus, \nNoah,", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:2-5", "verse_text": "As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. 3 And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away. 4 So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus. 5 And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLevites, \nJonah, \nThe Seventy, \n\nApostles, \n\nPhilip, \nPaul, &c. \nSilas, \nTimotheus, \nNoah,", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:5", "verse_text": "Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLevites, \nJonah, \nThe Seventy, \n\nApostles, \n\nPhilip, \nPaul, &c. \nSilas, \nTimotheus, \nNoah,", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:2-4", "verse_text": "As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. 3 And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away. 4 So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLevites, \nJonah, \nThe Seventy, \n\nApostles, \n\nPhilip, \nPaul, &c. \nSilas, \nTimotheus, \nNoah,", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:40-41", "verse_text": "And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God. 41 And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLevites, \nJonah, \nThe Seventy, \n\nApostles, \n\nPhilip, \nPaul, &c. \nSilas, \nTimotheus, \nNoah,", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:3", "verse_text": "Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLevites, \nJonah, \nThe Seventy, \n\nApostles, \n\nPhilip, \nPaul, &c. \nSilas, \nTimotheus, \nNoah,", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:5", "verse_text": "And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;" } ] }, { "name": "Moabites", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Moabites.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Descended from Lot", "verse_ref": "Genesis 19:37", "verse_text": "And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day." }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Children of Lot", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:9", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession." }, { "point_text": "People of Chemosh", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:29", "verse_text": "Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites." }, { "point_text": "People of Chemosh", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:46", "verse_text": "Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives." }, { "point_text": "Are given to, as a possession", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:9", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession." }, { "point_text": "Separated from the Amorites by the river Arnon", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:13", "verse_text": "From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites." }, { "point_text": "Expelled the ancient Emims", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:9-11", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession. 10 The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; 11 Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims." }, { "point_text": "Possessed many and great cities", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:28", "verse_text": "For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon." }, { "point_text": "Possessed many and great cities", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:30", "verse_text": "We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba." }, { "point_text": "Governed by kings", "verse_ref": "Numbers 23:7", "verse_text": "And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel." }, { "point_text": "Governed by kings", "verse_ref": "Joshua 24:9", "verse_text": "Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:" }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Proud and arrogant", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 16:6", "verse_text": "We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so." }, { "point_text": "Proud and arrogant", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:29", "verse_text": "We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart." }, { "point_text": "Idolatrous", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:7", "verse_text": "Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon." }, { "point_text": "Superstitious", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:3", "verse_text": "And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;" }, { "point_text": "Superstitious", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:9", "verse_text": "Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:" }, { "point_text": "Rich and confident", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:7", "verse_text": "For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together." }, { "point_text": "Prosperous and at ease", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:11", "verse_text": "Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed." }, { "point_text": "Mighty men of war", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:14", "verse_text": "How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the war?" }, { "point_text": "Deprived of a large part of their territories by the Amorites", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:26", "verse_text": "For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon." }, { "point_text": "Refused to let Israel pass", "verse_ref": "Judges 11:17-18", "verse_text": "Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not hearken thereto. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but he would not consent: and Israel abode in Kadesh. 18 Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, but came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon was the border of Moab." }, { "point_text": "Alarmed at the number, &c. of Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:3", "verse_text": "And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "With Midian send for Balaam to curse Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22-24", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho. 2 And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. 3 And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel. 4 And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time. ..." }, { "point_text": "ISRAELITES", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Enticed to idolatry by", "verse_ref": "Numbers 25:1-3", "verse_text": "And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. 2 And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. 3 And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to spoil", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:9", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to spoil", "verse_ref": "Judges 11:15", "verse_text": "And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:" }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to make leagues with", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:6", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes intermarried with", "verse_ref": "Ruth 1:4", "verse_text": "And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes intermarried with", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:1", "verse_text": "But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;" }, { "point_text": "Sometimes intermarried with", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 8:8", "verse_text": "And Shaharaim begat children in the country of Moab, after he had sent them away; Hushim and Baara were his wives." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes intermarried with", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:23", "verse_text": "In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:" }, { "point_text": "Excluded from the congregation of Israel for ever", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:3-4", "verse_text": "An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever: 4 Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee." }, { "point_text": "Always hostile to Israel", "verse_ref": "Psalm 83:6", "verse_text": "The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;" }, { "point_text": "Always hostile to Israel", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 25:8", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen;" }, { "point_text": "Harassed and subdued by Saul", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:47", "verse_text": "So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed them." }, { "point_text": "Gave an asylum to David's family", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 22:4", "verse_text": "And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold." }, { "point_text": "Made tributary to David", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:2", "verse_text": "And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts." }, { "point_text": "Made tributary to David", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:12", "verse_text": "Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah." }, { "point_text": "Benaiah slew two champions of", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 23:20", "verse_text": "And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:" }, { "point_text": "Paid tribute of sheep and wool to the king of Israel", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 3:4", "verse_text": "And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool." }, { "point_text": "Paid tribute of sheep and wool to the king of Israel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 16:1", "verse_text": "Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion." }, { "point_text": "Revolted from Israel after the death of Ahab", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 1:1", "verse_text": "Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab." }, { "point_text": "Revolted from Israel after the death of Ahab", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 3:5", "verse_text": "But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Israel and Judah joined against", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 3:6-7", "verse_text": "And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and numbered all Israel. 7 And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as thou art, my people as thy people, and my horses as thy horses." }, { "point_text": "Miraculously deceived by the color of the water", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 3:21-24", "verse_text": "And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them, they gathered all that were able to put on armour, and upward, and stood in the border. 22 And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood: 23 And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil. 24 And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them: but they went forward smiting the Moabites, even in their country." }, { "point_text": "Conquered by Israel and Judah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 3:24-26", "verse_text": "And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them: but they went forward smiting the Moabites, even in their country. 25 And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it. 26 And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through even unto the king of Edom: but they could not." }, { "point_text": "King of, sacrificed his son to excite animosity against Israel", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 3:27", "verse_text": "Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land." }, { "point_text": "Joined Babylon against Judah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 24:2", "verse_text": "And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets." }, { "point_text": "PROPHESIES RESPECTING;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Terror on account of Israel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:15", "verse_text": "Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away." }, { "point_text": "Desolation and grief", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 15", "verse_text": "The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; 2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off. 3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly. 4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him. ..." }, { "point_text": "Desolation and grief", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 16:2-11", "verse_text": "For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon. 3 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. 4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land. 5 And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness. ..." }, { "point_text": "Inability to avert destruction", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 16:12", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail." }, { "point_text": "To destroyed in three years", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 16:13-14", "verse_text": "This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since that time. 14 But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble." }, { "point_text": "To be captives in Babylon", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:3", "verse_text": "And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;" }, { "point_text": "To be captives in Babylon", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:7", "verse_text": "For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together." }, { "point_text": "Their desolation as a punishment for their hatred of Israel", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:26-27", "verse_text": "Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision. 27 For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy." }, { "point_text": "Restoration from captivity", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:47", "verse_text": "Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab." }, { "point_text": "Subjugation to Messiah", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:17", "verse_text": "I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth." }, { "point_text": "Subjugation to Messiah", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 25:10", "verse_text": "For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill." }, { "point_text": "Subjugation to Israel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:14", "verse_text": "But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them." } ] }, { "name": "Money", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Money.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Gold and silver used as", "verse_ref": "Genesis 13:2", "verse_text": "And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold." }, { "point_text": "Gold and silver used as", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:18", "verse_text": "And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more." }, { "point_text": "Brass introduced as, by the Romans", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:9", "verse_text": "Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses," }, { "point_text": "Originally stamped with the image of a lamb.\r\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Genesis 23:15", "verse_text": "My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead." }, { "point_text": "Originally stamped with the image of a lamb.\r\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Genesis 33:19", "verse_text": "And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money." }, { "point_text": "Of the Romans, stamped with the image of Cæsar", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:20-21", "verse_text": "And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? 21 They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's." }, { "point_text": "Usually taken by weight", "verse_ref": "Genesis 23:16", "verse_text": "And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant." }, { "point_text": "Usually taken by weight", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 32:10", "verse_text": "And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances." }, { "point_text": "PIECES OF MENTIONED;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Talent of gold", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 9:14", "verse_text": "And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold." }, { "point_text": "Talent of gold", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:23", "verse_text": "But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Talent of silver", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:24", "verse_text": "And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria." }, { "point_text": "Talent of silver", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:22-23", "verse_text": "And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments. 23 And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him." }, { "point_text": "Shekel of silver", "verse_ref": "Judges 17:10", "verse_text": "And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in." }, { "point_text": "Shekel of silver", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 15:20", "verse_text": "And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the land." }, { "point_text": "Half shekel or bekah", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:15", "verse_text": "The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls." }, { "point_text": "Third of a shekel", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 10:32", "verse_text": "Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;" }, { "point_text": "Fourth of a shekel", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 9:8", "verse_text": "And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way." }, { "point_text": "Gerah the twentieth of a shekel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:47", "verse_text": "Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)" }, { "point_text": "Pound", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:13", "verse_text": "And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come." }, { "point_text": "Penny", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:2", "verse_text": "And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard." }, { "point_text": "Penny", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:37", "verse_text": "He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?" }, { "point_text": "Farthing", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:26", "verse_text": "Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing." }, { "point_text": "Farthing", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:6", "verse_text": "Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?" }, { "point_text": "Mite", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:42", "verse_text": "And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing." }, { "point_text": "Mite", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:2", "verse_text": "And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites." }, { "point_text": "Of the Jews regulated by the standard of sanctuary", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:15", "verse_text": "If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:" }, { "point_text": "Of the Jews regulated by the standard of sanctuary", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:47", "verse_text": "Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)" }, { "point_text": "Was current with the merchants", "verse_ref": "Genesis 23:16", "verse_text": "And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant." }, { "point_text": "Jews forbidden to take usury for", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:37", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase." }, { "point_text": "Changing of, a trade", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:12", "verse_text": "And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves," }, { "point_text": "Changing of, a trade", "verse_ref": "John 2:15", "verse_text": "And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;" }, { "point_text": "WAS GIVEN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "For lands", "verse_ref": "Genesis 23:9", "verse_text": "That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you." }, { "point_text": "For lands", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:37", "verse_text": "Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet." }, { "point_text": "For slaves", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:28", "verse_text": "Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt." }, { "point_text": "For slaves", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:21", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money." }, { "point_text": "For merchandise", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:12", "verse_text": "And take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight:" }, { "point_text": "For merchandise", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:6", "verse_text": "Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink." }, { "point_text": "For tribute", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:33", "verse_text": "And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold." }, { "point_text": "For tribute", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:19", "verse_text": "Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny." }, { "point_text": "As wages", "verse_ref": "Ezra 3:7", "verse_text": "They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia." }, { "point_text": "As wages", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:2", "verse_text": "And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard." }, { "point_text": "As wages", "verse_ref": "James 5:4", "verse_text": "Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth." }, { "point_text": "As offerings", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 12:7-9", "verse_text": "Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house. 8 And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house. 9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "As offerings", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 10:32", "verse_text": "Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;" }, { "point_text": "As alms", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:36", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread." }, { "point_text": "As alms", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:3", "verse_text": "Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms." }, { "point_text": "As alms", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:6", "verse_text": "Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk." }, { "point_text": "Custom of presenting a piece of", "verse_ref": "Job 42:11", "verse_text": "Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold." }, { "point_text": "Power and usefulness of", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 7:12", "verse_text": "For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it." }, { "point_text": "Power and usefulness of", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 10:19", "verse_text": "A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things." }, { "point_text": "Love of, the root of all evil", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:10", "verse_text": "For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." } ] }, { "name": "Ministers", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Ministers.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Called by God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:1", "verse_text": "And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons." }, { "point_text": "Called by God", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 5:4", "verse_text": "And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron." }, { "point_text": "Qualified by God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:5-7", "verse_text": "Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. 6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: 7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged." }, { "point_text": "Qualified by God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 3:5-6", "verse_text": "Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; 6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life." }, { "point_text": "Commissioned by Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:19", "verse_text": "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:" }, { "point_text": "Sent by the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:2", "verse_text": "As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them." }, { "point_text": "Sent by the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:4", "verse_text": "So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus." }, { "point_text": "Have authority from God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 10:8", "verse_text": "For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:" }, { "point_text": "Have authority from God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 13:10", "verse_text": "Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction." }, { "point_text": "Authority of, is for edification", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 10:8", "verse_text": "For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:" }, { "point_text": "Authority of, is for edification", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 13:10", "verse_text": "Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction." }, { "point_text": "Separated unto the gospel", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:1", "verse_text": "Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God," }, { "point_text": "Entrusted with the gospel", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:4", "verse_text": "But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Ambassadors for Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:20", "verse_text": "Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God." }, { "point_text": "Ministers of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 4:1", "verse_text": "Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God." }, { "point_text": "Stewards of the mysteries of God", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 4:1", "verse_text": "Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God." }, { "point_text": "Defenders of the faith", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:7", "verse_text": "Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace." }, { "point_text": "The servants of Christ's people", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:5", "verse_text": "For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake." }, { "point_text": "Specially protected by God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:10", "verse_text": "Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;" }, { "point_text": "Necessity for", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:37-38", "verse_text": "Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; 38 Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest." }, { "point_text": "Excellency of", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:15", "verse_text": "And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!" }, { "point_text": "Labors of, vain, without God's blessing", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:7", "verse_text": "So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase." }, { "point_text": "Labors of, vain, without God's blessing", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:10", "verse_text": "But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." }, { "point_text": "Compared to earthen vessels", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:7", "verse_text": "But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Pure", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 52:11", "verse_text": "Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Pure", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:9", "verse_text": "Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience." }, { "point_text": "Holy", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:36", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD." }, { "point_text": "Holy", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 21:6", "verse_text": "They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy." }, { "point_text": "Holy", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:8", "verse_text": "But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;" }, { "point_text": "Humble", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:19", "verse_text": "Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:" }, { "point_text": "Patient", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:4", "verse_text": "But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses," }, { "point_text": "Patient", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:24", "verse_text": "And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient," }, { "point_text": "Blameless", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:2", "verse_text": "A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;" }, { "point_text": "Blameless", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:7", "verse_text": "For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;" }, { "point_text": "Willing", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:8", "verse_text": "Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me." }, { "point_text": "Willing", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:2", "verse_text": "Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;" }, { "point_text": "Disinterested", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 12:14", "verse_text": "Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children." }, { "point_text": "Disinterested", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:6", "verse_text": "Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ." }, { "point_text": "Impartial", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:21", "verse_text": "I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality." }, { "point_text": "Gentle", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:7", "verse_text": "But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:" }, { "point_text": "Gentle", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:24", "verse_text": "And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient," }, { "point_text": "Devoted", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:24", "verse_text": "But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God." }, { "point_text": "Devoted", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:20-21", "verse_text": "According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." }, { "point_text": "Strong in grace", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:1", "verse_text": "Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Self-denying", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:27", "verse_text": "But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway." }, { "point_text": "Sober, just, and temperate", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 10:9", "verse_text": "Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:" }, { "point_text": "Sober, just, and temperate", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:8", "verse_text": "But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;" }, { "point_text": "Hospitable", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:2", "verse_text": "A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;" }, { "point_text": "Hospitable", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:8", "verse_text": "But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;" }, { "point_text": "Apt to teach", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:2", "verse_text": "A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;" }, { "point_text": "Apt to teach", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:24", "verse_text": "And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient," }, { "point_text": "Studious and meditative", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:13", "verse_text": "Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine." }, { "point_text": "Studious and meditative", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:15", "verse_text": "Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all." }, { "point_text": "Watchful", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:5", "verse_text": "But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry." }, { "point_text": "Prayerful", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:14", "verse_text": "For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ," }, { "point_text": "Prayerful", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:4", "verse_text": "Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy," }, { "point_text": "Strict in ruling their own families", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:4", "verse_text": "One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;" }, { "point_text": "Strict in ruling their own families", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:12", "verse_text": "Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well." }, { "point_text": "Affectionate to their people", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:7", "verse_text": "Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace." }, { "point_text": "Affectionate to their people", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:8", "verse_text": "So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us." }, { "point_text": "Affectionate to their people", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:11", "verse_text": "As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children," }, { "point_text": "Ensamples to the flock", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:17", "verse_text": "Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample." }, { "point_text": "Ensamples to the flock", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 3:9", "verse_text": "Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us." }, { "point_text": "Ensamples to the flock", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:12", "verse_text": "Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity." }, { "point_text": "Ensamples to the flock", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:3", "verse_text": "Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD NOT BE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Lords over God's heritage", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:3", "verse_text": "Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock." }, { "point_text": "Greedy of filthy lucre", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:33", "verse_text": "I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel." }, { "point_text": "Greedy of filthy lucre", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:3", "verse_text": "Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;" }, { "point_text": "Greedy of filthy lucre", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:8", "verse_text": "Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;" }, { "point_text": "Greedy of filthy lucre", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:2", "verse_text": "Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;" }, { "point_text": "Contentious", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:3", "verse_text": "Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;" }, { "point_text": "Contentious", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:7", "verse_text": "For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;" }, { "point_text": "Crafty", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:2", "verse_text": "But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God." }, { "point_text": "Men-pleasers", "verse_ref": "Galatians 1:10", "verse_text": "For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ." }, { "point_text": "Men-pleasers", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:4", "verse_text": "But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts." }, { "point_text": "Easily dispirited", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:8", "verse_text": "We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;" }, { "point_text": "Easily dispirited", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:10", "verse_text": "As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things." }, { "point_text": "Entangled by cares", "verse_ref": "Luke 9:60", "verse_text": "Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Entangled by cares", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:4", "verse_text": "No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." }, { "point_text": "Given to wine", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:3", "verse_text": "Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;" }, { "point_text": "Given to wine", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:7", "verse_text": "For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;" }, { "point_text": "Should seek the salvation of their flock", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:33", "verse_text": "Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved." }, { "point_text": "Should avoid giving unnecessary offence", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:32-33", "verse_text": "Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God: 33 Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved." }, { "point_text": "Should avoid giving unnecessary offence", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:3", "verse_text": "Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:" }, { "point_text": "Should make full proof of their ministry", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:5", "verse_text": "But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry." }, { "point_text": "ARE BOUND, TO", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Preach the gospel to all", "verse_ref": "Mark 16:16", "verse_text": "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned." }, { "point_text": "Preach the gospel to all", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:17", "verse_text": "For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect." }, { "point_text": "Feed the Church", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:15", "verse_text": "And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding." }, { "point_text": "Feed the Church", "verse_ref": "John 21:15-17", "verse_text": "So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs. 16 He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep. 17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep." }, { "point_text": "Feed the Church", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:28", "verse_text": "Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood." }, { "point_text": "Feed the Church", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:2", "verse_text": "Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;" }, { "point_text": "Build up the Church", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 12:19", "verse_text": "Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying." }, { "point_text": "Build up the Church", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:12", "verse_text": "For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Watch for souls", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:17", "verse_text": "Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you." }, { "point_text": "Pray for their people", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:17", "verse_text": "Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?" }, { "point_text": "Pray for their people", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:9", "verse_text": "For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;" }, { "point_text": "Strengthen the faith of their people", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:32", "verse_text": "But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren." }, { "point_text": "Strengthen the faith of their people", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:22", "verse_text": "Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Teach", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:2", "verse_text": "And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also." }, { "point_text": "Exhort", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:9", "verse_text": "Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers." }, { "point_text": "Exhort", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:15", "verse_text": "These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee." }, { "point_text": "Warn affectionately", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:31", "verse_text": "Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears." }, { "point_text": "Rebuke", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:13", "verse_text": "This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;" }, { "point_text": "Rebuke", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:15", "verse_text": "These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee." }, { "point_text": "Comfort", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:4-6", "verse_text": "Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. 5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. 6 And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation." }, { "point_text": "Convince gainsayers", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:9", "verse_text": "Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers." }, { "point_text": "War a good warfare", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:18", "verse_text": "This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;" }, { "point_text": "War a good warfare", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:7", "verse_text": "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:" }, { "point_text": "Endure hardness", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:3", "verse_text": "Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD PREACH", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Christ crucified", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:5", "verse_text": "Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them." }, { "point_text": "Christ crucified", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:35", "verse_text": "Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Christ crucified", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:2", "verse_text": "For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified." }, { "point_text": "Repentance and faith", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:21", "verse_text": "Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "According to the oracles of God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:11", "verse_text": "If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Everywhere", "verse_ref": "Mark 16:20", "verse_text": "And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Everywhere", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:4", "verse_text": "Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word." }, { "point_text": "Not with enticing words of man's wisdom", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:17", "verse_text": "For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect." }, { "point_text": "Not with enticing words of man's wisdom", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:1", "verse_text": "And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God." }, { "point_text": "Not with enticing words of man's wisdom", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:4", "verse_text": "And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:" }, { "point_text": "Not setting forth themselves", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:5", "verse_text": "For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake." }, { "point_text": "Without deceitfulness", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 2:17", "verse_text": "For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ." }, { "point_text": "Without deceitfulness", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:2", "verse_text": "But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God." }, { "point_text": "Without deceitfulness", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:3", "verse_text": "For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:" }, { "point_text": "Without deceitfulness", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:5", "verse_text": "For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:" }, { "point_text": "Fully, and without reserve", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:20", "verse_text": "Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life." }, { "point_text": "Fully, and without reserve", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:20", "verse_text": "And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house," }, { "point_text": "Fully, and without reserve", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:27", "verse_text": "For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God." }, { "point_text": "With boldness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:1", "verse_text": "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins." }, { "point_text": "With boldness", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 2:6", "verse_text": "And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house." }, { "point_text": "With boldness", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:27-28", "verse_text": "What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops. 28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." }, { "point_text": "With plainness of speech", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 3:12", "verse_text": "Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:" }, { "point_text": "With zeal", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:8", "verse_text": "So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us." }, { "point_text": "With constancy", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:4", "verse_text": "But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word." }, { "point_text": "With constancy", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:2", "verse_text": "Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine." }, { "point_text": "With consistency", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:18-19", "verse_text": "But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. 19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea." }, { "point_text": "With heedfulness", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:16", "verse_text": "Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee." }, { "point_text": "With good will and love", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:15-17", "verse_text": "Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will: 16 The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds: 17 But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel." }, { "point_text": "With faithfulness", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 3:17-18", "verse_text": "Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. 18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand." }, { "point_text": "Without charge, if possible", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:18", "verse_text": "What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel." }, { "point_text": "Without charge, if possible", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:9", "verse_text": "For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God." }, { "point_text": "Woe to those who do not preach the gospel", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:16", "verse_text": "For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!" }, { "point_text": "WHEN FAITHFUL,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Approve themselves as the ministers of God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:4", "verse_text": "But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses," }, { "point_text": "Thank God for His gifts to their people", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:4", "verse_text": "I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;" }, { "point_text": "Thank God for His gifts to their people", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:3", "verse_text": "I thank my God upon every remembrance of you," }, { "point_text": "Thank God for His gifts to their people", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 3:9", "verse_text": "For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;" }, { "point_text": "Glory in their people", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 7:4", "verse_text": "Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation." }, { "point_text": "Rejoice in the faith and holiness of their people", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:19", "verse_text": "For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?" }, { "point_text": "Rejoice in the faith and holiness of their people", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 3:6-9", "verse_text": "But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you: 7 Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith: 8 For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. 9 For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;" }, { "point_text": "Commend themselves to the consciences of men", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:2", "verse_text": "But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God." }, { "point_text": "Are rewarded", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:47", "verse_text": "Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods." }, { "point_text": "Are rewarded", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:14", "verse_text": "If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward." }, { "point_text": "Are rewarded", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:17-18", "verse_text": "For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me. 18 What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel." }, { "point_text": "Are rewarded", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:4", "verse_text": "And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away." }, { "point_text": "WHEN UNFAITHFUL,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Described", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:10-12", "verse_text": "His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. 11 Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter. 12 Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant." }, { "point_text": "Described", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:10-11", "verse_text": "For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: 11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake." }, { "point_text": "Deal treacherously with their people", "verse_ref": "John 10:12", "verse_text": "But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep." }, { "point_text": "Delude men", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:14", "verse_text": "They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace." }, { "point_text": "Delude men", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:14", "verse_text": "Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch." }, { "point_text": "Seek gain", "verse_ref": "Micah 3:11", "verse_text": "The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us." }, { "point_text": "Seek gain", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:3", "verse_text": "And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not." }, { "point_text": "Shall be punished", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 33:6-8", "verse_text": "But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand. 7 So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me. 8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand." }, { "point_text": "Shall be punished", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:48-51", "verse_text": "But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; 49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; 50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, 51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." }, { "point_text": "THEIR PEOPLE ARE BOUND, TO", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Regard them as God's messengers", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 4:1", "verse_text": "Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God." }, { "point_text": "Regard them as God's messengers", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:14", "verse_text": "And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Not to despise them", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:16", "verse_text": "He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me." }, { "point_text": "Not to despise them", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:12", "verse_text": "Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity." }, { "point_text": "Attend to their instructions", "verse_ref": "Malachi 2:7", "verse_text": "For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Attend to their instructions", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:3", "verse_text": "All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not." }, { "point_text": "Follow their holy example", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:1", "verse_text": "Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ." }, { "point_text": "Follow their holy example", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:17", "verse_text": "Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample." }, { "point_text": "Imitate their faith", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:7", "verse_text": "Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation." }, { "point_text": "Hold them in reputation", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:29", "verse_text": "Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:" }, { "point_text": "Hold them in reputation", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:13", "verse_text": "And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves." }, { "point_text": "Hold them in reputation", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:17", "verse_text": "Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine." }, { "point_text": "Love them", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:7", "verse_text": "Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also." }, { "point_text": "Love them", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 3:6", "verse_text": "But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you:" }, { "point_text": "Pray for them", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:30", "verse_text": "Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;" }, { "point_text": "Pray for them", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:11", "verse_text": "Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf." }, { "point_text": "Pray for them", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:19", "verse_text": "And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel," }, { "point_text": "Pray for them", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:18", "verse_text": "Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly." }, { "point_text": "Obey them", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 16:16", "verse_text": "That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth." }, { "point_text": "Obey them", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:17", "verse_text": "Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you." }, { "point_text": "Give them joy", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:14", "verse_text": "As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Give them joy", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 2:3", "verse_text": "And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all." }, { "point_text": "Help them", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:9", "verse_text": "Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved." }, { "point_text": "Help them", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:3", "verse_text": "And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life." }, { "point_text": "Support them", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:4", "verse_text": "Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Support them", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:7-11", "verse_text": "Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? 8 Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? 9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? 10 Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. ..." }, { "point_text": "Support them", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:6", "verse_text": "Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things." }, { "point_text": "Pray for the increase of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:38", "verse_text": "Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest." }, { "point_text": "Faithful--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Eleven Apostles, \nThe seventy, \n\nMatthias, \nPhilip, \nBarnabas, \nSimeon, &c. \nPaul, \nTychicus, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus, \nArchippus, \nTitus,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:16-19", "verse_text": "Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. 17 And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted. 18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:" }, { "point_text": "Faithful--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Eleven Apostles, \nThe seventy, \n\nMatthias, \nPhilip, \nBarnabas, \nSimeon, &c. \nPaul, \nTychicus, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus, \nArchippus, \nTitus,", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:1", "verse_text": "After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come." }, { "point_text": "Faithful--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Eleven Apostles, \nThe seventy, \n\nMatthias, \nPhilip, \nBarnabas, \nSimeon, &c. \nPaul, \nTychicus, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus, \nArchippus, \nTitus,", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:17", "verse_text": "And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name." }, { "point_text": "Faithful--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Eleven Apostles, \nThe seventy, \n\nMatthias, \nPhilip, \nBarnabas, \nSimeon, &c. \nPaul, \nTychicus, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus, \nArchippus, \nTitus,", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:26", "verse_text": "And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles." }, { "point_text": "Faithful--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Eleven Apostles, \nThe seventy, \n\nMatthias, \nPhilip, \nBarnabas, \nSimeon, &c. \nPaul, \nTychicus, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus, \nArchippus, \nTitus,", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:5", "verse_text": "Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them." }, { "point_text": "Faithful--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Eleven Apostles, \nThe seventy, \n\nMatthias, \nPhilip, \nBarnabas, \nSimeon, &c. \nPaul, \nTychicus, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus, \nArchippus, \nTitus,", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:23", "verse_text": "Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Faithful--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Eleven Apostles, \nThe seventy, \n\nMatthias, \nPhilip, \nBarnabas, \nSimeon, &c. \nPaul, \nTychicus, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus, \nArchippus, \nTitus,", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:1", "verse_text": "Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul." }, { "point_text": "Faithful--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Eleven Apostles, \nThe seventy, \n\nMatthias, \nPhilip, \nBarnabas, \nSimeon, &c. \nPaul, \nTychicus, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus, \nArchippus, \nTitus,", "verse_ref": "Acts 28:31", "verse_text": "Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him." }, { "point_text": "Faithful--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Eleven Apostles, \nThe seventy, \n\nMatthias, \nPhilip, \nBarnabas, \nSimeon, &c. \nPaul, \nTychicus, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus, \nArchippus, \nTitus,", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:21", "verse_text": "But that ye also may know my affairs, and how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things:" }, { "point_text": "Faithful--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Eleven Apostles, \nThe seventy, \n\nMatthias, \nPhilip, \nBarnabas, \nSimeon, &c. \nPaul, \nTychicus, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus, \nArchippus, \nTitus,", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:22", "verse_text": "But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel." }, { "point_text": "Faithful--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Eleven Apostles, \nThe seventy, \n\nMatthias, \nPhilip, \nBarnabas, \nSimeon, &c. \nPaul, \nTychicus, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus, \nArchippus, \nTitus,", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:25", "verse_text": "Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants." }, { "point_text": "Faithful--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Eleven Apostles, \nThe seventy, \n\nMatthias, \nPhilip, \nBarnabas, \nSimeon, &c. \nPaul, \nTychicus, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus, \nArchippus, \nTitus,", "verse_ref": "Colossians 4:17", "verse_text": "And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it." }, { "point_text": "Faithful--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Eleven Apostles, \nThe seventy, \n\nMatthias, \nPhilip, \nBarnabas, \nSimeon, &c. \nPaul, \nTychicus, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus, \nArchippus, \nTitus,", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:5", "verse_text": "For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:" }, { "point_text": "Called by God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:1", "verse_text": "And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons." }, { "point_text": "Called by God", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 5:4", "verse_text": "And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron." }, { "point_text": "Qualified by God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:5-7", "verse_text": "Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. 6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: 7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged." }, { "point_text": "Qualified by God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 3:5-6", "verse_text": "Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; 6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life." }, { "point_text": "Commissioned by Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:19", "verse_text": "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:" }, { "point_text": "Sent by the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:2", "verse_text": "As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them." }, { "point_text": "Sent by the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:4", "verse_text": "So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus." }, { "point_text": "Have authority from God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 10:8", "verse_text": "For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:" }, { "point_text": "Have authority from God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 13:10", "verse_text": "Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction." }, { "point_text": "Authority of, is for edification", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 10:8", "verse_text": "For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:" }, { "point_text": "Authority of, is for edification", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 13:10", "verse_text": "Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction." }, { "point_text": "Separated unto the gospel", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:1", "verse_text": "Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God," }, { "point_text": "Entrusted with the gospel", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:4", "verse_text": "But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Ambassadors for Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:20", "verse_text": "Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God." }, { "point_text": "Ministers of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 4:1", "verse_text": "Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God." }, { "point_text": "Stewards of the mysteries of God", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 4:1", "verse_text": "Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God." }, { "point_text": "Defenders of the faith", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:7", "verse_text": "Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace." }, { "point_text": "The servants of Christ's people", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:5", "verse_text": "For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake." }, { "point_text": "Specially protected by God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:10", "verse_text": "Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;" }, { "point_text": "Necessity for", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:37-38", "verse_text": "Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; 38 Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest." }, { "point_text": "Excellency of", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:15", "verse_text": "And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!" }, { "point_text": "Labors of, vain, without God's blessing", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:7", "verse_text": "So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase." }, { "point_text": "Labors of, vain, without God's blessing", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:10", "verse_text": "But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." }, { "point_text": "Compared to earthen vessels", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:7", "verse_text": "But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Pure", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 52:11", "verse_text": "Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Pure", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:9", "verse_text": "Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience." }, { "point_text": "Holy", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:36", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD." }, { "point_text": "Holy", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 21:6", "verse_text": "They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy." }, { "point_text": "Holy", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:8", "verse_text": "But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;" }, { "point_text": "Humble", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:19", "verse_text": "Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:" }, { "point_text": "Patient", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:4", "verse_text": "But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses," }, { "point_text": "Patient", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:24", "verse_text": "And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient," }, { "point_text": "Blameless", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:2", "verse_text": "A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;" }, { "point_text": "Blameless", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:7", "verse_text": "For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;" }, { "point_text": "Willing", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:8", "verse_text": "Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me." }, { "point_text": "Willing", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:2", "verse_text": "Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;" }, { "point_text": "Disinterested", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 12:14", "verse_text": "Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children." }, { "point_text": "Disinterested", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:6", "verse_text": "Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ." }, { "point_text": "Impartial", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:21", "verse_text": "I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality." }, { "point_text": "Gentle", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:7", "verse_text": "But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:" }, { "point_text": "Gentle", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:24", "verse_text": "And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient," }, { "point_text": "Devoted", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:24", "verse_text": "But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God." }, { "point_text": "Devoted", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:20-21", "verse_text": "According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." }, { "point_text": "Strong in grace", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:1", "verse_text": "Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Self-denying", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:27", "verse_text": "But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway." }, { "point_text": "Sober, just, and temperate", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 10:9", "verse_text": "Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:" }, { "point_text": "Sober, just, and temperate", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:8", "verse_text": "But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;" }, { "point_text": "Hospitable", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:2", "verse_text": "A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;" }, { "point_text": "Hospitable", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:8", "verse_text": "But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;" }, { "point_text": "Apt to teach", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:2", "verse_text": "A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;" }, { "point_text": "Apt to teach", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:24", "verse_text": "And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient," }, { "point_text": "Studious and meditative", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:13", "verse_text": "Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine." }, { "point_text": "Studious and meditative", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:15", "verse_text": "Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all." }, { "point_text": "Watchful", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:5", "verse_text": "But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry." }, { "point_text": "Prayerful", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:14", "verse_text": "For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ," }, { "point_text": "Prayerful", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:4", "verse_text": "Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy," }, { "point_text": "Strict in ruling their own families", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:4", "verse_text": "One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;" }, { "point_text": "Strict in ruling their own families", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:12", "verse_text": "Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well." }, { "point_text": "Affectionate to their people", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:7", "verse_text": "Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace." }, { "point_text": "Affectionate to their people", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:8", "verse_text": "So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us." }, { "point_text": "Affectionate to their people", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:11", "verse_text": "As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children," }, { "point_text": "Ensamples to the flock", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:17", "verse_text": "Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample." }, { "point_text": "Ensamples to the flock", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 3:9", "verse_text": "Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us." }, { "point_text": "Ensamples to the flock", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:12", "verse_text": "Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity." }, { "point_text": "Ensamples to the flock", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:3", "verse_text": "Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD NOT BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Lords over God's heritage", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:3", "verse_text": "Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock." }, { "point_text": "Greedy of filthy lucre", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:33", "verse_text": "I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel." }, { "point_text": "Greedy of filthy lucre", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:3", "verse_text": "Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;" }, { "point_text": "Greedy of filthy lucre", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:8", "verse_text": "Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;" }, { "point_text": "Greedy of filthy lucre", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:2", "verse_text": "Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;" }, { "point_text": "Contentious", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:3", "verse_text": "Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;" }, { "point_text": "Contentious", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:7", "verse_text": "For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;" }, { "point_text": "Crafty", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:2", "verse_text": "But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God." }, { "point_text": "Men-pleasers", "verse_ref": "Galatians 1:10", "verse_text": "For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ." }, { "point_text": "Men-pleasers", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:4", "verse_text": "But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts." }, { "point_text": "Easily dispirited", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:8", "verse_text": "We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;" }, { "point_text": "Easily dispirited", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:10", "verse_text": "As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things." }, { "point_text": "Entangled by cares", "verse_ref": "Luke 9:60", "verse_text": "Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Entangled by cares", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:4", "verse_text": "No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." }, { "point_text": "Given to wine", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:3", "verse_text": "Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;" }, { "point_text": "Given to wine", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:7", "verse_text": "For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;" }, { "point_text": "Should seek the salvation of their flock", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:33", "verse_text": "Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved." }, { "point_text": "Should avoid giving unnecessary offence", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:32-33", "verse_text": "Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God: 33 Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved." }, { "point_text": "Should avoid giving unnecessary offence", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:3", "verse_text": "Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:" }, { "point_text": "Should make full proof of their ministry", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:5", "verse_text": "But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry." }, { "point_text": "ARE BOUND, TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Preach the gospel to all", "verse_ref": "Mark 16:16", "verse_text": "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned." }, { "point_text": "Preach the gospel to all", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:17", "verse_text": "For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect." }, { "point_text": "Feed the Church", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:15", "verse_text": "And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding." }, { "point_text": "Feed the Church", "verse_ref": "John 21:15-17", "verse_text": "So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs. 16 He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep. 17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep." }, { "point_text": "Feed the Church", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:28", "verse_text": "Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood." }, { "point_text": "Feed the Church", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:2", "verse_text": "Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;" }, { "point_text": "Build up the Church", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 12:19", "verse_text": "Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying." }, { "point_text": "Build up the Church", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:12", "verse_text": "For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Watch for souls", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:17", "verse_text": "Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you." }, { "point_text": "Pray for their people", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:17", "verse_text": "Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?" }, { "point_text": "Pray for their people", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:9", "verse_text": "For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;" }, { "point_text": "Strengthen the faith of their people", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:32", "verse_text": "But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren." }, { "point_text": "Strengthen the faith of their people", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:22", "verse_text": "Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Teach", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:2", "verse_text": "And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also." }, { "point_text": "Exhort", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:9", "verse_text": "Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers." }, { "point_text": "Exhort", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:15", "verse_text": "These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee." }, { "point_text": "Warn affectionately", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:31", "verse_text": "Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears." }, { "point_text": "Rebuke", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:13", "verse_text": "This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;" }, { "point_text": "Rebuke", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:15", "verse_text": "These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee." }, { "point_text": "Comfort", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:4-6", "verse_text": "Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. 5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. 6 And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation." }, { "point_text": "Convince gainsayers", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:9", "verse_text": "Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers." }, { "point_text": "War a good warfare", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:18", "verse_text": "This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;" }, { "point_text": "War a good warfare", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:7", "verse_text": "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:" }, { "point_text": "Endure hardness", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:3", "verse_text": "Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD PREACH", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Christ crucified", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:5", "verse_text": "Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them." }, { "point_text": "Christ crucified", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:35", "verse_text": "Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Christ crucified", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:2", "verse_text": "For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified." }, { "point_text": "Repentance and faith", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:21", "verse_text": "Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "According to the oracles of God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:11", "verse_text": "If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Everywhere", "verse_ref": "Mark 16:20", "verse_text": "And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Everywhere", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:4", "verse_text": "Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word." }, { "point_text": "Not with enticing words of man's wisdom", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:17", "verse_text": "For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect." }, { "point_text": "Not with enticing words of man's wisdom", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:1", "verse_text": "And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God." }, { "point_text": "Not with enticing words of man's wisdom", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:4", "verse_text": "And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:" }, { "point_text": "Not setting forth themselves", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:5", "verse_text": "For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake." }, { "point_text": "Without deceitfulness", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 2:17", "verse_text": "For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ." }, { "point_text": "Without deceitfulness", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:2", "verse_text": "But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God." }, { "point_text": "Without deceitfulness", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:3", "verse_text": "For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:" }, { "point_text": "Without deceitfulness", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:5", "verse_text": "For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:" }, { "point_text": "Fully, and without reserve", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:20", "verse_text": "Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life." }, { "point_text": "Fully, and without reserve", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:20", "verse_text": "And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house," }, { "point_text": "Fully, and without reserve", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:27", "verse_text": "For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God." }, { "point_text": "With boldness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:1", "verse_text": "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins." }, { "point_text": "With boldness", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 2:6", "verse_text": "And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house." }, { "point_text": "With boldness", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:27-28", "verse_text": "What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops. 28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." }, { "point_text": "With plainness of speech", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 3:12", "verse_text": "Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:" }, { "point_text": "With zeal", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:8", "verse_text": "So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us." }, { "point_text": "With constancy", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:4", "verse_text": "But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word." }, { "point_text": "With constancy", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:2", "verse_text": "Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine." }, { "point_text": "With consistency", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:18-19", "verse_text": "But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. 19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea." }, { "point_text": "With heedfulness", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:16", "verse_text": "Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee." }, { "point_text": "With good will and love", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:15-17", "verse_text": "Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will: 16 The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds: 17 But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel." }, { "point_text": "With faithfulness", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 3:17-18", "verse_text": "Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. 18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand." }, { "point_text": "Without charge, if possible", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:18", "verse_text": "What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel." }, { "point_text": "Without charge, if possible", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:9", "verse_text": "For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God." }, { "point_text": "Woe to those who do not preach the gospel", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:16", "verse_text": "For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!" }, { "point_text": "WHEN FAITHFUL,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Approve themselves as the ministers of God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:4", "verse_text": "But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses," }, { "point_text": "Thank God for His gifts to their people", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:4", "verse_text": "I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;" }, { "point_text": "Thank God for His gifts to their people", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:3", "verse_text": "I thank my God upon every remembrance of you," }, { "point_text": "Thank God for His gifts to their people", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 3:9", "verse_text": "For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;" }, { "point_text": "Glory in their people", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 7:4", "verse_text": "Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation." }, { "point_text": "Rejoice in the faith and holiness of their people", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:19", "verse_text": "For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?" }, { "point_text": "Rejoice in the faith and holiness of their people", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 3:6-9", "verse_text": "But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you: 7 Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith: 8 For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. 9 For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;" }, { "point_text": "Commend themselves to the consciences of men", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:2", "verse_text": "But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God." }, { "point_text": "Are rewarded", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:47", "verse_text": "Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods." }, { "point_text": "Are rewarded", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:14", "verse_text": "If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward." }, { "point_text": "Are rewarded", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:17-18", "verse_text": "For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me. 18 What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel." }, { "point_text": "Are rewarded", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:4", "verse_text": "And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away." }, { "point_text": "WHEN UNFAITHFUL,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Described", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:10-12", "verse_text": "His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. 11 Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter. 12 Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant." }, { "point_text": "Described", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:10-11", "verse_text": "For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: 11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake." }, { "point_text": "Deal treacherously with their people", "verse_ref": "John 10:12", "verse_text": "But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep." }, { "point_text": "Delude men", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:14", "verse_text": "They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace." }, { "point_text": "Delude men", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:14", "verse_text": "Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch." }, { "point_text": "Seek gain", "verse_ref": "Micah 3:11", "verse_text": "The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us." }, { "point_text": "Seek gain", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:3", "verse_text": "And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not." }, { "point_text": "Shall be punished", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 33:6-8", "verse_text": "But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand. 7 So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me. 8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand." }, { "point_text": "Shall be punished", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:48-51", "verse_text": "But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; 49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; 50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, 51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." }, { "point_text": "THEIR PEOPLE ARE BOUND, TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Regard them as God's messengers", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 4:1", "verse_text": "Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God." }, { "point_text": "Regard them as God's messengers", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:14", "verse_text": "And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Not to despise them", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:16", "verse_text": "He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me." }, { "point_text": "Not to despise them", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:12", "verse_text": "Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity." }, { "point_text": "Attend to their instructions", "verse_ref": "Malachi 2:7", "verse_text": "For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Attend to their instructions", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:3", "verse_text": "All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not." }, { "point_text": "Follow their holy example", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:1", "verse_text": "Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ." }, { "point_text": "Follow their holy example", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:17", "verse_text": "Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample." }, { "point_text": "Imitate their faith", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:7", "verse_text": "Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation." }, { "point_text": "Hold them in reputation", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:29", "verse_text": "Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:" }, { "point_text": "Hold them in reputation", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:13", "verse_text": "And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves." }, { "point_text": "Hold them in reputation", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:17", "verse_text": "Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine." }, { "point_text": "Love them", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:7", "verse_text": "Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also." }, { "point_text": "Love them", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 3:6", "verse_text": "But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you:" }, { "point_text": "Pray for them", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:30", "verse_text": "Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;" }, { "point_text": "Pray for them", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:11", "verse_text": "Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf." }, { "point_text": "Pray for them", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:19", "verse_text": "And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel," }, { "point_text": "Pray for them", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:18", "verse_text": "Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly." }, { "point_text": "Obey them", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 16:16", "verse_text": "That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth." }, { "point_text": "Obey them", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:17", "verse_text": "Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you." }, { "point_text": "Give them joy", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:14", "verse_text": "As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Give them joy", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 2:3", "verse_text": "And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all." }, { "point_text": "Help them", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:9", "verse_text": "Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved." }, { "point_text": "Help them", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:3", "verse_text": "And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life." }, { "point_text": "Support them", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:4", "verse_text": "Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Support them", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:7-11", "verse_text": "Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? 8 Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? 9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? 10 Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. ..." }, { "point_text": "Support them", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:6", "verse_text": "Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things." }, { "point_text": "Pray for the increase of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:38", "verse_text": "Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest." }, { "point_text": "Faithful--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Eleven Apostles, \nThe seventy, \n\nMatthias, \nPhilip, \nBarnabas, \nSimeon, &c. \nPaul, \nTychicus, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus, \nArchippus, \nTitus,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:16-19", "verse_text": "Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. 17 And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted. 18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:" }, { "point_text": "Faithful--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Eleven Apostles, \nThe seventy, \n\nMatthias, \nPhilip, \nBarnabas, \nSimeon, &c. \nPaul, \nTychicus, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus, \nArchippus, \nTitus,", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:1", "verse_text": "After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come." }, { "point_text": "Faithful--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Eleven Apostles, \nThe seventy, \n\nMatthias, \nPhilip, \nBarnabas, \nSimeon, &c. \nPaul, \nTychicus, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus, \nArchippus, \nTitus,", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:17", "verse_text": "And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name." }, { "point_text": "Faithful--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Eleven Apostles, \nThe seventy, \n\nMatthias, \nPhilip, \nBarnabas, \nSimeon, &c. \nPaul, \nTychicus, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus, \nArchippus, \nTitus,", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:26", "verse_text": "And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles." }, { "point_text": "Faithful--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Eleven Apostles, \nThe seventy, \n\nMatthias, \nPhilip, \nBarnabas, \nSimeon, &c. \nPaul, \nTychicus, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus, \nArchippus, \nTitus,", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:5", "verse_text": "Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them." }, { "point_text": "Faithful--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Eleven Apostles, \nThe seventy, \n\nMatthias, \nPhilip, \nBarnabas, \nSimeon, &c. \nPaul, \nTychicus, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus, \nArchippus, \nTitus,", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:23", "verse_text": "Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Faithful--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Eleven Apostles, \nThe seventy, \n\nMatthias, \nPhilip, \nBarnabas, \nSimeon, &c. \nPaul, \nTychicus, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus, \nArchippus, \nTitus,", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:1", "verse_text": "Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul." }, { "point_text": "Faithful--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Eleven Apostles, \nThe seventy, \n\nMatthias, \nPhilip, \nBarnabas, \nSimeon, &c. \nPaul, \nTychicus, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus, \nArchippus, \nTitus,", "verse_ref": "Acts 28:31", "verse_text": "Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him." }, { "point_text": "Faithful--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Eleven Apostles, \nThe seventy, \n\nMatthias, \nPhilip, \nBarnabas, \nSimeon, &c. \nPaul, \nTychicus, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus, \nArchippus, \nTitus,", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:21", "verse_text": "But that ye also may know my affairs, and how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things:" }, { "point_text": "Faithful--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Eleven Apostles, \nThe seventy, \n\nMatthias, \nPhilip, \nBarnabas, \nSimeon, &c. \nPaul, \nTychicus, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus, \nArchippus, \nTitus,", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:22", "verse_text": "But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel." }, { "point_text": "Faithful--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Eleven Apostles, \nThe seventy, \n\nMatthias, \nPhilip, \nBarnabas, \nSimeon, &c. \nPaul, \nTychicus, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus, \nArchippus, \nTitus,", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:25", "verse_text": "Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants." }, { "point_text": "Faithful--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Eleven Apostles, \nThe seventy, \n\nMatthias, \nPhilip, \nBarnabas, \nSimeon, &c. \nPaul, \nTychicus, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus, \nArchippus, \nTitus,", "verse_ref": "Colossians 4:17", "verse_text": "And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it." }, { "point_text": "Faithful--Exemplified.\r\n\nThe Eleven Apostles, \nThe seventy, \n\nMatthias, \nPhilip, \nBarnabas, \nSimeon, &c. \nPaul, \nTychicus, \nTimothy, \nEpaphroditus, \nArchippus, \nTitus,", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:5", "verse_text": "For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:" } ] }, { "name": "Murder", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Murder.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Forbidden by Mosaic law", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:13", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not kill." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden by Mosaic law", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:17", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not kill." }, { "point_text": "Why forbidden by God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:6", "verse_text": "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man." }, { "point_text": "The law made to restrain", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:9", "verse_text": "Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers," }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS KILLING", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "With premeditation", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:14", "verse_text": "But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die." }, { "point_text": "From hatred", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:20-21", "verse_text": "But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that he die; 21 Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him." }, { "point_text": "By lying in wait", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:20", "verse_text": "But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that he die;" }, { "point_text": "By lying in wait", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 19:11", "verse_text": "But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:" }, { "point_text": "By an instrument of iron", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:16", "verse_text": "And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death." }, { "point_text": "By the blow of a stone", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:17", "verse_text": "And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death." }, { "point_text": "By a hand weapon of wood", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:18", "verse_text": "Or if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death." }, { "point_text": "Killing a thief in the day, counted as", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:3", "verse_text": "If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft." }, { "point_text": "Early introduction of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:8", "verse_text": "And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him." }, { "point_text": "Represented as a sin crying unto heaven", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:10", "verse_text": "And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground." }, { "point_text": "Represented as a sin crying unto heaven", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:24", "verse_text": "And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel." }, { "point_text": "Represented as a sin crying unto heaven", "verse_ref": "Revelation 6:10", "verse_text": "And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?" }, { "point_text": "The Jews often guilty of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:21", "verse_text": "How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers." }, { "point_text": "PERSONS GUILTY OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Fearful and cowardly", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:14", "verse_text": "Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me." }, { "point_text": "Wanderers and vagabonds", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:14", "verse_text": "Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me." }, { "point_text": "Flee from God's presence", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:16", "verse_text": "And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden." }, { "point_text": "Not protected in refuge cities", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 19:11-12", "verse_text": "But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities: 12 Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die." }, { "point_text": "Had no protection from altars", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:14", "verse_text": "But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die." }, { "point_text": "Not to be pitied or spared", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 19:13", "verse_text": "Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee." }, { "point_text": "Often committed by night", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 6:10", "verse_text": "Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee." }, { "point_text": "Often committed by night", "verse_ref": "Job 24:14", "verse_text": "The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief." }, { "point_text": "Imputed to the nearest city when the murderer was unknown", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 21:1-3", "verse_text": "If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him: 2 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain: 3 And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke;" }, { "point_text": "Mode of clearing those suspected of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 21:3-9", "verse_text": "And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke; 4 And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley: 5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried: 6 And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley: ..." }, { "point_text": "Mode of clearing those suspected of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:24", "verse_text": "When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it." }, { "point_text": "To be proved by two witnesses at least", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:30", "verse_text": "Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die." }, { "point_text": "To be proved by two witnesses at least", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 19:11", "verse_text": "But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:" }, { "point_text": "To be proved by two witnesses at least", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 19:15", "verse_text": "One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established." }, { "point_text": "PUNISHMENT FOR,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The curse of God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:11", "verse_text": "And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;" }, { "point_text": "Death", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:5-6", "verse_text": "And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. 6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man." }, { "point_text": "Not to be commuted", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:32", "verse_text": "And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest." }, { "point_text": "Inflicted by the nearest of kin", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:19", "verse_text": "The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him." }, { "point_text": "Inflicted by the nearest of kin", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:21", "verse_text": "Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:6", "verse_text": "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:13", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not kill." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:17", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not kill." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:9", "verse_text": "For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." }, { "point_text": "Explained by Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:21-22", "verse_text": "Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: 22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire." }, { "point_text": "Hatred is", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:15", "verse_text": "Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him." }, { "point_text": "Is a work for the flesh", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:21", "verse_text": "Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Comes from the heart", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:19", "verse_text": "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:" }, { "point_text": "DEFILES THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Hands", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:3", "verse_text": "For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness." }, { "point_text": "Person and garments", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 4:13-14", "verse_text": "For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, 14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments." }, { "point_text": "Land", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:33", "verse_text": "So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it." }, { "point_text": "Land", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:38", "verse_text": "And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood." }, { "point_text": "Not concealed from God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:21", "verse_text": "For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain." }, { "point_text": "Not concealed from God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:34", "verse_text": "Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these." }, { "point_text": "Cries for vengeance", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:10", "verse_text": "And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground." }, { "point_text": "GOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Abominates", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:16-17", "verse_text": "These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood," }, { "point_text": "Makes inquisition for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 9:12", "verse_text": "When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble." }, { "point_text": "Will avenge", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:43", "verse_text": "Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people." }, { "point_text": "Will avenge", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:19", "verse_text": "And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine." }, { "point_text": "Will avenge", "verse_ref": "Hosea 1:4", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Requires blood for", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:5", "verse_text": "And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man." }, { "point_text": "Requires blood for", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:33", "verse_text": "So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it." }, { "point_text": "Requires blood for", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:32", "verse_text": "And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah." }, { "point_text": "Rejects the prayers of those guilty of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:15", "verse_text": "And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood." }, { "point_text": "Rejects the prayers of those guilty of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:2-3", "verse_text": "But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness." }, { "point_text": "Curses those guilty of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:11", "verse_text": "And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;" }, { "point_text": "The law made to restrain", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:9", "verse_text": "Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers," }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Specially warned against", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:15", "verse_text": "But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters." }, { "point_text": "Deprecate the guilt of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:14", "verse_text": "Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Should warn others against", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:22", "verse_text": "And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again." }, { "point_text": "Should warn others against", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 26:15", "verse_text": "But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears." }, { "point_text": "Connected with idolatry", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:3-4", "verse_text": "Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself. 4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries." }, { "point_text": "Connected with idolatry", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 3:27", "verse_text": "Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Filled with", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:29", "verse_text": "Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers," }, { "point_text": "Devise", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:41", "verse_text": "And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob." }, { "point_text": "Devise", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:18", "verse_text": "And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him." }, { "point_text": "Intent on", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 22:17", "verse_text": "But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it." }, { "point_text": "Lie in wait to commit", "verse_ref": "Psalm 10:8-10", "verse_text": "He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. 9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net. 10 He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones." }, { "point_text": "Swift to commit", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:16", "verse_text": "For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood." }, { "point_text": "Swift to commit", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:15", "verse_text": "Their feet are swift to shed blood:" }, { "point_text": "Perpetrate", "verse_ref": "Job 24:14", "verse_text": "The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief." }, { "point_text": "Perpetrate", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:3", "verse_text": "Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself." }, { "point_text": "Have hands full of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:15", "verse_text": "And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood." }, { "point_text": "Encourage others to commit", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:8-10", "verse_text": "So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth. 9 And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people: 10 And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die." }, { "point_text": "Encourage others to commit", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:11", "verse_text": "If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:" }, { "point_text": "Characteristic of the devil", "verse_ref": "John 8:44", "verse_text": "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:12-15", "verse_text": "When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. 13 And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear. 14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me. 15 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:6", "verse_text": "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:30", "verse_text": "Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 9:36-37", "verse_text": "Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel: 37 And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of, not commuted under the Law", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:31", "verse_text": "Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death." }, { "point_text": "Of saints, specially avenged", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:43", "verse_text": "Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people." }, { "point_text": "Of saints, specially avenged", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:35", "verse_text": "That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar." }, { "point_text": "Of saints, specially avenged", "verse_ref": "Revelation 18:20", "verse_text": "Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her." }, { "point_text": "Of saints, specially avenged", "verse_ref": "Revelation 18:24", "verse_text": "And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Excludes from heaven", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:21", "verse_text": "Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Excludes from heaven", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:15", "verse_text": "For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:8", "verse_text": "And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:41", "verse_text": "And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:20", "verse_text": "Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 1:22", "verse_text": "And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:5", "verse_text": "And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:24", "verse_text": "That the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 1:16", "verse_text": "And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD'S anointed." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 4:5-7", "verse_text": "And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, who lay on a bed at noon. 6 And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth rib: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped. 7 For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:9", "verse_text": "Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 13:29", "verse_text": "And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every man gat him up upon his mule, and fled." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:31-32", "verse_text": "And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father. 32 And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:27", "verse_text": "And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:10", "verse_text": "And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:10", "verse_text": "And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:13", "verse_text": "And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:19", "verse_text": "And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 8:12", "verse_text": "And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 8:15", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:37", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 21:16", "verse_text": "Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 41:7", "verse_text": "And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that were with him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 11:6", "verse_text": "Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Hosea 6:8", "verse_text": "Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:16", "verse_text": "Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:10", "verse_text": "And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:2", "verse_text": "And he killed James the brother of John with the sword." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:8-11", "verse_text": "And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger. 9 And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath's sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her. 10 And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison. 11 And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:1", "verse_text": "When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:4", "verse_text": "Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Mark 15:7", "verse_text": "And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:52", "verse_text": "Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nEsau, \nJoseph's brethren, \nPharaoh, \nAbimelech, \nMen of Shechem, \nAmalekite, \nRechab, &c. \nDavid, \nAbsalom, \nJoab, \nBaasha, \nZimri, \nJezebel, \nElders of Jezreel, \nAhab, \nHazael, \n\nAdrammelech, &c. \nManasseh, \nIshmael, \nPrinces of Israel, \nPeople of Gilead, \nThe Herods, \n\n\nHerodias and her daughter, \nChief priests, \nJudas, \nBarabbas, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:15", "verse_text": "Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:" } ] }, { "name": "Murmuring", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Murmuring.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:10", "verse_text": "Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:14", "verse_text": "Do all things without murmurings and disputings:" }, { "point_text": "AGAINST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:3", "verse_text": "The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The sovereignty of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:19-20", "verse_text": "Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? 20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?" }, { "point_text": "The service of God", "verse_ref": "Malachi 3:14", "verse_text": "Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?" }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:30", "verse_text": "But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?" }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:2", "verse_text": "And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them." }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:7", "verse_text": "And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner." }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "John 6:41-43", "verse_text": "The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. 42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven? 43 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves." }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "John 6:52", "verse_text": "The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" }, { "point_text": "Ministers of God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:3", "verse_text": "And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?" }, { "point_text": "Ministers of God", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:41", "verse_text": "But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Disciples of Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:2", "verse_text": "For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." }, { "point_text": "Disciples of Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:30", "verse_text": "But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?" }, { "point_text": "Disciples of Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:2", "verse_text": "And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?" }, { "point_text": "Unreasonableness of", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:39", "verse_text": "Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?" }, { "point_text": "Tempts God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:2", "verse_text": "Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?" }, { "point_text": "Provokes God", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:2", "verse_text": "And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!" }, { "point_text": "Provokes God", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:11", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?" }, { "point_text": "Saints cease from", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 29:23-24", "verse_text": "But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel. 24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine." }, { "point_text": "Characteristic of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Jude 16", "verse_text": "These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage." }, { "point_text": "Guilt of encouraging others in", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:31-33", "verse_text": "But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. 32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature. 33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight." }, { "point_text": "Guilt of encouraging others in", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:36-37", "verse_text": "And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land, 37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:1", "verse_text": "And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:27-29", "verse_text": "How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me. 28 Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: 29 Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me," }, { "point_text": "Punishment of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:45-46", "verse_text": "Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces. 46 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:11", "verse_text": "And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house," }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:29-30", "verse_text": "And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: 30 But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nMoses, \nIsraelites, \n\n\n\nAaron, &c. \n\nKorah, &c. \nElijah, \nJob, \nJeremiah, \nJonah, \nDisciples, \nPharisees, \n\nJews, \nGrecians,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:13-14", "verse_text": "And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear. 14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nMoses, \nIsraelites, \n\n\n\nAaron, &c. \n\nKorah, &c. \nElijah, \nJob, \nJeremiah, \nJonah, \nDisciples, \nPharisees, \n\nJews, \nGrecians,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 5:22-23", "verse_text": "And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent me? 23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nMoses, \nIsraelites, \n\n\n\nAaron, &c. \n\nKorah, &c. \nElijah, \nJob, \nJeremiah, \nJonah, \nDisciples, \nPharisees, \n\nJews, \nGrecians,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:11", "verse_text": "And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nMoses, \nIsraelites, \n\n\n\nAaron, &c. \n\nKorah, &c. \nElijah, \nJob, \nJeremiah, \nJonah, \nDisciples, \nPharisees, \n\nJews, \nGrecians,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:24", "verse_text": "And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nMoses, \nIsraelites, \n\n\n\nAaron, &c. \n\nKorah, &c. \nElijah, \nJob, \nJeremiah, \nJonah, \nDisciples, \nPharisees, \n\nJews, \nGrecians,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:2", "verse_text": "And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nMoses, \nIsraelites, \n\n\n\nAaron, &c. \n\nKorah, &c. \nElijah, \nJob, \nJeremiah, \nJonah, \nDisciples, \nPharisees, \n\nJews, \nGrecians,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:2-3", "verse_text": "Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD? 3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nMoses, \nIsraelites, \n\n\n\nAaron, &c. \n\nKorah, &c. \nElijah, \nJob, \nJeremiah, \nJonah, \nDisciples, \nPharisees, \n\nJews, \nGrecians,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 12:1-2", "verse_text": "And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman. 2 And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nMoses, \nIsraelites, \n\n\n\nAaron, &c. \n\nKorah, &c. \nElijah, \nJob, \nJeremiah, \nJonah, \nDisciples, \nPharisees, \n\nJews, \nGrecians,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 12:8", "verse_text": "With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nMoses, \nIsraelites, \n\n\n\nAaron, &c. \n\nKorah, &c. \nElijah, \nJob, \nJeremiah, \nJonah, \nDisciples, \nPharisees, \n\nJews, \nGrecians,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:3", "verse_text": "And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nMoses, \nIsraelites, \n\n\n\nAaron, &c. \n\nKorah, &c. \nElijah, \nJob, \nJeremiah, \nJonah, \nDisciples, \nPharisees, \n\nJews, \nGrecians,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:4", "verse_text": "But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nMoses, \nIsraelites, \n\n\n\nAaron, &c. \n\nKorah, &c. \nElijah, \nJob, \nJeremiah, \nJonah, \nDisciples, \nPharisees, \n\nJews, \nGrecians,", "verse_ref": "Job 3", "verse_text": "After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. 2 And Job spake, and said, 3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. 4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nMoses, \nIsraelites, \n\n\n\nAaron, &c. \n\nKorah, &c. \nElijah, \nJob, \nJeremiah, \nJonah, \nDisciples, \nPharisees, \n\nJews, \nGrecians,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 20:14-18", "verse_text": "Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. 15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad. 16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide; 17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nMoses, \nIsraelites, \n\n\n\nAaron, &c. \n\nKorah, &c. \nElijah, \nJob, \nJeremiah, \nJonah, \nDisciples, \nPharisees, \n\nJews, \nGrecians,", "verse_ref": "Jonah 4:8-9", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live. 9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nMoses, \nIsraelites, \n\n\n\nAaron, &c. \n\nKorah, &c. \nElijah, \nJob, \nJeremiah, \nJonah, \nDisciples, \nPharisees, \n\nJews, \nGrecians,", "verse_ref": "Mark 14:4-5", "verse_text": "And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made? 5 For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nMoses, \nIsraelites, \n\n\n\nAaron, &c. \n\nKorah, &c. \nElijah, \nJob, \nJeremiah, \nJonah, \nDisciples, \nPharisees, \n\nJews, \nGrecians,", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:2", "verse_text": "And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nMoses, \nIsraelites, \n\n\n\nAaron, &c. \n\nKorah, &c. \nElijah, \nJob, \nJeremiah, \nJonah, \nDisciples, \nPharisees, \n\nJews, \nGrecians,", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:7", "verse_text": "And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nMoses, \nIsraelites, \n\n\n\nAaron, &c. \n\nKorah, &c. \nElijah, \nJob, \nJeremiah, \nJonah, \nDisciples, \nPharisees, \n\nJews, \nGrecians,", "verse_ref": "John 6:41-43", "verse_text": "The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. 42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven? 43 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nMoses, \nIsraelites, \n\n\n\nAaron, &c. \n\nKorah, &c. \nElijah, \nJob, \nJeremiah, \nJonah, \nDisciples, \nPharisees, \n\nJews, \nGrecians,", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:1", "verse_text": "And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration." } ] }, { "name": "Music", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Music.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Early invention of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:21", "verse_text": "And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ." }, { "point_text": "DIVIDED INTO,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Vocal", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 19:35", "verse_text": "I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?" }, { "point_text": "Vocal", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:25", "verse_text": "And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them." }, { "point_text": "Instrumental", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:18", "verse_text": "Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him." }, { "point_text": "Designed to promote joy", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:8", "verse_text": "I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts." }, { "point_text": "Designed to promote joy", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:10", "verse_text": "And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour." }, { "point_text": "Vanity of all unsanctified", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:8", "verse_text": "I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts." }, { "point_text": "Vanity of all unsanctified", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:11", "verse_text": "Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." }, { "point_text": "Considered efficacious in mental disorders", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 16:14-17", "verse_text": "But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him. 15 And Saul's servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee. 16 Let our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well. 17 And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me." }, { "point_text": "Considered efficacious in mental disorders", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 16:23", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him." }, { "point_text": "Effects produced on the prophets of old by", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 10:5-6", "verse_text": "After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy: 6 And the Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man." }, { "point_text": "Effects produced on the prophets of old by", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 3:15", "verse_text": "But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him." }, { "point_text": "INSTRUMENTS OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Cymbals", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:5", "verse_text": "Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obededom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals;" }, { "point_text": "Cymbals", "verse_ref": "Psalm 150:5", "verse_text": "Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals." }, { "point_text": "Cornet", "verse_ref": "Psalm 98:6", "verse_text": "With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King." }, { "point_text": "Cornet", "verse_ref": "Hosea 5:8", "verse_text": "Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin." }, { "point_text": "Dulcimer", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:5", "verse_text": "That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:" }, { "point_text": "Flute", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:5", "verse_text": "That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:" }, { "point_text": "Harp", "verse_ref": "Psalm 137:2", "verse_text": "We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof." }, { "point_text": "Harp", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:13", "verse_text": "And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard." }, { "point_text": "Organ", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:21", "verse_text": "And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ." }, { "point_text": "Organ", "verse_ref": "Job 21:12", "verse_text": "They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ." }, { "point_text": "Organ", "verse_ref": "Psalm 150:4", "verse_text": "Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs." }, { "point_text": "Pipe", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:40", "verse_text": "And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them." }, { "point_text": "Pipe", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:12", "verse_text": "And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands." }, { "point_text": "Pipe", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:36", "verse_text": "Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the riches that he hath gotten are perished." }, { "point_text": "Psaltery", "verse_ref": "Psalm 33:2", "verse_text": "Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings." }, { "point_text": "Psaltery", "verse_ref": "Psalm 71:22", "verse_text": "I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Sackbut", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:5", "verse_text": "That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:" }, { "point_text": "Tabret", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 10:5", "verse_text": "After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy:" }, { "point_text": "Tabret", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 24:8", "verse_text": "The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth." }, { "point_text": "Timbrel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:20", "verse_text": "And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances." }, { "point_text": "Timbrel", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:25", "verse_text": "The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels." }, { "point_text": "Trumpet", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 11:14", "verse_text": "And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason." }, { "point_text": "Trumpet", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 29:27", "verse_text": "And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began also with the trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Viol", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:11", "verse_text": "Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee." }, { "point_text": "Viol", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:23", "verse_text": "Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols." }, { "point_text": "Made of fir wood", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 6:5", "verse_text": "And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals." }, { "point_text": "Made of almug wood", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:12", "verse_text": "And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Made of brass", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 13:1", "verse_text": "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal." }, { "point_text": "Made of silver", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:2", "verse_text": "Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps." }, { "point_text": "Made of horns of animals", "verse_ref": "Joshua 6:8", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns passed on before the LORD, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them." }, { "point_text": "Many, with strings", "verse_ref": "Psalm 33:2", "verse_text": "Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings." }, { "point_text": "Many, with strings", "verse_ref": "Psalm 150:4", "verse_text": "Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs." }, { "point_text": "Early invention of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:21", "verse_text": "And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ." }, { "point_text": "Invented by David", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:5", "verse_text": "Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith." }, { "point_text": "Invented by David", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:6", "verse_text": "And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood." }, { "point_text": "The Jews celebrated for inventing", "verse_ref": "Amos 6:5", "verse_text": "That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;" }, { "point_text": "Often expensively ornamented", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:13", "verse_text": "Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created." }, { "point_text": "Great diversity of", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:8", "verse_text": "I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts." }, { "point_text": "Appointed to be used in the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:4-6", "verse_text": "And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, and to record, and to thank and praise the LORD God of Israel: 5 Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obededom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals; 6 Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God." }, { "point_text": "Appointed to be used in the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:5", "verse_text": "Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith." }, { "point_text": "Appointed to be used in the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 25:1", "verse_text": "Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:" }, { "point_text": "Appointed to be used in the temple", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 29:25", "verse_text": "And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets." }, { "point_text": "Custom of sending away friends with", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:27", "verse_text": "Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?" }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS USED,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In sacred processions", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 6:4-5", "verse_text": "And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab which was at Gibeah, accompanying the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark. 5 And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals." }, { "point_text": "In sacred processions", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 6:15", "verse_text": "So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet." }, { "point_text": "In sacred processions", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 13:6-8", "verse_text": "And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kirjathjearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God the LORD, that dwelleth between the cherubims, whose name is called on it. 7 And they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drave the cart. 8 And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets." }, { "point_text": "In sacred processions", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 15:27-28", "verse_text": "And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also had upon him an ephod of linen. 28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps." }, { "point_text": "At laying foundation of temple", "verse_ref": "Ezra 3:9-10", "verse_text": "Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites. 10 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel." }, { "point_text": "At consecration of temple", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 5:11-13", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course: 12 Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:) 13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;" }, { "point_text": "At coronation of kings", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 23:11", "verse_text": "Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the crown, and gave him the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king." }, { "point_text": "At coronation of kings", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 23:13", "verse_text": "And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason." }, { "point_text": "At dedication of city walls", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 12:27-28", "verse_text": "And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps. 28 And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi;" }, { "point_text": "To celebrate victories", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:20", "verse_text": "And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances." }, { "point_text": "To celebrate victories", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 18:6-7", "verse_text": "And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick. 7 And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands." }, { "point_text": "In religious feasts", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 30:21", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "In private entertainments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:12", "verse_text": "And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands." }, { "point_text": "In private entertainments", "verse_ref": "Amos 6:5", "verse_text": "That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;" }, { "point_text": "In dances", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:17", "verse_text": "And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented." }, { "point_text": "In dances", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:25", "verse_text": "Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing." }, { "point_text": "In funeral ceremonies", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:23", "verse_text": "And when Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise," }, { "point_text": "In commemorating great men", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 35:25", "verse_text": "And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations." }, { "point_text": "Used in idol worship", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:5", "verse_text": "That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:" }, { "point_text": "The movements of armies regulated by", "verse_ref": "Joshua 6:8", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns passed on before the LORD, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them." }, { "point_text": "The movements of armies regulated by", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:8", "verse_text": "For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?" }, { "point_text": "Generally put aside in times of affliction", "verse_ref": "Psalm 137:2-4", "verse_text": "We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. 3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. 4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?" }, { "point_text": "Generally put aside in times of affliction", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:18", "verse_text": "Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of joy and gladness", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 3:17", "verse_text": "The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing." }, { "point_text": "Of joy and gladness", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:19", "verse_text": "Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;" }, { "point_text": "Of heavenly felicity", "verse_ref": "Revelation 5:8-9", "verse_text": "And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. 9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;" }, { "point_text": "(Ceasing of,) of calamities", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 24:8-9", "verse_text": "The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. 9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it." } ] }, { "name": "Moon, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Moon-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Created by God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:14", "verse_text": "And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:" }, { "point_text": "Created by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 8:3", "verse_text": "When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;" }, { "point_text": "Made to glorify God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:3", "verse_text": "Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light." }, { "point_text": "Called the lesser light", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:16", "verse_text": "And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Fair", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 6:10", "verse_text": "Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?" }, { "point_text": "Bright", "verse_ref": "Job 31:26", "verse_text": "If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;" }, { "point_text": "Has a glory of its own", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:41", "verse_text": "There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory." }, { "point_text": "APPOINTED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To divide day from night", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:14", "verse_text": "And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:" }, { "point_text": "For signs and seasons", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:14", "verse_text": "And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:" }, { "point_text": "For signs and seasons", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:19", "verse_text": "He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down." }, { "point_text": "For a light in the firmament", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:15", "verse_text": "And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so." }, { "point_text": "To light the earth by night", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:35", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:" }, { "point_text": "To rule the night", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:16", "verse_text": "And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also." }, { "point_text": "To rule the night", "verse_ref": "Psalm 136:9", "verse_text": "The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for ever." }, { "point_text": "By an ordinance for ever", "verse_ref": "Psalm 72:5", "verse_text": "They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations." }, { "point_text": "By an ordinance for ever", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:37", "verse_text": "It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah." }, { "point_text": "By an ordinance for ever", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:36", "verse_text": "If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever." }, { "point_text": "For the benefit of all", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:19", "verse_text": "And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven." }, { "point_text": "Influences vegetation", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:14", "verse_text": "And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon," }, { "point_text": "First appearance of, a time of festivity", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 20:5-6", "verse_text": "And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third day at even. 6 If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city: for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family." }, { "point_text": "MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Standing still in Ajalon", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:12-13", "verse_text": "Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. 13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day." }, { "point_text": "Signs in, before the destruction of Jerusalem", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:25", "verse_text": "And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;" }, { "point_text": "Lunacy attributed to the influence of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 121:6", "verse_text": "The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night." }, { "point_text": "Lunacy attributed to the influence of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:24", "verse_text": "And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them." }, { "point_text": "Worshipped as the queen of heaven", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:18", "verse_text": "The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger." }, { "point_text": "Worshipped as the queen of heaven", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 44:17-19", "verse_text": "But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil. 18 But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine. 19 And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?" }, { "point_text": "Worshipped as the queen of heaven", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 44:25", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows." }, { "point_text": "WORSHIPPING OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to the Jews", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:19", "verse_text": "And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven." }, { "point_text": "Condemned as atheism", "verse_ref": "Job 31:26", "verse_text": "If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;" }, { "point_text": "Condemned as atheism", "verse_ref": "Job 31:28", "verse_text": "This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above." }, { "point_text": "To be punished with death", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:3-6", "verse_text": "And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; 4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and inquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel: 5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die. 6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death." }, { "point_text": "Jews often guilty of", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:5", "verse_text": "And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven." }, { "point_text": "Jews often guilty of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:2", "verse_text": "And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Jews punished for", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:1-3", "verse_text": "At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves: 2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth. 3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of glory of Christ in the Church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:20", "verse_text": "Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended." }, { "point_text": "Of fairness of the Church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 6:10", "verse_text": "Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?" }, { "point_text": "Of changeableness of the world", "verse_ref": "Revelation 12:1", "verse_text": "And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:" }, { "point_text": "(Becoming blood,) of judgments", "verse_ref": "Revelation 6:12", "verse_text": "And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;" }, { "point_text": "(Withdrawing her light,) of deep calamities", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:10", "verse_text": "For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine." }, { "point_text": "(Withdrawing her light,) of deep calamities", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:10", "verse_text": "The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:" }, { "point_text": "(Withdrawing her light,) of deep calamities", "verse_ref": "Joel 3:15", "verse_text": "The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining." }, { "point_text": "(Withdrawing her light,) of deep calamities", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:29", "verse_text": "Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:" } ] }, { "name": "Mule, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Mule-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "First mention of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 36:24", "verse_text": "And these are the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah: this was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father." }, { "point_text": "Stupid and intractable", "verse_ref": "Psalm 32:9", "verse_text": "Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee." }, { "point_text": "USED FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Riding, by persons of distinction", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 13:29", "verse_text": "And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every man gat him up upon his mule, and fled." }, { "point_text": "Riding, by persons of distinction", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 18:9", "verse_text": "And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away." }, { "point_text": "Riding, by persons of distinction", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:33", "verse_text": "The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:" }, { "point_text": "Carrying burdens", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:17", "verse_text": "And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Carrying burdens", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:40", "verse_text": "Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel." }, { "point_text": "Conveying posts and messengers", "verse_ref": "Esther 8:10", "verse_text": "And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries:" }, { "point_text": "Conveying posts and messengers", "verse_ref": "Esther 8:14", "verse_text": "So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace." }, { "point_text": "Liable to the plague", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 14:15", "verse_text": "And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague." }, { "point_text": "Food of", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:28", "verse_text": "Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge." }, { "point_text": "Food of", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:5", "verse_text": "And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts." }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to breed", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:19", "verse_text": "Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee." }, { "point_text": "Set a great value upon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:5", "verse_text": "And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts." }, { "point_text": "Brought many, from Babylon", "verse_ref": "Ezra 2:66", "verse_text": "Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;" }, { "point_text": "Shall used, at the restoration", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:20", "verse_text": "And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Of Togarmah, sold in fairs of Tyre", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:14", "verse_text": "They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules." }, { "point_text": "Often given as tribute", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:25", "verse_text": "And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year." } ] }, { "name": "Moth, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Moth-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Destructive to garments", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:19", "verse_text": "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:" }, { "point_text": "Destructive to garments", "verse_ref": "James 5:2", "verse_text": "Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten." }, { "point_text": "Destroyed by the slightest touch", "verse_ref": "Job 4:19", "verse_text": "How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?" }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of God in the execution of His judgments", "verse_ref": "Hosea 5:12", "verse_text": "Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness." }, { "point_text": "(Eating a garment,) of God's judgments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 50:9", "verse_text": "Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up." }, { "point_text": "(Eating a garment,) of God's judgments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 51:8", "verse_text": "For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation." }, { "point_text": "(Garments eaten by,) of those who have suffered severe judgments", "verse_ref": "Job 13:28", "verse_text": "And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten." }, { "point_text": "(Making its house in garments,) of man's folly in providing earthly things", "verse_ref": "Job 27:18", "verse_text": "He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh." } ] }, { "name": "Months", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Months.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Sun and moon designed to mark out", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:14", "verse_text": "And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:" }, { "point_text": "The patriarchs computed time by", "verse_ref": "Genesis 29:14", "verse_text": "And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month." }, { "point_text": "The Jews computed time by", "verse_ref": "Judges 11:37", "verse_text": "And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows." }, { "point_text": "The Jews computed time by", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 6:1", "verse_text": "And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months." }, { "point_text": "The Jews computed time by", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:7", "verse_text": "And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision." }, { "point_text": "Commenced with first appearance of new moon", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:10", "verse_text": "Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "Commenced with first appearance of new moon", "verse_ref": "Psalm 81:3", "verse_text": "Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day." }, { "point_text": "Originally had no names", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:11", "verse_text": "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." }, { "point_text": "Originally had no names", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:4", "verse_text": "And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat." }, { "point_text": "The year composed of twelve", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:2-15", "verse_text": "Over the first course for the first month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel: and in his course were twenty and four thousand. 3 Of the children of Perez was the chief of all the captains of the host for the first month. 4 And over the course of the second month was Dodai an Ahohite, and of his course was Mikloth also the ruler: in his course likewise were twenty and four thousand. 5 The third captain of the host for the third month was Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, a chief priest: and in his course were twenty and four thousand. ..." }, { "point_text": "The year composed of twelve", "verse_ref": "Esther 2:12", "verse_text": "Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)" }, { "point_text": "The year composed of twelve", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:2", "verse_text": "In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations." }, { "point_text": "NAMES OF THE TWELVE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "First, Nisan or Abib", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:4", "verse_text": "This day came ye out in the month Abib." }, { "point_text": "First, Nisan or Abib", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 2:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence." }, { "point_text": "Second, Zif", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Second, Zif", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:37", "verse_text": "In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:" }, { "point_text": "Third, Sivan", "verse_ref": "Esther 8:9", "verse_text": "Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language." }, { "point_text": "Fourth, Thammuz", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 8:19", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace." }, { "point_text": "Fifth, Ab", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 7:3", "verse_text": "And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?" }, { "point_text": "Sixth, Elul", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 6:15", "verse_text": "So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days." }, { "point_text": "Seventh, Ethanim", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:2", "verse_text": "And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month." }, { "point_text": "Eighth, Bul", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:38", "verse_text": "And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it." }, { "point_text": "Ninth, Chisleu", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 7:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu;" }, { "point_text": "Tenth, Tebeth", "verse_ref": "Esther 2:16", "verse_text": "So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign." }, { "point_text": "Eleventh, Sebat", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 1:7", "verse_text": "Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying," }, { "point_text": "Twelfth, Adar", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:15", "verse_text": "And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king." }, { "point_text": "Twelfth, Adar", "verse_ref": "Esther 3:7", "verse_text": "In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar." }, { "point_text": "Idolaters prognosticated by", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 47:13", "verse_text": "Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee." }, { "point_text": "Observance of, condemned", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:10", "verse_text": "Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years." }, { "point_text": "Sun and moon designed to mark out", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:14", "verse_text": "And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:" }, { "point_text": "The patriarchs computed time by", "verse_ref": "Genesis 29:14", "verse_text": "And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month." }, { "point_text": "The Jews computed time by", "verse_ref": "Judges 11:37", "verse_text": "And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows." }, { "point_text": "The Jews computed time by", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 6:1", "verse_text": "And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months." }, { "point_text": "The Jews computed time by", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:7", "verse_text": "And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision." }, { "point_text": "Commenced with first appearance of new moon", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:10", "verse_text": "Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "Commenced with first appearance of new moon", "verse_ref": "Psalm 81:3", "verse_text": "Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day." }, { "point_text": "Originally had no names", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:11", "verse_text": "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." }, { "point_text": "Originally had no names", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:4", "verse_text": "And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat." }, { "point_text": "The year composed of twelve", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:2-15", "verse_text": "Over the first course for the first month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel: and in his course were twenty and four thousand. 3 Of the children of Perez was the chief of all the captains of the host for the first month. 4 And over the course of the second month was Dodai an Ahohite, and of his course was Mikloth also the ruler: in his course likewise were twenty and four thousand. 5 The third captain of the host for the third month was Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, a chief priest: and in his course were twenty and four thousand. ..." }, { "point_text": "The year composed of twelve", "verse_ref": "Esther 2:12", "verse_text": "Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)" }, { "point_text": "The year composed of twelve", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:2", "verse_text": "In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations." }, { "point_text": "NAMES OF THE TWELVE;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "First, Nisan or Abib", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:4", "verse_text": "This day came ye out in the month Abib." }, { "point_text": "First, Nisan or Abib", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 2:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence." }, { "point_text": "Second, Zif", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Second, Zif", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:37", "verse_text": "In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:" }, { "point_text": "Third, Sivan", "verse_ref": "Esther 8:9", "verse_text": "Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language." }, { "point_text": "Fourth, Thammuz", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 8:19", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace." }, { "point_text": "Fifth, Ab", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 7:3", "verse_text": "And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?" }, { "point_text": "Sixth, Elul", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 6:15", "verse_text": "So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days." }, { "point_text": "Seventh, Ethanim", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:2", "verse_text": "And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month." }, { "point_text": "Eighth, Bul", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:38", "verse_text": "And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it." }, { "point_text": "Ninth, Chisleu", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 7:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu;" }, { "point_text": "Tenth, Tebeth", "verse_ref": "Esther 2:16", "verse_text": "So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign." }, { "point_text": "Eleventh, Sebat", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 1:7", "verse_text": "Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying," }, { "point_text": "Twelfth, Adar", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:15", "verse_text": "And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king." }, { "point_text": "Twelfth, Adar", "verse_ref": "Esther 3:7", "verse_text": "In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar." }, { "point_text": "Idolaters prognosticated by", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 47:13", "verse_text": "Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee." }, { "point_text": "Observance of, condemned", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:10", "verse_text": "Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years." } ] }, { "name": "Mountains", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Mountains.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The elevated parts of the earth", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:19-20", "verse_text": "And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. 20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered." }, { "point_text": "GOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Formed", "verse_ref": "Amos 4:13", "verse_text": "For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name." }, { "point_text": "Set fast", "verse_ref": "Psalm 65:6", "verse_text": "Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power:" }, { "point_text": "Gives strength to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 95:4", "verse_text": "In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also." }, { "point_text": "Weighs, in a balance", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:12", "verse_text": "Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?" }, { "point_text": "Waters, from His chambers", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:13", "verse_text": "He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works." }, { "point_text": "Parches, with draught", "verse_ref": "Haggai 1:11", "verse_text": "And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands." }, { "point_text": "Causes, to smoke", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:32", "verse_text": "He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke." }, { "point_text": "Causes, to smoke", "verse_ref": "Psalm 144:5", "verse_text": "Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke." }, { "point_text": "Sets the foundations of, on fire", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:22", "verse_text": "For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains." }, { "point_text": "Makes waste", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:15", "verse_text": "I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools." }, { "point_text": "Causes, to tremble", "verse_ref": "Nahum 1:5", "verse_text": "The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein." }, { "point_text": "Causes, to tremble", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 3:10", "verse_text": "The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high." }, { "point_text": "Causes, to skip", "verse_ref": "Psalm 114:4", "verse_text": "The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs." }, { "point_text": "Causes, to skip", "verse_ref": "Psalm 114:6", "verse_text": "Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?" }, { "point_text": "Causes, to melt", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:5", "verse_text": "The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Causes, to melt", "verse_ref": "Psalm 97:5", "verse_text": "The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth." }, { "point_text": "Causes, to melt", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 64:1", "verse_text": "Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence," }, { "point_text": "Causes, to melt", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 64:3", "verse_text": "When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence." }, { "point_text": "Removes", "verse_ref": "Job 9:5", "verse_text": "Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger." }, { "point_text": "Overturns", "verse_ref": "Job 9:5", "verse_text": "Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger." }, { "point_text": "Overturns", "verse_ref": "Job 28:9", "verse_text": "He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots." }, { "point_text": "Scatters", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 3:6", "verse_text": "He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting." }, { "point_text": "Made to glorify God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:9", "verse_text": "Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:" }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "God's mountains", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:11", "verse_text": "And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted." }, { "point_text": "The ancient mountains", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:15", "verse_text": "And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills," }, { "point_text": "The everlasting mountains", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 3:6", "verse_text": "He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting." }, { "point_text": "Perpetual hills", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 3:6", "verse_text": "He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting." }, { "point_text": "Everlasting hills", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:26", "verse_text": "The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren." }, { "point_text": "Pillars of heaven", "verse_ref": "Job 26:11", "verse_text": "The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof." }, { "point_text": "Many exceeding high", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:18", "verse_text": "The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies." }, { "point_text": "Many exceeding high", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:14", "verse_text": "And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up," }, { "point_text": "Collect the vapors which ascend from the earth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:6", "verse_text": "Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains." }, { "point_text": "Collect the vapors which ascend from the earth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:8", "verse_text": "They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them." }, { "point_text": "Are the sources of springs and rivers", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:7", "verse_text": "For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;" }, { "point_text": "Are the sources of springs and rivers", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:8-10", "verse_text": "They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. 9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth. 10 He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills." }, { "point_text": "Canaan abounded in", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:11", "verse_text": "But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:" }, { "point_text": "Volcanic fires of, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 64:1-2", "verse_text": "Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, 2 As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!" }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Ararat", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:4", "verse_text": "And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat." }, { "point_text": "Abarim", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:47-48", "verse_text": "And they removed from Almondiblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo. 48 And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho." }, { "point_text": "Amalek", "verse_ref": "Judges 12:15", "verse_text": "And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites." }, { "point_text": "Bashan", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:15", "verse_text": "The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan." }, { "point_text": "Bethel", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:2", "verse_text": "Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent." }, { "point_text": "Carmel", "verse_ref": "Joshua 15:55", "verse_text": "Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah," }, { "point_text": "Carmel", "verse_ref": "Joshua 19:26", "verse_text": "And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and reacheth to Carmel westward, and to Shihorlibnath;" }, { "point_text": "Carmel", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:23", "verse_text": "By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel." }, { "point_text": "Ebal", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:29", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal." }, { "point_text": "Ebal", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 27:13", "verse_text": "And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali." }, { "point_text": "Ephraim", "verse_ref": "Joshua 17:15", "verse_text": "And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee." }, { "point_text": "Ephraim", "verse_ref": "Judges 2:9", "verse_text": "And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathheres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash." }, { "point_text": "Gerizim", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:29", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal." }, { "point_text": "Gerizim", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:7", "verse_text": "And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you." }, { "point_text": "Gilboa", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 31:1", "verse_text": "Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa." }, { "point_text": "Gilboa", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 1:6", "verse_text": "And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him." }, { "point_text": "Gilboa", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 1:21", "verse_text": "Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil." }, { "point_text": "Gilead", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:21", "verse_text": "So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead." }, { "point_text": "Gilead", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:25", "verse_text": "Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead." }, { "point_text": "Hachilah", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 23:19", "verse_text": "Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?" }, { "point_text": "Hermon", "verse_ref": "Joshua 13:11", "verse_text": "And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;" }, { "point_text": "Hor", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:22", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor." }, { "point_text": "Hor", "verse_ref": "Numbers 34:7-8", "verse_text": "And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall point out for you mount Hor: 8 From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad:" }, { "point_text": "Horeb", "verse_ref": "Exodus 3:1", "verse_text": "Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb." }, { "point_text": "Lebanon", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 3:25", "verse_text": "I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Mizar", "verse_ref": "Psalm 42:6", "verse_text": "O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar." }, { "point_text": "Moreh", "verse_ref": "Judges 7:1", "verse_text": "Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley." }, { "point_text": "Moriah", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:2", "verse_text": "And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of." }, { "point_text": "Moriah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:1", "verse_text": "Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite." }, { "point_text": "Nebo, (part of Abarim)", "verse_ref": "Numbers 32:3", "verse_text": "Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon," }, { "point_text": "Nebo, (part of Abarim)", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 34:1", "verse_text": "And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan," }, { "point_text": "Olives or mount of corruption", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:7", "verse_text": "Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon." }, { "point_text": "Olives or mount of corruption", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:13", "verse_text": "And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile." }, { "point_text": "Olives or mount of corruption", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:37", "verse_text": "And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives." }, { "point_text": "Pisgah, (part of Abarim)", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:20", "verse_text": "And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon." }, { "point_text": "Pisgah, (part of Abarim)", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 34:1", "verse_text": "And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan," }, { "point_text": "Seir", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:6", "verse_text": "And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "Seir", "verse_ref": "Genesis 36:8", "verse_text": "Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom." }, { "point_text": "Sinai", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:2", "verse_text": "For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount." }, { "point_text": "Sinai", "verse_ref": "Exodus 18:20", "verse_text": "And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do." }, { "point_text": "Sinai", "verse_ref": "Exodus 31:18", "verse_text": "And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God." }, { "point_text": "Sion", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 5:7", "verse_text": "Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David." }, { "point_text": "Tabor", "verse_ref": "Judges 4:6", "verse_text": "And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?" }, { "point_text": "Tabor", "verse_ref": "Judges 4:12", "verse_text": "And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor." }, { "point_text": "Tabor", "verse_ref": "Judges 4:14", "verse_text": "And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him." }, { "point_text": "A defence to a country", "verse_ref": "Psalm 125:2", "verse_text": "As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever." }, { "point_text": "Afford refuge in time of danger", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:10", "verse_text": "And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain." }, { "point_text": "Afford refuge in time of danger", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:2", "verse_text": "And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds." }, { "point_text": "Afford refuge in time of danger", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:16", "verse_text": "Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:" }, { "point_text": "Afford refuge in time of danger", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:38", "verse_text": "(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Afforded pasturage", "verse_ref": "Exodus 3:1", "verse_text": "Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb." }, { "point_text": "Afforded pasturage", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:7", "verse_text": "And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel." }, { "point_text": "Afforded pasturage", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:17", "verse_text": "And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace." }, { "point_text": "Afforded pasturage", "verse_ref": "Psalm 147:8", "verse_text": "Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains." }, { "point_text": "Afforded pasturage", "verse_ref": "Amos 4:1", "verse_text": "Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink." }, { "point_text": "ABOUNDED WITH", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Herbs", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:25", "verse_text": "The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered." }, { "point_text": "Minerals", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:9", "verse_text": "A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass." }, { "point_text": "Precious things", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:15", "verse_text": "And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills," }, { "point_text": "Stone for building", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:14", "verse_text": "And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home: and Adoniram was over the levy." }, { "point_text": "Stone for building", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:17", "verse_text": "And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house." }, { "point_text": "Forests", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:23", "verse_text": "By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel." }, { "point_text": "Forests", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:2", "verse_text": "And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them." }, { "point_text": "Forests", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:8-10", "verse_text": "Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants, 9 Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great. 10 And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil." }, { "point_text": "Vineyards", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:10", "verse_text": "Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry." }, { "point_text": "Vineyards", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:5", "verse_text": "Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things." }, { "point_text": "Spices", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:6", "verse_text": "Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense." }, { "point_text": "Spices", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 8:14", "verse_text": "Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices." }, { "point_text": "Deer", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:8", "verse_text": "And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains;" }, { "point_text": "Deer", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:8", "verse_text": "The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills." }, { "point_text": "Game", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 26:20", "verse_text": "Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains." }, { "point_text": "Wild beasts", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:8", "verse_text": "Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards." }, { "point_text": "Wild beasts", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:17", "verse_text": "For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein." }, { "point_text": "Often inhabited", "verse_ref": "Genesis 36:8", "verse_text": "Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom." }, { "point_text": "Often inhabited", "verse_ref": "Joshua 11:21", "verse_text": "And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes selected as places for divine worship", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:2", "verse_text": "And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes selected as places for divine worship", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:5", "verse_text": "And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you." }, { "point_text": "Often selected as places for idolatrous worship", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:2", "verse_text": "Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:" }, { "point_text": "Often selected as places for idolatrous worship", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 21:11", "verse_text": "Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto." }, { "point_text": "Proclamations often made from", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:9", "verse_text": "O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!" }, { "point_text": "Beacons or ensigns often raised upon", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:2", "verse_text": "Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles." }, { "point_text": "Beacons or ensigns often raised upon", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:17", "verse_text": "One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of difficulties", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:4", "verse_text": "Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:" }, { "point_text": "Of difficulties", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 4:7", "verse_text": "Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it." }, { "point_text": "Of difficulties", "verse_ref": "Matthew 17:20", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you." }, { "point_text": "Of persons in authority", "verse_ref": "Psalm 72:3", "verse_text": "The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Of persons in authority", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:23", "verse_text": "Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel." }, { "point_text": "Of the church of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:2", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it." }, { "point_text": "Of the church of God", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:35", "verse_text": "Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth." }, { "point_text": "Of the church of God", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:44-45", "verse_text": "And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. 45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure." }, { "point_text": "Of God's righteousness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 36:6", "verse_text": "Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast." }, { "point_text": "Of proud and haughty persons", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:14", "verse_text": "And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up," }, { "point_text": "(Burning,) of destructive enemies", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:25", "verse_text": "Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain." }, { "point_text": "(Burning,) of destructive enemies", "verse_ref": "Revelation 8:8", "verse_text": "And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;" }, { "point_text": "(Breaking forth into singing,) of exceeding joy", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:23", "verse_text": "Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel." }, { "point_text": "(Breaking forth into singing,) of exceeding joy", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 55:12", "verse_text": "For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands." }, { "point_text": "(Threshing of,) of heavy judgments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:15", "verse_text": "Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff." }, { "point_text": "(Made waste,) of desolation", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:15", "verse_text": "I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools." }, { "point_text": "(Made waste,) of desolation", "verse_ref": "Malachi 1:3", "verse_text": "And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "(Dropping new wine,) of abundance", "verse_ref": "Amos 9:13", "verse_text": "Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt." } ] }, { "name": "Morning", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Morning.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The second part of the day at the creation", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:5", "verse_text": "And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day." }, { "point_text": "The second part of the day at the creation", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:8", "verse_text": "And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day." }, { "point_text": "The second part of the day at the creation", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:13", "verse_text": "And the evening and the morning were the third day." }, { "point_text": "The second part of the day at the creation", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:19", "verse_text": "And the evening and the morning were the fourth day." }, { "point_text": "The second part of the day at the creation", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:23", "verse_text": "And the evening and the morning were the fifth day." }, { "point_text": "The second part of the day at the creation", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:31", "verse_text": "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day." }, { "point_text": "The first part of the natural day", "verse_ref": "Mark 16:2", "verse_text": "And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun." }, { "point_text": "Ordained by God", "verse_ref": "Job 38:12", "verse_text": "Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;" }, { "point_text": "Began with first dawn", "verse_ref": "Joshua 6:15", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times." }, { "point_text": "Began with first dawn", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:147", "verse_text": "I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word." }, { "point_text": "Continued until noon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:26", "verse_text": "And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made." }, { "point_text": "Continued until noon", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:3", "verse_text": "And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law." }, { "point_text": "First dawning of, called the eyelids of the morning", "verse_ref": "Job 3:9", "verse_text": "Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:" }, { "point_text": "First dawning of, called the eyelids of the morning", "verse_ref": "Job 41:18", "verse_text": "By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning." }, { "point_text": "The outgoings of, made to rejoice", "verse_ref": "Psalm 65:8", "verse_text": "They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice." }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Generally rose early in", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:18", "verse_text": "And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it." }, { "point_text": "Generally rose early in", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:28", "verse_text": "And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built." }, { "point_text": "Eat but little in", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 10:16", "verse_text": "Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!" }, { "point_text": "Went to the temple in", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:38", "verse_text": "And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, for to hear him." }, { "point_text": "Went to the temple in", "verse_ref": "John 8:2", "verse_text": "And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them." }, { "point_text": "Offered a part of the daily sacrifice in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:38-39", "verse_text": "Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually. 39 The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even:" }, { "point_text": "Devoted a part of, to prayer and praise", "verse_ref": "Psalm 5:3", "verse_text": "My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up." }, { "point_text": "Devoted a part of, to prayer and praise", "verse_ref": "Psalm 59:16", "verse_text": "But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble." }, { "point_text": "Devoted a part of, to prayer and praise", "verse_ref": "Psalm 88:13", "verse_text": "But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee." }, { "point_text": "Gathered the manna in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:21", "verse_text": "And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted." }, { "point_text": "Began their journeys in", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:3", "verse_text": "And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him." }, { "point_text": "Held courts of justice in", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 21:12", "verse_text": "O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings." }, { "point_text": "Held courts of justice in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:1", "verse_text": "When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:" }, { "point_text": "Contracted covenants in", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:31", "verse_text": "And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace." }, { "point_text": "Transacted business in", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 11:6", "verse_text": "In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good." }, { "point_text": "Transacted business in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:1", "verse_text": "For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard." }, { "point_text": "Was frequently cloudless", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 23:4", "verse_text": "And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain." }, { "point_text": "A red sky in, a sign of bad weather", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:3", "verse_text": "And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?" }, { "point_text": "Ushered in by the morning star", "verse_ref": "Job 38:7", "verse_text": "When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?" }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the resurrection day", "verse_ref": "Psalm 49:14", "verse_text": "Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling." }, { "point_text": "(Breaking forth,) of the glory of the church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 6:10", "verse_text": "Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?" }, { "point_text": "(Breaking forth,) of the glory of the church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:8", "verse_text": "Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward." }, { "point_text": "(Star of,) of the glory of Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:16", "verse_text": "I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star." }, { "point_text": "(Star of,) of reward of saints", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:28", "verse_text": "And I will give him the morning star." }, { "point_text": "(Clouds in,) of the short lived profession of hypocrites", "verse_ref": "Hosea 6:4", "verse_text": "O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away." }, { "point_text": "(Wings of,) of rapid movements", "verse_ref": "Psalm 139:9", "verse_text": "If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;" }, { "point_text": "(Spread upon the mountains,) of heavy calamities", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:2", "verse_text": "A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations." } ] }, { "name": "Naphtali, The Tribe of", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Naphtali-The-Tribe-of.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Descended from Jacob's sixth son", "verse_ref": "Genesis 30:7-8", "verse_text": "And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son. 8 And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali." }, { "point_text": "Predictions respecting", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:21", "verse_text": "Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words." }, { "point_text": "Predictions respecting", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:23", "verse_text": "And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the west and the south." }, { "point_text": "PERSONS SELECTED FROM,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To number the people", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:15", "verse_text": "Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan." }, { "point_text": "To spy out the land", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:14", "verse_text": "Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi." }, { "point_text": "To divide the land", "verse_ref": "Numbers 34:28", "verse_text": "And the prince of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, Pedahel the son of Ammihud." }, { "point_text": "Strength of, on leaving Egypt", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:42-43", "verse_text": "Of the children of Naphtali, throughout their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 43 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred." }, { "point_text": "The rear of the fourth division of Israel in their journeys", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:25", "verse_text": "And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set forward, which was the rereward of all the camps throughout their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai." }, { "point_text": "The rear of the fourth division of Israel in their journeys", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:27", "verse_text": "And over the host of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan." }, { "point_text": "Encamped under the standard of Dan north of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 2:25", "verse_text": "The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai." }, { "point_text": "Encamped under the standard of Dan north of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 2:29", "verse_text": "Then the tribe of Naphtali: and the captain of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan." }, { "point_text": "Offering of, at the dedication", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:78-83", "verse_text": "On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali, offered: 79 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: 80 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: 81 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: ..." }, { "point_text": "Families of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:48-49", "verse_text": "Of the sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites: 49 Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites." }, { "point_text": "Strength of, on entering Canaan", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:50", "verse_text": "These are the families of Naphtali according to their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and four hundred." }, { "point_text": "On Ebal said amen to the curses", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 27:13", "verse_text": "And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali." }, { "point_text": "Bounds of their inheritance", "verse_ref": "Joshua 19:32-39", "verse_text": "The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali according to their families. 33 And their coast was from Heleph, from Allon to Zaanannim, and Adami, Nekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lakum; and the outgoings thereof were at Jordan: 34 And then the coast turneth westward to Aznothtabor, and goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the south side, and reacheth to Asher on the west side, and to Judah upon Jordan toward the sunrising. 35 And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth, ..." }, { "point_text": "Did not drive out the Canaanites, but make them tributary", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:33", "verse_text": "Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Bethshemesh, nor the inhabitants of Bethanath; but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Bethshemesh and of Bethanath became tributaries unto them." }, { "point_text": "Chosen from Zebulun to go with Barak against Sisera", "verse_ref": "Judges 4:6", "verse_text": "And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?" }, { "point_text": "Chosen from Zebulun to go with Barak against Sisera", "verse_ref": "Judges 4:10", "verse_text": "And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him." }, { "point_text": "Praised for aiding against Sisera", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:18", "verse_text": "Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field." }, { "point_text": "Joined Gideon in the pursuit and overthrow of the Midianites", "verse_ref": "Judges 7:23", "verse_text": "And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites." }, { "point_text": "Some of, at David's coronation", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:34", "verse_text": "And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand." }, { "point_text": "Officer placed over, by David", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:19", "verse_text": "Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of Azriel:" }, { "point_text": "Officer placed over, by Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:15", "verse_text": "Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife:" }, { "point_text": "Land of, ravaged by Benhadad", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:20", "verse_text": "So Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelbethmaachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali." }, { "point_text": "Land of, purged of idols by Josiah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 34:6", "verse_text": "And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about." }, { "point_text": "Taken captive by Tiglath-pileser", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 15:29", "verse_text": "In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria." }, { "point_text": "Specially favored by our Lord's ministry", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:1-2", "verse_text": "Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. 2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of;\r\n\nBarak, \nHiram,", "verse_ref": "Judges 4:6", "verse_text": "And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?" }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of;\r\n\nBarak, \nHiram,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 7:14", "verse_text": "He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work." } ] }, { "name": "Nazarites", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Nazarites.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Persons separated to the service of God", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:2", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "DIFFERENT KINDS OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "From the womb", "verse_ref": "Judges 13:5", "verse_text": "For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no rasor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines." }, { "point_text": "From the womb", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:15", "verse_text": "For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb." }, { "point_text": "By a particular vow", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:2", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Required to be holy", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:8", "verse_text": "All the days of his separation he is holy unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Esteemed pure", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 4:7", "verse_text": "Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:" }, { "point_text": "PROHIBITED FROM", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Wine or strong drink", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:3", "verse_text": "He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried." }, { "point_text": "Wine or strong drink", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:15", "verse_text": "For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb." }, { "point_text": "Grapes or any thing made from the vine", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:3-4", "verse_text": "He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried. 4 All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk." }, { "point_text": "Cutting or shaving the head", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:5", "verse_text": "All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no rasor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow." }, { "point_text": "Cutting or shaving the head", "verse_ref": "Judges 13:5", "verse_text": "For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no rasor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines." }, { "point_text": "Cutting or shaving the head", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:17", "verse_text": "That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a rasor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man." }, { "point_text": "Defiling themselves by the dead", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:6-7", "verse_text": "All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body. 7 He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head." }, { "point_text": "Raised up for good of the nation", "verse_ref": "Amos 2:11", "verse_text": "And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Ungodly Jews tried to corrupt", "verse_ref": "Amos 2:12", "verse_text": "But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not." }, { "point_text": "DEFILED DURING VOW", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To shave the head the seventh day", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:9", "verse_text": "And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it." }, { "point_text": "To bring two turtle doves for a burnt offering", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:10-11", "verse_text": "And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: 11 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day." }, { "point_text": "To recommence their vow with a trespass offering", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:12", "verse_text": "And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled." }, { "point_text": "ON COMPLETION OF VOW", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To be brought to tabernacle door", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:13", "verse_text": "And this is the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:" }, { "point_text": "To offer sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:14-17", "verse_text": "And he shall offer his offering unto the LORD, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings, 15 And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings. 16 And the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering: 17 And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering." }, { "point_text": "To shave their heads", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:18", "verse_text": "And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings." }, { "point_text": "To shave their heads", "verse_ref": "Acts 18:18", "verse_text": "And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow." }, { "point_text": "To shave their heads", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:24", "verse_text": "Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law." }, { "point_text": "To have the left shoulder of the ram of the peace offering waved upon their hands by the priest", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:19-20", "verse_text": "And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after the hair of his separation is shaven: 20 And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD: this is holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:26", "verse_text": "For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;" }, { "point_text": "Saints", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:17", "verse_text": "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you," }, { "point_text": "Saints", "verse_ref": "James 1:27", "verse_text": "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." }, { "point_text": "Persons separated to the service of God", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:2", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "DIFFERENT KINDS OF;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "From the womb", "verse_ref": "Judges 13:5", "verse_text": "For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no rasor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines." }, { "point_text": "From the womb", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:15", "verse_text": "For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb." }, { "point_text": "By a particular vow", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:2", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Required to be holy", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:8", "verse_text": "All the days of his separation he is holy unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Esteemed pure", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 4:7", "verse_text": "Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:" }, { "point_text": "PROHIBITED FROM", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Wine or strong drink", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:3", "verse_text": "He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried." }, { "point_text": "Wine or strong drink", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:15", "verse_text": "For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb." }, { "point_text": "Grapes or any thing made from the vine", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:3-4", "verse_text": "He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried. 4 All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk." }, { "point_text": "Cutting or shaving the head", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:5", "verse_text": "All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no rasor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow." }, { "point_text": "Cutting or shaving the head", "verse_ref": "Judges 13:5", "verse_text": "For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no rasor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines." }, { "point_text": "Cutting or shaving the head", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:17", "verse_text": "That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a rasor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man." }, { "point_text": "Defiling themselves by the dead", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:6-7", "verse_text": "All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body. 7 He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head." }, { "point_text": "Raised up for good of the nation", "verse_ref": "Amos 2:11", "verse_text": "And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Ungodly Jews tried to corrupt", "verse_ref": "Amos 2:12", "verse_text": "But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not." }, { "point_text": "DEFILED DURING VOW", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "To shave the head the seventh day", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:9", "verse_text": "And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it." }, { "point_text": "To bring two turtle doves for a burnt offering", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:10-11", "verse_text": "And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: 11 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day." }, { "point_text": "To recommence their vow with a trespass offering", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:12", "verse_text": "And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled." }, { "point_text": "ON COMPLETION OF VOW", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "To be brought to tabernacle door", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:13", "verse_text": "And this is the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:" }, { "point_text": "To offer sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:14-17", "verse_text": "And he shall offer his offering unto the LORD, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings, 15 And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings. 16 And the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering: 17 And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering." }, { "point_text": "To shave their heads", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:18", "verse_text": "And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings." }, { "point_text": "To shave their heads", "verse_ref": "Acts 18:18", "verse_text": "And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow." }, { "point_text": "To shave their heads", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:24", "verse_text": "Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law." }, { "point_text": "To have the left shoulder of the ram of the peace offering waved upon their hands by the priest", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:19-20", "verse_text": "And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after the hair of his separation is shaven: 20 And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD: this is holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:26", "verse_text": "For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;" }, { "point_text": "Saints", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:17", "verse_text": "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you," }, { "point_text": "Saints", "verse_ref": "James 1:27", "verse_text": "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." } ] }, { "name": "New Birth, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/New-Birth-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The corruption of human nature requires", "verse_ref": "John 3:6", "verse_text": "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." }, { "point_text": "The corruption of human nature requires", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:7-8", "verse_text": "Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God." }, { "point_text": "None can enter heaven without", "verse_ref": "John 3:3", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "EFFECTED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "God", "verse_ref": "John 1:13", "verse_text": "Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." }, { "point_text": "God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:3", "verse_text": "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead," }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:29", "verse_text": "If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him." }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "John 3:6", "verse_text": "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:5", "verse_text": "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;" }, { "point_text": "THROUGH THE INSTRUMENTALITY OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The word of God", "verse_ref": "James 1:18", "verse_text": "Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures." }, { "point_text": "The word of God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:23", "verse_text": "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever." }, { "point_text": "The resurrection of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:3", "verse_text": "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead," }, { "point_text": "The ministry of the gospel", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 4:15", "verse_text": "For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel." }, { "point_text": "Is of the will of God", "verse_ref": "James 1:18", "verse_text": "Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures." }, { "point_text": "Is of the mercy of God", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:5", "verse_text": "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;" }, { "point_text": "Is for the glory of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 43:7", "verse_text": "Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "A new creation", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:17", "verse_text": "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." }, { "point_text": "A new creation", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:15", "verse_text": "For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature." }, { "point_text": "A new creation", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:10", "verse_text": "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." }, { "point_text": "Newness of life", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:4", "verse_text": "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." }, { "point_text": "A spiritual resurrection", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:4-6", "verse_text": "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin." }, { "point_text": "A spiritual resurrection", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:1", "verse_text": "And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;" }, { "point_text": "A spiritual resurrection", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:5", "verse_text": "Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)" }, { "point_text": "A new heart", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 36:26", "verse_text": "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh." }, { "point_text": "A new spirit", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 11:19", "verse_text": "And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:" }, { "point_text": "A new spirit", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:6", "verse_text": "But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter." }, { "point_text": "Putting on the new man", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:24", "verse_text": "And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness." }, { "point_text": "The inward man", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:22", "verse_text": "For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:" }, { "point_text": "The inward man", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:16", "verse_text": "For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day." }, { "point_text": "Circumcision of the heart", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 30:6", "verse_text": "And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live." }, { "point_text": "Circumcision of the heart", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:29", "verse_text": "But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God." }, { "point_text": "Circumcision of the heart", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:11", "verse_text": "In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Partaking of the divine nature", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:4", "verse_text": "Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust." }, { "point_text": "The washing of regeneration", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:5", "verse_text": "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;" }, { "point_text": "All saints partake of", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:16-17", "verse_text": "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together." }, { "point_text": "All saints partake of", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:2", "verse_text": "As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:" }, { "point_text": "All saints partake of", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:1", "verse_text": "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him." }, { "point_text": "PRODUCES", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Likeness to God", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:24", "verse_text": "And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness." }, { "point_text": "Likeness to God", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:10", "verse_text": "And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:" }, { "point_text": "Likeness to Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:29", "verse_text": "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren." }, { "point_text": "Likeness to Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 3:18", "verse_text": "But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Likeness to Christ", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:2", "verse_text": "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." }, { "point_text": "Knowledge of God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 24:7", "verse_text": "And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart." }, { "point_text": "Knowledge of God", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:10", "verse_text": "And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:" }, { "point_text": "Hatred of sin", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:9", "verse_text": "Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God." }, { "point_text": "Hatred of sin", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:18", "verse_text": "We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not." }, { "point_text": "Victory over the world", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:4", "verse_text": "For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith." }, { "point_text": "Delight in God's law", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:22", "verse_text": "For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:" }, { "point_text": "EVIDENCED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Faith in Christ", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:1", "verse_text": "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him." }, { "point_text": "Righteousness", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:29", "verse_text": "If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him." }, { "point_text": "Brotherly love", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:7", "verse_text": "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God." }, { "point_text": "Connected with adoption", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 43:6-7", "verse_text": "I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; 7 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him." }, { "point_text": "The ignorant cavil at", "verse_ref": "John 3:4", "verse_text": "Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?" }, { "point_text": "Manner of effecting--Illustrated", "verse_ref": "John 3:8", "verse_text": "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit." }, { "point_text": "Preserves from Satan's devices", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:18", "verse_text": "We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not." } ] }, { "name": "Nile, The River", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Nile-The-River.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Empties itself into the Mediterranean Sea by seven streams", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:15", "verse_text": "And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod." }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The river", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river." }, { "point_text": "The river", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:3", "verse_text": "And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river." }, { "point_text": "The Egyptian sea", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:15", "verse_text": "And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod." }, { "point_text": "The stream of Egypt", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 27:12", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Sihor", "verse_ref": "Joshua 13:3", "verse_text": "From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites:" }, { "point_text": "Sihor", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:18", "verse_text": "And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?" }, { "point_text": "ABOUNDED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Crocodiles", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 29:3", "verse_text": "Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself." }, { "point_text": "Fish", "verse_ref": "Exodus 7:21", "verse_text": "And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Fish", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 29:4", "verse_text": "But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales." }, { "point_text": "Reeds and flags", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:6-7", "verse_text": "And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither. 7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more." }, { "point_text": "Annual overflow of its banks alluded to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 46:8", "verse_text": "Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof." }, { "point_text": "Annual overflow of its banks alluded to", "verse_ref": "Amos 8:8", "verse_text": "Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Annual overflow of its banks alluded to", "verse_ref": "Amos 9:5", "verse_text": "And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "THE EGYPTIANS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Took great pride in", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 29:9", "verse_text": "And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it." }, { "point_text": "Carried on extensive commerce by", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:3", "verse_text": "And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations." }, { "point_text": "Bathed in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:5", "verse_text": "And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it." }, { "point_text": "Drank of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 7:21", "verse_text": "And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Drank of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 7:24", "verse_text": "And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river." }, { "point_text": "Punished by failure of its waters", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:5-6", "verse_text": "And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. 6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither." }, { "point_text": "Punished by destruction of its fish", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:8", "verse_text": "The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish." }, { "point_text": "REMARKABLE EVENTS CONNECTED WITH;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Male children drowned in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 1:22", "verse_text": "And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive." }, { "point_text": "Moses exposed on its banks", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:3", "verse_text": "And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink." }, { "point_text": "Its waters turned into blood", "verse_ref": "Exodus 7:15", "verse_text": "Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand." }, { "point_text": "Its waters turned into blood", "verse_ref": "Exodus 7:20", "verse_text": "And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood." }, { "point_text": "Miraculous generation of frogs", "verse_ref": "Exodus 8:3", "verse_text": "And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:" } ] }, { "name": "Night", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Night.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The darkness first called", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:5", "verse_text": "And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day." }, { "point_text": "Caused by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:20", "verse_text": "Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth." }, { "point_text": "Belongs to God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:16", "verse_text": "The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun." }, { "point_text": "The heavenly bodies designed to separate day from", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:14", "verse_text": "And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:" }, { "point_text": "The moon and stars designed to rule and give light by", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:16-18", "verse_text": "And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good." }, { "point_text": "The moon and stars designed to rule and give light by", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:35", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:" }, { "point_text": "Commenced at sunset", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:11", "verse_text": "And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep." }, { "point_text": "Continued until sunrise", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:22", "verse_text": "The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens." }, { "point_text": "Continued until sunrise", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:1", "verse_text": "In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre." }, { "point_text": "Continued until sunrise", "verse_ref": "Mark 16:2", "verse_text": "And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun." }, { "point_text": "REGULAR SUCCESSION OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Established by covenant", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:22", "verse_text": "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." }, { "point_text": "Established by covenant", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 33:20", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;" }, { "point_text": "Ordained for the glory of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:2", "verse_text": "Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge." }, { "point_text": "Originally divided into three watches", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 2:19", "verse_text": "Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street." }, { "point_text": "Originally divided into three watches", "verse_ref": "Judges 7:19", "verse_text": "So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands." }, { "point_text": "Originally divided into three watches", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:24", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians," }, { "point_text": "Divided into four watches by the Romans", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:38", "verse_text": "And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants." }, { "point_text": "Divided into four watches by the Romans", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:25", "verse_text": "And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea." }, { "point_text": "Divided into four watches by the Romans", "verse_ref": "Mark 13:35", "verse_text": "Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:" }, { "point_text": "FREQUENTLY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Exceeding dark", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 7:9", "verse_text": "In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:" }, { "point_text": "Cold and frosty", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:40", "verse_text": "Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes." }, { "point_text": "Cold and frosty", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 36:30", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost." }, { "point_text": "Accompanied by heavy dews", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:9", "verse_text": "And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it." }, { "point_text": "Accompanied by heavy dews", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:38", "verse_text": "And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water." }, { "point_text": "Accompanied by heavy dews", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:40", "verse_text": "And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground." }, { "point_text": "Unsuitable for labor", "verse_ref": "John 9:4", "verse_text": "I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work." }, { "point_text": "Unsuitable for travelling", "verse_ref": "John 11:10", "verse_text": "But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him." }, { "point_text": "Designed for rest", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:23", "verse_text": "Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening." }, { "point_text": "Wearisome to the afflicted", "verse_ref": "Job 7:3-4", "verse_text": "So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. 4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day." }, { "point_text": "Favorable to the purposes of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:39", "verse_text": "That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night." }, { "point_text": "Favorable to the purposes of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Job 24:14-15", "verse_text": "The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. 15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face." }, { "point_text": "Wild beasts go forth in search of prey during", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 21:10", "verse_text": "And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night." }, { "point_text": "Wild beasts go forth in search of prey during", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:21-22", "verse_text": "The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God. 22 The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens." }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to keep the wages of servants during", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:13", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to allow malefactors to hang during", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 21:23", "verse_text": "His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance." }, { "point_text": "In affliction spent, in sorrow and humiliation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 6:6", "verse_text": "I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears." }, { "point_text": "In affliction spent, in sorrow and humiliation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 30:5", "verse_text": "For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." }, { "point_text": "In affliction spent, in sorrow and humiliation", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:13", "verse_text": "Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God." }, { "point_text": "In affliction spent, in prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:2", "verse_text": "O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent." }, { "point_text": "Often kept lamps burning during", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:18", "verse_text": "She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night." }, { "point_text": "Eastern shepherds watched over their flocks during", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:40", "verse_text": "Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes." }, { "point_text": "Eastern shepherds watched over their flocks during", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:8", "verse_text": "And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night." }, { "point_text": "Eastern fishermen continued their employment during", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:5", "verse_text": "And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net." }, { "point_text": "Eastern fishermen continued their employment during", "verse_ref": "John 21:3", "verse_text": "Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing." }, { "point_text": "GOD FREQUENTLY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Revealed His will in", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:24", "verse_text": "And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad." }, { "point_text": "Revealed His will in", "verse_ref": "Genesis 46:2", "verse_text": "And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I." }, { "point_text": "Revealed His will in", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:30", "verse_text": "And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said, Nay." }, { "point_text": "Revealed His will in", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:2", "verse_text": "Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea." }, { "point_text": "Visited His people in", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 3:5", "verse_text": "In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee." }, { "point_text": "Visited His people in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 17:3", "verse_text": "Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress." }, { "point_text": "Executed His judgments in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:12", "verse_text": "For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Executed His judgments in", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:35", "verse_text": "And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses." }, { "point_text": "Executed His judgments in", "verse_ref": "Job 27:20", "verse_text": "Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night." }, { "point_text": "Executed His judgments in", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:30", "verse_text": "In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Spiritual darkness", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:12", "verse_text": "The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light." }, { "point_text": "Seasons of severe calamities", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 21:12", "verse_text": "The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: return, come." }, { "point_text": "Seasons of severe calamities", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:8", "verse_text": "Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:" }, { "point_text": "Seasons of spiritual desertion", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 3:1", "verse_text": "By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not." }, { "point_text": "Death", "verse_ref": "John 9:4", "verse_text": "I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work." } ] }, { "name": "Nethinim", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Nethinim.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Were the servants of the Levites", "verse_ref": "Ezra 8:20", "verse_text": "Also of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name." }, { "point_text": "Probably originated in the appointment of the Gibeonites", "verse_ref": "Joshua 9:27", "verse_text": "And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose." }, { "point_text": "The remnant of the Canaanites appointed as, by Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 9:20-21", "verse_text": "And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel, 21 Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day." }, { "point_text": "WITH THE PRIESTS AND LEVITES", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Had cities to reside in", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 9:2", "verse_text": "Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were, the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims." }, { "point_text": "Had cities to reside in", "verse_ref": "Ezra 2:70", "verse_text": "So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities." }, { "point_text": "Exempted from tribute", "verse_ref": "Ezra 7:24", "verse_text": "Also we certify you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, singers, porters, Nethinims, or ministers of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose toll, tribute, or custom, upon them." }, { "point_text": "Had chiefs or captains over them", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 11:21", "verse_text": "But the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel: and Ziha and Gispa were over the Nethinims." }, { "point_text": "A large number of, returned from the captivity", "verse_ref": "Ezra 2:43-54", "verse_text": "The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth, 44 The children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon, 45 The children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub, 46 The children of Hagab, the children of Shalmai, the children of Hanan, ..." }, { "point_text": "A large number of, returned from the captivity", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 7:46-56", "verse_text": "The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hashupha, the children of Tabbaoth, 47 The children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon, 48 The children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Shalmai, 49 The children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, ..." }, { "point_text": "A large number of, returned from the captivity", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 7:60", "verse_text": "All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred ninety and two." }, { "point_text": "Were zealous for the covenant", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 10:28-29", "verse_text": "And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding; 29 They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;" } ] }, { "name": "Oak-tree, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Oaktree-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The hill of Bashan celebrated for", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:13", "verse_text": "And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan," }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Strong", "verse_ref": "Amos 2:9", "verse_text": "Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath." }, { "point_text": "Thick spreading", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 18:9", "verse_text": "And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away." }, { "point_text": "Thick spreading", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 6:13", "verse_text": "Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols." }, { "point_text": "Casting its leaves in winter", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:13", "verse_text": "But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof." }, { "point_text": "The Tyrian made oars of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:6", "verse_text": "Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim." }, { "point_text": "Idolaters often made idols of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:14", "verse_text": "He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it." }, { "point_text": "THE ANCIENTS OFTEN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Rested under", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:11", "verse_text": "And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites." }, { "point_text": "Rested under", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:19", "verse_text": "And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it." }, { "point_text": "Rested under", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 13:14", "verse_text": "And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am." }, { "point_text": "Buried their dead under", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:8", "verse_text": "But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth." }, { "point_text": "Buried their dead under", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 10:12", "verse_text": "They arose, all the valiant men, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days." }, { "point_text": "Erected monuments under", "verse_ref": "Joshua 24:26", "verse_text": "And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Performed idolatrous rites under", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:29", "verse_text": "For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen." }, { "point_text": "Performed idolatrous rites under", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:5", "verse_text": "Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?" }, { "point_text": "Performed idolatrous rites under", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 6:13", "verse_text": "Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols." }, { "point_text": "Performed idolatrous rites under", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:13", "verse_text": "They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery." }, { "point_text": "Absalom in his flight intercepted by, and suspended from", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 18:9-10", "verse_text": "And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away. 10 And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak." }, { "point_text": "Absalom in his flight intercepted by, and suspended from", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 18:14", "verse_text": "Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak." }, { "point_text": "Jacob buried his family idols under", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:4", "verse_text": "And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:13", "verse_text": "But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof." }, { "point_text": "Of strong and powerful men", "verse_ref": "Amos 2:9", "verse_text": "Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath." }, { "point_text": "Of wicked rulers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:13", "verse_text": "And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan," }, { "point_text": "Of wicked rulers", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 11:2", "verse_text": "Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down." }, { "point_text": "(Fading,) of the wicked under judgments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:30", "verse_text": "For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water." } ] }, { "name": "Oaths", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Oaths.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The lawful purpose of, explained", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:16", "verse_text": "For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife." }, { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:22", "verse_text": "And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth," }, { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:3", "verse_text": "And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:" }, { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:8", "verse_text": "And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again." }, { "point_text": "USED FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Confirming covenants", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:28", "verse_text": "And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;" }, { "point_text": "Confirming covenants", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:44", "verse_text": "Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee." }, { "point_text": "Confirming covenants", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:53", "verse_text": "The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac." }, { "point_text": "Confirming covenants", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 20:16-17", "verse_text": "So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let the LORD even require it at the hand of David's enemies. 17 And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul." }, { "point_text": "Deciding controversies in courts of law", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:11", "verse_text": "Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good." }, { "point_text": "Deciding controversies in courts of law", "verse_ref": "Numbers 5:19", "verse_text": "And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:" }, { "point_text": "Deciding controversies in courts of law", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:31", "verse_text": "If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house:" }, { "point_text": "Pledging allegiance to sovereigns", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 11:4", "verse_text": "And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king's son." }, { "point_text": "Pledging allegiance to sovereigns", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 8:2", "verse_text": "I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God." }, { "point_text": "Binding to performance of sacred duties", "verse_ref": "Numbers 30:2", "verse_text": "If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth." }, { "point_text": "Binding to performance of sacred duties", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 15:14-15", "verse_text": "And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets. 15 And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and the LORD gave them rest round about." }, { "point_text": "Binding to performance of any particular act", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:3", "verse_text": "And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:" }, { "point_text": "Binding to performance of any particular act", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:25", "verse_text": "And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence." }, { "point_text": "Binding to performance of any particular act", "verse_ref": "Joshua 2:12", "verse_text": "Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father's house, and give me a true token:" }, { "point_text": "Judicial from of administering", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:16", "verse_text": "And the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the LORD?" }, { "point_text": "Judicial from of administering", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:63", "verse_text": "But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God." }, { "point_text": "Often accompanied by raising up the hand", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:22", "verse_text": "And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth," }, { "point_text": "Often accompanied by raising up the hand", "verse_ref": "Daniel 12:7", "verse_text": "And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished." }, { "point_text": "Often accompanied by raising up the hand", "verse_ref": "Revelation 10:5-6", "verse_text": "And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, 6 And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:" }, { "point_text": "Often accompanied by placing the hand under the thigh of the person sworn to", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:2", "verse_text": "And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:" }, { "point_text": "Often accompanied by placing the hand under the thigh of the person sworn to", "verse_ref": "Genesis 47:29", "verse_text": "And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:" }, { "point_text": "To be taken in fear and reverence", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 9:2", "verse_text": "All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath." }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to take, in name of idols", "verse_ref": "Joshua 23:7", "verse_text": "That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:" }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to take in the name of any created thing", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:34-36", "verse_text": "But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne: 35 Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King. 36 Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to take in the name of any created thing", "verse_ref": "James 5:12", "verse_text": "But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to take false", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:3", "verse_text": "Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:" }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to take false", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 8:17", "verse_text": "And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to take rash, or unholy", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:4", "verse_text": "Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these." }, { "point_text": "To use God's name alone in", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 6:13", "verse_text": "Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name." }, { "point_text": "To use God's name alone in", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:20", "verse_text": "Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name." }, { "point_text": "To use God's name alone in", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:16", "verse_text": "That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes." }, { "point_text": "To take, in truth, judgment, &c", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:2", "verse_text": "And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory." }, { "point_text": "Generally respected the obligation of", "verse_ref": "Joshua 9:19-20", "verse_text": "But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them. 20 This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them." }, { "point_text": "Generally respected the obligation of", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 21:7", "verse_text": "But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD'S oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul." }, { "point_text": "Generally respected the obligation of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 15:4", "verse_text": "In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not." }, { "point_text": "Generally respected the obligation of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:9", "verse_text": "And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath's sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her." }, { "point_text": "Fell into many errors respecting", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:16-22", "verse_text": "Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor! 17 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? 18 And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty. 19 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift? ..." }, { "point_text": "Often guilty of rashly taking", "verse_ref": "Judges 21:7", "verse_text": "How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?" }, { "point_text": "Often guilty of rashly taking", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:7", "verse_text": "Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask." }, { "point_text": "Often guilty of rashly taking", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:72", "verse_text": "And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man." }, { "point_text": "Often guilty of falsely taking", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:3", "verse_text": "Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:" }, { "point_text": "Often guilty of falsely taking", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:2", "verse_text": "And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely." }, { "point_text": "Often guilty of falsely taking", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:9", "verse_text": "Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;" }, { "point_text": "Condemned for false", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 5:4", "verse_text": "I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof." }, { "point_text": "Condemned for false", "verse_ref": "Malachi 3:5", "verse_text": "And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Condemned for profane", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:10", "verse_text": "For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right." }, { "point_text": "Condemned for profane", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:2", "verse_text": "By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood." }, { "point_text": "INSTANCES OF RASH, &c.;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Joshua, &c", "verse_ref": "Joshua 9:15-16", "verse_text": "And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them. 16 And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them." }, { "point_text": "Jephthah", "verse_ref": "Judges 11:30-36", "verse_text": "And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, 31 Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD'S, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering. 32 So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands. 33 And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel. ..." }, { "point_text": "Saul", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:27", "verse_text": "But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened." }, { "point_text": "Saul", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:44", "verse_text": "And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan." }, { "point_text": "Herod", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:7-9", "verse_text": "Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask. 8 And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger. 9 And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath's sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her." }, { "point_text": "The Jews who sought to kill Paul", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:21", "verse_text": "But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from thee." }, { "point_text": "Custom of swearing by the life of the king", "verse_ref": "Genesis 42:15-16", "verse_text": "Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither. 16 Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies." }, { "point_text": "EXPRESSIONS USED AS;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "By the fear of Isaac", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:53", "verse_text": "The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac." }, { "point_text": "As the Lord liveth", "verse_ref": "Judges 8:19", "verse_text": "And he said, They were my brethren, even the sons of my mother: as the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you." }, { "point_text": "As the Lord liveth", "verse_ref": "Ruth 3:13", "verse_text": "Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman's part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, as the LORD liveth: lie down until the morning." }, { "point_text": "The Lord do so to me, and more also", "verse_ref": "Ruth 1:17", "verse_text": "Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me." }, { "point_text": "God do so to thee, and more also", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 3:17", "verse_text": "And he said, What is the thing that the LORD hath said unto thee? I pray thee hide it not from me: God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide any thing from me of all the things that he said unto thee." }, { "point_text": "By the Lord", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 19:7", "verse_text": "Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now." }, { "point_text": "By the Lord", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:42", "verse_text": "And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD, and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word that I have heard is good." }, { "point_text": "Before God I lie not", "verse_ref": "Galatians 1:20", "verse_text": "Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not." }, { "point_text": "I call God for a record", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:23", "verse_text": "Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth." }, { "point_text": "God is witness", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:5", "verse_text": "For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:" }, { "point_text": "I charge you by the Lord", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:27", "verse_text": "I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren." }, { "point_text": "As thy soul liveth", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:26", "verse_text": "And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "As thy soul liveth", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:26", "verse_text": "Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal." }, { "point_text": "God used, to show the immutability of His counsel", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:16", "verse_text": "And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:" }, { "point_text": "God used, to show the immutability of His counsel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:28", "verse_text": "Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:" }, { "point_text": "God used, to show the immutability of His counsel", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:17", "verse_text": "Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:" } ] }, { "name": "Obedience to God", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Obedience-to-God.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 13:4", "verse_text": "Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him." }, { "point_text": "Without faith, is impossible", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:6", "verse_text": "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." }, { "point_text": "INCLUDES", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Obeying His voice", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:5", "verse_text": "Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:" }, { "point_text": "Obeying His voice", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:23", "verse_text": "But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you." }, { "point_text": "Obeying His law", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:27", "verse_text": "A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day:" }, { "point_text": "Obeying His law", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:24", "verse_text": "Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law." }, { "point_text": "Obeying Christ", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:21", "verse_text": "Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him." }, { "point_text": "Obeying Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 10:5", "verse_text": "Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;" }, { "point_text": "Obeying the gospel", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:5", "verse_text": "By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:" }, { "point_text": "Obeying the gospel", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:17", "verse_text": "But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you." }, { "point_text": "Obeying the gospel", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:16-17", "verse_text": "But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? 17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." }, { "point_text": "Keeping his commandments", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 12:13", "verse_text": "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man." }, { "point_text": "Submission to higher powers", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:1", "verse_text": "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God." }, { "point_text": "Better than sacrifice", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:22", "verse_text": "And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams." }, { "point_text": "Justification obtained by that of Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:19", "verse_text": "For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous." }, { "point_text": "Christ, an example of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:15", "verse_text": "And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him." }, { "point_text": "Christ, an example of", "verse_ref": "John 15:20", "verse_text": "Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also." }, { "point_text": "Christ, an example of", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:5-8", "verse_text": "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." }, { "point_text": "Christ, an example of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 5:8", "verse_text": "Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;" }, { "point_text": "Angels engaged in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:20", "verse_text": "Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of saints", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:14", "verse_text": "As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:" }, { "point_text": "Saints elected to", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:2", "verse_text": "Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied." }, { "point_text": "Obligations to", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:19", "verse_text": "But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye." }, { "point_text": "Obligations to", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:29", "verse_text": "Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 26:13", "verse_text": "Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 38:20", "verse_text": "But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "From the heart", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:13", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul," }, { "point_text": "From the heart", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:17", "verse_text": "But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you." }, { "point_text": "With willingness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 18:44", "verse_text": "As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me." }, { "point_text": "With willingness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:19", "verse_text": "If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:" }, { "point_text": "Unreserved", "verse_ref": "Joshua 22:2-3", "verse_text": "And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you: 3 Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "Undeviating", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:14", "verse_text": "And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them." }, { "point_text": "Constant", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:12", "verse_text": "Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." }, { "point_text": "Resolve upon", "verse_ref": "Exodus 24:7", "verse_text": "And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient." }, { "point_text": "Resolve upon", "verse_ref": "Joshua 24:24", "verse_text": "And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey." }, { "point_text": "Confess your failure in", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:10", "verse_text": "Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets." }, { "point_text": "Prepare the heart for", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 7:3", "verse_text": "And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines." }, { "point_text": "Prepare the heart for", "verse_ref": "Ezra 7:10", "verse_text": "For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments." }, { "point_text": "Pray to be taught", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:35", "verse_text": "Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight." }, { "point_text": "Pray to be taught", "verse_ref": "Psalm 143:10", "verse_text": "Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness." }, { "point_text": "Promises to", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:22", "verse_text": "But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries." }, { "point_text": "Promises to", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 12:14", "verse_text": "If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD your God:" }, { "point_text": "Promises to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:19", "verse_text": "If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:" }, { "point_text": "Promises to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:23", "verse_text": "But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you." }, { "point_text": "To be universal in the latter days", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:27", "verse_text": "And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:27", "verse_text": "A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day:" }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:1-13", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: 2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. 3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. ..." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:28", "verse_text": "But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of", "verse_ref": "James 1:25", "verse_text": "But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed." }, { "point_text": "The wicked refuse", "verse_ref": "Exodus 5:2", "verse_text": "And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go." }, { "point_text": "The wicked refuse", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:17", "verse_text": "And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of refusing", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:28", "verse_text": "And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of refusing", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:15-68", "verse_text": "But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: 16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. ..." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of refusing", "verse_ref": "Joshua 5:6", "verse_text": "For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of refusing", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:20", "verse_text": "But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \nAbram, \n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\nCaleb, &c. \nAsa, \nElijah, \nHezekiah, \nJosiah, \nDavid, \nZerubbabel, &c. \nJoseph, \nWise men, \nZacharias, &c. \nPaul, \nSaints of Rome,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 6:22", "verse_text": "Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \nAbram, \n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\nCaleb, &c. \nAsa, \nElijah, \nHezekiah, \nJosiah, \nDavid, \nZerubbabel, &c. \nJoseph, \nWise men, \nZacharias, &c. \nPaul, \nSaints of Rome,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 12:1-4", "verse_text": "Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. 4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \nAbram, \n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\nCaleb, &c. \nAsa, \nElijah, \nHezekiah, \nJosiah, \nDavid, \nZerubbabel, &c. \nJoseph, \nWise men, \nZacharias, &c. \nPaul, \nSaints of Rome,", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:8", "verse_text": "By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \nAbram, \n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\nCaleb, &c. \nAsa, \nElijah, \nHezekiah, \nJosiah, \nDavid, \nZerubbabel, &c. \nJoseph, \nWise men, \nZacharias, &c. \nPaul, \nSaints of Rome,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:3", "verse_text": "And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \nAbram, \n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\nCaleb, &c. \nAsa, \nElijah, \nHezekiah, \nJosiah, \nDavid, \nZerubbabel, &c. \nJoseph, \nWise men, \nZacharias, &c. \nPaul, \nSaints of Rome,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:12", "verse_text": "And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \nAbram, \n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\nCaleb, &c. \nAsa, \nElijah, \nHezekiah, \nJosiah, \nDavid, \nZerubbabel, &c. \nJoseph, \nWise men, \nZacharias, &c. \nPaul, \nSaints of Rome,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:28", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \nAbram, \n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\nCaleb, &c. \nAsa, \nElijah, \nHezekiah, \nJosiah, \nDavid, \nZerubbabel, &c. \nJoseph, \nWise men, \nZacharias, &c. \nPaul, \nSaints of Rome,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 24:7", "verse_text": "And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \nAbram, \n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\nCaleb, &c. \nAsa, \nElijah, \nHezekiah, \nJosiah, \nDavid, \nZerubbabel, &c. \nJoseph, \nWise men, \nZacharias, &c. \nPaul, \nSaints of Rome,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 32:12", "verse_text": "Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \nAbram, \n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\nCaleb, &c. \nAsa, \nElijah, \nHezekiah, \nJosiah, \nDavid, \nZerubbabel, &c. \nJoseph, \nWise men, \nZacharias, &c. \nPaul, \nSaints of Rome,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:11", "verse_text": "And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \nAbram, \n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\nCaleb, &c. \nAsa, \nElijah, \nHezekiah, \nJosiah, \nDavid, \nZerubbabel, &c. \nJoseph, \nWise men, \nZacharias, &c. \nPaul, \nSaints of Rome,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 17:5", "verse_text": "So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \nAbram, \n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\nCaleb, &c. \nAsa, \nElijah, \nHezekiah, \nJosiah, \nDavid, \nZerubbabel, &c. \nJoseph, \nWise men, \nZacharias, &c. \nPaul, \nSaints of Rome,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:6", "verse_text": "For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \nAbram, \n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\nCaleb, &c. \nAsa, \nElijah, \nHezekiah, \nJosiah, \nDavid, \nZerubbabel, &c. \nJoseph, \nWise men, \nZacharias, &c. \nPaul, \nSaints of Rome,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 22:2", "verse_text": "And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \nAbram, \n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\nCaleb, &c. \nAsa, \nElijah, \nHezekiah, \nJosiah, \nDavid, \nZerubbabel, &c. \nJoseph, \nWise men, \nZacharias, &c. \nPaul, \nSaints of Rome,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:106", "verse_text": "I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \nAbram, \n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\nCaleb, &c. \nAsa, \nElijah, \nHezekiah, \nJosiah, \nDavid, \nZerubbabel, &c. \nJoseph, \nWise men, \nZacharias, &c. \nPaul, \nSaints of Rome,", "verse_ref": "Haggai 1:12", "verse_text": "Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \nAbram, \n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\nCaleb, &c. \nAsa, \nElijah, \nHezekiah, \nJosiah, \nDavid, \nZerubbabel, &c. \nJoseph, \nWise men, \nZacharias, &c. \nPaul, \nSaints of Rome,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 1:24", "verse_text": "Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \nAbram, \n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\nCaleb, &c. \nAsa, \nElijah, \nHezekiah, \nJosiah, \nDavid, \nZerubbabel, &c. \nJoseph, \nWise men, \nZacharias, &c. \nPaul, \nSaints of Rome,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:12", "verse_text": "And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \nAbram, \n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\nCaleb, &c. \nAsa, \nElijah, \nHezekiah, \nJosiah, \nDavid, \nZerubbabel, &c. \nJoseph, \nWise men, \nZacharias, &c. \nPaul, \nSaints of Rome,", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:6", "verse_text": "And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \nAbram, \n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\nCaleb, &c. \nAsa, \nElijah, \nHezekiah, \nJosiah, \nDavid, \nZerubbabel, &c. \nJoseph, \nWise men, \nZacharias, &c. \nPaul, \nSaints of Rome,", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:19", "verse_text": "Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nNoah, \nAbram, \n\n\n\nIsraelites, \n\nCaleb, &c. \nAsa, \nElijah, \nHezekiah, \nJosiah, \nDavid, \nZerubbabel, &c. \nJoseph, \nWise men, \nZacharias, &c. \nPaul, \nSaints of Rome,", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:19", "verse_text": "For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil." } ] }, { "name": "Offences Against the Holy Ghost", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Offences-Against-the-Holy-Ghost.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Exhortations against", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:30", "verse_text": "And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations against", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:19", "verse_text": "Quench not the Spirit." }, { "point_text": "EXHIBITED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Tempting him", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:9", "verse_text": "Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out." }, { "point_text": "Vexing Him", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:10", "verse_text": "But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them." }, { "point_text": "Grieving Him", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:30", "verse_text": "And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption." }, { "point_text": "Quenching Him", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:19", "verse_text": "Quench not the Spirit." }, { "point_text": "Lying to Him", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:3-4", "verse_text": "But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? 4 Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God." }, { "point_text": "Resisting Him", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:51", "verse_text": "Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye." }, { "point_text": "Undervaluing His gifts", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:19-20", "verse_text": "Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost. 20 But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money." }, { "point_text": "Danger of trifling with the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:4-6", "verse_text": "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame." }, { "point_text": "Doing despite to Him", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:29", "verse_text": "Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?" }, { "point_text": "Disregarding His testimony", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:30", "verse_text": "Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands." }, { "point_text": "Blasphemy against Him, unpardonable", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:31-32", "verse_text": "Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. 32 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come." }, { "point_text": "Blasphemy against Him, unpardonable", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:16", "verse_text": "If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it." } ] }, { "name": "Ostrich, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Ostrich-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Unclean and unfit for food", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:13", "verse_text": "And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray," }, { "point_text": "Furnished with wings and feathers", "verse_ref": "Job 39:13", "verse_text": "Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?" }, { "point_text": "Lays her eggs in the sand", "verse_ref": "Job 39:14", "verse_text": "Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust," }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Void of wisdom", "verse_ref": "Job 39:17", "verse_text": "Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding." }, { "point_text": "Imprudent", "verse_ref": "Job 39:15", "verse_text": "And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them." }, { "point_text": "Cruel to her young", "verse_ref": "Job 39:16", "verse_text": "She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;" }, { "point_text": "Rapid in movement", "verse_ref": "Job 39:18", "verse_text": "What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the unnatural cruelty of the Jews in their calamities", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 4:3", "verse_text": "Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "(Companionship with,) of extreme desolation.\r\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Job 30:29", "verse_text": "I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls." } ] }, { "name": "Ox, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Ox-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Often found wild", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:5", "verse_text": "The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois." }, { "point_text": "INCLUDES THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Bull", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:15", "verse_text": "Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals." }, { "point_text": "Bull", "verse_ref": "Job 21:10", "verse_text": "Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf." }, { "point_text": "Bullock", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:9", "verse_text": "I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds." }, { "point_text": "Bullock", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 46:21", "verse_text": "Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation." }, { "point_text": "Cow", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:17", "verse_text": "But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Cow", "verse_ref": "Job 21:10", "verse_text": "Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf." }, { "point_text": "Heifer", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:9", "verse_text": "And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon." }, { "point_text": "Heifer", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:2", "verse_text": "This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:" }, { "point_text": "Was clean and fit for food", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:4", "verse_text": "These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat," }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Strong", "verse_ref": "Psalm 144:14", "verse_text": "That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets." }, { "point_text": "Strong", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:4", "verse_text": "Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox." }, { "point_text": "Beautiful", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 46:20", "verse_text": "Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north." }, { "point_text": "Beautiful", "verse_ref": "Hosea 10:11", "verse_text": "And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods." }, { "point_text": "Not without sagacity", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:3", "verse_text": "The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider." }, { "point_text": "Horns and hoofs of, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:31", "verse_text": "This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs." }, { "point_text": "Lowing of, alluded to", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:14", "verse_text": "And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?" }, { "point_text": "Lowing of, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Job 6:5", "verse_text": "Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?" }, { "point_text": "WAS FED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "With grass", "verse_ref": "Job 40:15", "verse_text": "Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox." }, { "point_text": "With grass", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:20", "verse_text": "Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass." }, { "point_text": "With grass", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:25", "verse_text": "That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will." }, { "point_text": "With corn", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:24", "verse_text": "The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan." }, { "point_text": "With straw", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:7", "verse_text": "And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox." }, { "point_text": "On the hills", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:25", "verse_text": "And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle." }, { "point_text": "In the valleys", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:29", "verse_text": "And over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite: and over the herds that were in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai:" }, { "point_text": "In the valleys", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:10", "verse_text": "And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me." }, { "point_text": "In stalls", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 3:17", "verse_text": "Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:" }, { "point_text": "Rapid manner of collecting its food alluded to", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:4", "verse_text": "And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time." }, { "point_text": "Formed a part of the patriarchal wealth", "verse_ref": "Genesis 13:2", "verse_text": "And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold." }, { "point_text": "Formed a part of the patriarchal wealth", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:14", "verse_text": "For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him." }, { "point_text": "Formed a part of the patriarchal wealth", "verse_ref": "Job 1:3", "verse_text": "His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east." }, { "point_text": "Formed a part of the wealth of Israel in Egypt", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:8", "verse_text": "And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen." }, { "point_text": "Formed a part of the wealth of Israel in Egypt", "verse_ref": "Exodus 10:9", "verse_text": "And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Formed a part of the wealth of Israel in Egypt", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:32", "verse_text": "Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also." }, { "point_text": "Formed a part of the wealth of the Jews", "verse_ref": "Numbers 32:4", "verse_text": "Even the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:" }, { "point_text": "Formed a part of the wealth of the Jews", "verse_ref": "Psalm 144:14", "verse_text": "That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets." }, { "point_text": "Required great care and attention", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:23", "verse_text": "Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds." }, { "point_text": "Herdmen appointed over", "verse_ref": "Genesis 13:7", "verse_text": "And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land." }, { "point_text": "Herdmen appointed over", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 21:7", "verse_text": "Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul." }, { "point_text": "Urged on by the goad", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:31", "verse_text": "And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel." }, { "point_text": "USED FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Drawing wagons, &c", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:3", "verse_text": "And they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they brought them before the tabernacle." }, { "point_text": "Drawing wagons, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 6:7", "verse_text": "Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:" }, { "point_text": "Carrying burdens", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:40", "verse_text": "Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel." }, { "point_text": "Plowing", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:19", "verse_text": "So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him." }, { "point_text": "Plowing", "verse_ref": "Job 1:14", "verse_text": "And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:" }, { "point_text": "Plowing", "verse_ref": "Amos 6:12", "verse_text": "Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:" }, { "point_text": "Earing the ground", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:24", "verse_text": "The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan." }, { "point_text": "Earing the ground", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:20", "verse_text": "Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass." }, { "point_text": "Treading out the corn", "verse_ref": "Hosea 10:11", "verse_text": "And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods." }, { "point_text": "Sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:24", "verse_text": "An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee." }, { "point_text": "Sacrifice", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:22", "verse_text": "And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood." }, { "point_text": "Food", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:9", "verse_text": "And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by Enrogel, and called all his brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants:" }, { "point_text": "Food", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:21", "verse_text": "And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him." }, { "point_text": "Food", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 18:2", "verse_text": "And after certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that he had with him, and persuaded him to go up with him to Ramothgilead." }, { "point_text": "Often stall-fed for slaughter", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:17", "verse_text": "Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith." }, { "point_text": "Goes to the slaughter unconscious", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 7:22", "verse_text": "He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;" }, { "point_text": "Young of, considered a great delicacy", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:7", "verse_text": "And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it." }, { "point_text": "Young of, considered a great delicacy", "verse_ref": "Amos 6:4", "verse_text": "That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;" }, { "point_text": "Male firstlings of, belonged to God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:19", "verse_text": "All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male." }, { "point_text": "Tithe of, given to the priests", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:6", "verse_text": "And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the LORD their God, and laid them by heaps." }, { "point_text": "LAWS RESPECTING;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To rest on the Sabbath", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:12", "verse_text": "Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed." }, { "point_text": "To rest on the Sabbath", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:14", "verse_text": "But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou." }, { "point_text": "Not to be yoked with an ass in the same plow", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 22:10", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together." }, { "point_text": "Not to be muzzled when treading out the corn", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 25:4", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn." }, { "point_text": "Not to be muzzled when treading out the corn", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:9", "verse_text": "For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?" }, { "point_text": "If stolen to be restored double", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:4", "verse_text": "If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double." }, { "point_text": "Of others not to be coveted", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:17", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's." }, { "point_text": "Of others not to be coveted", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:21", "verse_text": "Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's." }, { "point_text": "Of others if lost or hurt through neglect, to be made good", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:9-13", "verse_text": "For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour. 10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it: 11 Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good. 12 And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof. ..." }, { "point_text": "Killing a man, to be stoned", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:28-32", "verse_text": "If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit. 29 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death. 30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him. 31 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him. ..." }, { "point_text": "Mode of reparation for one, killing another", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:35-36", "verse_text": "And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide. 36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own." }, { "point_text": "Straying to be brought back to its owner", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:4", "verse_text": "If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again." }, { "point_text": "Straying to be brought back to its owner", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 22:1-2", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother. 2 And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again." }, { "point_text": "Fallen under its burden to be raised up again", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 22:4", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again." }, { "point_text": "Fat of, not to be eaten", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:23", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat." }, { "point_text": "Increase of, promised", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:13", "verse_text": "And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee." }, { "point_text": "Increase of, promised", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:4", "verse_text": "Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep." }, { "point_text": "Publicly sold", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:24", "verse_text": "And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver." }, { "point_text": "Publicly sold", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:19", "verse_text": "And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused." }, { "point_text": "Often given as a present", "verse_ref": "Genesis 12:16", "verse_text": "And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels." }, { "point_text": "Often given as a present", "verse_ref": "Genesis 20:14", "verse_text": "And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife." }, { "point_text": "The wicked often took, in pledge from the poor", "verse_ref": "Job 24:3", "verse_text": "They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge." }, { "point_text": "Custom of sending the pieces of, to collect the people to war", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 11:7", "verse_text": "And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent." }, { "point_text": "Sea of brass rested on figures of", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 7:25", "verse_text": "It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "(Engaged in husbandry,) of Ministers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:24", "verse_text": "The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan." }, { "point_text": "(Engaged in husbandry,) of Ministers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:20", "verse_text": "Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass." }, { "point_text": "(Not muzzled in treading corn,) of Minister's right to support", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:9-10", "verse_text": "For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? 10 Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope." }, { "point_text": "(Prepared for a feast,) of the provision of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 9:2", "verse_text": "She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table." }, { "point_text": "(Prepared for a feast,) of the provision of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:4", "verse_text": "Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage." }, { "point_text": "(Led to slaughter,) of a rash youth", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 7:22", "verse_text": "He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;" }, { "point_text": "(Led to slaughter,) of saints under persecution", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 11:19", "verse_text": "But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered." }, { "point_text": "(Stall fed,) of sumptuous living", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:17", "verse_text": "Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith." }, { "point_text": "BULL OR BULLOCK ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of fierce enemies", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:12", "verse_text": "Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round." }, { "point_text": "Of fierce enemies", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:30", "verse_text": "Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war." }, { "point_text": "(Firstling of,) of the glory of Joseph", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:17", "verse_text": "His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh." }, { "point_text": "(In a net,) of the impatient under judgment", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 51:20", "verse_text": "Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God." }, { "point_text": "(Fatted,) of greedy mercenaries", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 46:21", "verse_text": "Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation." }, { "point_text": "(Unaccustomed to the yoke,) of intractable sinners", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:18", "verse_text": "I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God." }, { "point_text": "KINE ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of proud and wealthy rulers", "verse_ref": "Amos 4:1", "verse_text": "Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink." }, { "point_text": "(Well favored,) of years of plenty", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:2", "verse_text": "And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow." }, { "point_text": "(Well favored,) of years of plenty", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:26", "verse_text": "The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one." }, { "point_text": "(Well favored,) of years of plenty", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:29", "verse_text": "Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:" }, { "point_text": "(Lean,) of years of scarcity", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:3", "verse_text": "And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river." }, { "point_text": "(Lean,) of years of scarcity", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:27", "verse_text": "And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine." }, { "point_text": "(Lean,) of years of scarcity", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:30", "verse_text": "And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;" }, { "point_text": "HEIFER ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of a beloved wife", "verse_ref": "Judges 14:18", "verse_text": "And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle." }, { "point_text": "(Sliding back,) of backsliding Israel", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:16", "verse_text": "For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place." }, { "point_text": "(Taught, &c.) of Israel's fondness for ease in preference to obedience", "verse_ref": "Hosea 10:11", "verse_text": "And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods." }, { "point_text": "(Of three years old,) of Moab in affliction", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 15:5", "verse_text": "My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction." }, { "point_text": "(Of three years old,) of Moab in affliction", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:34", "verse_text": "From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate." }, { "point_text": "(Fair,) of the beauty and wealth of Egypt", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 46:20", "verse_text": "Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north." }, { "point_text": "(At grass,) of the luxurious Chaldees", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:11", "verse_text": "Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;" } ] }, { "name": "Olive-tree, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Olivetree-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Often grew wild", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:17", "verse_text": "And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;" }, { "point_text": "CULTIVATED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In olive yards", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 8:14", "verse_text": "And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants." }, { "point_text": "In olive yards", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 5:11", "verse_text": "Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them." }, { "point_text": "Among rocks", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:13", "verse_text": "He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;" }, { "point_text": "On the sides of mountains", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:1", "verse_text": "And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples," }, { "point_text": "Canaan abounded in.\r\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 6:11", "verse_text": "And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;" }, { "point_text": "Canaan abounded in.\r\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:8", "verse_text": "A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;" }, { "point_text": "Assyria abounded in", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:32", "verse_text": "Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us." }, { "point_text": "Kings of Israel largely cultivated", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:28", "verse_text": "And over the olive trees and the sycomore trees that were in the low plains was Baalhanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Joash:" }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Green", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 11:16", "verse_text": "The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken." }, { "point_text": "Fair and beautiful", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 11:16", "verse_text": "The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken." }, { "point_text": "Fair and beautiful", "verse_ref": "Hosea 14:6", "verse_text": "His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Fat and unctuous", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:9", "verse_text": "But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?" }, { "point_text": "Fat and unctuous", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:17", "verse_text": "And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;" }, { "point_text": "Bearing goodly fruit", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 11:16", "verse_text": "The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken." }, { "point_text": "Bearing goodly fruit", "verse_ref": "James 3:12", "verse_text": "Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh." }, { "point_text": "Grafting of, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:24", "verse_text": "For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?" }, { "point_text": "Pruning of, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:18-19", "verse_text": "Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. 19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in." }, { "point_text": "Often cast its flowers", "verse_ref": "Job 15:33", "verse_text": "He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive." }, { "point_text": "Often cast its fruit", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:40", "verse_text": "Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit." }, { "point_text": "Often suffered from caterpillars", "verse_ref": "Amos 4:9", "verse_text": "I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Good for the service of God and man", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:9", "verse_text": "But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?" }, { "point_text": "Oil procured from", "verse_ref": "Exodus 27:20", "verse_text": "And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always." }, { "point_text": "Oil procured from", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:8", "verse_text": "A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;" }, { "point_text": "USED FOR MAKING", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The cherubim in the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:23", "verse_text": "And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high." }, { "point_text": "The doors and posts of the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:31-33", "verse_text": "And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall. 32 The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees. 33 So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall." }, { "point_text": "Booths at feast of tabernacles", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:15", "verse_text": "And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written." }, { "point_text": "Beaten to remove the fruit", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:20", "verse_text": "When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow." }, { "point_text": "Shaken when fully ripe", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 17:6", "verse_text": "Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Gleaning of, left for the poor", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:20", "verse_text": "When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow." }, { "point_text": "Fruit of, during sabbatical year left for the poor, &c", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:11", "verse_text": "But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard." }, { "point_text": "The fruit of, trodden in presses to extract the oil", "verse_ref": "Micah 6:15", "verse_text": "Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine." }, { "point_text": "The fruit of, trodden in presses to extract the oil", "verse_ref": "Haggai 2:16", "verse_text": "Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty." }, { "point_text": "Failure of, a great calamity", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 3:17-18", "verse_text": "Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: 18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:17", "verse_text": "And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;" }, { "point_text": "Of Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:24", "verse_text": "For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?" }, { "point_text": "Of the Jewish church", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 11:16", "verse_text": "The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken." }, { "point_text": "Of the righteous", "verse_ref": "Psalm 52:8", "verse_text": "But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever." }, { "point_text": "Of the righteous", "verse_ref": "Hosea 14:6", "verse_text": "His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Of children of pious parents", "verse_ref": "Psalm 128:3", "verse_text": "Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table." }, { "point_text": "Of the two witnesses", "verse_ref": "Revelation 11:3-4", "verse_text": "And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. 4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth." }, { "point_text": "(When wild,) of the Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:17", "verse_text": "And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;" }, { "point_text": "(When wild,) of the Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:24", "verse_text": "For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?" }, { "point_text": "(Gleaning of,) of the remnant of grace", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 17:6", "verse_text": "Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel." }, { "point_text": "(Gleaning of,) of the remnant of grace", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 24:13", "verse_text": "When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done." }, { "point_text": "Probable origin of its being the emblem of peace", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:11", "verse_text": "And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth." } ] }, { "name": "Nineveh", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Nineveh.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Origin and antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 10:11", "verse_text": "Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah," }, { "point_text": "Situated on the river Tigris", "verse_ref": "Nahum 2:6", "verse_text": "The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved." }, { "point_text": "Situated on the river Tigris", "verse_ref": "Nahum 2:8", "verse_text": "But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back." }, { "point_text": "The ancient capital of Assyria", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:36", "verse_text": "So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh." }, { "point_text": "The ancient capital of Assyria", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 37:37", "verse_text": "So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh." }, { "point_text": "Called the bloody city", "verse_ref": "Nahum 3:1", "verse_text": "Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;" }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Great", "verse_ref": "Jonah 1:2", "verse_text": "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me." }, { "point_text": "Great", "verse_ref": "Jonah 3:2", "verse_text": "Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee." }, { "point_text": "Extensive", "verse_ref": "Jonah 3:3", "verse_text": "So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey." }, { "point_text": "Rich", "verse_ref": "Nahum 2:9", "verse_text": "Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture." }, { "point_text": "Strong", "verse_ref": "Nahum 3:12", "verse_text": "All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater." }, { "point_text": "Commercial", "verse_ref": "Nahum 3:16", "verse_text": "Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away." }, { "point_text": "Populous", "verse_ref": "Jonah 4:11", "verse_text": "And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?" }, { "point_text": "Vile", "verse_ref": "Nahum 1:14", "verse_text": "And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile." }, { "point_text": "Wicked", "verse_ref": "Jonah 1:2", "verse_text": "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me." }, { "point_text": "Idolatrous", "verse_ref": "Nahum 1:14", "verse_text": "And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile." }, { "point_text": "Full of joy and carelessness", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 2:15", "verse_text": "This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand." }, { "point_text": "Full of lies and robbery", "verse_ref": "Nahum 3:1", "verse_text": "Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;" }, { "point_text": "Full of witchcraft", "verse_ref": "Nahum 3:4", "verse_text": "Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts." }, { "point_text": "Jonah sent to proclaim the destruction of", "verse_ref": "Jonah 1:2", "verse_text": "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me." }, { "point_text": "Jonah sent to proclaim the destruction of", "verse_ref": "Jonah 3:1-2", "verse_text": "And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying, 2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee." }, { "point_text": "Jonah sent to proclaim the destruction of", "verse_ref": "Jonah 3:4", "verse_text": "And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown." }, { "point_text": "Inhabitants of, repented at Jonah's preaching", "verse_ref": "Jonah 3:5-9", "verse_text": "So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: 8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. ..." }, { "point_text": "Inhabitants of, repented at Jonah's preaching", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:41", "verse_text": "The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here." }, { "point_text": "Inhabitants of, repented at Jonah's preaching", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:32", "verse_text": "The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of, averted", "verse_ref": "John 3:10", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?" }, { "point_text": "Destruction of, averted", "verse_ref": "John 4:11", "verse_text": "The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?" }, { "point_text": "PREDICTIONS RESPECTING", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Coming up of the Babylonish armies against", "verse_ref": "Nahum 2:1-4", "verse_text": "He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily. 2 For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches. 3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken. 4 The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings." }, { "point_text": "Coming up of the Babylonish armies against", "verse_ref": "Nahum 3:2", "verse_text": "The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of its people", "verse_ref": "Nahum 1:12", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of its people", "verse_ref": "Nahum 3:3", "verse_text": "The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:" }, { "point_text": "Spoiling of its treasures", "verse_ref": "Nahum 2:9", "verse_text": "Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of its idols", "verse_ref": "Nahum 1:14", "verse_text": "And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of its idols", "verse_ref": "Nahum 2:7", "verse_text": "And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts." }, { "point_text": "Degradation and contempt put on", "verse_ref": "Nahum 3:5-7", "verse_text": "Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame. 6 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock. 7 And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?" }, { "point_text": "Degradation and contempt put on", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 2:15", "verse_text": "This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand." }, { "point_text": "Utter destruction", "verse_ref": "Nahum 1:8-9", "verse_text": "But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies. 9 What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time." }, { "point_text": "Complete desolation", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 2:13-15", "verse_text": "And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. 14 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work. 15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand." }, { "point_text": "Feebleness of its people", "verse_ref": "Nahum 3:13", "verse_text": "Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars." }, { "point_text": "Being taken while people were drunk", "verse_ref": "Nahum 1:10", "verse_text": "For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry." }, { "point_text": "Being taken while people were drunk", "verse_ref": "Nahum 3:11", "verse_text": "Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy." }, { "point_text": "Captivity of its people", "verse_ref": "Nahum 3:10", "verse_text": "Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains." } ] }, { "name": "Palaces", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Palaces.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Jerusalem celebrated for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 48:3", "verse_text": "God is known in her palaces for a refuge." }, { "point_text": "Jerusalem celebrated for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 48:13", "verse_text": "Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following." }, { "point_text": "THE TERM APPLIED TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Residences of kings", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:4", "verse_text": "I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and flourishing in my palace:" }, { "point_text": "Residences of kings", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:18", "verse_text": "Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him." }, { "point_text": "Houses of great men", "verse_ref": "Amos 3:9", "verse_text": "Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof." }, { "point_text": "Houses of great men", "verse_ref": "Micah 5:5", "verse_text": "And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men." }, { "point_text": "The temple of God", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:1", "verse_text": "Furthermore David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great: for the palace is not for man, but for the LORD God." }, { "point_text": "The temple of God", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:19", "verse_text": "And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for the which I have made provision." }, { "point_text": "The house of the high priest", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:58", "verse_text": "But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "High", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:69", "verse_text": "And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever." }, { "point_text": "Polished", "verse_ref": "Psalm 144:12", "verse_text": "That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:" }, { "point_text": "Pleasant", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:22", "verse_text": "And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged." }, { "point_text": "OF KINGS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Called the king's house", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:9", "verse_text": "And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire." }, { "point_text": "Called the king's house", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:11", "verse_text": "Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king's house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously effected." }, { "point_text": "Called the house of the kingdom", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:1", "verse_text": "And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the LORD, and an house for his kingdom." }, { "point_text": "Called the house of the kingdom", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:12", "verse_text": "Huram said moreover, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build an house for the LORD, and an house for his kingdom." }, { "point_text": "Called the king's palace", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:5", "verse_text": "And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace;" }, { "point_text": "Called the royal house", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:9", "verse_text": "Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus." }, { "point_text": "Splendidly furnished", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:6", "verse_text": "Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble." }, { "point_text": "Surrounded with gardens", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:5", "verse_text": "And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace;" }, { "point_text": "Surrounded with terraces", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:11", "verse_text": "And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah." }, { "point_text": "Under governors", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:6", "verse_text": "And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute." }, { "point_text": "Under governors", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 7:2", "verse_text": "That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many." }, { "point_text": "Often attended by eunuchs as servants", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:18", "verse_text": "And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon." }, { "point_text": "Often attended by eunuchs as servants", "verse_ref": "Daniel 1:3-4", "verse_text": "And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king's seed, and of the princes; 4 Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans." }, { "point_text": "Were strictly guarded", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 11:5", "verse_text": "And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's house;" }, { "point_text": "Afforded support to all the King's retainers", "verse_ref": "Ezra 4:14", "verse_text": "Now because we have maintenance from the king's palace, and it was not meet for us to see the king's dishonour, therefore have we sent and certified the king;" }, { "point_text": "Afforded support to all the King's retainers", "verse_ref": "Daniel 1:5", "verse_text": "And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king." }, { "point_text": "Royal decrees issued from", "verse_ref": "Esther 3:15", "verse_text": "The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed." }, { "point_text": "Royal decrees issued from", "verse_ref": "Esther 8:14", "verse_text": "So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace." }, { "point_text": "Royal decrees laid up in", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:2", "verse_text": "And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:" }, { "point_text": "Contained treasures of the king", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:18", "verse_text": "Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Benhadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying," }, { "point_text": "Contained treasures of the king", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 12:9", "verse_text": "So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he took all: he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made." }, { "point_text": "Contained treasures of the king", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 25:24", "verse_text": "And he took all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obededom, and the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria." }, { "point_text": "Gorgeous apparel suited to, alone", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:25", "verse_text": "But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts." }, { "point_text": "Were entered by gates", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 2:8", "verse_text": "And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me." }, { "point_text": "Often the storehouses of rapine", "verse_ref": "Amos 3:10", "verse_text": "For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces." }, { "point_text": "OFTEN AS A PUNISHMENT", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Spoiled", "verse_ref": "Amos 3:11", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled." }, { "point_text": "Forsaken", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:14", "verse_text": "Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;" }, { "point_text": "Desolate", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:25", "verse_text": "Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents." }, { "point_text": "Desolate", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 19:7", "verse_text": "And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring." }, { "point_text": "Scenes of bloodshed", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:21", "verse_text": "For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets." }, { "point_text": "Burned with fire", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:19", "verse_text": "And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof." }, { "point_text": "Burned with fire", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:27", "verse_text": "But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched." }, { "point_text": "Overgrown with thorns, &c", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 34:13", "verse_text": "And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls." }, { "point_text": "The habitation of dragons, &c", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:22", "verse_text": "And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged." }, { "point_text": "The spider makes its way even into", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:28", "verse_text": "The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The splendor of the church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 8:9", "verse_text": "If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar." }, { "point_text": "The godly children of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 144:12", "verse_text": "That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:" }, { "point_text": "The place of Satan's dominion", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:21", "verse_text": "When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace:" } ] }, { "name": "Oil", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Oil.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Given by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:14-15", "verse_text": "He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; 15 And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart." }, { "point_text": "Comes from the earth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:14-15", "verse_text": "He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; 15 And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart." }, { "point_text": "KINDS OF, MENTIONED;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Olive", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:24", "verse_text": "And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:" }, { "point_text": "Olive", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 24:2", "verse_text": "Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually." }, { "point_text": "Myrrh", "verse_ref": "Esther 2:12", "verse_text": "Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)" }, { "point_text": "Extracted by presses", "verse_ref": "Haggai 2:16", "verse_text": "Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty." }, { "point_text": "Extracted by presses", "verse_ref": "Micah 6:15", "verse_text": "Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine." }, { "point_text": "The poor employed in extracting", "verse_ref": "Job 24:11", "verse_text": "Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst." }, { "point_text": "Canaan abounded in", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:8", "verse_text": "A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;" }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Soft", "verse_ref": "Psalm 55:21", "verse_text": "The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords." }, { "point_text": "Smooth", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 5:3", "verse_text": "For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:" }, { "point_text": "Penetrating", "verse_ref": "Psalm 109:18", "verse_text": "As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones." }, { "point_text": "Healing", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:6", "verse_text": "From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment." }, { "point_text": "Healing", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:34", "verse_text": "And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him." }, { "point_text": "The ointments of the Jews made of perfumes mixed with", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:23-25", "verse_text": "Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels, 24 And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin: 25 And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil." }, { "point_text": "The ointments of the Jews made of perfumes mixed with", "verse_ref": "John 12:3", "verse_text": "Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment." }, { "point_text": "Jews often extravagant in the use of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:17", "verse_text": "He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich." }, { "point_text": "Was titheable by the law", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:17", "verse_text": "Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:" }, { "point_text": "First-fruits of, given to God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:4", "verse_text": "The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him." }, { "point_text": "First-fruits of, given to God", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:5", "verse_text": "And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly." }, { "point_text": "First-fruits of, given to God", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 10:37", "verse_text": "And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage." }, { "point_text": "USED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "For food", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 17:12", "verse_text": "And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die." }, { "point_text": "For food", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:13", "verse_text": "Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom." }, { "point_text": "For anointing the person", "verse_ref": "Psalm 23:5", "verse_text": "Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over." }, { "point_text": "For anointing the person", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:15", "verse_text": "And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart." }, { "point_text": "For anointing the person", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:46", "verse_text": "My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment." }, { "point_text": "For anointing to offices of trust", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:7", "verse_text": "Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him." }, { "point_text": "For anointing to offices of trust", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 10:1", "verse_text": "Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because the LORD hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance?" }, { "point_text": "For anointing to offices of trust", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:16", "verse_text": "And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room." }, { "point_text": "For anointing the sick", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:13", "verse_text": "And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them." }, { "point_text": "For anointing the sick", "verse_ref": "James 5:14", "verse_text": "Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:" }, { "point_text": "In God's worship", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:10", "verse_text": "And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one as much as another." }, { "point_text": "In God's worship", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:4-10", "verse_text": "Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the LORD bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oil. 5 And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb. 6 Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil. 7 And for a drink offering thou shalt offer the third part of an hin of wine, for a sweet savour unto the LORD. ..." }, { "point_text": "In idolatrous worship", "verse_ref": "Hosea 2:5", "verse_text": "For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink." }, { "point_text": "In idolatrous worship", "verse_ref": "Hosea 2:8", "verse_text": "For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal." }, { "point_text": "For lamps", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:6", "verse_text": "Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense," }, { "point_text": "For lamps", "verse_ref": "Exodus 27:20", "verse_text": "And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always." }, { "point_text": "For lamps", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:3", "verse_text": "They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:" }, { "point_text": "When fresh especially esteemed", "verse_ref": "Psalm 92:10", "verse_text": "But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil." }, { "point_text": "Dealing in, a trade", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:7", "verse_text": "Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest." }, { "point_text": "Exported", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:11", "verse_text": "And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year." }, { "point_text": "Exported", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:17", "verse_text": "Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm." }, { "point_text": "Exported", "verse_ref": "Hosea 12:1", "verse_text": "Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Sold by measure", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:11", "verse_text": "And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year." }, { "point_text": "Sold by measure", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:6", "verse_text": "And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty." }, { "point_text": "KEPT IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Boxes", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 9:1", "verse_text": "And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil in thine hand, and go to Ramothgilead:" }, { "point_text": "Horns", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:39", "verse_text": "And Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, God save king Solomon." }, { "point_text": "Pots", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:2", "verse_text": "And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil." }, { "point_text": "Cruises", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 17:12", "verse_text": "And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die." }, { "point_text": "Cellars", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:28", "verse_text": "And over the olive trees and the sycomore trees that were in the low plains was Baalhanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Joash:" }, { "point_text": "Storehouses", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 32:28", "verse_text": "Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks." }, { "point_text": "Stores of, laid up in fortified cities", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 11:11", "verse_text": "And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine." }, { "point_text": "Failure of, a severe calamity", "verse_ref": "Haggai 1:11", "verse_text": "And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands." }, { "point_text": "Miraculous increase of", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:2-6", "verse_text": "And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil. 3 Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few. 4 And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full. 5 So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out. ..." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The unction of the Holy Spirit", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:7", "verse_text": "Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows." }, { "point_text": "The unction of the Holy Spirit", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:20", "verse_text": "I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:" }, { "point_text": "The unction of the Holy Spirit", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 4:12", "verse_text": "And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?" }, { "point_text": "The consolation of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:3", "verse_text": "To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified." }, { "point_text": "Kind reproof", "verse_ref": "Psalm 141:5", "verse_text": "Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities." } ] }, { "name": "Owl, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Owl-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Varieties of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:16-17", "verse_text": "And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, 17 And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl," }, { "point_text": "Unclean and not to be eaten", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:13", "verse_text": "And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray," }, { "point_text": "Unclean and not to be eaten", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:16", "verse_text": "And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind," }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Mournful in voice", "verse_ref": "Micah 1:8", "verse_text": "Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls." }, { "point_text": "Solitary in disposition", "verse_ref": "Psalm 102:6", "verse_text": "I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert." }, { "point_text": "Careful of its young", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 34:15", "verse_text": "There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate." }, { "point_text": "Inhabits deserted cities and houses", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:21", "verse_text": "But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there." }, { "point_text": "Inhabits deserted cities and houses", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 34:11-14", "verse_text": "But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. 12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing. 13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls. 14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest." }, { "point_text": "Inhabits deserted cities and houses", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:39", "verse_text": "Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation." }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of mourners", "verse_ref": "Psalm 102:6", "verse_text": "I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert." } ] }, { "name": "Offerings", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Offerings.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "To be made to God alone", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:20", "verse_text": "He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed." }, { "point_text": "To be made to God alone", "verse_ref": "Judges 13:16", "verse_text": "And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:3-4", "verse_text": "And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. 4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:" }, { "point_text": "DIFFERENT KINDS OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Burnt", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:3-17", "verse_text": "If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD. 4 And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. 5 And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 6 And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into his pieces. ..." }, { "point_text": "Burnt", "verse_ref": "Psalm 66:15", "verse_text": "I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Sin", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:3-35", "verse_text": "If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering. 4 And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD; and shall lay his hand upon the bullock's head, and kill the bullock before the LORD. 5 And the priest that is anointed shall take of the bullock's blood, and bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation: 6 And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the LORD, before the vail of the sanctuary. ..." }, { "point_text": "Sin", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:25", "verse_text": "Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD: it is most holy." }, { "point_text": "Sin", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 10:17", "verse_text": "Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy place, seeing it is most holy, and God hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD?" }, { "point_text": "Trespass", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:16-19", "verse_text": "And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him. 17 And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity. 18 And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred and wist it not, and it shall be forgiven him. 19 It is a trespass offering: he hath certainly trespassed against the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Trespass", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:6", "verse_text": "And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest:" }, { "point_text": "Trespass", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:1", "verse_text": "Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy." }, { "point_text": "Peace", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 3", "verse_text": "And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD. 2 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about. 3 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards, 4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away. ..." }, { "point_text": "Peace", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:11", "verse_text": "And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Heave", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:27", "verse_text": "And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:" }, { "point_text": "Heave", "verse_ref": "Exodus 7:14", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened, he refuseth to let the people go." }, { "point_text": "Heave", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:19", "verse_text": "Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Wave", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:26", "verse_text": "And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron's consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD: and it shall be thy part." }, { "point_text": "Wave", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:30", "verse_text": "His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Meat", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 2", "verse_text": "And when any will offer a meat offering unto the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon: 2 And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: 3 And the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire. 4 And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil. ..." }, { "point_text": "Meat", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:4", "verse_text": "Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the LORD bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oil." }, { "point_text": "Drink", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:14", "verse_text": "And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon." }, { "point_text": "Drink", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:40", "verse_text": "And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering." }, { "point_text": "Drink", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:5", "verse_text": "And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb." }, { "point_text": "Thank", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:12", "verse_text": "If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried." }, { "point_text": "Thank", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:29", "verse_text": "And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the LORD, offer it at your own will." }, { "point_text": "Thank", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:14", "verse_text": "Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:" }, { "point_text": "Free-will", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:38", "verse_text": "Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Free-will", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:10", "verse_text": "And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:" }, { "point_text": "Free-will", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:23", "verse_text": "That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth." }, { "point_text": "Incense", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:8", "verse_text": "And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations." }, { "point_text": "Incense", "verse_ref": "Malachi 1:11", "verse_text": "For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Incense", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:9", "verse_text": "According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord." }, { "point_text": "First-fruits", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:29", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me." }, { "point_text": "First-fruits", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:4", "verse_text": "The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him." }, { "point_text": "Tithe", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 27:30", "verse_text": "And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD'S: it is holy unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Tithe", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:21", "verse_text": "And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "Tithe", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:22", "verse_text": "Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year." }, { "point_text": "Gifts", "verse_ref": "Exodus 35:22", "verse_text": "And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Gifts", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:2-88", "verse_text": "That the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their fathers, who were the princes of the tribes, and were over them that were numbered, offered: 3 And they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they brought them before the tabernacle. 4 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 5 Take it of them, that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to every man according to his service. ..." }, { "point_text": "Jealousy", "verse_ref": "Numbers 5:15", "verse_text": "Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance." }, { "point_text": "Personal, for redemption", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:13", "verse_text": "This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Personal, for redemption", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:15", "verse_text": "The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls." }, { "point_text": "Declared to be most holy", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:9", "verse_text": "This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons." }, { "point_text": "REQUIRED TO BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Perfect", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:21", "verse_text": "And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein." }, { "point_text": "The best of their kind", "verse_ref": "Malachi 1:14", "verse_text": "But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen." }, { "point_text": "Offered willingly", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:19", "verse_text": "Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats." }, { "point_text": "Offered in righteousness", "verse_ref": "Malachi 3:3", "verse_text": "And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Offered in love and charity", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:23-24", "verse_text": "Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; 24 Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift." }, { "point_text": "Brought in a clean vessel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:20", "verse_text": "And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Brought to the place appointed of God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:6", "verse_text": "And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:" }, { "point_text": "Brought to the place appointed of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:6", "verse_text": "And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Brought to the place appointed of God", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:9", "verse_text": "Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;" }, { "point_text": "Laid before the altar", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:23-24", "verse_text": "Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; 24 Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift." }, { "point_text": "Presented by the priest", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 5:1", "verse_text": "For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:" }, { "point_text": "Brought without delay", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:29-30", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me. 30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me." }, { "point_text": "Unacceptable, without gratitude", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:8", "verse_text": "I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me." }, { "point_text": "Unacceptable, without gratitude", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:14", "verse_text": "Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:" }, { "point_text": "Could not make the offerer perfect", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:9", "verse_text": "Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;" }, { "point_text": "THINGS FORBIDDEN AS;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The price of fornication", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:18", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God." }, { "point_text": "The price of a dog", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:18", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God." }, { "point_text": "Whatever was blemished", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:20", "verse_text": "But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you." }, { "point_text": "Whatever was imperfect", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:24", "verse_text": "Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land." }, { "point_text": "Whatever was unclean", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 27:11", "verse_text": "And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the priest:" }, { "point_text": "Whatever was unclean", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 27:27", "verse_text": "And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth part of it thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation." }, { "point_text": "Laid up in the temple", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:12", "verse_text": "And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next." }, { "point_text": "Laid up in the temple", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 10:37", "verse_text": "And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage." }, { "point_text": "Hezekiah prepared chambers for", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:11", "verse_text": "Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them," }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS OFTEN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Slow in presenting", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:10-12", "verse_text": "And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field. 11 Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place. 12 Then brought all Judah the tithe of the corn and the new wine and the oil unto the treasuries." }, { "point_text": "Defrauded God of", "verse_ref": "Malachi 3:8", "verse_text": "Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings." }, { "point_text": "Gave the worst they had as", "verse_ref": "Malachi 1:8", "verse_text": "And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Gave the worst they had as", "verse_ref": "Malachi 1:13", "verse_text": "Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Rejected in, because of sin", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:13", "verse_text": "Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting." }, { "point_text": "Rejected in, because of sin", "verse_ref": "Malachi 1:10", "verse_text": "Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand." }, { "point_text": "Abhorred, on account of the sins of the priests", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:17", "verse_text": "Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Presented to idols", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:28", "verse_text": "For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings." }, { "point_text": "Made by strangers, to be the same as by the Jews", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:14-16", "verse_text": "And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do. 15 One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD. 16 One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you." }, { "point_text": "Many offences under the law, beyond the efficacy of", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 3:14", "verse_text": "And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever." }, { "point_text": "Many offences under the law, beyond the efficacy of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:16", "verse_text": "For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Christ's offering of Himself", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:2", "verse_text": "And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour." }, { "point_text": "The conversion of the Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:16", "verse_text": "That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "The conversion of the Jews", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:20", "verse_text": "And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD." } ] }, { "name": "Offence", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Offence.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Occasions of, must arrive", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:7", "verse_text": "Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!" }, { "point_text": "Occasions of, forbidden", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:32", "verse_text": "Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:" }, { "point_text": "Occasions of, forbidden", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:3", "verse_text": "Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:" }, { "point_text": "Persecution, a cause of, to mere professors", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:21", "verse_text": "Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended." }, { "point_text": "Persecution, a cause of, to mere professors", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:10", "verse_text": "And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another." }, { "point_text": "Persecution, a cause of, to mere professors", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:31", "verse_text": "Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED TAKE, AT", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The low station of Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:1-3", "verse_text": "Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not." }, { "point_text": "The low station of Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:54-57", "verse_text": "And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works? 55 Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? 56 And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things? 57 And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house." }, { "point_text": "Christ, as the corner-stone", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:14", "verse_text": "And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Christ, as the corner-stone", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:33", "verse_text": "As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed." }, { "point_text": "Christ, as the corner-stone", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:8", "verse_text": "And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed." }, { "point_text": "Christ, as the bread of life", "verse_ref": "John 6:58-61", "verse_text": "This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever. 59 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. 60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? 61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?" }, { "point_text": "Christ crucified", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:23", "verse_text": "But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;" }, { "point_text": "Christ crucified", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:11", "verse_text": "And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased." }, { "point_text": "The righteousness of faith", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:32", "verse_text": "Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;" }, { "point_text": "The necessity of inward purity", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:11-12", "verse_text": "Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. 12 Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?" }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of not taking, at Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:6", "verse_text": "And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me." }, { "point_text": "Saints warned against taking", "verse_ref": "John 16:1", "verse_text": "These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Be without", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:10", "verse_text": "That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;" }, { "point_text": "Be cautious of giving", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:15", "verse_text": "If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children." }, { "point_text": "Be cautious of giving", "verse_ref": "Romans 14:13", "verse_text": "Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way." }, { "point_text": "Be cautious of giving", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 8:9", "verse_text": "But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak." }, { "point_text": "Have a conscience void of", "verse_ref": "Acts 24:16", "verse_text": "And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men." }, { "point_text": "Cut off what causes, to themselves", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:29-30", "verse_text": "And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. 30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell." }, { "point_text": "Not let their liberty occasion, to others", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 8:9", "verse_text": "But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak." }, { "point_text": "Use self-denial rather than occasion", "verse_ref": "Romans 14:21", "verse_text": "It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak." }, { "point_text": "Use self-denial rather than occasion", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 8:13", "verse_text": "Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend." }, { "point_text": "Avoid those who cause", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:17", "verse_text": "Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them." }, { "point_text": "Reprove those who cause", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:21", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?" }, { "point_text": "Reprove those who cause", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:24", "verse_text": "Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD'S people to transgress." }, { "point_text": "MINISTERS SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Be cautious of giving", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:3", "verse_text": "Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:" }, { "point_text": "Remove that which causes", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:14", "verse_text": "And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people." }, { "point_text": "All things that cause, shall be gathered out of Christ's kingdom", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:41", "verse_text": "The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;" }, { "point_text": "Denunciation against those who cause", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:7", "verse_text": "Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!" }, { "point_text": "Denunciation against those who cause", "verse_ref": "Mark 9:42", "verse_text": "And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for occasioning", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 44:12", "verse_text": "Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for occasioning", "verse_ref": "Malachi 2:8-9", "verse_text": "But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts. 9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nBalaam, &c. \n\nGideon, \nSons of Eli, \nJeroboam, \nOld Prophet, \nPriests, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:2-6", "verse_text": "And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. 3 And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. 4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nBalaam, &c. \n\nGideon, \nSons of Eli, \nJeroboam, \nOld Prophet, \nPriests, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 31:16", "verse_text": "Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nBalaam, &c. \n\nGideon, \nSons of Eli, \nJeroboam, \nOld Prophet, \nPriests, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:14", "verse_text": "But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nBalaam, &c. \n\nGideon, \nSons of Eli, \nJeroboam, \nOld Prophet, \nPriests, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "Judges 8:27", "verse_text": "And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nBalaam, &c. \n\nGideon, \nSons of Eli, \nJeroboam, \nOld Prophet, \nPriests, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:12-17", "verse_text": "Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD. 13 And the priests' custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand; 14 And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither. 15 Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nBalaam, &c. \n\nGideon, \nSons of Eli, \nJeroboam, \nOld Prophet, \nPriests, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:26-30", "verse_text": "And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David: 27 If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah. 28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 29 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nBalaam, &c. \n\nGideon, \nSons of Eli, \nJeroboam, \nOld Prophet, \nPriests, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 13:18-26", "verse_text": "He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him. 19 So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water. 20 And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back: 21 And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee, ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nBalaam, &c. \n\nGideon, \nSons of Eli, \nJeroboam, \nOld Prophet, \nPriests, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "Malachi 2:8", "verse_text": "But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nBalaam, &c. \n\nGideon, \nSons of Eli, \nJeroboam, \nOld Prophet, \nPriests, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:23", "verse_text": "But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men." }, { "point_text": "Occasions of, must arrive", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:7", "verse_text": "Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!" }, { "point_text": "Occasions of, forbidden", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:32", "verse_text": "Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:" }, { "point_text": "Occasions of, forbidden", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:3", "verse_text": "Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:" }, { "point_text": "Persecution, a cause of, to mere professors", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:21", "verse_text": "Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended." }, { "point_text": "Persecution, a cause of, to mere professors", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:10", "verse_text": "And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another." }, { "point_text": "Persecution, a cause of, to mere professors", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:31", "verse_text": "Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED TAKE, AT", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "The low station of Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:1-3", "verse_text": "Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not." }, { "point_text": "The low station of Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:54-57", "verse_text": "And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works? 55 Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? 56 And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things? 57 And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house." }, { "point_text": "Christ, as the corner-stone", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:14", "verse_text": "And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Christ, as the corner-stone", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:33", "verse_text": "As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed." }, { "point_text": "Christ, as the corner-stone", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:8", "verse_text": "And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed." }, { "point_text": "Christ, as the bread of life", "verse_ref": "John 6:58-61", "verse_text": "This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever. 59 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. 60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? 61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?" }, { "point_text": "Christ crucified", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:23", "verse_text": "But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;" }, { "point_text": "Christ crucified", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:11", "verse_text": "And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased." }, { "point_text": "The righteousness of faith", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:32", "verse_text": "Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;" }, { "point_text": "The necessity of inward purity", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:11-12", "verse_text": "Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. 12 Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?" }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of not taking, at Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:6", "verse_text": "And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me." }, { "point_text": "Saints warned against taking", "verse_ref": "John 16:1", "verse_text": "These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS SHOULD", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Be without", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:10", "verse_text": "That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;" }, { "point_text": "Be cautious of giving", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:15", "verse_text": "If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children." }, { "point_text": "Be cautious of giving", "verse_ref": "Romans 14:13", "verse_text": "Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way." }, { "point_text": "Be cautious of giving", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 8:9", "verse_text": "But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak." }, { "point_text": "Have a conscience void of", "verse_ref": "Acts 24:16", "verse_text": "And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men." }, { "point_text": "Cut off what causes, to themselves", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:29-30", "verse_text": "And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. 30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell." }, { "point_text": "Not let their liberty occasion, to others", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 8:9", "verse_text": "But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak." }, { "point_text": "Use self-denial rather than occasion", "verse_ref": "Romans 14:21", "verse_text": "It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak." }, { "point_text": "Use self-denial rather than occasion", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 8:13", "verse_text": "Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend." }, { "point_text": "Avoid those who cause", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:17", "verse_text": "Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them." }, { "point_text": "Reprove those who cause", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:21", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?" }, { "point_text": "Reprove those who cause", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:24", "verse_text": "Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD'S people to transgress." }, { "point_text": "MINISTERS SHOULD", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Be cautious of giving", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:3", "verse_text": "Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:" }, { "point_text": "Remove that which causes", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:14", "verse_text": "And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people." }, { "point_text": "All things that cause, shall be gathered out of Christ's kingdom", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:41", "verse_text": "The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;" }, { "point_text": "Denunciation against those who cause", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:7", "verse_text": "Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!" }, { "point_text": "Denunciation against those who cause", "verse_ref": "Mark 9:42", "verse_text": "And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for occasioning", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 44:12", "verse_text": "Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for occasioning", "verse_ref": "Malachi 2:8-9", "verse_text": "But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts. 9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nBalaam, &c. \n\nGideon, \nSons of Eli, \nJeroboam, \nOld Prophet, \nPriests, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:2-6", "verse_text": "And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. 3 And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. 4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nBalaam, &c. \n\nGideon, \nSons of Eli, \nJeroboam, \nOld Prophet, \nPriests, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 31:16", "verse_text": "Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nBalaam, &c. \n\nGideon, \nSons of Eli, \nJeroboam, \nOld Prophet, \nPriests, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:14", "verse_text": "But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nBalaam, &c. \n\nGideon, \nSons of Eli, \nJeroboam, \nOld Prophet, \nPriests, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "Judges 8:27", "verse_text": "And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nBalaam, &c. \n\nGideon, \nSons of Eli, \nJeroboam, \nOld Prophet, \nPriests, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:12-17", "verse_text": "Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD. 13 And the priests' custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand; 14 And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither. 15 Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nBalaam, &c. \n\nGideon, \nSons of Eli, \nJeroboam, \nOld Prophet, \nPriests, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:26-30", "verse_text": "And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David: 27 If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah. 28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 29 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nBalaam, &c. \n\nGideon, \nSons of Eli, \nJeroboam, \nOld Prophet, \nPriests, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 13:18-26", "verse_text": "He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him. 19 So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water. 20 And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back: 21 And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee, ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nBalaam, &c. \n\nGideon, \nSons of Eli, \nJeroboam, \nOld Prophet, \nPriests, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "Malachi 2:8", "verse_text": "But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAaron, \nBalaam, &c. \n\nGideon, \nSons of Eli, \nJeroboam, \nOld Prophet, \nPriests, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:23", "verse_text": "But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men." } ] }, { "name": "Palm-tree, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Palmtree-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "First mention of, in Scripture", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:27", "verse_text": "And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters." }, { "point_text": "Jericho celebrated for", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 34:3", "verse_text": "And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar." }, { "point_text": "Jericho celebrated for", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:16", "verse_text": "And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Tall", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 7:7", "verse_text": "This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes." }, { "point_text": "Upright", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 10:5", "verse_text": "They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good." }, { "point_text": "Flourishing", "verse_ref": "Psalm 92:12", "verse_text": "The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Fruitful to a great age", "verse_ref": "Psalm 92:14", "verse_text": "They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;" }, { "point_text": "The fruit of, called dates.\r\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:5", "verse_text": "And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly." }, { "point_text": "Requires a moist and fertile soil", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:27", "verse_text": "And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters." }, { "point_text": "Tents often pitched under the shade of", "verse_ref": "Judges 4:5", "verse_text": "And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment." }, { "point_text": "THE BRANCHES OF, WERE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The emblem of victory", "verse_ref": "Revelation 7:9", "verse_text": "After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;" }, { "point_text": "Carried at feast of tabernacles", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:40", "verse_text": "And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days." }, { "point_text": "Used for constructing booths", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:15", "verse_text": "And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written." }, { "point_text": "Spread before Christ", "verse_ref": "John 12:13", "verse_text": "Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Blasted as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:12", "verse_text": "The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men." }, { "point_text": "Represented in carved work on the walls and doors of the temple of Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:29", "verse_text": "And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without." }, { "point_text": "Represented in carved work on the walls and doors of the temple of Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:32", "verse_text": "The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees." }, { "point_text": "Represented in carved work on the walls and doors of the temple of Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:35", "verse_text": "And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work." }, { "point_text": "Represented in carved work on the walls and doors of the temple of Solomon", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:5", "verse_text": "And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 7:7-8", "verse_text": "This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes. 8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;" }, { "point_text": "The righteous", "verse_ref": "Psalm 92:12", "verse_text": "The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "The upright appearance of idols", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 10:5", "verse_text": "They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good." } ] }, { "name": "Parables", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Parables.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "REMARKABLE PARABLES OF THE OLD TESTAMENT,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:8-15", "verse_text": "The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us. 9 But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? 10 And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us. 11 But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees? ..." }, { "point_text": "", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:1-4", "verse_text": "And the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. 2 The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds: 3 But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter. 4 And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him." }, { "point_text": "", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 14:5-7", "verse_text": "And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead. 6 And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew him. 7 And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "PARABLES OF CHRIST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Wise and foolish builders", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:24-27", "verse_text": "Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: 25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. 26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: 27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it." }, { "point_text": "Children of the bride-chamber", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:15", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast." }, { "point_text": "New cloth and old garment", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:16", "verse_text": "No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse." }, { "point_text": "New wine and old bottles", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:17", "verse_text": "Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved." }, { "point_text": "Unclean spirit", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:43", "verse_text": "When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none." }, { "point_text": "Sower", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:3-23", "verse_text": "And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; 4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: 5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: 6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. ..." }, { "point_text": "Sower", "verse_ref": "Luke 8:5-15", "verse_text": "A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. 6 And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture. 7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it. 8 And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. ..." }, { "point_text": "Tares", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:24-30", "verse_text": "Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: 25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. 26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. 27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? ..." }, { "point_text": "Tares", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:36-43", "verse_text": "Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. 37 He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; 38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; 39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. ..." }, { "point_text": "Mustard-seed", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:31-32", "verse_text": "Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: 32 Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof." }, { "point_text": "Leaven", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:33", "verse_text": "Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened." }, { "point_text": "Treasure hid in a field", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:44", "verse_text": "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field." }, { "point_text": "Pearl of great price", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:45-46", "verse_text": "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: 46 Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it." }, { "point_text": "Net cast into the sea", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:47-50", "verse_text": "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: 48 Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away. 49 So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, 50 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." }, { "point_text": "Meats defiling not", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:10-15", "verse_text": "And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: 11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. 12 Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? 13 But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. ..." }, { "point_text": "Unmerciful servant", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:23-35", "verse_text": "Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants. 24 And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents. 25 But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. 26 The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. ..." }, { "point_text": "Laborers hired", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:1-16", "verse_text": "For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. 2 And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3 And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, 4 And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way. ..." }, { "point_text": "Two sons", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:28-32", "verse_text": "But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard. 29 He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went. 30 And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not. 31 Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. ..." }, { "point_text": "Wicked husbandmen", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:33-45", "verse_text": "Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: 34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. 35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise. ..." }, { "point_text": "Marriage-feast", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:2-14", "verse_text": "The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, 3 And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. 4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage. 5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise: ..." }, { "point_text": "Fig-tree leafing", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:32-34", "verse_text": "Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: 33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. 34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled." }, { "point_text": "Man of the house watching", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:43", "verse_text": "But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up." }, { "point_text": "Faithful, and evil servants", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:45-51", "verse_text": "Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? 46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. 47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods. 48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; ..." }, { "point_text": "Ten virgins", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:1-13", "verse_text": "Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: 4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. ..." }, { "point_text": "Talents", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:14-30", "verse_text": "For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. 15 And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey. 16 Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents. 17 And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two. ..." }, { "point_text": "Kingdom, divided against itself", "verse_ref": "Mark 3:24", "verse_text": "And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand." }, { "point_text": "House, divided against itself", "verse_ref": "Mark 3:25", "verse_text": "And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand." }, { "point_text": "Strong man armed", "verse_ref": "Mark 3:27", "verse_text": "No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house." }, { "point_text": "Strong man armed", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:21", "verse_text": "When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace:" }, { "point_text": "Seed growing secretly", "verse_ref": "Mark 4:26-29", "verse_text": "And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; 27 And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. 28 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. 29 But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come." }, { "point_text": "Lighted candle", "verse_ref": "Mark 4:21", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?" }, { "point_text": "Lighted candle", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:33-36", "verse_text": "No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light. 34 The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. 35 Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness. 36 If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light." }, { "point_text": "Man taking a far journey", "verse_ref": "Mark 13:34-37", "verse_text": "For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch. 35 Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: 36 Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. 37 And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch." }, { "point_text": "Blind leading the blind", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:39", "verse_text": "And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?" }, { "point_text": "Beam and mote", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:41-42", "verse_text": "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 42 Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye." }, { "point_text": "Tree and its fruit", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:43-45", "verse_text": "For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 44 For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes. 45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh." }, { "point_text": "Creditor and debtors", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:41-47", "verse_text": "There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. 42 And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most? 43 Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged. 44 And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head. ..." }, { "point_text": "Good Samaritan", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:30-37", "verse_text": "And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. 31 And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. 32 And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side. 33 But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, ..." }, { "point_text": "Importunate friend", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:5-9", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves; 6 For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him? 7 And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee. 8 I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth. ..." }, { "point_text": "Rich fool", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:16-21", "verse_text": "And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: 17 And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? 18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. ..." }, { "point_text": "Cloud and wind", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:54-57", "verse_text": "And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is. 55 And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass. 56 Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time? 57 Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?" }, { "point_text": "Barren fig-tree", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:6-9", "verse_text": "He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. 7 Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? 8 And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: 9 And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down." }, { "point_text": "Men bidden to a feast", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:7-11", "verse_text": "And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them, 8 When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him; 9 And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room. 10 But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee. ..." }, { "point_text": "Builder of a tower", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:28-30", "verse_text": "For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? 29 Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, 30 Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish." }, { "point_text": "Builder of a tower", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:33", "verse_text": "So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple." }, { "point_text": "King going to war", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:31-33", "verse_text": "Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand? 32 Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace. 33 So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple." }, { "point_text": "Savor of salt", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:34-35", "verse_text": "Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? 35 It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." }, { "point_text": "Lost sheep", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:3-7", "verse_text": "And he spake this parable unto them, saying, 4 What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? 5 And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 6 And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost. ..." }, { "point_text": "Lost piece of silver", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:8-10", "verse_text": "Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? 9 And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. 10 Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth." }, { "point_text": "Prodigal son", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:11-32", "verse_text": "And he said, A certain man had two sons: 12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. 13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. 14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. ..." }, { "point_text": "Unjust steward", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:1-8", "verse_text": "And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods. 2 And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward. 3 Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed. 4 I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses. ..." }, { "point_text": "Rich man and Lazarus", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:19-31", "verse_text": "There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: 20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, 21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; ..." }, { "point_text": "Importunate widow", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:1-8", "verse_text": "And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; 2 Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: 3 And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. 4 And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; ..." }, { "point_text": "Pharisee and Publican", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:9-14", "verse_text": "And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: 10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. 12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. ..." }, { "point_text": "Pounds", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:12-27", "verse_text": "He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. 13 And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come. 14 But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us. 15 And it came to pass, that when he was returned, having received the kingdom, then he commanded these servants to be called unto him, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading. ..." }, { "point_text": "Good Shepherd", "verse_ref": "John 10:1-6", "verse_text": "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. 2 But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. 4 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. ..." }, { "point_text": "Vine and branches", "verse_ref": "John 15:1-5", "verse_text": "I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. ..." } ] }, { "name": "Pardon", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Pardon.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Promised", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:18", "verse_text": "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." }, { "point_text": "Promised", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:34", "verse_text": "And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more." }, { "point_text": "Promised", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 8:12", "verse_text": "For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." }, { "point_text": "Promised", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:20", "verse_text": "In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve." }, { "point_text": "None without shedding of blood", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 17:11", "verse_text": "For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul." }, { "point_text": "None without shedding of blood", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:22", "verse_text": "And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission." }, { "point_text": "Legal sacrifices, ineffectual for", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:4", "verse_text": "For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins." }, { "point_text": "Outward purifications, ineffectual for", "verse_ref": "Job 9:30-31", "verse_text": "If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; 31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me." }, { "point_text": "The blood of Christ, alone, is efficacious for", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 13:1", "verse_text": "In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness." }, { "point_text": "The blood of Christ, alone, is efficacious for", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:7", "verse_text": "But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin." }, { "point_text": "IS GRANTED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "By God alone", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:9", "verse_text": "To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;" }, { "point_text": "By God alone", "verse_ref": "Mark 2:7", "verse_text": "Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?" }, { "point_text": "By Christ", "verse_ref": "Mark 2:5", "verse_text": "When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee." }, { "point_text": "By Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:48", "verse_text": "And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven." }, { "point_text": "Through Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:69", "verse_text": "And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;" }, { "point_text": "Through Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:77", "verse_text": "To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins," }, { "point_text": "Through the blood of Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:28", "verse_text": "For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins." }, { "point_text": "Through the blood of Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:25", "verse_text": "Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;" }, { "point_text": "Through the blood of Christ", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:14", "verse_text": "In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:" }, { "point_text": "For the name's sake of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:12", "verse_text": "I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake." }, { "point_text": "According to the riches of grace", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:7", "verse_text": "In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;" }, { "point_text": "On the exaltation of Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:31", "verse_text": "Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins." }, { "point_text": "Freely", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 43:25", "verse_text": "I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins." }, { "point_text": "Readily", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:17", "verse_text": "And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not." }, { "point_text": "Readily", "verse_ref": "Psalm 86:5", "verse_text": "For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee." }, { "point_text": "Abundantly", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 55:7", "verse_text": "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon." }, { "point_text": "Abundantly", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:20", "verse_text": "Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:" }, { "point_text": "To those who confess their sins", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:13", "verse_text": "And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die." }, { "point_text": "To those who confess their sins", "verse_ref": "Psalm 32:5", "verse_text": "I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah." }, { "point_text": "To those who confess their sins", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:9", "verse_text": "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." }, { "point_text": "To those who repent", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:38", "verse_text": "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "To those who believe", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:43", "verse_text": "To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins." }, { "point_text": "Should be preached in the name of Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:47", "verse_text": "And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "EXHIBITS THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Compassion of God", "verse_ref": "Micah 7:18-19", "verse_text": "Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. 19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea." }, { "point_text": "Grace of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:15-16", "verse_text": "But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. 16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification." }, { "point_text": "Mercy of God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:7", "verse_text": "Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation." }, { "point_text": "Mercy of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:1", "verse_text": "Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions." }, { "point_text": "Goodness of God", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 30:18", "verse_text": "For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one" }, { "point_text": "Goodness of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 86:5", "verse_text": "For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee." }, { "point_text": "Forbearance of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:25", "verse_text": "Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;" }, { "point_text": "Loving-kindness of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:1", "verse_text": "Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions." }, { "point_text": "Justice of God", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:9", "verse_text": "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." }, { "point_text": "Faithfulness of God", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:9", "verse_text": "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." }, { "point_text": "EXPRESSED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Forgiving transgression", "verse_ref": "Psalm 32:1", "verse_text": "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered." }, { "point_text": "Removing transgression", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:12", "verse_text": "As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us." }, { "point_text": "Blotting out transgression", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:22", "verse_text": "I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee." }, { "point_text": "Covering sin", "verse_ref": "Psalm 32:1", "verse_text": "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered." }, { "point_text": "Blotting out sin", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:19", "verse_text": "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;" }, { "point_text": "Casting sins into the sea", "verse_ref": "Micah 7:19", "verse_text": "He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea." }, { "point_text": "Not imputing sin", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:8", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin." }, { "point_text": "Not mentioning transgression", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 18:22", "verse_text": "All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live." }, { "point_text": "Remembering sins no more", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:17", "verse_text": "And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more." }, { "point_text": "All saints enjoy", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:13", "verse_text": "And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;" }, { "point_text": "All saints enjoy", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:12", "verse_text": "I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 32:1", "verse_text": "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:7", "verse_text": "Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD LEAD TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Returning to God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:22", "verse_text": "I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee." }, { "point_text": "Loving God", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:47", "verse_text": "Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little." }, { "point_text": "Fearing God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 130:4", "verse_text": "But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared." }, { "point_text": "Praising God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:2-3", "verse_text": "Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: 3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;" }, { "point_text": "Ministers are appointed to proclaim", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:1-2", "verse_text": "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. 2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins." }, { "point_text": "Ministers are appointed to proclaim", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:19", "verse_text": "To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation." }, { "point_text": "PRAY FOR,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "For yourselves", "verse_ref": "Psalm 25:11", "verse_text": "For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great." }, { "point_text": "For yourselves", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:1", "verse_text": "Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions." }, { "point_text": "For yourselves", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:12", "verse_text": "And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors." }, { "point_text": "For yourselves", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:4", "verse_text": "And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil." }, { "point_text": "For others", "verse_ref": "James 5:15", "verse_text": "And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him." }, { "point_text": "For others", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:16", "verse_text": "If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it." }, { "point_text": "Encouragement to pray for", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:14", "verse_text": "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." }, { "point_text": "WITHHELD FROM", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The unforgiving", "verse_ref": "Mark 11:26", "verse_text": "But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses." }, { "point_text": "The unforgiving", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:37", "verse_text": "Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:" }, { "point_text": "The unbelieving", "verse_ref": "John 8:21", "verse_text": "Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come." }, { "point_text": "The unbelieving", "verse_ref": "John 8:24", "verse_text": "I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins." }, { "point_text": "The impenitent", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:2-5", "verse_text": "And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things? 3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. 4 Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? 5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish." }, { "point_text": "Blasphemers against the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:32", "verse_text": "And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come." }, { "point_text": "Blasphemers against the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Mark 3:28-29", "verse_text": "Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme: 29 But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation:" }, { "point_text": "Apostates", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:26-27", "verse_text": "For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, 27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries." }, { "point_text": "Apostates", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:16", "verse_text": "If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:42", "verse_text": "And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?" }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:20-24", "verse_text": "And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. 21 And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. 22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: 23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsraelites, \nDavid, \nManasseh, \nHezekiah, \nThe Paralytic, \nThe Penitent,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:20", "verse_text": "And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsraelites, \nDavid, \nManasseh, \nHezekiah, \nThe Paralytic, \nThe Penitent,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:13", "verse_text": "And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsraelites, \nDavid, \nManasseh, \nHezekiah, \nThe Paralytic, \nThe Penitent,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:13", "verse_text": "And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsraelites, \nDavid, \nManasseh, \nHezekiah, \nThe Paralytic, \nThe Penitent,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:17", "verse_text": "Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsraelites, \nDavid, \nManasseh, \nHezekiah, \nThe Paralytic, \nThe Penitent,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:2", "verse_text": "And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIsraelites, \nDavid, \nManasseh, \nHezekiah, \nThe Paralytic, \nThe Penitent,", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:47", "verse_text": "Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little." } ] }, { "name": "Parents", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Parents.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Receive their children from God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 33:5", "verse_text": "And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant." }, { "point_text": "Receive their children from God", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:27", "verse_text": "For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:" }, { "point_text": "Receive their children from God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 127:3", "verse_text": "Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward." }, { "point_text": "THEIR DUTY TO THEIR CHILDREN IS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To love them", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:4", "verse_text": "That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children," }, { "point_text": "To bring them to Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:13-14", "verse_text": "Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them. 14 But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." }, { "point_text": "To train them up for God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:6", "verse_text": "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." }, { "point_text": "To train them up for God", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:4", "verse_text": "And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." }, { "point_text": "To instruct them in God's word", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:9", "verse_text": "Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;" }, { "point_text": "To instruct them in God's word", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:19", "verse_text": "And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." }, { "point_text": "To instruct them in God's word", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:19", "verse_text": "The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth." }, { "point_text": "To tell them of God's judgments", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:3", "verse_text": "Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation." }, { "point_text": "To tell them of the miraculous works of God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 10:2", "verse_text": "And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "To tell them of the miraculous works of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:4", "verse_text": "We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done." }, { "point_text": "To command them to obey God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:46", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law." }, { "point_text": "To command them to obey God", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 28:9", "verse_text": "And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever." }, { "point_text": "To bless them", "verse_ref": "Genesis 48:15", "verse_text": "And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day," }, { "point_text": "To bless them", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:20", "verse_text": "By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come." }, { "point_text": "To pity them", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:13", "verse_text": "Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him." }, { "point_text": "To provide for them", "verse_ref": "Job 42:15", "verse_text": "And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren." }, { "point_text": "To provide for them", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 12:14", "verse_text": "Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children." }, { "point_text": "To provide for them", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:8", "verse_text": "But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel." }, { "point_text": "To rule them", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:4", "verse_text": "One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;" }, { "point_text": "To rule them", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:12", "verse_text": "Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well." }, { "point_text": "To correct them", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 13:24", "verse_text": "He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes." }, { "point_text": "To correct them", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:18", "verse_text": "Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying." }, { "point_text": "To correct them", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:13", "verse_text": "Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die." }, { "point_text": "To correct them", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 29:17", "verse_text": "Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul." }, { "point_text": "To correct them", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:7", "verse_text": "If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?" }, { "point_text": "Not to provoke them", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:4", "verse_text": "And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Not to provoke them", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:21", "verse_text": "Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged." }, { "point_text": "Not to make unholy connections for them", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:1-4", "verse_text": "And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things. 2 And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh: 3 And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: 4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac." }, { "point_text": "Not to make unholy connections for them", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:1-2", "verse_text": "And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. 2 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother." }, { "point_text": "Wicked children, a cause of grief to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:1", "verse_text": "The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother." }, { "point_text": "Wicked children, a cause of grief to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:25", "verse_text": "A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD PRAY FOR THEIR CHILDREN,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "For their spiritual welfare", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:18", "verse_text": "And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!" }, { "point_text": "For their spiritual welfare", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:19", "verse_text": "And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for the which I have made provision." }, { "point_text": "When in temptation", "verse_ref": "Job 1:5", "verse_text": "And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually." }, { "point_text": "When in sickness", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:16", "verse_text": "David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "When in sickness", "verse_ref": "Mark 5:23", "verse_text": "And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live." }, { "point_text": "When in sickness", "verse_ref": "John 4:46", "verse_text": "So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum." }, { "point_text": "When in sickness", "verse_ref": "John 4:49", "verse_text": "The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die." }, { "point_text": "WHEN FAITHFUL,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Are blessed by their children", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:28", "verse_text": "Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her." }, { "point_text": "Leave a blessing to their children", "verse_ref": "Psalm 112:2", "verse_text": "His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed." }, { "point_text": "Leave a blessing to their children", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:21", "verse_text": "Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered." }, { "point_text": "Leave a blessing to their children", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:23", "verse_text": "They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them." }, { "point_text": "Sins of, visited on their children", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:5", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;" }, { "point_text": "Sins of, visited on their children", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:20", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned." }, { "point_text": "Sins of, visited on their children", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 5:7", "verse_text": "Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities." }, { "point_text": "Negligence of, sorely punished", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 3:13", "verse_text": "For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not." }, { "point_text": "WHEN WICKED,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Instruct their children in evil", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:14", "verse_text": "But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:" }, { "point_text": "Instruct their children in evil", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:18", "verse_text": "Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;" }, { "point_text": "Set a bad example to their children", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:18", "verse_text": "But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:" }, { "point_text": "Set a bad example to their children", "verse_ref": "Amos 2:4", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:" }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \n\nJoseph, \nMother of Moses, \nManoah, \nHannah, \nDavid, \n\nShunammite, \nJob, \nMother of Lemuel, \nNobleman, \nLois and Eunice,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:19", "verse_text": "For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \n\nJoseph, \nMother of Moses, \nManoah, \nHannah, \nDavid, \n\nShunammite, \nJob, \nMother of Lemuel, \nNobleman, \nLois and Eunice,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 44:20", "verse_text": "And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \n\nJoseph, \nMother of Moses, \nManoah, \nHannah, \nDavid, \n\nShunammite, \nJob, \nMother of Lemuel, \nNobleman, \nLois and Eunice,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 44:30", "verse_text": "Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;" }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \n\nJoseph, \nMother of Moses, \nManoah, \nHannah, \nDavid, \n\nShunammite, \nJob, \nMother of Lemuel, \nNobleman, \nLois and Eunice,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 48:13-20", "verse_text": "And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him. 14 And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn. 15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, 16 The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. ..." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \n\nJoseph, \nMother of Moses, \nManoah, \nHannah, \nDavid, \n\nShunammite, \nJob, \nMother of Lemuel, \nNobleman, \nLois and Eunice,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:2-3", "verse_text": "And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. 3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \n\nJoseph, \nMother of Moses, \nManoah, \nHannah, \nDavid, \n\nShunammite, \nJob, \nMother of Lemuel, \nNobleman, \nLois and Eunice,", "verse_ref": "Judges 13:8", "verse_text": "Then Manoah intreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \n\nJoseph, \nMother of Moses, \nManoah, \nHannah, \nDavid, \n\nShunammite, \nJob, \nMother of Lemuel, \nNobleman, \nLois and Eunice,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:28", "verse_text": "Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped the LORD there." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \n\nJoseph, \nMother of Moses, \nManoah, \nHannah, \nDavid, \n\nShunammite, \nJob, \nMother of Lemuel, \nNobleman, \nLois and Eunice,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 18:5", "verse_text": "And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \n\nJoseph, \nMother of Moses, \nManoah, \nHannah, \nDavid, \n\nShunammite, \nJob, \nMother of Lemuel, \nNobleman, \nLois and Eunice,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 18:33", "verse_text": "And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!" }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \n\nJoseph, \nMother of Moses, \nManoah, \nHannah, \nDavid, \n\nShunammite, \nJob, \nMother of Lemuel, \nNobleman, \nLois and Eunice,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:19-20", "verse_text": "And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother. 20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \n\nJoseph, \nMother of Moses, \nManoah, \nHannah, \nDavid, \n\nShunammite, \nJob, \nMother of Lemuel, \nNobleman, \nLois and Eunice,", "verse_ref": "Job 1:5", "verse_text": "And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \n\nJoseph, \nMother of Moses, \nManoah, \nHannah, \nDavid, \n\nShunammite, \nJob, \nMother of Lemuel, \nNobleman, \nLois and Eunice,", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:1", "verse_text": "The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \n\nJoseph, \nMother of Moses, \nManoah, \nHannah, \nDavid, \n\nShunammite, \nJob, \nMother of Lemuel, \nNobleman, \nLois and Eunice,", "verse_ref": "John 4:49", "verse_text": "The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \n\nJoseph, \nMother of Moses, \nManoah, \nHannah, \nDavid, \n\nShunammite, \nJob, \nMother of Lemuel, \nNobleman, \nLois and Eunice,", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:5", "verse_text": "When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also." }, { "point_text": "Bad--Exemplified.\r\n\nMother of Micah, \nEli, \nSaul, \nAthaliah, \nManasseh, \nHerodias,", "verse_ref": "Judges 17:3", "verse_text": "And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Bad--Exemplified.\r\n\nMother of Micah, \nEli, \nSaul, \nAthaliah, \nManasseh, \nHerodias,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 3:13", "verse_text": "For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not." }, { "point_text": "Bad--Exemplified.\r\n\nMother of Micah, \nEli, \nSaul, \nAthaliah, \nManasseh, \nHerodias,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 20:33", "verse_text": "And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David." }, { "point_text": "Bad--Exemplified.\r\n\nMother of Micah, \nEli, \nSaul, \nAthaliah, \nManasseh, \nHerodias,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 22:3", "verse_text": "He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counseller to do wickedly." }, { "point_text": "Bad--Exemplified.\r\n\nMother of Micah, \nEli, \nSaul, \nAthaliah, \nManasseh, \nHerodias,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:6", "verse_text": "And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger." }, { "point_text": "Bad--Exemplified.\r\n\nMother of Micah, \nEli, \nSaul, \nAthaliah, \nManasseh, \nHerodias,", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:24", "verse_text": "And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist." } ] }, { "name": "Patriarchal Government", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Patriarchal-Government.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Vested in the heads of families", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:19", "verse_text": "For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him." }, { "point_text": "EXERCISED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Training, &c. their servants for war", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:14", "verse_text": "And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan." }, { "point_text": "Vindicating their wrongs", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:12", "verse_text": "And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed." }, { "point_text": "Vindicating their wrongs", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:15-16", "verse_text": "And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. 16 And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people." }, { "point_text": "Forming treaties and alliances", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:13", "verse_text": "And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram." }, { "point_text": "Forming treaties and alliances", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:22-32", "verse_text": "And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest: 23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned. 24 And Abraham said, I will swear. 25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away. ..." }, { "point_text": "Forming treaties and alliances", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:28-33", "verse_text": "And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee; 29 That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD. 30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink. 31 And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace. ..." }, { "point_text": "Acting as priests", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:20", "verse_text": "And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar." }, { "point_text": "Acting as priests", "verse_ref": "Genesis 12:7", "verse_text": "And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him." }, { "point_text": "Acting as priests", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:1-7", "verse_text": "And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother. 2 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments: 3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went. 4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem. ..." }, { "point_text": "Acting as priests", "verse_ref": "Job 1:5", "verse_text": "And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually." }, { "point_text": "Acting as judges", "verse_ref": "Genesis 38:24", "verse_text": "And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt." }, { "point_text": "Arbitrarily disinheriting and putting away servants and children", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:14", "verse_text": "And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba." }, { "point_text": "Arbitrarily disinheriting and putting away servants and children", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 5:1", "verse_text": "Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright." }, { "point_text": "Blessing and cursing their children", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:25", "verse_text": "And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren." }, { "point_text": "Blessing and cursing their children", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:28", "verse_text": "Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:" }, { "point_text": "Blessing and cursing their children", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49", "verse_text": "And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days. 2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father. 3 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: 4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch. ..." }, { "point_text": "The authority of heads of families for, acknowledged", "verse_ref": "Genesis 23:6", "verse_text": "Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead." } ] }, { "name": "Paschal Lamb, Typical Nature of", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Paschal-Lamb-Typical-Nature-of.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "A type of Christ", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:3", "verse_text": "Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:" }, { "point_text": "A type of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 5:7", "verse_text": "Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:" }, { "point_text": "A male of the first year", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:5", "verse_text": "Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:" }, { "point_text": "A male of the first year", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:6", "verse_text": "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." }, { "point_text": "Without blemish", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:5", "verse_text": "Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:" }, { "point_text": "Without blemish", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:19", "verse_text": "But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:" }, { "point_text": "Taken out of the flock", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:5", "verse_text": "Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:" }, { "point_text": "Taken out of the flock", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:14", "verse_text": "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;" }, { "point_text": "Taken out of the flock", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:17", "verse_text": "Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people." }, { "point_text": "Chosen before-hand", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:3", "verse_text": "Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:" }, { "point_text": "Chosen before-hand", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:4", "verse_text": "To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious," }, { "point_text": "Shut up four days that it might be closely examined", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:6", "verse_text": "And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening." }, { "point_text": "Shut up four days that it might be closely examined", "verse_ref": "John 8:46", "verse_text": "Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?" }, { "point_text": "Shut up four days that it might be closely examined", "verse_ref": "John 18:38", "verse_text": "Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all." }, { "point_text": "Killed by the people", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:6", "verse_text": "And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening." }, { "point_text": "Killed by the people", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:23", "verse_text": "Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:" }, { "point_text": "Killed at the place where the Lord put his name", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:2", "verse_text": "Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there." }, { "point_text": "Killed at the place where the Lord put his name", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:5-7", "verse_text": "Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee: 6 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt. 7 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents." }, { "point_text": "Killed at the place where the Lord put his name", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 35:1", "verse_text": "Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month." }, { "point_text": "Killed at the place where the Lord put his name", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:33", "verse_text": "Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Killed in the evening", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:6", "verse_text": "And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening." }, { "point_text": "Killed in the evening", "verse_ref": "Mark 15:34", "verse_text": "And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" }, { "point_text": "Killed in the evening", "verse_ref": "Mark 15:37", "verse_text": "And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost." }, { "point_text": "Its blood to be shed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:7", "verse_text": "And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it." }, { "point_text": "Its blood to be shed", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:20", "verse_text": "Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you." }, { "point_text": "Blood of, sprinkled on lintel and door-posts", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:22", "verse_text": "And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning." }, { "point_text": "Blood of, sprinkled on lintel and door-posts", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:13", "verse_text": "For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:" }, { "point_text": "Blood of, sprinkled on lintel and door-posts", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:22", "verse_text": "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water." }, { "point_text": "Blood of, sprinkled on lintel and door-posts", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:2", "verse_text": "Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied." }, { "point_text": "Blood of, not sprinkled on threshold", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:7", "verse_text": "And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it." }, { "point_text": "Blood of, not sprinkled on threshold", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:29", "verse_text": "Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?" }, { "point_text": "Not a bone of, broken", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:46", "verse_text": "In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof." }, { "point_text": "Not a bone of, broken", "verse_ref": "John 19:36", "verse_text": "For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken." }, { "point_text": "Not eaten raw", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:9", "verse_text": "Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof." }, { "point_text": "Not eaten raw", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:28-29", "verse_text": "But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. 29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body." }, { "point_text": "Roasted with fire", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:8", "verse_text": "And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it." }, { "point_text": "Roasted with fire", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:14-15", "verse_text": "I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death." }, { "point_text": "Eaten with bitter herbs", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:8", "verse_text": "And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it." }, { "point_text": "Eaten with bitter herbs", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 12:10", "verse_text": "And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn." }, { "point_text": "Eaten with unleavened bread", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:39", "verse_text": "And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual." }, { "point_text": "Eaten with unleavened bread", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 5:7-8", "verse_text": "Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." }, { "point_text": "Eaten with unleavened bread", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:12", "verse_text": "For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward." }, { "point_text": "Eaten in haste", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:11", "verse_text": "And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover." }, { "point_text": "Eaten in haste", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:18", "verse_text": "That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:" }, { "point_text": "Eaten with the loins girt", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:11", "verse_text": "And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover." }, { "point_text": "Eaten with the loins girt", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:35", "verse_text": "Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;" }, { "point_text": "Eaten with the loins girt", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:14", "verse_text": "Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;" }, { "point_text": "Eaten with the loins girt", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:13", "verse_text": "Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;" }, { "point_text": "Eaten with staff in hand", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:11", "verse_text": "And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover." }, { "point_text": "Eaten with staff in hand", "verse_ref": "Psalm 23:4", "verse_text": "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." }, { "point_text": "Eaten with shoes on", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:11", "verse_text": "And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover." }, { "point_text": "Eaten with shoes on", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:15", "verse_text": "And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;" }, { "point_text": "Not taken out of the house", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:46", "verse_text": "In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof." }, { "point_text": "Not taken out of the house", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:17", "verse_text": "That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love," }, { "point_text": "What remained of it till morning to be burned", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:10", "verse_text": "And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire." }, { "point_text": "What remained of it till morning to be burned", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:6", "verse_text": "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you." }, { "point_text": "What remained of it till morning to be burned", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:3", "verse_text": "Give us day by day our daily bread." } ] }, { "name": "Persecution", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Persecution.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Christ suffered", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:26", "verse_text": "For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded." }, { "point_text": "Christ suffered", "verse_ref": "John 5:16", "verse_text": "And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day." }, { "point_text": "Christ voluntarily submitted to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 50:6", "verse_text": "I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting." }, { "point_text": "Christ was patient under", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:7", "verse_text": "He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth." }, { "point_text": "Saints may expect", "verse_ref": "Mark 10:30", "verse_text": "But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life." }, { "point_text": "Saints may expect", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:12", "verse_text": "But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake." }, { "point_text": "Saints may expect", "verse_ref": "John 15:20", "verse_text": "Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also." }, { "point_text": "Saints suffer, for the sake of God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 15:15", "verse_text": "O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke." }, { "point_text": "Of saints, is a persecution of Christ", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 2:8", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye." }, { "point_text": "Of saints, is a persecution of Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:4-5", "verse_text": "And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? 5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks." }, { "point_text": "All that live godly in Christ, shall suffer", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:12", "verse_text": "Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." }, { "point_text": "ORIGINATES IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Ignorance of God and Christ", "verse_ref": "John 16:3", "verse_text": "And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me." }, { "point_text": "Hated to God and Christ", "verse_ref": "John 15:20", "verse_text": "Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also." }, { "point_text": "Hated to God and Christ", "verse_ref": "John 15:24", "verse_text": "If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father." }, { "point_text": "Hatred to the gospel", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:21", "verse_text": "Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended." }, { "point_text": "Pride", "verse_ref": "Psalm 10:2", "verse_text": "The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined." }, { "point_text": "Mistaken zeal", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:50", "verse_text": "But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts." }, { "point_text": "Mistaken zeal", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:9-11", "verse_text": "I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. 10 Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them. 11 And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities." }, { "point_text": "Is inconsistent with the spirit of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:52", "verse_text": "Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword." }, { "point_text": "Men by nature addicted to", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:29", "verse_text": "But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now." }, { "point_text": "Preachers of the gospel subject to", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:11", "verse_text": "And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased." }, { "point_text": "Is sometimes unto death", "verse_ref": "Acts 22:4", "verse_text": "And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women." }, { "point_text": "God forsakes not His saints under", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:9", "verse_text": "Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;" }, { "point_text": "God delivers out of", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:25", "verse_text": "He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God." }, { "point_text": "God delivers out of", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:28", "verse_text": "Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God." }, { "point_text": "God delivers out of", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:10", "verse_text": "Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;" }, { "point_text": "God delivers out of", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:11", "verse_text": "Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me." }, { "point_text": "Cannot separate from Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:35", "verse_text": "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?" }, { "point_text": "Lawful means may be used to escape", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:13", "verse_text": "And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him." }, { "point_text": "Lawful means may be used to escape", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:23", "verse_text": "But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come." }, { "point_text": "Lawful means may be used to escape", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:14-15", "verse_text": "Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him. 15 But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;" }, { "point_text": "SAINTS SUFFERING, SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Commit themselves to God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:19", "verse_text": "Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator." }, { "point_text": "Exhibit patience", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 4:12", "verse_text": "And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:" }, { "point_text": "Rejoice", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:12", "verse_text": "Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you." }, { "point_text": "Rejoice", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:13", "verse_text": "But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy." }, { "point_text": "Glorify God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:16", "verse_text": "Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf." }, { "point_text": "Pray for deliverance", "verse_ref": "Psalm 7:1", "verse_text": "O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:" }, { "point_text": "Pray for deliverance", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:86", "verse_text": "All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me." }, { "point_text": "Pray for those who inflict", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:44", "verse_text": "But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;" }, { "point_text": "Return blessing for", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:14", "verse_text": "Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not." }, { "point_text": "The hope of future blessedness supports under", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:19", "verse_text": "If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable." }, { "point_text": "The hope of future blessedness supports under", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:32", "verse_text": "If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of enduring, for Christ's sake", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:10", "verse_text": "Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of enduring, for Christ's sake", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:22", "verse_text": "Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake." }, { "point_text": "Pray for those suffering", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 3:2", "verse_text": "And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith." }, { "point_text": "Hypocrites cannot endure", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:17", "verse_text": "From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." }, { "point_text": "False teachers shrink from", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:12", "verse_text": "As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Addicted to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 10:2", "verse_text": "The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined." }, { "point_text": "Addicted to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:26", "verse_text": "For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded." }, { "point_text": "Active in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 143:3", "verse_text": "For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead." }, { "point_text": "Active in", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 4:19", "verse_text": "Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "Encourage each other in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 71:11", "verse_text": "Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him." }, { "point_text": "Rejoice in its success", "verse_ref": "Psalm 13:4", "verse_text": "Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved." }, { "point_text": "Rejoice in its success", "verse_ref": "Revelation 11:10", "verse_text": "And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 7:13", "verse_text": "He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:6", "verse_text": "Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;" }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:33-39", "verse_text": "Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: 34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. 35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise. ..." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of--Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, &c. \nSaul, \nJezebel, \nZedekiah, &c. \nChaldeans, \nPharisees, \nJews, \n\nHerod, \nGentiles, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 1:8-14", "verse_text": "Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. 9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: 10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land. 11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. ..." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of--Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, &c. \nSaul, \nJezebel, \nZedekiah, &c. \nChaldeans, \nPharisees, \nJews, \n\nHerod, \nGentiles, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 26:18", "verse_text": "And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?" }, { "point_text": "Spirit of--Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, &c. \nSaul, \nJezebel, \nZedekiah, &c. \nChaldeans, \nPharisees, \nJews, \n\nHerod, \nGentiles, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:2", "verse_text": "Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of--Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, &c. \nSaul, \nJezebel, \nZedekiah, &c. \nChaldeans, \nPharisees, \nJews, \n\nHerod, \nGentiles, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 38:4-6", "verse_text": "Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt. 5 Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do any thing against you. 6 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of--Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, &c. \nSaul, \nJezebel, \nZedekiah, &c. \nChaldeans, \nPharisees, \nJews, \n\nHerod, \nGentiles, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:8-30", "verse_text": "Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews. 9 They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever. 10 Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and worship the golden image: 11 And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, that he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. ..." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of--Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, &c. \nSaul, \nJezebel, \nZedekiah, &c. \nChaldeans, \nPharisees, \nJews, \n\nHerod, \nGentiles, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:14", "verse_text": "Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of--Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, &c. \nSaul, \nJezebel, \nZedekiah, &c. \nChaldeans, \nPharisees, \nJews, \n\nHerod, \nGentiles, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "John 5:16", "verse_text": "And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of--Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, &c. \nSaul, \nJezebel, \nZedekiah, &c. \nChaldeans, \nPharisees, \nJews, \n\nHerod, \nGentiles, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:15", "verse_text": "Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:" }, { "point_text": "Spirit of--Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, &c. \nSaul, \nJezebel, \nZedekiah, &c. \nChaldeans, \nPharisees, \nJews, \n\nHerod, \nGentiles, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:1", "verse_text": "Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of--Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, &c. \nSaul, \nJezebel, \nZedekiah, &c. \nChaldeans, \nPharisees, \nJews, \n\nHerod, \nGentiles, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:5", "verse_text": "And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and also of the Jews with their rulers, to use them despitefully, and to stone them," }, { "point_text": "Spirit of--Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, &c. \nSaul, \nJezebel, \nZedekiah, &c. \nChaldeans, \nPharisees, \nJews, \n\nHerod, \nGentiles, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:6", "verse_text": "Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of--Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, &c. \nSaul, \nJezebel, \nZedekiah, &c. \nChaldeans, \nPharisees, \nJews, \n\nHerod, \nGentiles, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:13", "verse_text": "Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief." }, { "point_text": "Suffering of--Exemplified.\r\n\nMicaiah, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nPeter, &c. \nApostles, \nThe Prophets, \nPrimitive Church, \nPaul and Barnabas, \nPaul and Silas, \nHebrews, \nSaints of old,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:27", "verse_text": "And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace." }, { "point_text": "Suffering of--Exemplified.\r\n\nMicaiah, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nPeter, &c. \nApostles, \nThe Prophets, \nPrimitive Church, \nPaul and Barnabas, \nPaul and Silas, \nHebrews, \nSaints of old,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:161", "verse_text": "SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word." }, { "point_text": "Suffering of--Exemplified.\r\n\nMicaiah, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nPeter, &c. \nApostles, \nThe Prophets, \nPrimitive Church, \nPaul and Barnabas, \nPaul and Silas, \nHebrews, \nSaints of old,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 32:2", "verse_text": "For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house." }, { "point_text": "Suffering of--Exemplified.\r\n\nMicaiah, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nPeter, &c. \nApostles, \nThe Prophets, \nPrimitive Church, \nPaul and Barnabas, \nPaul and Silas, \nHebrews, \nSaints of old,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:5-17", "verse_text": "Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God. 6 Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever. 7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellers, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. 8 Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. ..." }, { "point_text": "Suffering of--Exemplified.\r\n\nMicaiah, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nPeter, &c. \nApostles, \nThe Prophets, \nPrimitive Church, \nPaul and Barnabas, \nPaul and Silas, \nHebrews, \nSaints of old,", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:3", "verse_text": "And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide." }, { "point_text": "Suffering of--Exemplified.\r\n\nMicaiah, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nPeter, &c. \nApostles, \nThe Prophets, \nPrimitive Church, \nPaul and Barnabas, \nPaul and Silas, \nHebrews, \nSaints of old,", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:18", "verse_text": "And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison." }, { "point_text": "Suffering of--Exemplified.\r\n\nMicaiah, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nPeter, &c. \nApostles, \nThe Prophets, \nPrimitive Church, \nPaul and Barnabas, \nPaul and Silas, \nHebrews, \nSaints of old,", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:52", "verse_text": "Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:" }, { "point_text": "Suffering of--Exemplified.\r\n\nMicaiah, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nPeter, &c. \nApostles, \nThe Prophets, \nPrimitive Church, \nPaul and Barnabas, \nPaul and Silas, \nHebrews, \nSaints of old,", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:1", "verse_text": "And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles." }, { "point_text": "Suffering of--Exemplified.\r\n\nMicaiah, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nPeter, &c. \nApostles, \nThe Prophets, \nPrimitive Church, \nPaul and Barnabas, \nPaul and Silas, \nHebrews, \nSaints of old,", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:50", "verse_text": "But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts." }, { "point_text": "Suffering of--Exemplified.\r\n\nMicaiah, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nPeter, &c. \nApostles, \nThe Prophets, \nPrimitive Church, \nPaul and Barnabas, \nPaul and Silas, \nHebrews, \nSaints of old,", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:23", "verse_text": "And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:" }, { "point_text": "Suffering of--Exemplified.\r\n\nMicaiah, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nPeter, &c. \nApostles, \nThe Prophets, \nPrimitive Church, \nPaul and Barnabas, \nPaul and Silas, \nHebrews, \nSaints of old,", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:33", "verse_text": "Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used." }, { "point_text": "Suffering of--Exemplified.\r\n\nMicaiah, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nPeter, &c. \nApostles, \nThe Prophets, \nPrimitive Church, \nPaul and Barnabas, \nPaul and Silas, \nHebrews, \nSaints of old,", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:36", "verse_text": "And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:" } ] }, { "name": "Perfection", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Perfection.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 18:32", "verse_text": "It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect." }, { "point_text": "Is of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 138:8", "verse_text": "The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands." }, { "point_text": "All saints have, in Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:6", "verse_text": "Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:" }, { "point_text": "All saints have, in Christ", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:15", "verse_text": "Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you." }, { "point_text": "All saints have, in Christ", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:10", "verse_text": "And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:" }, { "point_text": "God's perfection the standard of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:48", "verse_text": "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." }, { "point_text": "IMPLIES", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Entire devotedness", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:21", "verse_text": "Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me." }, { "point_text": "Purity and holiness in speech", "verse_ref": "James 3:2", "verse_text": "For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body." }, { "point_text": "Saints commanded to aim at", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:1", "verse_text": "And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect." }, { "point_text": "Saints commanded to aim at", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:13", "verse_text": "Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God." }, { "point_text": "Saints claim not", "verse_ref": "Job 9:20", "verse_text": "If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse." }, { "point_text": "Saints claim not", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:12", "verse_text": "Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Saints follow after", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 4:18", "verse_text": "But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day." }, { "point_text": "Saints follow after", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:12", "verse_text": "Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Ministers appointed to lead saints to", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:12", "verse_text": "For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Ministers appointed to lead saints to", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:28", "verse_text": "Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:" }, { "point_text": "Exhortation to", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 7:1", "verse_text": "Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God." }, { "point_text": "Exhortation to", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 13:11", "verse_text": "Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you." }, { "point_text": "Impossibility of attaining to", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 6:36", "verse_text": "If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;" }, { "point_text": "Impossibility of attaining to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:96", "verse_text": "I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad." }, { "point_text": "THE WORD OF GOD IS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The rule of", "verse_ref": "James 1:25", "verse_text": "But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed." }, { "point_text": "Designed to lead us to", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:16-17", "verse_text": "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works." }, { "point_text": "Charity is the bond of", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:14", "verse_text": "And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness." }, { "point_text": "Patience leads to", "verse_ref": "James 1:4", "verse_text": "But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing." }, { "point_text": "Pray for", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:20-21", "verse_text": "Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, 21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Pray for", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:10", "verse_text": "But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you." }, { "point_text": "The Church shall attain to", "verse_ref": "John 17:23", "verse_text": "I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me." }, { "point_text": "The Church shall attain to", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:13", "verse_text": "Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:37", "verse_text": "Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 2:21", "verse_text": "For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it." } ] }, { "name": "Perseverance", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Perseverance.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "An evidence of reconciliation with God", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:21-23", "verse_text": "And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled 22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: 23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;" }, { "point_text": "An evidence of belonging to Christ", "verse_ref": "John 8:31", "verse_text": "Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;" }, { "point_text": "An evidence of belonging to Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:6", "verse_text": "But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end." }, { "point_text": "An evidence of belonging to Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:14", "verse_text": "For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;" }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of saints", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 4:18", "verse_text": "But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day." }, { "point_text": "TO BE MANIFESTED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Seeking God", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:11", "verse_text": "Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually." }, { "point_text": "Waiting upon God", "verse_ref": "Hosea 12:6", "verse_text": "Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually." }, { "point_text": "Prayer", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:12", "verse_text": "Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;" }, { "point_text": "Prayer", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:18", "verse_text": "Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;" }, { "point_text": "Well-doing", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:7", "verse_text": "To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:" }, { "point_text": "Well-doing", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 3:13", "verse_text": "But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing." }, { "point_text": "Continuing in the faith", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:22", "verse_text": "Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Continuing in the faith", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:23", "verse_text": "If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;" }, { "point_text": "Continuing in the faith", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:7", "verse_text": "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:" }, { "point_text": "Holding fast hope", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:6", "verse_text": "But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end." }, { "point_text": "MAINTAINED THROUGH", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The power of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:24", "verse_text": "Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand." }, { "point_text": "The power of God", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:6", "verse_text": "Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "The power of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 10:28", "verse_text": "And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand." }, { "point_text": "The intercession of Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:31-32", "verse_text": "And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: 32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren." }, { "point_text": "The fear of God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 32:40", "verse_text": "And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me." }, { "point_text": "Faith", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:5", "verse_text": "Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time." }, { "point_text": "Promised to saints", "verse_ref": "Job 17:9", "verse_text": "The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger." }, { "point_text": "Leads to increase of knowledge", "verse_ref": "John 8:31-32", "verse_text": "Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; 32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." }, { "point_text": "IN WELL-DOING", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Leads to assurance of hope", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:10-11", "verse_text": "For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. 11 And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:" }, { "point_text": "Is not in vain", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:58", "verse_text": "Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Is not in vain", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:9", "verse_text": "And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." }, { "point_text": "Ministers should exhort to", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:43", "verse_text": "Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God." }, { "point_text": "Ministers should exhort to", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:22", "verse_text": "Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Encouragement to", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:2-3", "verse_text": "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds." }, { "point_text": "Promises to", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:22", "verse_text": "And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved." }, { "point_text": "Promises to", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:13", "verse_text": "But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved." }, { "point_text": "Promises to", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:26-28", "verse_text": "And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: 27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father. 28 And I will give him the morning star." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of", "verse_ref": "James 1:25", "verse_text": "But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed." }, { "point_text": "WANT OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Excludes from the benefits of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:4-6", "verse_text": "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame." }, { "point_text": "Punished", "verse_ref": "John 15:6", "verse_text": "If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned." }, { "point_text": "Punished", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:22", "verse_text": "Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Mark 4:5", "verse_text": "And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:" }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Mark 4:17", "verse_text": "And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended." } ] }, { "name": "Peace", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Peace.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "God is the author of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 147:14", "verse_text": "He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat." }, { "point_text": "God is the author of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:7", "verse_text": "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things." }, { "point_text": "God is the author of", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:33", "verse_text": "For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints." }, { "point_text": "RESULTS FROM", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Heavenly wisdom", "verse_ref": "James 3:17", "verse_text": "But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy." }, { "point_text": "The government of Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:4", "verse_text": "And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." }, { "point_text": "Praying for rulers", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:2", "verse_text": "For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty." }, { "point_text": "Seeking the peace of those with whom we dwell", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 29:7", "verse_text": "And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace." }, { "point_text": "Necessary to the enjoyment of life", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:12", "verse_text": "What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?" }, { "point_text": "Necessary to the enjoyment of life", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:14", "verse_text": "Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it." }, { "point_text": "Necessary to the enjoyment of life", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:10-11", "verse_text": "For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: 11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it." }, { "point_text": "GOD BESTOWS UPON THOSE WHO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Obey Him", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:6", "verse_text": "And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land." }, { "point_text": "Please Him", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:7", "verse_text": "When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him." }, { "point_text": "Endure His chastisements", "verse_ref": "Job 5:17", "verse_text": "Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:" }, { "point_text": "Endure His chastisements", "verse_ref": "Job 5:23-24", "verse_text": "For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee. 24 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin." }, { "point_text": "Is a bond of union", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:3", "verse_text": "Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace." }, { "point_text": "The fruit of righteousness should be sown in", "verse_ref": "James 3:18", "verse_text": "And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace." }, { "point_text": "The church shall enjoy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 125:5", "verse_text": "As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel." }, { "point_text": "The church shall enjoy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 128:6", "verse_text": "Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel." }, { "point_text": "The church shall enjoy", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:4", "verse_text": "And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." }, { "point_text": "The church shall enjoy", "verse_ref": "Hosea 2:18", "verse_text": "And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Love", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 8:19", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace." }, { "point_text": "Seek", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:14", "verse_text": "Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it." }, { "point_text": "Seek", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:11", "verse_text": "Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it." }, { "point_text": "Follow", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:22", "verse_text": "Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart." }, { "point_text": "Follow the things which make for", "verse_ref": "Romans 14:19", "verse_text": "Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another." }, { "point_text": "Cultivate", "verse_ref": "Psalm 120:7", "verse_text": "I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war." }, { "point_text": "Speak", "verse_ref": "Esther 10:3", "verse_text": "For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed." }, { "point_text": "Live in", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 13:11", "verse_text": "Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you." }, { "point_text": "Have, with each other", "verse_ref": "Mark 9:50", "verse_text": "Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another." }, { "point_text": "Have, with each other", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:13", "verse_text": "And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves." }, { "point_text": "Endeavor to have with all men", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:18", "verse_text": "If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men." }, { "point_text": "Endeavor to have with all men", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:14", "verse_text": "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:" }, { "point_text": "Pray for that of the church", "verse_ref": "Psalm 122:6-8", "verse_text": "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. 7 Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. 8 For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee." }, { "point_text": "Exhort others to", "verse_ref": "Genesis 45:24", "verse_text": "So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way." }, { "point_text": "Ministers should exhort to", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 3:12", "verse_text": "Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread." }, { "point_text": "Advantages of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:1", "verse_text": "Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife." }, { "point_text": "Advantages of", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 4:6", "verse_text": "Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 133:1", "verse_text": "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!" }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of promoting", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:9", "verse_text": "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Hypocritically speak", "verse_ref": "Psalm 28:3", "verse_text": "Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts." }, { "point_text": "Speak not", "verse_ref": "Psalm 35:20", "verse_text": "For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land." }, { "point_text": "Enjoy not", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 48:22", "verse_text": "There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked." }, { "point_text": "Enjoy not", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 7:25", "verse_text": "Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none." }, { "point_text": "Opposed to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 120:7", "verse_text": "I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war." }, { "point_text": "Hate", "verse_ref": "Psalm 120:6", "verse_text": "My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace." }, { "point_text": "Shall abound in the latter days", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:4", "verse_text": "And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." }, { "point_text": "Shall abound in the latter days", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:13", "verse_text": "The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim." }, { "point_text": "Shall abound in the latter days", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:18", "verse_text": "And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nAbimelech, \nMordecai, \nDavid,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 13:8-9", "verse_text": "And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren. 9 Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nAbimelech, \nMordecai, \nDavid,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:29", "verse_text": "That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nAbimelech, \nMordecai, \nDavid,", "verse_ref": "Esther 10:3", "verse_text": "For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nAbimelech, \nMordecai, \nDavid,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 120:7", "verse_text": "I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war." } ] }, { "name": "Peace-offerings", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Peaceofferings.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "A male or female of herd or flock", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 3:1", "verse_text": "And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "A male or female of herd or flock", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 3:6", "verse_text": "And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the LORD be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish." }, { "point_text": "A male or female of herd or flock", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 3:12", "verse_text": "And if his offering be a goat, then he shall offer it before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "THE OFFERER REQUIRED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To give it freely", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:5", "verse_text": "And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, ye shall offer it at your own will." }, { "point_text": "To bring it himself", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:29-30", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He that offereth the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the LORD shall bring his oblation unto the LORD of the sacrifice of his peace offerings. 30 His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "To lay his hand upon its head", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 3:2", "verse_text": "And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about." }, { "point_text": "To lay his hand upon its head", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 3:8", "verse_text": "And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof round about upon the altar." }, { "point_text": "To lay his hand upon its head", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 3:13", "verse_text": "And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about." }, { "point_text": "To kill it at tabernacle door", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 3:2", "verse_text": "And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about." }, { "point_text": "To kill it at tabernacle door", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 3:8", "verse_text": "And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof round about upon the altar." }, { "point_text": "To kill it at tabernacle door", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 3:13", "verse_text": "And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about." }, { "point_text": "Required to be perfect and free from blemish", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 3:1", "verse_text": "And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Required to be perfect and free from blemish", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:21", "verse_text": "And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein." }, { "point_text": "THE PRIEST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Prepared", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 46:2", "verse_text": "And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening." }, { "point_text": "Sprinkled the blood on the altar", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 3:2", "verse_text": "And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about." }, { "point_text": "Sprinkled the blood on the altar", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 3:8", "verse_text": "And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof round about upon the altar." }, { "point_text": "Sprinkled the blood on the altar", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 3:13", "verse_text": "And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about." }, { "point_text": "Offered the inside fat, &c. by fire", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 3:3-4", "verse_text": "And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards, 4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away." }, { "point_text": "Offered the inside fat, &c. by fire", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 3:9-10", "verse_text": "And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat thereof, and the whole rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone; and the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards, 10 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away." }, { "point_text": "Laid it upon the daily burnt offering to be consumed with it", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 3:5", "verse_text": "And Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt sacrifice, which is upon the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Laid it upon the daily burnt offering to be consumed with it", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:12-13", "verse_text": "And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings. 13 The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out." }, { "point_text": "Waved the breast as a wave-offering", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:26", "verse_text": "And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron's consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD: and it shall be thy part." }, { "point_text": "Waved the breast as a wave-offering", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:28", "verse_text": "And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it is an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Heaved the right shoulder as an heave-offering", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:22-27", "verse_text": "Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder; for it is a ram of consecration: 23 And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD: 24 And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons; and shalt wave them for a wave offering before the LORD. 25 And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the LORD: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD. ..." }, { "point_text": "Had the shoulder and breast as his portion", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:28", "verse_text": "And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it is an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Had the shoulder and breast as his portion", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:31-34", "verse_text": "And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'. 32 And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings. 33 He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for his part. 34 For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute for ever from among the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "An offering most acceptable", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 3:5", "verse_text": "And Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt sacrifice, which is upon the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "An offering most acceptable", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 3:16", "verse_text": "And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat is the LORD'S." }, { "point_text": "Generally accompanied by a burnt-offering", "verse_ref": "Judges 21:4", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings." }, { "point_text": "Generally accompanied by a burnt-offering", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 10:8", "verse_text": "And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till I come to thee, and shew thee what thou shalt do." }, { "point_text": "Generally accompanied by a burnt-offering", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 3:15", "verse_text": "And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants." }, { "point_text": "Often accompanied by a sin-offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:19", "verse_text": "Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings." }, { "point_text": "WAS OFFERED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "As a thanksgiving-offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:12-13", "verse_text": "If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried. 13 Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings." }, { "point_text": "As a votive offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:16", "verse_text": "But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:" }, { "point_text": "For reconciliation", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 45:15", "verse_text": "And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "For reconciliation", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:13-14", "verse_text": "But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. 14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;" }, { "point_text": "For confirming the legal covenant", "verse_ref": "Exodus 24:5", "verse_text": "And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "At consecration of priests", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:22", "verse_text": "Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder; for it is a ram of consecration:" }, { "point_text": "At consecration of priests", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:29", "verse_text": "And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons' after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them." }, { "point_text": "For the people at large", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 9:4", "verse_text": "Also a bullock and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD; and a meat offering mingled with oil: for to day the LORD will appear unto you." }, { "point_text": "At expiration of Nazarite's vow", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:14", "verse_text": "And he shall offer his offering unto the LORD, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings," }, { "point_text": "At all the festivals", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:10", "verse_text": "Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "At dedication of tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:17", "verse_text": "And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab." }, { "point_text": "At dedication of tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:23", "verse_text": "And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nethaneel the son of Zuar." }, { "point_text": "At dedication of temple", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:62-64", "verse_text": "And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD. 63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD. 64 The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings." }, { "point_text": "At coronation of kings", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 11:15", "verse_text": "And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly." }, { "point_text": "By Joshua after his victories", "verse_ref": "Joshua 8:31", "verse_text": "As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings." }, { "point_text": "By Israel after their defeat", "verse_ref": "Judges 20:26", "verse_text": "Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "By David on bringing up the ark", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 6:17", "verse_text": "And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "By David after the plague", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:25", "verse_text": "And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel." }, { "point_text": "By Solomon three times a year", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 9:25", "verse_text": "And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto the LORD, and he burnt incense upon the altar that was before the LORD. So he finished the house." }, { "point_text": "By Manasseh on repairing and restoring the altar", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:15-16", "verse_text": "And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city. 16 And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel." }, { "point_text": "If a thanksgiving offering to be eaten the day offered", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:15", "verse_text": "And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until the morning." }, { "point_text": "If a votive offering to be eaten the same day or the next", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:16", "verse_text": "But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:" }, { "point_text": "If a votive offering to be eaten the same day or the next", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:6-8", "verse_text": "It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow: and if ought remain until the third day, it shall be burnt in the fire. 7 And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable; it shall not be accepted. 8 Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people." }, { "point_text": "To be eaten before the Lord", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:17-18", "verse_text": "Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand: 18 But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto." }, { "point_text": "No unclean person to eat of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:20-21", "verse_text": "But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that pertain unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people. 21 Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain unto the LORD, even that soul shall be cut off from his people." } ] }, { "name": "Peace, Spiritual", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Peace-Spiritual.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "God is the God of", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:33", "verse_text": "Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen." }, { "point_text": "God is the God of", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 13:11", "verse_text": "Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you." }, { "point_text": "God is the God of", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:23", "verse_text": "And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "God is the God of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:20", "verse_text": "Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant," }, { "point_text": "God ordains", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:12", "verse_text": "LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us." }, { "point_text": "God speaks, to His saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 85:8", "verse_text": "I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly." }, { "point_text": "Christ is the Lord of", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 3:16", "verse_text": "Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all." }, { "point_text": "Christ is the prince of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:6", "verse_text": "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." }, { "point_text": "Christ gives", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 3:16", "verse_text": "Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all." }, { "point_text": "Christ guides into the way of", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:79", "verse_text": "To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace." }, { "point_text": "Christ is our", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:14", "verse_text": "For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;" }, { "point_text": "Is through the atonement of Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:5", "verse_text": "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed." }, { "point_text": "Is through the atonement of Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:14-15", "verse_text": "For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; 15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;" }, { "point_text": "Bequeathed by Christ", "verse_ref": "John 14:27", "verse_text": "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." }, { "point_text": "PREACHED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "By Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:17", "verse_text": "And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh." }, { "point_text": "Through Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:36", "verse_text": "The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)" }, { "point_text": "By ministers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 52:7", "verse_text": "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!" }, { "point_text": "By ministers", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:15", "verse_text": "And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!" }, { "point_text": "Announced by angels", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:14", "verse_text": "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." }, { "point_text": "Follows upon justification", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:1", "verse_text": "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "A fruit of the Spirit", "verse_ref": "Romans 14:17", "verse_text": "For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "A fruit of the Spirit", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:22", "verse_text": "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith," }, { "point_text": "Divine wisdom is the way of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:17", "verse_text": "Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace." }, { "point_text": "ACCOMPANIES", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Faith", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:13", "verse_text": "Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Righteousness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:17", "verse_text": "And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever." }, { "point_text": "Acquaintance with God", "verse_ref": "Job 22:21", "verse_text": "Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee." }, { "point_text": "The love of God's law", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:165", "verse_text": "Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them." }, { "point_text": "Spiritual-mindedness", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:6", "verse_text": "For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace." }, { "point_text": "Established by covenant", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:10", "verse_text": "For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee." }, { "point_text": "Established by covenant", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 34:25", "verse_text": "And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods." }, { "point_text": "Established by covenant", "verse_ref": "Malachi 2:5", "verse_text": "My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name." }, { "point_text": "PROMISED TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The Church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:12", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees." }, { "point_text": "The Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:10", "verse_text": "And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 72:3", "verse_text": "The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 72:7", "verse_text": "In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth." }, { "point_text": "The meek", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:11", "verse_text": "But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace." }, { "point_text": "Those who confide in God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:3", "verse_text": "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee." }, { "point_text": "Returning backsliders", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:18-19", "verse_text": "I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners. 19 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him." }, { "point_text": "We should love", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 8:19", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace." }, { "point_text": "The benediction of ministers should be", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:26", "verse_text": "The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace." }, { "point_text": "The benediction of ministers should be", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:5", "verse_text": "And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Have in Christ", "verse_ref": "John 16:33", "verse_text": "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." }, { "point_text": "Have, with God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 27:5", "verse_text": "Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me." }, { "point_text": "Have, with God", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:1", "verse_text": "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Enjoy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:165", "verse_text": "Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them." }, { "point_text": "Repose in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 4:8", "verse_text": "I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety." }, { "point_text": "Blessed with", "verse_ref": "Psalm 29:11", "verse_text": "The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace." }, { "point_text": "Kept in perfect", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:3", "verse_text": "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee." }, { "point_text": "Ruled by", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:15", "verse_text": "And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful." }, { "point_text": "Kept by", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:7", "verse_text": "And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Die in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:37", "verse_text": "Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace." }, { "point_text": "Die in", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:29", "verse_text": "Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:" }, { "point_text": "Wish, to each other", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:16", "verse_text": "And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God." }, { "point_text": "Wish, to each other", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:2", "verse_text": "Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Wish, to each other", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:2", "verse_text": "To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Wish, to each other", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 1:1", "verse_text": "Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "OF SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Great", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:165", "verse_text": "Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them." }, { "point_text": "Great", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:13", "verse_text": "And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children." }, { "point_text": "Abundant", "verse_ref": "Psalm 72:7", "verse_text": "In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth." }, { "point_text": "Abundant", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 33:6", "verse_text": "Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth." }, { "point_text": "Secure", "verse_ref": "Job 34:29", "verse_text": "When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:" }, { "point_text": "Passeth all understanding", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:7", "verse_text": "And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Consummated after death", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:2", "verse_text": "He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness." }, { "point_text": "The gospel is good tidings of", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:15", "verse_text": "And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!" }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Know not the way of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:2", "verse_text": "He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness." }, { "point_text": "Know not the way of", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:17", "verse_text": "And the way of peace have they not known:" }, { "point_text": "Know not the things of", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:42", "verse_text": "Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes." }, { "point_text": "Promise, to themselves", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 29:19", "verse_text": "And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:" }, { "point_text": "Are promised, by false teachers", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:14", "verse_text": "They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace." }, { "point_text": "There is none for", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 48:22", "verse_text": "There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked." }, { "point_text": "There is none for", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:21", "verse_text": "There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked." }, { "point_text": "Supports under trials", "verse_ref": "John 14:27", "verse_text": "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." }, { "point_text": "Supports under trials", "verse_ref": "John 16:33", "verse_text": "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." } ] }, { "name": "Patience", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Patience.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "God, is the God of", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:5", "verse_text": "Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:" }, { "point_text": "Christ, an example of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:7", "verse_text": "He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth." }, { "point_text": "Christ, an example of", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:32", "verse_text": "The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:" }, { "point_text": "Christ, an example of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:14", "verse_text": "And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly." }, { "point_text": "Enjoined", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:2", "verse_text": "That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience." }, { "point_text": "Enjoined", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:6", "verse_text": "And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;" }, { "point_text": "Should have its perfect work", "verse_ref": "James 1:4", "verse_text": "But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing." }, { "point_text": "Trials of saints lead to", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:3", "verse_text": "And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;" }, { "point_text": "Trials of saints lead to", "verse_ref": "James 1:3", "verse_text": "Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience." }, { "point_text": "PRODUCES", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Experience", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:4", "verse_text": "And patience, experience; and experience, hope:" }, { "point_text": "Hope", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:4", "verse_text": "For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope." }, { "point_text": "Suffering with, for well-doing, is acceptable with God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:20", "verse_text": "For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God." }, { "point_text": "TO BE EXERCISED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Running the race set before us", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:1", "verse_text": "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us," }, { "point_text": "Bringing forth fruits", "verse_ref": "Luke 8:15", "verse_text": "But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience." }, { "point_text": "Well-doing", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:7", "verse_text": "To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:" }, { "point_text": "Well-doing", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:9", "verse_text": "And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." }, { "point_text": "Waiting for God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:7", "verse_text": "Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass." }, { "point_text": "Waiting for God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:1", "verse_text": "I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry." }, { "point_text": "Waiting for Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:7", "verse_text": "So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Waiting for Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 3:5", "verse_text": "And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ." }, { "point_text": "Waiting for the hope of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:25", "verse_text": "But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it." }, { "point_text": "Waiting for the hope of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:5", "verse_text": "For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith." }, { "point_text": "Waiting for God's salvation", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:26", "verse_text": "It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Bearing the yoke", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:27", "verse_text": "It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth." }, { "point_text": "Tribulation", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:19", "verse_text": "In your patience possess ye your souls." }, { "point_text": "Tribulation", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:12", "verse_text": "Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;" }, { "point_text": "Necessary to the inheritance of the promises", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:12", "verse_text": "That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises." }, { "point_text": "Necessary to the inheritance of the promises", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:36", "verse_text": "For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise." }, { "point_text": "Exercise, towards all", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:14", "verse_text": "Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men." }, { "point_text": "They who are in authority, should exercise", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:26", "verse_text": "The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all." }, { "point_text": "They who are in authority, should exercise", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:3", "verse_text": "Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently." }, { "point_text": "Ministers should follow after", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:11", "verse_text": "But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness." }, { "point_text": "Ministers approved by", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:4", "verse_text": "But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses," }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE ACCOMPANIED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Godliness", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:6", "verse_text": "And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;" }, { "point_text": "Faith", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:4", "verse_text": "So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:" }, { "point_text": "Faith", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:12", "verse_text": "That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises." }, { "point_text": "Faith", "verse_ref": "Revelation 13:10", "verse_text": "He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints." }, { "point_text": "Temperance", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:6", "verse_text": "And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;" }, { "point_text": "Long-suffering", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:11", "verse_text": "Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;" }, { "point_text": "Joyfulness", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:11", "verse_text": "Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;" }, { "point_text": "Saints strengthened unto all", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:11", "verse_text": "Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;" }, { "point_text": "Commended", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 7:8", "verse_text": "Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit." }, { "point_text": "Commended", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:2-3", "verse_text": "I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: 3 And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "James 5:7", "verse_text": "Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJob, \n\nSimeon, \nPaul, \nAbraham, \nProphets, \nJohn,", "verse_ref": "Job 1:21", "verse_text": "And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJob, \n\nSimeon, \nPaul, \nAbraham, \nProphets, \nJohn,", "verse_ref": "James 5:11", "verse_text": "Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJob, \n\nSimeon, \nPaul, \nAbraham, \nProphets, \nJohn,", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:25", "verse_text": "And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJob, \n\nSimeon, \nPaul, \nAbraham, \nProphets, \nJohn,", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:10", "verse_text": "But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJob, \n\nSimeon, \nPaul, \nAbraham, \nProphets, \nJohn,", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:15", "verse_text": "And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJob, \n\nSimeon, \nPaul, \nAbraham, \nProphets, \nJohn,", "verse_ref": "James 5:10", "verse_text": "Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJob, \n\nSimeon, \nPaul, \nAbraham, \nProphets, \nJohn,", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:9", "verse_text": "I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "God, is the God of", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:5", "verse_text": "Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:" }, { "point_text": "Christ, an example of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:7", "verse_text": "He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth." }, { "point_text": "Christ, an example of", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:32", "verse_text": "The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:" }, { "point_text": "Christ, an example of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:14", "verse_text": "And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly." }, { "point_text": "Enjoined", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:2", "verse_text": "That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience." }, { "point_text": "Enjoined", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:6", "verse_text": "And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;" }, { "point_text": "Should have its perfect work", "verse_ref": "James 1:4", "verse_text": "But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing." }, { "point_text": "Trials of saints lead to", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:3", "verse_text": "And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;" }, { "point_text": "Trials of saints lead to", "verse_ref": "James 1:3", "verse_text": "Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience." }, { "point_text": "PRODUCES", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Experience", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:4", "verse_text": "And patience, experience; and experience, hope:" }, { "point_text": "Hope", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:4", "verse_text": "For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope." }, { "point_text": "Suffering with, for well-doing, is acceptable with God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:20", "verse_text": "For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God." }, { "point_text": "TO BE EXERCISED IN", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Running the race set before us", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:1", "verse_text": "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us," }, { "point_text": "Bringing forth fruits", "verse_ref": "Luke 8:15", "verse_text": "But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience." }, { "point_text": "Well-doing", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:7", "verse_text": "To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:" }, { "point_text": "Well-doing", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:9", "verse_text": "And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." }, { "point_text": "Waiting for God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:7", "verse_text": "Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass." }, { "point_text": "Waiting for God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:1", "verse_text": "I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry." }, { "point_text": "Waiting for Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:7", "verse_text": "So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Waiting for Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 3:5", "verse_text": "And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ." }, { "point_text": "Waiting for the hope of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:25", "verse_text": "But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it." }, { "point_text": "Waiting for the hope of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:5", "verse_text": "For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith." }, { "point_text": "Waiting for God's salvation", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:26", "verse_text": "It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Bearing the yoke", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:27", "verse_text": "It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth." }, { "point_text": "Tribulation", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:19", "verse_text": "In your patience possess ye your souls." }, { "point_text": "Tribulation", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:12", "verse_text": "Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;" }, { "point_text": "Necessary to the inheritance of the promises", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:12", "verse_text": "That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises." }, { "point_text": "Necessary to the inheritance of the promises", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:36", "verse_text": "For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise." }, { "point_text": "Exercise, towards all", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:14", "verse_text": "Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men." }, { "point_text": "They who are in authority, should exercise", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:26", "verse_text": "The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all." }, { "point_text": "They who are in authority, should exercise", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:3", "verse_text": "Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently." }, { "point_text": "Ministers should follow after", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:11", "verse_text": "But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness." }, { "point_text": "Ministers approved by", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:4", "verse_text": "But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses," }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE ACCOMPANIED BY", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Godliness", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:6", "verse_text": "And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;" }, { "point_text": "Faith", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:4", "verse_text": "So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:" }, { "point_text": "Faith", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:12", "verse_text": "That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises." }, { "point_text": "Faith", "verse_ref": "Revelation 13:10", "verse_text": "He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints." }, { "point_text": "Temperance", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:6", "verse_text": "And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;" }, { "point_text": "Long-suffering", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:11", "verse_text": "Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;" }, { "point_text": "Joyfulness", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:11", "verse_text": "Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;" }, { "point_text": "Saints strengthened unto all", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:11", "verse_text": "Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;" }, { "point_text": "Commended", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 7:8", "verse_text": "Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit." }, { "point_text": "Commended", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:2-3", "verse_text": "I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: 3 And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "James 5:7", "verse_text": "Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJob, \n\nSimeon, \nPaul, \nAbraham, \nProphets, \nJohn,", "verse_ref": "Job 1:21", "verse_text": "And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJob, \n\nSimeon, \nPaul, \nAbraham, \nProphets, \nJohn,", "verse_ref": "James 5:11", "verse_text": "Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJob, \n\nSimeon, \nPaul, \nAbraham, \nProphets, \nJohn,", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:25", "verse_text": "And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJob, \n\nSimeon, \nPaul, \nAbraham, \nProphets, \nJohn,", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:10", "verse_text": "But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJob, \n\nSimeon, \nPaul, \nAbraham, \nProphets, \nJohn,", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:15", "verse_text": "And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJob, \n\nSimeon, \nPaul, \nAbraham, \nProphets, \nJohn,", "verse_ref": "James 5:10", "verse_text": "Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJob, \n\nSimeon, \nPaul, \nAbraham, \nProphets, \nJohn,", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:9", "verse_text": "I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ." } ] }, { "name": "Pharisees, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Pharisees-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "A sect of the Jews", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:5", "verse_text": "But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses." }, { "point_text": "The strictest observers of the Mosaic ritual", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:5", "verse_text": "Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee." }, { "point_text": "By descent, especially esteemed", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:6", "verse_text": "But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question." }, { "point_text": "CHARACTER OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Zealous of the law", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:5", "verse_text": "But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses." }, { "point_text": "Zealous of the law", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:5", "verse_text": "Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;" }, { "point_text": "Zealous of tradition", "verse_ref": "Mark 7:3", "verse_text": "For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders." }, { "point_text": "Zealous of tradition", "verse_ref": "Mark 7:5-8", "verse_text": "Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands? 6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. 7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. 8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do." }, { "point_text": "Zealous of tradition", "verse_ref": "Galatians 1:14", "verse_text": "And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers." }, { "point_text": "Outwardly moral", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:11", "verse_text": "The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican." }, { "point_text": "Outwardly moral", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:5-6", "verse_text": "Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; 6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless." }, { "point_text": "Rigid in fasting", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:33", "verse_text": "And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink?" }, { "point_text": "Rigid in fasting", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:12", "verse_text": "I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess." }, { "point_text": "Active in proselytizing", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:15", "verse_text": "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves." }, { "point_text": "Self-righteous", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:15", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God." }, { "point_text": "Self-righteous", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:9", "verse_text": "And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:" }, { "point_text": "Avaricious", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:14", "verse_text": "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation." }, { "point_text": "Avaricious", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:14", "verse_text": "And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him." }, { "point_text": "Ambitious of precedence", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:6", "verse_text": "And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues," }, { "point_text": "Fond of public salutations", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:7", "verse_text": "And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi." }, { "point_text": "Fond of distinguished titles", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:7-10", "verse_text": "And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi. 8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. 9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. 10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ." }, { "point_text": "Particular in paying all dues", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:23", "verse_text": "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone." }, { "point_text": "Oppressive", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:4", "verse_text": "For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers." }, { "point_text": "Cruel in persecuting", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:1-2", "verse_text": "And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, 2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Believed in the resurrection, &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:8", "verse_text": "For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both." }, { "point_text": "Made broad their phylacteries, &c", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:5", "verse_text": "But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments," }, { "point_text": "Their opinions, a standard for others", "verse_ref": "John 7:48", "verse_text": "Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?" }, { "point_text": "Many priest and Levites were of", "verse_ref": "John 1:19", "verse_text": "And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?" }, { "point_text": "Many priest and Levites were of", "verse_ref": "John 1:24", "verse_text": "And they which were sent were of the Pharisees." }, { "point_text": "Many rulers, lawyers, and scribes were of", "verse_ref": "John 3:1", "verse_text": "There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:" }, { "point_text": "Many rulers, lawyers, and scribes were of", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:34", "verse_text": "Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space;" }, { "point_text": "Many rulers, lawyers, and scribes were of", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:9", "verse_text": "And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees' part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God." }, { "point_text": "Had disciples", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:33", "verse_text": "And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink?" }, { "point_text": "Had disciples", "verse_ref": "Acts 22:3", "verse_text": "I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day." }, { "point_text": "Some came to John for baptism", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:7", "verse_text": "But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?" }, { "point_text": "As a body, rejected John's baptism", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:30", "verse_text": "But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him." }, { "point_text": "CHRIST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Often invited by", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:36", "verse_text": "And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat." }, { "point_text": "Often invited by", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:37", "verse_text": "And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat." }, { "point_text": "Condemned by, for associating with sinners", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:11", "verse_text": "And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?" }, { "point_text": "Condemned by, for associating with sinners", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:39", "verse_text": "Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner." }, { "point_text": "Condemned by, for associating with sinners", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:1-2", "verse_text": "Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. 2 And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them." }, { "point_text": "Asked for signs by", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:38", "verse_text": "Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee." }, { "point_text": "Asked for signs by", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:1", "verse_text": "The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven." }, { "point_text": "Tempted by, with questions about the law", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:3", "verse_text": "The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?" }, { "point_text": "Tempted by, with questions about the law", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:15-16", "verse_text": "Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk. 16 And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men." }, { "point_text": "Tempted by, with questions about the law", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:35", "verse_text": "Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying," }, { "point_text": "Watched by, for evil", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:7", "verse_text": "And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him." }, { "point_text": "Offended, by His doctrine", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:12", "verse_text": "Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?" }, { "point_text": "Offended, by His doctrine", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:45", "verse_text": "And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them." }, { "point_text": "Offended, by His doctrine", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:14", "verse_text": "And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him." }, { "point_text": "Declared the imaginary righteousness of, to be insufficient for salvation", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:20", "verse_text": "For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven." }, { "point_text": "Declared the doctrines of, to be hypocrisy", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:6", "verse_text": "Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees." }, { "point_text": "Declared the doctrines of, to be hypocrisy", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:11-12", "verse_text": "How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? 12 Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees." }, { "point_text": "Denounced woes against", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:13-33", "verse_text": "But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. 14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. 15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. 16 Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor! ..." }, { "point_text": "Called, an evil and adulterous generation", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:39", "verse_text": "But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:" }, { "point_text": "Called, serpents and generation of vipers", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:33", "verse_text": "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?" }, { "point_text": "Called fools and blind guides", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:17", "verse_text": "Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?" }, { "point_text": "Called fools and blind guides", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:24", "verse_text": "Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel." }, { "point_text": "Compared, to whited sepulchres", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:27", "verse_text": "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness." }, { "point_text": "Compared, to graves that appear not", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:44", "verse_text": "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them." }, { "point_text": "Left Judea for a time on account of", "verse_ref": "John 4:1-3", "verse_text": "When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, 2 (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,) 3 He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee." }, { "point_text": "Imputed Christ's miracles to Satan's power", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:34", "verse_text": "But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils." }, { "point_text": "Imputed Christ's miracles to Satan's power", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:24", "verse_text": "But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils." }, { "point_text": "Sent officers to apprehend Christ", "verse_ref": "John 7:32", "verse_text": "The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him." }, { "point_text": "Sent officers to apprehend Christ", "verse_ref": "John 7:45", "verse_text": "Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?" }, { "point_text": "Often sought to destroy Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:14", "verse_text": "Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him." }, { "point_text": "Often sought to destroy Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:46", "verse_text": "But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet." }, { "point_text": "Often sought to destroy Christ", "verse_ref": "John 11:47", "verse_text": "Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles." }, { "point_text": "Often sought to destroy Christ", "verse_ref": "John 11:53", "verse_text": "Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death." }, { "point_text": "Often sought to destroy Christ", "verse_ref": "John 11:57", "verse_text": "Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him." } ] }, { "name": "Pilgrims and Strangers", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Pilgrims-and-Strangers.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Described", "verse_ref": "John 17:16", "verse_text": "They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world." }, { "point_text": "Saints are called to be", "verse_ref": "Genesis 12:1", "verse_text": "Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:" }, { "point_text": "Saints are called to be", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:3", "verse_text": "And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee." }, { "point_text": "Saints are called to be", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:26-27", "verse_text": "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. 27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple." }, { "point_text": "Saints are called to be", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:33", "verse_text": "So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple." }, { "point_text": "All saints are", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:12", "verse_text": "Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were." }, { "point_text": "All saints are", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:1", "verse_text": "Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia," }, { "point_text": "Saints confess themselves", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:15", "verse_text": "For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding." }, { "point_text": "Saints confess themselves", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:12", "verse_text": "Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were." }, { "point_text": "Saints confess themselves", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:19", "verse_text": "I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me." }, { "point_text": "Saints confess themselves", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:13", "verse_text": "These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth." }, { "point_text": "AS SAINTS THEY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Have the example of Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 9:58", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head." }, { "point_text": "Are strengthened by God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:25", "verse_text": "Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be." }, { "point_text": "Are strengthened by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 84:6-7", "verse_text": "Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. 7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God." }, { "point_text": "Are actuated by faith", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:9", "verse_text": "By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:" }, { "point_text": "Have their faces toward Zion", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:5", "verse_text": "They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten." }, { "point_text": "Keep the promises in view", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:13", "verse_text": "These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth." }, { "point_text": "Forsake all for Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:27", "verse_text": "Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?" }, { "point_text": "Look for a heavenly country", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:16", "verse_text": "But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city." }, { "point_text": "Look for a heavenly city", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:10", "verse_text": "For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God." }, { "point_text": "Pass their sojourning in fear", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:17", "verse_text": "And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:" }, { "point_text": "Rejoice in the statutes of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:54", "verse_text": "Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage." }, { "point_text": "Pray for direction", "verse_ref": "Psalm 43:3", "verse_text": "O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles." }, { "point_text": "Pray for direction", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:5", "verse_text": "They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten." }, { "point_text": "Have a heavenly conversation", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:20", "verse_text": "For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Hate worldly fellowship", "verse_ref": "Psalm 120:5-6", "verse_text": "Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar! 6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace." }, { "point_text": "Are not mindful of this world", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:15", "verse_text": "And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned." }, { "point_text": "Are not at home in this world", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:9", "verse_text": "By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:" }, { "point_text": "Shine as lights in the world", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:15", "verse_text": "That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;" }, { "point_text": "Invite others to go with them", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:29", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses' father in law, We are journeying unto the place of which the LORD said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel." }, { "point_text": "Are exposed to persecution", "verse_ref": "Psalm 120:5-7", "verse_text": "Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar! 6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace. 7 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war." }, { "point_text": "Are exposed to persecution", "verse_ref": "John 17:14", "verse_text": "I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world." }, { "point_text": "Should abstain from fleshly lusts", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:11", "verse_text": "Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;" }, { "point_text": "Should have their treasure in heaven", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:19", "verse_text": "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:" }, { "point_text": "Should have their treasure in heaven", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:33", "verse_text": "Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth." }, { "point_text": "Should have their treasure in heaven", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:1-2", "verse_text": "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth." }, { "point_text": "Should not be over anxious about worldly things", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:25", "verse_text": "Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?" }, { "point_text": "Long for their pilgrimage to end", "verse_ref": "Psalm 55:6", "verse_text": "And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest." }, { "point_text": "Long for their pilgrimage to end", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:1-8", "verse_text": "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: 3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. 4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. ..." }, { "point_text": "Die in faith", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:13", "verse_text": "These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth." }, { "point_text": "The world is not worthy of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:38", "verse_text": "(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth." }, { "point_text": "God is not ashamed to be called their God", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:16", "verse_text": "But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city." }, { "point_text": "Typified.\r\n\nIsrael,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 6:4", "verse_text": "And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers." }, { "point_text": "Typified.\r\n\nIsrael,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:11", "verse_text": "And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \n\nJacob, \nSaints of old, \n\n\nDavid, \nThe Apostles,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 23:4", "verse_text": "I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \n\nJacob, \nSaints of old, \n\n\nDavid, \nThe Apostles,", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:4-5", "verse_text": "Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell. 5 And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \n\nJacob, \nSaints of old, \n\n\nDavid, \nThe Apostles,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 47:9", "verse_text": "And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \n\nJacob, \nSaints of old, \n\n\nDavid, \nThe Apostles,", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:15", "verse_text": "For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \n\nJacob, \nSaints of old, \n\n\nDavid, \nThe Apostles,", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:13", "verse_text": "These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \n\nJacob, \nSaints of old, \n\n\nDavid, \nThe Apostles,", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:38", "verse_text": "(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \n\nJacob, \nSaints of old, \n\n\nDavid, \nThe Apostles,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:12", "verse_text": "Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \n\nJacob, \nSaints of old, \n\n\nDavid, \nThe Apostles,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:27", "verse_text": "Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?" } ] }, { "name": "Philistines", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Philistines.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Descended from Casluhim", "verse_ref": "Genesis 10:13-14", "verse_text": "And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, 14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim." }, { "point_text": "Originally dwelt in the land of Caphtor", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 47:4", "verse_text": "Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor." }, { "point_text": "Originally dwelt in the land of Caphtor", "verse_ref": "Amos 9:7", "verse_text": "Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?" }, { "point_text": "Conquered the Avims and took from them the west coast of Canaan", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:23", "verse_text": "And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)" }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The Caphtorims", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:23", "verse_text": "And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)" }, { "point_text": "The Cherethites", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 30:14", "verse_text": "We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire." }, { "point_text": "The Cherethites", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 2:5", "verse_text": "Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant." }, { "point_text": "COUNTRY OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Called Philistia", "verse_ref": "Psalm 87:4", "verse_text": "I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there." }, { "point_text": "Called Philistia", "verse_ref": "Psalm 108:9", "verse_text": "Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph." }, { "point_text": "Divided into five states or lordships", "verse_ref": "Joshua 13:3", "verse_text": "From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites:" }, { "point_text": "Divided into five states or lordships", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:3", "verse_text": "Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath." }, { "point_text": "Divided into five states or lordships", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 6:16", "verse_text": "And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day." }, { "point_text": "Had many flourishing cities", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 6:17", "verse_text": "And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering unto the LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;" }, { "point_text": "Given by God to the Israelites", "verse_ref": "Joshua 13:2", "verse_text": "This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri," }, { "point_text": "Given by God to the Israelites", "verse_ref": "Joshua 15:45", "verse_text": "Ekron, with her towns and her villages:" }, { "point_text": "Given by God to the Israelites", "verse_ref": "Joshua 15:47", "verse_text": "Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border thereof:" }, { "point_text": "Were a great people and governed by kings in the patriarchal age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:22", "verse_text": "And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:" }, { "point_text": "Were a great people and governed by kings in the patriarchal age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:8", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife." }, { "point_text": "CHARACTER OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Proud", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:6", "verse_text": "And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines." }, { "point_text": "Idolatrous", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:23", "verse_text": "Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand." }, { "point_text": "Idolatrous", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 5:2", "verse_text": "When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon." }, { "point_text": "Superstitious", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:6", "verse_text": "Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers." }, { "point_text": "Warlike", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:1", "verse_text": "Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim." }, { "point_text": "Warlike", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 28:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. And Achish said unto David, Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me to battle, thou and thy men." }, { "point_text": "Men of great strength and stature amongst", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:4-7", "verse_text": "And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. 5 And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass. 6 And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders. 7 And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him." }, { "point_text": "Men of great strength and stature amongst", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 21:16", "verse_text": "And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David." }, { "point_text": "Men of great strength and stature amongst", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 21:18-20", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant. 19 And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. 20 And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant." }, { "point_text": "Some of, left to prove Israel", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:1-3", "verse_text": "Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan; 2 Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof; 3 Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath." }, { "point_text": "Always confederated with the enemies of Israel", "verse_ref": "Psalm 83:7", "verse_text": "Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;" }, { "point_text": "Always confederated with the enemies of Israel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:11-12", "verse_text": "Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together; 12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still." }, { "point_text": "Shamgar slew six hundred of, and delivered Israel", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:31", "verse_text": "And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel." }, { "point_text": "Oppressed Israel after the death of Jair for eighteen years", "verse_ref": "Judges 10:7-8", "verse_text": "And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon. 8 And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead." }, { "point_text": "Oppressed Israel after the death of Abdon forty years", "verse_ref": "Judges 13:1", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years." }, { "point_text": "SAMSON", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Promised as a deliverer from", "verse_ref": "Judges 13:5", "verse_text": "For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no rasor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines." }, { "point_text": "Intermarried with", "verse_ref": "Judges 14:1", "verse_text": "And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines." }, { "point_text": "Intermarried with", "verse_ref": "Judges 14:10", "verse_text": "So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do." }, { "point_text": "Slew thirty, near Askelon", "verse_ref": "Judges 14:19", "verse_text": "And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house." }, { "point_text": "Burned vineyards, &c. of", "verse_ref": "Judges 15:3-5", "verse_text": "And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure. 4 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails. 5 And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives." }, { "point_text": "Slew many for burning his wife", "verse_ref": "Judges 15:7-8", "verse_text": "And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease. 8 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam." }, { "point_text": "Slew a thousand with the jawbone of an ass", "verse_ref": "Judges 15:15-16", "verse_text": "And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith. 16 And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men." }, { "point_text": "Blinded and imprisoned by", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:21", "verse_text": "But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house." }, { "point_text": "Pulled down the house of Dagon and destroyed immense numbers of", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:29-30", "verse_text": "And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left. 30 And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life." }, { "point_text": "Defeated Israel at Ebenezer", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 4:1-2", "verse_text": "And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Ebenezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek. 2 And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines: and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men." }, { "point_text": "Defeated Israel and took the ark", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 4:3-11", "verse_text": "And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies. 4 So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth between the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God. 5 And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again. 6 And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of the LORD was come into the camp. ..." }, { "point_text": "Put the ark into Dagon's house", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 5:1-4", "verse_text": "And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod. 2 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. 3 And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again. 4 And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him." }, { "point_text": "Plagued for retaining the ark", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 5:6-12", "verse_text": "But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof. 7 And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god. 8 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about thither. 9 And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts. ..." }, { "point_text": "Sent back the ark and were healed", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 6:1-18", "verse_text": "And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months. 2 And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the LORD? tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place. 3 And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you. 4 Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords. ..." }, { "point_text": "Miraculously routed at Mizpeh", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 7:7-14", "verse_text": "And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together to Mizpeh, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines. 8 And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry unto the LORD our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines. 9 And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel cried unto the LORD for Israel; and the LORD heard him. 10 And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel. ..." }, { "point_text": "Jonathan smote a garrison of, at Geba and provoked them", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:3-4", "verse_text": "And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear. 4 And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel also was had in abomination with the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal." }, { "point_text": "Invaded the land of Israel with a great army", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:5", "verse_text": "And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven." }, { "point_text": "Invaded the land of Israel with a great army", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:17-23", "verse_text": "And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned unto the way that leadeth to Ophrah, unto the land of Shual: 18 And another company turned the way to Bethhoron: and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness. 19 Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears: 20 But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock. ..." }, { "point_text": "Jonathan and his armor-bearer smote a garrison of, at the passages", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:1-14", "verse_text": "Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on the other side. But he told not his father. 2 And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people that were with him were about six hundred men; 3 And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD'S priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone. 4 And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines' garrison, there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh. ..." }, { "point_text": "Miraculously discomfited", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:15-23", "verse_text": "And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling. 16 And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down one another. 17 Then said Saul unto the people that were with him, Number now, and see who is gone from us. And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armourbearer were not there. 18 And Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither the ark of God. For the ark of God was at that time with the children of Israel. ..." }, { "point_text": "Saul constantly at war with", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:52", "verse_text": "And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul: and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he took him unto him." }, { "point_text": "Defied Israel by their champion", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:4-10", "verse_text": "And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. 5 And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass. 6 And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders. 7 And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him. ..." }, { "point_text": "Defeated by Israel at Ephes-dammim and pursued to Ekron", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:1", "verse_text": "Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim." }, { "point_text": "Defeated by Israel at Ephes-dammim and pursued to Ekron", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:52", "verse_text": "And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron." }, { "point_text": "DAVID", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Slew Goliath the champion of", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:40-50", "verse_text": "And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine. 41 And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield went before him. 42 And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance. 43 And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. ..." }, { "point_text": "Procured Saul's daughter for an hundred foreskins of", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 18:25-27", "verse_text": "And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. 26 And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son in law: and the days were not expired. 27 Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife." }, { "point_text": "Often defeated during Saul's reign", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 19:8", "verse_text": "And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from him." }, { "point_text": "Often defeated during Saul's reign", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 23:1-5", "verse_text": "Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors. 2 Therefore David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And the LORD said unto David, Go, and smite the Philistines, and save Keilah. 3 And David's men said unto him, Behold, we be afraid here in Judah: how much more then if we come to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines? 4 Then David inquired of the LORD yet again. And the LORD answered him and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into thine hand. ..." }, { "point_text": "Fled to, for safety", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 27:1-7", "verse_text": "And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand. 2 And David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men that were with him unto Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath. 3 And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife. 4 And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him. ..." }, { "point_text": "Gained the confidence of Achish king of", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 28:2", "verse_text": "And David said to Achish, Surely thou shalt know what thy servant can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make thee keeper of mine head for ever." }, { "point_text": "Gained the confidence of Achish king of", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 29:9", "verse_text": "And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou art good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle." }, { "point_text": "Distrusted by", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 29:2-7", "verse_text": "And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with Achish. 3 Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these Hebrews here? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been with me these days, or these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell unto me unto this day? 4 And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make this fellow return, that he may go again to his place which thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he be an adversary to us: for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master? should it not be with the heads of these men? 5 Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands? ..." }, { "point_text": "Often defeated in the course of his reign", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 5:17-23", "verse_text": "But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went down to the hold. 18 The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. 19 And David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into thine hand. 20 And David came to Baalperazim, and David smote them there, and said, The LORD hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baalperazim. ..." }, { "point_text": "Often defeated in the course of his reign", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:1", "verse_text": "And after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them: and David took Methegammah out of the hand of the Philistines." }, { "point_text": "Often defeated in the course of his reign", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 21:15-22", "verse_text": "Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint. 16 And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David. 17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel. 18 And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant. ..." }, { "point_text": "Often defeated in the course of his reign", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 23:8-12", "verse_text": "These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time. 9 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away: 10 He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil. 11 And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines. ..." }, { "point_text": "Had a guard composed of", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:18", "verse_text": "And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief rulers." }, { "point_text": "Had a guard composed of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 25:16", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast." }, { "point_text": "Had a guard composed of", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 2:5", "verse_text": "Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant." }, { "point_text": "Gathered all their armies to Aphek against Israel", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 28:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. And Achish said unto David, Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me to battle, thou and thy men." }, { "point_text": "Gathered all their armies to Aphek against Israel", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 29:1", "verse_text": "Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in Jezreel." }, { "point_text": "Ziklag a town of, taken and plundered by the Amalekites", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 30:1-2", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire; 2 And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way." }, { "point_text": "Ziklag a town of, taken and plundered by the Amalekites", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 30:16", "verse_text": "And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah." }, { "point_text": "Israel defeated by, and Saul slain", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 31:1-10", "verse_text": "Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa. 2 And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, Saul's sons. 3 And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers. 4 Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it. ..." }, { "point_text": "Besieged in Gibbethon by Nadab", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:27", "verse_text": "And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon." }, { "point_text": "Sent by God against Jehoram", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 21:16-17", "verse_text": "Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians: 17 And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons." }, { "point_text": "Defeated by Uzziah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:6-7", "verse_text": "And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines. 7 And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims." }, { "point_text": "Distressed Judah under Ahaz", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 28:18-19", "verse_text": "The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there. 19 For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Defeated by Hezekiah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:8", "verse_text": "He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city." }, { "point_text": "Israel condemned for imitating", "verse_ref": "Judges 10:6", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him." }, { "point_text": "Israel condemned for imitating", "verse_ref": "Amos 6:2", "verse_text": "Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?" }, { "point_text": "Israel condemned for imitating", "verse_ref": "Amos 9:7", "verse_text": "Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?" }, { "point_text": "PROPHECIES RESPECTING;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Union with Syria against Israel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:11-12", "verse_text": "Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together; 12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still." }, { "point_text": "Punishment with other nations", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 25:20", "verse_text": "And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod," }, { "point_text": "Dismay at ruin of Tyre", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:3", "verse_text": "And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets." }, { "point_text": "Dismay at ruin of Tyre", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:5", "verse_text": "Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited." }, { "point_text": "Base men to be their rulers", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:6", "verse_text": "And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines." }, { "point_text": "Hatred and revenge against Israel to be fully recompensed", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 25:15-17", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred; 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast. 17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them." }, { "point_text": "Hatred and revenge against Israel to be fully recompensed", "verse_ref": "Amos 1:6-8", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom: 7 But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof: 8 And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Utter destruction by Pharaoh king of Egypt", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 47:1-4", "verse_text": "The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza. 2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl. 3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands; 4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor." }, { "point_text": "Utter destruction by Pharaoh king of Egypt", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 2:5-6", "verse_text": "Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant. 6 And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks." }, { "point_text": "Destruction and desolation of their cities", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 47:5", "verse_text": "Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?" }, { "point_text": "Destruction and desolation of their cities", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 2:4", "verse_text": "For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up." }, { "point_text": "Their country to be a future possession to Israel", "verse_ref": "Obadiah 19", "verse_text": "And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead." }, { "point_text": "Their country to be a future possession to Israel", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 2:7", "verse_text": "And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity." }, { "point_text": "To help in Israel's restoration", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:14", "verse_text": "But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them." } ] }, { "name": "Plague or Pestilence, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Plague-or-Pestilence-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Inflicted by God", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 14:19", "verse_text": "Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:" }, { "point_text": "Inflicted by God", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 3:5", "verse_text": "Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet." }, { "point_text": "One of God's four sore judgments", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 14:21", "verse_text": "For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?" }, { "point_text": "Described as noisome", "verse_ref": "Psalm 91:3", "verse_text": "Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence." }, { "point_text": "Israel threatened with, as a punishment for disobedience", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:24-25", "verse_text": "Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins. 25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy." }, { "point_text": "Desolating effects of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 91:7", "verse_text": "A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee." }, { "point_text": "Desolating effects of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 16:6-7", "verse_text": "Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them: 7 Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother." }, { "point_text": "Equally fatal day and night", "verse_ref": "Psalm 91:5-6", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; 6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday." }, { "point_text": "Fatal to man and beast", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:50", "verse_text": "He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;" }, { "point_text": "Fatal to man and beast", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 21:6", "verse_text": "And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence." }, { "point_text": "SENT UPON", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The Egyptians", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:29-30", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. 30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead." }, { "point_text": "Israel for making golden calf", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:35", "verse_text": "And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made." }, { "point_text": "Israel for despising manna", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:33", "verse_text": "And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague." }, { "point_text": "Israel for murmuring at destruction of Korah", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:46-50", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun. 47 And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people. 48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed. 49 Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah. ..." }, { "point_text": "Israel for worshipping Baal-peor", "verse_ref": "Numbers 25:18", "verse_text": "For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake." }, { "point_text": "David's subjects for his numbering the people", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:15", "verse_text": "So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men." }, { "point_text": "Often broke out suddenly", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:29", "verse_text": "Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them." }, { "point_text": "Often followed war and famine", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:13", "verse_text": "Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?" }, { "point_text": "Often followed war and famine", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 28:8", "verse_text": "The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence." }, { "point_text": "Often followed war and famine", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 29:17-18", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. 18 And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:" }, { "point_text": "Egypt often afflicted with", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 42:17", "verse_text": "So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them." }, { "point_text": "Egypt often afflicted with", "verse_ref": "Amos 4:10", "verse_text": "I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Specially fatal in cities", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:25", "verse_text": "And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy." }, { "point_text": "Specially fatal in cities", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 21:6", "verse_text": "And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence." }, { "point_text": "Specially fatal in cities", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 21:9", "verse_text": "He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey." }, { "point_text": "Was attributed to a destroying angel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:23", "verse_text": "For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you." }, { "point_text": "Was attributed to a destroying angel", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:16", "verse_text": "And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite." }, { "point_text": "The Jews sought deliverance from, by prayer", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:37-38", "verse_text": "If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be; 38 What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:" }, { "point_text": "The Jews sought deliverance from, by prayer", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 20:9", "verse_text": "If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help." }, { "point_text": "Predicted to happen before destruction of Jerusalem", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:7", "verse_text": "For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places." }, { "point_text": "Predicted to happen before destruction of Jerusalem", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:11", "verse_text": "And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "God's judgments upon the apostacy", "verse_ref": "Revelation 18:4", "verse_text": "And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." }, { "point_text": "God's judgments upon the apostacy", "verse_ref": "Revelation 18:8", "verse_text": "Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her." }, { "point_text": "The diseased state of man's heart", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:38", "verse_text": "What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:" } ] }, { "name": "Power of the Holy Ghost, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Power-of-the-Holy-Ghost-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is the power of God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:28", "verse_text": "But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you." }, { "point_text": "Is the power of God", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:20", "verse_text": "But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you." }, { "point_text": "Christ commenced His ministry in", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:14", "verse_text": "And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about." }, { "point_text": "Christ wrought His miracles by", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:28", "verse_text": "But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you." }, { "point_text": "EXHIBITED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Creation", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:2", "verse_text": "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." }, { "point_text": "Creation", "verse_ref": "Job 26:13", "verse_text": "By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent." }, { "point_text": "Creation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:30", "verse_text": "Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth." }, { "point_text": "The conception of Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:35", "verse_text": "And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." }, { "point_text": "Raising Christ from the dead", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:18", "verse_text": "For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:" }, { "point_text": "Giving spiritual life", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 37:11-14", "verse_text": "Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts. 12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. 13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, 14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Giving spiritual life", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:11", "verse_text": "But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you." }, { "point_text": "Working miracles", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:19", "verse_text": "Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ." }, { "point_text": "Making the gospel efficacious", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:4", "verse_text": "And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:" }, { "point_text": "Making the gospel efficacious", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 1:5", "verse_text": "For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake." }, { "point_text": "Overcoming all difficulties", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 4:6-7", "verse_text": "Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. 7 Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it." }, { "point_text": "Promised by the Father", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:49", "verse_text": "And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high." }, { "point_text": "Promised by Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:8", "verse_text": "But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Upheld by", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:12", "verse_text": "Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit." }, { "point_text": "Strengthened by", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:16", "verse_text": "That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;" }, { "point_text": "Enabled to speak the truth boldly by", "verse_ref": "Micah 3:8", "verse_text": "But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin." }, { "point_text": "Enabled to speak the truth boldly by", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:5", "verse_text": "And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:" }, { "point_text": "Enabled to speak the truth boldly by", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:10", "verse_text": "And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake." }, { "point_text": "Enabled to speak the truth boldly by", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:7-8", "verse_text": "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. 8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;" }, { "point_text": "Helped in prayer by", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:26", "verse_text": "Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered." }, { "point_text": "Abound in hope by", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:13", "verse_text": "Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Qualifies ministers", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:49", "verse_text": "And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high." }, { "point_text": "Qualifies ministers", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:8", "verse_text": "But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth." }, { "point_text": "God's word the instrument of", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:17", "verse_text": "And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:" } ] }, { "name": "Poor, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Poor-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Made by God", "verse_ref": "Job 34:19", "verse_text": "How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands." }, { "point_text": "Made by God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:2", "verse_text": "The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all." }, { "point_text": "Are such by God's appointment", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:7", "verse_text": "The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up." }, { "point_text": "Are such by God's appointment", "verse_ref": "Job 1:21", "verse_text": "And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "CONDITION OF, OFTEN RESULTS FROM", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Sloth", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:13", "verse_text": "Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread." }, { "point_text": "Bad company", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:19", "verse_text": "He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough." }, { "point_text": "Drunkenness and gluttony", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:21", "verse_text": "For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags." }, { "point_text": "GOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Regards, equally with the rich", "verse_ref": "Job 34:19", "verse_text": "How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands." }, { "point_text": "Forgets not", "verse_ref": "Psalm 9:18", "verse_text": "For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever." }, { "point_text": "Hears", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:33", "verse_text": "For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners." }, { "point_text": "Hears", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:17", "verse_text": "When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them." }, { "point_text": "Maintains the right of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 140:12", "verse_text": "I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor." }, { "point_text": "Delivers", "verse_ref": "Job 36:15", "verse_text": "He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression." }, { "point_text": "Delivers", "verse_ref": "Psalm 35:10", "verse_text": "All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?" }, { "point_text": "Protects", "verse_ref": "Psalm 12:5", "verse_text": "For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him." }, { "point_text": "Protects", "verse_ref": "Psalm 109:31", "verse_text": "For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul." }, { "point_text": "Exalts", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:8", "verse_text": "He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them." }, { "point_text": "Exalts", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:41", "verse_text": "Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock." }, { "point_text": "Provides for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:10", "verse_text": "Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor." }, { "point_text": "Provides for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 146:7", "verse_text": "Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:" }, { "point_text": "Despises not the prayer of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 102:17", "verse_text": "He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer." }, { "point_text": "Is the refuge of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 14:6", "verse_text": "Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge." }, { "point_text": "Shall never cease out of the land", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 15:11", "verse_text": "For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land." }, { "point_text": "Shall never cease out of the land", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 3:12", "verse_text": "I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Shall never cease out of the land", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:11", "verse_text": "For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always." }, { "point_text": "MAY BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Rich in faith", "verse_ref": "James 2:5", "verse_text": "Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?" }, { "point_text": "Liberal", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:42", "verse_text": "And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing." }, { "point_text": "Liberal", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 9:12", "verse_text": "For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;" }, { "point_text": "Wise", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:11", "verse_text": "The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out." }, { "point_text": "Upright", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:1", "verse_text": "Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool." }, { "point_text": "Christ lived as one of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:20", "verse_text": "And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head." }, { "point_text": "Christ preached to", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:18", "verse_text": "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised," }, { "point_text": "Christ delivers", "verse_ref": "Psalm 72:12", "verse_text": "For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper." }, { "point_text": "Offerings of, acceptable to God", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:42-44", "verse_text": "And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. 43 And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: 44 For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living." }, { "point_text": "Offerings of, acceptable to God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:2", "verse_text": "How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality." }, { "point_text": "Offerings of, acceptable to God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:12", "verse_text": "For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Rejoice in God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 29:19", "verse_text": "The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Hope in God", "verse_ref": "Job 5:16", "verse_text": "So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth." }, { "point_text": "Commit themselves to God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 10:14", "verse_text": "Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless." }, { "point_text": "When converted, rejoice in their exaltation", "verse_ref": "James 1:9", "verse_text": "Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:" }, { "point_text": "Provided for under the Law", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:11", "verse_text": "But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard." }, { "point_text": "Provided for under the Law", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:9-10", "verse_text": "And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. 10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "NEGLECT TOWARDS, IS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "A neglect of Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:42-45", "verse_text": "For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: 43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. 44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? 45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me." }, { "point_text": "Inconsistent with love to God", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:17", "verse_text": "But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?" }, { "point_text": "A proof of unbelief", "verse_ref": "James 2:15-17", "verse_text": "If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, 16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? 17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone." }, { "point_text": "Rob not", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:22", "verse_text": "Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:" }, { "point_text": "Wrong not in judgment", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:6", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause." }, { "point_text": "Take no usury from", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:36", "verse_text": "Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee." }, { "point_text": "Harden not the heart against", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 15:7", "verse_text": "If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:" }, { "point_text": "Shut not the hand against", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 15:7", "verse_text": "If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:" }, { "point_text": "Rule not, with rigor", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:39", "verse_text": "And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:" }, { "point_text": "Rule not, with rigor", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:43", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God." }, { "point_text": "Oppress not", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:14", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:" }, { "point_text": "Oppress not", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 7:10", "verse_text": "And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart." }, { "point_text": "Despise not", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:21", "verse_text": "He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he." }, { "point_text": "Despise not", "verse_ref": "James 2:2-4", "verse_text": "For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; 3 And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool: 4 Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?" }, { "point_text": "Relieve", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:35", "verse_text": "And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee." }, { "point_text": "Relieve", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:21", "verse_text": "Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me." }, { "point_text": "Defend", "verse_ref": "Psalm 82:3-4", "verse_text": "Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. 4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked." }, { "point_text": "Do justice to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 82:3", "verse_text": "Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy." }, { "point_text": "Do justice to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 22:3", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place." }, { "point_text": "Do justice to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 22:16", "verse_text": "He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "A CARE FOR,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Is characteristic of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 112:9", "verse_text": "He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour." }, { "point_text": "Is characteristic of saints", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 9:9", "verse_text": "(As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever." }, { "point_text": "Is characteristic of saints", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 29:7", "verse_text": "The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it." }, { "point_text": "Is a fruit of repentance", "verse_ref": "Luke 3:11", "verse_text": "He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise." }, { "point_text": "Should be urged", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:7-8", "verse_text": "Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also. 8 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love." }, { "point_text": "GIVE TO,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Not grudgingly", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 15:10", "verse_text": "Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto." }, { "point_text": "Not grudgingly", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 9:7", "verse_text": "Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver." }, { "point_text": "Liberally", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:29", "verse_text": "And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest." }, { "point_text": "Liberally", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 15:8", "verse_text": "But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth." }, { "point_text": "Liberally", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 15:11", "verse_text": "For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land." }, { "point_text": "Cheerfully", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:12", "verse_text": "For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not." }, { "point_text": "Cheerfully", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 9:7", "verse_text": "Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver." }, { "point_text": "Without ostentation", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:1", "verse_text": "Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven." }, { "point_text": "Specially if saints", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:13", "verse_text": "Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality." }, { "point_text": "Specially if saints", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:10", "verse_text": "As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith." }, { "point_text": "Pray for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:19", "verse_text": "O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever." }, { "point_text": "Pray for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:21", "verse_text": "O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name." }, { "point_text": "THEY WHO IN FAITH, BELIEVE,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Are happy", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:21", "verse_text": "He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he." }, { "point_text": "Are blessed", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 15:10", "verse_text": "Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto." }, { "point_text": "Are blessed", "verse_ref": "Psalm 41:1", "verse_text": "Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble." }, { "point_text": "Are blessed", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:9", "verse_text": "He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor." }, { "point_text": "Are blessed", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:35", "verse_text": "I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive." }, { "point_text": "Have the favor of God", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:16", "verse_text": "But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased." }, { "point_text": "Have promises", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:27", "verse_text": "He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse." }, { "point_text": "Have promises", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:13-14", "verse_text": "But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: 14 And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just." }, { "point_text": "By oppressing, God is reproached", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:31", "verse_text": "He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor." }, { "point_text": "By mocking, God is reproached", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:5", "verse_text": "Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Care not for", "verse_ref": "John 12:6", "verse_text": "This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein." }, { "point_text": "Oppress", "verse_ref": "Job 24:4-10", "verse_text": "They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. 5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children. 6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked. 7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. ..." }, { "point_text": "Oppress", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 18:12", "verse_text": "Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination," }, { "point_text": "Vex", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:20", "verse_text": "As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you." }, { "point_text": "Regard not the cause of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 29:7", "verse_text": "The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it." }, { "point_text": "Sell", "verse_ref": "Amos 2:6", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;" }, { "point_text": "Crush", "verse_ref": "Amos 4:1", "verse_text": "Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink." }, { "point_text": "Tread down", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:11", "verse_text": "Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them." }, { "point_text": "Grind the faces of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:15", "verse_text": "What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Devour", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 3:14", "verse_text": "Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly." }, { "point_text": "Persecute", "verse_ref": "Psalm 10:2", "verse_text": "The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined." }, { "point_text": "Defraud", "verse_ref": "Amos 8:5-6", "verse_text": "Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? 6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?" }, { "point_text": "Despise the counsel of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 14:6", "verse_text": "Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge." }, { "point_text": "Guilt of defrauding", "verse_ref": "James 5:4", "verse_text": "Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth." }, { "point_text": "PUNISHMENT FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Oppressing", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:16", "verse_text": "He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want." }, { "point_text": "Oppressing", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:29", "verse_text": "The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully." }, { "point_text": "Oppressing", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:31", "verse_text": "Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Spoiling", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:13-15", "verse_text": "The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people. 14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses. 15 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Spoiling", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 18:13", "verse_text": "Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him." }, { "point_text": "Refusing to assist", "verse_ref": "Job 22:7", "verse_text": "Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry." }, { "point_text": "Refusing to assist", "verse_ref": "Job 22:10", "verse_text": "Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;" }, { "point_text": "Acting unjustly towards", "verse_ref": "Job 20:19", "verse_text": "Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;" }, { "point_text": "Acting unjustly towards", "verse_ref": "Job 22:6", "verse_text": "For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing." }, { "point_text": "Acting unjustly towards", "verse_ref": "Job 22:10", "verse_text": "Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;" }, { "point_text": "Oppression of--Illustrated", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:1-6", "verse_text": "And the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. 2 The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds: 3 But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter. 4 And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him. ..." }, { "point_text": "Care for--Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:33-35", "verse_text": "But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, 34 And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. 35 And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nGideon, \nRuth, \nWidow of Zarephath, \nProphet's Widow, \nSaints of old,", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:15", "verse_text": "And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nGideon, \nRuth, \nWidow of Zarephath, \nProphet's Widow, \nSaints of old,", "verse_ref": "Ruth 2:2", "verse_text": "And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nGideon, \nRuth, \nWidow of Zarephath, \nProphet's Widow, \nSaints of old,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 17:12", "verse_text": "And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nGideon, \nRuth, \nWidow of Zarephath, \nProphet's Widow, \nSaints of old,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:2", "verse_text": "And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nGideon, \nRuth, \nWidow of Zarephath, \nProphet's Widow, \nSaints of old,", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:37", "verse_text": "They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;" }, { "point_text": "Regard for--Exemplified.\r\n\nBoaz, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nZaccheus, \nPeter and John, \nDorcas, \n\nCornelius, \nChurch at Antioch, \nPaul, \nChurches of Macedonia and Achaia,", "verse_ref": "Ruth 2:14", "verse_text": "And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left." }, { "point_text": "Regard for--Exemplified.\r\n\nBoaz, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nZaccheus, \nPeter and John, \nDorcas, \n\nCornelius, \nChurch at Antioch, \nPaul, \nChurches of Macedonia and Achaia,", "verse_ref": "Job 29:12-16", "verse_text": "Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. 13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. ..." }, { "point_text": "Regard for--Exemplified.\r\n\nBoaz, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nZaccheus, \nPeter and John, \nDorcas, \n\nCornelius, \nChurch at Antioch, \nPaul, \nChurches of Macedonia and Achaia,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 39:10", "verse_text": "But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time." }, { "point_text": "Regard for--Exemplified.\r\n\nBoaz, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nZaccheus, \nPeter and John, \nDorcas, \n\nCornelius, \nChurch at Antioch, \nPaul, \nChurches of Macedonia and Achaia,", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:8", "verse_text": "And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold." }, { "point_text": "Regard for--Exemplified.\r\n\nBoaz, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nZaccheus, \nPeter and John, \nDorcas, \n\nCornelius, \nChurch at Antioch, \nPaul, \nChurches of Macedonia and Achaia,", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:6", "verse_text": "Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk." }, { "point_text": "Regard for--Exemplified.\r\n\nBoaz, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nZaccheus, \nPeter and John, \nDorcas, \n\nCornelius, \nChurch at Antioch, \nPaul, \nChurches of Macedonia and Achaia,", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:36", "verse_text": "Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did." }, { "point_text": "Regard for--Exemplified.\r\n\nBoaz, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nZaccheus, \nPeter and John, \nDorcas, \n\nCornelius, \nChurch at Antioch, \nPaul, \nChurches of Macedonia and Achaia,", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:39", "verse_text": "Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them." }, { "point_text": "Regard for--Exemplified.\r\n\nBoaz, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nZaccheus, \nPeter and John, \nDorcas, \n\nCornelius, \nChurch at Antioch, \nPaul, \nChurches of Macedonia and Achaia,", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:2", "verse_text": "A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway." }, { "point_text": "Regard for--Exemplified.\r\n\nBoaz, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nZaccheus, \nPeter and John, \nDorcas, \n\nCornelius, \nChurch at Antioch, \nPaul, \nChurches of Macedonia and Achaia,", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:29-30", "verse_text": "Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea: 30 Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul." }, { "point_text": "Regard for--Exemplified.\r\n\nBoaz, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nZaccheus, \nPeter and John, \nDorcas, \n\nCornelius, \nChurch at Antioch, \nPaul, \nChurches of Macedonia and Achaia,", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:25", "verse_text": "But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints." }, { "point_text": "Regard for--Exemplified.\r\n\nBoaz, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nZaccheus, \nPeter and John, \nDorcas, \n\nCornelius, \nChurch at Antioch, \nPaul, \nChurches of Macedonia and Achaia,", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:26", "verse_text": "For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Regard for--Exemplified.\r\n\nBoaz, \nJob, \nNebuzaradan, \nZaccheus, \nPeter and John, \nDorcas, \n\nCornelius, \nChurch at Antioch, \nPaul, \nChurches of Macedonia and Achaia,", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:1-5", "verse_text": "Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; 2 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. 3 For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves; 4 Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. ..." } ] }, { "name": "Power of Christ, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Power-of-Christ-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "As the Son of God, is the power of God", "verse_ref": "John 5:17-19", "verse_text": "But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. 18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God. 19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise." }, { "point_text": "As the Son of God, is the power of God", "verse_ref": "John 10:28-30", "verse_text": "And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. 30 I and my Father are one." }, { "point_text": "As man, is from the Father", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:38", "verse_text": "How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Supreme", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:20-21", "verse_text": "Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, 21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:" }, { "point_text": "Supreme", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:22", "verse_text": "Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him." }, { "point_text": "Unlimited", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:18", "verse_text": "And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth." }, { "point_text": "Over all flesh", "verse_ref": "John 17:2", "verse_text": "As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him." }, { "point_text": "Over all things", "verse_ref": "John 3:35", "verse_text": "The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." }, { "point_text": "Over all things", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:22", "verse_text": "And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church," }, { "point_text": "Glorious", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:9", "verse_text": "Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;" }, { "point_text": "Everlasting", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:16", "verse_text": "Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Is able to subdue all things", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:21", "verse_text": "Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself." }, { "point_text": "EXHIBITED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Creation", "verse_ref": "John 1:3", "verse_text": "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." }, { "point_text": "Creation", "verse_ref": "John 1:10", "verse_text": "He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not." }, { "point_text": "Upholding all things", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:17", "verse_text": "And he is before all things, and by him all things consist." }, { "point_text": "Upholding all things", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:3", "verse_text": "Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;" }, { "point_text": "Salvation", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:1", "verse_text": "Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save." }, { "point_text": "Salvation", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:25", "verse_text": "Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them." }, { "point_text": "His teaching", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:28-29", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine: 29 For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes." }, { "point_text": "Working miracles", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:27", "verse_text": "But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!" }, { "point_text": "Working miracles", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:17", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them." }, { "point_text": "Enabling others to work miracles", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:1", "verse_text": "And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease." }, { "point_text": "Enabling others to work miracles", "verse_ref": "Mark 16:17-18", "verse_text": "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." }, { "point_text": "Forgiving sins", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:6", "verse_text": "But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house." }, { "point_text": "Forgiving sins", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:31", "verse_text": "Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins." }, { "point_text": "Giving spiritual life", "verse_ref": "John 5:21", "verse_text": "For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will." }, { "point_text": "Giving spiritual life", "verse_ref": "John 5:25-26", "verse_text": "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. 26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;" }, { "point_text": "Giving eternal life", "verse_ref": "John 17:2", "verse_text": "As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him." }, { "point_text": "Raising the dead", "verse_ref": "John 5:28-29", "verse_text": "Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, 29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation." }, { "point_text": "Raising himself from the dead", "verse_ref": "John 2:19-21", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. 20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? 21 But he spake of the temple of his body." }, { "point_text": "Raising himself from the dead", "verse_ref": "John 10:18", "verse_text": "No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father." }, { "point_text": "Overcoming the world", "verse_ref": "John 16:33", "verse_text": "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." }, { "point_text": "Overcoming Satan", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:15", "verse_text": "And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it." }, { "point_text": "Overcoming Satan", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:14", "verse_text": "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;" }, { "point_text": "Destroying the works of Satan", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:8", "verse_text": "He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil." }, { "point_text": "Ministers should make known", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:16", "verse_text": "For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Made willing by", "verse_ref": "Psalm 110:3", "verse_text": "Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth." }, { "point_text": "Succored by", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:18", "verse_text": "For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted." }, { "point_text": "Strengthened by", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:13", "verse_text": "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." }, { "point_text": "Strengthened by", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:17", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion." }, { "point_text": "Preserved by", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:12", "verse_text": "For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day." }, { "point_text": "Preserved by", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:18", "verse_text": "And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Bodies of, shall be changed by", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:21", "verse_text": "Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself." }, { "point_text": "Rests upon saints", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 12:9", "verse_text": "And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me." }, { "point_text": "Present in the assembly of saints", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 5:4", "verse_text": "In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ," }, { "point_text": "Shall be specially manifested at His second coming", "verse_ref": "Mark 13:26", "verse_text": "And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory." }, { "point_text": "Shall be specially manifested at His second coming", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:16", "verse_text": "For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty." }, { "point_text": "Shall subdue all power", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:24", "verse_text": "Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power." }, { "point_text": "The wicked shall be destroyed by", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:9", "verse_text": "Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel." }, { "point_text": "The wicked shall be destroyed by", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:4", "verse_text": "But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked." }, { "point_text": "The wicked shall be destroyed by", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:3", "verse_text": "I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment." }, { "point_text": "The wicked shall be destroyed by", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:9", "verse_text": "Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;" } ] }, { "name": "Praise", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Praise.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "God is worthy of", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 22:4", "verse_text": "I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies." }, { "point_text": "Christ is worthy of", "verse_ref": "Revelation 5:12", "verse_text": "Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing." }, { "point_text": "God is glorified by", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:23", "verse_text": "Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel." }, { "point_text": "God is glorified by", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:23", "verse_text": "Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God." }, { "point_text": "Offered to Christ", "verse_ref": "John 12:13", "verse_text": "Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Acceptable through Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:15", "verse_text": "By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name." }, { "point_text": "IS DUE TO GOD ON ACCOUNT OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "His majesty", "verse_ref": "Psalm 96:1", "verse_text": "O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth." }, { "point_text": "His majesty", "verse_ref": "Psalm 96:6", "verse_text": "Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary." }, { "point_text": "His glory", "verse_ref": "Psalm 138:5", "verse_text": "Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is the glory of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "His glory", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 3:12", "verse_text": "Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place." }, { "point_text": "His excellency", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:7", "verse_text": "And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble." }, { "point_text": "His excellency", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:13", "verse_text": "Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven." }, { "point_text": "His greatness", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:25", "verse_text": "For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods." }, { "point_text": "His greatness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:3", "verse_text": "Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable." }, { "point_text": "His holiness", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:11", "verse_text": "Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?" }, { "point_text": "His holiness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:3", "verse_text": "And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory." }, { "point_text": "His wisdom", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:20", "verse_text": "Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:" }, { "point_text": "His wisdom", "verse_ref": "Jude 25", "verse_text": "To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "His power", "verse_ref": "Psalm 21:13", "verse_text": "Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power." }, { "point_text": "His goodness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:8", "verse_text": "Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!" }, { "point_text": "His goodness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 118:1", "verse_text": "O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever." }, { "point_text": "His goodness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 136:1", "verse_text": "O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever." }, { "point_text": "His goodness", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 33:11", "verse_text": "The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "His mercy", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 20:21", "verse_text": "And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy endureth for ever." }, { "point_text": "His mercy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:1", "verse_text": "I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations." }, { "point_text": "His mercy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 118:1-4", "verse_text": "O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever. 2 Let Israel now say, that his mercy endureth for ever. 3 Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endureth for ever. 4 Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy endureth for ever." }, { "point_text": "His mercy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 136", "verse_text": "O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. 2 O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever. 3 O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever. 4 To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever. ..." }, { "point_text": "His loving-kindness and truth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 138:2", "verse_text": "I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name." }, { "point_text": "His faithfulness and truth", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 25:1", "verse_text": "O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth." }, { "point_text": "His salvation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 18:46", "verse_text": "The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted." }, { "point_text": "His salvation", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 35:10", "verse_text": "And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away." }, { "point_text": "His salvation", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:10", "verse_text": "I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels." }, { "point_text": "His salvation", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:68-69", "verse_text": "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, 69 And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;" }, { "point_text": "His wonderful works", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:5", "verse_text": "And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints." }, { "point_text": "His wonderful works", "verse_ref": "Psalm 150:2", "verse_text": "Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness." }, { "point_text": "His wonderful works", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 25:1", "verse_text": "O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth." }, { "point_text": "His consolation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 42:5", "verse_text": "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance." }, { "point_text": "His consolation", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 12:1", "verse_text": "And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me." }, { "point_text": "His judgment", "verse_ref": "Psalm 101:1", "verse_text": "I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing." }, { "point_text": "His counsel", "verse_ref": "Psalm 16:7", "verse_text": "I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons." }, { "point_text": "His counsel", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 32:19", "verse_text": "Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:" }, { "point_text": "Fulfilling of His promises", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:56", "verse_text": "Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant." }, { "point_text": "Pardon of sin", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:1-3", "verse_text": "Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. 2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: 3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;" }, { "point_text": "Pardon of sin", "verse_ref": "Hosea 14:2", "verse_text": "Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips." }, { "point_text": "Spiritual health", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:3", "verse_text": "Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;" }, { "point_text": "Constant preservation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 71:6-8", "verse_text": "By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee. 7 I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge. 8 Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day." }, { "point_text": "Deliverance", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:1-3", "verse_text": "I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. 2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. 3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Deliverance", "verse_ref": "Psalm 124:6", "verse_text": "Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth." }, { "point_text": "Protection", "verse_ref": "Psalm 28:7", "verse_text": "The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him." }, { "point_text": "Protection", "verse_ref": "Psalm 59:17", "verse_text": "Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defence, and the God of my mercy." }, { "point_text": "Answering prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 28:6", "verse_text": "Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications." }, { "point_text": "Answering prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 118:21", "verse_text": "I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation." }, { "point_text": "The hope of glory", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:3-4", "verse_text": "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you," }, { "point_text": "All spiritual blessings", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:2", "verse_text": "Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:" }, { "point_text": "All spiritual blessings", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:3", "verse_text": "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:" }, { "point_text": "All temporal blessings", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:1", "verse_text": "Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty." }, { "point_text": "All temporal blessings", "verse_ref": "Psalm 136:25", "verse_text": "Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever." }, { "point_text": "The continuance of blessings", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:19", "verse_text": "Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah." }, { "point_text": "IS OBLIGATORY UPON", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Angels", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:20", "verse_text": "Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word." }, { "point_text": "Angels", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:2", "verse_text": "Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts." }, { "point_text": "Saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 30:4", "verse_text": "Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness." }, { "point_text": "Saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 149:5", "verse_text": "Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds." }, { "point_text": "Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Psalm 117:1", "verse_text": "O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people." }, { "point_text": "Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:11", "verse_text": "And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye people." }, { "point_text": "Children", "verse_ref": "Psalm 8:2", "verse_text": "Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger." }, { "point_text": "Children", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:16", "verse_text": "And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?" }, { "point_text": "High and low", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:1", "verse_text": "Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praise him in the heights." }, { "point_text": "High and low", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:11", "verse_text": "Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth:" }, { "point_text": "Young and old", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:1", "verse_text": "Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praise him in the heights." }, { "point_text": "Young and old", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:12", "verse_text": "Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:" }, { "point_text": "Small and great", "verse_ref": "Revelation 19:5", "verse_text": "And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great." }, { "point_text": "All men", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:8", "verse_text": "Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!" }, { "point_text": "All men", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:21", "verse_text": "My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever." }, { "point_text": "All creation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:1-10", "verse_text": "Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praise him in the heights. 2 Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts. 3 Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light. 4 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens. ..." }, { "point_text": "All creation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 150:6", "verse_text": "Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Is good and comely", "verse_ref": "Psalm 33:1", "verse_text": "Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright." }, { "point_text": "Is good and comely", "verse_ref": "Psalm 147:1", "verse_text": "Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE OFFERED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "With the understanding", "verse_ref": "Psalm 47:7", "verse_text": "For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding." }, { "point_text": "With the understanding", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:15", "verse_text": "What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also." }, { "point_text": "With the soul", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:1", "verse_text": "Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name." }, { "point_text": "With the soul", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:1", "verse_text": "Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty." }, { "point_text": "With the soul", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:35", "verse_text": "Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD." }, { "point_text": "With the whole heart", "verse_ref": "Psalm 9:1", "verse_text": "I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works." }, { "point_text": "With the whole heart", "verse_ref": "Psalm 111:1", "verse_text": "Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation." }, { "point_text": "With the whole heart", "verse_ref": "Psalm 138:1", "verse_text": "I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto thee." }, { "point_text": "With uprightness of heart", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:7", "verse_text": "I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments." }, { "point_text": "With the lips", "verse_ref": "Psalm 63:3", "verse_text": "Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee." }, { "point_text": "With the lips", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:171", "verse_text": "My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes." }, { "point_text": "With the mouth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:15", "verse_text": "O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise." }, { "point_text": "With the mouth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 63:5", "verse_text": "My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:" }, { "point_text": "With joy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 63:5", "verse_text": "My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:" }, { "point_text": "With joy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 98:4", "verse_text": "Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise." }, { "point_text": "With gladness", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 29:30", "verse_text": "Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped." }, { "point_text": "With gladness", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 33:11", "verse_text": "The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "With thankfulness", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:4", "verse_text": "And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, and to record, and to thank and praise the LORD God of Israel:" }, { "point_text": "With thankfulness", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 12:24", "verse_text": "And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, ward over against ward." }, { "point_text": "With thankfulness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 147:7", "verse_text": "Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:" }, { "point_text": "Continually", "verse_ref": "Psalm 35:28", "verse_text": "And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long." }, { "point_text": "Continually", "verse_ref": "Psalm 71:6", "verse_text": "By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee." }, { "point_text": "During life", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:33", "verse_text": "I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being." }, { "point_text": "More and more", "verse_ref": "Psalm 71:14", "verse_text": "But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more." }, { "point_text": "Day and night", "verse_ref": "Revelation 4:8", "verse_text": "And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come." }, { "point_text": "Day by day", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 30:21", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "For ever and ever", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:1-2", "verse_text": "I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever. 2 Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever." }, { "point_text": "Throughout the world", "verse_ref": "Psalm 113:3", "verse_text": "From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD'S name is to be praised." }, { "point_text": "In psalms and hymns, &c", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:2", "verse_text": "Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works." }, { "point_text": "In psalms and hymns, &c", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:19", "verse_text": "Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;" }, { "point_text": "In psalms and hymns, &c", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:16", "verse_text": "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Accompanied with musical instruments", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:41-42", "verse_text": "And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks to the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever; 42 And with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should make a sound, and with musical instruments of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were porters." }, { "point_text": "Is a part of public worship", "verse_ref": "Psalm 9:14", "verse_text": "That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation." }, { "point_text": "Is a part of public worship", "verse_ref": "Psalm 100:4", "verse_text": "Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name." }, { "point_text": "Is a part of public worship", "verse_ref": "Psalm 118:19-20", "verse_text": "Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD: 20 This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Show forth", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 43:21", "verse_text": "This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise." }, { "point_text": "Show forth", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:9", "verse_text": "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:" }, { "point_text": "Be endued with the spirit of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:3", "verse_text": "To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified." }, { "point_text": "Render, under affliction", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:25", "verse_text": "And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them." }, { "point_text": "Glory in", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:35", "verse_text": "And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give thanks to thy holy name, and glory in thy praise." }, { "point_text": "Triumph in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:47", "verse_text": "Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise." }, { "point_text": "Express their joy by", "verse_ref": "James 5:13", "verse_text": "Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms." }, { "point_text": "Declare", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:12", "verse_text": "Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands." }, { "point_text": "Invite others to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:3", "verse_text": "O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together." }, { "point_text": "Invite others to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 95:1", "verse_text": "O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation." }, { "point_text": "Pray for ability to offer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:15", "verse_text": "O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise." }, { "point_text": "Pray for ability to offer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:175", "verse_text": "Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me." }, { "point_text": "Posture suited to", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:30", "verse_text": "And to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise at even;" }, { "point_text": "Posture suited to", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:5", "verse_text": "Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise." }, { "point_text": "CALLED THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Fruit of the lips", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:15", "verse_text": "By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name." }, { "point_text": "Voice of praise", "verse_ref": "Psalm 66:8", "verse_text": "O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard:" }, { "point_text": "Voice of triumph", "verse_ref": "Psalm 47:1", "verse_text": "O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph." }, { "point_text": "Voice of melody", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 51:3", "verse_text": "For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody." }, { "point_text": "Voice of a psalm", "verse_ref": "Psalm 98:5", "verse_text": "Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm." }, { "point_text": "Garment of praise", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:3", "verse_text": "To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified." }, { "point_text": "Sacrifice of praise", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:15", "verse_text": "By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name." }, { "point_text": "Sacrifices of joy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:6", "verse_text": "And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Calves of the lips", "verse_ref": "Hosea 14:2", "verse_text": "Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips." }, { "point_text": "The heavenly host engage in", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:3", "verse_text": "And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory." }, { "point_text": "The heavenly host engage in", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:13", "verse_text": "And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying," }, { "point_text": "The heavenly host engage in", "verse_ref": "Revelation 4:9-11", "verse_text": "And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever, 10 The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, 11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created." }, { "point_text": "The heavenly host engage in", "verse_ref": "Revelation 5:12", "verse_text": "Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nMoses, &c. \nJethro, \nIsraelites, \nDavid, \n\nPriests and Levites, \nEzra, \nHezekiah, \nZacharias, \nShepherds, \nSimeon, \nAnna, \nMultitudes, \nDisciples, \nThe Apostles, \nFirst Converts, \nLame man, \nPaul and Silas,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:20", "verse_text": "And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nMoses, &c. \nJethro, \nIsraelites, \nDavid, \n\nPriests and Levites, \nEzra, \nHezekiah, \nZacharias, \nShepherds, \nSimeon, \nAnna, \nMultitudes, \nDisciples, \nThe Apostles, \nFirst Converts, \nLame man, \nPaul and Silas,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:1-21", "verse_text": "Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. 2 The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him. 3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name. 4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nMoses, &c. \nJethro, \nIsraelites, \nDavid, \n\nPriests and Levites, \nEzra, \nHezekiah, \nZacharias, \nShepherds, \nSimeon, \nAnna, \nMultitudes, \nDisciples, \nThe Apostles, \nFirst Converts, \nLame man, \nPaul and Silas,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 18:10", "verse_text": "And Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nMoses, &c. \nJethro, \nIsraelites, \nDavid, \n\nPriests and Levites, \nEzra, \nHezekiah, \nZacharias, \nShepherds, \nSimeon, \nAnna, \nMultitudes, \nDisciples, \nThe Apostles, \nFirst Converts, \nLame man, \nPaul and Silas,", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:36", "verse_text": "Blessed be the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nMoses, &c. \nJethro, \nIsraelites, \nDavid, \n\nPriests and Levites, \nEzra, \nHezekiah, \nZacharias, \nShepherds, \nSimeon, \nAnna, \nMultitudes, \nDisciples, \nThe Apostles, \nFirst Converts, \nLame man, \nPaul and Silas,", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:10-13", "verse_text": "Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever and ever. 11 Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all. 12 Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. 13 Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nMoses, &c. \nJethro, \nIsraelites, \nDavid, \n\nPriests and Levites, \nEzra, \nHezekiah, \nZacharias, \nShepherds, \nSimeon, \nAnna, \nMultitudes, \nDisciples, \nThe Apostles, \nFirst Converts, \nLame man, \nPaul and Silas,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:164", "verse_text": "Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nMoses, &c. \nJethro, \nIsraelites, \nDavid, \n\nPriests and Levites, \nEzra, \nHezekiah, \nZacharias, \nShepherds, \nSimeon, \nAnna, \nMultitudes, \nDisciples, \nThe Apostles, \nFirst Converts, \nLame man, \nPaul and Silas,", "verse_ref": "Ezra 3:10-11", "verse_text": "And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel. 11 And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nMoses, &c. \nJethro, \nIsraelites, \nDavid, \n\nPriests and Levites, \nEzra, \nHezekiah, \nZacharias, \nShepherds, \nSimeon, \nAnna, \nMultitudes, \nDisciples, \nThe Apostles, \nFirst Converts, \nLame man, \nPaul and Silas,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:6", "verse_text": "And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nMoses, &c. \nJethro, \nIsraelites, \nDavid, \n\nPriests and Levites, \nEzra, \nHezekiah, \nZacharias, \nShepherds, \nSimeon, \nAnna, \nMultitudes, \nDisciples, \nThe Apostles, \nFirst Converts, \nLame man, \nPaul and Silas,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:19", "verse_text": "The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nMoses, &c. \nJethro, \nIsraelites, \nDavid, \n\nPriests and Levites, \nEzra, \nHezekiah, \nZacharias, \nShepherds, \nSimeon, \nAnna, \nMultitudes, \nDisciples, \nThe Apostles, \nFirst Converts, \nLame man, \nPaul and Silas,", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:64", "verse_text": "And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue loosed, and he spake, and praised God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nMoses, &c. \nJethro, \nIsraelites, \nDavid, \n\nPriests and Levites, \nEzra, \nHezekiah, \nZacharias, \nShepherds, \nSimeon, \nAnna, \nMultitudes, \nDisciples, \nThe Apostles, \nFirst Converts, \nLame man, \nPaul and Silas,", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:20", "verse_text": "And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nMoses, &c. \nJethro, \nIsraelites, \nDavid, \n\nPriests and Levites, \nEzra, \nHezekiah, \nZacharias, \nShepherds, \nSimeon, \nAnna, \nMultitudes, \nDisciples, \nThe Apostles, \nFirst Converts, \nLame man, \nPaul and Silas,", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:28", "verse_text": "Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nMoses, &c. \nJethro, \nIsraelites, \nDavid, \n\nPriests and Levites, \nEzra, \nHezekiah, \nZacharias, \nShepherds, \nSimeon, \nAnna, \nMultitudes, \nDisciples, \nThe Apostles, \nFirst Converts, \nLame man, \nPaul and Silas,", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:38", "verse_text": "And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nMoses, &c. \nJethro, \nIsraelites, \nDavid, \n\nPriests and Levites, \nEzra, \nHezekiah, \nZacharias, \nShepherds, \nSimeon, \nAnna, \nMultitudes, \nDisciples, \nThe Apostles, \nFirst Converts, \nLame man, \nPaul and Silas,", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:43", "verse_text": "And immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise unto God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nMoses, &c. \nJethro, \nIsraelites, \nDavid, \n\nPriests and Levites, \nEzra, \nHezekiah, \nZacharias, \nShepherds, \nSimeon, \nAnna, \nMultitudes, \nDisciples, \nThe Apostles, \nFirst Converts, \nLame man, \nPaul and Silas,", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:37-38", "verse_text": "And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen; 38 Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nMoses, &c. \nJethro, \nIsraelites, \nDavid, \n\nPriests and Levites, \nEzra, \nHezekiah, \nZacharias, \nShepherds, \nSimeon, \nAnna, \nMultitudes, \nDisciples, \nThe Apostles, \nFirst Converts, \nLame man, \nPaul and Silas,", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:53", "verse_text": "And were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nMoses, &c. \nJethro, \nIsraelites, \nDavid, \n\nPriests and Levites, \nEzra, \nHezekiah, \nZacharias, \nShepherds, \nSimeon, \nAnna, \nMultitudes, \nDisciples, \nThe Apostles, \nFirst Converts, \nLame man, \nPaul and Silas,", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:47", "verse_text": "Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nMoses, &c. \nJethro, \nIsraelites, \nDavid, \n\nPriests and Levites, \nEzra, \nHezekiah, \nZacharias, \nShepherds, \nSimeon, \nAnna, \nMultitudes, \nDisciples, \nThe Apostles, \nFirst Converts, \nLame man, \nPaul and Silas,", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:8", "verse_text": "And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMelchizedek, \nMoses, &c. \nJethro, \nIsraelites, \nDavid, \n\nPriests and Levites, \nEzra, \nHezekiah, \nZacharias, \nShepherds, \nSimeon, \nAnna, \nMultitudes, \nDisciples, \nThe Apostles, \nFirst Converts, \nLame man, \nPaul and Silas,", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:25", "verse_text": "And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them." } ] }, { "name": "Plowing", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Plowing.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The breaking up or tilling of the earth", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:3", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns." }, { "point_text": "The breaking up or tilling of the earth", "verse_ref": "Hosea 10:12", "verse_text": "Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you." }, { "point_text": "Noah the supposed inventor of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 5:29", "verse_text": "And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed." }, { "point_text": "PERFORMED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "By a plow", "verse_ref": "Luke 9:62", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "With oxen", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:14", "verse_text": "And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow." }, { "point_text": "With oxen", "verse_ref": "Job 1:14", "verse_text": "And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:" }, { "point_text": "During the cold winter season", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:4", "verse_text": "The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing." }, { "point_text": "In long and straight furrows", "verse_ref": "Psalm 129:3", "verse_text": "The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows." }, { "point_text": "Generally by servants", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:5", "verse_text": "And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers." }, { "point_text": "Generally by servants", "verse_ref": "Luke 17:7", "verse_text": "But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?" }, { "point_text": "Sometimes by the owner of the land himself", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:19", "verse_text": "So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him." }, { "point_text": "With an ox and an ass yoked together forbidden to the Jews", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 22:10", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together." }, { "point_text": "Difficulty of, on rocky ground", "verse_ref": "Amos 6:12", "verse_text": "Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:" }, { "point_text": "Followed by harrowing and sowing", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:24-25", "verse_text": "Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? 25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?" }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of repentance and reformation", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:3", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns." }, { "point_text": "Of peace and prosperity", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:4", "verse_text": "And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." }, { "point_text": "Of peace and prosperity", "verse_ref": "Micah 4:3", "verse_text": "And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." }, { "point_text": "Of a severe course of affliction", "verse_ref": "Hosea 10:11", "verse_text": "And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods." }, { "point_text": "Of a course of sin", "verse_ref": "Job 4:8", "verse_text": "Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same." }, { "point_text": "Of a course of sin", "verse_ref": "Hosea 10:13", "verse_text": "Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men." }, { "point_text": "Of the labor ministers", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:10", "verse_text": "Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope." }, { "point_text": "(Attention and constancy required in,) of continued devotedness", "verse_ref": "Luke 9:62", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." } ] }, { "name": "Pomegranate-tree, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Pomegranatetree-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Egypt abounded with", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:5", "verse_text": "And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink." }, { "point_text": "Canaan abounded with", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:23", "verse_text": "And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs." }, { "point_text": "Canaan abounded with", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:8", "verse_text": "A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;" }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Cultivated, in orchards", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:13", "verse_text": "Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard," }, { "point_text": "Often dwelt under shade of", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:2", "verse_text": "And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people that were with him were about six hundred men;" }, { "point_text": "Drank the juice of", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 8:2", "verse_text": "I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate." }, { "point_text": "The blasting of, a great calamity", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:12", "verse_text": "The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men." }, { "point_text": "God's favor exhibited, in making fruitful", "verse_ref": "Haggai 2:19", "verse_text": "Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you." }, { "point_text": "REPRESENTATIONS OF ITS FRUIT", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "On the high priest's robe", "verse_ref": "Exodus 39:24-26", "verse_text": "And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen. 25 And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between the pomegranates; 26 A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister in; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "On the pillars of the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 7:18", "verse_text": "And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of saints", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 6:11", "verse_text": "I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded." }, { "point_text": "Of saints", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 7:12", "verse_text": "Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves." }, { "point_text": "(An orchard of,) of the church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:13", "verse_text": "Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard," }, { "point_text": "(Fruit of,) of the graces of the church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:3", "verse_text": "Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks." }, { "point_text": "(Fruit of,) of the graces of the church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 6:7", "verse_text": "As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks." } ] }, { "name": "Power of God, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Power-of-God-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is one of His attributes", "verse_ref": "Psalm 62:11", "verse_text": "God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God." }, { "point_text": "EXPRESSED BY THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Voice of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 29:3", "verse_text": "The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters." }, { "point_text": "Voice of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:33", "verse_text": "To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice." }, { "point_text": "Finger of God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 8:19", "verse_text": "Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said." }, { "point_text": "Finger of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 8:3", "verse_text": "When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;" }, { "point_text": "Hand of God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:3", "verse_text": "Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain." }, { "point_text": "Hand of God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:15", "verse_text": "For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth." }, { "point_text": "Arm of God", "verse_ref": "Job 40:9", "verse_text": "Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?" }, { "point_text": "Arm of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 52:10", "verse_text": "The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God." }, { "point_text": "Thunder of His power, &c", "verse_ref": "Job 26:14", "verse_text": "Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?" }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Great", "verse_ref": "Psalm 79:11", "verse_text": "Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;" }, { "point_text": "Great", "verse_ref": "Nahum 1:3", "verse_text": "The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet." }, { "point_text": "Strong", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:13", "verse_text": "Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand." }, { "point_text": "Strong", "verse_ref": "Psalm 136:12", "verse_text": "With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever." }, { "point_text": "Glorious", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:6", "verse_text": "Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy." }, { "point_text": "Glorious", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:12", "verse_text": "That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?" }, { "point_text": "Mighty", "verse_ref": "Job 9:4", "verse_text": "He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?" }, { "point_text": "Mighty", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:13", "verse_text": "Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand." }, { "point_text": "Everlasting", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:4", "verse_text": "Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:" }, { "point_text": "Everlasting", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:20", "verse_text": "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:" }, { "point_text": "Sovereign", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:21", "verse_text": "Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?" }, { "point_text": "Effectual", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 43:13", "verse_text": "Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?" }, { "point_text": "Effectual", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:7", "verse_text": "Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power." }, { "point_text": "Irresistible", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:39", "verse_text": "See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand." }, { "point_text": "Irresistible", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:35", "verse_text": "And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?" }, { "point_text": "Incomparable", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:11-12", "verse_text": "Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? 12 Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them." }, { "point_text": "Unsearchable", "verse_ref": "Job 5:9", "verse_text": "Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:" }, { "point_text": "Unsearchable", "verse_ref": "Job 9:10", "verse_text": "Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number." }, { "point_text": "Incomprehensible", "verse_ref": "Job 26:14", "verse_text": "Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?" }, { "point_text": "Incomprehensible", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 3:11", "verse_text": "He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end." }, { "point_text": "All things possible to", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:26", "verse_text": "But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible." }, { "point_text": "Nothing too hard for", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:14", "verse_text": "Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son." }, { "point_text": "Nothing too hard for", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 32:27", "verse_text": "Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?" }, { "point_text": "Can save by many or by few", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:6", "verse_text": "And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few." }, { "point_text": "Is the source of all strength", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:12", "verse_text": "Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all." }, { "point_text": "Is the source of all strength", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:35", "verse_text": "O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God." }, { "point_text": "EXHIBITED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Creation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 102:25", "verse_text": "Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands." }, { "point_text": "Creation", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 10:12", "verse_text": "He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion." }, { "point_text": "Establishing and governing all things", "verse_ref": "Psalm 65:6", "verse_text": "Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power:" }, { "point_text": "Establishing and governing all things", "verse_ref": "Psalm 66:7", "verse_text": "He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah." }, { "point_text": "The miracles of Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:20", "verse_text": "But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you." }, { "point_text": "The resurrection of Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 13:4", "verse_text": "For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you." }, { "point_text": "The resurrection of Christ", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:12", "verse_text": "Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead." }, { "point_text": "The resurrection of saints", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:14", "verse_text": "And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power." }, { "point_text": "Making the gospel effectual", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:16", "verse_text": "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek." }, { "point_text": "Making the gospel effectual", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:18", "verse_text": "For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God." }, { "point_text": "Making the gospel effectual", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:24", "verse_text": "But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Delivering his people", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:8", "verse_text": "Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known." }, { "point_text": "The destruction of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:16", "verse_text": "And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth." }, { "point_text": "The destruction of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:22", "verse_text": "What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:" }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Long for exhibitions of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 63:1-2", "verse_text": "O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; 2 To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary." }, { "point_text": "Have confidence in", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 20:11", "verse_text": "But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten." }, { "point_text": "Receive increase of grace by", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 9:8", "verse_text": "And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:" }, { "point_text": "Strengthened by", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:10", "verse_text": "Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might." }, { "point_text": "Strengthened by", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:11", "verse_text": "Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;" }, { "point_text": "Upheld by", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:17", "verse_text": "For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous." }, { "point_text": "Upheld by", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:10", "verse_text": "Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Supported in affliction by", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:7", "verse_text": "By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left," }, { "point_text": "Supported in affliction by", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:8", "verse_text": "Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;" }, { "point_text": "Delivered by", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 1:10", "verse_text": "Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand." }, { "point_text": "Delivered by", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:17", "verse_text": "If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king." }, { "point_text": "Exalted by", "verse_ref": "Job 36:22", "verse_text": "Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?" }, { "point_text": "Kept by, unto salvation", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:5", "verse_text": "Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time." }, { "point_text": "Exerted in behalf of saints", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 16:9", "verse_text": "For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars." }, { "point_text": "Works in, and for saints", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 13:4", "verse_text": "For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you." }, { "point_text": "Works in, and for saints", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:19", "verse_text": "And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power," }, { "point_text": "Works in, and for saints", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:20", "verse_text": "Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us," }, { "point_text": "The faith of saints stands in", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:5", "verse_text": "That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Acknowledged", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:11", "verse_text": "Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all." }, { "point_text": "Acknowledged", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:13", "verse_text": "Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might." }, { "point_text": "Pleaded in prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 79:11", "verse_text": "Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;" }, { "point_text": "Pleaded in prayer", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:13", "verse_text": "And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Feared", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:22", "verse_text": "Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?" }, { "point_text": "Feared", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:28", "verse_text": "And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." }, { "point_text": "Magnified", "verse_ref": "Psalm 21:13", "verse_text": "Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power." }, { "point_text": "Magnified", "verse_ref": "Jude 25", "verse_text": "To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Efficiency of ministers is through", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:6-8", "verse_text": "I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. 8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour." }, { "point_text": "Efficiency of ministers is through", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:8", "verse_text": "(For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)" }, { "point_text": "Efficiency of ministers is through", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:7", "verse_text": "Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power." }, { "point_text": "Is a ground of trust", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:4", "verse_text": "Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:" }, { "point_text": "Is a ground of trust", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:21", "verse_text": "And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Know not", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:29", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God." }, { "point_text": "Have against them", "verse_ref": "Ezra 8:22", "verse_text": "For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him." }, { "point_text": "Shall be destroyed by", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:5", "verse_text": "But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him." }, { "point_text": "The heavenly host magnify", "verse_ref": "Revelation 4:11", "verse_text": "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created." }, { "point_text": "The heavenly host magnify", "verse_ref": "Revelation 5:13", "verse_text": "And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever." }, { "point_text": "The heavenly host magnify", "verse_ref": "Revelation 11:17", "verse_text": "Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned." } ] }, { "name": "Pillars", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Pillars.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The supports of a building", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:29", "verse_text": "And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left." }, { "point_text": "Things raised up as memorials", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:51", "verse_text": "And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;" }, { "point_text": "MADE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Marble", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:6", "verse_text": "Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble." }, { "point_text": "Wood", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:12", "verse_text": "And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Iron", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 1:18", "verse_text": "For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land." }, { "point_text": "Brass", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 7:15", "verse_text": "For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about." }, { "point_text": "Silver", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 3:10", "verse_text": "He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "The vail and hangings of the tabernacle supported by", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:32", "verse_text": "And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver." }, { "point_text": "The vail and hangings of the tabernacle supported by", "verse_ref": "Exodus 36:36", "verse_text": "And he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver." }, { "point_text": "The vail and hangings of the tabernacle supported by", "verse_ref": "Exodus 36:38", "verse_text": "And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass." }, { "point_text": "Two, placed in the temple porch", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 7:15-21", "verse_text": "For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about. 16 And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits: 17 And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter. 18 And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter. ..." }, { "point_text": "OF MEMORIAL", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Sometimes of a single stone", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:18", "verse_text": "And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes of a heap of stones", "verse_ref": "Joshua 4:8-9", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the LORD spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there. 9 And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes of a heap of stones", "verse_ref": "Joshua 4:20", "verse_text": "And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal." }, { "point_text": "To witness vows", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:18", "verse_text": "And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it." }, { "point_text": "To witness vows", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:13", "verse_text": "I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred." }, { "point_text": "To witness covenants", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:52", "verse_text": "This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm." }, { "point_text": "To mark the graves of the dead", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:20", "verse_text": "And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day." }, { "point_text": "To commemorate remarkable events", "verse_ref": "Exodus 24:4", "verse_text": "And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel." }, { "point_text": "To commemorate remarkable events", "verse_ref": "Joshua 4:20", "verse_text": "And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal." }, { "point_text": "To commemorate remarkable events", "verse_ref": "Joshua 4:24", "verse_text": "That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever." }, { "point_text": "To perpetuate names", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 18:18", "verse_text": "Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place." }, { "point_text": "In honor of idols", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:1", "verse_text": "Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "In honor of idols", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 7:5", "verse_text": "But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire." }, { "point_text": "Often anointed", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:18", "verse_text": "And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it." }, { "point_text": "Often anointed", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:13", "verse_text": "I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred." }, { "point_text": "Often had inscriptions", "verse_ref": "Job 19:24", "verse_text": "That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!" }, { "point_text": "The divine glory appeared to Israel in the form of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:21-22", "verse_text": "And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night: 22 He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people." }, { "point_text": "Lot's wife became a pillar of salt", "verse_ref": "Genesis 19:26", "verse_text": "But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Stability of the heavens", "verse_ref": "Job 26:11", "verse_text": "The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof." }, { "point_text": "Stability of the earth", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:8", "verse_text": "He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them." }, { "point_text": "Stability of the earth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 75:3", "verse_text": "The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah." }, { "point_text": "The church", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:15", "verse_text": "But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth." }, { "point_text": "Stability of Christ", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:15", "verse_text": "His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars." }, { "point_text": "Stability of Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 10:1", "verse_text": "And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:" }, { "point_text": "Ministers", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 1:18", "verse_text": "For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land." }, { "point_text": "Ministers", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:9", "verse_text": "And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision." }, { "point_text": "Saints who overcome in Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:12", "verse_text": "Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name." } ] }, { "name": "Pools and Ponds", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Pools-and-Ponds.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Made by God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 35:7", "verse_text": "And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes." }, { "point_text": "Made by man", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:10", "verse_text": "And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish." }, { "point_text": "ARTIFICIAL, DESIGNED FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Supplying cities with water", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:20", "verse_text": "And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?" }, { "point_text": "Supplying gardens, &c. with water", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:6", "verse_text": "I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:" }, { "point_text": "Preserving fish", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:10", "verse_text": "And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish." }, { "point_text": "Water of, brought into the city by a ditch or conduit", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:11", "verse_text": "Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago." }, { "point_text": "Water of, brought into the city by a ditch or conduit", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:20", "verse_text": "And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?" }, { "point_text": "Filled by the rain", "verse_ref": "Psalm 84:6", "verse_text": "Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools." }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Bethesda", "verse_ref": "John 5:2", "verse_text": "Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches." }, { "point_text": "Gibeon", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 2:13", "verse_text": "And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met together by the pool of Gibeon: and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool." }, { "point_text": "Hebron", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 4:12", "verse_text": "And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron." }, { "point_text": "Samaria", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:38", "verse_text": "And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake." }, { "point_text": "Siloam", "verse_ref": "John 9:7", "verse_text": "And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing." }, { "point_text": "The upper pool", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:17", "verse_text": "And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field." }, { "point_text": "The upper pool", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:3", "verse_text": "Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;" }, { "point_text": "The lower pool", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:9", "verse_text": "Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool." }, { "point_text": "The king's pool", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 2:14", "verse_text": "Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass." }, { "point_text": "The old pool", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:11", "verse_text": "Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago." }, { "point_text": "The land of Egypt abounded in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 7:19", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of Nineveh", "verse_ref": "Nahum 2:8", "verse_text": "But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back." }, { "point_text": "(In the wilderness,) of the gifts of the Spirit", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 35:7", "verse_text": "And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes." }, { "point_text": "(In the wilderness,) of the gifts of the Spirit", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:18", "verse_text": "I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water." }, { "point_text": "(Turning cities into,) of great desolation", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:23", "verse_text": "I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Made by God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 35:7", "verse_text": "And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes." }, { "point_text": "Made by man", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:10", "verse_text": "And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish." }, { "point_text": "ARTIFICIAL, DESIGNED FOR", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Supplying cities with water", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:20", "verse_text": "And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?" }, { "point_text": "Supplying gardens, &c. with water", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:6", "verse_text": "I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:" }, { "point_text": "Preserving fish", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:10", "verse_text": "And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish." }, { "point_text": "Water of, brought into the city by a ditch or conduit", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:11", "verse_text": "Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago." }, { "point_text": "Water of, brought into the city by a ditch or conduit", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:20", "verse_text": "And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?" }, { "point_text": "Filled by the rain", "verse_ref": "Psalm 84:6", "verse_text": "Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools." }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Bethesda", "verse_ref": "John 5:2", "verse_text": "Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches." }, { "point_text": "Gibeon", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 2:13", "verse_text": "And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met together by the pool of Gibeon: and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool." }, { "point_text": "Hebron", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 4:12", "verse_text": "And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron." }, { "point_text": "Samaria", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:38", "verse_text": "And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake." }, { "point_text": "Siloam", "verse_ref": "John 9:7", "verse_text": "And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing." }, { "point_text": "The upper pool", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:17", "verse_text": "And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field." }, { "point_text": "The upper pool", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:3", "verse_text": "Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;" }, { "point_text": "The lower pool", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:9", "verse_text": "Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool." }, { "point_text": "The king's pool", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 2:14", "verse_text": "Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass." }, { "point_text": "The old pool", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:11", "verse_text": "Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago." }, { "point_text": "The land of Egypt abounded in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 7:19", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Of Nineveh", "verse_ref": "Nahum 2:8", "verse_text": "But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back." }, { "point_text": "(In the wilderness,) of the gifts of the Spirit", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 35:7", "verse_text": "And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes." }, { "point_text": "(In the wilderness,) of the gifts of the Spirit", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:18", "verse_text": "I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water." }, { "point_text": "(Turning cities into,) of great desolation", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:23", "verse_text": "I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts." } ] }, { "name": "Prayer", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Prayer.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 55:6", "verse_text": "Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:" }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:7", "verse_text": "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:" }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:6", "verse_text": "Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God." }, { "point_text": "TO BE OFFERED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 5:2", "verse_text": "Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray." }, { "point_text": "To God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:10", "verse_text": "Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve." }, { "point_text": "To Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:42", "verse_text": "And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom." }, { "point_text": "To Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:59", "verse_text": "And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." }, { "point_text": "To the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 3:5", "verse_text": "And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ." }, { "point_text": "Through Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:18", "verse_text": "For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father." }, { "point_text": "Through Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:19", "verse_text": "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus," }, { "point_text": "God hears", "verse_ref": "Psalm 10:17", "verse_text": "LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:" }, { "point_text": "God hears", "verse_ref": "Psalm 65:2", "verse_text": "O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come." }, { "point_text": "God answers", "verse_ref": "Psalm 99:6", "verse_text": "Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them." }, { "point_text": "God answers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:9", "verse_text": "Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;" }, { "point_text": "IS DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Bowing the knees", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:14", "verse_text": "For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ," }, { "point_text": "Looking up", "verse_ref": "Psalm 5:3", "verse_text": "My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up." }, { "point_text": "Lifting up the soul", "verse_ref": "Psalm 25:1", "verse_text": "Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul." }, { "point_text": "Lifting up the heart", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:41", "verse_text": "Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens." }, { "point_text": "Pouring out the heart", "verse_ref": "Psalm 62:8", "verse_text": "Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Pouring out the soul", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:15", "verse_text": "And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Calling upon the name of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Genesis 12:8", "verse_text": "And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Calling upon the name of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Psalm 116:4", "verse_text": "Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul." }, { "point_text": "Calling upon the name of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Acts 22:16", "verse_text": "And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Crying unto God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:7", "verse_text": "Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me." }, { "point_text": "Crying unto God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:6", "verse_text": "This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles." }, { "point_text": "Drawing near to God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:28", "verse_text": "But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works." }, { "point_text": "Drawing near to God", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:22", "verse_text": "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water." }, { "point_text": "Crying to heaven", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 32:20", "verse_text": "And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven." }, { "point_text": "Beseeching the Lord", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:11", "verse_text": "And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?" }, { "point_text": "Seeking unto God", "verse_ref": "Job 8:5", "verse_text": "If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;" }, { "point_text": "Seeking the face of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:8", "verse_text": "When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek." }, { "point_text": "Making supplication", "verse_ref": "Job 8:5", "verse_text": "If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;" }, { "point_text": "Making supplication", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 36:7", "verse_text": "It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great is the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people." }, { "point_text": "Acceptable through Christ", "verse_ref": "John 14:13", "verse_text": "And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son." }, { "point_text": "Acceptable through Christ", "verse_ref": "John 15:16", "verse_text": "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you." }, { "point_text": "Acceptable through Christ", "verse_ref": "John 16:23-24", "verse_text": "And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. 24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full." }, { "point_text": "Ascends to heaven", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 30:27", "verse_text": "Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven." }, { "point_text": "Ascends to heaven", "verse_ref": "Revelation 5:8", "verse_text": "And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints." }, { "point_text": "Quickening grace necessary to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 80:18", "verse_text": "So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name." }, { "point_text": "THE HOLY GHOST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Promised as a Spirit of", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 12:10", "verse_text": "And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn." }, { "point_text": "As the Spirit of adoptions, leads to", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:15", "verse_text": "For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." }, { "point_text": "As the Spirit of adoptions, leads to", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:6", "verse_text": "And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father." }, { "point_text": "Helps our infirmities in", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:26", "verse_text": "Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered." }, { "point_text": "An evidence of conversion", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:11", "verse_text": "And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth," }, { "point_text": "Of the righteous, avails much", "verse_ref": "James 5:16", "verse_text": "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." }, { "point_text": "Of the upright, a delight to God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:8", "verse_text": "The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE OFFERED UP", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:18", "verse_text": "Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;" }, { "point_text": "In the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Jude 20", "verse_text": "But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost," }, { "point_text": "In faith", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:22", "verse_text": "And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive." }, { "point_text": "In faith", "verse_ref": "James 1:6", "verse_text": "But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed." }, { "point_text": "In full assurance of faith", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:22", "verse_text": "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water." }, { "point_text": "In a forgiving spirit", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:12", "verse_text": "And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors." }, { "point_text": "With the heart", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 29:13", "verse_text": "And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart." }, { "point_text": "With the heart", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:41", "verse_text": "Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens." }, { "point_text": "With the whole heart", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:58", "verse_text": "I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word." }, { "point_text": "With the whole heart", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:145", "verse_text": "KOPH. I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes." }, { "point_text": "With preparation of heart", "verse_ref": "Job 11:13", "verse_text": "If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;" }, { "point_text": "With a true heart", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:22", "verse_text": "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water." }, { "point_text": "With the soul", "verse_ref": "Psalm 42:4", "verse_text": "When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday." }, { "point_text": "With the spirit and understanding", "verse_ref": "John 4:22-24", "verse_text": "Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." }, { "point_text": "With the spirit and understanding", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:15", "verse_text": "What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also." }, { "point_text": "With confidence in God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 56:9", "verse_text": "When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me." }, { "point_text": "With confidence in God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 86:7", "verse_text": "In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me." }, { "point_text": "With confidence in God", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:14", "verse_text": "And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:" }, { "point_text": "With submission to God", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:42", "verse_text": "Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done." }, { "point_text": "With unfeigned lips", "verse_ref": "Psalm 17:1", "verse_text": "Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips." }, { "point_text": "With deliberation", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 5:2", "verse_text": "Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few." }, { "point_text": "With holiness", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:8", "verse_text": "I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting." }, { "point_text": "With humility", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:14", "verse_text": "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." }, { "point_text": "With humility", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:12", "verse_text": "And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers," }, { "point_text": "With truth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:18", "verse_text": "The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth." }, { "point_text": "With truth", "verse_ref": "John 4:24", "verse_text": "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." }, { "point_text": "With desire to be heard", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 1:6", "verse_text": "Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned." }, { "point_text": "With desire to be heard", "verse_ref": "Psalm 17:1", "verse_text": "Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips." }, { "point_text": "With desire to be heard", "verse_ref": "Psalm 55:1", "verse_text": "Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication." }, { "point_text": "With desire to be heard", "verse_ref": "Psalm 61:1", "verse_text": "Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer." }, { "point_text": "With desire to be answered", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:7", "verse_text": "Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me." }, { "point_text": "With desire to be answered", "verse_ref": "Psalm 102:2", "verse_text": "Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily." }, { "point_text": "With desire to be answered", "verse_ref": "Psalm 108:6", "verse_text": "That thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and answer me." }, { "point_text": "With desire to be answered", "verse_ref": "Psalm 143:1", "verse_text": "Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness." }, { "point_text": "With boldness", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:16", "verse_text": "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." }, { "point_text": "With earnestness", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 3:10", "verse_text": "Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?" }, { "point_text": "With earnestness", "verse_ref": "James 5:17", "verse_text": "Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months." }, { "point_text": "With importunity", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:26", "verse_text": "And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me." }, { "point_text": "With importunity", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:8", "verse_text": "I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth." }, { "point_text": "With importunity", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:1-7", "verse_text": "And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; 2 Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: 3 And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. 4 And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; ..." }, { "point_text": "Night and day", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:5", "verse_text": "Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day." }, { "point_text": "Without ceasing", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:17", "verse_text": "Pray without ceasing." }, { "point_text": "Everywhere", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:8", "verse_text": "I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting." }, { "point_text": "In everything", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:6", "verse_text": "Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God." }, { "point_text": "For temporal blessings", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:20", "verse_text": "And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on," }, { "point_text": "For temporal blessings", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:8", "verse_text": "Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:" }, { "point_text": "For temporal blessings", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:11", "verse_text": "Give us this day our daily bread." }, { "point_text": "For spiritual blessings", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:33", "verse_text": "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." }, { "point_text": "For mercy and grace to help in time of need", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:16", "verse_text": "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." }, { "point_text": "Model for", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:9-13", "verse_text": "After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. ..." }, { "point_text": "Vain repetitions in, forbidden", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:7", "verse_text": "But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking." }, { "point_text": "Ostentation in, forbidden", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:5", "verse_text": "And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward." }, { "point_text": "ACCOMPANIED WITH", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Repentance", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:33", "verse_text": "When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:" }, { "point_text": "Repentance", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 36:7", "verse_text": "It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great is the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people." }, { "point_text": "Confession", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 1:4", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven," }, { "point_text": "Confession", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 1:7", "verse_text": "We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses." }, { "point_text": "Self-abasement", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:27", "verse_text": "And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:" }, { "point_text": "Weeping", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:9", "verse_text": "They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn." }, { "point_text": "Weeping", "verse_ref": "Hosea 12:4", "verse_text": "Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us;" }, { "point_text": "Fasting", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 1:4", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven," }, { "point_text": "Fasting", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:3", "verse_text": "And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:" }, { "point_text": "Fasting", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:3", "verse_text": "And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away." }, { "point_text": "Watchfulness", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:36", "verse_text": "Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man." }, { "point_text": "Watchfulness", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:7", "verse_text": "But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer." }, { "point_text": "Praise", "verse_ref": "Psalm 66:17", "verse_text": "I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue." }, { "point_text": "Thanksgiving", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:6", "verse_text": "Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God." }, { "point_text": "Thanksgiving", "verse_ref": "Colossians 4:2", "verse_text": "Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;" }, { "point_text": "PLEAD IN THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Promises of God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:9-12", "verse_text": "And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee: 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands. 11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children. 12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude." }, { "point_text": "Promises of God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:13", "verse_text": "Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever." }, { "point_text": "Promises of God", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:26", "verse_text": "And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father." }, { "point_text": "Promises of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:49", "verse_text": "ZAIN. Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope." }, { "point_text": "Covenant of God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:21", "verse_text": "Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us." }, { "point_text": "Faithfulness of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 143:1", "verse_text": "Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Mercy of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:1", "verse_text": "Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions." }, { "point_text": "Mercy of God", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:18", "verse_text": "O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies." }, { "point_text": "Righteousness of God", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:16", "verse_text": "O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us." }, { "point_text": "Rise early for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 5:3", "verse_text": "My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up." }, { "point_text": "Rise early for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:147", "verse_text": "I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word." }, { "point_text": "Seek divine teaching for", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples." }, { "point_text": "Faint not in", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:1", "verse_text": "And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;" }, { "point_text": "Continue instant in", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:12", "verse_text": "Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;" }, { "point_text": "Avoid hindrances in", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:7", "verse_text": "Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered." }, { "point_text": "Suitable in affliction", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:16", "verse_text": "LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them." }, { "point_text": "Suitable in affliction", "verse_ref": "James 5:13", "verse_text": "Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms." }, { "point_text": "Shortness of time a motive to", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:7", "verse_text": "But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer." }, { "point_text": "POSTURES IN;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Standing", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:22", "verse_text": "And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:" }, { "point_text": "Standing", "verse_ref": "Mark 11:25", "verse_text": "And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses." }, { "point_text": "Bowing down", "verse_ref": "Psalm 95:6", "verse_text": "O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker." }, { "point_text": "Kneeling", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 6:13", "verse_text": "For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven," }, { "point_text": "Kneeling", "verse_ref": "Psalm 95:6", "verse_text": "O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker." }, { "point_text": "Kneeling", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:41", "verse_text": "And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed," }, { "point_text": "Kneeling", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:36", "verse_text": "And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all." }, { "point_text": "Falling on the face", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:22", "verse_text": "And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?" }, { "point_text": "Falling on the face", "verse_ref": "Joshua 5:14", "verse_text": "And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?" }, { "point_text": "Falling on the face", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 21:16", "verse_text": "And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces." }, { "point_text": "Falling on the face", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:39", "verse_text": "And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt." }, { "point_text": "Spreading forth the hands", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:15", "verse_text": "And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood." }, { "point_text": "Lifting up the hands", "verse_ref": "Psalm 28:2", "verse_text": "Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle." }, { "point_text": "Lifting up the hands", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 2:19", "verse_text": "Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street." }, { "point_text": "Lifting up the hands", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:8", "verse_text": "I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting." }, { "point_text": "The promises of God encourage to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:24", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear." }, { "point_text": "The promises of God encourage to", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:4", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:" }, { "point_text": "The promises of God encourage to", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 13:9", "verse_text": "And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God." }, { "point_text": "The promises of Christ encourage to", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:9-10", "verse_text": "And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. 10 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened." }, { "point_text": "Experience of past mercies an incentive to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 4:1", "verse_text": "Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer." }, { "point_text": "Experience of past mercies an incentive to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 116:2", "verse_text": "Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live." } ] }, { "name": "Prayer, Intercessory", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Prayer-Intercessory.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Christ set an example of", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:32", "verse_text": "But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren." }, { "point_text": "Christ set an example of", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:34", "verse_text": "Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots." }, { "point_text": "Christ set an example of", "verse_ref": "John 17:9-24", "verse_text": "I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. 10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. 11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. 12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. ..." }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:1", "verse_text": "I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;" }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "James 5:14", "verse_text": "Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:" }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "James 5:16", "verse_text": "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE OFFERED UP FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Kings", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:2", "verse_text": "For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty." }, { "point_text": "All in authority", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:2", "verse_text": "For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty." }, { "point_text": "Ministers", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:11", "verse_text": "Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf." }, { "point_text": "Ministers", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:19", "verse_text": "For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ," }, { "point_text": "The Church", "verse_ref": "Psalm 122:6", "verse_text": "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee." }, { "point_text": "The Church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 62:6-7", "verse_text": "I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence, 7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth." }, { "point_text": "All saints", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:18", "verse_text": "Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;" }, { "point_text": "All men", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:1", "verse_text": "I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;" }, { "point_text": "Masters", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:12-14", "verse_text": "And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham. 13 Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water: 14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master." }, { "point_text": "Servants", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:2-3", "verse_text": "And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear unto him, was sick, and ready to die. 3 And when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant." }, { "point_text": "Children", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:18", "verse_text": "And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!" }, { "point_text": "Children", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:22", "verse_text": "And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil." }, { "point_text": "Friends", "verse_ref": "Job 42:8", "verse_text": "Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job." }, { "point_text": "Fellow-countrymen", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:1", "verse_text": "Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved." }, { "point_text": "The sick", "verse_ref": "James 5:14", "verse_text": "Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:" }, { "point_text": "Persecutors", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:44", "verse_text": "But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;" }, { "point_text": "Enemies among whom we dwell", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 29:7", "verse_text": "And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace." }, { "point_text": "Those who envy us", "verse_ref": "Numbers 12:13", "verse_text": "And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee." }, { "point_text": "Those who forsake us", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:16", "verse_text": "At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge." }, { "point_text": "Those who murmur against God", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:1", "verse_text": "And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp." }, { "point_text": "Those who murmur against God", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:13", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)" }, { "point_text": "Those who murmur against God", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:19", "verse_text": "Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now." }, { "point_text": "By ministers for their people", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:16", "verse_text": "Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;" }, { "point_text": "By ministers for their people", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:14-19", "verse_text": "For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; 17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, ..." }, { "point_text": "By ministers for their people", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:4", "verse_text": "Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy," }, { "point_text": "Encouragement to", "verse_ref": "James 5:16", "verse_text": "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." }, { "point_text": "Encouragement to", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:16", "verse_text": "If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it." }, { "point_text": "Beneficial to the offerer", "verse_ref": "Job 42:10", "verse_text": "And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before." }, { "point_text": "Sin of neglecting", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 12:23", "verse_text": "Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:" }, { "point_text": "Seek an interest in", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 12:19", "verse_text": "And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king." }, { "point_text": "Seek an interest in", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:18", "verse_text": "Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly." }, { "point_text": "Unavailing for the obstinately-impenitent", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:13-16", "verse_text": "And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not; 14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh. 15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim. 16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee." }, { "point_text": "Unavailing for the obstinately-impenitent", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:10-11", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins. 11 Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for their good." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nAbraham's servant, \nMoses, \n\nSamuel, \nSolomon, \nElisha, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nNehemiah, \nDavid, \nEzekiel, \nDaniel, \nStephen, \nPeter and John, \nChurch of Jerusalem, \nPaul, \n\nEpaphras, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:23-32", "verse_text": "And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? 24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? 25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? 26 And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nAbraham's servant, \nMoses, \n\nSamuel, \nSolomon, \nElisha, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nNehemiah, \nDavid, \nEzekiel, \nDaniel, \nStephen, \nPeter and John, \nChurch of Jerusalem, \nPaul, \n\nEpaphras, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:12-14", "verse_text": "And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham. 13 Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water: 14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nAbraham's servant, \nMoses, \n\nSamuel, \nSolomon, \nElisha, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nNehemiah, \nDavid, \nEzekiel, \nDaniel, \nStephen, \nPeter and John, \nChurch of Jerusalem, \nPaul, \n\nEpaphras, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 8:12", "verse_text": "And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto the LORD because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nAbraham's servant, \nMoses, \n\nSamuel, \nSolomon, \nElisha, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nNehemiah, \nDavid, \nEzekiel, \nDaniel, \nStephen, \nPeter and John, \nChurch of Jerusalem, \nPaul, \n\nEpaphras, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:11-13", "verse_text": "And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand? 12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nAbraham's servant, \nMoses, \n\nSamuel, \nSolomon, \nElisha, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nNehemiah, \nDavid, \nEzekiel, \nDaniel, \nStephen, \nPeter and John, \nChurch of Jerusalem, \nPaul, \n\nEpaphras, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 7:5", "verse_text": "And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nAbraham's servant, \nMoses, \n\nSamuel, \nSolomon, \nElisha, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nNehemiah, \nDavid, \nEzekiel, \nDaniel, \nStephen, \nPeter and John, \nChurch of Jerusalem, \nPaul, \n\nEpaphras, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:30-36", "verse_text": "And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive. 31 If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house: 32 Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness. 33 When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house: ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nAbraham's servant, \nMoses, \n\nSamuel, \nSolomon, \nElisha, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nNehemiah, \nDavid, \nEzekiel, \nDaniel, \nStephen, \nPeter and John, \nChurch of Jerusalem, \nPaul, \n\nEpaphras, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:33", "verse_text": "He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nAbraham's servant, \nMoses, \n\nSamuel, \nSolomon, \nElisha, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nNehemiah, \nDavid, \nEzekiel, \nDaniel, \nStephen, \nPeter and John, \nChurch of Jerusalem, \nPaul, \n\nEpaphras, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 30:18", "verse_text": "For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nAbraham's servant, \nMoses, \n\nSamuel, \nSolomon, \nElisha, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nNehemiah, \nDavid, \nEzekiel, \nDaniel, \nStephen, \nPeter and John, \nChurch of Jerusalem, \nPaul, \n\nEpaphras, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 32:20", "verse_text": "And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nAbraham's servant, \nMoses, \n\nSamuel, \nSolomon, \nElisha, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nNehemiah, \nDavid, \nEzekiel, \nDaniel, \nStephen, \nPeter and John, \nChurch of Jerusalem, \nPaul, \n\nEpaphras, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 1:4-11", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven, 5 And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments: 6 Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned. 7 We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nAbraham's servant, \nMoses, \n\nSamuel, \nSolomon, \nElisha, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nNehemiah, \nDavid, \nEzekiel, \nDaniel, \nStephen, \nPeter and John, \nChurch of Jerusalem, \nPaul, \n\nEpaphras, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 25:22", "verse_text": "Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nAbraham's servant, \nMoses, \n\nSamuel, \nSolomon, \nElisha, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nNehemiah, \nDavid, \nEzekiel, \nDaniel, \nStephen, \nPeter and John, \nChurch of Jerusalem, \nPaul, \n\nEpaphras, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 9:8", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nAbraham's servant, \nMoses, \n\nSamuel, \nSolomon, \nElisha, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nNehemiah, \nDavid, \nEzekiel, \nDaniel, \nStephen, \nPeter and John, \nChurch of Jerusalem, \nPaul, \n\nEpaphras, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:3-19", "verse_text": "And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: 4 And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments; 5 We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: 6 Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nAbraham's servant, \nMoses, \n\nSamuel, \nSolomon, \nElisha, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nNehemiah, \nDavid, \nEzekiel, \nDaniel, \nStephen, \nPeter and John, \nChurch of Jerusalem, \nPaul, \n\nEpaphras, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:60", "verse_text": "And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nAbraham's servant, \nMoses, \n\nSamuel, \nSolomon, \nElisha, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nNehemiah, \nDavid, \nEzekiel, \nDaniel, \nStephen, \nPeter and John, \nChurch of Jerusalem, \nPaul, \n\nEpaphras, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:15", "verse_text": "Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nAbraham's servant, \nMoses, \n\nSamuel, \nSolomon, \nElisha, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nNehemiah, \nDavid, \nEzekiel, \nDaniel, \nStephen, \nPeter and John, \nChurch of Jerusalem, \nPaul, \n\nEpaphras, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:5", "verse_text": "Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nAbraham's servant, \nMoses, \n\nSamuel, \nSolomon, \nElisha, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nNehemiah, \nDavid, \nEzekiel, \nDaniel, \nStephen, \nPeter and John, \nChurch of Jerusalem, \nPaul, \n\nEpaphras, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:9-12", "verse_text": "For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness; 12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nAbraham's servant, \nMoses, \n\nSamuel, \nSolomon, \nElisha, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nNehemiah, \nDavid, \nEzekiel, \nDaniel, \nStephen, \nPeter and John, \nChurch of Jerusalem, \nPaul, \n\nEpaphras, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:11", "verse_text": "Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nAbraham's servant, \nMoses, \n\nSamuel, \nSolomon, \nElisha, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nNehemiah, \nDavid, \nEzekiel, \nDaniel, \nStephen, \nPeter and John, \nChurch of Jerusalem, \nPaul, \n\nEpaphras, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "Colossians 4:12", "verse_text": "Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nAbraham's servant, \nMoses, \n\nSamuel, \nSolomon, \nElisha, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nNehemiah, \nDavid, \nEzekiel, \nDaniel, \nStephen, \nPeter and John, \nChurch of Jerusalem, \nPaul, \n\nEpaphras, \nPhilemon,", "verse_ref": "Philemon 22", "verse_text": "But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you." } ] }, { "name": "Prayer, Answers to", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Prayer-Answers-to.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "God gives", "verse_ref": "Psalm 99:6", "verse_text": "Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them." }, { "point_text": "God gives", "verse_ref": "Psalm 118:5", "verse_text": "I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place." }, { "point_text": "God gives", "verse_ref": "Psalm 138:3", "verse_text": "In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul." }, { "point_text": "Christ gives", "verse_ref": "John 4:10", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water." }, { "point_text": "Christ gives", "verse_ref": "John 14:14", "verse_text": "If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it." }, { "point_text": "Christ received", "verse_ref": "John 11:42", "verse_text": "And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me." }, { "point_text": "Christ received", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 5:7", "verse_text": "Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;" }, { "point_text": "GRANTED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Through the grace of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:19", "verse_text": "For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes immediately", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:24", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes immediately", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:21", "verse_text": "Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes immediately", "verse_ref": "Daniel 10:12", "verse_text": "Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes after delay", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:7", "verse_text": "And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?" }, { "point_text": "Sometimes differently from our desire", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 12:8-9", "verse_text": "For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. 9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me." }, { "point_text": "Beyond expectation", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 33:3", "verse_text": "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not." }, { "point_text": "Beyond expectation", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:20", "verse_text": "Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us," }, { "point_text": "Promised", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:9", "verse_text": "Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;" }, { "point_text": "Promised", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 29:12", "verse_text": "Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you." }, { "point_text": "Promised", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:7", "verse_text": "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:" }, { "point_text": "Promised especially in times of trouble", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:15", "verse_text": "And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me." }, { "point_text": "Promised especially in times of trouble", "verse_ref": "Psalm 91:15", "verse_text": "He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him." }, { "point_text": "RECEIVED BY THOSE WHO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Seek God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:4", "verse_text": "I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears." }, { "point_text": "Seek God with all the heart", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 29:12-13", "verse_text": "Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. 13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart." }, { "point_text": "Wait upon God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:1", "verse_text": "I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry." }, { "point_text": "Return to God", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:14", "verse_text": "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." }, { "point_text": "Return to God", "verse_ref": "Job 22:23", "verse_text": "If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles." }, { "point_text": "Return to God", "verse_ref": "Job 22:27", "verse_text": "Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows." }, { "point_text": "Ask in faith", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:11", "verse_text": "And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee." }, { "point_text": "Ask in faith", "verse_ref": "James 5:15", "verse_text": "And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him." }, { "point_text": "Ask in the name of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 14:13", "verse_text": "And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son." }, { "point_text": "Ask according to God's will", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:14", "verse_text": "And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:" }, { "point_text": "Call upon God in truth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:18", "verse_text": "The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth." }, { "point_text": "Fear God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:19", "verse_text": "He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them." }, { "point_text": "Set their love upon God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 91:14-15", "verse_text": "Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. 15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him." }, { "point_text": "Keep God's commandments", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:22", "verse_text": "And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight." }, { "point_text": "Call upon God under oppression", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:20", "verse_text": "And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them." }, { "point_text": "Call upon God under affliction", "verse_ref": "Psalm 18:6", "verse_text": "In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears." }, { "point_text": "Call upon God under affliction", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:44", "verse_text": "Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:" }, { "point_text": "Call upon God under affliction", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:19-20", "verse_text": "For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee. 20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:" }, { "point_text": "Abide in Christ", "verse_ref": "John 15:7", "verse_text": "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you." }, { "point_text": "Humble themselves", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:14", "verse_text": "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." }, { "point_text": "Humble themselves", "verse_ref": "Psalm 9:12", "verse_text": "When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble." }, { "point_text": "Are righteous", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:15", "verse_text": "The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry." }, { "point_text": "Are righteous", "verse_ref": "James 5:16", "verse_text": "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." }, { "point_text": "Are poor and needy", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:17", "verse_text": "When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Are assured of", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:15", "verse_text": "And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him." }, { "point_text": "Love God for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 116:1", "verse_text": "I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications." }, { "point_text": "Bless God for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 66:20", "verse_text": "Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me." }, { "point_text": "Praise God for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 116:17", "verse_text": "I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Praise God for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 118:21", "verse_text": "I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation." }, { "point_text": "A motive for continued prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 116:2", "verse_text": "Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live." }, { "point_text": "DENIED TO THOSE WHO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Ask amiss", "verse_ref": "James 4:3", "verse_text": "Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." }, { "point_text": "Regard iniquity in the heart", "verse_ref": "Psalm 66:18", "verse_text": "If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:" }, { "point_text": "Live in sin", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:2", "verse_text": "But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear." }, { "point_text": "Live in sin", "verse_ref": "John 9:31", "verse_text": "Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth." }, { "point_text": "Offer unworthy service to God", "verse_ref": "Malachi 1:7-9", "verse_text": "Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible. 8 And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts. 9 And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means: will he regard your persons? saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Forsake God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:10", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins." }, { "point_text": "Forsake God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:12", "verse_text": "When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence." }, { "point_text": "Reject the call of God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:24-25", "verse_text": "Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; 25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:" }, { "point_text": "Reject the call of God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:28", "verse_text": "Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:" }, { "point_text": "Hear not the law", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:9", "verse_text": "He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination." }, { "point_text": "Hear not the law", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 7:11-13", "verse_text": "But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. 12 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts. 13 Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts:" }, { "point_text": "Are deaf to the cry of the poor", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:13", "verse_text": "Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard." }, { "point_text": "Are blood-shedders", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:15", "verse_text": "And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood." }, { "point_text": "Are blood-shedders", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:3", "verse_text": "For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness." }, { "point_text": "Are idolaters", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 11:11-14", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them. 12 Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble. 13 For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal. 14 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble." }, { "point_text": "Are idolaters", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 8:15-18", "verse_text": "Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these. 16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east. 17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose. 18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them." }, { "point_text": "Are wavering", "verse_ref": "James 1:6-7", "verse_text": "But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. 7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Are hypocrites", "verse_ref": "Job 27:8-9", "verse_text": "For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul? 9 Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?" }, { "point_text": "Are proud", "verse_ref": "Job 35:12-13", "verse_text": "There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men. 13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it." }, { "point_text": "Are self-righteous", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:11-12", "verse_text": "The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. 12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess." }, { "point_text": "Are self-righteous", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:14", "verse_text": "I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted." }, { "point_text": "Are the enemies of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 18:40-41", "verse_text": "Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me. 41 They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not." }, { "point_text": "Cruelly oppress saints", "verse_ref": "Micah 3:2-4", "verse_text": "Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; 3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. 4 Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:20", "verse_text": "And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 19:19-21", "verse_text": "Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die: 20 Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live. 21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:15-27", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder. 16 And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up. 17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher. 18 And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:24-30", "verse_text": "And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. 25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. 26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. 27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:23-24", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage. 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:4-6", "verse_text": "And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me. 5 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go. 6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:11-13", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. 12 But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. 13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:11-14", "verse_text": "And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand? 12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever. 14 And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Judges 15:18-19", "verse_text": "And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised? 19 But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:27", "verse_text": "For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 7:9", "verse_text": "And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel cried unto the LORD for Israel; and the LORD heard him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 3:9", "verse_text": "Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 3:12", "verse_text": "Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 13:6", "verse_text": "And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Intreat now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as it was before." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:36-38", "verse_text": "And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. 37 Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again. 38 Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "James 5:17-18", "verse_text": "Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. 18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:33-35", "verse_text": "He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the LORD. 34 And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm. 35 Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 13:4", "verse_text": "And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:20", "verse_text": "Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 4:10", "verse_text": "And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 14:11-12", "verse_text": "And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee. 12 So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 20:6-17", "verse_text": "And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee? 7 Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever? 8 And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying, 9 If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:13", "verse_text": "And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:19", "verse_text": "His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Ezra 8:21-23", "verse_text": "Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance. 22 For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him. 23 So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 4:9", "verse_text": "Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 4:15", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Job 42:10", "verse_text": "And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 18:6", "verse_text": "In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:55-56", "verse_text": "I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. 56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:20-23", "verse_text": "And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God; 21 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation. 22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding. 23 At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Jonah 2:2", "verse_text": "And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Jonah 2:10", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:13", "verse_text": "But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:38", "verse_text": "And he cried, saying, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:41-43", "verse_text": "Saying, What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee? And he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight. 42 And Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight: thy faith hath saved thee. 43 And immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise unto God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:42-43", "verse_text": "And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. 43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:29-31", "verse_text": "And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, 30 By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus. 31 And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:4", "verse_text": "And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:31", "verse_text": "And said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:5", "verse_text": "Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:7", "verse_text": "And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:25-26", "verse_text": "And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. 26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.--Abraham, \nLot, \nAbraham's servant, \nJacob, \nIsraelites, \nMoses, \n\n\nSamson, \nHannah, \nSamuel, \nSolomon, \n\nMan of God, \nElijah, \n\nElisha, \nJehoahaz, \nHezekiah, \nJabez, \nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nManasseh, \n\nEzra, \nNehemiah, \n\nJob, \nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \n\nZacharias, \nBlind man, \n\nThief on the Cross, \nApostles, \nCornelius, \n\nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul and Silas, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 28:8", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him." }, { "point_text": "Refusal of, exemplified.\r\n\nSaul, \nElders of Israel, \nPharisees,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 28:15", "verse_text": "And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do." }, { "point_text": "Refusal of, exemplified.\r\n\nSaul, \nElders of Israel, \nPharisees,", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:3", "verse_text": "Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye come to inquire of me? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you." }, { "point_text": "Refusal of, exemplified.\r\n\nSaul, \nElders of Israel, \nPharisees,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:14", "verse_text": "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation." } ] }, { "name": "Prayer, Public", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Prayer-Public.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Acceptable to God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:7", "verse_text": "Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people." }, { "point_text": "God promises to hear", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:14", "verse_text": "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." }, { "point_text": "God promises to hear", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:16", "verse_text": "For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually." }, { "point_text": "God promises to bless in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:24", "verse_text": "An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee." }, { "point_text": "CHRIST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Sanctifies by His presence", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:20", "verse_text": "For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." }, { "point_text": "Attended", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:9", "verse_text": "And when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue:" }, { "point_text": "Attended", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:16", "verse_text": "And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read." }, { "point_text": "Promises answers to", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:19", "verse_text": "Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven." }, { "point_text": "Instituted form of", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:2", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth." }, { "point_text": "Should not be made in an unknown language", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:14-16", "verse_text": "For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. 15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also. 16 Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?" }, { "point_text": "Saints delight in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 42:4", "verse_text": "When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday." }, { "point_text": "Saints delight in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 122:1", "verse_text": "I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exhortation to", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:25", "verse_text": "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." }, { "point_text": "Urge others to join in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 95:6", "verse_text": "O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker." }, { "point_text": "Urge others to join in", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 8:21", "verse_text": "And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoshua, \nDavid, \nSolomon, \nJehoshaphat, &c. \nJeshua, &c. \nJews, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\n\n\nPeter, &c. \nTeachers and Prophets, at Antioch, \nPaul, &c", "verse_ref": "Joshua 7:6-9", "verse_text": "And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads. 7 And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan! 8 O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies! 9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoshua, \nDavid, \nSolomon, \nJehoshaphat, &c. \nJeshua, &c. \nJews, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\n\n\nPeter, &c. \nTeachers and Prophets, at Antioch, \nPaul, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:10-19", "verse_text": "Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever and ever. 11 Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all. 12 Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. 13 Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoshua, \nDavid, \nSolomon, \nJehoshaphat, &c. \nJeshua, &c. \nJews, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\n\n\nPeter, &c. \nTeachers and Prophets, at Antioch, \nPaul, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 6", "verse_text": "Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. 2 But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever. 3 And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood. 4 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my father David, saying, ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoshua, \nDavid, \nSolomon, \nJehoshaphat, &c. \nJeshua, &c. \nJews, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\n\n\nPeter, &c. \nTeachers and Prophets, at Antioch, \nPaul, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 20:5-13", "verse_text": "And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court, 6 And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee? 7 Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever? 8 And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying, ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoshua, \nDavid, \nSolomon, \nJehoshaphat, &c. \nJeshua, &c. \nJews, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\n\n\nPeter, &c. \nTeachers and Prophets, at Antioch, \nPaul, &c", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9", "verse_text": "Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them. 2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. 3 And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the LORD their God. 4 Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoshua, \nDavid, \nSolomon, \nJehoshaphat, &c. \nJeshua, &c. \nJews, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\n\n\nPeter, &c. \nTeachers and Prophets, at Antioch, \nPaul, &c", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:10", "verse_text": "And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoshua, \nDavid, \nSolomon, \nJehoshaphat, &c. \nJeshua, &c. \nJews, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\n\n\nPeter, &c. \nTeachers and Prophets, at Antioch, \nPaul, &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:46", "verse_text": "And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoshua, \nDavid, \nSolomon, \nJehoshaphat, &c. \nJeshua, &c. \nJews, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\n\n\nPeter, &c. \nTeachers and Prophets, at Antioch, \nPaul, &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:24", "verse_text": "And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoshua, \nDavid, \nSolomon, \nJehoshaphat, &c. \nJeshua, &c. \nJews, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\n\n\nPeter, &c. \nTeachers and Prophets, at Antioch, \nPaul, &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:5", "verse_text": "Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoshua, \nDavid, \nSolomon, \nJehoshaphat, &c. \nJeshua, &c. \nJews, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\n\n\nPeter, &c. \nTeachers and Prophets, at Antioch, \nPaul, &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:12", "verse_text": "And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were gathered together praying." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoshua, \nDavid, \nSolomon, \nJehoshaphat, &c. \nJeshua, &c. \nJews, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\n\n\nPeter, &c. \nTeachers and Prophets, at Antioch, \nPaul, &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:1", "verse_text": "Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoshua, \nDavid, \nSolomon, \nJehoshaphat, &c. \nJeshua, &c. \nJews, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\n\n\nPeter, &c. \nTeachers and Prophets, at Antioch, \nPaul, &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:3", "verse_text": "And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoshua, \nDavid, \nSolomon, \nJehoshaphat, &c. \nJeshua, &c. \nJews, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\n\n\nPeter, &c. \nTeachers and Prophets, at Antioch, \nPaul, &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:16", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:" } ] }, { "name": "Prayer, Social and Family", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Prayer-Social-and-Family.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Promise of answers to", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:19", "verse_text": "Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven." }, { "point_text": "Christ promises to be present at", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:20", "verse_text": "For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for neglecting", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 10:25", "verse_text": "Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbram, \n\nJacob, \n\nJoshua, \nDavid, \nJob, \nThe Disciples, \nCornelius, \nPaul and Silas, \nPaul, &c", "verse_ref": "Genesis 12:5", "verse_text": "And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbram, \n\nJacob, \n\nJoshua, \nDavid, \nJob, \nThe Disciples, \nCornelius, \nPaul and Silas, \nPaul, &c", "verse_ref": "Genesis 12:8", "verse_text": "And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbram, \n\nJacob, \n\nJoshua, \nDavid, \nJob, \nThe Disciples, \nCornelius, \nPaul and Silas, \nPaul, &c", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:2-3", "verse_text": "Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments: 3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbram, \n\nJacob, \n\nJoshua, \nDavid, \nJob, \nThe Disciples, \nCornelius, \nPaul and Silas, \nPaul, &c", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:7", "verse_text": "And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbram, \n\nJacob, \n\nJoshua, \nDavid, \nJob, \nThe Disciples, \nCornelius, \nPaul and Silas, \nPaul, &c", "verse_ref": "Joshua 24:15", "verse_text": "And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbram, \n\nJacob, \n\nJoshua, \nDavid, \nJob, \nThe Disciples, \nCornelius, \nPaul and Silas, \nPaul, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 6:20", "verse_text": "Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbram, \n\nJacob, \n\nJoshua, \nDavid, \nJob, \nThe Disciples, \nCornelius, \nPaul and Silas, \nPaul, &c", "verse_ref": "Job 1:5", "verse_text": "And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbram, \n\nJacob, \n\nJoshua, \nDavid, \nJob, \nThe Disciples, \nCornelius, \nPaul and Silas, \nPaul, &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:13-14", "verse_text": "And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James. 14 These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbram, \n\nJacob, \n\nJoshua, \nDavid, \nJob, \nThe Disciples, \nCornelius, \nPaul and Silas, \nPaul, &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:2", "verse_text": "A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbram, \n\nJacob, \n\nJoshua, \nDavid, \nJob, \nThe Disciples, \nCornelius, \nPaul and Silas, \nPaul, &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:25", "verse_text": "And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbram, \n\nJacob, \n\nJoshua, \nDavid, \nJob, \nThe Disciples, \nCornelius, \nPaul and Silas, \nPaul, &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:36", "verse_text": "And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbram, \n\nJacob, \n\nJoshua, \nDavid, \nJob, \nThe Disciples, \nCornelius, \nPaul and Silas, \nPaul, &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:5", "verse_text": "And when we had accomplished those days, we departed and went our way; and they all brought us on our way, with wives and children, till we were out of the city: and we kneeled down on the shore, and prayed." } ] }, { "name": "Precious Stones", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Precious-Stones.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Dug out of the earth", "verse_ref": "Job 28:5-6", "verse_text": "As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire. 6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold." }, { "point_text": "Brought from Ophir", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:11", "verse_text": "And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones." }, { "point_text": "Brought from Ophir", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:10", "verse_text": "And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones." }, { "point_text": "Brought from Sheba", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:1-2", "verse_text": "And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions. 2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart." }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Stones of fire", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:14", "verse_text": "Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire." }, { "point_text": "Stones of fire", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:16", "verse_text": "By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire." }, { "point_text": "Stones to be set", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:2", "verse_text": "Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance." }, { "point_text": "Jewels", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:10", "verse_text": "I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels." }, { "point_text": "Jewels", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:12", "verse_text": "And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head." }, { "point_text": "Precious jewels", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 20:25", "verse_text": "And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much." }, { "point_text": "Precious jewels", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:15", "verse_text": "There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel." }, { "point_text": "Of great variety", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:2", "verse_text": "Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance." }, { "point_text": "Of divers colors", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:2", "verse_text": "Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance." }, { "point_text": "Brilliant and glittering", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:2", "verse_text": "Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance." }, { "point_text": "Brilliant and glittering", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:11", "verse_text": "Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;" }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Agate", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:19", "verse_text": "And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst." }, { "point_text": "Agate", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:12", "verse_text": "And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones." }, { "point_text": "Amethyst", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:19", "verse_text": "And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst." }, { "point_text": "Amethyst", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:20", "verse_text": "The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst." }, { "point_text": "Beryl", "verse_ref": "Daniel 10:6", "verse_text": "His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude." }, { "point_text": "Beryl", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:20", "verse_text": "The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst." }, { "point_text": "Carbuncle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:17", "verse_text": "And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row." }, { "point_text": "Carbuncle", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:12", "verse_text": "And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones." }, { "point_text": "Coral", "verse_ref": "Job 28:18", "verse_text": "No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies." }, { "point_text": "Chalcedony", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:19", "verse_text": "And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;" }, { "point_text": "Chrysolyte", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:20", "verse_text": "The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst." }, { "point_text": "Chrysoprasus", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:20", "verse_text": "The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst." }, { "point_text": "Diamond", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:18", "verse_text": "And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond." }, { "point_text": "Diamond", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:1", "verse_text": "The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;" }, { "point_text": "Diamond", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:13", "verse_text": "Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created." }, { "point_text": "Emerald", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:16", "verse_text": "Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate." }, { "point_text": "Emerald", "verse_ref": "Revelation 4:3", "verse_text": "And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald." }, { "point_text": "Jacinth", "verse_ref": "Revelation 9:17", "verse_text": "And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone." }, { "point_text": "Jacinth", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:20", "verse_text": "The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst." }, { "point_text": "Jasper", "verse_ref": "Revelation 4:3", "verse_text": "And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald." }, { "point_text": "Jasper", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:11", "verse_text": "Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;" }, { "point_text": "Jasper", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:19", "verse_text": "And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;" }, { "point_text": "Onyx", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:20", "verse_text": "And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings." }, { "point_text": "Onyx", "verse_ref": "Job 28:16", "verse_text": "It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire." }, { "point_text": "Pearl", "verse_ref": "Job 28:18", "verse_text": "No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies." }, { "point_text": "Pearl", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:45-46", "verse_text": "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: 46 Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it." }, { "point_text": "Ruby", "verse_ref": "Job 28:18", "verse_text": "No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies." }, { "point_text": "Ruby", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 4:7", "verse_text": "Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:" }, { "point_text": "Sapphire", "verse_ref": "Exodus 24:10", "verse_text": "And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness." }, { "point_text": "Sapphire", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 1:26", "verse_text": "And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it." }, { "point_text": "Sardine or Sardius", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:17", "verse_text": "And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row." }, { "point_text": "Sardine or Sardius", "verse_ref": "Revelation 4:3", "verse_text": "And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald." }, { "point_text": "Sardonyx", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:20", "verse_text": "The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst." }, { "point_text": "Topaz", "verse_ref": "Job 28:19", "verse_text": "The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold." }, { "point_text": "Topaz", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:20", "verse_text": "The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst." }, { "point_text": "Highly prized by the ancients", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:8", "verse_text": "A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth." }, { "point_text": "Extensive commerce in", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:22", "verse_text": "The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold." }, { "point_text": "Extensive commerce in", "verse_ref": "Revelation 18:12", "verse_text": "The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble," }, { "point_text": "Often given as presents", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:2", "verse_text": "And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart." }, { "point_text": "Often given as presents", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:10", "verse_text": "And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon." }, { "point_text": "Art of engraving upon, early known to the Jews", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:9", "verse_text": "And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:" }, { "point_text": "Art of engraving upon, early known to the Jews", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:11", "verse_text": "With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold." }, { "point_text": "Art of engraving upon, early known to the Jews", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:21", "verse_text": "And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes." }, { "point_text": "Art of setting, known to the Jews", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:20", "verse_text": "And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings." }, { "point_text": "USED FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Adorning the high priest's ephod", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:12", "verse_text": "And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial." }, { "point_text": "Adorning the breastplate of judgment", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:17-20", "verse_text": "And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row. 18 And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond. 19 And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst. 20 And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings." }, { "point_text": "Adorning the breastplate of judgment", "verse_ref": "Exodus 39:10-14", "verse_text": "And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first row. 11 And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond. 12 And the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst. 13 And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings. ..." }, { "point_text": "Decorating the person", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:13", "verse_text": "Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created." }, { "point_text": "Ornamenting royal crowns", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:30", "verse_text": "And he took their king's crown from off his head, the weight whereof was a talent of gold with the precious stones: and it was set on David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance." }, { "point_text": "Setting in seals and rings", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:12", "verse_text": "His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set." }, { "point_text": "Adorning the temple", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:6", "verse_text": "And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim." }, { "point_text": "Honoring idols", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:38", "verse_text": "But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things." }, { "point_text": "A part of the treasure of kings", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 32:27", "verse_text": "And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour: and he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant jewels;" }, { "point_text": "Given by the Jews for the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:7", "verse_text": "Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate." }, { "point_text": "Prepared by David for the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:2", "verse_text": "Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance." }, { "point_text": "Given by chief men for the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:8", "verse_text": "And they with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of the LORD, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Preciousness of Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:16", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste." }, { "point_text": "Preciousness of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:6", "verse_text": "Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded." }, { "point_text": "Beauty and stability of the church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:11-12", "verse_text": "O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. 12 And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones." }, { "point_text": "Saints", "verse_ref": "Malachi 3:17", "verse_text": "And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him." }, { "point_text": "Saints", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:12", "verse_text": "Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;" }, { "point_text": "Seductive splendor and false glory of the apostacy", "verse_ref": "Revelation 17:4", "verse_text": "And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:" }, { "point_text": "Seductive splendor and false glory of the apostacy", "verse_ref": "Revelation 18:16", "verse_text": "And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!" }, { "point_text": "Worldly glory of nations", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:13-16", "verse_text": "Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. 14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. 15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. 16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire." }, { "point_text": "Glory of heavenly Jerusalem", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:11", "verse_text": "Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;" }, { "point_text": "Stability of heavenly Jerusalem", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:19", "verse_text": "And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;" } ] }, { "name": "Preciousness of Christ", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Preciousness-of-Christ.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "To God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:17", "verse_text": "And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." }, { "point_text": "To God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:4", "verse_text": "To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious," }, { "point_text": "To Saints", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:10", "verse_text": "My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand." }, { "point_text": "To Saints", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:8", "verse_text": "Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ," }, { "point_text": "To Saints", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:7", "verse_text": "Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner," }, { "point_text": "ON ACCOUNT OF HIS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Goodness and beauty", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:17", "verse_text": "For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids." }, { "point_text": "Excellence and grace", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:2", "verse_text": "Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever." }, { "point_text": "Name", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 1:3", "verse_text": "Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee." }, { "point_text": "Name", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:4", "verse_text": "Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they." }, { "point_text": "Atonement", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:19", "verse_text": "But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:" }, { "point_text": "Atonement", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:24", "verse_text": "And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel." }, { "point_text": "Words", "verse_ref": "John 6:68", "verse_text": "Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life." }, { "point_text": "Promises", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:4", "verse_text": "Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust." }, { "point_text": "Care and tenderness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:11", "verse_text": "He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young." }, { "point_text": "As the corner-stone of the Church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:16", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste." }, { "point_text": "As the corner-stone of the Church", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:6", "verse_text": "Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded." }, { "point_text": "As the source of all grace", "verse_ref": "John 1:14", "verse_text": "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." }, { "point_text": "As the source of all grace", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:19", "verse_text": "For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;" }, { "point_text": "Unsearchable", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:8", "verse_text": "Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;" }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:3", "verse_text": "As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:10-16", "verse_text": "My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. 11 His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven. 12 His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set. 13 His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh. ..." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:44-46", "verse_text": "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. 45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: 46 Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it." } ] }, { "name": "Presumption", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Presumption.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "A characteristic of the wicked", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:10", "verse_text": "But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of Antichrist", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:4", "verse_text": "Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God." }, { "point_text": "EXHIBITED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Opposing God", "verse_ref": "Job 15:25-26", "verse_text": "For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty. 26 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:" }, { "point_text": "Wilful commission of sin", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:32", "verse_text": "Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them." }, { "point_text": "Self-righteousness", "verse_ref": "Hosea 12:8", "verse_text": "And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin." }, { "point_text": "Self-righteousness", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:17", "verse_text": "Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:" }, { "point_text": "Spiritual pride", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:5", "verse_text": "Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day." }, { "point_text": "Spiritual pride", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:11", "verse_text": "The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican." }, { "point_text": "Esteeming our own ways right", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:15", "verse_text": "The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise." }, { "point_text": "Seeking precedence", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:7-11", "verse_text": "And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them, 8 When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him; 9 And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room. 10 But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee. ..." }, { "point_text": "Planning for futurity", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:18", "verse_text": "And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods." }, { "point_text": "Planning for futurity", "verse_ref": "James 4:13", "verse_text": "Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:" }, { "point_text": "Pretending to prophecy", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:22", "verse_text": "When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him." }, { "point_text": "Pray to be kept from sins of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:13", "verse_text": "Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression." }, { "point_text": "Saints avoid", "verse_ref": "Psalm 131:1", "verse_text": "LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:30", "verse_text": "But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Revelation 18:7-8", "verse_text": "How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. 8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nBuilders of Babel, \nIsraelites, \nKorah, &c. \n\nMen of Bethshemesh, \nUzzah, \nJeroboam, \nBenhadad, \nUzziah, \nSennacherib, \nTheudas, \nSons of Sceva, \nDiotrephes,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 11:4", "verse_text": "And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nBuilders of Babel, \nIsraelites, \nKorah, &c. \n\nMen of Bethshemesh, \nUzzah, \nJeroboam, \nBenhadad, \nUzziah, \nSennacherib, \nTheudas, \nSons of Sceva, \nDiotrephes,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:44", "verse_text": "But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nBuilders of Babel, \nIsraelites, \nKorah, &c. \n\nMen of Bethshemesh, \nUzzah, \nJeroboam, \nBenhadad, \nUzziah, \nSennacherib, \nTheudas, \nSons of Sceva, \nDiotrephes,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:3", "verse_text": "And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nBuilders of Babel, \nIsraelites, \nKorah, &c. \n\nMen of Bethshemesh, \nUzzah, \nJeroboam, \nBenhadad, \nUzziah, \nSennacherib, \nTheudas, \nSons of Sceva, \nDiotrephes,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:7", "verse_text": "And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the LORD to morrow: and it shall be that the man whom the LORD doth choose, he shall be holy: ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nBuilders of Babel, \nIsraelites, \nKorah, &c. \n\nMen of Bethshemesh, \nUzzah, \nJeroboam, \nBenhadad, \nUzziah, \nSennacherib, \nTheudas, \nSons of Sceva, \nDiotrephes,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 6:19", "verse_text": "And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nBuilders of Babel, \nIsraelites, \nKorah, &c. \n\nMen of Bethshemesh, \nUzzah, \nJeroboam, \nBenhadad, \nUzziah, \nSennacherib, \nTheudas, \nSons of Sceva, \nDiotrephes,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 6:6", "verse_text": "And when they came to Nachon's threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nBuilders of Babel, \nIsraelites, \nKorah, &c. \n\nMen of Bethshemesh, \nUzzah, \nJeroboam, \nBenhadad, \nUzziah, \nSennacherib, \nTheudas, \nSons of Sceva, \nDiotrephes,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 13:4", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nBuilders of Babel, \nIsraelites, \nKorah, &c. \n\nMen of Bethshemesh, \nUzzah, \nJeroboam, \nBenhadad, \nUzziah, \nSennacherib, \nTheudas, \nSons of Sceva, \nDiotrephes,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:19", "verse_text": "So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the city, and the army which followed them." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nBuilders of Babel, \nIsraelites, \nKorah, &c. \n\nMen of Bethshemesh, \nUzzah, \nJeroboam, \nBenhadad, \nUzziah, \nSennacherib, \nTheudas, \nSons of Sceva, \nDiotrephes,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:16", "verse_text": "But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nBuilders of Babel, \nIsraelites, \nKorah, &c. \n\nMen of Bethshemesh, \nUzzah, \nJeroboam, \nBenhadad, \nUzziah, \nSennacherib, \nTheudas, \nSons of Sceva, \nDiotrephes,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 32:13-14", "verse_text": "Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand? 14 Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nBuilders of Babel, \nIsraelites, \nKorah, &c. \n\nMen of Bethshemesh, \nUzzah, \nJeroboam, \nBenhadad, \nUzziah, \nSennacherib, \nTheudas, \nSons of Sceva, \nDiotrephes,", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:36", "verse_text": "For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nBuilders of Babel, \nIsraelites, \nKorah, &c. \n\nMen of Bethshemesh, \nUzzah, \nJeroboam, \nBenhadad, \nUzziah, \nSennacherib, \nTheudas, \nSons of Sceva, \nDiotrephes,", "verse_ref": "Acts 19:13-14", "verse_text": "Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth. 14 And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nBuilders of Babel, \nIsraelites, \nKorah, &c. \n\nMen of Bethshemesh, \nUzzah, \nJeroboam, \nBenhadad, \nUzziah, \nSennacherib, \nTheudas, \nSons of Sceva, \nDiotrephes,", "verse_ref": "3 John 9", "verse_text": "I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not." } ] }, { "name": "Prayer, Private", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Prayer-Private.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Christ was constant in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:23", "verse_text": "And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone." }, { "point_text": "Christ was constant in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:36", "verse_text": "Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder." }, { "point_text": "Christ was constant in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:39", "verse_text": "And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt." }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:6", "verse_text": "But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE OFFERED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "At evening, morning, and noon", "verse_ref": "Psalm 55:17", "verse_text": "Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice." }, { "point_text": "Day and night", "verse_ref": "Psalm 88:1", "verse_text": "O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:" }, { "point_text": "Without ceasing", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:17", "verse_text": "Pray without ceasing." }, { "point_text": "Shall be heard", "verse_ref": "Job 22:27", "verse_text": "Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows." }, { "point_text": "Rewarded openly", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:6", "verse_text": "But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly." }, { "point_text": "An evidence of conversion", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:11", "verse_text": "And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth," }, { "point_text": "Nothing should hinder", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:10", "verse_text": "Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \nEliezer, \nJacob, \nGideon, \n\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nManasseh, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \n\nJonah, \nHabakkuk, \nAnna, \nPaul, \nPeter, \n\nCornelius,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 19:20", "verse_text": "Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \nEliezer, \nJacob, \nGideon, \n\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nManasseh, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \n\nJonah, \nHabakkuk, \nAnna, \nPaul, \nPeter, \n\nCornelius,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:12", "verse_text": "And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \nEliezer, \nJacob, \nGideon, \n\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nManasseh, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \n\nJonah, \nHabakkuk, \nAnna, \nPaul, \nPeter, \n\nCornelius,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:9-12", "verse_text": "And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee: 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands. 11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children. 12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \nEliezer, \nJacob, \nGideon, \n\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nManasseh, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \n\nJonah, \nHabakkuk, \nAnna, \nPaul, \nPeter, \n\nCornelius,", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:22", "verse_text": "And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the LORD, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord GOD! for because I have seen an angel of the LORD face to face." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \nEliezer, \nJacob, \nGideon, \n\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nManasseh, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \n\nJonah, \nHabakkuk, \nAnna, \nPaul, \nPeter, \n\nCornelius,", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:36", "verse_text": "And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \nEliezer, \nJacob, \nGideon, \n\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nManasseh, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \n\nJonah, \nHabakkuk, \nAnna, \nPaul, \nPeter, \n\nCornelius,", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:39", "verse_text": "And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \nEliezer, \nJacob, \nGideon, \n\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nManasseh, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \n\nJonah, \nHabakkuk, \nAnna, \nPaul, \nPeter, \n\nCornelius,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:10", "verse_text": "And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \nEliezer, \nJacob, \nGideon, \n\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nManasseh, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \n\nJonah, \nHabakkuk, \nAnna, \nPaul, \nPeter, \n\nCornelius,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:18-29", "verse_text": "Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he said, Who am I, O Lord GOD? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto? 19 And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord GOD? 20 And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy servant. 21 For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \nEliezer, \nJacob, \nGideon, \n\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nManasseh, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \n\nJonah, \nHabakkuk, \nAnna, \nPaul, \nPeter, \n\nCornelius,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:2", "verse_text": "Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \nEliezer, \nJacob, \nGideon, \n\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nManasseh, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \n\nJonah, \nHabakkuk, \nAnna, \nPaul, \nPeter, \n\nCornelius,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:11", "verse_text": "And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \nEliezer, \nJacob, \nGideon, \n\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nManasseh, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \n\nJonah, \nHabakkuk, \nAnna, \nPaul, \nPeter, \n\nCornelius,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:18-19", "verse_text": "Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel. 19 His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \nEliezer, \nJacob, \nGideon, \n\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nManasseh, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \n\nJonah, \nHabakkuk, \nAnna, \nPaul, \nPeter, \n\nCornelius,", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:5-6", "verse_text": "And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God, 6 And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \nEliezer, \nJacob, \nGideon, \n\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nManasseh, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \n\nJonah, \nHabakkuk, \nAnna, \nPaul, \nPeter, \n\nCornelius,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 2:4", "verse_text": "Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \nEliezer, \nJacob, \nGideon, \n\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nManasseh, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \n\nJonah, \nHabakkuk, \nAnna, \nPaul, \nPeter, \n\nCornelius,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 32:16-25", "verse_text": "Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying, 17 Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee: 18 Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, is his name, 19 Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings: ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \nEliezer, \nJacob, \nGideon, \n\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nManasseh, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \n\nJonah, \nHabakkuk, \nAnna, \nPaul, \nPeter, \n\nCornelius,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:3", "verse_text": "And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \nEliezer, \nJacob, \nGideon, \n\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nManasseh, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \n\nJonah, \nHabakkuk, \nAnna, \nPaul, \nPeter, \n\nCornelius,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:17", "verse_text": "Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \nEliezer, \nJacob, \nGideon, \n\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nManasseh, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \n\nJonah, \nHabakkuk, \nAnna, \nPaul, \nPeter, \n\nCornelius,", "verse_ref": "Jonah 2:1", "verse_text": "Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \nEliezer, \nJacob, \nGideon, \n\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nManasseh, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \n\nJonah, \nHabakkuk, \nAnna, \nPaul, \nPeter, \n\nCornelius,", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 1:2", "verse_text": "O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \nEliezer, \nJacob, \nGideon, \n\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nManasseh, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \n\nJonah, \nHabakkuk, \nAnna, \nPaul, \nPeter, \n\nCornelius,", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:37", "verse_text": "And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \nEliezer, \nJacob, \nGideon, \n\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nManasseh, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \n\nJonah, \nHabakkuk, \nAnna, \nPaul, \nPeter, \n\nCornelius,", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:11", "verse_text": "And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \nEliezer, \nJacob, \nGideon, \n\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nManasseh, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \n\nJonah, \nHabakkuk, \nAnna, \nPaul, \nPeter, \n\nCornelius,", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:40", "verse_text": "But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed; and turning him to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \nEliezer, \nJacob, \nGideon, \n\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nManasseh, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \n\nJonah, \nHabakkuk, \nAnna, \nPaul, \nPeter, \n\nCornelius,", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:9", "verse_text": "On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \nEliezer, \nJacob, \nGideon, \n\n\nHannah, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nIsaiah, \nManasseh, \nEzra, \nNehemiah, \nJeremiah, \nDaniel, \n\nJonah, \nHabakkuk, \nAnna, \nPaul, \nPeter, \n\nCornelius,", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:30", "verse_text": "And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing," } ] }, { "name": "Pride", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Pride.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is sin", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:4", "verse_text": "An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin." }, { "point_text": "Hateful to God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:16", "verse_text": "These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:" }, { "point_text": "Hateful to God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:5", "verse_text": "Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished." }, { "point_text": "Hateful to Christ", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 8:12-13", "verse_text": "I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. 13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate." }, { "point_text": "OFTEN ORIGINATES IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Self-righteousness", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:11-12", "verse_text": "The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. 12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess." }, { "point_text": "Religious privileges", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 3:11", "verse_text": "In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain." }, { "point_text": "Unsanctified knowledge", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 8:1", "verse_text": "Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth." }, { "point_text": "Inexperience", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:6", "verse_text": "Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil." }, { "point_text": "Possession of power", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:19", "verse_text": "And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:" }, { "point_text": "Possession of power", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 30:6", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Possession of wealth", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:13", "verse_text": "And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:3", "verse_text": "Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:3", "verse_text": "For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:16", "verse_text": "Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits." }, { "point_text": "Defiles a man", "verse_ref": "Mark 7:20", "verse_text": "And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man." }, { "point_text": "Defiles a man", "verse_ref": "Mark 7:22", "verse_text": "Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:" }, { "point_text": "Hardens the mind", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:20", "verse_text": "But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:" }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Give not way to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 131:1", "verse_text": "LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me." }, { "point_text": "Respect not, in others", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:4", "verse_text": "Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies." }, { "point_text": "Mourn over, in others", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 13:17", "verse_text": "But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive." }, { "point_text": "Hate, in others", "verse_ref": "Psalm 101:5", "verse_text": "Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer." }, { "point_text": "A hindrance to seeking God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 10:4", "verse_text": "The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts." }, { "point_text": "A hindrance to seeking God", "verse_ref": "Hosea 7:10", "verse_text": "And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this." }, { "point_text": "A hindrance to improvement", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:12", "verse_text": "Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him." }, { "point_text": "A CHARACTERISTIC OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The devil", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:6", "verse_text": "Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil." }, { "point_text": "The world", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:16", "verse_text": "For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world." }, { "point_text": "False teachers", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:3-4", "verse_text": "If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; 4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings," }, { "point_text": "The wicked", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:4-5", "verse_text": "Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. 5 Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:" }, { "point_text": "Comes from the heart", "verse_ref": "Mark 7:21-23", "verse_text": "For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man." }, { "point_text": "The wicked encompassed with", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:6", "verse_text": "Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment." }, { "point_text": "LEADS MEN TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Contempt and rejection of God's word and ministers", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 43:2", "verse_text": "Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there:" }, { "point_text": "A persecuting spirit", "verse_ref": "Psalm 10:2", "verse_text": "The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined." }, { "point_text": "Wrath", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:24", "verse_text": "Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath." }, { "point_text": "Contention", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 13:10", "verse_text": "Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom." }, { "point_text": "Contention", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:25", "verse_text": "He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat." }, { "point_text": "Self-deception", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:16", "verse_text": "Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Self-deception", "verse_ref": "Obadiah 3", "verse_text": "The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?" }, { "point_text": "Exhortation against", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 13:15", "verse_text": "Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken." }, { "point_text": "IS FOLLOWED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Shame", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:2", "verse_text": "When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom." }, { "point_text": "Debasement", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 29:23", "verse_text": "A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit." }, { "point_text": "Debasement", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:3", "verse_text": "The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:" }, { "point_text": "Destruction", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:18", "verse_text": "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall." }, { "point_text": "Destruction", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 18:12", "verse_text": "Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility." }, { "point_text": "Shall abound in the last days", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:2", "verse_text": "For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy," }, { "point_text": "Woe to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:1", "verse_text": "Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!" }, { "point_text": "Woe to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:3", "verse_text": "The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:" }, { "point_text": "THEY WHO ARE GUILTY OF, SHALL BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Resisted", "verse_ref": "James 4:6", "verse_text": "But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble." }, { "point_text": "Brought into contempt", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:9", "verse_text": "The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Recompensed", "verse_ref": "Psalm 31:23", "verse_text": "O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer." }, { "point_text": "Marred", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 13:9", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Subdued", "verse_ref": "Exodus 18:11", "verse_text": "Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them." }, { "point_text": "Subdued", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:11", "verse_text": "And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible." }, { "point_text": "Brought low", "verse_ref": "Psalm 18:27", "verse_text": "For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks." }, { "point_text": "Brought low", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:12", "verse_text": "For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:" }, { "point_text": "Abased", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:37", "verse_text": "Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase." }, { "point_text": "Abased", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:12", "verse_text": "And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted." }, { "point_text": "Scattered", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:51", "verse_text": "He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts." }, { "point_text": "Punished", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 2:10-11", "verse_text": "This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts. 11 The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAhithophel, \nHezekiah, \nPharaoh, \nHaman, \nMoab, \nTyre, \nIsrael, \n\n\nJudah, \nBabylon, \n\nAssyria, \n\nNebuchadnezzar, \n\nBelshazzar, \nEdom, \nScribes, \nHerod, \nLaodiceans,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 17:23", "verse_text": "And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAhithophel, \nHezekiah, \nPharaoh, \nHaman, \nMoab, \nTyre, \nIsrael, \n\n\nJudah, \nBabylon, \n\nAssyria, \n\nNebuchadnezzar, \n\nBelshazzar, \nEdom, \nScribes, \nHerod, \nLaodiceans,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 32:25", "verse_text": "But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAhithophel, \nHezekiah, \nPharaoh, \nHaman, \nMoab, \nTyre, \nIsrael, \n\n\nJudah, \nBabylon, \n\nAssyria, \n\nNebuchadnezzar, \n\nBelshazzar, \nEdom, \nScribes, \nHerod, \nLaodiceans,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:10", "verse_text": "And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAhithophel, \nHezekiah, \nPharaoh, \nHaman, \nMoab, \nTyre, \nIsrael, \n\n\nJudah, \nBabylon, \n\nAssyria, \n\nNebuchadnezzar, \n\nBelshazzar, \nEdom, \nScribes, \nHerod, \nLaodiceans,", "verse_ref": "Esther 3:5", "verse_text": "And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAhithophel, \nHezekiah, \nPharaoh, \nHaman, \nMoab, \nTyre, \nIsrael, \n\n\nJudah, \nBabylon, \n\nAssyria, \n\nNebuchadnezzar, \n\nBelshazzar, \nEdom, \nScribes, \nHerod, \nLaodiceans,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 16:6", "verse_text": "We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAhithophel, \nHezekiah, \nPharaoh, \nHaman, \nMoab, \nTyre, \nIsrael, \n\n\nJudah, \nBabylon, \n\nAssyria, \n\nNebuchadnezzar, \n\nBelshazzar, \nEdom, \nScribes, \nHerod, \nLaodiceans,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:9", "verse_text": "The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAhithophel, \nHezekiah, \nPharaoh, \nHaman, \nMoab, \nTyre, \nIsrael, \n\n\nJudah, \nBabylon, \n\nAssyria, \n\nNebuchadnezzar, \n\nBelshazzar, \nEdom, \nScribes, \nHerod, \nLaodiceans,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:1", "verse_text": "Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAhithophel, \nHezekiah, \nPharaoh, \nHaman, \nMoab, \nTyre, \nIsrael, \n\n\nJudah, \nBabylon, \n\nAssyria, \n\nNebuchadnezzar, \n\nBelshazzar, \nEdom, \nScribes, \nHerod, \nLaodiceans,", "verse_ref": "Hosea 5:5", "verse_text": "And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAhithophel, \nHezekiah, \nPharaoh, \nHaman, \nMoab, \nTyre, \nIsrael, \n\n\nJudah, \nBabylon, \n\nAssyria, \n\nNebuchadnezzar, \n\nBelshazzar, \nEdom, \nScribes, \nHerod, \nLaodiceans,", "verse_ref": "Hosea 5:9", "verse_text": "Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAhithophel, \nHezekiah, \nPharaoh, \nHaman, \nMoab, \nTyre, \nIsrael, \n\n\nJudah, \nBabylon, \n\nAssyria, \n\nNebuchadnezzar, \n\nBelshazzar, \nEdom, \nScribes, \nHerod, \nLaodiceans,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 13:9", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAhithophel, \nHezekiah, \nPharaoh, \nHaman, \nMoab, \nTyre, \nIsrael, \n\n\nJudah, \nBabylon, \n\nAssyria, \n\nNebuchadnezzar, \n\nBelshazzar, \nEdom, \nScribes, \nHerod, \nLaodiceans,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:29", "verse_text": "Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAhithophel, \nHezekiah, \nPharaoh, \nHaman, \nMoab, \nTyre, \nIsrael, \n\n\nJudah, \nBabylon, \n\nAssyria, \n\nNebuchadnezzar, \n\nBelshazzar, \nEdom, \nScribes, \nHerod, \nLaodiceans,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:32", "verse_text": "And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAhithophel, \nHezekiah, \nPharaoh, \nHaman, \nMoab, \nTyre, \nIsrael, \n\n\nJudah, \nBabylon, \n\nAssyria, \n\nNebuchadnezzar, \n\nBelshazzar, \nEdom, \nScribes, \nHerod, \nLaodiceans,", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 31:3", "verse_text": "Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAhithophel, \nHezekiah, \nPharaoh, \nHaman, \nMoab, \nTyre, \nIsrael, \n\n\nJudah, \nBabylon, \n\nAssyria, \n\nNebuchadnezzar, \n\nBelshazzar, \nEdom, \nScribes, \nHerod, \nLaodiceans,", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 31:10", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAhithophel, \nHezekiah, \nPharaoh, \nHaman, \nMoab, \nTyre, \nIsrael, \n\n\nJudah, \nBabylon, \n\nAssyria, \n\nNebuchadnezzar, \n\nBelshazzar, \nEdom, \nScribes, \nHerod, \nLaodiceans,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:30", "verse_text": "The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAhithophel, \nHezekiah, \nPharaoh, \nHaman, \nMoab, \nTyre, \nIsrael, \n\n\nJudah, \nBabylon, \n\nAssyria, \n\nNebuchadnezzar, \n\nBelshazzar, \nEdom, \nScribes, \nHerod, \nLaodiceans,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:20", "verse_text": "But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAhithophel, \nHezekiah, \nPharaoh, \nHaman, \nMoab, \nTyre, \nIsrael, \n\n\nJudah, \nBabylon, \n\nAssyria, \n\nNebuchadnezzar, \n\nBelshazzar, \nEdom, \nScribes, \nHerod, \nLaodiceans,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:22-23", "verse_text": "And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this; 23 But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAhithophel, \nHezekiah, \nPharaoh, \nHaman, \nMoab, \nTyre, \nIsrael, \n\n\nJudah, \nBabylon, \n\nAssyria, \n\nNebuchadnezzar, \n\nBelshazzar, \nEdom, \nScribes, \nHerod, \nLaodiceans,", "verse_ref": "Obadiah 3", "verse_text": "The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAhithophel, \nHezekiah, \nPharaoh, \nHaman, \nMoab, \nTyre, \nIsrael, \n\n\nJudah, \nBabylon, \n\nAssyria, \n\nNebuchadnezzar, \n\nBelshazzar, \nEdom, \nScribes, \nHerod, \nLaodiceans,", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:38-39", "verse_text": "And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces, 39 And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAhithophel, \nHezekiah, \nPharaoh, \nHaman, \nMoab, \nTyre, \nIsrael, \n\n\nJudah, \nBabylon, \n\nAssyria, \n\nNebuchadnezzar, \n\nBelshazzar, \nEdom, \nScribes, \nHerod, \nLaodiceans,", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:21-23", "verse_text": "And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. 22 And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. 23 And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAhithophel, \nHezekiah, \nPharaoh, \nHaman, \nMoab, \nTyre, \nIsrael, \n\n\nJudah, \nBabylon, \n\nAssyria, \n\nNebuchadnezzar, \n\nBelshazzar, \nEdom, \nScribes, \nHerod, \nLaodiceans,", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:17", "verse_text": "Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:" } ] }, { "name": "Presents", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Presents.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:13", "verse_text": "And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;" }, { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:15", "verse_text": "And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph." }, { "point_text": "WERE GIVEN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To judges to secure a favorable hearing", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:23", "verse_text": "A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment." }, { "point_text": "To judges to secure a favorable hearing", "verse_ref": "Amos 2:6", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;" }, { "point_text": "To kings to engage their aid", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:18", "verse_text": "Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Benhadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying," }, { "point_text": "By kings to each other in token of inferiority", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:25", "verse_text": "And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year." }, { "point_text": "By kings to each other in token of inferiority", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:23-24", "verse_text": "And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart. 24 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year." }, { "point_text": "To appease the angry feelings of others", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:20", "verse_text": "And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me." }, { "point_text": "To appease the angry feelings of others", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:27-28", "verse_text": "And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord. 28 I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days." }, { "point_text": "To appease the angry feelings of others", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:35", "verse_text": "So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person." }, { "point_text": "To confirm covenants", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:28-30", "verse_text": "And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. 29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves? 30 And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well." }, { "point_text": "To reward service", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 18:12", "verse_text": "And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine hand against the king's son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom." }, { "point_text": "To reward service", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:6", "verse_text": "But if ye shew the dream, and the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour: therefore shew me the dream, and the interpretation thereof." }, { "point_text": "To reward service", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:48", "verse_text": "Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon." }, { "point_text": "To show respect", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:18", "verse_text": "Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again." }, { "point_text": "In token of friendship", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 18:3-4", "verse_text": "Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. 4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle." }, { "point_text": "As tribute", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:15", "verse_text": "But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab." }, { "point_text": "As tribute", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:2", "verse_text": "And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts." }, { "point_text": "As tribute", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 17:5", "verse_text": "Therefore the LORD stablished the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had riches and honour in abundance." }, { "point_text": "On occasions of visits", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 8:8", "verse_text": "And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD by him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?" }, { "point_text": "On all occasions of public rejoicing", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:12", "verse_text": "And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them." }, { "point_text": "On all occasions of public rejoicing", "verse_ref": "Esther 9:19", "verse_text": "Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another." }, { "point_text": "At marriages", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:53", "verse_text": "And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things." }, { "point_text": "At marriages", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:12", "verse_text": "And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour." }, { "point_text": "On recovering from sickness", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:12", "verse_text": "At that time Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick." }, { "point_text": "On restoration to prosperity", "verse_ref": "Job 42:10-11", "verse_text": "And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. 11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold." }, { "point_text": "On sending away friends", "verse_ref": "Genesis 45:22", "verse_text": "To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment." }, { "point_text": "On sending away friends", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 40:5", "verse_text": "Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward, and let him go." }, { "point_text": "Considered essential on all visits of business", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 9:7", "verse_text": "Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we?" }, { "point_text": "Not bringing, considered a mark of disrespect and disaffection", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:27", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing." }, { "point_text": "Not bringing, considered a mark of disrespect and disaffection", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:24", "verse_text": "And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof." }, { "point_text": "Generally procured a favorable reception", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 18:16", "verse_text": "A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men." }, { "point_text": "Generally procured a favorable reception", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:6", "verse_text": "Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts." }, { "point_text": "When small or defective, refused", "verse_ref": "Malachi 1:8", "verse_text": "And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Of persons of rank, of great value and variety", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:2", "verse_text": "And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife." }, { "point_text": "Of persons of rank, of great value and variety", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:1", "verse_text": "And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart." }, { "point_text": "Receiving of, a token of good will", "verse_ref": "Genesis 33:10-11", "verse_text": "And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me. 11 Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it." }, { "point_text": "THINGS GIVEN AS;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Cattle", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:14-15", "verse_text": "Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams, 15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals." }, { "point_text": "Cattle", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:18", "verse_text": "Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us." }, { "point_text": "Horses and mules", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:25", "verse_text": "And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year." }, { "point_text": "Money", "verse_ref": "Genesis 45:22", "verse_text": "To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment." }, { "point_text": "Money", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 9:8", "verse_text": "And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way." }, { "point_text": "Money", "verse_ref": "Job 42:11", "verse_text": "Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold." }, { "point_text": "Eatables", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:11", "verse_text": "And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:" }, { "point_text": "Eatables", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:18", "verse_text": "Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses." }, { "point_text": "Eatables", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 14:3", "verse_text": "And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child." }, { "point_text": "Garments", "verse_ref": "Genesis 45:22", "verse_text": "To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment." }, { "point_text": "Garments", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 18:4", "verse_text": "And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle." }, { "point_text": "Weapons of war", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 18:4", "verse_text": "And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle." }, { "point_text": "Ornaments", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:22", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;" }, { "point_text": "Ornaments", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:47", "verse_text": "And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands." }, { "point_text": "Gold and silver vessels", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:25", "verse_text": "And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year." }, { "point_text": "Precious stones", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:2", "verse_text": "And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart." }, { "point_text": "Servants", "verse_ref": "Genesis 20:14", "verse_text": "And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife." }, { "point_text": "Servants", "verse_ref": "Genesis 29:24", "verse_text": "And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid." }, { "point_text": "Servants", "verse_ref": "Genesis 29:29", "verse_text": "And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid." }, { "point_text": "Often borne by servants", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:18", "verse_text": "And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present." }, { "point_text": "Often conveyed on camels, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:18", "verse_text": "Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses." }, { "point_text": "Often conveyed on camels, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 8:9", "verse_text": "So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?" }, { "point_text": "Often conveyed on camels, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:1", "verse_text": "And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes sent before the giver", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:21", "verse_text": "So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company." }, { "point_text": "Generally presented in person", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:15", "verse_text": "And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph." }, { "point_text": "Generally presented in person", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:26", "verse_text": "And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth." }, { "point_text": "Laid out and presented with great ceremony", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:25", "verse_text": "And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there." }, { "point_text": "Laid out and presented with great ceremony", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:18", "verse_text": "And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present." }, { "point_text": "Laid out and presented with great ceremony", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:11", "verse_text": "And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh." }, { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:13", "verse_text": "And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;" }, { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:15", "verse_text": "And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph." }, { "point_text": "WERE GIVEN", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "To judges to secure a favorable hearing", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:23", "verse_text": "A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment." }, { "point_text": "To judges to secure a favorable hearing", "verse_ref": "Amos 2:6", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;" }, { "point_text": "To kings to engage their aid", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:18", "verse_text": "Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Benhadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying," }, { "point_text": "By kings to each other in token of inferiority", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:25", "verse_text": "And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year." }, { "point_text": "By kings to each other in token of inferiority", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:23-24", "verse_text": "And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart. 24 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year." }, { "point_text": "To appease the angry feelings of others", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:20", "verse_text": "And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me." }, { "point_text": "To appease the angry feelings of others", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:27-28", "verse_text": "And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord. 28 I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days." }, { "point_text": "To appease the angry feelings of others", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:35", "verse_text": "So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person." }, { "point_text": "To confirm covenants", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:28-30", "verse_text": "And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. 29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves? 30 And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well." }, { "point_text": "To reward service", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 18:12", "verse_text": "And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine hand against the king's son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom." }, { "point_text": "To reward service", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:6", "verse_text": "But if ye shew the dream, and the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour: therefore shew me the dream, and the interpretation thereof." }, { "point_text": "To reward service", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:48", "verse_text": "Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon." }, { "point_text": "To show respect", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:18", "verse_text": "Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again." }, { "point_text": "In token of friendship", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 18:3-4", "verse_text": "Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. 4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle." }, { "point_text": "As tribute", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:15", "verse_text": "But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab." }, { "point_text": "As tribute", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:2", "verse_text": "And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts." }, { "point_text": "As tribute", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 17:5", "verse_text": "Therefore the LORD stablished the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had riches and honour in abundance." }, { "point_text": "On occasions of visits", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 8:8", "verse_text": "And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD by him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?" }, { "point_text": "On all occasions of public rejoicing", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:12", "verse_text": "And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them." }, { "point_text": "On all occasions of public rejoicing", "verse_ref": "Esther 9:19", "verse_text": "Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another." }, { "point_text": "At marriages", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:53", "verse_text": "And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things." }, { "point_text": "At marriages", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:12", "verse_text": "And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour." }, { "point_text": "On recovering from sickness", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:12", "verse_text": "At that time Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick." }, { "point_text": "On restoration to prosperity", "verse_ref": "Job 42:10-11", "verse_text": "And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. 11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold." }, { "point_text": "On sending away friends", "verse_ref": "Genesis 45:22", "verse_text": "To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment." }, { "point_text": "On sending away friends", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 40:5", "verse_text": "Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward, and let him go." }, { "point_text": "Considered essential on all visits of business", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 9:7", "verse_text": "Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we?" }, { "point_text": "Not bringing, considered a mark of disrespect and disaffection", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:27", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing." }, { "point_text": "Not bringing, considered a mark of disrespect and disaffection", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:24", "verse_text": "And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof." }, { "point_text": "Generally procured a favorable reception", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 18:16", "verse_text": "A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men." }, { "point_text": "Generally procured a favorable reception", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:6", "verse_text": "Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts." }, { "point_text": "When small or defective, refused", "verse_ref": "Malachi 1:8", "verse_text": "And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Of persons of rank, of great value and variety", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:2", "verse_text": "And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife." }, { "point_text": "Of persons of rank, of great value and variety", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:1", "verse_text": "And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart." }, { "point_text": "Receiving of, a token of good will", "verse_ref": "Genesis 33:10-11", "verse_text": "And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me. 11 Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it." }, { "point_text": "THINGS GIVEN AS;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Cattle", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:14-15", "verse_text": "Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams, 15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals." }, { "point_text": "Cattle", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:18", "verse_text": "Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us." }, { "point_text": "Horses and mules", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:25", "verse_text": "And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year." }, { "point_text": "Money", "verse_ref": "Genesis 45:22", "verse_text": "To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment." }, { "point_text": "Money", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 9:8", "verse_text": "And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way." }, { "point_text": "Money", "verse_ref": "Job 42:11", "verse_text": "Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold." }, { "point_text": "Eatables", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:11", "verse_text": "And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:" }, { "point_text": "Eatables", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:18", "verse_text": "Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses." }, { "point_text": "Eatables", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 14:3", "verse_text": "And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child." }, { "point_text": "Garments", "verse_ref": "Genesis 45:22", "verse_text": "To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment." }, { "point_text": "Garments", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 18:4", "verse_text": "And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle." }, { "point_text": "Weapons of war", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 18:4", "verse_text": "And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle." }, { "point_text": "Ornaments", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:22", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;" }, { "point_text": "Ornaments", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:47", "verse_text": "And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands." }, { "point_text": "Gold and silver vessels", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:25", "verse_text": "And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year." }, { "point_text": "Precious stones", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:2", "verse_text": "And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart." }, { "point_text": "Servants", "verse_ref": "Genesis 20:14", "verse_text": "And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife." }, { "point_text": "Servants", "verse_ref": "Genesis 29:24", "verse_text": "And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid." }, { "point_text": "Servants", "verse_ref": "Genesis 29:29", "verse_text": "And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid." }, { "point_text": "Often borne by servants", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:18", "verse_text": "And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present." }, { "point_text": "Often conveyed on camels, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:18", "verse_text": "Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses." }, { "point_text": "Often conveyed on camels, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 8:9", "verse_text": "So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?" }, { "point_text": "Often conveyed on camels, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:1", "verse_text": "And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes sent before the giver", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:21", "verse_text": "So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company." }, { "point_text": "Generally presented in person", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:15", "verse_text": "And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph." }, { "point_text": "Generally presented in person", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:26", "verse_text": "And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth." }, { "point_text": "Laid out and presented with great ceremony", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:25", "verse_text": "And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there." }, { "point_text": "Laid out and presented with great ceremony", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:18", "verse_text": "And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present." }, { "point_text": "Laid out and presented with great ceremony", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:11", "verse_text": "And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh." } ] }, { "name": "Prisons", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Prisons.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 39:20", "verse_text": "And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison." }, { "point_text": "KINDS OF, MENTIONED;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "State", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 37:21", "verse_text": "Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison." }, { "point_text": "State", "verse_ref": "Genesis 39:20", "verse_text": "And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison." }, { "point_text": "Common", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:18", "verse_text": "And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison." }, { "point_text": "Dungeons attached to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 38:6", "verse_text": "Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire." }, { "point_text": "Dungeons attached to", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:11", "verse_text": "As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water." }, { "point_text": "Were under the care of a keeper", "verse_ref": "Genesis 39:21", "verse_text": "But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison." }, { "point_text": "USED FOR CONFINING", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Persons accused of crimes", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:19", "verse_text": "(Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.)" }, { "point_text": "Persons accused of heresy", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:3", "verse_text": "And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide." }, { "point_text": "Persons accused of heresy", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:18", "verse_text": "And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison." }, { "point_text": "Persons accused of heresy", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:3", "verse_text": "As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison." }, { "point_text": "Suspected persons", "verse_ref": "Genesis 42:19", "verse_text": "If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:" }, { "point_text": "Condemned criminals till executed", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 24:12", "verse_text": "And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them." }, { "point_text": "Condemned criminals till executed", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:4-5", "verse_text": "And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people. 5 Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him." }, { "point_text": "Enemies taken captive", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:21", "verse_text": "But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house." }, { "point_text": "Enemies taken captive", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:4", "verse_text": "And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison." }, { "point_text": "Enemies taken captive", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 52:11", "verse_text": "Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death." }, { "point_text": "Debtors till they paid", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:26", "verse_text": "Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing." }, { "point_text": "Debtors till they paid", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:30", "verse_text": "And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt." }, { "point_text": "Persons under the king's displeasure", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:27", "verse_text": "And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace." }, { "point_text": "Persons under the king's displeasure", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 16:10", "verse_text": "Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time." }, { "point_text": "Persons under the king's displeasure", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:17", "verse_text": "For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her." }, { "point_text": "Confinement in, often awarded as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Ezra 7:26", "verse_text": "And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment." }, { "point_text": "Confinement in, considered a severe punishment", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:33", "verse_text": "And he said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into prison, and to death." }, { "point_text": "PLACES USED AS;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Court of the king's house", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 32:2", "verse_text": "For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house." }, { "point_text": "House of the king's scribe", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 37:15", "verse_text": "Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison." }, { "point_text": "House of the captain of the guard", "verse_ref": "Genesis 40:3", "verse_text": "And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound." }, { "point_text": "Prisoner's own house, where he was kept bound to a soldier", "verse_ref": "Acts 28:16", "verse_text": "And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him." }, { "point_text": "Prisoner's own house, where he was kept bound to a soldier", "verse_ref": "Acts 28:30", "verse_text": "And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him," }, { "point_text": "Prisoner's own house, where he was kept bound to a soldier", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:16-18", "verse_text": "The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain: 17 But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me. 18 The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well." }, { "point_text": "The king had power to commit to", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:27", "verse_text": "And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace." }, { "point_text": "Magistrates had power to commit to", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:25", "verse_text": "Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison." }, { "point_text": "PERSONS CONFINED IN,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Said to be in ward", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 24:12", "verse_text": "And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them." }, { "point_text": "Said to be in hold", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:3", "verse_text": "And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide." }, { "point_text": "Often placed in dungeons", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 39:6", "verse_text": "Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah." }, { "point_text": "Often placed in dungeons", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:24", "verse_text": "Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks." }, { "point_text": "Often bound with fetters", "verse_ref": "Genesis 42:19", "verse_text": "If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:" }, { "point_text": "Often bound with fetters", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 19:9", "verse_text": "And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Often bound with fetters", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:17", "verse_text": "For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her." }, { "point_text": "Often chained to two soldiers", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:6", "verse_text": "And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison." }, { "point_text": "Often fastened in stocks", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 29:26", "verse_text": "The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks." }, { "point_text": "Often fastened in stocks", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:24", "verse_text": "Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks." }, { "point_text": "Often kept to hard labor", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:21", "verse_text": "But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house." }, { "point_text": "Often subjected to extreme suffering.\r\n\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Psalm 79:11", "verse_text": "Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;" }, { "point_text": "Often subjected to extreme suffering.\r\n\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Psalm 102:20", "verse_text": "To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;" }, { "point_text": "Often subjected to extreme suffering.\r\n\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:18", "verse_text": "Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:" }, { "point_text": "Fed on bread and water", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:27", "verse_text": "And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace." }, { "point_text": "Clothed in prison dress", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:29", "verse_text": "And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes allowed to be visited by their friends", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:2", "verse_text": "Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples," }, { "point_text": "Sometimes allowed to be visited by their friends", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:36", "verse_text": "Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes allowed to be visited by their friends", "verse_ref": "Acts 24:23", "verse_text": "And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let him have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister or come unto him." }, { "point_text": "Might have their condition ameliorated by the king", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 37:20-21", "verse_text": "Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there. 21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison." }, { "point_text": "Often executed in", "verse_ref": "Genesis 40:22", "verse_text": "But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them." }, { "point_text": "Often executed in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:10", "verse_text": "And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison." }, { "point_text": "The king had power to release from", "verse_ref": "Genesis 40:21", "verse_text": "And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand:" }, { "point_text": "Magistrates had power to release from", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:35-36", "verse_text": "And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go. 36 And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in peace." }, { "point_text": "KEEPERS OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Strictly guarded the doors", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:6", "verse_text": "And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison." }, { "point_text": "Responsible for the prisoners", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:23", "verse_text": "And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:" }, { "point_text": "Responsible for the prisoners", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:27", "verse_text": "And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled." }, { "point_text": "Put to death if prisoners escaped", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:19", "verse_text": "And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and there abode." }, { "point_text": "Often used severity", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 37:16", "verse_text": "When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;" }, { "point_text": "Often used severity", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 37:20", "verse_text": "Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes acted kindly", "verse_ref": "Genesis 39:21", "verse_text": "But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes acted kindly", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:33-34", "verse_text": "And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway. 34 And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes entrusted the care of the prison to well-conducted prisoners", "verse_ref": "Genesis 39:22-23", "verse_text": "And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it. 23 The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the LORD was with him, and that which he did, the LORD made it to prosper." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Deep afflictions", "verse_ref": "Psalm 142:7", "verse_text": "Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me." }, { "point_text": "Hell", "verse_ref": "Revelation 20:7", "verse_text": "And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison," }, { "point_text": "Bondage to sin and Satan", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:7", "verse_text": "To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house." }, { "point_text": "Bondage to sin and Satan", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:9", "verse_text": "That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places." }, { "point_text": "Bondage to sin and Satan", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:1", "verse_text": "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;" } ] }, { "name": "Priests", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Priests.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "First notice of persons acting as", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:3-4", "verse_text": "And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. 4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:" }, { "point_text": "During patriarchal age heads of families acted as", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:20", "verse_text": "And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar." }, { "point_text": "During patriarchal age heads of families acted as", "verse_ref": "Genesis 12:8", "verse_text": "And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "During patriarchal age heads of families acted as", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:7", "verse_text": "And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother." }, { "point_text": "After the exodus young men (first-born) deputed to act as", "verse_ref": "Exodus 24:5", "verse_text": "And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "After the exodus young men (first-born) deputed to act as", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:22", "verse_text": "And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them." }, { "point_text": "The sons of Aaron appointed as, by perpetual statute", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:9", "verse_text": "And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons." }, { "point_text": "The sons of Aaron appointed as, by perpetual statute", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:15", "verse_text": "And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office: for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations." }, { "point_text": "All except seed of Aaron excluded from being", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:10", "verse_text": "And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest's office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death." }, { "point_text": "All except seed of Aaron excluded from being", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:40", "verse_text": "To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses." }, { "point_text": "All except seed of Aaron excluded from being", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:7", "verse_text": "Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death." }, { "point_text": "Sanctified by God for the office", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:44", "verse_text": "And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me in the priest's office." }, { "point_text": "Publicly consecrated", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:3", "verse_text": "And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office." }, { "point_text": "Publicly consecrated", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:3", "verse_text": "These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office." }, { "point_text": "CEREMONIES AT CONSECRATION OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Washing in water", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:4", "verse_text": "And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water." }, { "point_text": "Washing in water", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:6", "verse_text": "And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water." }, { "point_text": "Clothing with the holy garments", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:8", "verse_text": "And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them." }, { "point_text": "Clothing with the holy garments", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:14", "verse_text": "And thou shalt bring his sons, and clothe them with coats:" }, { "point_text": "Clothing with the holy garments", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:13", "verse_text": "And Moses brought Aaron's sons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "Anointing with oil", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:30", "verse_text": "And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office." }, { "point_text": "Anointing with oil", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:13", "verse_text": "And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him, and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the priest's office." }, { "point_text": "Offering sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:10-19", "verse_text": "And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock. 11 And thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 12 And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar. 13 And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar. ..." }, { "point_text": "Offering sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:14-23", "verse_text": "And he brought the bullock for the sin offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for the sin offering. 15 And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it. 16 And he took all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and Moses burned it upon the altar. 17 But the bullock, and his hide, his flesh, and his dung, he burnt with fire without the camp; as the LORD commanded Moses. ..." }, { "point_text": "Purification by blood of the consecration-ram", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:20-21", "verse_text": "Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about. 21 And thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him." }, { "point_text": "Placing in their hands the wave-offering", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:22-24", "verse_text": "Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder; for it is a ram of consecration: 23 And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD: 24 And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons; and shalt wave them for a wave offering before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Placing in their hands the wave-offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:25-27", "verse_text": "And he took the fat, and the rump, and all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right shoulder: 26 And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before the LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and upon the right shoulder: 27 And he put all upon Aaron's hands, and upon his sons' hands, and waved them for a wave offering before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Partaking of the sacrifices of consecration", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:31-33", "verse_text": "And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe his flesh in the holy place. 32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 33 And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy." }, { "point_text": "Partaking of the sacrifices of consecration", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:31-32", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and there eat it with the bread that is in the basket of consecrations, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it. 32 And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire." }, { "point_text": "Lasted seven days", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:35-37", "verse_text": "And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to all things which I have commanded thee: seven days shalt thou consecrate them. 36 And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it. 37 Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy." }, { "point_text": "Lasted seven days", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:33", "verse_text": "And ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation in seven days, until the days of your consecration be at an end: for seven days shall he consecrate you." }, { "point_text": "Required to remain in the tabernacle seven days after consecration", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:33-36", "verse_text": "And ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation in seven days, until the days of your consecration be at an end: for seven days shall he consecrate you. 34 As he hath done this day, so the LORD hath commanded to do, to make an atonement for you. 35 Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the LORD, that ye die not: for so I am commanded. 36 So Aaron and his sons did all things which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses." }, { "point_text": "No blemished or defective persons could be consecrated", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 21:17-23", "verse_text": "Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. 18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, 19 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, 20 Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken; ..." }, { "point_text": "Required to prove their genealogy before they exercised the office", "verse_ref": "Ezra 2:62", "verse_text": "These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood." }, { "point_text": "Required to prove their genealogy before they exercised the office", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 7:64", "verse_text": "These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood." }, { "point_text": "GARMENTS OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The coat or tunic", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:40", "verse_text": "And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty." }, { "point_text": "The coat or tunic", "verse_ref": "Exodus 39:27", "verse_text": "And they made coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for his sons," }, { "point_text": "The girdle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:40", "verse_text": "And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty." }, { "point_text": "The bonnet", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:40", "verse_text": "And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty." }, { "point_text": "The bonnet", "verse_ref": "Exodus 39:28", "verse_text": "And a mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and linen breeches of fine twined linen," }, { "point_text": "The linen breeches", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:42", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:" }, { "point_text": "The linen breeches", "verse_ref": "Exodus 39:28", "verse_text": "And a mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and linen breeches of fine twined linen," }, { "point_text": "Worn at consecration", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:9", "verse_text": "And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons." }, { "point_text": "Worn at consecration", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:15", "verse_text": "And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office: for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations." }, { "point_text": "Worn always while engaged in the service of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:43", "verse_text": "And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute for ever unto him and his seed after him." }, { "point_text": "Worn always while engaged in the service of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 39:41", "verse_text": "The cloths of service to do service in the holy place, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons' garments, to minister in the priest's office." }, { "point_text": "Worn by the high priest on the day of atonement", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:4", "verse_text": "He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on." }, { "point_text": "Purified by sprinkling of blood", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:21", "verse_text": "And thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him." }, { "point_text": "Laid up in holy chambers", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 44:19", "verse_text": "And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments." }, { "point_text": "Often provided by the people", "verse_ref": "Ezra 2:68-69", "verse_text": "And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the LORD which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place: 69 They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests' garments." }, { "point_text": "Required to wash in the brazen laver before they performed their services", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:18-21", "verse_text": "Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein. 19 For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat: 20 When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the LORD: 21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations." }, { "point_text": "SERVICES OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Keeping the charge of the tabernacle, &c", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:1", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood." }, { "point_text": "Keeping the charge of the tabernacle, &c", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:5", "verse_text": "And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Keeping the charge of the tabernacle, &c", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:7", "verse_text": "Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death." }, { "point_text": "Covering the sacred things of the sanctuary before removal", "verse_ref": "Numbers 4:5-15", "verse_text": "And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it: 6 And shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof. 7 And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon: 8 And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put in the staves thereof. ..." }, { "point_text": "Offering sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1-6", "verse_text": "And the LORD called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock. 3 If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD. 4 And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. ..." }, { "point_text": "Offering sacrifices", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 29:34", "verse_text": "But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests." }, { "point_text": "Offering sacrifices", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 35:11", "verse_text": "And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them." }, { "point_text": "Lighting and trimming the lamps of the sanctuary", "verse_ref": "Exodus 27:20-21", "verse_text": "And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always. 21 In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Keeping the sacred fire always burning on the altar", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:12-13", "verse_text": "And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings. 13 The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out." }, { "point_text": "Burning incense", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:7-8", "verse_text": "And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it. 8 And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations." }, { "point_text": "Placing and removing show-bread", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 24:5-9", "verse_text": "And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake. 6 And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD. 7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD. 8 Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant. ..." }, { "point_text": "Offering first-fruits", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:10-11", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: 11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it." }, { "point_text": "Blessing the people", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:23-27", "verse_text": "Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them, 24 The LORD bless thee, and keep thee: 25 The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: 26 The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. ..." }, { "point_text": "Purifying the unclean", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 15:30-31", "verse_text": "And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the LORD for the issue of her uncleanness. 31 Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them." }, { "point_text": "Deciding in cases of jealousy", "verse_ref": "Numbers 5:14-15", "verse_text": "And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled: 15 Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance." }, { "point_text": "Deciding in cases of leprosy", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:2-59", "verse_text": "When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests: 3 And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean. 4 If the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and in sight be not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague seven days: 5 And the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague in his sight be at a stay, and the plague spread not in the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven days more: ..." }, { "point_text": "Deciding in cases of leprosy", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:34-45", "verse_text": "When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession; 35 And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house: 36 Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house: 37 And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall; ..." }, { "point_text": "Judging in cases of controversy", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:8-13", "verse_text": "If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose; 9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment: 10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee: 11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left. ..." }, { "point_text": "Judging in cases of controversy", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 21:5", "verse_text": "And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried:" }, { "point_text": "Teaching the law", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:8", "verse_text": "And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;" }, { "point_text": "Teaching the law", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:10", "verse_text": "They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar." }, { "point_text": "Blowing the trumpets on various occasions", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:1-10", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps. 3 And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 4 And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee. ..." }, { "point_text": "Blowing the trumpets on various occasions", "verse_ref": "Joshua 6:3-4", "verse_text": "And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days. 4 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets." }, { "point_text": "Carrying the ark", "verse_ref": "Joshua 3:6", "verse_text": "And Joshua spake unto the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people." }, { "point_text": "Carrying the ark", "verse_ref": "Joshua 6:12", "verse_text": "And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Encouraging the people when they went to war", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 20:1-4", "verse_text": "When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 2 And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people, 3 And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them; 4 For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you." }, { "point_text": "Valuing things devoted", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 27:8", "verse_text": "But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him." }, { "point_text": "Were to live by the altar as they had no inheritance", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:1-2", "verse_text": "The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance. 2 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them." }, { "point_text": "Were to live by the altar as they had no inheritance", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:13", "verse_text": "Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?" }, { "point_text": "REVENUES OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Tenth of the tithes paid to the Levites", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:26", "verse_text": "Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe." }, { "point_text": "Tenth of the tithes paid to the Levites", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:28", "verse_text": "Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the LORD'S heave offering to Aaron the priest." }, { "point_text": "First-fruits", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:8", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever." }, { "point_text": "First-fruits", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:12-13", "verse_text": "All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD, them have I given thee. 13 And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it." }, { "point_text": "Redemption-money of the first-born", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:48", "verse_text": "And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons." }, { "point_text": "Redemption-money of the first-born", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:15-16", "verse_text": "Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem. 16 And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs." }, { "point_text": "First-born of animals or their substitutes", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:17-18", "verse_text": "But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD. 18 And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine." }, { "point_text": "First of the wool of sheep", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:4", "verse_text": "The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him." }, { "point_text": "Show-bread after its removal", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 24:9", "verse_text": "And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute." }, { "point_text": "Show-bread after its removal", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 21:4-6", "verse_text": "And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women. 5 And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel. 6 So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away." }, { "point_text": "Show-bread after its removal", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:4", "verse_text": "How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?" }, { "point_text": "Part of all sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:6-10", "verse_text": "Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy. 7 As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have it. 8 And the priest that offereth any man's burnt offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered. 9 And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and all that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the priest's that offereth it. ..." }, { "point_text": "Part of all sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:31-34", "verse_text": "And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'. 32 And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings. 33 He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for his part. 34 For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute for ever from among the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Part of all sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:19", "verse_text": "And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after the hair of his separation is shaven:" }, { "point_text": "Part of all sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:8-11", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever. 9 This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons. 10 In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee. 11 And this is thine; the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it." }, { "point_text": "Part of all sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:3", "verse_text": "And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw." }, { "point_text": "All devoted things", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:14", "verse_text": "Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine." }, { "point_text": "All restitutions when the owner could not be found", "verse_ref": "Numbers 5:8", "verse_text": "But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, even to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him." }, { "point_text": "A fixed portion of the spoil taken in war", "verse_ref": "Numbers 31:29", "verse_text": "Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for an heave offering of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "A fixed portion of the spoil taken in war", "verse_ref": "Numbers 31:41", "verse_text": "And Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD'S heave offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "Thirteen of the Levitical cities given to, for residence", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 6:57-60", "verse_text": "And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, namely, Hebron, the city of refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs, 58 And Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs, 59 And Ashan with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh with her suburbs: 60 And out of the tribe of Benjamin; Geba with her suburbs, and Alemeth with her suburbs, and Anathoth with her suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities." }, { "point_text": "Thirteen of the Levitical cities given to, for residence", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:1-8", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying, 2 Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them. 3 And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts. 4 And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about. ..." }, { "point_text": "Might purchase and hold other lands in possession", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:26", "verse_text": "And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted." }, { "point_text": "Might purchase and hold other lands in possession", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 32:8-9", "verse_text": "So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD. 9 And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver." }, { "point_text": "SPECIAL LAWS RESPECTING;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Not to marry divorced or improper persons", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 21:7", "verse_text": "They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God." }, { "point_text": "Not to defile themselves for the dead except the nearest of kin", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 21:1-6", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people: 2 But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, 3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled. 4 But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself. ..." }, { "point_text": "Not to drink wine, &c. while attending in the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 10:9", "verse_text": "Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:" }, { "point_text": "Not to drink wine, &c. while attending in the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 44:21", "verse_text": "Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court." }, { "point_text": "Not to defile themselves by eating what died or was torn", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:8", "verse_text": "That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "While unclean could not perform any service", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:1-2", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "While unclean could not eat of the holy things", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:3-7", "verse_text": "Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD. 4 What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him; 5 Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath; 6 The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water. ..." }, { "point_text": "No sojourner or hired servant to eat of their portion", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:10", "verse_text": "There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing." }, { "point_text": "All bought and home-born servants to eat of their portion", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:11", "verse_text": "But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat." }, { "point_text": "Children of, married to strangers, not to eat of their portion", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:12", "verse_text": "If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things." }, { "point_text": "Restitution to be made to, by persons ignorantly eating of their holy things", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:14-16", "verse_text": "And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the priest with the holy thing. 15 And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the LORD; 16 Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them." }, { "point_text": "Divided by David into twenty-four courses", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 24:1-19", "verse_text": "Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 2 But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office. 3 And David distributed them, both Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their offices in their service. 4 And there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and thus were they divided. Among the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen chief men of the house of their fathers, and eight among the sons of Ithamar according to the house of their fathers. ..." }, { "point_text": "Divided by David into twenty-four courses", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 8:14", "verse_text": "And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded." }, { "point_text": "Divided by David into twenty-four courses", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 35:4-5", "verse_text": "And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son. 5 And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and after the division of the families of the Levites." }, { "point_text": "The four courses which returned from Babylon subdivided into twenty-four", "verse_ref": "Ezra 2:36-39", "verse_text": "The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three. 37 The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two. 38 The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven. 39 The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen." }, { "point_text": "The four courses which returned from Babylon subdivided into twenty-four", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:5", "verse_text": "There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth." }, { "point_text": "Each course of, had its president or chief", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 24:6", "verse_text": "And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar." }, { "point_text": "Each course of, had its president or chief", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 24:31", "verse_text": "These likewise cast lots over against their brethren the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites, even the principal fathers over against their younger brethren." }, { "point_text": "Each course of, had its president or chief", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:14", "verse_text": "Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Services of, divided by lot", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:9", "verse_text": "According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for invading the office of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:1-35", "verse_text": "Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men: 2 And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown: 3 And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD? 4 And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face: ..." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for invading the office of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:7", "verse_text": "Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for invading the office of", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:16-21", "verse_text": "But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense. 17 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men: 18 And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD God. 19 Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar. ..." }, { "point_text": "On special occasions persons not of Aaron's family acted as", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:24-27", "verse_text": "Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it Jehovahshalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. 25 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it: 26 And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down. 27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared his father's household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night." }, { "point_text": "On special occasions persons not of Aaron's family acted as", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 7:9", "verse_text": "And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel cried unto the LORD for Israel; and the LORD heard him." }, { "point_text": "On special occasions persons not of Aaron's family acted as", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:33", "verse_text": "And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood." }, { "point_text": "WERE SOMETIMES", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Greedy", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:13-17", "verse_text": "And the priests' custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand; 14 And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither. 15 Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw. 16 And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and then take as much as thy soul desireth; then he would answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force. ..." }, { "point_text": "Drunken", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:7", "verse_text": "But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment." }, { "point_text": "Profane and wicked", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:22-24", "verse_text": "Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 23 And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people. 24 Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD'S people to transgress." }, { "point_text": "Unjust", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:13", "verse_text": "For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely." }, { "point_text": "Corrupters of the law", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:7", "verse_text": "But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment." }, { "point_text": "Corrupters of the law", "verse_ref": "Malachi 2:8", "verse_text": "But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Slow to sanctify themselves for God's services", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 29:34", "verse_text": "But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests." }, { "point_text": "Generally participated in punishment of the people", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:18", "verse_text": "If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not." }, { "point_text": "Generally participated in punishment of the people", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 2:20", "verse_text": "Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?" }, { "point_text": "Made of the lowest of the people by Jeroboam and others", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:21", "verse_text": "And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon." }, { "point_text": "Made of the lowest of the people by Jeroboam and others", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:32", "verse_text": "So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places." }, { "point_text": "Services of, ineffectual for removing sin", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:11", "verse_text": "If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?" }, { "point_text": "Services of, ineffectual for removing sin", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:11", "verse_text": "And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:" }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:11-12", "verse_text": "And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;" }, { "point_text": "Saints", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:6", "verse_text": "And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Saints", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:9", "verse_text": "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:" } ] }, { "name": "Privileges of Saints", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Privileges-of-Saints.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Abiding in Christ", "verse_ref": "John 15:4-5", "verse_text": "Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing." }, { "point_text": "Partaking of the divine nature", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:4", "verse_text": "Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust." }, { "point_text": "Access to God by Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:12", "verse_text": "In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him." }, { "point_text": "Being of the household of God", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:19", "verse_text": "Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;" }, { "point_text": "Membership with the Church of the first-born", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:23", "verse_text": "To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect," }, { "point_text": "HAVING", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Christ for their Shepherd", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:11", "verse_text": "He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young." }, { "point_text": "Christ for their Shepherd", "verse_ref": "John 10:14", "verse_text": "I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine." }, { "point_text": "Christ for their Shepherd", "verse_ref": "John 10:16", "verse_text": "And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd." }, { "point_text": "Christ for their Intercessor", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:34", "verse_text": "Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us." }, { "point_text": "Christ for their Intercessor", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:25", "verse_text": "Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them." }, { "point_text": "Christ for their Intercessor", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:1", "verse_text": "My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:" }, { "point_text": "The promises of God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 7:1", "verse_text": "Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God." }, { "point_text": "The promises of God", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:4", "verse_text": "Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust." }, { "point_text": "The possession of all things", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:21-22", "verse_text": "Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours; 22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;" }, { "point_text": "All things working together for their good", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:28", "verse_text": "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." }, { "point_text": "All things working together for their good", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:15-17", "verse_text": "For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. 16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;" }, { "point_text": "Their names written in the book of life", "verse_ref": "Revelation 13:8", "verse_text": "And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world." }, { "point_text": "Their names written in the book of life", "verse_ref": "Revelation 20:15", "verse_text": "And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire." }, { "point_text": "HAVING GOD FOR THEIR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "King", "verse_ref": "Psalm 5:2", "verse_text": "Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray." }, { "point_text": "King", "verse_ref": "Psalm 44:4", "verse_text": "Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob." }, { "point_text": "King", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:6", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God." }, { "point_text": "Glory", "verse_ref": "Psalm 3:3", "verse_text": "But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head." }, { "point_text": "Glory", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:19", "verse_text": "The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory." }, { "point_text": "Salvation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 18:2", "verse_text": "The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower." }, { "point_text": "Salvation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:1", "verse_text": "The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?" }, { "point_text": "Salvation", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 12:2", "verse_text": "Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation." }, { "point_text": "Father", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:6", "verse_text": "Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?" }, { "point_text": "Father", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:16", "verse_text": "Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting." }, { "point_text": "Father", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 64:8", "verse_text": "But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand." }, { "point_text": "Redeemer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:14", "verse_text": "Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer." }, { "point_text": "Redeemer", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 43:14", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships." }, { "point_text": "Friend", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 20:7", "verse_text": "Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?" }, { "point_text": "Friend", "verse_ref": "James 2:23", "verse_text": "And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God." }, { "point_text": "Helper", "verse_ref": "Psalm 33:20", "verse_text": "Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield." }, { "point_text": "Helper", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:6", "verse_text": "So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me." }, { "point_text": "Keeper", "verse_ref": "Psalm 121:4-5", "verse_text": "Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. 5 The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand." }, { "point_text": "Deliverer", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 22:2", "verse_text": "And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;" }, { "point_text": "Deliverer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 18:2", "verse_text": "The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower." }, { "point_text": "Strength", "verse_ref": "Psalm 18:2", "verse_text": "The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower." }, { "point_text": "Strength", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:1", "verse_text": "The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?" }, { "point_text": "Strength", "verse_ref": "Psalm 46:1", "verse_text": "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble." }, { "point_text": "Refuge", "verse_ref": "Psalm 46:1", "verse_text": "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble." }, { "point_text": "Refuge", "verse_ref": "Psalm 46:11", "verse_text": "The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Shield", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:1", "verse_text": "After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward." }, { "point_text": "Shield", "verse_ref": "Psalm 84:11", "verse_text": "For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly." }, { "point_text": "Tower", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 22:3", "verse_text": "The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence." }, { "point_text": "Tower", "verse_ref": "Psalm 61:3", "verse_text": "For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy." }, { "point_text": "Light", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:1", "verse_text": "The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?" }, { "point_text": "Light", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:19", "verse_text": "The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory." }, { "point_text": "Light", "verse_ref": "Micah 7:8", "verse_text": "Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me." }, { "point_text": "Guide", "verse_ref": "Psalm 48:14", "verse_text": "For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death." }, { "point_text": "Guide", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:11", "verse_text": "And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not." }, { "point_text": "Law-giver", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:13-14", "verse_text": "Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: 14 And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:" }, { "point_text": "Habitation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 90:1", "verse_text": "Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations." }, { "point_text": "Habitation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 91:9", "verse_text": "Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;" }, { "point_text": "Portion", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:26", "verse_text": "My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever." }, { "point_text": "Portion", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:24", "verse_text": "The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him." }, { "point_text": "Union in God and Christ", "verse_ref": "John 17:21", "verse_text": "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me." }, { "point_text": "Committing themselves to God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 31:5", "verse_text": "Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth." }, { "point_text": "Committing themselves to God", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:59", "verse_text": "And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." }, { "point_text": "Committing themselves to God", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:12", "verse_text": "For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day." }, { "point_text": "Calling upon God in trouble", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:15", "verse_text": "And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me." }, { "point_text": "Suffering for Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:41", "verse_text": "And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name." }, { "point_text": "Suffering for Christ", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:29", "verse_text": "For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;" }, { "point_text": "Profiting by chastisement", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:67", "verse_text": "Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word." }, { "point_text": "Profiting by chastisement", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:10-11", "verse_text": "For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. 11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby." }, { "point_text": "Secure during public calamities", "verse_ref": "Job 5:20", "verse_text": "In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword." }, { "point_text": "Secure during public calamities", "verse_ref": "Job 5:23", "verse_text": "For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee." }, { "point_text": "Interceding for others", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:23-33", "verse_text": "And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? 24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? 25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? 26 And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes. ..." }, { "point_text": "Interceding for others", "verse_ref": "James 5:16", "verse_text": "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." } ] }, { "name": "Procrastination", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Procrastination.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Condemned by Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 9:59-62", "verse_text": "And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. 60 Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God. 61 And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house. 62 And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Saints avoid", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:8", "verse_text": "When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek." }, { "point_text": "Saints avoid", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:60", "verse_text": "I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments." }, { "point_text": "TO BE AVOIDED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Hearkening to God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 95:7-8", "verse_text": "For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice, 8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:" }, { "point_text": "Seeking God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 55:6", "verse_text": "Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:" }, { "point_text": "Glorifying God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 13:16", "verse_text": "Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness." }, { "point_text": "Keeping God's commandments", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:60", "verse_text": "I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments." }, { "point_text": "Making offerings to God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:29", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me." }, { "point_text": "Performance of vows", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:21", "verse_text": "When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee." }, { "point_text": "Performance of vows", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 5:4", "verse_text": "When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed." }, { "point_text": "MOTIVES FOR AVOIDING;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The present the accepted time", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:2", "verse_text": "(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)" }, { "point_text": "The present the best time", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 12:1", "verse_text": "Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;" }, { "point_text": "The uncertainty of life", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:1", "verse_text": "Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." }, { "point_text": "Danger of illustrated", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:25", "verse_text": "Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison." }, { "point_text": "Danger of illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:25", "verse_text": "When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \nFelix,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 19:16", "verse_text": "And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLot, \nFelix,", "verse_ref": "Acts 24:25", "verse_text": "And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee." } ] }, { "name": "Promises of God, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Promises-of-God-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Contained in the Scriptures", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:2", "verse_text": "(Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)" }, { "point_text": "Made in Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:6", "verse_text": "That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:" }, { "point_text": "Made in Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:1", "verse_text": "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus," }, { "point_text": "MADE TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:16", "verse_text": "Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ." }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:19", "verse_text": "Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator." }, { "point_text": "Abraham", "verse_ref": "Genesis 12:3", "verse_text": "And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed." }, { "point_text": "Abraham", "verse_ref": "Genesis 12:7", "verse_text": "And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him." }, { "point_text": "Isaac", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:3-4", "verse_text": "Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; 4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;" }, { "point_text": "Jacob", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:14", "verse_text": "And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed." }, { "point_text": "David", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:12", "verse_text": "And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom." }, { "point_text": "David", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:3-4", "verse_text": "I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, 4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah." }, { "point_text": "David", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:35-36", "verse_text": "Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. 36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me." }, { "point_text": "The Israelites", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:4", "verse_text": "Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;" }, { "point_text": "The Fathers", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:32", "verse_text": "And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers," }, { "point_text": "The Fathers", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:6-7", "verse_text": "And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: 7 Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews." }, { "point_text": "All who are called of God", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:39", "verse_text": "For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." }, { "point_text": "Those who love him", "verse_ref": "James 1:12", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him." }, { "point_text": "Those who love him", "verse_ref": "James 2:5", "verse_text": "Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?" }, { "point_text": "Confirmed by an oath", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:3-4", "verse_text": "I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, 4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah." }, { "point_text": "The covenant established upon", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 8:6", "verse_text": "But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises." }, { "point_text": "God is faithful to", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:2", "verse_text": "In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;" }, { "point_text": "God is faithful to", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:23", "verse_text": "Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)" }, { "point_text": "God remembers", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:42", "verse_text": "For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant." }, { "point_text": "God remembers", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:54-55", "verse_text": "He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy; 55 As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever." }, { "point_text": "ARE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Good", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:56", "verse_text": "Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant." }, { "point_text": "Holy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:42", "verse_text": "For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant." }, { "point_text": "Exceeding great and precious", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:4", "verse_text": "Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust." }, { "point_text": "Confirmed in Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:8", "verse_text": "Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:" }, { "point_text": "Yea and amen in Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:20", "verse_text": "For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us." }, { "point_text": "Fulfilled in Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:12", "verse_text": "And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom." }, { "point_text": "Fulfilled in Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:23", "verse_text": "Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:" }, { "point_text": "Fulfilled in Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:69-73", "verse_text": "And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; 70 As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began: 71 That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us; 72 To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; ..." }, { "point_text": "Through the righteousness of faith", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:13", "verse_text": "For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith." }, { "point_text": "Through the righteousness of faith", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:16", "verse_text": "Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all," }, { "point_text": "Obtained through faith", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:33", "verse_text": "Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions," }, { "point_text": "Given to those who believe", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:22", "verse_text": "But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe." }, { "point_text": "Inherited through faith and patience", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:12", "verse_text": "That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises." }, { "point_text": "Inherited through faith and patience", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:36", "verse_text": "For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise." }, { "point_text": "Performed in due season", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 33:14", "verse_text": "Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah." }, { "point_text": "Performed in due season", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:17", "verse_text": "But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt," }, { "point_text": "Performed in due season", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:4", "verse_text": "But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law," }, { "point_text": "Not one shall fail", "verse_ref": "Joshua 23:14", "verse_text": "And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof." }, { "point_text": "Not one shall fail", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:56", "verse_text": "Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant." }, { "point_text": "The law not against", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:21", "verse_text": "Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law." }, { "point_text": "The law could not disannul", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:17", "verse_text": "And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect." }, { "point_text": "SUBJECTS OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:12-13", "verse_text": "And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever." }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:33", "verse_text": "Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear." }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:13", "verse_text": "In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise," }, { "point_text": "The gospel", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:1-2", "verse_text": "Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, 2 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)" }, { "point_text": "Life in Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:1", "verse_text": "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus," }, { "point_text": "A crown of life", "verse_ref": "James 1:12", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him." }, { "point_text": "Eternal life", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:2", "verse_text": "In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;" }, { "point_text": "Eternal life", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:25", "verse_text": "And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life." }, { "point_text": "The life that now is", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:8", "verse_text": "For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." }, { "point_text": "Adoption", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:18-7:1", "verse_text": "And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. 1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God." }, { "point_text": "Preservation in affliction", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 43:2", "verse_text": "When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee." }, { "point_text": "Blessing", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:11", "verse_text": "(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)" }, { "point_text": "Forgiveness of sins", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:18", "verse_text": "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." }, { "point_text": "Forgiveness of sins", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 8:12", "verse_text": "For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." }, { "point_text": "Putting the law into the heart", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:33", "verse_text": "But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people." }, { "point_text": "Putting the law into the heart", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 8:10", "verse_text": "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:" }, { "point_text": "Second coming of Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:4", "verse_text": "And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation." }, { "point_text": "New heavens and earth", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:13", "verse_text": "Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Entering into rest", "verse_ref": "Joshua 22:4", "verse_text": "And now the LORD your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you unto your tents, and unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side Jordan." }, { "point_text": "Entering into rest", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:1", "verse_text": "Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it." }, { "point_text": "Should lead to perfecting holiness", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 7:1", "verse_text": "Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God." }, { "point_text": "The inheritance of the saints is of", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:13", "verse_text": "For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith." }, { "point_text": "The inheritance of the saints is of", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:18", "verse_text": "For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Children of", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:8", "verse_text": "That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed." }, { "point_text": "Children of", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:28", "verse_text": "Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise." }, { "point_text": "Heirs of", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:29", "verse_text": "And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." }, { "point_text": "Heirs of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:17", "verse_text": "Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:" }, { "point_text": "Heirs of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:9", "verse_text": "By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:" }, { "point_text": "Stagger not at", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:20", "verse_text": "He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;" }, { "point_text": "Have implicit confidence in", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:11", "verse_text": "Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised." }, { "point_text": "Expect the performance of", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:38", "verse_text": "And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her." }, { "point_text": "Expect the performance of", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:45", "verse_text": "And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Expect the performance of", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:13", "verse_text": "Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes, through infirmity, tempted to doubt", "verse_ref": "Psalm 77:8", "verse_text": "Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?" }, { "point_text": "Sometimes, through infirmity, tempted to doubt", "verse_ref": "Psalm 77:10", "verse_text": "And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High." }, { "point_text": "Plead in prayer", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:9", "verse_text": "And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:" }, { "point_text": "Plead in prayer", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:12", "verse_text": "And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude." }, { "point_text": "Plead in prayer", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 17:23", "verse_text": "Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as thou hast said." }, { "point_text": "Plead in prayer", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 17:26", "verse_text": "And now, LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:" }, { "point_text": "Should wait for the performance of", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:4", "verse_text": "And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me." }, { "point_text": "Gentiles shall be partakers of", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:6", "verse_text": "That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:" }, { "point_text": "Man, by nature, has no interest in", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:12", "verse_text": "That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:" }, { "point_text": "Scoffers despise", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:3-4", "verse_text": "Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation." }, { "point_text": "Fear, lest ye come short of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:1", "verse_text": "Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it." } ] }, { "name": "Prophets, False", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Prophets-False.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Pretended to be sent by God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:17-18", "verse_text": "They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you. 18 For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?" }, { "point_text": "Pretended to be sent by God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:31", "verse_text": "Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith." }, { "point_text": "Not sent or commissioned by God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:14", "verse_text": "Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart." }, { "point_text": "Not sent or commissioned by God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:21", "verse_text": "I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied." }, { "point_text": "Not sent or commissioned by God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 29:31", "verse_text": "Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie:" }, { "point_text": "Made use of by God to prove Israel", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 13:3", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Light and treacherous", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 3:4", "verse_text": "Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law." }, { "point_text": "Covetous", "verse_ref": "Micah 3:11", "verse_text": "The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us." }, { "point_text": "Crafty", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:15", "verse_text": "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves." }, { "point_text": "Drunken", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:7", "verse_text": "But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment." }, { "point_text": "Immoral and profane", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:11", "verse_text": "For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Immoral and profane", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:14", "verse_text": "I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah." }, { "point_text": "Women sometimes acted as", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 6:14", "verse_text": "My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear." }, { "point_text": "Women sometimes acted as", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:20", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols." }, { "point_text": "Called foolish prophets", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 13:3", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!" }, { "point_text": "Compared to foxes in the desert", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 13:4", "verse_text": "O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts." }, { "point_text": "Compared to wind", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:13", "verse_text": "And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them." }, { "point_text": "Influenced by evil spirits", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:21-22", "verse_text": "And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him. 22 And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so." }, { "point_text": "PROPHESIED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Falsely", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:31", "verse_text": "The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?" }, { "point_text": "Lies in the name of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:14", "verse_text": "Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart." }, { "point_text": "Out of their own heart", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:16", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Out of their own heart", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:26", "verse_text": "How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;" }, { "point_text": "In the name of false gods", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:8", "verse_text": "The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit." }, { "point_text": "Peace, when there was no peace", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:14", "verse_text": "They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace." }, { "point_text": "Peace, when there was no peace", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:17", "verse_text": "They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you." }, { "point_text": "Peace, when there was no peace", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 13:10", "verse_text": "Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter:" }, { "point_text": "Peace, when there was no peace", "verse_ref": "Micah 3:5", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him." }, { "point_text": "Often practised divination and witchcraft", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:14", "verse_text": "Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart." }, { "point_text": "Often practised divination and witchcraft", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:28", "verse_text": "And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken." }, { "point_text": "Often practised divination and witchcraft", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:6", "verse_text": "And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus:" }, { "point_text": "Often pretended to dreams, &c", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:28", "verse_text": "The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Often pretended to dreams, &c", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:32", "verse_text": "Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Often deceived by God as a judgment", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 14:9", "verse_text": "And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel." }, { "point_text": "THE PEOPLE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Led into error by", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:13", "verse_text": "And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err." }, { "point_text": "Led into error by", "verse_ref": "Micah 3:5", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him." }, { "point_text": "Made to forget God's name by", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:27", "verse_text": "Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal." }, { "point_text": "Deprived of God's word by", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:30", "verse_text": "Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour." }, { "point_text": "Taught profaneness and sin by", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:14-15", "verse_text": "I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. 15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land." }, { "point_text": "Oppressed and defrauded by", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:25", "verse_text": "There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof." }, { "point_text": "Warned not to listen to", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 13:3", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul." }, { "point_text": "Warned not to listen to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:16", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Warned not to listen to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:9", "verse_text": "Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:" }, { "point_text": "Warned not to listen to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:15-16", "verse_text": "For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you. 16 Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD'S house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you." }, { "point_text": "Encouraged and praised", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:31", "verse_text": "The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?" }, { "point_text": "Encouraged and praised", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:26", "verse_text": "Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets." }, { "point_text": "Mode of trying and detecting", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 13:1", "verse_text": "If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder," }, { "point_text": "Mode of trying and detecting", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:21-22", "verse_text": "And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken? 22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him." }, { "point_text": "Mode of trying and detecting", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:1-3", "verse_text": "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world." }, { "point_text": "PREDICTED TO ARISE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Before destruction of Jerusalem", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:11", "verse_text": "And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many." }, { "point_text": "Before destruction of Jerusalem", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:24", "verse_text": "For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect." }, { "point_text": "In the latter times", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:1", "verse_text": "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction." }, { "point_text": "Judgments denounced against", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:1", "verse_text": "At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:" }, { "point_text": "Judgments denounced against", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:15", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed." }, { "point_text": "Judgments denounced against", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 28:16", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Judgments denounced against", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 29:32", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Involved the people in their own ruin", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:15-16", "verse_text": "The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. 16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed." } ] }, { "name": "Prophecy", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Prophecy.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is the foretelling of future events", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:1", "verse_text": "And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days." }, { "point_text": "Is the foretelling of future events", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:14", "verse_text": "And now, behold, I go unto my people: come therefore, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days." }, { "point_text": "God is the Author of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:7", "verse_text": "And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them." }, { "point_text": "God is the Author of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:21", "verse_text": "Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me." }, { "point_text": "God gives, through Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:1", "verse_text": "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:" }, { "point_text": "A gift of Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:11", "verse_text": "And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;" }, { "point_text": "A gift of Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 11:3", "verse_text": "And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth." }, { "point_text": "A gift of the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:10", "verse_text": "To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:" }, { "point_text": "Came not by the will of man", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:21", "verse_text": "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Given from the beginning", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:70", "verse_text": "As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:" }, { "point_text": "Is a sure word", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:19", "verse_text": "We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:" }, { "point_text": "THEY WHO UTTERED,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Raised up by God", "verse_ref": "Amos 2:11", "verse_text": "And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Ordained by God", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 3:20", "verse_text": "And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Ordained by God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 1:5", "verse_text": "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations." }, { "point_text": "Sent by God", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:15", "verse_text": "And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:" }, { "point_text": "Sent by God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:25", "verse_text": "Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:" }, { "point_text": "Sent by Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:34", "verse_text": "Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:" }, { "point_text": "Filled with the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:67", "verse_text": "And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying," }, { "point_text": "Moved by the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:21", "verse_text": "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Spake by the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:16", "verse_text": "Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Spake by the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:28", "verse_text": "And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar." }, { "point_text": "Spake by the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Acts 28:25", "verse_text": "And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers," }, { "point_text": "Spake in the name of the Lord", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:18", "verse_text": "Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Spake in the name of the Lord", "verse_ref": "James 5:10", "verse_text": "Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience." }, { "point_text": "Spake with authority", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 17:1", "verse_text": "And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word." }, { "point_text": "God accomplishes", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:26", "verse_text": "That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:" }, { "point_text": "God accomplishes", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:18", "verse_text": "But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled." }, { "point_text": "Christ the great subject of", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:22-24", "verse_text": "For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. 23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people. 24 Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days." }, { "point_text": "Christ the great subject of", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:43", "verse_text": "To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins." }, { "point_text": "Christ the great subject of", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:10-11", "verse_text": "Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: 11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow." }, { "point_text": "Fulfilled respecting Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:44", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me." }, { "point_text": "Gift of, promised", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:28", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:" }, { "point_text": "Gift of, promised", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:16-17", "verse_text": "But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; 17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:" }, { "point_text": "Is for the benefit of after ages", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:12", "verse_text": "Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into." }, { "point_text": "Is a light in dark place", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:19", "verse_text": "We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:" }, { "point_text": "Is not of private interpretation", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:20", "verse_text": "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation." }, { "point_text": "Despise not", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:20", "verse_text": "Despise not prophesyings." }, { "point_text": "Give heed to", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:19", "verse_text": "We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:" }, { "point_text": "Receive in faith", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 20:20", "verse_text": "And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper." }, { "point_text": "Receive in faith", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:25", "verse_text": "Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:" }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of reading, hearing, and keeping", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:3", "verse_text": "Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of reading, hearing, and keeping", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:7", "verse_text": "Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book." }, { "point_text": "Guilt of pretending to the gift of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:14", "verse_text": "Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart." }, { "point_text": "Guilt of pretending to the gift of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:13-14", "verse_text": "And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. 14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah." }, { "point_text": "PUNISHMENT FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Not giving ear to", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:30", "verse_text": "Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands." }, { "point_text": "Adding to, or taking from", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:18-19", "verse_text": "For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book." }, { "point_text": "Pretending to the gift of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:20", "verse_text": "But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die." }, { "point_text": "Pretending to the gift of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:15", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed." }, { "point_text": "Pretending to the gift of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:15", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land." }, { "point_text": "Gift of, sometimes possessed by unconverted men", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:2-9", "verse_text": "And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him. 3 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said: 4 He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open: 5 How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel! ..." }, { "point_text": "Gift of, sometimes possessed by unconverted men", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 19:20", "verse_text": "And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied." }, { "point_text": "Gift of, sometimes possessed by unconverted men", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 19:23", "verse_text": "And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God was upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah." }, { "point_text": "How tested", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 13:1-3", "verse_text": "If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, 2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; 3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul." }, { "point_text": "How tested", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:22", "verse_text": "When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him." } ] }, { "name": "Prudence", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Prudence.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Exhibited in the manifestation of God's grace", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:8", "verse_text": "Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified by Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 52:13", "verse_text": "Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified by Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:24-27", "verse_text": "And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things. 25 The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe him? 26 But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet. 27 And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified by Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:15-21", "verse_text": "Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk. 16 And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men. 17 Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not? 18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites? ..." }, { "point_text": "Intimately connected with wisdom", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 8:12", "verse_text": "I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions." }, { "point_text": "The wise celebrated for", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:21", "verse_text": "The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning." }, { "point_text": "THEY WHO HAVE,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Get knowledge", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 18:15", "verse_text": "The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge." }, { "point_text": "Deal with knowledge", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 13:16", "verse_text": "Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open his folly." }, { "point_text": "Look well to their goings", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:15", "verse_text": "The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going." }, { "point_text": "Understand the ways of God", "verse_ref": "Hosea 14:9", "verse_text": "Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein." }, { "point_text": "Understand their own ways", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:8", "verse_text": "The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit." }, { "point_text": "Crowned with knowledge", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:18", "verse_text": "The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge." }, { "point_text": "Not ostentatious of knowledge", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:23", "verse_text": "A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness." }, { "point_text": "Foresee and avoid evil", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:3", "verse_text": "A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished." }, { "point_text": "Are preserved by it", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 2:11", "verse_text": "Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:" }, { "point_text": "Suppress angry feelings, &c", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:16", "verse_text": "A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame." }, { "point_text": "Suppress angry feelings, &c", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:11", "verse_text": "The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression." }, { "point_text": "Regard reproof", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:5", "verse_text": "A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent." }, { "point_text": "Keep silence in the evil time", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:13", "verse_text": "Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time." }, { "point_text": "Saints act with", "verse_ref": "Psalm 112:5", "verse_text": "A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion." }, { "point_text": "Saints should especially exercise, in their intercourse with unbelievers", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:16", "verse_text": "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." }, { "point_text": "Saints should especially exercise, in their intercourse with unbelievers", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:15", "verse_text": "See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise," }, { "point_text": "Saints should especially exercise, in their intercourse with unbelievers", "verse_ref": "Colossians 4:5", "verse_text": "Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time." }, { "point_text": "Virtuous wives act with", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:16", "verse_text": "She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard." }, { "point_text": "Virtuous wives act with", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:26", "verse_text": "She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness." }, { "point_text": "The young should cultivate", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:21", "verse_text": "My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:" }, { "point_text": "OF THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Fails in times of perplexity", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:7", "verse_text": "Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?" }, { "point_text": "Keeps them from the knowledge of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:25", "verse_text": "At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes." }, { "point_text": "Denounced by God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:21", "verse_text": "Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!" }, { "point_text": "Denounced by God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 29:15", "verse_text": "Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?" }, { "point_text": "Defeated by God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 29:14", "verse_text": "Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid." }, { "point_text": "Defeated by God", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:19", "verse_text": "For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent." }, { "point_text": "Necessity for--Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:3", "verse_text": "They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:" }, { "point_text": "Necessity for--Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:9", "verse_text": "But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nJoseph, \nJethro, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nAbigail, \n\n\nAged Counsellors of Rehoboam, \nSolomon, \nNehemiah, \n\nThe Poor Wise Man, \nThe Scribe, \nGamaliel, \nSergius Paulus, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:3-23", "verse_text": "And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom. 4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now: 5 And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight. 6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nJoseph, \nJethro, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nAbigail, \n\n\nAged Counsellors of Rehoboam, \nSolomon, \nNehemiah, \n\nThe Poor Wise Man, \nThe Scribe, \nGamaliel, \nSergius Paulus, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:39", "verse_text": "And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nJoseph, \nJethro, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nAbigail, \n\n\nAged Counsellors of Rehoboam, \nSolomon, \nNehemiah, \n\nThe Poor Wise Man, \nThe Scribe, \nGamaliel, \nSergius Paulus, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 18:19-23", "verse_text": "Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God: 20 And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do. 21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens: 22 And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nJoseph, \nJethro, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nAbigail, \n\n\nAged Counsellors of Rehoboam, \nSolomon, \nNehemiah, \n\nThe Poor Wise Man, \nThe Scribe, \nGamaliel, \nSergius Paulus, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Judges 8:1-3", "verse_text": "And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? And they did chide with him sharply. 2 And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? 3 God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nJoseph, \nJethro, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nAbigail, \n\n\nAged Counsellors of Rehoboam, \nSolomon, \nNehemiah, \n\nThe Poor Wise Man, \nThe Scribe, \nGamaliel, \nSergius Paulus, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 16:18", "verse_text": "Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the LORD is with him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nJoseph, \nJethro, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nAbigail, \n\n\nAged Counsellors of Rehoboam, \nSolomon, \nNehemiah, \n\nThe Poor Wise Man, \nThe Scribe, \nGamaliel, \nSergius Paulus, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:23-31", "verse_text": "And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, 24 And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid. 25 Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send. 26 Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nJoseph, \nJethro, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nAbigail, \n\n\nAged Counsellors of Rehoboam, \nSolomon, \nNehemiah, \n\nThe Poor Wise Man, \nThe Scribe, \nGamaliel, \nSergius Paulus, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 15:32-34", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that when David was come to the top of the mount, where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head: 33 Unto whom David said, If thou passest on with me, then thou shalt be a burden unto me: 34 But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father's servant hitherto, so will I now also be thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nJoseph, \nJethro, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nAbigail, \n\n\nAged Counsellors of Rehoboam, \nSolomon, \nNehemiah, \n\nThe Poor Wise Man, \nThe Scribe, \nGamaliel, \nSergius Paulus, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 17:6-14", "verse_text": "And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spake unto him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do after his saying? if not; speak thou. 7 And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath given is not good at this time. 8 For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people. 9 Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nJoseph, \nJethro, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nAbigail, \n\n\nAged Counsellors of Rehoboam, \nSolomon, \nNehemiah, \n\nThe Poor Wise Man, \nThe Scribe, \nGamaliel, \nSergius Paulus, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:7", "verse_text": "And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nJoseph, \nJethro, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nAbigail, \n\n\nAged Counsellors of Rehoboam, \nSolomon, \nNehemiah, \n\nThe Poor Wise Man, \nThe Scribe, \nGamaliel, \nSergius Paulus, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:12", "verse_text": "Huram said moreover, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build an house for the LORD, and an house for his kingdom." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nJoseph, \nJethro, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nAbigail, \n\n\nAged Counsellors of Rehoboam, \nSolomon, \nNehemiah, \n\nThe Poor Wise Man, \nThe Scribe, \nGamaliel, \nSergius Paulus, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 2:12-16", "verse_text": "And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon. 13 And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire. 14 Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass. 15 Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nJoseph, \nJethro, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nAbigail, \n\n\nAged Counsellors of Rehoboam, \nSolomon, \nNehemiah, \n\nThe Poor Wise Man, \nThe Scribe, \nGamaliel, \nSergius Paulus, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 4:13-18", "verse_text": "Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows. 14 And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses. 15 And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work. 16 And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nJoseph, \nJethro, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nAbigail, \n\n\nAged Counsellors of Rehoboam, \nSolomon, \nNehemiah, \n\nThe Poor Wise Man, \nThe Scribe, \nGamaliel, \nSergius Paulus, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 9:15", "verse_text": "Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nJoseph, \nJethro, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nAbigail, \n\n\nAged Counsellors of Rehoboam, \nSolomon, \nNehemiah, \n\nThe Poor Wise Man, \nThe Scribe, \nGamaliel, \nSergius Paulus, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:32-34", "verse_text": "And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he: 33 And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. 34 And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nJoseph, \nJethro, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nAbigail, \n\n\nAged Counsellors of Rehoboam, \nSolomon, \nNehemiah, \n\nThe Poor Wise Man, \nThe Scribe, \nGamaliel, \nSergius Paulus, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:34-39", "verse_text": "Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space; 35 And said unto them, Ye men of Israel, take heed to yourselves what ye intend to do as touching these men. 36 For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought. 37 After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the taxing, and drew away much people after him: he also perished; and all, even as many as obeyed him, were dispersed. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nJoseph, \nJethro, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nAbigail, \n\n\nAged Counsellors of Rehoboam, \nSolomon, \nNehemiah, \n\nThe Poor Wise Man, \nThe Scribe, \nGamaliel, \nSergius Paulus, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:7", "verse_text": "Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nJoseph, \nJethro, \nGideon, \nDavid, \nAbigail, \n\n\nAged Counsellors of Rehoboam, \nSolomon, \nNehemiah, \n\nThe Poor Wise Man, \nThe Scribe, \nGamaliel, \nSergius Paulus, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:6", "verse_text": "But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question." } ] }, { "name": "Publicans, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Publicans-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The collectors of the public taxes", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:27", "verse_text": "And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me." }, { "point_text": "Suspected of extortion", "verse_ref": "Luke 3:13", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you." }, { "point_text": "Often guilty of extortion", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:8", "verse_text": "And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold." }, { "point_text": "Chiefs of, were very rich", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:2", "verse_text": "And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich." }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Despised", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:11", "verse_text": "The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican." }, { "point_text": "Classed with the most infamous characters", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:19", "verse_text": "The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children." }, { "point_text": "Classed with the most infamous characters", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:32", "verse_text": "For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him." }, { "point_text": "Despised our Lord for associating with", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:11", "verse_text": "And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?" }, { "point_text": "Despised our Lord for associating with", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:19", "verse_text": "The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children." }, { "point_text": "Often kind to their friends", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:46-47", "verse_text": "For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? 47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?" }, { "point_text": "Often hospitable", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:29", "verse_text": "And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them." }, { "point_text": "Often hospitable", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:6", "verse_text": "And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully." }, { "point_text": "MANY OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Believed the preaching of John", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:32", "verse_text": "For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him." }, { "point_text": "Received John's baptism", "verse_ref": "Luke 3:12", "verse_text": "Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said unto him, Master, what shall we do?" }, { "point_text": "Received John's baptism", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:29", "verse_text": "And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John." }, { "point_text": "Attended the preaching of Christ", "verse_ref": "Mark 2:15", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him." }, { "point_text": "Attended the preaching of Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:1", "verse_text": "Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him." }, { "point_text": "Embraced the gospel", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:31", "verse_text": "Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you." }, { "point_text": "Matthew the apostle was of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:3", "verse_text": "Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;" } ] }, { "name": "Proselytes", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Proselytes.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Described", "verse_ref": "Esther 8:17", "verse_text": "And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them." }, { "point_text": "Described", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:3", "verse_text": "Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree." }, { "point_text": "REQUIRED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To give up all heathen practices", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:21", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat," }, { "point_text": "To give up all heathen associates", "verse_ref": "Ruth 1:16", "verse_text": "And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:" }, { "point_text": "To give up all heathen associates", "verse_ref": "Ruth 2:11", "verse_text": "And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore." }, { "point_text": "To give up all heathen associates", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:10", "verse_text": "Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;" }, { "point_text": "To give up all heathen associates", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:26", "verse_text": "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." }, { "point_text": "To be circumcised", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:13", "verse_text": "He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant." }, { "point_text": "To be circumcised", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:48", "verse_text": "And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof." }, { "point_text": "To enter into covenant to serve the Lord", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 29:10-13", "verse_text": "Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel, 11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water: 12 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day: 13 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob." }, { "point_text": "To enter into covenant to serve the Lord", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 10:28-29", "verse_text": "And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding; 29 They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;" }, { "point_text": "To observe the law of Moses as Jews", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:49", "verse_text": "One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you." }, { "point_text": "Unfaithfulness in, punished", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 14:7", "verse_text": "For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:" }, { "point_text": "From the Ammonites and Moabites restricted forever from holding office in the congregation", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:3", "verse_text": "An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:" }, { "point_text": "From the Egyptians and Edomites restricted to the third generation from holding office in the congregation", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:7-8", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land. 8 The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation." }, { "point_text": "Were entitled to all privileges", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:48", "verse_text": "And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof." }, { "point_text": "Were entitled to all privileges", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:3-7", "verse_text": "Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. 4 For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; 5 Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. 6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; ..." }, { "point_text": "Went up to the feasts", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:10", "verse_text": "Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes," }, { "point_text": "Went up to the feasts", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:27", "verse_text": "And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship," }, { "point_text": "Pharisees, &c. zealous in making", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:15", "verse_text": "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves." }, { "point_text": "Many, embraced the gospel", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:5", "verse_text": "And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:" }, { "point_text": "Many, embraced the gospel", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:43", "verse_text": "Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God." }, { "point_text": "Later called devout Greeks", "verse_ref": "John 12:20", "verse_text": "And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:" }, { "point_text": "Later called devout Greeks", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:4", "verse_text": "And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few." } ] }, { "name": "Prophecies Respecting Christ", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Prophecies-Respecting-Christ.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "As the Son of God.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:7", "verse_text": "I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee." }, { "point_text": "As the Son of God.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:32", "verse_text": "He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:" }, { "point_text": "As the Son of God.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:35", "verse_text": "And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." }, { "point_text": "As the seed of the woman.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:15", "verse_text": "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." }, { "point_text": "As the seed of the woman.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:4", "verse_text": "But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law," }, { "point_text": "As the seed of Abraham.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:7", "verse_text": "And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee." }, { "point_text": "As the seed of Abraham.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:18", "verse_text": "And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice." }, { "point_text": "As the seed of Abraham.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:16", "verse_text": "Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ." }, { "point_text": "As the seed of Isaac.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:12", "verse_text": "And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called." }, { "point_text": "As the seed of Isaac.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:17-19", "verse_text": "By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, 18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: 19 Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure." }, { "point_text": "As the seed of David.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 132:11", "verse_text": "The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne." }, { "point_text": "As the seed of David.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:5", "verse_text": "Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth." }, { "point_text": "As the seed of David.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:23", "verse_text": "Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:" }, { "point_text": "As the seed of David.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:3", "verse_text": "Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;" }, { "point_text": "His coming at a set time.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:10", "verse_text": "The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be." }, { "point_text": "His coming at a set time.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:24-25", "verse_text": "Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times." }, { "point_text": "His coming at a set time.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed." }, { "point_text": "His being born a virgin.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:14", "verse_text": "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel." }, { "point_text": "His being born a virgin.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 1:18", "verse_text": "Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "His being born a virgin.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:7", "verse_text": "And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn." }, { "point_text": "His being called Immanuel.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:14", "verse_text": "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel." }, { "point_text": "His being called Immanuel.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 1:22-23", "verse_text": "Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, 23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us." }, { "point_text": "His being born in Bethlehem of Judea.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Micah 5:2", "verse_text": "But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting." }, { "point_text": "His being born in Bethlehem of Judea.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:1", "verse_text": "Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem," }, { "point_text": "His being born in Bethlehem of Judea.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:4-6", "verse_text": "And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:) 5 To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. 6 And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered." }, { "point_text": "Great persons coming to adore Him.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 72:10", "verse_text": "The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts." }, { "point_text": "Great persons coming to adore Him.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:1-11", "verse_text": "Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, 2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. 3 When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. 4 And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born. ..." }, { "point_text": "The slaying of the children of Bethlehem.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:15", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not." }, { "point_text": "The slaying of the children of Bethlehem.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:16-18", "verse_text": "Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men. 17 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, 18 In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not." }, { "point_text": "His being called out of Egypt.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Hosea 11:1", "verse_text": "When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "His being called out of Egypt.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:15", "verse_text": "And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son." }, { "point_text": "His being preceded by John the Baptist.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:3", "verse_text": "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God." }, { "point_text": "His being preceded by John the Baptist.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Malachi 3:1", "verse_text": "Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "His being preceded by John the Baptist.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:1", "verse_text": "In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea," }, { "point_text": "His being preceded by John the Baptist.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:3", "verse_text": "For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight." }, { "point_text": "His being anointed with the Spirit.\r\n\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:7", "verse_text": "Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows." }, { "point_text": "His being anointed with the Spirit.\r\n\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:2", "verse_text": "And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;" }, { "point_text": "His being anointed with the Spirit.\r\n\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:1", "verse_text": "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;" }, { "point_text": "His being anointed with the Spirit.\r\n\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:16", "verse_text": "And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:" }, { "point_text": "His being anointed with the Spirit.\r\n\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 3:34", "verse_text": "For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." }, { "point_text": "His being anointed with the Spirit.\r\n\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:38", "verse_text": "How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him." }, { "point_text": "His being a Prophet like unto Moses.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:15-18", "verse_text": "The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; 16 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not. 17 And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken. 18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him." }, { "point_text": "His being a Prophet like unto Moses.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:20-22", "verse_text": "And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: 21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. 22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you." }, { "point_text": "His being a Priest after the order of Melchizedek.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 110:4", "verse_text": "The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek." }, { "point_text": "His being a Priest after the order of Melchizedek.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 5:5-6", "verse_text": "So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee. 6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec." }, { "point_text": "His entering on His public ministry.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:1-2", "verse_text": "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;" }, { "point_text": "His entering on His public ministry.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:16-21", "verse_text": "And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. 17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, 18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. ..." }, { "point_text": "His entering on His public ministry.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:43", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent." }, { "point_text": "His ministry commencing in Galilee.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:1-2", "verse_text": "Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. 2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined." }, { "point_text": "His ministry commencing in Galilee.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:12-16", "verse_text": "Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee; 13 And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim: 14 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, 15 The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; ..." }, { "point_text": "His ministry commencing in Galilee.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:23", "verse_text": "And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people." }, { "point_text": "His entering publicly into Jerusalem.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:9", "verse_text": "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass." }, { "point_text": "His entering publicly into Jerusalem.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:1-5", "verse_text": "And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples, 2 Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me. 3 And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them. 4 All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, ..." }, { "point_text": "His coming into the temple.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Haggai 2:7", "verse_text": "And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "His coming into the temple.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Haggai 2:9", "verse_text": "The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "His coming into the temple.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:12", "verse_text": "And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves," }, { "point_text": "His coming into the temple.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:27-32", "verse_text": "And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law, 28 Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said, 29 Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: 30 For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, ..." }, { "point_text": "His coming into the temple.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 2:13-16", "verse_text": "And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, 14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: 15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; 16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise." }, { "point_text": "His poverty.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:2", "verse_text": "For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him." }, { "point_text": "His poverty.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:3", "verse_text": "Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him." }, { "point_text": "His poverty.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 9:58", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head." }, { "point_text": "His meekness and want of ostentatious.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:2", "verse_text": "He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street." }, { "point_text": "His meekness and want of ostentatious.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:15-16", "verse_text": "But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all; 16 And charged them that they should not make him known:" }, { "point_text": "His meekness and want of ostentatious.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:19", "verse_text": "He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets." }, { "point_text": "His tenderness and compassion.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:11", "verse_text": "He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young." }, { "point_text": "His tenderness and compassion.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:3", "verse_text": "A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth." }, { "point_text": "His tenderness and compassion.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:15", "verse_text": "But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;" }, { "point_text": "His tenderness and compassion.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:20", "verse_text": "A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory." }, { "point_text": "His being without guile.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:9", "verse_text": "And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth." }, { "point_text": "His being without guile.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:22", "verse_text": "Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:" }, { "point_text": "His zeal.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:9", "verse_text": "For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me." }, { "point_text": "His zeal.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 2:17", "verse_text": "And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up." }, { "point_text": "His preaching by parables.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:2", "verse_text": "I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:" }, { "point_text": "His preaching by parables.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:34-35", "verse_text": "All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them: 35 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world." }, { "point_text": "His working miracles.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 35:5-6", "verse_text": "Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. 6 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert." }, { "point_text": "His working miracles.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:4-6", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: 5 The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them. 6 And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me." }, { "point_text": "His working miracles.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 11:47", "verse_text": "Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles." }, { "point_text": "His bearing reproach.\r\n\n\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:6", "verse_text": "But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people." }, { "point_text": "His bearing reproach.\r\n\n\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:7", "verse_text": "Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face." }, { "point_text": "His bearing reproach.\r\n\n\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:9", "verse_text": "For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me." }, { "point_text": "His bearing reproach.\r\n\n\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:20", "verse_text": "Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none." }, { "point_text": "His bearing reproach.\r\n\n\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:3", "verse_text": "For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me." }, { "point_text": "His being rejected by His brethren.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:8", "verse_text": "I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children." }, { "point_text": "His being rejected by His brethren.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:3", "verse_text": "I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment." }, { "point_text": "His being rejected by His brethren.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 1:11", "verse_text": "He came unto his own, and his own received him not." }, { "point_text": "His being rejected by His brethren.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 7:3", "verse_text": "His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest." }, { "point_text": "His being a stone of stumbling to the Jews.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:14", "verse_text": "And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "His being a stone of stumbling to the Jews.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:32", "verse_text": "Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;" }, { "point_text": "His being a stone of stumbling to the Jews.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:8", "verse_text": "And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed." }, { "point_text": "His being hated by the Jews.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:4", "verse_text": "They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away." }, { "point_text": "His being hated by the Jews.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:7", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee." }, { "point_text": "His being hated by the Jews.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 15:24-25", "verse_text": "If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. 25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause." }, { "point_text": "His being rejected by the Jewish rulers.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 118:22", "verse_text": "The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner." }, { "point_text": "His being rejected by the Jewish rulers.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:42", "verse_text": "Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?" }, { "point_text": "His being rejected by the Jewish rulers.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 7:48", "verse_text": "Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?" }, { "point_text": "That the Jews and Gentiles should combine against Him.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:1-2", "verse_text": "Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying," }, { "point_text": "That the Jews and Gentiles should combine against Him.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:12", "verse_text": "And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity between themselves." }, { "point_text": "That the Jews and Gentiles should combine against Him.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:27", "verse_text": "For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together," }, { "point_text": "His being betrayed by a friend.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 41:9", "verse_text": "Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me." }, { "point_text": "His being betrayed by a friend.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 55:12-14", "verse_text": "For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him: 13 But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. 14 We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company." }, { "point_text": "His being betrayed by a friend.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 13:18", "verse_text": "I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me." }, { "point_text": "His being betrayed by a friend.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 13:21", "verse_text": "When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me." }, { "point_text": "His disciples forsaking Him.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 13:7", "verse_text": "Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones." }, { "point_text": "His disciples forsaking Him.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:31", "verse_text": "Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad." }, { "point_text": "His disciples forsaking Him.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:56", "verse_text": "But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled." }, { "point_text": "His being sold for thirty pieces silver.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 11:12", "verse_text": "And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver." }, { "point_text": "His being sold for thirty pieces silver.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:15", "verse_text": "And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver." }, { "point_text": "His price being given for the potter's field.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 11:13", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "His price being given for the potter's field.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:7", "verse_text": "And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in." }, { "point_text": "The intensity of His sufferings.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:14-15", "verse_text": "I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death." }, { "point_text": "The intensity of His sufferings.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:42", "verse_text": "Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done." }, { "point_text": "The intensity of His sufferings.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:44", "verse_text": "And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground." }, { "point_text": "His sufferings being for others.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:4-6", "verse_text": "Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." }, { "point_text": "His sufferings being for others.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:12", "verse_text": "Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." }, { "point_text": "His sufferings being for others.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:28", "verse_text": "Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many." }, { "point_text": "His patience and silence under suffering.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:7", "verse_text": "He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth." }, { "point_text": "His patience and silence under suffering.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:63", "verse_text": "But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God." }, { "point_text": "His patience and silence under suffering.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:12-14", "verse_text": "And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing. 13 Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee? 14 And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly." }, { "point_text": "His being smitten on the cheek.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Micah 5:1", "verse_text": "Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek." }, { "point_text": "His being smitten on the cheek.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:30", "verse_text": "And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head." }, { "point_text": "His visage being marred.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 52:14", "verse_text": "As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:" }, { "point_text": "His visage being marred.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:3", "verse_text": "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not." }, { "point_text": "His visage being marred.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 19:5", "verse_text": "Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man!" }, { "point_text": "His being spit on and scourged.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 50:6", "verse_text": "I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting." }, { "point_text": "His being spit on and scourged.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Mark 14:65", "verse_text": "And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands." }, { "point_text": "His being spit on and scourged.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 19:1", "verse_text": "Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him." }, { "point_text": "His hands and feet being nailed to the cross.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:16", "verse_text": "For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet." }, { "point_text": "His hands and feet being nailed to the cross.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 19:18", "verse_text": "Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst." }, { "point_text": "His hands and feet being nailed to the cross.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 20:25", "verse_text": "The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe." }, { "point_text": "His being forsaken by God.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:1", "verse_text": "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?" }, { "point_text": "His being forsaken by God.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:46", "verse_text": "And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" }, { "point_text": "His being mocked.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:7-8", "verse_text": "All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, 8 He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him." }, { "point_text": "His being mocked.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:39-44", "verse_text": "And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, 40 And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross. 41 Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said, 42 He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. ..." }, { "point_text": "Gall and vinegar being given Him to drink.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:21", "verse_text": "They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink." }, { "point_text": "Gall and vinegar being given Him to drink.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:34", "verse_text": "They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink." }, { "point_text": "His garments being parted, and lots cast for His vesture.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:18", "verse_text": "They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture." }, { "point_text": "His garments being parted, and lots cast for His vesture.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:35", "verse_text": "And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots." }, { "point_text": "His being numbered with the transgressors.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:12", "verse_text": "Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." }, { "point_text": "His being numbered with the transgressors.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Mark 15:28", "verse_text": "And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors." }, { "point_text": "His intercession for His murderers.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:12", "verse_text": "Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." }, { "point_text": "His intercession for His murderers.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:34", "verse_text": "Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots." }, { "point_text": "His death.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:12", "verse_text": "Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." }, { "point_text": "His death.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:50", "verse_text": "Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost." }, { "point_text": "That a bone of Him should not be broken.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:46", "verse_text": "In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof." }, { "point_text": "That a bone of Him should not be broken.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:20", "verse_text": "He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken." }, { "point_text": "That a bone of Him should not be broken.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 19:33", "verse_text": "But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:" }, { "point_text": "That a bone of Him should not be broken.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 19:36", "verse_text": "For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken." }, { "point_text": "His being pierced.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 12:10", "verse_text": "And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn." }, { "point_text": "His being pierced.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 19:34", "verse_text": "But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water." }, { "point_text": "His being pierced.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 19:37", "verse_text": "And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced." }, { "point_text": "His being buried with the rich.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:9", "verse_text": "And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth." }, { "point_text": "His being buried with the rich.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:57-60", "verse_text": "When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple: 58 He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. 59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed." }, { "point_text": "His flesh not seeing corruption.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 16:10", "verse_text": "For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption." }, { "point_text": "His flesh not seeing corruption.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:31", "verse_text": "He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption." }, { "point_text": "His resurrection.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 16:10", "verse_text": "For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption." }, { "point_text": "His resurrection.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:19", "verse_text": "Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead." }, { "point_text": "His resurrection.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:6", "verse_text": "He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee," }, { "point_text": "His resurrection.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:31", "verse_text": "And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight." }, { "point_text": "His resurrection.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:34", "verse_text": "Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon." }, { "point_text": "His ascension.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:18", "verse_text": "Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them." }, { "point_text": "His ascension.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:51", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven." }, { "point_text": "His ascension.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:9", "verse_text": "And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight." }, { "point_text": "His sitting on the right hand of God.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 110:1", "verse_text": "The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool." }, { "point_text": "His sitting on the right hand of God.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:3", "verse_text": "Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;" }, { "point_text": "His exercising the priestly office in heaven.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 6:13", "verse_text": "Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both." }, { "point_text": "His exercising the priestly office in heaven.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:34", "verse_text": "Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us." }, { "point_text": "His being the chief corner-stone of the Church.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:16", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste." }, { "point_text": "His being the chief corner-stone of the Church.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:6-7", "verse_text": "Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. 7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner," }, { "point_text": "His being King in Zion.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:6", "verse_text": "Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion." }, { "point_text": "His being King in Zion.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:32", "verse_text": "He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:" }, { "point_text": "His being King in Zion.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 18:33-37", "verse_text": "Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again, and called Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews? 34 Jesus answered him, Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or did others tell it thee of me? 35 Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done? 36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence. ..." }, { "point_text": "The conversion of the Gentiles to Him.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:10", "verse_text": "And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious." }, { "point_text": "The conversion of the Gentiles to Him.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:1", "verse_text": "Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles." }, { "point_text": "The conversion of the Gentiles to Him.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 1:17", "verse_text": "So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations." }, { "point_text": "The conversion of the Gentiles to Him.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 1:21", "verse_text": "And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins." }, { "point_text": "His righteous government.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:6-7", "verse_text": "Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. 7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows." }, { "point_text": "His righteous government.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 5:30", "verse_text": "I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me." }, { "point_text": "His righteous government.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Revelation 19:11", "verse_text": "And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war." }, { "point_text": "His universal dominion.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 72:8", "verse_text": "He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth." }, { "point_text": "His universal dominion.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:14", "verse_text": "And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed." }, { "point_text": "His universal dominion.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:9", "verse_text": "Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:" }, { "point_text": "His universal dominion.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:11", "verse_text": "And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." }, { "point_text": "The perpetuity of His kingdom.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:7", "verse_text": "Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this." }, { "point_text": "The perpetuity of His kingdom.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:14", "verse_text": "And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed." }, { "point_text": "The perpetuity of His kingdom.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:32-33", "verse_text": "He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: 33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end." }, { "point_text": "As the Son of God.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:7", "verse_text": "I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee." }, { "point_text": "As the Son of God.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:32", "verse_text": "He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:" }, { "point_text": "As the Son of God.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:35", "verse_text": "And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." }, { "point_text": "As the seed of the woman.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:15", "verse_text": "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." }, { "point_text": "As the seed of the woman.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:4", "verse_text": "But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law," }, { "point_text": "As the seed of Abraham.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:7", "verse_text": "And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee." }, { "point_text": "As the seed of Abraham.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:18", "verse_text": "And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice." }, { "point_text": "As the seed of Abraham.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:16", "verse_text": "Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ." }, { "point_text": "As the seed of Isaac.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:12", "verse_text": "And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called." }, { "point_text": "As the seed of Isaac.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:17-19", "verse_text": "By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, 18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: 19 Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure." }, { "point_text": "As the seed of David.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 132:11", "verse_text": "The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne." }, { "point_text": "As the seed of David.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:5", "verse_text": "Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth." }, { "point_text": "As the seed of David.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:23", "verse_text": "Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:" }, { "point_text": "As the seed of David.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:3", "verse_text": "Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;" }, { "point_text": "His coming at a set time.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:10", "verse_text": "The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be." }, { "point_text": "His coming at a set time.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:24-25", "verse_text": "Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times." }, { "point_text": "His coming at a set time.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed." }, { "point_text": "His being born a virgin.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:14", "verse_text": "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel." }, { "point_text": "His being born a virgin.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 1:18", "verse_text": "Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "His being born a virgin.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:7", "verse_text": "And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn." }, { "point_text": "His being called Immanuel.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:14", "verse_text": "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel." }, { "point_text": "His being called Immanuel.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 1:22-23", "verse_text": "Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, 23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us." }, { "point_text": "His being born in Bethlehem of Judea.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Micah 5:2", "verse_text": "But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting." }, { "point_text": "His being born in Bethlehem of Judea.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:1", "verse_text": "Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem," }, { "point_text": "His being born in Bethlehem of Judea.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:4-6", "verse_text": "And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:) 5 To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. 6 And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered." }, { "point_text": "Great persons coming to adore Him.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 72:10", "verse_text": "The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts." }, { "point_text": "Great persons coming to adore Him.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:1-11", "verse_text": "Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, 2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. 3 When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. 4 And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born. ..." }, { "point_text": "The slaying of the children of Bethlehem.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:15", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not." }, { "point_text": "The slaying of the children of Bethlehem.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:16-18", "verse_text": "Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men. 17 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, 18 In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not." }, { "point_text": "His being called out of Egypt.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Hosea 11:1", "verse_text": "When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "His being called out of Egypt.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:15", "verse_text": "And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son." }, { "point_text": "His being preceded by John the Baptist.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:3", "verse_text": "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God." }, { "point_text": "His being preceded by John the Baptist.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Malachi 3:1", "verse_text": "Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "His being preceded by John the Baptist.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:1", "verse_text": "In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea," }, { "point_text": "His being preceded by John the Baptist.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:3", "verse_text": "For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight." }, { "point_text": "His being anointed with the Spirit.\r\n\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:7", "verse_text": "Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows." }, { "point_text": "His being anointed with the Spirit.\r\n\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:2", "verse_text": "And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;" }, { "point_text": "His being anointed with the Spirit.\r\n\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:1", "verse_text": "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;" }, { "point_text": "His being anointed with the Spirit.\r\n\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:16", "verse_text": "And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:" }, { "point_text": "His being anointed with the Spirit.\r\n\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 3:34", "verse_text": "For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." }, { "point_text": "His being anointed with the Spirit.\r\n\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:38", "verse_text": "How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him." }, { "point_text": "His being a Prophet like unto Moses.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:15-18", "verse_text": "The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; 16 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not. 17 And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken. 18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him." }, { "point_text": "His being a Prophet like unto Moses.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:20-22", "verse_text": "And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: 21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. 22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you." }, { "point_text": "His being a Priest after the order of Melchizedek.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 110:4", "verse_text": "The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek." }, { "point_text": "His being a Priest after the order of Melchizedek.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 5:5-6", "verse_text": "So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee. 6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec." }, { "point_text": "His entering on His public ministry.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:1-2", "verse_text": "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;" }, { "point_text": "His entering on His public ministry.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:16-21", "verse_text": "And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. 17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, 18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. ..." }, { "point_text": "His entering on His public ministry.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:43", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent." }, { "point_text": "His ministry commencing in Galilee.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:1-2", "verse_text": "Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. 2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined." }, { "point_text": "His ministry commencing in Galilee.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:12-16", "verse_text": "Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee; 13 And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim: 14 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, 15 The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; ..." }, { "point_text": "His ministry commencing in Galilee.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:23", "verse_text": "And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people." }, { "point_text": "His entering publicly into Jerusalem.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:9", "verse_text": "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass." }, { "point_text": "His entering publicly into Jerusalem.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:1-5", "verse_text": "And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples, 2 Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me. 3 And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them. 4 All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, ..." }, { "point_text": "His coming into the temple.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Haggai 2:7", "verse_text": "And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "His coming into the temple.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Haggai 2:9", "verse_text": "The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "His coming into the temple.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:12", "verse_text": "And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves," }, { "point_text": "His coming into the temple.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:27-32", "verse_text": "And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law, 28 Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said, 29 Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: 30 For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, ..." }, { "point_text": "His coming into the temple.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 2:13-16", "verse_text": "And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, 14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: 15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; 16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise." }, { "point_text": "His poverty.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:2", "verse_text": "For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him." }, { "point_text": "His poverty.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:3", "verse_text": "Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him." }, { "point_text": "His poverty.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 9:58", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head." }, { "point_text": "His meekness and want of ostentatious.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:2", "verse_text": "He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street." }, { "point_text": "His meekness and want of ostentatious.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:15-16", "verse_text": "But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all; 16 And charged them that they should not make him known:" }, { "point_text": "His meekness and want of ostentatious.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:19", "verse_text": "He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets." }, { "point_text": "His tenderness and compassion.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:11", "verse_text": "He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young." }, { "point_text": "His tenderness and compassion.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:3", "verse_text": "A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth." }, { "point_text": "His tenderness and compassion.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:15", "verse_text": "But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;" }, { "point_text": "His tenderness and compassion.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:20", "verse_text": "A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory." }, { "point_text": "His being without guile.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:9", "verse_text": "And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth." }, { "point_text": "His being without guile.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:22", "verse_text": "Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:" }, { "point_text": "His zeal.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:9", "verse_text": "For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me." }, { "point_text": "His zeal.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 2:17", "verse_text": "And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up." }, { "point_text": "His preaching by parables.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:2", "verse_text": "I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:" }, { "point_text": "His preaching by parables.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:34-35", "verse_text": "All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them: 35 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world." }, { "point_text": "His working miracles.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 35:5-6", "verse_text": "Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. 6 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert." }, { "point_text": "His working miracles.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:4-6", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: 5 The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them. 6 And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me." }, { "point_text": "His working miracles.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 11:47", "verse_text": "Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles." }, { "point_text": "His bearing reproach.\r\n\n\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:6", "verse_text": "But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people." }, { "point_text": "His bearing reproach.\r\n\n\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:7", "verse_text": "Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face." }, { "point_text": "His bearing reproach.\r\n\n\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:9", "verse_text": "For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me." }, { "point_text": "His bearing reproach.\r\n\n\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:20", "verse_text": "Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none." }, { "point_text": "His bearing reproach.\r\n\n\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:3", "verse_text": "For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me." }, { "point_text": "His being rejected by His brethren.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:8", "verse_text": "I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children." }, { "point_text": "His being rejected by His brethren.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:3", "verse_text": "I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment." }, { "point_text": "His being rejected by His brethren.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 1:11", "verse_text": "He came unto his own, and his own received him not." }, { "point_text": "His being rejected by His brethren.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 7:3", "verse_text": "His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest." }, { "point_text": "His being a stone of stumbling to the Jews.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:14", "verse_text": "And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "His being a stone of stumbling to the Jews.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:32", "verse_text": "Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;" }, { "point_text": "His being a stone of stumbling to the Jews.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:8", "verse_text": "And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed." }, { "point_text": "His being hated by the Jews.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:4", "verse_text": "They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away." }, { "point_text": "His being hated by the Jews.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:7", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee." }, { "point_text": "His being hated by the Jews.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 15:24-25", "verse_text": "If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. 25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause." }, { "point_text": "His being rejected by the Jewish rulers.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 118:22", "verse_text": "The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner." }, { "point_text": "His being rejected by the Jewish rulers.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:42", "verse_text": "Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?" }, { "point_text": "His being rejected by the Jewish rulers.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 7:48", "verse_text": "Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?" }, { "point_text": "That the Jews and Gentiles should combine against Him.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:1-2", "verse_text": "Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying," }, { "point_text": "That the Jews and Gentiles should combine against Him.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:12", "verse_text": "And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity between themselves." }, { "point_text": "That the Jews and Gentiles should combine against Him.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:27", "verse_text": "For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together," }, { "point_text": "His being betrayed by a friend.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 41:9", "verse_text": "Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me." }, { "point_text": "His being betrayed by a friend.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 55:12-14", "verse_text": "For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him: 13 But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. 14 We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company." }, { "point_text": "His being betrayed by a friend.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 13:18", "verse_text": "I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me." }, { "point_text": "His being betrayed by a friend.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 13:21", "verse_text": "When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me." }, { "point_text": "His disciples forsaking Him.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 13:7", "verse_text": "Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones." }, { "point_text": "His disciples forsaking Him.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:31", "verse_text": "Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad." }, { "point_text": "His disciples forsaking Him.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:56", "verse_text": "But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled." }, { "point_text": "His being sold for thirty pieces silver.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 11:12", "verse_text": "And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver." }, { "point_text": "His being sold for thirty pieces silver.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:15", "verse_text": "And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver." }, { "point_text": "His price being given for the potter's field.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 11:13", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "His price being given for the potter's field.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:7", "verse_text": "And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in." }, { "point_text": "The intensity of His sufferings.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:14-15", "verse_text": "I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death." }, { "point_text": "The intensity of His sufferings.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:42", "verse_text": "Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done." }, { "point_text": "The intensity of His sufferings.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:44", "verse_text": "And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground." }, { "point_text": "His sufferings being for others.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:4-6", "verse_text": "Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." }, { "point_text": "His sufferings being for others.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:12", "verse_text": "Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." }, { "point_text": "His sufferings being for others.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:28", "verse_text": "Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many." }, { "point_text": "His patience and silence under suffering.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:7", "verse_text": "He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth." }, { "point_text": "His patience and silence under suffering.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:63", "verse_text": "But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God." }, { "point_text": "His patience and silence under suffering.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:12-14", "verse_text": "And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing. 13 Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee? 14 And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly." }, { "point_text": "His being smitten on the cheek.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Micah 5:1", "verse_text": "Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek." }, { "point_text": "His being smitten on the cheek.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:30", "verse_text": "And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head." }, { "point_text": "His visage being marred.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 52:14", "verse_text": "As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:" }, { "point_text": "His visage being marred.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:3", "verse_text": "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not." }, { "point_text": "His visage being marred.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 19:5", "verse_text": "Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man!" }, { "point_text": "His being spit on and scourged.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 50:6", "verse_text": "I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting." }, { "point_text": "His being spit on and scourged.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Mark 14:65", "verse_text": "And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands." }, { "point_text": "His being spit on and scourged.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 19:1", "verse_text": "Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him." }, { "point_text": "His hands and feet being nailed to the cross.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:16", "verse_text": "For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet." }, { "point_text": "His hands and feet being nailed to the cross.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 19:18", "verse_text": "Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst." }, { "point_text": "His hands and feet being nailed to the cross.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 20:25", "verse_text": "The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe." }, { "point_text": "His being forsaken by God.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:1", "verse_text": "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?" }, { "point_text": "His being forsaken by God.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:46", "verse_text": "And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" }, { "point_text": "His being mocked.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:7-8", "verse_text": "All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, 8 He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him." }, { "point_text": "His being mocked.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:39-44", "verse_text": "And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, 40 And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross. 41 Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said, 42 He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. ..." }, { "point_text": "Gall and vinegar being given Him to drink.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:21", "verse_text": "They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink." }, { "point_text": "Gall and vinegar being given Him to drink.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:34", "verse_text": "They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink." }, { "point_text": "His garments being parted, and lots cast for His vesture.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:18", "verse_text": "They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture." }, { "point_text": "His garments being parted, and lots cast for His vesture.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:35", "verse_text": "And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots." }, { "point_text": "His being numbered with the transgressors.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:12", "verse_text": "Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." }, { "point_text": "His being numbered with the transgressors.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Mark 15:28", "verse_text": "And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors." }, { "point_text": "His intercession for His murderers.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:12", "verse_text": "Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." }, { "point_text": "His intercession for His murderers.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:34", "verse_text": "Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots." }, { "point_text": "His death.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:12", "verse_text": "Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." }, { "point_text": "His death.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:50", "verse_text": "Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost." }, { "point_text": "That a bone of Him should not be broken.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:46", "verse_text": "In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof." }, { "point_text": "That a bone of Him should not be broken.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:20", "verse_text": "He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken." }, { "point_text": "That a bone of Him should not be broken.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 19:33", "verse_text": "But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:" }, { "point_text": "That a bone of Him should not be broken.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 19:36", "verse_text": "For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken." }, { "point_text": "His being pierced.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 12:10", "verse_text": "And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn." }, { "point_text": "His being pierced.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 19:34", "verse_text": "But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water." }, { "point_text": "His being pierced.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 19:37", "verse_text": "And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced." }, { "point_text": "His being buried with the rich.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:9", "verse_text": "And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth." }, { "point_text": "His being buried with the rich.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:57-60", "verse_text": "When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple: 58 He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. 59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed." }, { "point_text": "His flesh not seeing corruption.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 16:10", "verse_text": "For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption." }, { "point_text": "His flesh not seeing corruption.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:31", "verse_text": "He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption." }, { "point_text": "His resurrection.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 16:10", "verse_text": "For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption." }, { "point_text": "His resurrection.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:19", "verse_text": "Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead." }, { "point_text": "His resurrection.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:6", "verse_text": "He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee," }, { "point_text": "His resurrection.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:31", "verse_text": "And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight." }, { "point_text": "His resurrection.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:34", "verse_text": "Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon." }, { "point_text": "His ascension.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:18", "verse_text": "Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them." }, { "point_text": "His ascension.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:51", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven." }, { "point_text": "His ascension.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:9", "verse_text": "And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight." }, { "point_text": "His sitting on the right hand of God.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 110:1", "verse_text": "The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool." }, { "point_text": "His sitting on the right hand of God.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:3", "verse_text": "Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;" }, { "point_text": "His exercising the priestly office in heaven.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 6:13", "verse_text": "Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both." }, { "point_text": "His exercising the priestly office in heaven.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:34", "verse_text": "Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us." }, { "point_text": "His being the chief corner-stone of the Church.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:16", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste." }, { "point_text": "His being the chief corner-stone of the Church.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:6-7", "verse_text": "Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. 7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner," }, { "point_text": "His being King in Zion.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:6", "verse_text": "Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion." }, { "point_text": "His being King in Zion.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:32", "verse_text": "He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:" }, { "point_text": "His being King in Zion.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 18:33-37", "verse_text": "Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again, and called Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews? 34 Jesus answered him, Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or did others tell it thee of me? 35 Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done? 36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence. ..." }, { "point_text": "The conversion of the Gentiles to Him.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:10", "verse_text": "And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious." }, { "point_text": "The conversion of the Gentiles to Him.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:1", "verse_text": "Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles." }, { "point_text": "The conversion of the Gentiles to Him.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 1:17", "verse_text": "So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations." }, { "point_text": "The conversion of the Gentiles to Him.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 1:21", "verse_text": "And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins." }, { "point_text": "His righteous government.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:6-7", "verse_text": "Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. 7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows." }, { "point_text": "His righteous government.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "John 5:30", "verse_text": "I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me." }, { "point_text": "His righteous government.\r\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Revelation 19:11", "verse_text": "And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war." }, { "point_text": "His universal dominion.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 72:8", "verse_text": "He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth." }, { "point_text": "His universal dominion.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:14", "verse_text": "And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed." }, { "point_text": "His universal dominion.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:9", "verse_text": "Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:" }, { "point_text": "His universal dominion.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:11", "verse_text": "And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." }, { "point_text": "The perpetuity of His kingdom.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:7", "verse_text": "Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this." }, { "point_text": "The perpetuity of His kingdom.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:14", "verse_text": "And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed." }, { "point_text": "The perpetuity of His kingdom.\r\n\n\r\n Fulfilled,", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:32-33", "verse_text": "He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: 33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end." } ] }, { "name": "Prophets", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Prophets.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "God spake of old by", "verse_ref": "Hosea 12:10", "verse_text": "I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets." }, { "point_text": "God spake of old by", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:1", "verse_text": "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets," }, { "point_text": "The messengers of God", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:15", "verse_text": "And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:" }, { "point_text": "The messengers of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:26", "verse_text": "That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:" }, { "point_text": "The servants of God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 35:15", "verse_text": "I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me." }, { "point_text": "The watchmen of Israel", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 3:17", "verse_text": "Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me." }, { "point_text": "WERE CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Men of God", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 9:6", "verse_text": "And he said unto him, Behold now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is an honourable man; all that he saith cometh surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can shew us our way that we should go." }, { "point_text": "Prophets of God", "verse_ref": "Ezra 5:2", "verse_text": "Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem: and with them were the prophets of God helping them." }, { "point_text": "Holy prophets", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:70", "verse_text": "As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:" }, { "point_text": "Holy prophets", "verse_ref": "Revelation 18:20", "verse_text": "Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her." }, { "point_text": "Holy prophets", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:6", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Holy men of God", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:21", "verse_text": "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Seers", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 9:9", "verse_text": "(Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)" }, { "point_text": "Were esteemed as holy men", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:9", "verse_text": "And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually." }, { "point_text": "Women sometimes endowed as", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:28", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:" }, { "point_text": "GOD COMMUNICATED TO,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "His secret things", "verse_ref": "Amos 3:7", "verse_text": "Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets." }, { "point_text": "At various time and in divers ways", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:1", "verse_text": "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets," }, { "point_text": "By an audible voice", "verse_ref": "Numbers 12:8", "verse_text": "With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?" }, { "point_text": "By an audible voice", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 3:4-14", "verse_text": "That the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I. 5 And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me. And he said, I called not; lie down again. And he went and lay down. 6 And the LORD called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And he answered, I called not, my son; lie down again. 7 Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was the word of the LORD yet revealed unto him. ..." }, { "point_text": "By angels", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:15-26", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man. 16 And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision. 17 So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision. 18 Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright. ..." }, { "point_text": "By angels", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:8-9", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "By dreams and visions", "verse_ref": "Numbers 12:6", "verse_text": "And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream." }, { "point_text": "By dreams and visions", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:28", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:" }, { "point_text": "Were under the influence of the Holy Ghost while prophesying", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:67", "verse_text": "And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying," }, { "point_text": "Were under the influence of the Holy Ghost while prophesying", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:21", "verse_text": "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Spake in the name of the Lord", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:18", "verse_text": "Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Spake in the name of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 3:11", "verse_text": "And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear." }, { "point_text": "Spake in the name of the Lord", "verse_ref": "James 5:10", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Frequently spake in parables and riddles", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:1-6", "verse_text": "And the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. 2 The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds: 3 But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter. 4 And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him. ..." }, { "point_text": "Frequently spake in parables and riddles", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:1-7; Ezekiel 17:2-10", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Frequently in their actions, &c. were made signs to the people", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 20:2-4", "verse_text": "At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. 3 And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia; 4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Frequently in their actions, &c. were made signs to the people", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 19:1,10; 27:2; 43:9; 51:63", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Frequently in their actions, &c. were made signs to the people", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 4:1-13", "verse_text": "Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: 2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about. 3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. 4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity. ..." }, { "point_text": "Frequently in their actions, &c. were made signs to the people", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 5:1-4; 7:23; 12:3-7; 21:6; 24:1-24; Hosea 1:2-9", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Frequently left without divine communications on account of sins of the people", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 28:6", "verse_text": "And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets." }, { "point_text": "Frequently left without divine communications on account of sins of the people", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 2:9", "verse_text": "Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Frequently left without divine communications on account of sins of the people", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 7:26", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "WERE REQUIRED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To be bold and undaunted", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 2:6", "verse_text": "And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house." }, { "point_text": "To be bold and undaunted", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 3:8-9", "verse_text": "Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads. 9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house." }, { "point_text": "To be vigilant and faithful", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 3:17-21", "verse_text": "Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. 18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. 19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. 20 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand. ..." }, { "point_text": "To receive with attention all God's communications", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 3:10", "verse_text": "Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears." }, { "point_text": "Not to speak anything but what they received from God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:20", "verse_text": "But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die." }, { "point_text": "To declare everything that the Lord commanded", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 26:2", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD'S house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD'S house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word:" }, { "point_text": "Sometimes received divine communications and uttered predictions under great bodily and mental excitement", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:9", "verse_text": "Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes received divine communications and uttered predictions under great bodily and mental excitement", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 3:14-15", "verse_text": "So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me. 15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes uttered their predictions in verse", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:44", "verse_text": "And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes uttered their predictions in verse", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:1", "verse_text": "Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:" }, { "point_text": "Often accompanied by music while predicting", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 10:5", "verse_text": "After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy:" }, { "point_text": "Often accompanied by music while predicting", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 3:15", "verse_text": "But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him." }, { "point_text": "Often committed their predictions to writing", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 21:12", "verse_text": "And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah," }, { "point_text": "Often committed their predictions to writing", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 36:2", "verse_text": "Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Writings of, read in the synagogues every Sabbath", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:17", "verse_text": "And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written," }, { "point_text": "Writings of, read in the synagogues every Sabbath", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:15", "verse_text": "And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on." }, { "point_text": "ORDINARY,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Numerous in Israel", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 10:5", "verse_text": "After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy:" }, { "point_text": "Numerous in Israel", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:4", "verse_text": "For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)" }, { "point_text": "Trained up and instructed in schools", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 2:3", "verse_text": "And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace." }, { "point_text": "Trained up and instructed in schools", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 2:5", "verse_text": "And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he answered, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace." }, { "point_text": "Trained up and instructed in schools", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 19:20", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "The sacred bards of the Jews", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:20-21", "verse_text": "And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. 21 And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea." }, { "point_text": "The sacred bards of the Jews", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 10:5,10; 1 Chronicles 25:1", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "EXTRAORDINARY,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Specially raised up on occasions of emergency", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 3:19-21", "verse_text": "And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground. 20 And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the LORD. 21 And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh: for the LORD revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Specially raised up on occasions of emergency", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:8-9", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Often endued with miraculous power", "verse_ref": "Exodus 4:1-4", "verse_text": "And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee. 2 And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod. 3 And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it. 4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:" }, { "point_text": "Often endued with miraculous power", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 17:23; 2 Kings 5:3-8", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Frequently married men", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:1", "verse_text": "Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen." }, { "point_text": "Frequently married men", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 24:18", "verse_text": "So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded." }, { "point_text": "Wore a coarse dress of hair-cloth", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 1:8", "verse_text": "And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite." }, { "point_text": "Wore a coarse dress of hair-cloth", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 13:4", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive:" }, { "point_text": "Wore a coarse dress of hair-cloth", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:4; Revelation 11:3", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Often led a wandering and unsettled life", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:10-12", "verse_text": "As the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not there; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not. 11 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here. 12 And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth." }, { "point_text": "Often led a wandering and unsettled life", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:3,8,15; 2 Kings 4:10", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Simple in their manner of life", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:4", "verse_text": "And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey." }, { "point_text": "The historiographers of the Jewish nation", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:29", "verse_text": "Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer," }, { "point_text": "The historiographers of the Jewish nation", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:29", "verse_text": "Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?" }, { "point_text": "The interpreters of dreams, &c", "verse_ref": "Daniel 1:17", "verse_text": "As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams." }, { "point_text": "Were consulted in all difficulties", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 9:6", "verse_text": "And he said unto him, Behold now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is an honourable man; all that he saith cometh surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can shew us our way that we should go." }, { "point_text": "Were consulted in all difficulties", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 28:15", "verse_text": "And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do." }, { "point_text": "Were consulted in all difficulties", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 14:2-4; 22:7", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Presented with gifts by those who consulted them", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 9:7-8", "verse_text": "Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we? 8 And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way." }, { "point_text": "Presented with gifts by those who consulted them", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 14:3", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes thought it right to reject presents", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:15-16", "verse_text": "And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant. 16 But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused." }, { "point_text": "WERE SENT TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Reprove the wicked and exhort to repentance", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:13", "verse_text": "Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets." }, { "point_text": "Reprove the wicked and exhort to repentance", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 24:19", "verse_text": "Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear." }, { "point_text": "Reprove the wicked and exhort to repentance", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 25:4-5", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Denounce the wickedness of kings", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:10", "verse_text": "Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying," }, { "point_text": "Denounce the wickedness of kings", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:16-19", "verse_text": "Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the LORD hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on. 17 And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel? 18 And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed. 19 Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?" }, { "point_text": "Denounce the wickedness of kings", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:7-12; 1 Kings 18:18; 21:17-22", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Exhort to faithfulness and constancy in God's service", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 15:1-2", "verse_text": "And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded: 2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you." }, { "point_text": "Exhort to faithfulness and constancy in God's service", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 15:7", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Predict the coming, &c. of Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:44", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me." }, { "point_text": "Predict the coming, &c. of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 1:45", "verse_text": "Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." }, { "point_text": "Predict the coming, &c. of Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:24; 10:43", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Predict the downfall of nations", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 15:1", "verse_text": "The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;" }, { "point_text": "Predict the downfall of nations", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 17:1", "verse_text": "The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap." }, { "point_text": "Predict the downfall of nations", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 47-51", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Felt deeply on account of the calamities which they predicted", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 16:9-11", "verse_text": "Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen. 10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease. 11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh." }, { "point_text": "Felt deeply on account of the calamities which they predicted", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:1-7", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "PREDICTIONS OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Frequently proclaimed at the gate of the Lord's house", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:2", "verse_text": "Stand in the gate of the LORD'S house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Proclaimed in the cities and streets", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 11:6", "verse_text": "Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them." }, { "point_text": "Written on tables and fixed up in some public place", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:2", "verse_text": "And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it." }, { "point_text": "Written on rolls and read to the people", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:1", "verse_text": "Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz." }, { "point_text": "Written on rolls and read to the people", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 36:2", "verse_text": "Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Were all fulfilled", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 10:10", "verse_text": "Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spake concerning the house of Ahab: for the LORD hath done that which he spake by his servant Elijah." }, { "point_text": "Were all fulfilled", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:26", "verse_text": "That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:" }, { "point_text": "Were all fulfilled", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:18; Revelation 10:7", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Assisted the Jews in their great national undertakings", "verse_ref": "Ezra 5:2", "verse_text": "Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem: and with them were the prophets of God helping them." }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Enoch", "verse_ref": "Genesis 5:21-24", "verse_text": "And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: 22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: 23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: 24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him." }, { "point_text": "Enoch", "verse_ref": "Jude 14", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Noah", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:25-27", "verse_text": "And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. 26 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. 27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant." }, { "point_text": "Jacob", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:1", "verse_text": "And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days." }, { "point_text": "Aaron", "verse_ref": "Exodus 7:1", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet." }, { "point_text": "Moses", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:18", "verse_text": "I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him." }, { "point_text": "Miriam", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:20", "verse_text": "And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances." }, { "point_text": "Deborah", "verse_ref": "Judges 4:4", "verse_text": "And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time." }, { "point_text": "Prophet sent to Israel", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:8", "verse_text": "That the LORD sent a prophet unto the children of Israel, which said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage;" }, { "point_text": "Prophet sent to Eli", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:27", "verse_text": "And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house?" }, { "point_text": "Samuel", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 3:20", "verse_text": "And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "David", "verse_ref": "Psalm 16:8-11", "verse_text": "I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. 9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. 10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. 11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore." }, { "point_text": "David", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:25,30", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Nathan", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:2", "verse_text": "That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains." }, { "point_text": "Nathan", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:1", "verse_text": "And the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor." }, { "point_text": "Nathan", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:10", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Zadok", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 15:27", "verse_text": "The king said also unto Zadok the priest, Art not thou a seer? return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar." }, { "point_text": "Gad", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:11", "verse_text": "For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying," }, { "point_text": "Gad", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:29", "verse_text": "Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer," }, { "point_text": "Ahijah", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:29", "verse_text": "And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field:" }, { "point_text": "Ahijah", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:15", "verse_text": "Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat." }, { "point_text": "Ahijah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:29", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Prophet of Judah", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 13:1", "verse_text": "And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense." }, { "point_text": "Iddo", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:29", "verse_text": "Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?" }, { "point_text": "Iddo", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 12:15", "verse_text": "Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually." }, { "point_text": "Shemaiah", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:22", "verse_text": "But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying," }, { "point_text": "Shemaiah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 12:7", "verse_text": "And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak." }, { "point_text": "Shemaiah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 12:15", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Azariah the son of Oded", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 15:2", "verse_text": "And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you." }, { "point_text": "Azariah the son of Oded", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 15:8", "verse_text": "And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Hanani", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 16:7", "verse_text": "And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand." }, { "point_text": "Jehu the son of Hanani", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:1", "verse_text": "Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying," }, { "point_text": "Jehu the son of Hanani", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:7", "verse_text": "And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the LORD against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed him." }, { "point_text": "Jehu the son of Hanani", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:12", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Elijah", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 17:1", "verse_text": "And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word." }, { "point_text": "Elisha", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:16", "verse_text": "And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room." }, { "point_text": "Micaiah the son of Imlah", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:7-8", "verse_text": "And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might inquire of him? 8 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so." }, { "point_text": "Jonah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 14:25", "verse_text": "He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gathhepher." }, { "point_text": "Jonah", "verse_ref": "Jonah 1:1", "verse_text": "Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying," }, { "point_text": "Jonah", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:39", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Isaiah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:2", "verse_text": "And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz." }, { "point_text": "Isaiah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:22", "verse_text": "Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write." }, { "point_text": "Isaiah", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:1", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Hosea", "verse_ref": "Hosea 1:1", "verse_text": "The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Amos", "verse_ref": "Amos 1:1", "verse_text": "The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake." }, { "point_text": "Amos", "verse_ref": "Amos 7:14-15", "verse_text": "Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit: 15 And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel." }, { "point_text": "Micah", "verse_ref": "Micah 1:1", "verse_text": "The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Oded", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 28:9", "verse_text": "But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth up unto heaven." }, { "point_text": "Nahum", "verse_ref": "Nahum 1:1", "verse_text": "The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite." }, { "point_text": "Joel", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:1", "verse_text": "The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel." }, { "point_text": "Joel", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:16", "verse_text": "But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;" }, { "point_text": "Zephaniah", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 1:1", "verse_text": "The word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah." }, { "point_text": "Huldah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 22:14", "verse_text": "So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her." }, { "point_text": "Jeduthun", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 35:15", "verse_text": "And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters waited at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them." }, { "point_text": "Jeremiah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:12", "verse_text": "And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Jeremiah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:21", "verse_text": "To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years." }, { "point_text": "Habakkuk", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 1:1", "verse_text": "The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see." }, { "point_text": "Obadiah", "verse_ref": "Obadiah 1", "verse_text": "The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle." }, { "point_text": "Ezekiel", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 1:3", "verse_text": "The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him." }, { "point_text": "Daniel", "verse_ref": "Daniel 12:11", "verse_text": "And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days." }, { "point_text": "Daniel", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:15", "verse_text": "When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)" }, { "point_text": "Haggai", "verse_ref": "Ezra 5:1", "verse_text": "Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, even unto them." }, { "point_text": "Haggai", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:14", "verse_text": "And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia." }, { "point_text": "Haggai", "verse_ref": "Haggai 1:1", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Zechariah son of Iddo", "verse_ref": "Ezra 5:1", "verse_text": "Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, even unto them." }, { "point_text": "Zechariah son of Iddo", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 1:1", "verse_text": "In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying," }, { "point_text": "Malachi", "verse_ref": "Malachi 1:1", "verse_text": "The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi." }, { "point_text": "Zacharias the father of John", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:67", "verse_text": "And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying," }, { "point_text": "Anna", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:36", "verse_text": "And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;" }, { "point_text": "Agabus", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:28", "verse_text": "And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar." }, { "point_text": "Agabus", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:10", "verse_text": "And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus." }, { "point_text": "Daughters of Philip", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:9", "verse_text": "And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy." }, { "point_text": "Paul", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:1", "verse_text": "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;" }, { "point_text": "Peter", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:1-2", "verse_text": "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of." }, { "point_text": "John", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:1", "verse_text": "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:" }, { "point_text": "One generally attached to the king's household", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:11", "verse_text": "For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying," }, { "point_text": "One generally attached to the king's household", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 29:25", "verse_text": "And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets." }, { "point_text": "One generally attached to the king's household", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 35:15", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Require to hear and believe", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:15", "verse_text": "The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;" }, { "point_text": "Require to hear and believe", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 20:20", "verse_text": "And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper." }, { "point_text": "Often tried to make them speak smooth things", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:13", "verse_text": "And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is good." }, { "point_text": "Often tried to make them speak smooth things", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:10", "verse_text": "Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:" }, { "point_text": "Often tried to make them speak smooth things", "verse_ref": "Amos 2:12", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Persecuted them", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:16", "verse_text": "But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy." }, { "point_text": "Persecuted them", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:12", "verse_text": "Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you." }, { "point_text": "Often imprisoned them", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:27", "verse_text": "And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace." }, { "point_text": "Often imprisoned them", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 32:2", "verse_text": "For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house." }, { "point_text": "Often imprisoned them", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 37:15-16", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Often put them to death", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:13", "verse_text": "Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD'S prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?" }, { "point_text": "Often put them to death", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:10", "verse_text": "And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away." }, { "point_text": "Often put them to death", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:34-37", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Often left without, on account of sin", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 3:1", "verse_text": "And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no open vision." }, { "point_text": "Often left without, on account of sin", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:9", "verse_text": "We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long." }, { "point_text": "Often left without, on account of sin", "verse_ref": "Amos 8:11-12", "verse_text": "Also ." }, { "point_text": "Were mighty through faith", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:32-40", "verse_text": "And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets: 33 Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. 35 Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: ..." }, { "point_text": "Great patience of, under suffering", "verse_ref": "James 5:10", "verse_text": "Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience." }, { "point_text": "God avenged all injuries done to", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 9:7", "verse_text": "And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel." }, { "point_text": "God avenged all injuries done to", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:21-22", "verse_text": "He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes, 22 Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm." }, { "point_text": "Christ predicted to exercise the office of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:15", "verse_text": "The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;" }, { "point_text": "Christ predicted to exercise the office of", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:22", "verse_text": "For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you." }, { "point_text": "Christ exercised the office of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24-25", "verse_text": "And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. 2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. 3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? 4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. ..." }, { "point_text": "Christ exercised the office of", "verse_ref": "Mark 10:32-34", "verse_text": "Also ." } ] }, { "name": "Providence of God, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Providence-of-God-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is His care over his works", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:9", "verse_text": "The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works." }, { "point_text": "IS EXERCISED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Preserving His creatures", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:6", "verse_text": "Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee." }, { "point_text": "Preserving His creatures", "verse_ref": "Psalm 36:6", "verse_text": "Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast." }, { "point_text": "Preserving His creatures", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:29", "verse_text": "Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father." }, { "point_text": "Providing for His creatures", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:27", "verse_text": "These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season." }, { "point_text": "Providing for His creatures", "verse_ref": "Psalm 136:25", "verse_text": "Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever." }, { "point_text": "Providing for His creatures", "verse_ref": "Psalm 147:9", "verse_text": "He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry." }, { "point_text": "Providing for His creatures", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:26", "verse_text": "Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?" }, { "point_text": "The special preservation of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:28", "verse_text": "For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off." }, { "point_text": "The special preservation of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 91:11", "verse_text": "For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways." }, { "point_text": "The special preservation of saints", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:30", "verse_text": "But the very hairs of your head are all numbered." }, { "point_text": "Prospering saints", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:48", "verse_text": "And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son." }, { "point_text": "Prospering saints", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:56", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master." }, { "point_text": "Protecting saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 91:4", "verse_text": "He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler." }, { "point_text": "Protecting saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 140:7", "verse_text": "O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle." }, { "point_text": "Delivering saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 91:3", "verse_text": "Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence." }, { "point_text": "Delivering saints", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 31:5", "verse_text": "As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it." }, { "point_text": "Leading saints", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:2", "verse_text": "And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no." }, { "point_text": "Leading saints", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:15", "verse_text": "Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;" }, { "point_text": "Bringing His words to pass", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:65", "verse_text": "For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun." }, { "point_text": "Bringing His words to pass", "verse_ref": "Joshua 21:45", "verse_text": "There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass." }, { "point_text": "Bringing His words to pass", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:32-33", "verse_text": "Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled. 33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away." }, { "point_text": "Ordering the ways of men", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:9", "verse_text": "A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps." }, { "point_text": "Ordering the ways of men", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:21", "verse_text": "There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand." }, { "point_text": "Ordering the ways of men", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:24", "verse_text": "Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?" }, { "point_text": "Ordaining the conditions and circumstances of men", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:7-8", "verse_text": "The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up. 8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them." }, { "point_text": "Determining the period of human life", "verse_ref": "Psalm 31:15", "verse_text": "My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me." }, { "point_text": "Determining the period of human life", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:5", "verse_text": "Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Determining the period of human life", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:26", "verse_text": "And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;" }, { "point_text": "Defeating wicked designs", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:9-19", "verse_text": "The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. 10 Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters. 11 Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? 12 Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them. ..." }, { "point_text": "Defeating wicked designs", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 17:14-15", "verse_text": "And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom. 15 Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled." }, { "point_text": "Overruling wicked designs for good", "verse_ref": "Genesis 45:5-7", "verse_text": "Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. 6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest. 7 And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance." }, { "point_text": "Overruling wicked designs for good", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:20", "verse_text": "But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive." }, { "point_text": "Overruling wicked designs for good", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:12", "verse_text": "But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;" }, { "point_text": "Preserving the course of nature", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:22", "verse_text": "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." }, { "point_text": "Preserving the course of nature", "verse_ref": "Job 26:10", "verse_text": "He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end." }, { "point_text": "Preserving the course of nature", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:5-9", "verse_text": "Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever. 6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. 7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away. 8 They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. ..." }, { "point_text": "Directing all events", "verse_ref": "Joshua 7:14", "verse_text": "In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD taketh shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which the LORD shall take shall come by households; and the household which the LORD shall take shall come man by man." }, { "point_text": "Directing all events", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 6:7-10", "verse_text": "Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them: 8 And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go. 9 And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to us. 10 And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:" }, { "point_text": "Directing all events", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 6:12", "verse_text": "And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh." }, { "point_text": "Ruling the elements", "verse_ref": "Job 37:9-13", "verse_text": "Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north. 10 By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened. 11 Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud: 12 And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth. ..." }, { "point_text": "Ruling the elements", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 50:2", "verse_text": "Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst." }, { "point_text": "Ruling the elements", "verse_ref": "John 1:4", "verse_text": "In him was life; and the life was the light of men." }, { "point_text": "Ruling the elements", "verse_ref": "John 1:15", "verse_text": "John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me." }, { "point_text": "Ordering the minutest matters", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:29-30", "verse_text": "Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. 30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered." }, { "point_text": "Is righteous", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:17", "verse_text": "The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works." }, { "point_text": "Is righteous", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:37", "verse_text": "Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase." }, { "point_text": "Is ever watchful", "verse_ref": "Psalm 121:4", "verse_text": "Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep." }, { "point_text": "Is ever watchful", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 27:3", "verse_text": "I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day." }, { "point_text": "Is all pervading", "verse_ref": "Psalm 139:1-5", "verse_text": "O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. 2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. 3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. 4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. ..." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes dark and mysterious", "verse_ref": "Psalm 36:6", "verse_text": "Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes dark and mysterious", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:16", "verse_text": "When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;" }, { "point_text": "Sometimes dark and mysterious", "verse_ref": "Psalm 77:19", "verse_text": "Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes dark and mysterious", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:33", "verse_text": "O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!" }, { "point_text": "ALL THINGS ARE ORDERED BY,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "For His glory", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:14", "verse_text": "As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name." }, { "point_text": "For good to saints", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:28", "verse_text": "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." }, { "point_text": "The wicked made to promote the designs of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:5-12", "verse_text": "O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. 6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. 7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few. 8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings? ..." }, { "point_text": "The wicked made to promote the designs of", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:17-18", "verse_text": "And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers. 18 But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled." }, { "point_text": "TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In prosperity", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:18", "verse_text": "But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day." }, { "point_text": "In prosperity", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:12", "verse_text": "Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all." }, { "point_text": "In adversity", "verse_ref": "Job 1:21", "verse_text": "And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "In adversity", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:15", "verse_text": "I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways." }, { "point_text": "In public calamities", "verse_ref": "Amos 3:6", "verse_text": "Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?" }, { "point_text": "In our daily support", "verse_ref": "Genesis 48:15", "verse_text": "And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day," }, { "point_text": "In all things", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:6", "verse_text": "In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." }, { "point_text": "Cannot be defeated", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:30", "verse_text": "And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle." }, { "point_text": "Cannot be defeated", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:34", "verse_text": "And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded." }, { "point_text": "Man's efforts are vain without", "verse_ref": "Psalm 127:1-2", "verse_text": "Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. 2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Trust in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:33", "verse_text": "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." }, { "point_text": "Trust in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:9", "verse_text": "Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses," }, { "point_text": "Trust in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:29-31", "verse_text": "Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. 30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 31 Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows." }, { "point_text": "Have full confidence in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 16:8", "verse_text": "I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved." }, { "point_text": "Have full confidence in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 139:10", "verse_text": "Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me." }, { "point_text": "Commit their works unto", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:3", "verse_text": "Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established." }, { "point_text": "Encourage themselves in", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 30:6", "verse_text": "And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God." }, { "point_text": "Pray in dependence upon", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:5", "verse_text": "Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him." }, { "point_text": "Pray to be guided by", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:12-14", "verse_text": "And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham. 13 Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water: 14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master." }, { "point_text": "Pray to be guided by", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:20-21", "verse_text": "And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, 21 So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God:" }, { "point_text": "Result of depending upon", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:35", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing." }, { "point_text": "Connected with the use of means", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:19", "verse_text": "And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine." }, { "point_text": "Connected with the use of means", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:37-38", "verse_text": "So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria. 38 And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake." }, { "point_text": "Danger of denying", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:13-17", "verse_text": "For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man: 14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. 15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood. 16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire. ..." }, { "point_text": "Danger of denying", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:2-10", "verse_text": "Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: 3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee: 4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: 5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches: ..." }, { "point_text": "Danger of denying", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:29-31", "verse_text": "At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. 30 The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty? 31 While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee." }, { "point_text": "Danger of denying", "verse_ref": "Hosea 2:8-9", "verse_text": "For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal. 9 Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness." } ] }, { "name": "Protection", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Protection.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "God is able to afford", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:5", "verse_text": "Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time." }, { "point_text": "God is able to afford", "verse_ref": "Jude 24", "verse_text": "Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy," }, { "point_text": "God is faithful to afford", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:23-24", "verse_text": "And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it." }, { "point_text": "God is faithful to afford", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 3:3", "verse_text": "But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil." }, { "point_text": "OF GOD, IS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Indispensable", "verse_ref": "Psalm 127:1", "verse_text": "Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." }, { "point_text": "Seasonable", "verse_ref": "Psalm 46:1", "verse_text": "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble." }, { "point_text": "Unfailing", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 31:6", "verse_text": "Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee." }, { "point_text": "Unfailing", "verse_ref": "Joshua 1:5", "verse_text": "There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee." }, { "point_text": "Effectual", "verse_ref": "John 10:28-30", "verse_text": "And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. 30 I and my Father are one." }, { "point_text": "Effectual", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 12:9", "verse_text": "And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me." }, { "point_text": "Uninterrupted", "verse_ref": "Psalm 121:3", "verse_text": "He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber." }, { "point_text": "Encouraging", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:10", "verse_text": "Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Encouraging", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 50:7", "verse_text": "For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed." }, { "point_text": "Perpetual", "verse_ref": "Psalm 121:8", "verse_text": "The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore." }, { "point_text": "Often afforded through means inadequate in themselves", "verse_ref": "Judges 7:7", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place." }, { "point_text": "Often afforded through means inadequate in themselves", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:45", "verse_text": "Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied." }, { "point_text": "Often afforded through means inadequate in themselves", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:50", "verse_text": "So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David." }, { "point_text": "Often afforded through means inadequate in themselves", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 14:11", "verse_text": "And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee." }, { "point_text": "IS AFFORDED TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Those who hearken to God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:33", "verse_text": "But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil." }, { "point_text": "Returning sinners", "verse_ref": "Job 22:23", "verse_text": "If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles." }, { "point_text": "Returning sinners", "verse_ref": "Job 22:25", "verse_text": "Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver." }, { "point_text": "The perfect in heart", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 16:9", "verse_text": "For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars." }, { "point_text": "The poor", "verse_ref": "Psalm 14:6", "verse_text": "Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge." }, { "point_text": "The poor", "verse_ref": "Psalm 72:12-14", "verse_text": "For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper. 13 He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy. 14 He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight." }, { "point_text": "The oppressed", "verse_ref": "Psalm 9:9", "verse_text": "The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble." }, { "point_text": "The Church", "verse_ref": "Psalm 48:3", "verse_text": "God is known in her palaces for a refuge." }, { "point_text": "The Church", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 2:4-5", "verse_text": "And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein: 5 For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her." }, { "point_text": "IS VOUCHSAFED TO SAINTS IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Preserving them", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:20", "verse_text": "The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy." }, { "point_text": "Strengthening them", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:17", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion." }, { "point_text": "Upholding them", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:17", "verse_text": "For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous." }, { "point_text": "Upholding them", "verse_ref": "Psalm 63:8", "verse_text": "My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me." }, { "point_text": "Keeping their feet", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:9", "verse_text": "He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail." }, { "point_text": "Keeping their feet", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:26", "verse_text": "For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken." }, { "point_text": "Keeping them from evil", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 3:3", "verse_text": "But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil." }, { "point_text": "Keeping them from falling", "verse_ref": "Jude 24", "verse_text": "Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy," }, { "point_text": "Keeping them in the way", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:20", "verse_text": "Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared." }, { "point_text": "Keeping them from temptation", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:10", "verse_text": "Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Providing a refuge for them", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:26", "verse_text": "In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge." }, { "point_text": "Providing a refuge for them", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 4:6", "verse_text": "And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain." }, { "point_text": "Providing a refuge for them", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:2", "verse_text": "And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land." }, { "point_text": "Defending them against their enemies", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 20:1-4", "verse_text": "When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 2 And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people, 3 And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them; 4 For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you." }, { "point_text": "Defending them against their enemies", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:27", "verse_text": "The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them." }, { "point_text": "Defending them against their enemies", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:19", "verse_text": "So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him." }, { "point_text": "Defeating the counsels of enemies", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:10", "verse_text": "Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us." }, { "point_text": "Temptation", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:13", "verse_text": "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it." }, { "point_text": "Temptation", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:9", "verse_text": "The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:" }, { "point_text": "Persecution", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:18", "verse_text": "But there shall not an hair of your head perish." }, { "point_text": "Calamities", "verse_ref": "Psalm 57:1", "verse_text": "Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast." }, { "point_text": "Calamities", "verse_ref": "Psalm 59:16", "verse_text": "But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble." }, { "point_text": "All dangers", "verse_ref": "Psalm 91:3-7", "verse_text": "Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. 4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. 5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; 6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. ..." }, { "point_text": "All places", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:15", "verse_text": "And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of." }, { "point_text": "All places", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 16:9", "verse_text": "For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars." }, { "point_text": "Sleep", "verse_ref": "Psalm 3:5", "verse_text": "I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me." }, { "point_text": "Sleep", "verse_ref": "Psalm 4:8", "verse_text": "I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety." }, { "point_text": "Sleep", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:24", "verse_text": "When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet." }, { "point_text": "Death", "verse_ref": "Psalm 23:4", "verse_text": "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Acknowledge God as their", "verse_ref": "Psalm 18:2", "verse_text": "The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower." }, { "point_text": "Acknowledge God as their", "verse_ref": "Psalm 62:2", "verse_text": "He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved." }, { "point_text": "Acknowledge God as their", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:18", "verse_text": "For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king." }, { "point_text": "Pray for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 17:5", "verse_text": "Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not." }, { "point_text": "Pray for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 17:8", "verse_text": "Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings," }, { "point_text": "Praise God for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 5:11", "verse_text": "But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee." }, { "point_text": "WITHDRAWN FROM THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Disobedient", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:14-17", "verse_text": "But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; 15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: 16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you." }, { "point_text": "Backsliding", "verse_ref": "Joshua 23:12-13", "verse_text": "Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you: 13 Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you." }, { "point_text": "Presumptuous", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:40-45", "verse_text": "And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned. 41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper. 42 Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies. 43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you. ..." }, { "point_text": "Unbelieving", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:9", "verse_text": "And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established." }, { "point_text": "Obstinately impenitent", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:38", "verse_text": "Behold, your house is left unto you desolate." }, { "point_text": "NOT TO BE FOUND IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Idols", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:37-39", "verse_text": "And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted, 38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection. 39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand." }, { "point_text": "Idols", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 46:7", "verse_text": "They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble." }, { "point_text": "Man", "verse_ref": "Psalm 146:3", "verse_text": "Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help." }, { "point_text": "Man", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:7", "verse_text": "For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still." }, { "point_text": "Riches", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:4", "verse_text": "Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death." }, { "point_text": "Riches", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:28", "verse_text": "He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch." }, { "point_text": "Hosts", "verse_ref": "Joshua 11:4-8", "verse_text": "And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many. 5 And when all these kings were met together, they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel. 6 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them: for to morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire. 7 So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly; and they fell upon them. ..." }, { "point_text": "Hosts", "verse_ref": "Psalm 33:16", "verse_text": "There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength." }, { "point_text": "Horses", "verse_ref": "Psalm 33:17", "verse_text": "An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength." }, { "point_text": "Horses", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:31", "verse_text": "The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:11", "verse_text": "As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:" }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Psalm 125:1-2", "verse_text": "They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever. 2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nIsrael, \nDavid, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:1", "verse_text": "After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nIsrael, \nDavid, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 48:16", "verse_text": "The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nIsrael, \nDavid, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:23-25", "verse_text": "The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: 24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) 25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nIsrael, \nDavid, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Joshua 24:17", "verse_text": "For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nIsrael, \nDavid, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 18:1-2", "verse_text": "I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. 2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nIsrael, \nDavid, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:28", "verse_text": "Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nIsrael, \nDavid, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:22", "verse_text": "My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nIsrael, \nDavid, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:4-7", "verse_text": "And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people. 5 Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him. 6 And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison. 7 And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nIsrael, \nDavid, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 18:10", "verse_text": "For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nJoseph, \nIsrael, \nDavid, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:17", "verse_text": "Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee," } ] }, { "name": "Punishment of the Wicked, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Punishment-of-the-Wicked-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is from God", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:18", "verse_text": "And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins." }, { "point_text": "Is from God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:11", "verse_text": "And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible." }, { "point_text": "ON ACCOUNT OF THEIR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Sin", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:39", "verse_text": "Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?" }, { "point_text": "Iniquity", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 36:31", "verse_text": "And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not." }, { "point_text": "Iniquity", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 3:17-18", "verse_text": "Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. 18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand." }, { "point_text": "Iniquity", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 18:4", "verse_text": "Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die." }, { "point_text": "Iniquity", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 18:13", "verse_text": "Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him." }, { "point_text": "Iniquity", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 18:20", "verse_text": "The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him." }, { "point_text": "Idolatry", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:30", "verse_text": "And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you." }, { "point_text": "Idolatry", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:10-11", "verse_text": "As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; 11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?" }, { "point_text": "Rejection of the law of God", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:23", "verse_text": "For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king." }, { "point_text": "Rejection of the law of God", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:6-9", "verse_text": "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. 7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame. 8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity. 9 And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings." }, { "point_text": "Ignorance of God", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:8", "verse_text": "In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Evil ways and doings", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 21:14", "verse_text": "But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it." }, { "point_text": "Evil ways and doings", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:9", "verse_text": "And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings." }, { "point_text": "Evil ways and doings", "verse_ref": "Hosea 12:2", "verse_text": "The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him." }, { "point_text": "Pride", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:12", "verse_text": "Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks." }, { "point_text": "Pride", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 24:21", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Pride", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:11", "verse_text": "For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted." }, { "point_text": "Unbelief", "verse_ref": "Mark 16:16", "verse_text": "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned." }, { "point_text": "Unbelief", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:20", "verse_text": "Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:" }, { "point_text": "Unbelief", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:18", "verse_text": "And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?" }, { "point_text": "Unbelief", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:2", "verse_text": "For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it." }, { "point_text": "Covetousness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:17", "verse_text": "For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart." }, { "point_text": "Covetousness", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:13", "verse_text": "O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness." }, { "point_text": "Oppressing", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:26", "verse_text": "And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob." }, { "point_text": "Oppressing", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 30:16", "verse_text": "Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey." }, { "point_text": "Oppressing", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 30:20", "verse_text": "Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them." }, { "point_text": "Persecuting", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 11:21-22", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand: 22 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:" }, { "point_text": "Disobeying God", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:26-27", "verse_text": "Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations. 27 Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies." }, { "point_text": "Disobeying the gospel", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:8", "verse_text": "In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Is the fruit of their sin", "verse_ref": "Job 4:8", "verse_text": "Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same." }, { "point_text": "Is the fruit of their sin", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:8", "verse_text": "He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail." }, { "point_text": "Is the fruit of their sin", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:21", "verse_text": "What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death." }, { "point_text": "Is the fruit of their sin", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:8", "verse_text": "For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting." }, { "point_text": "Is the reward of their sins", "verse_ref": "Psalm 91:8", "verse_text": "Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked." }, { "point_text": "Is the reward of their sins", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:11", "verse_text": "Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him." }, { "point_text": "Is the reward of their sins", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 16:18", "verse_text": "And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things." }, { "point_text": "Is the reward of their sins", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:23", "verse_text": "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." }, { "point_text": "Is the reward of their sins", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:2", "verse_text": "For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;" }, { "point_text": "Often brought about by their evil designs", "verse_ref": "Esther 7:10", "verse_text": "So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified." }, { "point_text": "Often brought about by their evil designs", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:15", "verse_text": "Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken." }, { "point_text": "Often brought about by their evil designs", "verse_ref": "Psalm 57:6", "verse_text": "They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Often commences in this life", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:31", "verse_text": "Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner." }, { "point_text": "IN THIS LIFE BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Sickness", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:16", "verse_text": "I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it." }, { "point_text": "Sickness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:50", "verse_text": "He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;" }, { "point_text": "Famine", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:19-20", "verse_text": "And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: 20 And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits." }, { "point_text": "Famine", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:26", "verse_text": "And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied." }, { "point_text": "Famine", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:29", "verse_text": "And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat." }, { "point_text": "Noisome beasts", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:22", "verse_text": "I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate." }, { "point_text": "War", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:25", "verse_text": "And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy." }, { "point_text": "War", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:32-33", "verse_text": "And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it. 33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste." }, { "point_text": "Deliverance unto enemies", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:27", "verse_text": "Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies." }, { "point_text": "Fear", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:36-37", "verse_text": "And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. 37 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies." }, { "point_text": "Reprobate mind", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:28", "verse_text": "And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;" }, { "point_text": "Put in slippery places", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:3-19", "verse_text": "For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. 5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. 6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment. ..." }, { "point_text": "Trouble and distress", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:22", "verse_text": "And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness." }, { "point_text": "Trouble and distress", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 1:15", "verse_text": "That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness," }, { "point_text": "Cutting off", "verse_ref": "Psalm 94:23", "verse_text": "And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off." }, { "point_text": "Bringing down their pride", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:11", "verse_text": "And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible." }, { "point_text": "Future, shall be awarded by Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:27", "verse_text": "For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works." }, { "point_text": "Future, shall be awarded by Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:31", "verse_text": "When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:" }, { "point_text": "Future, shall be awarded by Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:41", "verse_text": "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:" }, { "point_text": "FUTURE DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Hell", "verse_ref": "Psalm 9:17", "verse_text": "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God." }, { "point_text": "Hell", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:29", "verse_text": "And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell." }, { "point_text": "Hell", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:5", "verse_text": "But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him." }, { "point_text": "Hell", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:23", "verse_text": "And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom." }, { "point_text": "Darkness", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:12", "verse_text": "But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." }, { "point_text": "Darkness", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:17", "verse_text": "These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever." }, { "point_text": "Death", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:12-17", "verse_text": "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: 13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come. 15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. ..." }, { "point_text": "Death", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:23", "verse_text": "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." }, { "point_text": "Resurrection of damnation", "verse_ref": "John 5:29", "verse_text": "And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation." }, { "point_text": "Rising to shame and everlasting contempt", "verse_ref": "Daniel 12:2", "verse_text": "And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt." }, { "point_text": "Everlasting destruction", "verse_ref": "Psalm 52:5", "verse_text": "God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Everlasting destruction", "verse_ref": "Psalm 92:7", "verse_text": "When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:" }, { "point_text": "Everlasting destruction", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:9", "verse_text": "Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;" }, { "point_text": "Everlasting fire", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:41", "verse_text": "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:" }, { "point_text": "Everlasting fire", "verse_ref": "Jude 7", "verse_text": "Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire." }, { "point_text": "Second death", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:11", "verse_text": "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death." }, { "point_text": "Second death", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:8", "verse_text": "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death." }, { "point_text": "Damnation of hell", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:33", "verse_text": "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?" }, { "point_text": "Eternal damnation", "verse_ref": "Mark 3:29", "verse_text": "But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation:" }, { "point_text": "Blackness of darkness", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:17", "verse_text": "These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever." }, { "point_text": "Blackness of darkness", "verse_ref": "Jude 13", "verse_text": "Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever." }, { "point_text": "Everlasting burnings", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:14", "verse_text": "The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?" }, { "point_text": "The wrath of God", "verse_ref": "John 3:36", "verse_text": "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him." }, { "point_text": "Wine of the wrath of God", "verse_ref": "Revelation 14:10", "verse_text": "The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:" }, { "point_text": "Torment with fire", "verse_ref": "Revelation 14:10", "verse_text": "The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:" }, { "point_text": "Torment for ever and ever", "verse_ref": "Revelation 14:11", "verse_text": "And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name." }, { "point_text": "The righteousness of God requires", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:6", "verse_text": "Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;" }, { "point_text": "Often sudden and unexpected", "verse_ref": "Psalm 35:8", "verse_text": "Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall." }, { "point_text": "Often sudden and unexpected", "verse_ref": "Psalm 64:7", "verse_text": "But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded." }, { "point_text": "Often sudden and unexpected", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 29:1", "verse_text": "He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy." }, { "point_text": "Often sudden and unexpected", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:20", "verse_text": "But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?" }, { "point_text": "Often sudden and unexpected", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:3", "verse_text": "For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape." }, { "point_text": "SHALL BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "According to their deeds", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:27", "verse_text": "For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works." }, { "point_text": "According to their deeds", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:6", "verse_text": "Who will render to every man according to his deeds:" }, { "point_text": "According to their deeds", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:9", "verse_text": "Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;" }, { "point_text": "According to their deeds", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:10", "verse_text": "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad." }, { "point_text": "According to the knowledge possessed by them", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:47-48", "verse_text": "And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. 48 But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more." }, { "point_text": "Increased by neglect of privileges", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:21-24", "verse_text": "Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you. 23 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. 24 But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee." }, { "point_text": "Increased by neglect of privileges", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:13-15", "verse_text": "Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. 14 But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment, than for you. 15 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell." }, { "point_text": "Without mitigation", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:23-26", "verse_text": "And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. 24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. 25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. 26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence." }, { "point_text": "Accompanied by remorse", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:24", "verse_text": "And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh." }, { "point_text": "Accompanied by remorse", "verse_ref": "Mark 9:44", "verse_text": "Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched." }, { "point_text": "No combination avails against", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:21", "verse_text": "Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered." }, { "point_text": "Deferred, emboldens them in sin", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 8:11", "verse_text": "Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil." }, { "point_text": "Should be a warning to others", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:10", "verse_text": "And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign." }, { "point_text": "Should be a warning to others", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:6-11", "verse_text": "Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. 7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. 8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. 9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. ..." }, { "point_text": "Should be a warning to others", "verse_ref": "Jude 7", "verse_text": "Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire." }, { "point_text": "Consummated at the day of judgment", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:31", "verse_text": "When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:" }, { "point_text": "Consummated at the day of judgment", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:46", "verse_text": "And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal." } ] }, { "name": "Red Heifer, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Red-Heifer-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "To be without spot or blemish", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:2", "verse_text": "This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:" }, { "point_text": "To be given to Eleazar the second priest to offer", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:3", "verse_text": "And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:" }, { "point_text": "To be slain without the camp", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:3", "verse_text": "And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:" }, { "point_text": "Entire of, to be burned", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:5", "verse_text": "And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:" }, { "point_text": "Blood of, sprinkled seven times before the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:4", "verse_text": "And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times:" }, { "point_text": "Cedar, hyssop, &c. burned with", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:6", "verse_text": "And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer." }, { "point_text": "Ashes of, collected and mixed with water for purification", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:9", "verse_text": "And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin." }, { "point_text": "Ashes of, collected and mixed with water for purification", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:11-22", "verse_text": "He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. 12 He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean. 13 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him. 14 This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. ..." }, { "point_text": "COMMUNICATED UNCLEANNESS TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The priest that offered her", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:7", "verse_text": "Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even." }, { "point_text": "The man that burned her", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:8", "verse_text": "And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even." }, { "point_text": "The man who gathered the ashes", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:10", "verse_text": "And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever." }, { "point_text": "Could only purify the flesh", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:13", "verse_text": "For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:" }, { "point_text": "A type of Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:12-14", "verse_text": "Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. 13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" } ] }, { "name": "Rechabites", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Rechabites.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Descended from Hemath", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 2:55", "verse_text": "And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab." }, { "point_text": "The head of, assisted Jehu in his conspiracy against the house of Ahab", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 10:15-17", "verse_text": "And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart is with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give me thine hand. And he gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot. 16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot. 17 And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the LORD, which he spake to Elijah." }, { "point_text": "Prohibited by Jonadab from forming settlements or drinking wine", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 35:6-8", "verse_text": "But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever: 7 Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers. 8 Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;" }, { "point_text": "Obedience of, a sign to Israel", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 35:12-17", "verse_text": "Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying, 13 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the LORD. 14 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father's commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me. 15 I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me. ..." }, { "point_text": "Perpetuity to, promised", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 35:18-19", "verse_text": "And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you: 19 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever." } ] }, { "name": "Rain", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Rain.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Occasioned by the condensing of the clouds", "verse_ref": "Job 36:27-28", "verse_text": "For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof: 28 Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly." }, { "point_text": "GOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Made a decree for", "verse_ref": "Job 28:26", "verse_text": "When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:" }, { "point_text": "Prepares", "verse_ref": "Psalm 147:8", "verse_text": "Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains." }, { "point_text": "Gives", "verse_ref": "Job 5:10", "verse_text": "Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:" }, { "point_text": "Causes, to come down", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:23", "verse_text": "Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month." }, { "point_text": "Exhibits goodness in giving", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:17", "verse_text": "Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness." }, { "point_text": "Exhibits greatness in giving", "verse_ref": "Job 36:26-27", "verse_text": "Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out. 27 For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:" }, { "point_text": "Sends upon the evil and good", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:45", "verse_text": "That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." }, { "point_text": "Should be praised for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 147:7-8", "verse_text": "Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: 8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains." }, { "point_text": "Should be feared on account of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:24", "verse_text": "Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest." }, { "point_text": "Impotence of idols exhibited in not being able to give", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:22", "verse_text": "Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things." }, { "point_text": "Not sent upon the earth immediately after creation", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:5", "verse_text": "And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground." }, { "point_text": "Rarely falls in Egypt", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:10", "verse_text": "For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:" }, { "point_text": "Rarely falls in Egypt", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 14:18", "verse_text": "And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles." }, { "point_text": "Canaan abundantly supplied with", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:11", "verse_text": "But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:" }, { "point_text": "DESIGNED FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Refreshing the earth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:9", "verse_text": "Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary." }, { "point_text": "Refreshing the earth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 72:6", "verse_text": "He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth." }, { "point_text": "Making fruitful the earth", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:7", "verse_text": "For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:" }, { "point_text": "Replenishing the springs and fountains of the earth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:8", "verse_text": "They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them." }, { "point_text": "Promised in due season to the obedient", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:4", "verse_text": "Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit." }, { "point_text": "Promised in due season to the obedient", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:14", "verse_text": "That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil." }, { "point_text": "Promised in due season to the obedient", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 34:26-27", "verse_text": "And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing. 27 And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them." }, { "point_text": "Frequently withheld on account of iniquity", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:17", "verse_text": "And then the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you." }, { "point_text": "Frequently withheld on account of iniquity", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:3", "verse_text": "Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed." }, { "point_text": "Frequently withheld on account of iniquity", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:25", "verse_text": "Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you." }, { "point_text": "Frequently withheld on account of iniquity", "verse_ref": "Amos 4:7", "verse_text": "And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered." }, { "point_text": "THE WANT OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Causes the earth to open", "verse_ref": "Job 29:23", "verse_text": "And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain." }, { "point_text": "Causes the earth to open", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:4", "verse_text": "Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads." }, { "point_text": "Dries up springs and fountains", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 17:7", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land." }, { "point_text": "Occasions famine", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:1-2", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth. 2 And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria." }, { "point_text": "Removed by prayer", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:35-36", "verse_text": "When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them: 36 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance." }, { "point_text": "Withheld for three years and six months in the days of Elijah", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 17:1", "verse_text": "And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word." }, { "point_text": "Withheld for three years and six months in the days of Elijah", "verse_ref": "James 5:17", "verse_text": "Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months." }, { "point_text": "DIVIDED INTO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Great", "verse_ref": "Ezra 10:9", "verse_text": "Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain." }, { "point_text": "Plentiful", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:9", "verse_text": "Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary." }, { "point_text": "Overflowing", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 38:22", "verse_text": "And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone." }, { "point_text": "Sweeping", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:3", "verse_text": "A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food." }, { "point_text": "Small", "verse_ref": "Job 37:6", "verse_text": "For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength." }, { "point_text": "The former, after harvest, to prepare for sowing", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:14", "verse_text": "That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil." }, { "point_text": "The former, after harvest, to prepare for sowing", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:24", "verse_text": "Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest." }, { "point_text": "The latter, before harvest", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:23", "verse_text": "Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month." }, { "point_text": "The latter, before harvest", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 10:1", "verse_text": "Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field." }, { "point_text": "The rainbow often appears during", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:14", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:" }, { "point_text": "The rainbow often appears during", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 1:28", "verse_text": "As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake." }, { "point_text": "Often succeeded by heat and sunshine.\r\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 23:4", "verse_text": "And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain." }, { "point_text": "Often succeeded by heat and sunshine.\r\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 18:4", "verse_text": "For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest." }, { "point_text": "The appearance of a cloud from the west indicated", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:44", "verse_text": "And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not." }, { "point_text": "The appearance of a cloud from the west indicated", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:54", "verse_text": "And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is." }, { "point_text": "The north wind drives away", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:23", "verse_text": "The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue." }, { "point_text": "Unusual in harvest time", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:1", "verse_text": "As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool." }, { "point_text": "Thunder and lightning often with", "verse_ref": "Psalm 135:7", "verse_text": "He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries." }, { "point_text": "Storm and tempest often with", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:25", "verse_text": "And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock." }, { "point_text": "Storm and tempest often with", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:27", "verse_text": "And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it." }, { "point_text": "INSTANCES OF EXTRAORDINARY;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Time of the flood", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:4", "verse_text": "For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Time of the flood", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:12", "verse_text": "And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights." }, { "point_text": "Plague of, upon Egypt", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:18", "verse_text": "Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now." }, { "point_text": "Plague of, upon Egypt", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:23", "verse_text": "And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "During wheat harvest in the days of Samuel", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 12:17-18", "verse_text": "Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king. 18 So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel." }, { "point_text": "After long drought in Ahab's reign", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:45", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel." }, { "point_text": "After the captivity", "verse_ref": "Ezra 10:9", "verse_text": "Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain." }, { "point_text": "After the captivity", "verse_ref": "Ezra 10:13", "verse_text": "But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of one day or two: for we are many that have transgressed in this thing." }, { "point_text": "Often impeded travelling in the east", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:44", "verse_text": "And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not." }, { "point_text": "Often impeded travelling in the east", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 4:6", "verse_text": "And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain." }, { "point_text": "Often destroyed houses", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 13:13-15", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it. 14 So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered morter, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered morter, and will say unto you, The wall is no more, neither they that daubed it;" }, { "point_text": "Often destroyed houses", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:27", "verse_text": "And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the word of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 55:10-11", "verse_text": "For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: 11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." }, { "point_text": "Of the doctrine of faithful ministers", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:2", "verse_text": "My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:" }, { "point_text": "Of Christ in the communication of his graces", "verse_ref": "Psalm 72:6", "verse_text": "He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth." }, { "point_text": "Of Christ in the communication of his graces", "verse_ref": "Hosea 6:3", "verse_text": "Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth." }, { "point_text": "Of spiritual blessings", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:9", "verse_text": "Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary." }, { "point_text": "Of spiritual blessings", "verse_ref": "Psalm 84:6", "verse_text": "Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools." }, { "point_text": "Of spiritual blessings", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 34:26", "verse_text": "And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing." }, { "point_text": "Of righteousness", "verse_ref": "Hosea 10:12", "verse_text": "Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you." }, { "point_text": "(Destructive,) of God's judgments", "verse_ref": "Job 20:23", "verse_text": "When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating." }, { "point_text": "(Destructive,) of God's judgments", "verse_ref": "Psalm 11:6", "verse_text": "Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup." }, { "point_text": "(Destructive,) of God's judgments", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 38:22", "verse_text": "And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone." }, { "point_text": "(Destructive,) of a poor man oppressing the poor", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:3", "verse_text": "A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food." } ] }, { "name": "Reaping", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Reaping.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is the cutting of the corn in harvest", "verse_ref": "Job 24:6", "verse_text": "They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked." }, { "point_text": "Is the cutting of the corn in harvest", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:10", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:" }, { "point_text": "The sickle used for", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:9", "verse_text": "Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn." }, { "point_text": "The sickle used for", "verse_ref": "Mark 4:29", "verse_text": "But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come." }, { "point_text": "Both men and women engaged in", "verse_ref": "Ruth 2:8-9", "verse_text": "Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens: 9 Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn." }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS NOT TO REAP", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The corners of their fields", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:9", "verse_text": "And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest." }, { "point_text": "The corners of their fields", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:22", "verse_text": "And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "During the Sabbatical year", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:5", "verse_text": "That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land." }, { "point_text": "During the year of jubilee", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:11", "verse_text": "A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed." }, { "point_text": "The fields of others", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:25", "verse_text": "When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn." }, { "point_text": "Mode of gathering the corn for, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 129:7", "verse_text": "Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom." }, { "point_text": "Mode of gathering the corn for, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 17:5", "verse_text": "And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim." }, { "point_text": "Corn after, was bound up into sheaves", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:7", "verse_text": "For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf." }, { "point_text": "Corn after, was bound up into sheaves", "verse_ref": "Psalm 129:7", "verse_text": "Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom." }, { "point_text": "PERSONS ENGAGED IN,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Under the guidance of a steward", "verse_ref": "Ruth 2:5-6", "verse_text": "Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this? 6 And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:" }, { "point_text": "Visited by the master", "verse_ref": "Ruth 2:4", "verse_text": "And, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the reapers, The LORD be with you. And they answered him, The LORD bless thee." }, { "point_text": "Visited by the master", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:18", "verse_text": "And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers." }, { "point_text": "Fed by the master who himself presided at their meals", "verse_ref": "Ruth 2:14", "verse_text": "And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left." }, { "point_text": "Received wages", "verse_ref": "John 4:36", "verse_text": "And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together." }, { "point_text": "Received wages", "verse_ref": "James 5:4", "verse_text": "Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth." }, { "point_text": "A time of great rejoicing", "verse_ref": "Psalm 126:5-6", "verse_text": "They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. 6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him." }, { "point_text": "The Jews often hindered from, on account of their sins", "verse_ref": "Micah 6:15", "verse_text": "Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine." }, { "point_text": "Often unprofitable on account of sin", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 12:13", "verse_text": "They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Receiving the reward of wickedness", "verse_ref": "Job 4:8", "verse_text": "Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same." }, { "point_text": "Receiving the reward of wickedness", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:8", "verse_text": "He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail." }, { "point_text": "Receiving the reward of wickedness", "verse_ref": "Hosea 8:7", "verse_text": "For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up." }, { "point_text": "Receiving the reward of wickedness", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:8", "verse_text": "For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting." }, { "point_text": "Receiving the reward of righteousness", "verse_ref": "Hosea 10:12", "verse_text": "Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you." }, { "point_text": "Receiving the reward of righteousness", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:8-9", "verse_text": "For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. 9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." }, { "point_text": "Ministers receiving temporal provision for spiritual labors", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:11", "verse_text": "If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?" }, { "point_text": "Gathering in souls to God", "verse_ref": "John 4:38", "verse_text": "I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours." }, { "point_text": "The judgments of God on the antichristian world", "verse_ref": "Revelation 14:14-16", "verse_text": "And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. 15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. 16 And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped." }, { "point_text": "The final judgment", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:30", "verse_text": "Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn." }, { "point_text": "The final judgment", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:39-43", "verse_text": "The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. 40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. 41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; 42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. ..." } ] }, { "name": "Punishments", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Punishments.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:13-14", "verse_text": "And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear. 14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me." }, { "point_text": "Power of inflicting, given to magistrates", "verse_ref": "Job 31:11", "verse_text": "For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges." }, { "point_text": "Power of inflicting, given to magistrates", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:4", "verse_text": "For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil." }, { "point_text": "Designed to be a warning to others", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 13:11", "verse_text": "And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you." }, { "point_text": "Designed to be a warning to others", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:13", "verse_text": "And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously." }, { "point_text": "Designed to be a warning to others", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 19:20", "verse_text": "And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you." }, { "point_text": "WERE INFLICTED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "On the guilty", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:16", "verse_text": "The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin." }, { "point_text": "On the guilty", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:26", "verse_text": "Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity." }, { "point_text": "Without pity", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 19:13", "verse_text": "Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee." }, { "point_text": "Without pity", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 19:21", "verse_text": "And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." }, { "point_text": "Without partiality", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 13:6-8", "verse_text": "If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; 7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; 8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:" }, { "point_text": "By order of magistrates", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:22", "verse_text": "And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them." }, { "point_text": "By order of kings", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 1:13-16", "verse_text": "And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite. 14 And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed? 15 And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died. 16 And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD'S anointed." }, { "point_text": "By order of kings", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:23-46", "verse_text": "Then king Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life. 24 Now therefore, as the LORD liveth, which hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me an house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day. 25 And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died. 26 And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted. ..." }, { "point_text": "Immediately after sentence was passed", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 25:2", "verse_text": "And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number." }, { "point_text": "Immediately after sentence was passed", "verse_ref": "Joshua 7:25", "verse_text": "And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones." }, { "point_text": "By the witnesses", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 13:9", "verse_text": "But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people." }, { "point_text": "By the witnesses", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:7", "verse_text": "The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you." }, { "point_text": "By the witnesses", "verse_ref": "John 8:7", "verse_text": "So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." }, { "point_text": "By the witnesses", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:58-59", "verse_text": "And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. 59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." }, { "point_text": "By the people", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:35-36", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp. 36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "By soldiers", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 1:15", "verse_text": "And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died." }, { "point_text": "By soldiers", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:27-35", "verse_text": "Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. 28 And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe. 29 And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews! 30 And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head. ..." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes deferred until God was consulted", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:34", "verse_text": "And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes deferred for a considerable time", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:5-6", "verse_text": "Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet. 6 Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes deferred for a considerable time", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:8-9", "verse_text": "And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword. 9 Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood." }, { "point_text": "SECONDARY KINDS OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Imprisonment", "verse_ref": "Ezra 7:26", "verse_text": "And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment." }, { "point_text": "Imprisonment", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:25", "verse_text": "Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison." }, { "point_text": "Confinement in a dungeon", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 38:6", "verse_text": "Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire." }, { "point_text": "Confinement in a dungeon", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:11", "verse_text": "As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water." }, { "point_text": "Confinement in stocks", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 20:2", "verse_text": "Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Confinement in stocks", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:24", "verse_text": "Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks." }, { "point_text": "Fine, or giving of money", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:22", "verse_text": "If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine." }, { "point_text": "Fine, or giving of money", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 22:19", "verse_text": "And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days." }, { "point_text": "Restitution", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:36", "verse_text": "Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own." }, { "point_text": "Restitution", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:1-4", "verse_text": "If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. 2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. 3 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. 4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double." }, { "point_text": "Restitution", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:4", "verse_text": "Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found," }, { "point_text": "Restitution", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 24:18", "verse_text": "And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast." }, { "point_text": "Retaliation or injuring according to the injury done", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:24", "verse_text": "Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot," }, { "point_text": "Retaliation or injuring according to the injury done", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 19:21", "verse_text": "And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." }, { "point_text": "Binding with chains and fetters", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:18", "verse_text": "Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:" }, { "point_text": "Scourging", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 25:2-3", "verse_text": "And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number. 3 Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Selling the criminal, &c", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:25", "verse_text": "But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made." }, { "point_text": "Banishment", "verse_ref": "Ezra 7:26", "verse_text": "And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment." }, { "point_text": "Banishment", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:9", "verse_text": "I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Torturing", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:34", "verse_text": "And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him." }, { "point_text": "Torturing", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:37", "verse_text": "They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;" }, { "point_text": "Putting out the eyes", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:21", "verse_text": "But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house." }, { "point_text": "Putting out the eyes", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 11:2", "verse_text": "And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel." }, { "point_text": "Cutting off hands and feet", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 4:12", "verse_text": "And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron." }, { "point_text": "Mutilating the hands and feet", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:5-7", "verse_text": "And they found Adonibezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites. 6 But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. 7 And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died." }, { "point_text": "Cutting off nose and ears", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 23:25", "verse_text": "And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire." }, { "point_text": "Plucking out the hair", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:25", "verse_text": "And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves." }, { "point_text": "Plucking out the hair", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 50:6", "verse_text": "I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting." }, { "point_text": "Confiscating the property", "verse_ref": "Ezra 7:26", "verse_text": "And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment." }, { "point_text": "Inflicting of capital, not permitted to the Jews by the Romans", "verse_ref": "John 18:31", "verse_text": "Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death:" }, { "point_text": "CAPITAL KINDS OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Burning", "verse_ref": "Genesis 38:24", "verse_text": "And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt." }, { "point_text": "Burning", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 20:14", "verse_text": "And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you." }, { "point_text": "Burning", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:6", "verse_text": "And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace." }, { "point_text": "Hanging", "verse_ref": "Numbers 25:4", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel." }, { "point_text": "Hanging", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 21:22-23", "verse_text": "And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: 23 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance." }, { "point_text": "Crucifying", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:19", "verse_text": "And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again." }, { "point_text": "Crucifying", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:35", "verse_text": "And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots." }, { "point_text": "Beheading", "verse_ref": "Genesis 40:19", "verse_text": "Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee." }, { "point_text": "Beheading", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:16", "verse_text": "But when Herod heard thereof, he said, It is John, whom I beheaded: he is risen from the dead." }, { "point_text": "Beheading", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:27", "verse_text": "And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison," }, { "point_text": "Slaying with the sword", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:33", "verse_text": "And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal." }, { "point_text": "Slaying with the sword", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:2", "verse_text": "And he killed James the brother of John with the sword." }, { "point_text": "Stoning", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 24:14", "verse_text": "Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him." }, { "point_text": "Stoning", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 13:10", "verse_text": "And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage." }, { "point_text": "Stoning", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:59", "verse_text": "And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." }, { "point_text": "Cutting in pieces", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:5", "verse_text": "The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill." }, { "point_text": "Cutting in pieces", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:51", "verse_text": "And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." }, { "point_text": "Sawing asunder", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:37", "verse_text": "They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;" }, { "point_text": "Exposing to wild beasts", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:16", "verse_text": "Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee." }, { "point_text": "Exposing to wild beasts", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:24", "verse_text": "And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den." }, { "point_text": "Exposing to wild beasts", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:32", "verse_text": "If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die." }, { "point_text": "Bruising in mortars", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:22", "verse_text": "Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him." }, { "point_text": "Casting headlong from a rock", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 25:12", "verse_text": "And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces." }, { "point_text": "Casting into the sea", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:6", "verse_text": "But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." }, { "point_text": "Strangers not exempted from", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 20:2", "verse_text": "Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones." }, { "point_text": "Were sometimes commuted", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:29-30", "verse_text": "But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death. 30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him." }, { "point_text": "For murder not to be commuted", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:31-32", "verse_text": "Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death. 32 And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest." }, { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:13-14", "verse_text": "And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear. 14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me." }, { "point_text": "Power of inflicting, given to magistrates", "verse_ref": "Job 31:11", "verse_text": "For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges." }, { "point_text": "Power of inflicting, given to magistrates", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:4", "verse_text": "For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil." }, { "point_text": "Designed to be a warning to others", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 13:11", "verse_text": "And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you." }, { "point_text": "Designed to be a warning to others", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:13", "verse_text": "And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously." }, { "point_text": "Designed to be a warning to others", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 19:20", "verse_text": "And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you." }, { "point_text": "WERE INFLICTED", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "On the guilty", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:16", "verse_text": "The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin." }, { "point_text": "On the guilty", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:26", "verse_text": "Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity." }, { "point_text": "Without pity", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 19:13", "verse_text": "Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee." }, { "point_text": "Without pity", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 19:21", "verse_text": "And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." }, { "point_text": "Without partiality", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 13:6-8", "verse_text": "If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; 7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; 8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:" }, { "point_text": "By order of magistrates", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:22", "verse_text": "And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them." }, { "point_text": "By order of kings", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 1:13-16", "verse_text": "And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite. 14 And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed? 15 And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died. 16 And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD'S anointed." }, { "point_text": "By order of kings", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:23-46", "verse_text": "Then king Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life. 24 Now therefore, as the LORD liveth, which hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me an house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day. 25 And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died. 26 And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted. ..." }, { "point_text": "Immediately after sentence was passed", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 25:2", "verse_text": "And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number." }, { "point_text": "Immediately after sentence was passed", "verse_ref": "Joshua 7:25", "verse_text": "And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones." }, { "point_text": "By the witnesses", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 13:9", "verse_text": "But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people." }, { "point_text": "By the witnesses", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:7", "verse_text": "The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you." }, { "point_text": "By the witnesses", "verse_ref": "John 8:7", "verse_text": "So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." }, { "point_text": "By the witnesses", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:58-59", "verse_text": "And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. 59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." }, { "point_text": "By the people", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:35-36", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp. 36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "By soldiers", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 1:15", "verse_text": "And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died." }, { "point_text": "By soldiers", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:27-35", "verse_text": "Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. 28 And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe. 29 And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews! 30 And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head. ..." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes deferred until God was consulted", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:34", "verse_text": "And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes deferred for a considerable time", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:5-6", "verse_text": "Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet. 6 Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes deferred for a considerable time", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:8-9", "verse_text": "And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword. 9 Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood." }, { "point_text": "SECONDARY KINDS OF;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Imprisonment", "verse_ref": "Ezra 7:26", "verse_text": "And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment." }, { "point_text": "Imprisonment", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:25", "verse_text": "Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison." }, { "point_text": "Confinement in a dungeon", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 38:6", "verse_text": "Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire." }, { "point_text": "Confinement in a dungeon", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:11", "verse_text": "As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water." }, { "point_text": "Confinement in stocks", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 20:2", "verse_text": "Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Confinement in stocks", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:24", "verse_text": "Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks." }, { "point_text": "Fine, or giving of money", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:22", "verse_text": "If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine." }, { "point_text": "Fine, or giving of money", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 22:19", "verse_text": "And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days." }, { "point_text": "Restitution", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:36", "verse_text": "Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own." }, { "point_text": "Restitution", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:1-4", "verse_text": "If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. 2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. 3 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. 4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double." }, { "point_text": "Restitution", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:4", "verse_text": "Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found," }, { "point_text": "Restitution", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 24:18", "verse_text": "And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast." }, { "point_text": "Retaliation or injuring according to the injury done", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:24", "verse_text": "Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot," }, { "point_text": "Retaliation or injuring according to the injury done", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 19:21", "verse_text": "And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." }, { "point_text": "Binding with chains and fetters", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:18", "verse_text": "Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:" }, { "point_text": "Scourging", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 25:2-3", "verse_text": "And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number. 3 Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Selling the criminal, &c", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:25", "verse_text": "But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made." }, { "point_text": "Banishment", "verse_ref": "Ezra 7:26", "verse_text": "And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment." }, { "point_text": "Banishment", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:9", "verse_text": "I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Torturing", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:34", "verse_text": "And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him." }, { "point_text": "Torturing", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:37", "verse_text": "They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;" }, { "point_text": "Putting out the eyes", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:21", "verse_text": "But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house." }, { "point_text": "Putting out the eyes", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 11:2", "verse_text": "And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel." }, { "point_text": "Cutting off hands and feet", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 4:12", "verse_text": "And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron." }, { "point_text": "Mutilating the hands and feet", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:5-7", "verse_text": "And they found Adonibezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites. 6 But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. 7 And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died." }, { "point_text": "Cutting off nose and ears", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 23:25", "verse_text": "And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire." }, { "point_text": "Plucking out the hair", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:25", "verse_text": "And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves." }, { "point_text": "Plucking out the hair", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 50:6", "verse_text": "I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting." }, { "point_text": "Confiscating the property", "verse_ref": "Ezra 7:26", "verse_text": "And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment." }, { "point_text": "Inflicting of capital, not permitted to the Jews by the Romans", "verse_ref": "John 18:31", "verse_text": "Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death:" }, { "point_text": "CAPITAL KINDS OF;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Burning", "verse_ref": "Genesis 38:24", "verse_text": "And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt." }, { "point_text": "Burning", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 20:14", "verse_text": "And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you." }, { "point_text": "Burning", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:6", "verse_text": "And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace." }, { "point_text": "Hanging", "verse_ref": "Numbers 25:4", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel." }, { "point_text": "Hanging", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 21:22-23", "verse_text": "And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: 23 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance." }, { "point_text": "Crucifying", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:19", "verse_text": "And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again." }, { "point_text": "Crucifying", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:35", "verse_text": "And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots." }, { "point_text": "Beheading", "verse_ref": "Genesis 40:19", "verse_text": "Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee." }, { "point_text": "Beheading", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:16", "verse_text": "But when Herod heard thereof, he said, It is John, whom I beheaded: he is risen from the dead." }, { "point_text": "Beheading", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:27", "verse_text": "And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison," }, { "point_text": "Slaying with the sword", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:33", "verse_text": "And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal." }, { "point_text": "Slaying with the sword", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:2", "verse_text": "And he killed James the brother of John with the sword." }, { "point_text": "Stoning", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 24:14", "verse_text": "Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him." }, { "point_text": "Stoning", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 13:10", "verse_text": "And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage." }, { "point_text": "Stoning", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:59", "verse_text": "And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." }, { "point_text": "Cutting in pieces", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:5", "verse_text": "The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill." }, { "point_text": "Cutting in pieces", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:51", "verse_text": "And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." }, { "point_text": "Sawing asunder", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:37", "verse_text": "They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;" }, { "point_text": "Exposing to wild beasts", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:16", "verse_text": "Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee." }, { "point_text": "Exposing to wild beasts", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:24", "verse_text": "And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den." }, { "point_text": "Exposing to wild beasts", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:32", "verse_text": "If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die." }, { "point_text": "Bruising in mortars", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:22", "verse_text": "Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him." }, { "point_text": "Casting headlong from a rock", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 25:12", "verse_text": "And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces." }, { "point_text": "Casting into the sea", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:6", "verse_text": "But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." }, { "point_text": "Strangers not exempted from", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 20:2", "verse_text": "Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones." }, { "point_text": "Were sometimes commuted", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:29-30", "verse_text": "But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death. 30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him." }, { "point_text": "For murder not to be commuted", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:31-32", "verse_text": "Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death. 32 And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest." } ] }, { "name": "Redemption", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Redemption.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Defined", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:20", "verse_text": "For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." }, { "point_text": "Defined", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:23", "verse_text": "Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men." }, { "point_text": "Is of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:21-23", "verse_text": "Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant: I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me. 22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee. 23 Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel." }, { "point_text": "Is of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 43:1", "verse_text": "But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine." }, { "point_text": "Is of God", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:68", "verse_text": "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people," }, { "point_text": "Is by Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:28", "verse_text": "Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many." }, { "point_text": "Is by Christ", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:13", "verse_text": "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:" }, { "point_text": "Is by the blood of Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:28", "verse_text": "Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood." }, { "point_text": "Is by the blood of Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:12", "verse_text": "Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us." }, { "point_text": "Is by the blood of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:19", "verse_text": "But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:" }, { "point_text": "Is by the blood of Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 5:9", "verse_text": "And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;" }, { "point_text": "Christ sent to effect", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:4-5", "verse_text": "But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons." }, { "point_text": "Christ is made, to us", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:30", "verse_text": "But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:" }, { "point_text": "IS FROM", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The bondage of the law", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:5", "verse_text": "To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons." }, { "point_text": "The curse of the law", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:13", "verse_text": "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:" }, { "point_text": "The power of sin", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:18", "verse_text": "Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness." }, { "point_text": "The power of sin", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:22", "verse_text": "But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life." }, { "point_text": "The power of the grave", "verse_ref": "Psalm 49:15", "verse_text": "But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah." }, { "point_text": "All troubles", "verse_ref": "Psalm 25:22", "verse_text": "Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles." }, { "point_text": "All iniquity", "verse_ref": "Psalm 130:8", "verse_text": "And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities." }, { "point_text": "All iniquity", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:14", "verse_text": "Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works." }, { "point_text": "All evil", "verse_ref": "Genesis 48:16", "verse_text": "The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth." }, { "point_text": "The present evil world", "verse_ref": "Galatians 1:4", "verse_text": "Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:" }, { "point_text": "Vain conversation", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:18", "verse_text": "Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;" }, { "point_text": "Enemies", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:10-11", "verse_text": "And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. 11 And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left." }, { "point_text": "Death", "verse_ref": "Hosea 13:14", "verse_text": "I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes." }, { "point_text": "Destruction", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:4", "verse_text": "Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;" }, { "point_text": "Man cannot effect", "verse_ref": "Psalm 49:7", "verse_text": "None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:" }, { "point_text": "Corruptible things cannot purchase", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:18", "verse_text": "Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;" }, { "point_text": "PROCURES FOR US", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Justification", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:24", "verse_text": "Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:" }, { "point_text": "Forgiveness of sin", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:7", "verse_text": "In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;" }, { "point_text": "Forgiveness of sin", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:14", "verse_text": "In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:" }, { "point_text": "Adoption", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:4-5", "verse_text": "But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons." }, { "point_text": "Purification", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:14", "verse_text": "Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works." }, { "point_text": "The present life, the only season for", "verse_ref": "Job 36:18-19", "verse_text": "Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee. 19 Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Precious", "verse_ref": "Psalm 49:8", "verse_text": "(For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)" }, { "point_text": "Plenteous", "verse_ref": "Psalm 130:7", "verse_text": "Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption." }, { "point_text": "Eternal", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:12", "verse_text": "Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us." }, { "point_text": "SUBJECTS OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The soul", "verse_ref": "Psalm 49:15", "verse_text": "But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah." }, { "point_text": "The body", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:23", "verse_text": "And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body." }, { "point_text": "The life", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:4", "verse_text": "Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;" }, { "point_text": "The life", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:58", "verse_text": "O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life." }, { "point_text": "The inheritance", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:14", "verse_text": "Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory." }, { "point_text": "MANIFESTS THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Power of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 50:2", "verse_text": "Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst." }, { "point_text": "Grace of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 52:3", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money." }, { "point_text": "Love and pity of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:9", "verse_text": "In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old." }, { "point_text": "Love and pity of God", "verse_ref": "John 3:16", "verse_text": "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." }, { "point_text": "Love and pity of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:8", "verse_text": "Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:" }, { "point_text": "Love and pity of God", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:10", "verse_text": "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins." }, { "point_text": "A subject for praise", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:22", "verse_text": "I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee." }, { "point_text": "A subject for praise", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 51:11", "verse_text": "Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away." }, { "point_text": "Old Testament saints partakers of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:15", "verse_text": "And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance." }, { "point_text": "THEY WHO PARTAKE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Are the property of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 43:1", "verse_text": "But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine." }, { "point_text": "Are the property of God", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:20", "verse_text": "For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." }, { "point_text": "Are first-fruits unto God", "verse_ref": "Revelation 14:4", "verse_text": "These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb." }, { "point_text": "Are a peculiar people", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:23", "verse_text": "And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?" }, { "point_text": "Are a peculiar people", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:14", "verse_text": "Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works." }, { "point_text": "Are a peculiar people", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:9", "verse_text": "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:" }, { "point_text": "Are assured of", "verse_ref": "Job 19:25", "verse_text": "For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:" }, { "point_text": "Are assured of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 31:5", "verse_text": "Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth." }, { "point_text": "Are sealed unto the day of", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:30", "verse_text": "And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption." }, { "point_text": "Are Zealous of good works", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:10", "verse_text": "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." }, { "point_text": "Are Zealous of good works", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:14", "verse_text": "Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works." }, { "point_text": "Are Zealous of good works", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:9", "verse_text": "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:" }, { "point_text": "Walk safely in holiness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 35:8-9", "verse_text": "And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. 9 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:" }, { "point_text": "Shall return to Zion with joy", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 35:10", "verse_text": "And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away." }, { "point_text": "Alone can learn the songs of heaven", "verse_ref": "Revelation 14:3-4", "verse_text": "And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. 4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb." }, { "point_text": "Commit themselves to God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 31:5", "verse_text": "Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth." }, { "point_text": "Have an earnest of the completion of", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:14", "verse_text": "Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory." }, { "point_text": "Have an earnest of the completion of", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:22", "verse_text": "Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts." }, { "point_text": "Wait for the completion of", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:23", "verse_text": "And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body." }, { "point_text": "Wait for the completion of", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:20-21", "verse_text": "For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: 21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself." }, { "point_text": "Pray for the completion of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 26:11", "verse_text": "But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me." }, { "point_text": "Pray for the completion of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 44:26", "verse_text": "Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake." }, { "point_text": "Praise God for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 71:23", "verse_text": "My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed." }, { "point_text": "Praise God for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:4", "verse_text": "Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;" }, { "point_text": "Praise God for", "verse_ref": "Revelation 5:9", "verse_text": "And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;" }, { "point_text": "Should glorify God for", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:20", "verse_text": "For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." }, { "point_text": "Should be without fear", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 43:1", "verse_text": "But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine." }, { "point_text": "Typified.\r\n\nIsrael, \nFirst-born, \n\nAtonement-money, \nBond-servant,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 6:6", "verse_text": "Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:" }, { "point_text": "Typified.\r\n\nIsrael, \nFirst-born, \n\nAtonement-money, \nBond-servant,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:11-15", "verse_text": "And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee, 12 That thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males shall be the LORD'S. 13 And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem. 14 And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage: ..." }, { "point_text": "Typified.\r\n\nIsrael, \nFirst-born, \n\nAtonement-money, \nBond-servant,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:15", "verse_text": "Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem." }, { "point_text": "Typified.\r\n\nIsrael, \nFirst-born, \n\nAtonement-money, \nBond-servant,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:12-15", "verse_text": "When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them. 13 This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD. 14 Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the LORD. 15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls." }, { "point_text": "Typified.\r\n\nIsrael, \nFirst-born, \n\nAtonement-money, \nBond-servant,", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:47-54", "verse_text": "And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family: 48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him: 49 Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself. 50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him. ..." } ] }, { "name": "Rephaim, or Giants, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Rephaim-or-Giants-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Subdued by Chedorlaomer", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:5", "verse_text": "And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim," }, { "point_text": "Dwelt in Canaan.\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Joshua 17:15", "verse_text": "And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee." }, { "point_text": "Og the king of Bashan was of", "verse_ref": "Joshua 13:12", "verse_text": "All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out." }, { "point_text": "THE VALLEY OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "A border of Judah", "verse_ref": "Joshua 15:8", "verse_text": "And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward:" }, { "point_text": "Was exceedingly fruitful", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 17:5", "verse_text": "And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim." }, { "point_text": "David obtained victories over the Philistines in", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 5:18", "verse_text": "The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim." }, { "point_text": "David obtained victories over the Philistines in", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 5:25", "verse_text": "And David did so, as the LORD had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer." }, { "point_text": "The last of, destroyed by David and his warriors", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:4", "verse_text": "And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span." }, { "point_text": "The last of, destroyed by David and his warriors", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:49-50", "verse_text": "And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth. 50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David." }, { "point_text": "The last of, destroyed by David and his warriors", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 21:15-22", "verse_text": "Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint. 16 And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David. 17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel. 18 And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant. ..." } ] }, { "name": "Resignation", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Resignation.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Christ set an example of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:39-44", "verse_text": "And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. 40 And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? 41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. 42 He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done. ..." }, { "point_text": "Christ set an example of", "verse_ref": "John 12:27", "verse_text": "Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour." }, { "point_text": "Christ set an example of", "verse_ref": "John 18:11", "verse_text": "Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?" }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:7", "verse_text": "Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass." }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Psalm 46:10", "verse_text": "Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE EXHIBITED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Submission to the will of God", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 15:26", "verse_text": "But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him." }, { "point_text": "Submission to the will of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 42:5", "verse_text": "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance." }, { "point_text": "Submission to the will of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 42:11", "verse_text": "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God." }, { "point_text": "Submission to the sovereignty of God in His purposes", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:20-21", "verse_text": "Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? 21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?" }, { "point_text": "The prospect of death", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:13", "verse_text": "Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus." }, { "point_text": "The prospect of death", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:16-5:1", "verse_text": "For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. 1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." }, { "point_text": "Loss of goods", "verse_ref": "Job 1:15-16", "verse_text": "And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. 16 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee." }, { "point_text": "Loss of goods", "verse_ref": "Job 1:21", "verse_text": "And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Loss of children", "verse_ref": "Job 1:18-19", "verse_text": "While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: 19 And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee." }, { "point_text": "Loss of children", "verse_ref": "Job 1:21", "verse_text": "And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Chastisements", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:9", "verse_text": "Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?" }, { "point_text": "Bodily suffering", "verse_ref": "Job 2:8-10", "verse_text": "And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes. 9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. 10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips." }, { "point_text": "The wicked are devoid of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:3", "verse_text": "The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exhortation to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:1-11", "verse_text": "Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. 3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. 4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. ..." }, { "point_text": "MOTIVES TO;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "God's greatness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 46:10", "verse_text": "Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth." }, { "point_text": "God's love", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:6", "verse_text": "For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth." }, { "point_text": "God's justice", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:33", "verse_text": "Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:" }, { "point_text": "God's wisdom", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:32-33", "verse_text": "For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. 33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!" }, { "point_text": "God's faithfulness", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:19", "verse_text": "Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator." }, { "point_text": "Our own sinfulness", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:39", "verse_text": "Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?" }, { "point_text": "Our own sinfulness", "verse_ref": "Micah 7:9", "verse_text": "I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nAaron, \nIsraelites, \nEli, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nJob, \nStephen, \nPaul, \nDisciples, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:14", "verse_text": "And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nAaron, \nIsraelites, \nEli, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nJob, \nStephen, \nPaul, \nDisciples, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 10:3", "verse_text": "Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nAaron, \nIsraelites, \nEli, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nJob, \nStephen, \nPaul, \nDisciples, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "Judges 10:15", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nAaron, \nIsraelites, \nEli, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nJob, \nStephen, \nPaul, \nDisciples, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 3:18", "verse_text": "And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nAaron, \nIsraelites, \nEli, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nJob, \nStephen, \nPaul, \nDisciples, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:23", "verse_text": "But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nAaron, \nIsraelites, \nEli, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nJob, \nStephen, \nPaul, \nDisciples, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:19", "verse_text": "Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nAaron, \nIsraelites, \nEli, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nJob, \nStephen, \nPaul, \nDisciples, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "Job 2:10", "verse_text": "But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nAaron, \nIsraelites, \nEli, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nJob, \nStephen, \nPaul, \nDisciples, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:59", "verse_text": "And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nAaron, \nIsraelites, \nEli, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nJob, \nStephen, \nPaul, \nDisciples, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:13", "verse_text": "Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nAaron, \nIsraelites, \nEli, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nJob, \nStephen, \nPaul, \nDisciples, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:14", "verse_text": "And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nAaron, \nIsraelites, \nEli, \nDavid, \nHezekiah, \nJob, \nStephen, \nPaul, \nDisciples, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:14", "verse_text": "Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me." } ] }, { "name": "Repentance", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Repentance.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "What it is", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:22", "verse_text": "Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else." }, { "point_text": "What it is", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:19-21", "verse_text": "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." }, { "point_text": "What it is", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:15", "verse_text": "And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:" }, { "point_text": "What it is", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:17", "verse_text": "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." }, { "point_text": "What it is", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:2", "verse_text": "Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth." }, { "point_text": "What it is", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 1:9", "verse_text": "For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;" }, { "point_text": "What it is", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:1-2", "verse_text": "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." }, { "point_text": "Commanded to all by God", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 18:30-32", "verse_text": "Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? 32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye." }, { "point_text": "Commanded to all by God", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:30", "verse_text": "And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:" }, { "point_text": "Commanded by Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:5", "verse_text": "Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent." }, { "point_text": "Commanded by Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:3", "verse_text": "Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee." }, { "point_text": "Given by God", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:18", "verse_text": "When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life." }, { "point_text": "Given by God", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:25", "verse_text": "In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;" }, { "point_text": "Christ came to call sinners to", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:13", "verse_text": "But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." }, { "point_text": "Christ exalted to give", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:31", "verse_text": "Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins." }, { "point_text": "By the operation of the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 12:10", "verse_text": "And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn." }, { "point_text": "Called repentance unto life", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:18", "verse_text": "When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life." }, { "point_text": "Called repentance unto salvation", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 7:10", "verse_text": "For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death." }, { "point_text": "WE SHOULD BE LED TO, BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The long-suffering of God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 6:3", "verse_text": "And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years." }, { "point_text": "The long-suffering of God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:20", "verse_text": "Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water." }, { "point_text": "The long-suffering of God", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:9", "verse_text": "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." }, { "point_text": "The goodness of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:4", "verse_text": "Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?" }, { "point_text": "The chastisements of God", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:47", "verse_text": "Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;" }, { "point_text": "The chastisements of God", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:19", "verse_text": "As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent." }, { "point_text": "Godly sorrow works", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 7:10", "verse_text": "For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death." }, { "point_text": "Necessary to the pardon of sin", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:38", "verse_text": "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Necessary to the pardon of sin", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:19", "verse_text": "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;" }, { "point_text": "Necessary to the pardon of sin", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:22", "verse_text": "Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee." }, { "point_text": "Conviction of sin necessary to", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:38", "verse_text": "What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:" }, { "point_text": "Conviction of sin necessary to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:13", "verse_text": "He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy." }, { "point_text": "Conviction of sin necessary to", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:37", "verse_text": "Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?" }, { "point_text": "Conviction of sin necessary to", "verse_ref": "Acts 19:18", "verse_text": "And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds." }, { "point_text": "PREACHED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "By Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:17", "verse_text": "From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." }, { "point_text": "By Christ", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:15", "verse_text": "And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel." }, { "point_text": "By John the Baptist", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:2", "verse_text": "And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." }, { "point_text": "By the Apostles", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:12", "verse_text": "And they went out, and preached that men should repent." }, { "point_text": "By the Apostles", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:21", "verse_text": "Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "In the name of Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:47", "verse_text": "And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Not to be repented of", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 7:10", "verse_text": "For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death." }, { "point_text": "The present time the season for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 95:7-8", "verse_text": "For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice, 8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:" }, { "point_text": "There is joy in heaven over one sinner brought to", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:7", "verse_text": "I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance." }, { "point_text": "There is joy in heaven over one sinner brought to", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:10", "verse_text": "Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth." }, { "point_text": "Ministers should rejoice over their people on their", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 7:9", "verse_text": "Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing." }, { "point_text": "Should be evidenced by fruits", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:16-17", "verse_text": "Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE ACCOMPANIED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Humility", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:14", "verse_text": "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." }, { "point_text": "Humility", "verse_ref": "James 4:9-10", "verse_text": "Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up." }, { "point_text": "Shame and confusion", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:6-15", "verse_text": "And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens. 7 Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day. 8 And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage. 9 For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem. ..." }, { "point_text": "Shame and confusion", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:19", "verse_text": "Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth." }, { "point_text": "Shame and confusion", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:61", "verse_text": "Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant." }, { "point_text": "Shame and confusion", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:63", "verse_text": "That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Self-abhorrence", "verse_ref": "Job 42:6", "verse_text": "Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes." }, { "point_text": "Confession", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:40", "verse_text": "If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;" }, { "point_text": "Confession", "verse_ref": "Job 33:27", "verse_text": "He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;" }, { "point_text": "Faith", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:32", "verse_text": "For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him." }, { "point_text": "Faith", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:15", "verse_text": "And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel." }, { "point_text": "Faith", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:21", "verse_text": "Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Prayer", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:33", "verse_text": "When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:" }, { "point_text": "Prayer", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:22", "verse_text": "Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee." }, { "point_text": "Conversion", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:19", "verse_text": "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;" }, { "point_text": "Conversion", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:20", "verse_text": "But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance." }, { "point_text": "Turning from sin", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 6:26", "verse_text": "When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;" }, { "point_text": "Turning from idolatry", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 14:6", "verse_text": "Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations." }, { "point_text": "Turning from idolatry", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 1:9", "verse_text": "For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;" }, { "point_text": "Greater zeal in the path of duty", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 7:11", "verse_text": "For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 14:6", "verse_text": "Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 18:30", "verse_text": "Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:38", "verse_text": "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:19", "verse_text": "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;" }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Averse to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:6", "verse_text": "I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle." }, { "point_text": "Averse to", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:32", "verse_text": "For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him." }, { "point_text": "Not led to by the judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Revelation 9:20", "verse_text": "And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:" }, { "point_text": "Not led to by the judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Revelation 16:9", "verse_text": "And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory." }, { "point_text": "Not led to, by miraculous interference", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:30-31", "verse_text": "And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. 31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead." }, { "point_text": "Neglect the time given for", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:21", "verse_text": "And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not." }, { "point_text": "Condemned for neglecting", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:20", "verse_text": "Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:" }, { "point_text": "Danger of neglecting", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:20-24", "verse_text": "Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not: 21 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you. 23 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. ..." }, { "point_text": "Danger of neglecting", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:3", "verse_text": "I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish." }, { "point_text": "Danger of neglecting", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:5", "verse_text": "I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish." }, { "point_text": "Neglect of, followed by swift judgment", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:5", "verse_text": "Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent." }, { "point_text": "Neglect of, followed by swift judgment", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:16", "verse_text": "Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth." }, { "point_text": "Denied to apostates", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:4-6", "verse_text": "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated.\r\n\n\nThe Prodigal Son, \nThe Repentant Son, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:18-21", "verse_text": "I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, 19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. 20 And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. 21 And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated.\r\n\n\nThe Prodigal Son, \nThe Repentant Son, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:13", "verse_text": "And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated.\r\n\n\nThe Prodigal Son, \nThe Repentant Son, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:17-19", "verse_text": "And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! 18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, 19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated.\r\n\n\nThe Prodigal Son, \nThe Repentant Son, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:29", "verse_text": "He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated.\r\n\n\nThe Prodigal Son, \nThe Repentant Son, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Galatians 1:23", "verse_text": "But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed." }, { "point_text": "True--Exemplified.\r\n\nIsraelites, \nDavid, \nManasseh, \nJob, \nNineveh, \n\nPeter, \nZaccheus, \nThief on the Cross, \nCorinthians,", "verse_ref": "Judges 10:15-16", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day. 16 And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel." }, { "point_text": "True--Exemplified.\r\n\nIsraelites, \nDavid, \nManasseh, \nJob, \nNineveh, \n\nPeter, \nZaccheus, \nThief on the Cross, \nCorinthians,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:13", "verse_text": "And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die." }, { "point_text": "True--Exemplified.\r\n\nIsraelites, \nDavid, \nManasseh, \nJob, \nNineveh, \n\nPeter, \nZaccheus, \nThief on the Cross, \nCorinthians,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:12-13", "verse_text": "And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, 13 And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God." }, { "point_text": "True--Exemplified.\r\n\nIsraelites, \nDavid, \nManasseh, \nJob, \nNineveh, \n\nPeter, \nZaccheus, \nThief on the Cross, \nCorinthians,", "verse_ref": "Job 42:6", "verse_text": "Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes." }, { "point_text": "True--Exemplified.\r\n\nIsraelites, \nDavid, \nManasseh, \nJob, \nNineveh, \n\nPeter, \nZaccheus, \nThief on the Cross, \nCorinthians,", "verse_ref": "Jonah 3:5-8", "verse_text": "So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: 8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands." }, { "point_text": "True--Exemplified.\r\n\nIsraelites, \nDavid, \nManasseh, \nJob, \nNineveh, \n\nPeter, \nZaccheus, \nThief on the Cross, \nCorinthians,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:41", "verse_text": "The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here." }, { "point_text": "True--Exemplified.\r\n\nIsraelites, \nDavid, \nManasseh, \nJob, \nNineveh, \n\nPeter, \nZaccheus, \nThief on the Cross, \nCorinthians,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:75", "verse_text": "And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly." }, { "point_text": "True--Exemplified.\r\n\nIsraelites, \nDavid, \nManasseh, \nJob, \nNineveh, \n\nPeter, \nZaccheus, \nThief on the Cross, \nCorinthians,", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:8", "verse_text": "And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold." }, { "point_text": "True--Exemplified.\r\n\nIsraelites, \nDavid, \nManasseh, \nJob, \nNineveh, \n\nPeter, \nZaccheus, \nThief on the Cross, \nCorinthians,", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:40-41", "verse_text": "But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? 41 And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss." }, { "point_text": "True--Exemplified.\r\n\nIsraelites, \nDavid, \nManasseh, \nJob, \nNineveh, \n\nPeter, \nZaccheus, \nThief on the Cross, \nCorinthians,", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 7:9-10", "verse_text": "Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. 10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death." }, { "point_text": "False--Exemplified.\r\n\nSaul, \nAhab, \nJudas,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:24-30", "verse_text": "And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice. 25 Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD. 26 And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from being king over Israel. 27 And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent. ..." }, { "point_text": "False--Exemplified.\r\n\nSaul, \nAhab, \nJudas,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:27-29", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly. 28 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 29 Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house." }, { "point_text": "False--Exemplified.\r\n\nSaul, \nAhab, \nJudas,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:3-5", "verse_text": "Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that. 5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself." } ] }, { "name": "Resurrection of Christ, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Resurrection-of-Christ-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Foretold by the prophets", "verse_ref": "Psalm 16:10", "verse_text": "For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption." }, { "point_text": "Foretold by the prophets", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:34-35", "verse_text": "And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. 35 Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption." }, { "point_text": "Foretold by Himself", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:19", "verse_text": "And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again." }, { "point_text": "Foretold by Himself", "verse_ref": "Mark 9:9", "verse_text": "And as they came down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man were risen from the dead." }, { "point_text": "Foretold by Himself", "verse_ref": "Mark 14:28", "verse_text": "But after that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee." }, { "point_text": "Foretold by Himself", "verse_ref": "John 2:19-22", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. 20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? 21 But he spake of the temple of his body. 22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said." }, { "point_text": "WAS NECESSARY TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The fulfilment of Scripture", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:45-46", "verse_text": "Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, 46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:" }, { "point_text": "Forgiveness of sins", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:17", "verse_text": "And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins." }, { "point_text": "Justification", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:25", "verse_text": "Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification." }, { "point_text": "Justification", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:34", "verse_text": "Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us." }, { "point_text": "Hope", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:19", "verse_text": "If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable." }, { "point_text": "The efficacy of preaching", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:14", "verse_text": "And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain." }, { "point_text": "The efficacy of faith", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:14", "verse_text": "And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain." }, { "point_text": "The efficacy of faith", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:17", "verse_text": "And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins." }, { "point_text": "A proof of His being the Son of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:7", "verse_text": "I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee." }, { "point_text": "A proof of His being the Son of God", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:33", "verse_text": "God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee." }, { "point_text": "A proof of His being the Son of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:4", "verse_text": "And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:" }, { "point_text": "EFFECTED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The power of God", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:24", "verse_text": "Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it." }, { "point_text": "The power of God", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:15", "verse_text": "And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses." }, { "point_text": "The power of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:11", "verse_text": "But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you." }, { "point_text": "The power of God", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:20", "verse_text": "Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places," }, { "point_text": "The power of God", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:12", "verse_text": "Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead." }, { "point_text": "His own power", "verse_ref": "John 2:19", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." }, { "point_text": "His own power", "verse_ref": "John 10:18", "verse_text": "No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father." }, { "point_text": "The power of the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:18", "verse_text": "For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:" }, { "point_text": "On the first day of the week", "verse_ref": "Mark 16:9", "verse_text": "Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils." }, { "point_text": "On the third day after His death", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:46", "verse_text": "And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:" }, { "point_text": "On the third day after His death", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:40", "verse_text": "Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly;" }, { "point_text": "On the third day after His death", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:4", "verse_text": "And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:" }, { "point_text": "THE APOSTLES", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "At first did not understand the predictions respecting", "verse_ref": "Mark 9:10", "verse_text": "And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean." }, { "point_text": "At first did not understand the predictions respecting", "verse_ref": "John 20:9", "verse_text": "For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead." }, { "point_text": "Very slow to believe", "verse_ref": "Mark 16:13", "verse_text": "And they went and told it unto the residue: neither believed they them." }, { "point_text": "Very slow to believe", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:9", "verse_text": "And returned from the sepulchre, and told all these things unto the eleven, and to all the rest." }, { "point_text": "Very slow to believe", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:11", "verse_text": "And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not." }, { "point_text": "Very slow to believe", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:37-38", "verse_text": "But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. 38 And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?" }, { "point_text": "Reproved for their unbelief of", "verse_ref": "Mark 16:14", "verse_text": "Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen." }, { "point_text": "HE APPEARED AFTER TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Mary Magdalene", "verse_ref": "Mark 16:9", "verse_text": "Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils." }, { "point_text": "Mary Magdalene", "verse_ref": "John 20:18", "verse_text": "Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her." }, { "point_text": "The women", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:9", "verse_text": "And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him." }, { "point_text": "Simon Peter", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:34", "verse_text": "Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon." }, { "point_text": "Two disciples", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:13-31", "verse_text": "And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs. 14 And they talked together of all these things which had happened. 15 And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them. 16 But their eyes were holden that they should not know him. ..." }, { "point_text": "Apostles, except Thomas", "verse_ref": "John 20:19", "verse_text": "Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you." }, { "point_text": "Apostles, except Thomas", "verse_ref": "John 20:24", "verse_text": "But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came." }, { "point_text": "Apostles, Thomas being present", "verse_ref": "John 20:26", "verse_text": "And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you." }, { "point_text": "Apostles at the sea of Tiberias", "verse_ref": "John 21:1", "verse_text": "After these things Jesus shewed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and on this wise shewed he himself." }, { "point_text": "Apostles in Galilee", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:16-17", "verse_text": "Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. 17 And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted." }, { "point_text": "Above five hundred brethren", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:6", "verse_text": "After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep." }, { "point_text": "James", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:7", "verse_text": "After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles." }, { "point_text": "All the Apostles", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:51", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven." }, { "point_text": "All the Apostles", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:9", "verse_text": "And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight." }, { "point_text": "All the Apostles", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:7", "verse_text": "After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles." }, { "point_text": "Paul", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:8", "verse_text": "And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time." }, { "point_text": "Fraud impossible in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:63-66", "verse_text": "Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. 64 Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first. 65 Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can. 66 So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch." }, { "point_text": "He gave many infallible proofs of", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:35", "verse_text": "And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread." }, { "point_text": "He gave many infallible proofs of", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:39", "verse_text": "Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have." }, { "point_text": "He gave many infallible proofs of", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:43", "verse_text": "And he took it, and did eat before them." }, { "point_text": "WAS ATTESTED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Angels", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:5-7", "verse_text": "And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. 6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. 7 And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you." }, { "point_text": "Angels", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:4-7", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments: 5 And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead? 6 He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee, 7 Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again." }, { "point_text": "Angels", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:23", "verse_text": "And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive." }, { "point_text": "Apostles", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:22", "verse_text": "Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection." }, { "point_text": "Apostles", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:32", "verse_text": "This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses." }, { "point_text": "Apostles", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:15", "verse_text": "And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses." }, { "point_text": "Apostles", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:33", "verse_text": "And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all." }, { "point_text": "His enemies", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:11-15", "verse_text": "Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and shewed unto the chief priests all the things that were done. 12 And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers, 13 Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept. 14 And if this come to the governor's ears, we will persuade him, and secure you. ..." }, { "point_text": "Asserted and preached by the Apostles", "verse_ref": "Acts 25:19", "verse_text": "But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive." }, { "point_text": "Asserted and preached by the Apostles", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:23", "verse_text": "That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Begotten to a lively hope", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:3", "verse_text": "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead," }, { "point_text": "Begotten to a lively hope", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:21", "verse_text": "Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God." }, { "point_text": "Desire to know the power of", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:10", "verse_text": "That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;" }, { "point_text": "Should keep, in remembrance", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:8", "verse_text": "Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:" }, { "point_text": "Shall rise in the likeness of", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:5", "verse_text": "For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:" }, { "point_text": "Shall rise in the likeness of", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:49", "verse_text": "And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly." }, { "point_text": "Shall rise in the likeness of", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:21", "verse_text": "Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself." }, { "point_text": "Is an emblem of the new birth", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:4", "verse_text": "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." }, { "point_text": "Is an emblem of the new birth", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:12", "verse_text": "Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead." }, { "point_text": "The first-fruits of our resurrection", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:23", "verse_text": "That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles." }, { "point_text": "The first-fruits of our resurrection", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:20", "verse_text": "But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept." }, { "point_text": "The first-fruits of our resurrection", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:23", "verse_text": "But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming." }, { "point_text": "The truth of the gospel involved in", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:14-15", "verse_text": "And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. 15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not." }, { "point_text": "Followed by His exaltation", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:10-11", "verse_text": "Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. 11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner." }, { "point_text": "An assurance of the judgment", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:31", "verse_text": "Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead." }, { "point_text": "Typified.\r\n\nIsaac, \n\nJonah,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:13", "verse_text": "And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son." }, { "point_text": "Typified.\r\n\nIsaac, \n\nJonah,", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:19", "verse_text": "Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure." }, { "point_text": "Typified.\r\n\nIsaac, \n\nJonah,", "verse_ref": "Jonah 2:10", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land." }, { "point_text": "Typified.\r\n\nIsaac, \n\nJonah,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:40", "verse_text": "For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth." } ] }, { "name": "Reproof", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Reproof.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "God gives reproof to His own children", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:14", "verse_text": "I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:" }, { "point_text": "God gives reproof to His own children", "verse_ref": "Job 5:17", "verse_text": "Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:" }, { "point_text": "God gives reproof to His own children", "verse_ref": "Psalm 94:12", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;" }, { "point_text": "God gives reproof to His own children", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:67", "verse_text": "Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word." }, { "point_text": "God gives reproof to His own children", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:71", "verse_text": "It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes." }, { "point_text": "God gives reproof to His own children", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:75", "verse_text": "I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me." }, { "point_text": "God gives, to the wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:21", "verse_text": "These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes." }, { "point_text": "God gives, to the wicked", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 51:20", "verse_text": "Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God." }, { "point_text": "Christ sent to give", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:4", "verse_text": "And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." }, { "point_text": "Christ sent to give", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:3", "verse_text": "And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:" }, { "point_text": "The Holy Spirit gives", "verse_ref": "John 16:7-8", "verse_text": "Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. 8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:" }, { "point_text": "Christ gives, in love", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:19", "verse_text": "As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent." }, { "point_text": "ON ACCOUNT OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Impenitence", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:20-24", "verse_text": "Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not: 21 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you. 23 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. ..." }, { "point_text": "Not understanding", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:9", "verse_text": "Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?" }, { "point_text": "Not understanding", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:11", "verse_text": "How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?" }, { "point_text": "Hardness of heart", "verse_ref": "Mark 8:17", "verse_text": "And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?" }, { "point_text": "Hardness of heart", "verse_ref": "Mark 16:14", "verse_text": "Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen." }, { "point_text": "Fearfulness", "verse_ref": "Mark 4:40", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?" }, { "point_text": "Fearfulness", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:37-38", "verse_text": "But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. 38 And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?" }, { "point_text": "Unbelief", "verse_ref": "Matthew 17:17", "verse_text": "Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me." }, { "point_text": "Unbelief", "verse_ref": "Matthew 17:20", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you." }, { "point_text": "Vain boasting", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:34", "verse_text": "And he said, I tell thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me." }, { "point_text": "Hypocrisy", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:7", "verse_text": "Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying," }, { "point_text": "Hypocrisy", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:13", "verse_text": "But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in." }, { "point_text": "Reviling Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:40", "verse_text": "But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?" }, { "point_text": "Unruly conduct", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:14", "verse_text": "Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men." }, { "point_text": "Oppressing our brethren", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 5:7", "verse_text": "Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them." }, { "point_text": "Sinful practices", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:13", "verse_text": "And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves." }, { "point_text": "Sinful practices", "verse_ref": "Luke 3:19", "verse_text": "But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done," }, { "point_text": "Sinful practices", "verse_ref": "John 2:16", "verse_text": "And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise." }, { "point_text": "The Scriptures are profitable for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:7-11", "verse_text": "The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. 8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. 9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. 10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. ..." }, { "point_text": "The Scriptures are profitable for", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:16", "verse_text": "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:" }, { "point_text": "WHEN FROM GOD,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Is for correction", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:11", "verse_text": "When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Is despised by the wicked", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:30", "verse_text": "They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof." }, { "point_text": "Should not discourage saints", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:5", "verse_text": "And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:" }, { "point_text": "Pray that it be not be in anger", "verse_ref": "Psalm 6:1", "verse_text": "O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure." }, { "point_text": "Should be accompanied by exhortation to repentance", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 12:20-25", "verse_text": "And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart; 21 And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain. 22 For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people. 23 Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way: ..." }, { "point_text": "DECLARED TO BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Better than secret love", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:5", "verse_text": "Open rebuke is better than secret love." }, { "point_text": "Better than the praise of fools", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 7:5", "verse_text": "It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools." }, { "point_text": "An excellent oil", "verse_ref": "Psalm 141:5", "verse_text": "Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities." }, { "point_text": "More profitable to saints, than stripes to a fool", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:10", "verse_text": "A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool." }, { "point_text": "A proof of faithful friendship", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:6", "verse_text": "Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful." }, { "point_text": "LEADS TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Understanding", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:32", "verse_text": "He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding." }, { "point_text": "Knowledge", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:25", "verse_text": "Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge." }, { "point_text": "Wisdom", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:31", "verse_text": "The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise." }, { "point_text": "Wisdom", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 29:15", "verse_text": "The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame." }, { "point_text": "Honor", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 13:18", "verse_text": "Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured." }, { "point_text": "Happiness", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:23", "verse_text": "For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:" }, { "point_text": "Eventually brings more respect than flattery", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:23", "verse_text": "He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue." }, { "point_text": "Of those who offend, a warning to others", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:17", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him." }, { "point_text": "Of those who offend, a warning to others", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:3-4", "verse_text": "But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? 4 Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God." }, { "point_text": "Of those who offend, a warning to others", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:9", "verse_text": "Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out." }, { "point_text": "Of those who offend, a warning to others", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:20", "verse_text": "Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear." }, { "point_text": "Of those who offend, a warning to others", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:10", "verse_text": "For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:" }, { "point_text": "Of those who offend, a warning to others", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:13", "verse_text": "This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;" }, { "point_text": "Hypocrites not qualified to give", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:5", "verse_text": "Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye." }, { "point_text": "Ministers are sent to give", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 44:4", "verse_text": "Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate." }, { "point_text": "Ministers are sent to give", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 3:17", "verse_text": "Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me." }, { "point_text": "Ministers are empowered to give", "verse_ref": "Micah 3:8", "verse_text": "But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin." }, { "point_text": "MINISTERS SHOULD GIVE,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Openly", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:20", "verse_text": "Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear." }, { "point_text": "Fearlessly", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 2:3-7", "verse_text": "And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day. 4 For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD. 5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them. 6 And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house. ..." }, { "point_text": "With all authority", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:15", "verse_text": "These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee." }, { "point_text": "With long-suffering, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:2", "verse_text": "Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine." }, { "point_text": "Unreservedly", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:1", "verse_text": "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins." }, { "point_text": "Sharply, if necessary", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:13", "verse_text": "This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;" }, { "point_text": "With Christian love", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 3:15", "verse_text": "Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother." }, { "point_text": "They who give, are hated by scorners", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 9:8", "verse_text": "Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee." }, { "point_text": "They who give, are hated by scorners", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:12", "verse_text": "A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise." }, { "point_text": "Hatred of, a proof of brutishness", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:1", "verse_text": "Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish." }, { "point_text": "Hatred of, leads to destruction", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:10", "verse_text": "Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die." }, { "point_text": "Hatred of, leads to destruction", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 29:1", "verse_text": "He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy." }, { "point_text": "Contempt of, leads to remorse", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 5:12", "verse_text": "And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;" }, { "point_text": "Rejection of, leads to error", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:17", "verse_text": "He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Give", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:17", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him." }, { "point_text": "Give", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:11", "verse_text": "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." }, { "point_text": "Give no occasion for", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:15", "verse_text": "That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;" }, { "point_text": "Receive kindly", "verse_ref": "Psalm 141:5", "verse_text": "Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities." }, { "point_text": "Love those who give", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 9:8", "verse_text": "Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee." }, { "point_text": "Delight in those who give", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 24:25", "verse_text": "But to them that rebuke him shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them." }, { "point_text": "Attention to a proof of prudence", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:5", "verse_text": "A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSamuel, \nNathan, \nAhijah, \nElijah, \nElisha, \nJoab, \nShemaiah, \nHanani, \nZechariah, \nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \n\nStephen, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:13", "verse_text": "And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSamuel, \nNathan, \nAhijah, \nElijah, \nElisha, \nJoab, \nShemaiah, \nHanani, \nZechariah, \nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \n\nStephen, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:7-9", "verse_text": "And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul; 8 And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things. 9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSamuel, \nNathan, \nAhijah, \nElijah, \nElisha, \nJoab, \nShemaiah, \nHanani, \nZechariah, \nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \n\nStephen, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 14:7-11", "verse_text": "Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel, 8 And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes; 9 But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back: 10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSamuel, \nNathan, \nAhijah, \nElijah, \nElisha, \nJoab, \nShemaiah, \nHanani, \nZechariah, \nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \n\nStephen, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:20", "verse_text": "And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSamuel, \nNathan, \nAhijah, \nElijah, \nElisha, \nJoab, \nShemaiah, \nHanani, \nZechariah, \nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \n\nStephen, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:26", "verse_text": "And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSamuel, \nNathan, \nAhijah, \nElijah, \nElisha, \nJoab, \nShemaiah, \nHanani, \nZechariah, \nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \n\nStephen, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 21:3", "verse_text": "And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSamuel, \nNathan, \nAhijah, \nElijah, \nElisha, \nJoab, \nShemaiah, \nHanani, \nZechariah, \nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \n\nStephen, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 12:5", "verse_text": "Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSamuel, \nNathan, \nAhijah, \nElijah, \nElisha, \nJoab, \nShemaiah, \nHanani, \nZechariah, \nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \n\nStephen, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 16:7", "verse_text": "And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSamuel, \nNathan, \nAhijah, \nElijah, \nElisha, \nJoab, \nShemaiah, \nHanani, \nZechariah, \nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \n\nStephen, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 24:20", "verse_text": "And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSamuel, \nNathan, \nAhijah, \nElijah, \nElisha, \nJoab, \nShemaiah, \nHanani, \nZechariah, \nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \n\nStephen, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:22-23", "verse_text": "And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this; 23 But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSamuel, \nNathan, \nAhijah, \nElijah, \nElisha, \nJoab, \nShemaiah, \nHanani, \nZechariah, \nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \n\nStephen, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:7", "verse_text": "But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSamuel, \nNathan, \nAhijah, \nElijah, \nElisha, \nJoab, \nShemaiah, \nHanani, \nZechariah, \nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \n\nStephen, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Luke 3:19", "verse_text": "But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSamuel, \nNathan, \nAhijah, \nElijah, \nElisha, \nJoab, \nShemaiah, \nHanani, \nZechariah, \nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \n\nStephen, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:51", "verse_text": "Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSamuel, \nNathan, \nAhijah, \nElijah, \nElisha, \nJoab, \nShemaiah, \nHanani, \nZechariah, \nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \n\nStephen, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:20", "verse_text": "But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSamuel, \nNathan, \nAhijah, \nElijah, \nElisha, \nJoab, \nShemaiah, \nHanani, \nZechariah, \nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \n\nStephen, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:10-13", "verse_text": "Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. 11 For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. 12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. 13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSamuel, \nNathan, \nAhijah, \nElijah, \nElisha, \nJoab, \nShemaiah, \nHanani, \nZechariah, \nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \n\nStephen, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 5:1-5", "verse_text": "It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. 2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. 3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSamuel, \nNathan, \nAhijah, \nElijah, \nElisha, \nJoab, \nShemaiah, \nHanani, \nZechariah, \nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \n\nStephen, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:1-8", "verse_text": "Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? 2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? 4 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSamuel, \nNathan, \nAhijah, \nElijah, \nElisha, \nJoab, \nShemaiah, \nHanani, \nZechariah, \nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \n\nStephen, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:17-22", "verse_text": "Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse. 18 For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. 19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you. 20 When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSamuel, \nNathan, \nAhijah, \nElijah, \nElisha, \nJoab, \nShemaiah, \nHanani, \nZechariah, \nDaniel, \nJohn the Baptist, \n\nStephen, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:11", "verse_text": "But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed." } ] }, { "name": "Purifications or Baptisms", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Purifications-or-Baptisms.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Of Israel at the exodus", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:22", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left." }, { "point_text": "Of Israel at the exodus", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:2", "verse_text": "And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;" }, { "point_text": "Of Israel before receiving the law", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:10", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes," }, { "point_text": "Of priests before consecration", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:4", "verse_text": "And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water." }, { "point_text": "Of Levites before consecration", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:6-7", "verse_text": "Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them. 7 And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean." }, { "point_text": "Of high priest on day of atonement", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:4", "verse_text": "He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on." }, { "point_text": "Of high priest on day of atonement", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:24", "verse_text": "And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for the people." }, { "point_text": "Of things for burnt-offerings", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 4:6", "verse_text": "He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in." }, { "point_text": "Of individuals who were ceremonially unclean", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 15:2-13", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean. 3 And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness. 4 Every bed, whereon he lieth that hath the issue, is unclean: and every thing, whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean. 5 And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. ..." }, { "point_text": "Of individuals who were ceremonially unclean", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 17:15", "verse_text": "And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean." }, { "point_text": "Of individuals who were ceremonially unclean", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:4-7", "verse_text": "What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him; 5 Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath; 6 The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water. 7 And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food." }, { "point_text": "Of individuals who were ceremonially unclean", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:7-12", "verse_text": "Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even. 8 And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even. 9 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin. 10 And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever. ..." }, { "point_text": "Of individuals who were ceremonially unclean", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:21", "verse_text": "And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even." }, { "point_text": "Of the healed leper", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:8-9", "verse_text": "And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days. 9 But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean." }, { "point_text": "Of Nazarites after vow expired", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:24", "verse_text": "Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law." }, { "point_text": "Of Nazarites after vow expired", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:26", "verse_text": "Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them." }, { "point_text": "Used by the devout before entering God's house", "verse_ref": "Psalm 26:6", "verse_text": "I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Used by the devout before entering God's house", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:22", "verse_text": "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water." }, { "point_text": "Multiplied by traditions", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:2", "verse_text": "Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread." }, { "point_text": "Multiplied by traditions", "verse_ref": "Mark 7:3-4", "verse_text": "For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. 4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables." }, { "point_text": "MEANS USED FOR;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Water of separation", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:9", "verse_text": "And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin." }, { "point_text": "Running water", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 15:13", "verse_text": "And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean." }, { "point_text": "Water mixed with blood", "verse_ref": "Exodus 24:5-8", "verse_text": "And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD. 6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. 7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient. 8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words." }, { "point_text": "Water mixed with blood", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:19", "verse_text": "For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people," }, { "point_text": "WAS BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Sprinkling", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:13", "verse_text": "Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him." }, { "point_text": "Sprinkling", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:18", "verse_text": "And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:" }, { "point_text": "Washing parts of the body", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:19", "verse_text": "For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat:" }, { "point_text": "Washing the whole body", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:6", "verse_text": "And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water." }, { "point_text": "Washing the whole body", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:9", "verse_text": "But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean." }, { "point_text": "Of priests performed in the brazen laver", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:18", "verse_text": "Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein." }, { "point_text": "Of priests performed in the brazen laver", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 4:6", "verse_text": "He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in." }, { "point_text": "Vessels in the houses of the Jews for", "verse_ref": "John 2:6", "verse_text": "And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece." }, { "point_text": "Consequence of neglecting those prescribed by law", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 17:16", "verse_text": "But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall bear his iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Consequence of neglecting those prescribed by law", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:13", "verse_text": "Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him." }, { "point_text": "Consequence of neglecting those prescribed by law", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:20", "verse_text": "But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean." }, { "point_text": "Availed to sanctifying the flesh", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:13", "verse_text": "For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:" }, { "point_text": "Insufficient for spiritual purification", "verse_ref": "Job 9:30-31", "verse_text": "If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; 31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me." }, { "point_text": "The Jews laid great stress on", "verse_ref": "John 3:25", "verse_text": "Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Purification by the blood of Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:9-12", "verse_text": "Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; 10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation. 11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us." }, { "point_text": "Regeneration", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:26", "verse_text": "That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word," }, { "point_text": "Regeneration", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:7", "verse_text": "But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin." }, { "point_text": "Of Israel at the exodus", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:22", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left." }, { "point_text": "Of Israel at the exodus", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:2", "verse_text": "And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;" }, { "point_text": "Of Israel before receiving the law", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:10", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes," }, { "point_text": "Of priests before consecration", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:4", "verse_text": "And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water." }, { "point_text": "Of Levites before consecration", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:6-7", "verse_text": "Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them. 7 And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean." }, { "point_text": "Of high priest on day of atonement", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:4", "verse_text": "He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on." }, { "point_text": "Of high priest on day of atonement", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:24", "verse_text": "And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for the people." }, { "point_text": "Of things for burnt-offerings", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 4:6", "verse_text": "He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in." }, { "point_text": "Of individuals who were ceremonially unclean", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 15:2-13", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean. 3 And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness. 4 Every bed, whereon he lieth that hath the issue, is unclean: and every thing, whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean. 5 And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. ..." }, { "point_text": "Of individuals who were ceremonially unclean", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 17:15", "verse_text": "And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean." }, { "point_text": "Of individuals who were ceremonially unclean", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:4-7", "verse_text": "What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him; 5 Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath; 6 The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water. 7 And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food." }, { "point_text": "Of individuals who were ceremonially unclean", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:7-12", "verse_text": "Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even. 8 And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even. 9 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin. 10 And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever. ..." }, { "point_text": "Of individuals who were ceremonially unclean", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:21", "verse_text": "And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even." }, { "point_text": "Of the healed leper", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:8-9", "verse_text": "And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days. 9 But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean." }, { "point_text": "Of Nazarites after vow expired", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:24", "verse_text": "Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law." }, { "point_text": "Of Nazarites after vow expired", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:26", "verse_text": "Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them." }, { "point_text": "Used by the devout before entering God's house", "verse_ref": "Psalm 26:6", "verse_text": "I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Used by the devout before entering God's house", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:22", "verse_text": "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water." }, { "point_text": "Multiplied by traditions", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:2", "verse_text": "Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread." }, { "point_text": "Multiplied by traditions", "verse_ref": "Mark 7:3-4", "verse_text": "For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. 4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables." }, { "point_text": "MEANS USED FOR;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Water of separation", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:9", "verse_text": "And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin." }, { "point_text": "Running water", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 15:13", "verse_text": "And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean." }, { "point_text": "Water mixed with blood", "verse_ref": "Exodus 24:5-8", "verse_text": "And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD. 6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. 7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient. 8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words." }, { "point_text": "Water mixed with blood", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:19", "verse_text": "For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people," }, { "point_text": "WAS BY", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Sprinkling", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:13", "verse_text": "Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him." }, { "point_text": "Sprinkling", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:18", "verse_text": "And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:" }, { "point_text": "Washing parts of the body", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:19", "verse_text": "For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat:" }, { "point_text": "Washing the whole body", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:6", "verse_text": "And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water." }, { "point_text": "Washing the whole body", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:9", "verse_text": "But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean." }, { "point_text": "Of priests performed in the brazen laver", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:18", "verse_text": "Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein." }, { "point_text": "Of priests performed in the brazen laver", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 4:6", "verse_text": "He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in." }, { "point_text": "Vessels in the houses of the Jews for", "verse_ref": "John 2:6", "verse_text": "And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece." }, { "point_text": "Consequence of neglecting those prescribed by law", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 17:16", "verse_text": "But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall bear his iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Consequence of neglecting those prescribed by law", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:13", "verse_text": "Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him." }, { "point_text": "Consequence of neglecting those prescribed by law", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:20", "verse_text": "But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean." }, { "point_text": "Availed to sanctifying the flesh", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:13", "verse_text": "For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:" }, { "point_text": "Insufficient for spiritual purification", "verse_ref": "Job 9:30-31", "verse_text": "If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; 31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me." }, { "point_text": "The Jews laid great stress on", "verse_ref": "John 3:25", "verse_text": "Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Purification by the blood of Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:9-12", "verse_text": "Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; 10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation. 11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us." }, { "point_text": "Regeneration", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:26", "verse_text": "That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word," }, { "point_text": "Regeneration", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:7", "verse_text": "But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin." } ] }, { "name": "Reptiles", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Reptiles.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Created by God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:24-25", "verse_text": "And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. 25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good." }, { "point_text": "Made for praise and glory of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:10", "verse_text": "Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl:" }, { "point_text": "Placed under the dominion of man", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:26", "verse_text": "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Unclean and not eaten", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:31", "verse_text": "These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even." }, { "point_text": "Unclean and not eaten", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:40-43", "verse_text": "And he that eateth of the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that beareth the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even. 41 And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten. 42 Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination. 43 Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby." }, { "point_text": "Unclean and not eaten", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:11-14", "verse_text": "And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth: 12 Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. 13 And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat. 14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean." }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Chameleon", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:30", "verse_text": "And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole." }, { "point_text": "Lizard", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:30", "verse_text": "And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole." }, { "point_text": "Tortoise", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:29", "verse_text": "These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind," }, { "point_text": "Snail", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:30", "verse_text": "And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole." }, { "point_text": "Snail", "verse_ref": "Psalm 58:8", "verse_text": "As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun." }, { "point_text": "Frog", "verse_ref": "Exodus 8:2", "verse_text": "And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:" }, { "point_text": "Frog", "verse_ref": "Revelation 16:13", "verse_text": "And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet." }, { "point_text": "Horse-leech", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:15", "verse_text": "The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:" }, { "point_text": "Scorpion", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:15", "verse_text": "Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;" }, { "point_text": "Serpent", "verse_ref": "Job 26:13", "verse_text": "By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent." }, { "point_text": "Serpent", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:10", "verse_text": "Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?" }, { "point_text": "Flying fiery serpent", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:15", "verse_text": "Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;" }, { "point_text": "Flying fiery serpent", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:6", "verse_text": "The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them." }, { "point_text": "Dragon", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:33", "verse_text": "Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps." }, { "point_text": "Dragon", "verse_ref": "Job 30:29", "verse_text": "I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls." }, { "point_text": "Dragon", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:11", "verse_text": "And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant." }, { "point_text": "Viper", "verse_ref": "Acts 28:3", "verse_text": "And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand." }, { "point_text": "Adder or asp", "verse_ref": "Psalm 58:4", "verse_text": "Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;" }, { "point_text": "Adder or asp", "verse_ref": "Psalm 91:13", "verse_text": "Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet." }, { "point_text": "Adder or asp", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:32", "verse_text": "At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder." }, { "point_text": "Cockatrice or basilisk", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:8", "verse_text": "And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den." }, { "point_text": "Cockatrice or basilisk", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:5", "verse_text": "They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper." }, { "point_text": "Solomon wrote a history of", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:33", "verse_text": "And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes." }, { "point_text": "Worshipped by the Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:23", "verse_text": "And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things." }, { "point_text": "No image or similitude of, to be made for worshipping", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:16", "verse_text": "Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female," }, { "point_text": "No image or similitude of, to be made for worshipping", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:18", "verse_text": "The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:" }, { "point_text": "Jews condemned for worshipping", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 8:10", "verse_text": "So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about." } ] }, { "name": "Reconciliation with God", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Reconciliation-with-God.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Predicted", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:24", "verse_text": "Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy." }, { "point_text": "Predicted", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:5", "verse_text": "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed." }, { "point_text": "Proclaimed by angels at the birth of Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:14", "verse_text": "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." }, { "point_text": "Blotting out the hand-writing of ordinances is necessary to", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:16", "verse_text": "And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:" }, { "point_text": "Blotting out the hand-writing of ordinances is necessary to", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:14", "verse_text": "Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;" }, { "point_text": "EFFECTED FOR MEN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "By God in Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:19", "verse_text": "To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation." }, { "point_text": "By Christ as High Priest", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:17", "verse_text": "Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people." }, { "point_text": "By the death of Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:10", "verse_text": "For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life." }, { "point_text": "By the death of Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:16", "verse_text": "And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:" }, { "point_text": "By the death of Christ", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:21-22", "verse_text": "And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled 22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:" }, { "point_text": "By the blood of Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:13", "verse_text": "But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ." }, { "point_text": "By the blood of Christ", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:20", "verse_text": "And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven." }, { "point_text": "While alienated from God", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:21", "verse_text": "And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled" }, { "point_text": "Without strength", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:6", "verse_text": "For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly." }, { "point_text": "Yet sinners", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:8", "verse_text": "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." }, { "point_text": "While enemies to God", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:10", "verse_text": "For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life." }, { "point_text": "The ministry of committed to ministers", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:18-19", "verse_text": "And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation." }, { "point_text": "Ministers, in Christ's stead, should beseech men to seek", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:20", "verse_text": "Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God." }, { "point_text": "EFFECTS OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Peace of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:1", "verse_text": "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Peace of God", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:16-17", "verse_text": "And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: 17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh." }, { "point_text": "Access to God", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:2", "verse_text": "By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God." }, { "point_text": "Access to God", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:18", "verse_text": "For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father." }, { "point_text": "Union of Jews and Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:14", "verse_text": "For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;" }, { "point_text": "Union of things in heaven and earth", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:20", "verse_text": "And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven." }, { "point_text": "Union of things in heaven and earth", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:10", "verse_text": "That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:" }, { "point_text": "A pledge of final salvation", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:10", "verse_text": "For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life." }, { "point_text": "Necessity for--Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:24-26", "verse_text": "Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. 25 Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. 26 Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:15", "verse_text": "And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:20", "verse_text": "And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat:" } ] }, { "name": "Raven, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Raven-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Unclean and not to be eaten", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:15", "verse_text": "Every raven after his kind;" }, { "point_text": "Unclean and not to be eaten", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:14", "verse_text": "And every raven after his kind," }, { "point_text": "Called the raven of the valley", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:17", "verse_text": "The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Black", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:11", "verse_text": "His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven." }, { "point_text": "Solitary in disposition", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 34:11", "verse_text": "But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness." }, { "point_text": "Improvident", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:24", "verse_text": "Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?" }, { "point_text": "Carnivorous", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:17", "verse_text": "The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it." }, { "point_text": "God provides food for", "verse_ref": "Job 38:41", "verse_text": "Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat." }, { "point_text": "God provides food for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 147:9", "verse_text": "He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry." }, { "point_text": "God provides food for", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:24", "verse_text": "Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?" }, { "point_text": "Sent by Noah from the ark", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:7", "verse_text": "And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth." }, { "point_text": "Elijah fed by", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 17:4-6", "verse_text": "And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there. 5 So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. 6 And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook." }, { "point_text": "Plumage of, illustrative of the glory of Christ", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:11", "verse_text": "His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven." } ] }, { "name": "Reward of Saints, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Reward-of-Saints-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is from God", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:7", "verse_text": "To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:" }, { "point_text": "Is from God", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:24", "verse_text": "Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ." }, { "point_text": "Is from God", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:6", "verse_text": "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." }, { "point_text": "Is of grace, through faith alone", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:4-5", "verse_text": "Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. 5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Is of grace, through faith alone", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:6", "verse_text": "And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work." }, { "point_text": "Is of God's good pleasure", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:14-15", "verse_text": "Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee. 15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?" }, { "point_text": "Prepared by God", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:16", "verse_text": "But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city." }, { "point_text": "Prepared by Christ", "verse_ref": "John 14:2", "verse_text": "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you." }, { "point_text": "As servants of Christ", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:24", "verse_text": "Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ." }, { "point_text": "Not on account of their merits", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:4-5", "verse_text": "Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. 5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Being with Christ", "verse_ref": "John 12:26", "verse_text": "If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour." }, { "point_text": "Being with Christ", "verse_ref": "John 14:3", "verse_text": "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." }, { "point_text": "Being with Christ", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:23", "verse_text": "For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:" }, { "point_text": "Being with Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:17", "verse_text": "Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Beholding the face of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 17:15", "verse_text": "As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness." }, { "point_text": "Beholding the face of God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:8", "verse_text": "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God." }, { "point_text": "Beholding the face of God", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:4", "verse_text": "And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads." }, { "point_text": "Beholding the glory of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 17:24", "verse_text": "Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world." }, { "point_text": "Being glorified with Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:17-18", "verse_text": "And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. 18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." }, { "point_text": "Sitting in judgment with Christ", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:22", "verse_text": "Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom." }, { "point_text": "Sitting in judgment with Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:28", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Sitting in judgment with Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:30", "verse_text": "That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Sitting in judgment with Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:2", "verse_text": "Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?" }, { "point_text": "Reigning with Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:12", "verse_text": "If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:" }, { "point_text": "Reigning with Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:21", "verse_text": "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne." }, { "point_text": "Reigning with Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 5:10", "verse_text": "And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth." }, { "point_text": "Reigning with Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 20:4", "verse_text": "And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years." }, { "point_text": "Reigning for ever and ever", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:5", "verse_text": "And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever." }, { "point_text": "A crown of righteousness", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:8", "verse_text": "Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing." }, { "point_text": "A crown of glory", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:4", "verse_text": "And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away." }, { "point_text": "A crown of life", "verse_ref": "James 1:12", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him." }, { "point_text": "A crown of life", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:10", "verse_text": "Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." }, { "point_text": "An incorruptible crown", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:25", "verse_text": "And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible." }, { "point_text": "Joint heirship with Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:17", "verse_text": "And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together." }, { "point_text": "Inheritance of all things", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:7", "verse_text": "He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son." }, { "point_text": "Inheritance with saints in light", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:32", "verse_text": "And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified." }, { "point_text": "Inheritance with saints in light", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:18", "verse_text": "To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me." }, { "point_text": "Inheritance with saints in light", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:12", "verse_text": "Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:" }, { "point_text": "Inheritance eternal", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:15", "verse_text": "And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance." }, { "point_text": "Inheritance incorruptible, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:4", "verse_text": "To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you," }, { "point_text": "A kingdom", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:34", "verse_text": "Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:" }, { "point_text": "A kingdom", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:29", "verse_text": "And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;" }, { "point_text": "A kingdom immovable", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:28", "verse_text": "Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:" }, { "point_text": "Shining as the stars", "verse_ref": "Daniel 12:3", "verse_text": "And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever." }, { "point_text": "Everlasting light", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:19", "verse_text": "The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory." }, { "point_text": "Everlasting life", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:30", "verse_text": "Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting." }, { "point_text": "Everlasting life", "verse_ref": "John 6:40", "verse_text": "And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day." }, { "point_text": "Everlasting life", "verse_ref": "John 17:2-3", "verse_text": "As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. 3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." }, { "point_text": "An enduring substance", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:34", "verse_text": "For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance." }, { "point_text": "A house eternal in the heavens", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:1", "verse_text": "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." }, { "point_text": "A city which had foundation", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:10", "verse_text": "For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God." }, { "point_text": "Entering into the joy of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:21", "verse_text": "His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord." }, { "point_text": "Entering into the joy of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:2", "verse_text": "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." }, { "point_text": "Rest", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:9", "verse_text": "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God." }, { "point_text": "Rest", "verse_ref": "Revelation 14:13", "verse_text": "And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them." }, { "point_text": "Fulness of joy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 16:11", "verse_text": "Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore." }, { "point_text": "The prize of the high calling of God in Christ", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:14", "verse_text": "I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Treasure in heaven", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:21", "verse_text": "Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me." }, { "point_text": "Treasure in heaven", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:33", "verse_text": "Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth." }, { "point_text": "An eternal weight of glory", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:17", "verse_text": "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;" }, { "point_text": "Is great", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:12", "verse_text": "Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you." }, { "point_text": "Is great", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:35", "verse_text": "But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil." }, { "point_text": "Is great", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:35", "verse_text": "Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward." }, { "point_text": "Is full", "verse_ref": "2 John 8", "verse_text": "Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward." }, { "point_text": "Is sure", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:18", "verse_text": "The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward." }, { "point_text": "Is satisfying", "verse_ref": "Psalm 17:15", "verse_text": "As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness." }, { "point_text": "Is inestimable", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 64:4", "verse_text": "For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him." }, { "point_text": "Is inestimable", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:9", "verse_text": "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." }, { "point_text": "Saints may feel confident of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:24", "verse_text": "Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory." }, { "point_text": "Saints may feel confident of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 25:8-9", "verse_text": "He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it. 9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation." }, { "point_text": "Saints may feel confident of", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:1", "verse_text": "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." }, { "point_text": "Saints may feel confident of", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:8", "verse_text": "Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing." }, { "point_text": "Hope of, a cause of rejoicing", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:2", "verse_text": "By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God." }, { "point_text": "Be careful not to lose", "verse_ref": "2 John 8", "verse_text": "Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward." }, { "point_text": "THE PROSPECT OF, SHOULD LEAD TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Diligence", "verse_ref": "2 John 8", "verse_text": "Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward." }, { "point_text": "Pressing forward", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:14", "verse_text": "I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Enduring suffering for Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:16-18", "verse_text": "For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal." }, { "point_text": "Enduring suffering for Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:26", "verse_text": "Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward." }, { "point_text": "Faithfulness unto death", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:10", "verse_text": "Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." }, { "point_text": "Present afflictions not to be compared with", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:18", "verse_text": "For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." }, { "point_text": "Present afflictions not to be compared with", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:17", "verse_text": "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." }, { "point_text": "Shall be given at the second coming of Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:27", "verse_text": "For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works." }, { "point_text": "Shall be given at the second coming of Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:12", "verse_text": "And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be." } ] }, { "name": "Reviling and Reproaching", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Reviling-and-Reproaching.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:9", "verse_text": "Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing." }, { "point_text": "Of rulers specially forbidden", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:28", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people." }, { "point_text": "Of rulers specially forbidden", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:4-5", "verse_text": "And they that stood by said, Revilest thou God's high priest? 5 Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED UTTER, AGAINST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:22", "verse_text": "Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily." }, { "point_text": "God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 79:12", "verse_text": "And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord." }, { "point_text": "God, by oppressing the poor", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:31", "verse_text": "He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor." }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:39", "verse_text": "And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads," }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:34", "verse_text": "The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!" }, { "point_text": "Saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 102:8", "verse_text": "Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me." }, { "point_text": "Saints", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 2:8", "verse_text": "I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border." }, { "point_text": "Rulers", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:10-11", "verse_text": "But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. 11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Of Christ, predicted", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:9", "verse_text": "For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me." }, { "point_text": "Of Christ, predicted", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:3", "verse_text": "For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me." }, { "point_text": "Of Christ, predicted", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:51", "verse_text": "Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed." }, { "point_text": "The conduct of Christ under", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:23", "verse_text": "Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:" }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Endure", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:10", "verse_text": "For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe." }, { "point_text": "Endure", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:33", "verse_text": "Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used." }, { "point_text": "Endure for God's sake", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:7", "verse_text": "Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face." }, { "point_text": "Endure for Christ's sake", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:22", "verse_text": "Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake." }, { "point_text": "Should expect", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:25", "verse_text": "It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?" }, { "point_text": "Should not fear", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 51:7", "verse_text": "Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes depressed by", "verse_ref": "Psalm 42:10", "verse_text": "As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?" }, { "point_text": "Sometimes depressed by", "verse_ref": "Psalm 44:16", "verse_text": "For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes depressed by", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:20", "verse_text": "Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none." }, { "point_text": "May take pleasure in", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 12:10", "verse_text": "Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong." }, { "point_text": "Supported under", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 12:10", "verse_text": "Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong." }, { "point_text": "Trust in God under", "verse_ref": "Psalm 57:3", "verse_text": "He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth." }, { "point_text": "Trust in God under", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:42", "verse_text": "So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word." }, { "point_text": "Pray under", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:4", "verse_text": "It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left." }, { "point_text": "Pray under", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:16", "verse_text": "LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God." }, { "point_text": "Return blessings for", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 4:12", "verse_text": "And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:" }, { "point_text": "Return blessings for", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:9", "verse_text": "Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing." }, { "point_text": "Ministers should not fear", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 2:6", "verse_text": "And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house." }, { "point_text": "Happiness of enduring, for Christ's sake", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:14", "verse_text": "If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of enduring, for Christ's sake", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:11", "verse_text": "Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of enduring, for Christ's sake", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:22", "verse_text": "Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake." }, { "point_text": "Excludes from heaven", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:10", "verse_text": "Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 2:8-9", "verse_text": "I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border. 9 Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph's brethren, \nGoliath, \nMichal, \nShimei, \nSennacherib, \n\nMoabites and Ammonites, \nPharisees, \nJews, \nMalefactor, \nAthenian philosophers,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:19", "verse_text": "And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph's brethren, \nGoliath, \nMichal, \nShimei, \nSennacherib, \n\nMoabites and Ammonites, \nPharisees, \nJews, \nMalefactor, \nAthenian philosophers,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:43", "verse_text": "And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph's brethren, \nGoliath, \nMichal, \nShimei, \nSennacherib, \n\nMoabites and Ammonites, \nPharisees, \nJews, \nMalefactor, \nAthenian philosophers,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 6:20", "verse_text": "Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph's brethren, \nGoliath, \nMichal, \nShimei, \nSennacherib, \n\nMoabites and Ammonites, \nPharisees, \nJews, \nMalefactor, \nAthenian philosophers,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 16:7-8", "verse_text": "And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial: 8 The LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph's brethren, \nGoliath, \nMichal, \nShimei, \nSennacherib, \n\nMoabites and Ammonites, \nPharisees, \nJews, \nMalefactor, \nAthenian philosophers,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 37:17", "verse_text": "Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph's brethren, \nGoliath, \nMichal, \nShimei, \nSennacherib, \n\nMoabites and Ammonites, \nPharisees, \nJews, \nMalefactor, \nAthenian philosophers,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 37:23-24", "verse_text": "Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel. 24 By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph's brethren, \nGoliath, \nMichal, \nShimei, \nSennacherib, \n\nMoabites and Ammonites, \nPharisees, \nJews, \nMalefactor, \nAthenian philosophers,", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 2:8", "verse_text": "I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph's brethren, \nGoliath, \nMichal, \nShimei, \nSennacherib, \n\nMoabites and Ammonites, \nPharisees, \nJews, \nMalefactor, \nAthenian philosophers,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:24", "verse_text": "But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph's brethren, \nGoliath, \nMichal, \nShimei, \nSennacherib, \n\nMoabites and Ammonites, \nPharisees, \nJews, \nMalefactor, \nAthenian philosophers,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:39-40", "verse_text": "And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, 40 And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph's brethren, \nGoliath, \nMichal, \nShimei, \nSennacherib, \n\nMoabites and Ammonites, \nPharisees, \nJews, \nMalefactor, \nAthenian philosophers,", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:39", "verse_text": "And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJoseph's brethren, \nGoliath, \nMichal, \nShimei, \nSennacherib, \n\nMoabites and Ammonites, \nPharisees, \nJews, \nMalefactor, \nAthenian philosophers,", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:18", "verse_text": "Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection." } ] }, { "name": "Resurrection, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Resurrection-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "A doctrine of the Old Testament", "verse_ref": "Job 19:26", "verse_text": "And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:" }, { "point_text": "A doctrine of the Old Testament", "verse_ref": "Psalm 16:10", "verse_text": "For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption." }, { "point_text": "A doctrine of the Old Testament", "verse_ref": "Psalm 49:15", "verse_text": "But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah." }, { "point_text": "A doctrine of the Old Testament", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:19", "verse_text": "Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead." }, { "point_text": "A doctrine of the Old Testament", "verse_ref": "Daniel 12:2", "verse_text": "And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt." }, { "point_text": "A doctrine of the Old Testament", "verse_ref": "Hosea 13:14", "verse_text": "I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes." }, { "point_text": "A first principle of the gospel", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:13-14", "verse_text": "But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: 14 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain." }, { "point_text": "Expected by the Jews", "verse_ref": "John 11:24", "verse_text": "Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day." }, { "point_text": "Expected by the Jews", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:35", "verse_text": "Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:" }, { "point_text": "Denied by the Sadducees", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:23", "verse_text": "The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him," }, { "point_text": "Denied by the Sadducees", "verse_ref": "Luke 20:27", "verse_text": "Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him," }, { "point_text": "Denied by the Sadducees", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:8", "verse_text": "For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both." }, { "point_text": "Explained away by false teachers", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:18", "verse_text": "Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some." }, { "point_text": "Called in question by some in the primitive church", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:12", "verse_text": "Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?" }, { "point_text": "Is not incredible", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:24", "verse_text": "And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?" }, { "point_text": "Is not incredible", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:8", "verse_text": "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?" }, { "point_text": "Is not contrary to reason", "verse_ref": "John 12:24", "verse_text": "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." }, { "point_text": "Is not contrary to reason", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:35-49", "verse_text": "But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? 36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: 37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: 38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. ..." }, { "point_text": "Assumed and proved by our Lord", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:29-32", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. 30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. 31 But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, 32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living." }, { "point_text": "Assumed and proved by our Lord", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:14", "verse_text": "And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just." }, { "point_text": "Assumed and proved by our Lord", "verse_ref": "John 5:28-29", "verse_text": "Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, 29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation." }, { "point_text": "Preached by the Apostles", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:2", "verse_text": "Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead." }, { "point_text": "Preached by the Apostles", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:18", "verse_text": "Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection." }, { "point_text": "Preached by the Apostles", "verse_ref": "Acts 24:15", "verse_text": "And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust." }, { "point_text": "Credibility of, shown by the resurrection of individuals", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:25", "verse_text": "But when the people were put forth, he went in, and took her by the hand, and the maid arose." }, { "point_text": "Credibility of, shown by the resurrection of individuals", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:53", "verse_text": "And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many." }, { "point_text": "Credibility of, shown by the resurrection of individuals", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:14", "verse_text": "And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise." }, { "point_text": "Credibility of, shown by the resurrection of individuals", "verse_ref": "John 11:44", "verse_text": "And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go." }, { "point_text": "Credibility of, shown by the resurrection of individuals", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:35", "verse_text": "Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:" }, { "point_text": "Certainty of, proved by the resurrection of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:12-20", "verse_text": "Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: 14 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. 15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. ..." }, { "point_text": "EFFECTED BY THE POWER OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:29", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God." }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "John 5:28", "verse_text": "Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice," }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "John 6:39-40", "verse_text": "And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. 40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day." }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "John 6:44", "verse_text": "No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day." }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:11", "verse_text": "But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you." }, { "point_text": "Shall be of all the dead", "verse_ref": "John 5:28", "verse_text": "Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice," }, { "point_text": "Shall be of all the dead", "verse_ref": "Acts 24:15", "verse_text": "And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust." }, { "point_text": "Shall be of all the dead", "verse_ref": "Revelation 20:13", "verse_text": "And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS IN, SHALL", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Rise through Christ", "verse_ref": "John 11:25", "verse_text": "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:" }, { "point_text": "Rise through Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:2", "verse_text": "Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead." }, { "point_text": "Rise through Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:21-22", "verse_text": "For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." }, { "point_text": "Rise first", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:23", "verse_text": "But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming." }, { "point_text": "Rise first", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:16", "verse_text": "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:" }, { "point_text": "Rise to eternal life", "verse_ref": "Daniel 12:2", "verse_text": "And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt." }, { "point_text": "Rise to eternal life", "verse_ref": "John 5:29", "verse_text": "And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation." }, { "point_text": "Be glorified with Christ", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:4", "verse_text": "When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory." }, { "point_text": "Be as the angels", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:30", "verse_text": "For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven." }, { "point_text": "Have incorruptible bodies", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:42", "verse_text": "So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:" }, { "point_text": "Have glorious bodies", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:43", "verse_text": "It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:" }, { "point_text": "Have powerful bodies", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:43", "verse_text": "It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:" }, { "point_text": "Have spiritual bodies", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:44", "verse_text": "It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body." }, { "point_text": "Have bodies like Christ's", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:21", "verse_text": "Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself." }, { "point_text": "Have bodies like Christ's", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:2", "verse_text": "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." }, { "point_text": "Be recompensed", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:14", "verse_text": "And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just." }, { "point_text": "Saints should look forward to", "verse_ref": "Daniel 12:13", "verse_text": "But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days." }, { "point_text": "Saints should look forward to", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:11", "verse_text": "If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead." }, { "point_text": "Saints should look forward to", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:1", "verse_text": "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." }, { "point_text": "Of saints shall be followed by the change of those then alive", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:51", "verse_text": "Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed," }, { "point_text": "Of saints shall be followed by the change of those then alive", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:17", "verse_text": "Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord." }, { "point_text": "THE PREACHING OF, CAUSED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Mocking", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:32", "verse_text": "And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter." }, { "point_text": "Persecution", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:6", "verse_text": "But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question." }, { "point_text": "Persecution", "verse_ref": "Acts 24:11-15", "verse_text": "Because that thou mayest understand, that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship. 12 And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city: 13 Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me. 14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets: ..." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of those who have part in the first", "verse_ref": "Revelation 20:6", "verse_text": "Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years." }, { "point_text": "OF THE WICKED, SHALL BE TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Shame and everlasting contempt", "verse_ref": "Daniel 12:2", "verse_text": "And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt." }, { "point_text": "Damnation", "verse_ref": "John 5:29", "verse_text": "And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation." }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of the new birth", "verse_ref": "John 5:25", "verse_text": "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 37:1-10", "verse_text": "The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, 2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. 4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. ..." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:36-37", "verse_text": "Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: 37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:" } ] }, { "name": "Riches", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Riches.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The true riches", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:8", "verse_text": "Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;" }, { "point_text": "The true riches", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:30", "verse_text": "But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:" }, { "point_text": "The true riches", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:3", "verse_text": "In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." }, { "point_text": "The true riches", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:7", "verse_text": "Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner," }, { "point_text": "God gives", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:7", "verse_text": "The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up." }, { "point_text": "God gives", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 5:19", "verse_text": "Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God." }, { "point_text": "To God belongs this world's riches", "verse_ref": "Haggai 2:8", "verse_text": "The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "God gives power to obtain", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:18", "verse_text": "But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day." }, { "point_text": "The blessing of the Lord brings", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:22", "verse_text": "The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it." }, { "point_text": "Give worldly power", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:7", "verse_text": "The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Temporary", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:24", "verse_text": "For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?" }, { "point_text": "Uncertain", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:17", "verse_text": "Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;" }, { "point_text": "Unsatisfying", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 4:8", "verse_text": "There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail." }, { "point_text": "Unsatisfying", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 5:10", "verse_text": "He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity." }, { "point_text": "Corruptible", "verse_ref": "James 5:2", "verse_text": "Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten." }, { "point_text": "Corruptible", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:18", "verse_text": "Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;" }, { "point_text": "Fleeting", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:5", "verse_text": "Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven." }, { "point_text": "Fleeting", "verse_ref": "Revelation 18:16-17", "verse_text": "And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! 17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off," }, { "point_text": "Deceitful", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:22", "verse_text": "He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful." }, { "point_text": "Liable to be stolen", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:19", "verse_text": "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:" }, { "point_text": "Perishable", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:36", "verse_text": "Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the riches that he hath gotten are perished." }, { "point_text": "Thick clay", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:6", "verse_text": "Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!" }, { "point_text": "Often an obstruction to the reception of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Mark 10:23-25", "verse_text": "And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God! 24 And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God! 25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Deceitfulness of, chokes the word", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:22", "verse_text": "He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful." }, { "point_text": "The love of, the root of all evil", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:10", "verse_text": "For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." }, { "point_text": "OFTEN LEAD TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Pride", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:5", "verse_text": "By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:" }, { "point_text": "Pride", "verse_ref": "Hosea 12:8", "verse_text": "And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin." }, { "point_text": "Forgetting God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:13-14", "verse_text": "And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; 14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;" }, { "point_text": "Denying God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:8-9", "verse_text": "Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: 9 Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." }, { "point_text": "Forsaking God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:15", "verse_text": "But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation." }, { "point_text": "Rebelling against God", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:25-26", "verse_text": "And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness. 26 Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations." }, { "point_text": "Rejecting Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:22", "verse_text": "But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions." }, { "point_text": "Rejecting Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:22", "verse_text": "And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved." }, { "point_text": "Self-sufficiency", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:11", "verse_text": "The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out." }, { "point_text": "Anxiety", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 5:12", "verse_text": "The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep." }, { "point_text": "An overbearing spirit", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 18:23", "verse_text": "The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly." }, { "point_text": "Violence", "verse_ref": "Micah 6:12", "verse_text": "For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth." }, { "point_text": "Oppression", "verse_ref": "James 2:6", "verse_text": "But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?" }, { "point_text": "Fraud", "verse_ref": "James 5:4", "verse_text": "Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth." }, { "point_text": "Sensual indulgence", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:19", "verse_text": "There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:" }, { "point_text": "Sensual indulgence", "verse_ref": "James 5:5", "verse_text": "Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter." }, { "point_text": "Life consists not in abundance of", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:15", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth." }, { "point_text": "Be not over-anxious for", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:8", "verse_text": "Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:" }, { "point_text": "Labor not for", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:4", "verse_text": "Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom." }, { "point_text": "THEY WHO COVET,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Fall into temptation and a snare", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:9", "verse_text": "But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition." }, { "point_text": "Fall into hurtful lusts", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:9", "verse_text": "But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition." }, { "point_text": "Err from the faith", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:10", "verse_text": "For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." }, { "point_text": "Use unlawful means to acquire", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:20", "verse_text": "A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent." }, { "point_text": "Bring trouble on themselves", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:10", "verse_text": "For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." }, { "point_text": "Bring trouble on their families", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:27", "verse_text": "He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live." }, { "point_text": "Profit not in the day of wrath", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:4", "verse_text": "Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death." }, { "point_text": "Cannot secure prosperity", "verse_ref": "James 1:11", "verse_text": "For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways." }, { "point_text": "Cannot redeem the soul", "verse_ref": "Psalm 49:6-9", "verse_text": "They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; 7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: 8 (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:) 9 That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption." }, { "point_text": "Cannot redeem the soul", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:18", "verse_text": "Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;" }, { "point_text": "Cannot deliver in the day of God's wrath", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 1:18", "verse_text": "Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land." }, { "point_text": "Cannot deliver in the day of God's wrath", "verse_ref": "Revelation 6:15-17", "verse_text": "And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?" }, { "point_text": "THEY WHO POSSESS, SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Ascribe them to God", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:12", "verse_text": "Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all." }, { "point_text": "Not trust in them", "verse_ref": "Job 31:24", "verse_text": "If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;" }, { "point_text": "Not trust in them", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:17", "verse_text": "Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;" }, { "point_text": "Not set the heart on them", "verse_ref": "Psalm 62:10", "verse_text": "Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them." }, { "point_text": "Not boast of obtaining them", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:17", "verse_text": "And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth." }, { "point_text": "Not glory in them", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:23", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:" }, { "point_text": "Not hoard them up", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:19", "verse_text": "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:" }, { "point_text": "Devote them to God's service", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:3", "verse_text": "Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house," }, { "point_text": "Devote them to God's service", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:42-44", "verse_text": "And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. 43 And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: 44 For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living." }, { "point_text": "Give of them to the poor", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:21", "verse_text": "Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me." }, { "point_text": "Give of them to the poor", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:17", "verse_text": "But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?" }, { "point_text": "Use them in promoting the salvation of others", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:9", "verse_text": "And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations." }, { "point_text": "Be liberal in all things", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:18", "verse_text": "That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;" }, { "point_text": "Esteem it a privilege to be allowed to give", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:14", "verse_text": "But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee." }, { "point_text": "Not to be high-minded", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:17", "verse_text": "Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;" }, { "point_text": "When converted, rejoice in being humbled", "verse_ref": "James 1:9-10", "verse_text": "Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: 10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away." }, { "point_text": "Heavenly treasures superior to", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:19-20", "verse_text": "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:" }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked laid up for the just", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 13:22", "verse_text": "A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Often increase in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:12", "verse_text": "Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches." }, { "point_text": "Often spend their days in", "verse_ref": "Job 21:13", "verse_text": "They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave." }, { "point_text": "Swallow down", "verse_ref": "Job 20:15", "verse_text": "He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly." }, { "point_text": "Trust in the abundance of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 52:7", "verse_text": "Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness." }, { "point_text": "Heap up", "verse_ref": "Job 27:16", "verse_text": "Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;" }, { "point_text": "Heap up", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:6", "verse_text": "Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them." }, { "point_text": "Heap up", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:26", "verse_text": "For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit." }, { "point_text": "Keep, to their hurt", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 5:13", "verse_text": "There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt." }, { "point_text": "Boast themselves in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 49:6", "verse_text": "They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;" }, { "point_text": "Boast themselves in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 52:7", "verse_text": "Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness." }, { "point_text": "Profit not by", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:4", "verse_text": "Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death." }, { "point_text": "Profit not by", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 13:7", "verse_text": "There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches." }, { "point_text": "Profit not by", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 5:11", "verse_text": "When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?" }, { "point_text": "Have trouble with", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:6", "verse_text": "In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble." }, { "point_text": "Have trouble with", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:9-10", "verse_text": "But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." }, { "point_text": "Must leave, to others", "verse_ref": "Psalm 49:10", "verse_text": "For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others." }, { "point_text": "Vanity of heaping up", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:6", "verse_text": "Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them." }, { "point_text": "Vanity of heaping up", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 5:10-11", "verse_text": "He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. 11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?" }, { "point_text": "Guilt of trusting in", "verse_ref": "Job 31:24", "verse_text": "If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;" }, { "point_text": "Guilt of trusting in", "verse_ref": "Job 31:28", "verse_text": "This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above." }, { "point_text": "Guilt of rejoicing in", "verse_ref": "Job 31:25", "verse_text": "If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;" }, { "point_text": "Guilt of rejoicing in", "verse_ref": "Job 31:28", "verse_text": "This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above." }, { "point_text": "DENUNCIATIONS AGAINST THOSE WHO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Get, by vanity", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 13:11", "verse_text": "Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase." }, { "point_text": "Get, by vanity", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:6", "verse_text": "The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death." }, { "point_text": "Get, unlawfully", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:11", "verse_text": "As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool." }, { "point_text": "Increase, by oppression", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:16", "verse_text": "He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want." }, { "point_text": "Increase, by oppression", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:6-8", "verse_text": "Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay! 7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them? 8 Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein." }, { "point_text": "Increase, by oppression", "verse_ref": "Micah 2:2-3", "verse_text": "And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. 3 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil." }, { "point_text": "Hoard up", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 5:13-14", "verse_text": "There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. 14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand." }, { "point_text": "Trust in", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:28", "verse_text": "He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch." }, { "point_text": "Receive their consolation from", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:24", "verse_text": "But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation." }, { "point_text": "Abuse", "verse_ref": "James 5:1", "verse_text": "Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you." }, { "point_text": "Abuse", "verse_ref": "James 5:5", "verse_text": "Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter." }, { "point_text": "Spend, upon their appetite", "verse_ref": "Job 20:15-17", "verse_text": "He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. 16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him. 17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter." }, { "point_text": "Folly and danger of trusting to--Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:16-21", "verse_text": "And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: 17 And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? 18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. ..." }, { "point_text": "Danger of misusing--Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:19-25", "verse_text": "There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: 20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, 21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; ..." }, { "point_text": "Examples of saints possessing.\r\n\nAbram, \nLot, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \n\nJoseph, \n\nBoaz, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nDavid, \nJehoshaphat, \nHezekiah, \nJob, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nZaccheus, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 13:2", "verse_text": "And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold." }, { "point_text": "Examples of saints possessing.\r\n\nAbram, \nLot, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \n\nJoseph, \n\nBoaz, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nDavid, \nJehoshaphat, \nHezekiah, \nJob, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nZaccheus, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 13:5-6", "verse_text": "And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. 6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together." }, { "point_text": "Examples of saints possessing.\r\n\nAbram, \nLot, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \n\nJoseph, \n\nBoaz, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nDavid, \nJehoshaphat, \nHezekiah, \nJob, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nZaccheus, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:13-14", "verse_text": "And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great: 14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him." }, { "point_text": "Examples of saints possessing.\r\n\nAbram, \nLot, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \n\nJoseph, \n\nBoaz, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nDavid, \nJehoshaphat, \nHezekiah, \nJob, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nZaccheus, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:5", "verse_text": "And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight." }, { "point_text": "Examples of saints possessing.\r\n\nAbram, \nLot, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \n\nJoseph, \n\nBoaz, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nDavid, \nJehoshaphat, \nHezekiah, \nJob, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nZaccheus, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:10", "verse_text": "I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands." }, { "point_text": "Examples of saints possessing.\r\n\nAbram, \nLot, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \n\nJoseph, \n\nBoaz, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nDavid, \nJehoshaphat, \nHezekiah, \nJob, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nZaccheus, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 45:8", "verse_text": "So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Examples of saints possessing.\r\n\nAbram, \nLot, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \n\nJoseph, \n\nBoaz, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nDavid, \nJehoshaphat, \nHezekiah, \nJob, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nZaccheus, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 45:13", "verse_text": "And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither." }, { "point_text": "Examples of saints possessing.\r\n\nAbram, \nLot, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \n\nJoseph, \n\nBoaz, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nDavid, \nJehoshaphat, \nHezekiah, \nJob, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nZaccheus, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "Ruth 2:1", "verse_text": "And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz." }, { "point_text": "Examples of saints possessing.\r\n\nAbram, \nLot, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \n\nJoseph, \n\nBoaz, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nDavid, \nJehoshaphat, \nHezekiah, \nJob, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nZaccheus, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 19:32", "verse_text": "Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man." }, { "point_text": "Examples of saints possessing.\r\n\nAbram, \nLot, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \n\nJoseph, \n\nBoaz, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nDavid, \nJehoshaphat, \nHezekiah, \nJob, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nZaccheus, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:8", "verse_text": "And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread." }, { "point_text": "Examples of saints possessing.\r\n\nAbram, \nLot, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \n\nJoseph, \n\nBoaz, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nDavid, \nJehoshaphat, \nHezekiah, \nJob, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nZaccheus, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:28", "verse_text": "And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead." }, { "point_text": "Examples of saints possessing.\r\n\nAbram, \nLot, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \n\nJoseph, \n\nBoaz, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nDavid, \nJehoshaphat, \nHezekiah, \nJob, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nZaccheus, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 17:5", "verse_text": "Therefore the LORD stablished the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had riches and honour in abundance." }, { "point_text": "Examples of saints possessing.\r\n\nAbram, \nLot, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \n\nJoseph, \n\nBoaz, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nDavid, \nJehoshaphat, \nHezekiah, \nJob, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nZaccheus, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 32:27-29", "verse_text": "And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour: and he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant jewels; 28 Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks. 29 Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much." }, { "point_text": "Examples of saints possessing.\r\n\nAbram, \nLot, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \n\nJoseph, \n\nBoaz, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nDavid, \nJehoshaphat, \nHezekiah, \nJob, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nZaccheus, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "Job 1:3", "verse_text": "His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east." }, { "point_text": "Examples of saints possessing.\r\n\nAbram, \nLot, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \n\nJoseph, \n\nBoaz, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nDavid, \nJehoshaphat, \nHezekiah, \nJob, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nZaccheus, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:57", "verse_text": "When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple:" }, { "point_text": "Examples of saints possessing.\r\n\nAbram, \nLot, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \n\nJoseph, \n\nBoaz, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nDavid, \nJehoshaphat, \nHezekiah, \nJob, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nZaccheus, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:2", "verse_text": "And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich." }, { "point_text": "Examples of saints possessing.\r\n\nAbram, \nLot, \nIsaac, \nJacob, \n\nJoseph, \n\nBoaz, \nBarzillai, \nShunammite, \nDavid, \nJehoshaphat, \nHezekiah, \nJob, \nJoseph of Arimathea, \nZaccheus, \nDorcas,", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:36", "verse_text": "Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did." }, { "point_text": "Examples of those truly rich", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:8", "verse_text": "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God." }, { "point_text": "Examples of those truly rich", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:10", "verse_text": "When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel." }, { "point_text": "Examples of those truly rich", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:45-46", "verse_text": "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: 46 Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it." }, { "point_text": "Examples of those truly rich", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:8", "verse_text": "Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ," }, { "point_text": "Examples of those truly rich", "verse_ref": "James 2:5", "verse_text": "Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?" }, { "point_text": "Examples of those truly rich", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:7", "verse_text": "Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner," }, { "point_text": "Examples of those truly rich", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:18", "verse_text": "I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see." }, { "point_text": "Examples of wicked men possessing.\r\n\nLaban, \nEsau, \nNabal, \nHaman, \nAmmonites, \nTyrians,. \nYoung man,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 30:30", "verse_text": "For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?" }, { "point_text": "Examples of wicked men possessing.\r\n\nLaban, \nEsau, \nNabal, \nHaman, \nAmmonites, \nTyrians,. \nYoung man,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 36:7", "verse_text": "For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle." }, { "point_text": "Examples of wicked men possessing.\r\n\nLaban, \nEsau, \nNabal, \nHaman, \nAmmonites, \nTyrians,. \nYoung man,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:2", "verse_text": "And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel." }, { "point_text": "Examples of wicked men possessing.\r\n\nLaban, \nEsau, \nNabal, \nHaman, \nAmmonites, \nTyrians,. \nYoung man,", "verse_ref": "Esther 5:11", "verse_text": "And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king." }, { "point_text": "Examples of wicked men possessing.\r\n\nLaban, \nEsau, \nNabal, \nHaman, \nAmmonites, \nTyrians,. \nYoung man,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:4", "verse_text": "Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me?" }, { "point_text": "Examples of wicked men possessing.\r\n\nLaban, \nEsau, \nNabal, \nHaman, \nAmmonites, \nTyrians,. \nYoung man,", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:5", "verse_text": "By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:" }, { "point_text": "Examples of wicked men possessing.\r\n\nLaban, \nEsau, \nNabal, \nHaman, \nAmmonites, \nTyrians,. \nYoung man,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:22", "verse_text": "But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions." } ] }, { "name": "Reuben, The Tribe of", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Reuben-The-Tribe-of.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Descended from Jacob's first son", "verse_ref": "Genesis 29:32", "verse_text": "And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me." }, { "point_text": "Predictions respecting", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:4", "verse_text": "Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch." }, { "point_text": "Predictions respecting", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:6", "verse_text": "Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few." }, { "point_text": "PERSONS SELECTED FROM,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To number the people", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:5", "verse_text": "And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: of the tribe of Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur." }, { "point_text": "To spy out the land", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:4", "verse_text": "And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur." }, { "point_text": "Strength of, on leaving Egypt", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:20-21", "verse_text": "And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 21 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred." }, { "point_text": "Led the second division of Israel in their journeys", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:18", "verse_text": "And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur." }, { "point_text": "Encamped with its standard south of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 2:10", "verse_text": "On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur." }, { "point_text": "Offering of, at the dedication", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:30-35", "verse_text": "On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben, did offer: 31 His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: 32 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: 33 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: ..." }, { "point_text": "Families of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:5-6", "verse_text": "Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben; Hanoch, of whom cometh the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites: 6 Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites." }, { "point_text": "Families of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:8-9", "verse_text": "And the sons of Pallu; Eliab. 9 And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram, which were famous in the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Obtained inheritance east of Jordan on condition of helping to conquer Canaan", "verse_ref": "Numbers 32:1-33", "verse_text": "Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle; 2 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying, 3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon, 4 Even the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle: ..." }, { "point_text": "Obtained inheritance east of Jordan on condition of helping to conquer Canaan", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 3:18-20", "verse_text": "And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war. 19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you; 20 Until the LORD have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man unto his possession, which I have given you." }, { "point_text": "Bounds of their inheritance", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 3:16-17", "verse_text": "And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon; 17 The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdothpisgah eastward." }, { "point_text": "Strength of, at the time of receiving their inheritance", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:7", "verse_text": "These are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty." }, { "point_text": "Cities built by", "verse_ref": "Numbers 32:37-38", "verse_text": "And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim, 38 And Nebo, and Baalmeon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded." }, { "point_text": "On Ebal said amen to the curses", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 27:13", "verse_text": "And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali." }, { "point_text": "Dismissed by Joshua after the conquest of Canaan", "verse_ref": "Joshua 22:1-9", "verse_text": "Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, 2 And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you: 3 Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God. 4 And now the LORD your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you unto your tents, and unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side Jordan. ..." }, { "point_text": "Assisted in building the altar of witness which offended the other tribes", "verse_ref": "Joshua 22:10-29", "verse_text": "And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that are in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan, a great altar to see to. 11 And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar over against the land of Canaan, in the borders of Jordan, at the passage of the children of Israel. 12 And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up to war against them. 13 And the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, ..." }, { "point_text": "Did not assist against Sisera", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:15-16", "verse_text": "And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart. 16 Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart." }, { "point_text": "Some of, at David's coronation", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:37-38", "verse_text": "And on the other side of Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, an hundred and twenty thousand. 38 All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king." }, { "point_text": "Officers appointed over, by David", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 26:32", "verse_text": "And his brethren, men of valour, were two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers, whom king David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for every matter pertaining to God, and affairs of the king." }, { "point_text": "Officers appointed over, by David", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:16", "verse_text": "Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri: of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maachah:" }, { "point_text": "Took land, &c. of the Hagarites", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 5:10", "verse_text": "And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east land of Gilead." }, { "point_text": "Took land, &c. of the Hagarites", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 5:18-22", "verse_text": "The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war. 19 And they made war with the Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish, and Nodab. 20 And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him. 21 And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand. ..." }, { "point_text": "Invaded and conquered by Hazael king of Syria", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 10:32-33", "verse_text": "In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel; 33 From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan." }, { "point_text": "Carried away by Tiglath Pileser", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 15:29", "verse_text": "In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria." }, { "point_text": "Carried away by Tiglath Pileser", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 5:6", "verse_text": "Beerah his son, whom Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites." }, { "point_text": "Carried away by Tiglath Pileser", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 5:26", "verse_text": "And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of;\r\n\nDathan, Abiram, and On, \n\nAdina, &c", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:1", "verse_text": "Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men:" }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of;\r\n\nDathan, Abiram, and On, \n\nAdina, &c", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:9-10", "verse_text": "And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram, which were famous in the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD: 10 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable persons of;\r\n\nDathan, Abiram, and On, \n\nAdina, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 11:42", "verse_text": "Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a captain of the Reubenites, and thirty with him," } ] }, { "name": "Righteousness of God, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Righteousness-of-God-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is part of His character", "verse_ref": "Psalm 7:9", "verse_text": "Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins." }, { "point_text": "Is part of His character", "verse_ref": "Psalm 116:5", "verse_text": "Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful." }, { "point_text": "Is part of His character", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:137", "verse_text": "TZADDI. Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Very high", "verse_ref": "Psalm 71:19", "verse_text": "Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!" }, { "point_text": "Abundant", "verse_ref": "Psalm 48:10", "verse_text": "According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Beyond computation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 71:15", "verse_text": "My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof." }, { "point_text": "Everlasting", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:142", "verse_text": "Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth." }, { "point_text": "Enduring for ever", "verse_ref": "Psalm 111:3", "verse_text": "His work is honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever." }, { "point_text": "The habitation of His throne", "verse_ref": "Psalm 97:2", "verse_text": "Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne." }, { "point_text": "Christ acknowledged", "verse_ref": "John 17:25", "verse_text": "O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me." }, { "point_text": "Christ committed His cause to", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:23", "verse_text": "Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:" }, { "point_text": "Angels acknowledge", "verse_ref": "Revelation 16:5", "verse_text": "And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus." }, { "point_text": "EXHIBITED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "His testimonies", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:138", "verse_text": "Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful." }, { "point_text": "His testimonies", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:144", "verse_text": "The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live." }, { "point_text": "His commandments", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:8", "verse_text": "And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?" }, { "point_text": "His commandments", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:172", "verse_text": "My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness." }, { "point_text": "His judgments", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:9", "verse_text": "The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether." }, { "point_text": "His judgments", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:7", "verse_text": "I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments." }, { "point_text": "His judgments", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:62", "verse_text": "At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments." }, { "point_text": "His word", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:123", "verse_text": "Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness." }, { "point_text": "His ways", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:17", "verse_text": "The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works." }, { "point_text": "His acts", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:11", "verse_text": "They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates." }, { "point_text": "His acts", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 12:7", "verse_text": "Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers." }, { "point_text": "His government", "verse_ref": "Psalm 96:13", "verse_text": "Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth." }, { "point_text": "His government", "verse_ref": "Psalm 98:9", "verse_text": "Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity." }, { "point_text": "The gospel", "verse_ref": "Psalm 85:10", "verse_text": "Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other." }, { "point_text": "The gospel", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:25-26", "verse_text": "Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus." }, { "point_text": "The final judgment", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:31", "verse_text": "Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead." }, { "point_text": "The punishment of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:5", "verse_text": "But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;" }, { "point_text": "The punishment of the wicked", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:6", "verse_text": "Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;" }, { "point_text": "The punishment of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Revelation 16:7", "verse_text": "And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments." }, { "point_text": "The punishment of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Revelation 19:2", "verse_text": "For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand." }, { "point_text": "Shown to the posterity of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:17", "verse_text": "But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;" }, { "point_text": "Shown openly before the heathen", "verse_ref": "Psalm 98:2", "verse_text": "The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen." }, { "point_text": "God delights in the exercise of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:24", "verse_text": "But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The heavens shall declare", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:6", "verse_text": "And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah." }, { "point_text": "The heavens shall declare", "verse_ref": "Psalm 97:6", "verse_text": "The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Ascribe, to Him", "verse_ref": "Job 36:3", "verse_text": "I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker." }, { "point_text": "Ascribe, to Him", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:7", "verse_text": "O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee." }, { "point_text": "Acknowledge, in His dealings", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:15", "verse_text": "O LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this." }, { "point_text": "Acknowledge, though the wicked prosper", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 12:1", "verse_text": "Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?" }, { "point_text": "Acknowledge, though the wicked prosper", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:12-17", "verse_text": "Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches. 13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. 14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. 15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children. ..." }, { "point_text": "Recognize, in the fulfilment of his promises", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:8", "verse_text": "And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:" }, { "point_text": "Confident of beholding", "verse_ref": "Micah 7:9", "verse_text": "I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Upheld by", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:10", "verse_text": "Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Do not conceal", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:10", "verse_text": "I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation." }, { "point_text": "Mention, only", "verse_ref": "Psalm 71:16", "verse_text": "I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only." }, { "point_text": "Talk of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 35:28", "verse_text": "And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long." }, { "point_text": "Talk of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 71:15", "verse_text": "My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof." }, { "point_text": "Talk of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 71:24", "verse_text": "My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt." }, { "point_text": "Declare to others", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:31", "verse_text": "They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this." }, { "point_text": "Magnify", "verse_ref": "Psalm 7:17", "verse_text": "I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high." }, { "point_text": "Magnify", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:14", "verse_text": "Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Magnify", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:7", "verse_text": "They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Plead, in prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 143:11", "verse_text": "Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble." }, { "point_text": "Plead, in prayer", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:16", "verse_text": "O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us." }, { "point_text": "Leads Him to love righteousness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 11:7", "verse_text": "For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright." }, { "point_text": "WE SHOULD PRAY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To be led in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 5:8", "verse_text": "Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face." }, { "point_text": "To be quickened in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:40", "verse_text": "Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness." }, { "point_text": "To be delivered in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 31:1", "verse_text": "In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness." }, { "point_text": "To be delivered in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 71:2", "verse_text": "Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me." }, { "point_text": "To be answered in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 143:1", "verse_text": "Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness." }, { "point_text": "To be judged according to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 35:24", "verse_text": "Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me." }, { "point_text": "For its continued manifestation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 36:10", "verse_text": "O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart." }, { "point_text": "His care and defence of his people designed to teach", "verse_ref": "Micah 6:4-5", "verse_text": "For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. 5 O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The wicked have no interest in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:27", "verse_text": "Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Psalm 36:6", "verse_text": "Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast." } ] }, { "name": "Revenge", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Revenge.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Forbidden by our Lord", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:18", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden by our Lord", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 24:17", "verse_text": "Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:" }, { "point_text": "Forbidden by our Lord", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 24:29", "verse_text": "Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work." }, { "point_text": "Christ an example of forbearing", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:7", "verse_text": "He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth." }, { "point_text": "Christ an example of forbearing", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:23", "verse_text": "Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:" }, { "point_text": "Rebuked by Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 9:54-55", "verse_text": "And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? 55 But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of." }, { "point_text": "Inconsistent with Christian spirit", "verse_ref": "Luke 9:55", "verse_text": "But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of." }, { "point_text": "Proceeds from a spiteful heart", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 25:15", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;" }, { "point_text": "INSTEAD OF TAKING, WE SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Trust in God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:22", "verse_text": "Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee." }, { "point_text": "Trust in God", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:16", "verse_text": "Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits." }, { "point_text": "Exhibit love", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:18", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exhibit love", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:35", "verse_text": "But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil." }, { "point_text": "Give place unto wrath", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:19", "verse_text": "Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Exercise forbearance", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:38-41", "verse_text": "Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: 39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. 40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also. 41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain." }, { "point_text": "Bless", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:14", "verse_text": "Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not." }, { "point_text": "Overcome others by kindness", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:21-22", "verse_text": "If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: 22 For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee." }, { "point_text": "Keep others from taking", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 24:10", "verse_text": "Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD'S anointed." }, { "point_text": "Keep others from taking", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:24-31", "verse_text": "And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid. 25 Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send. 26 Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal. 27 And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord. ..." }, { "point_text": "Keep others from taking", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 26:9", "verse_text": "And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD'S anointed, and be guiltless?" }, { "point_text": "Be thankful for being kept from taking", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:32-33", "verse_text": "And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me: 33 And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand." }, { "point_text": "The wicked are earnest after", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 20:10", "verse_text": "For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 25:15-17", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred; 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast. 17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Amos 1:11-12", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever: 12 But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSimon and Levi, \nSamson, \n\nJoab, \nAbsalom, \nJezebel, \nAhab, \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPhilistines, \nHerodias, \nJames and John, \nChief priests, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 34:25", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSimon and Levi, \nSamson, \n\nJoab, \nAbsalom, \nJezebel, \nAhab, \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPhilistines, \nHerodias, \nJames and John, \nChief priests, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Judges 15:7", "verse_text": "And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSimon and Levi, \nSamson, \n\nJoab, \nAbsalom, \nJezebel, \nAhab, \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPhilistines, \nHerodias, \nJames and John, \nChief priests, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:28-30", "verse_text": "And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes. 29 And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left. 30 And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSimon and Levi, \nSamson, \n\nJoab, \nAbsalom, \nJezebel, \nAhab, \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPhilistines, \nHerodias, \nJames and John, \nChief priests, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 3:27", "verse_text": "And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSimon and Levi, \nSamson, \n\nJoab, \nAbsalom, \nJezebel, \nAhab, \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPhilistines, \nHerodias, \nJames and John, \nChief priests, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 13:23-29", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baalhazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king's sons. 24 And Absalom came to the king, and said, Behold now, thy servant hath sheepshearers; let the king, I beseech thee, and his servants go with thy servant. 25 And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all now go, lest we be chargeable unto thee. And he pressed him: howbeit he would not go, but blessed him. 26 Then said Absalom, If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon go with us. And the king said unto him, Why should he go with thee? ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSimon and Levi, \nSamson, \n\nJoab, \nAbsalom, \nJezebel, \nAhab, \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPhilistines, \nHerodias, \nJames and John, \nChief priests, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:2", "verse_text": "Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSimon and Levi, \nSamson, \n\nJoab, \nAbsalom, \nJezebel, \nAhab, \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPhilistines, \nHerodias, \nJames and John, \nChief priests, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:26", "verse_text": "And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSimon and Levi, \nSamson, \n\nJoab, \nAbsalom, \nJezebel, \nAhab, \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPhilistines, \nHerodias, \nJames and John, \nChief priests, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Esther 3:8-15", "verse_text": "And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them. 9 If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries. 10 And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy. 11 And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSimon and Levi, \nSamson, \n\nJoab, \nAbsalom, \nJezebel, \nAhab, \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPhilistines, \nHerodias, \nJames and John, \nChief priests, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 25:12", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSimon and Levi, \nSamson, \n\nJoab, \nAbsalom, \nJezebel, \nAhab, \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPhilistines, \nHerodias, \nJames and John, \nChief priests, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 25:15", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSimon and Levi, \nSamson, \n\nJoab, \nAbsalom, \nJezebel, \nAhab, \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPhilistines, \nHerodias, \nJames and John, \nChief priests, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:19-24", "verse_text": "Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him; but she could not: 20 For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly. 21 And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee; 22 And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSimon and Levi, \nSamson, \n\nJoab, \nAbsalom, \nJezebel, \nAhab, \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPhilistines, \nHerodias, \nJames and John, \nChief priests, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Luke 9:54", "verse_text": "And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSimon and Levi, \nSamson, \n\nJoab, \nAbsalom, \nJezebel, \nAhab, \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPhilistines, \nHerodias, \nJames and John, \nChief priests, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:33", "verse_text": "When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSimon and Levi, \nSamson, \n\nJoab, \nAbsalom, \nJezebel, \nAhab, \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPhilistines, \nHerodias, \nJames and John, \nChief priests, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:54", "verse_text": "When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSimon and Levi, \nSamson, \n\nJoab, \nAbsalom, \nJezebel, \nAhab, \nHaman, \nEdomites, \nPhilistines, \nHerodias, \nJames and John, \nChief priests, \nJews,", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:12", "verse_text": "And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul." } ] }, { "name": "Righteousness Imputed", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Righteousness-Imputed.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Predicted", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:1", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed." }, { "point_text": "Predicted", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:14", "verse_text": "And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Revealed in the gospel", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:17", "verse_text": "For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith." }, { "point_text": "Is of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:17", "verse_text": "No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The righteousness of faith", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:13", "verse_text": "For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith." }, { "point_text": "The righteousness of faith", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:30", "verse_text": "What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith." }, { "point_text": "The righteousness of faith", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:6", "verse_text": "But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)" }, { "point_text": "The righteousness of God, without the law", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:21", "verse_text": "But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;" }, { "point_text": "The righteousness of God by faith in Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:22", "verse_text": "Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:" }, { "point_text": "Christ being made righteousness unto us", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:30", "verse_text": "But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:" }, { "point_text": "Our being made the righteousness of God, in Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:21", "verse_text": "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." }, { "point_text": "Christ is the end of the law for", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:4", "verse_text": "For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth." }, { "point_text": "Christ called THE LORD OF OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:6", "verse_text": "In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS." }, { "point_text": "Christ brings in an everlasting righteousness", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:24", "verse_text": "Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy." }, { "point_text": "Is a free gift", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:17", "verse_text": "For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)" }, { "point_text": "God's righteousness never to be abolished", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:16", "verse_text": "But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness." }, { "point_text": "The promises made through", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:13", "verse_text": "For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Have, on believing", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:5", "verse_text": "But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Have, on believing", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:11", "verse_text": "And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:" }, { "point_text": "Have, on believing", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:24", "verse_text": "But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;" }, { "point_text": "Clothed with the robe of righteousness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:10", "verse_text": "I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels." }, { "point_text": "Exalted in righteousness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:16", "verse_text": "In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted." }, { "point_text": "Desire to be found in", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:9", "verse_text": "And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:" }, { "point_text": "Glory in having", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:24-25", "verse_text": "Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed. 25 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory." }, { "point_text": "Exhortation to seek righteousness", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:33", "verse_text": "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." }, { "point_text": "The Gentiles attained to", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:30", "verse_text": "What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of those who have", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:6", "verse_text": "Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works," }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Ignorant of", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:3", "verse_text": "For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God." }, { "point_text": "Stumble at righteousness by faith", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:32", "verse_text": "Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;" }, { "point_text": "Submit not to", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:3", "verse_text": "For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \n\nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:9", "verse_text": "Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \n\nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:22", "verse_text": "And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \n\nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:7-9", "verse_text": "But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. 8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, 9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:" } ] }, { "name": "Righteousness", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Righteousness.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is obedience to God's law", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 6:25", "verse_text": "And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us." }, { "point_text": "Is obedience to God's law", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:5", "verse_text": "For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them." }, { "point_text": "Is obedience to God's law", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:6", "verse_text": "And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless." }, { "point_text": "Is obedience to God's law", "verse_ref": "Psalm 1:2", "verse_text": "But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night." }, { "point_text": "God loves", "verse_ref": "Psalm 11:7", "verse_text": "For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright." }, { "point_text": "God looks for", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:7", "verse_text": "For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry." }, { "point_text": "CHRIST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Is the Son of", "verse_ref": "Malachi 4:2", "verse_text": "But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall." }, { "point_text": "Loves", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:7", "verse_text": "Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows." }, { "point_text": "Loves", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:9", "verse_text": "Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows." }, { "point_text": "Was girt with", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:5", "verse_text": "And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins." }, { "point_text": "Put on, as breast-plate", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:17", "verse_text": "For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke." }, { "point_text": "Was sustained by", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:16", "verse_text": "And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him." }, { "point_text": "Preached", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:9", "verse_text": "I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest." }, { "point_text": "Fulfilled all", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:15", "verse_text": "And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him." }, { "point_text": "Is made unto His people", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:30", "verse_text": "But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:" }, { "point_text": "Is the end of the law for", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:4", "verse_text": "For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth." }, { "point_text": "Has brought in everlasting", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:24", "verse_text": "Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy." }, { "point_text": "Shall judge with", "verse_ref": "Psalm 72:2", "verse_text": "He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment." }, { "point_text": "Shall judge with", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:4", "verse_text": "But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked." }, { "point_text": "Shall judge with", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:31", "verse_text": "Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead." }, { "point_text": "Shall judge with", "verse_ref": "Revelation 19:11", "verse_text": "And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war." }, { "point_text": "Shall reign in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:6", "verse_text": "Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre." }, { "point_text": "Shall reign in", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:1", "verse_text": "Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment." }, { "point_text": "Shall reign in", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:8", "verse_text": "But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom." }, { "point_text": "Shall execute", "verse_ref": "Psalm 99:4", "verse_text": "The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob." }, { "point_text": "Shall execute", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:6", "verse_text": "In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS." }, { "point_text": "None, by nature have", "verse_ref": "Job 15:14", "verse_text": "What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?" }, { "point_text": "None, by nature have", "verse_ref": "Psalm 14:3", "verse_text": "They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one." }, { "point_text": "None, by nature have", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:10", "verse_text": "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:" }, { "point_text": "Cannot come by the law", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:21", "verse_text": "I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." }, { "point_text": "Cannot come by the law", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:21", "verse_text": "Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law." }, { "point_text": "No justification by works of", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:20", "verse_text": "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin." }, { "point_text": "No justification by works of", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:31-32", "verse_text": "But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. 32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;" }, { "point_text": "No salvation by works of", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:8-9", "verse_text": "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast." }, { "point_text": "No salvation by works of", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:9", "verse_text": "Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began," }, { "point_text": "No salvation by works of", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:5", "verse_text": "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;" }, { "point_text": "Unregenerate man seeks justification by works of", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:9", "verse_text": "And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:" }, { "point_text": "Unregenerate man seeks justification by works of", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:3", "verse_text": "For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God." }, { "point_text": "The blessing of God is not to be attributed to our works of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:5", "verse_text": "Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Have, in Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:24", "verse_text": "Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed." }, { "point_text": "Have, in Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:17", "verse_text": "No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Have, in Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:21", "verse_text": "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." }, { "point_text": "Have, imputed", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:11", "verse_text": "And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:" }, { "point_text": "Have, imputed", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:22", "verse_text": "And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Are covered with the robe of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:10", "verse_text": "I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels." }, { "point_text": "Receive, from God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 24:5", "verse_text": "He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation." }, { "point_text": "Are renewed in", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:24", "verse_text": "And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness." }, { "point_text": "Are led in the paths of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 23:3", "verse_text": "He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake." }, { "point_text": "Are servants of", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:16", "verse_text": "Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?" }, { "point_text": "Are servants of", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:18", "verse_text": "Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Characterized by", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:25", "verse_text": "That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" }, { "point_text": "Characterized by", "verse_ref": "Psalm 1:5-6", "verse_text": "Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. 6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish." }, { "point_text": "Know", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 51:7", "verse_text": "Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings." }, { "point_text": "Do", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:29", "verse_text": "If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him." }, { "point_text": "Do", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:7", "verse_text": "Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous." }, { "point_text": "Work, by faith", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:33", "verse_text": "Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions," }, { "point_text": "Follow after", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 51:1", "verse_text": "Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged." }, { "point_text": "Put on", "verse_ref": "Job 29:14", "verse_text": "I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem." }, { "point_text": "Wait for the hope of", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:5", "verse_text": "For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith." }, { "point_text": "Pray for the spirit of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:10", "verse_text": "Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me." }, { "point_text": "Hunger and thirst after", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:6", "verse_text": "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled." }, { "point_text": "Walk before God in", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 3:6", "verse_text": "And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day." }, { "point_text": "Offer the sacrifice of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 4:5", "verse_text": "Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Offer the sacrifice of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:19", "verse_text": "Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar." }, { "point_text": "Put no trust in their own", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:6-8", "verse_text": "Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. 7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. 8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ," }, { "point_text": "Count their own, as filthy rags", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 64:6", "verse_text": "But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away." }, { "point_text": "Should seek", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 2:3", "verse_text": "Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger." }, { "point_text": "Should live in", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:12", "verse_text": "Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;" }, { "point_text": "Should live in", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:24", "verse_text": "Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed." }, { "point_text": "Should serve God in", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:75", "verse_text": "In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life." }, { "point_text": "Should yield their members as instruments of", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:13", "verse_text": "Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God." }, { "point_text": "Should yield their members servants to", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:19", "verse_text": "I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness." }, { "point_text": "Should have on the breast-plate of", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:14", "verse_text": "Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;" }, { "point_text": "Shall receive a crown of", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:8", "verse_text": "Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing." }, { "point_text": "Shall see God's face in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 17:15", "verse_text": "As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness." }, { "point_text": "Of saints endures forever", "verse_ref": "Psalm 112:3", "verse_text": "Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever." }, { "point_text": "Of saints endures forever", "verse_ref": "Psalm 112:9", "verse_text": "He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour." }, { "point_text": "Of saints endures forever", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 9:9", "verse_text": "(As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever." }, { "point_text": "An evidence of the new birth", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:29", "verse_text": "If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him." }, { "point_text": "The kingdom of God is", "verse_ref": "Romans 14:17", "verse_text": "For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "The fruit of the Spirit is in all", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:9", "verse_text": "(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)" }, { "point_text": "The Scriptures instruct in", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:16", "verse_text": "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:" }, { "point_text": "Judgments designed to lead to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:9", "verse_text": "With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Chastisements yield the fruit of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:11", "verse_text": "Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby." }, { "point_text": "Has no fellowship with unrighteousness", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:14", "verse_text": "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?" }, { "point_text": "MINISTERS SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Be preachers of", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:5", "verse_text": "And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;" }, { "point_text": "Reason of", "verse_ref": "Acts 24:25", "verse_text": "And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee." }, { "point_text": "Follow after", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:11", "verse_text": "But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness." }, { "point_text": "Follow after", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:22", "verse_text": "Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart." }, { "point_text": "Be clothed with", "verse_ref": "Psalm 132:9", "verse_text": "Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy." }, { "point_text": "Be armed with", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:7", "verse_text": "By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left," }, { "point_text": "Pray for the fruit of, in their people", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 9:10", "verse_text": "Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)" }, { "point_text": "Pray for the fruit of, in their people", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:11", "verse_text": "Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God." }, { "point_text": "Keep saints in the right way", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:5", "verse_text": "The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness." }, { "point_text": "Keep saints in the right way", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 13:6", "verse_text": "Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner." }, { "point_text": "Judgment should be executed in", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:15", "verse_text": "Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour." }, { "point_text": "THEY WHO WALK IN, AND FOLLOW,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Are righteous", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:7", "verse_text": "Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous." }, { "point_text": "Are the excellent of the earth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 16:3", "verse_text": "But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight." }, { "point_text": "Are the excellent of the earth", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:26", "verse_text": "The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them." }, { "point_text": "Are accepted with God", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:35", "verse_text": "But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him." }, { "point_text": "Are loved by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 146:8", "verse_text": "The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:" }, { "point_text": "Are loved by God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:9", "verse_text": "The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Are blessed by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 5:12", "verse_text": "For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield." }, { "point_text": "Are heard by God", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:7", "verse_text": "And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?" }, { "point_text": "Are heard by God", "verse_ref": "James 5:16", "verse_text": "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." }, { "point_text": "Are objects of God's watchful care", "verse_ref": "Job 36:7", "verse_text": "He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted." }, { "point_text": "Are objects of God's watchful care", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:15", "verse_text": "The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry." }, { "point_text": "Are objects of God's watchful care", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:3", "verse_text": "The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked." }, { "point_text": "Are objects of God's watchful care", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:12", "verse_text": "For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil." }, { "point_text": "Are tried by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 11:5", "verse_text": "The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth." }, { "point_text": "Are exalted by God", "verse_ref": "Job 36:7", "verse_text": "He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted." }, { "point_text": "Dwell in security", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:15-16", "verse_text": "He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; 16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure." }, { "point_text": "Are bold as a lion", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:1", "verse_text": "The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion." }, { "point_text": "Are delivered out of all troubles", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:19", "verse_text": "Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all." }, { "point_text": "Are delivered out of all troubles", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:8", "verse_text": "The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead." }, { "point_text": "Are never forsaken by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:25", "verse_text": "I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread." }, { "point_text": "Are abundantly provided for", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 13:25", "verse_text": "The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want." }, { "point_text": "Are abundantly provided for", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:25-33", "verse_text": "Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? 26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? 27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? 28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: ..." }, { "point_text": "Are enriched", "verse_ref": "Psalm 112:3", "verse_text": "Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever." }, { "point_text": "Are enriched", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:6", "verse_text": "In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble." }, { "point_text": "Think and desire good", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:23", "verse_text": "The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath." }, { "point_text": "Think and desire good", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:5", "verse_text": "The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit." }, { "point_text": "Know the secret of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Psalm 25:14", "verse_text": "The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant." }, { "point_text": "Know the secret of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:32", "verse_text": "For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous." }, { "point_text": "Have their prayers heard", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:17", "verse_text": "The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles." }, { "point_text": "Have their prayers heard", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:29", "verse_text": "The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous." }, { "point_text": "Have their prayers heard", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:12", "verse_text": "For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil." }, { "point_text": "Have their desires granted", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:24", "verse_text": "The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted." }, { "point_text": "Find it with life and honor", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:21", "verse_text": "He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour." }, { "point_text": "Shall hold on their way", "verse_ref": "Job 17:9", "verse_text": "The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger." }, { "point_text": "Shall never be moved", "verse_ref": "Psalm 15:2", "verse_text": "He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart." }, { "point_text": "Shall never be moved", "verse_ref": "Psalm 55:22", "verse_text": "Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved." }, { "point_text": "Shall never be moved", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:30", "verse_text": "The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth." }, { "point_text": "Shall never be moved", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:3", "verse_text": "A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved." }, { "point_text": "Shall be ever remembered", "verse_ref": "Psalm 112:6", "verse_text": "Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance." }, { "point_text": "Shall flourish as a branch", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:28", "verse_text": "He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch." }, { "point_text": "Shall be glad in the Lord", "verse_ref": "Psalm 64:10", "verse_text": "The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory." }, { "point_text": "Brings its own reward", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:18", "verse_text": "The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward." }, { "point_text": "Brings its own reward", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:10", "verse_text": "Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings." }, { "point_text": "Tends to life", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:19", "verse_text": "As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death." }, { "point_text": "Tends to life", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:28", "verse_text": "In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death." }, { "point_text": "The work of, shall be peace", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:17", "verse_text": "And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever." }, { "point_text": "The effect of, shall be quietness and assurance for ever", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:17", "verse_text": "And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever." }, { "point_text": "Is a crown of glory to the aged", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:31", "verse_text": "The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Are far from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:150", "verse_text": "They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law." }, { "point_text": "Are far from", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 46:12", "verse_text": "Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:" }, { "point_text": "Are free from", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:20", "verse_text": "For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Are enemies of", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:10", "verse_text": "And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?" }, { "point_text": "Leave off", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:7", "verse_text": "Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth," }, { "point_text": "Leave off", "verse_ref": "Psalm 36:3", "verse_text": "The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good." }, { "point_text": "Follow not after", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:30", "verse_text": "What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith." }, { "point_text": "Do not", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:10", "verse_text": "In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother." }, { "point_text": "Do not obey", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:8", "verse_text": "But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath," }, { "point_text": "Do not obey", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:12", "verse_text": "That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." }, { "point_text": "Love lying rather than", "verse_ref": "Psalm 52:3", "verse_text": "Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Make mention of God, not it", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 48:1", "verse_text": "Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Though favored, will not learn", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:10", "verse_text": "Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Though favored, will not learn", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:43", "verse_text": "Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Speak contemptuously against those who follow", "verse_ref": "Psalm 31:18", "verse_text": "Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous." }, { "point_text": "Speak contemptuously against those who follow", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:39-44", "verse_text": "And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, 40 And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross. 41 Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said, 42 He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. ..." }, { "point_text": "Hate those who follow", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:21", "verse_text": "Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate." }, { "point_text": "Slay those who follow", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:32", "verse_text": "The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him." }, { "point_text": "Slay those who follow", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:12", "verse_text": "Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous." }, { "point_text": "Slay those who follow", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:35", "verse_text": "That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar." }, { "point_text": "Should break off their sins by", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:27", "verse_text": "Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity." }, { "point_text": "Should awake to", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:34", "verse_text": "Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame." }, { "point_text": "Should sow to themselves in", "verse_ref": "Hosea 10:12", "verse_text": "Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you." }, { "point_text": "Vainly wish to die as those who follow", "verse_ref": "Numbers 23:10", "verse_text": "Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!" }, { "point_text": "The throne of kings established by", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:12", "verse_text": "It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness." }, { "point_text": "The throne of kings established by", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:5", "verse_text": "Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Nations exalted by", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:34", "verse_text": "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people." }, { "point_text": "BLESSEDNESS OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Having imputed, without works", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:6", "verse_text": "Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works," }, { "point_text": "Doing", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:3", "verse_text": "Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times." }, { "point_text": "Hungering and thirsting after", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:6", "verse_text": "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled." }, { "point_text": "Suffering for", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:14", "verse_text": "But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;" }, { "point_text": "Being persecuted for", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:10", "verse_text": "Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." }, { "point_text": "Turning others to", "verse_ref": "Daniel 12:3", "verse_text": "And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever." }, { "point_text": "Promised to the Church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:16", "verse_text": "Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field." }, { "point_text": "Promised to the Church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:8", "verse_text": "Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it." }, { "point_text": "Promised to the Church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:11-62:1", "verse_text": "For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations. 1 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth." }, { "point_text": "Promised to saints", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:21", "verse_text": "Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified." }, { "point_text": "Promised to saints", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:3", "verse_text": "To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nDavid, \nZacharias, &c. \nAbel, \nLot,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 30:33", "verse_text": "So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nDavid, \nZacharias, &c. \nAbel, \nLot,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 22:21", "verse_text": "The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nDavid, \nZacharias, &c. \nAbel, \nLot,", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:6", "verse_text": "And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nDavid, \nZacharias, &c. \nAbel, \nLot,", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:4", "verse_text": "By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nDavid, \nZacharias, &c. \nAbel, \nLot,", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:8", "verse_text": "(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)" } ] }, { "name": "Rings", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Rings.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:22", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;" }, { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 38:18", "verse_text": "And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand. And he gave it her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him." }, { "point_text": "Made of gold and set with precious stones", "verse_ref": "Numbers 31:50-51", "verse_text": "We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD. 51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels." }, { "point_text": "WERE WORN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "On the hands", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:42", "verse_text": "And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;" }, { "point_text": "On the arms", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 1:10", "verse_text": "So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither unto my lord." }, { "point_text": "In the ears", "verse_ref": "Job 42:11", "verse_text": "Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold." }, { "point_text": "In the ears", "verse_ref": "Hosea 2:13", "verse_text": "And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "In the ears", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:12", "verse_text": "And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head." }, { "point_text": "In the nose", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:21", "verse_text": "The rings, and nose jewels," }, { "point_text": "Rich men distinguished by", "verse_ref": "James 2:2", "verse_text": "For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;" }, { "point_text": "Women of rank adorned with", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:16", "verse_text": "Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:" }, { "point_text": "Women of rank adorned with", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:21", "verse_text": "The rings, and nose jewels," }, { "point_text": "OF KINGS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Used for sealing decrees", "verse_ref": "Esther 3:12", "verse_text": "Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring." }, { "point_text": "Used for sealing decrees", "verse_ref": "Esther 8:8", "verse_text": "Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring: for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse." }, { "point_text": "Used for sealing decrees", "verse_ref": "Esther 8:10", "verse_text": "And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries:" }, { "point_text": "Given to favorites as a mark of honor", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:42", "verse_text": "And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;" }, { "point_text": "Given to favorites as a mark of honor", "verse_ref": "Esther 3:10", "verse_text": "And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy." }, { "point_text": "Given to favorites as a mark of honor", "verse_ref": "Esther 8:2", "verse_text": "And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman." }, { "point_text": "Numbers of, taken from Midianites", "verse_ref": "Numbers 31:50", "verse_text": "We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the glory of Christ", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:14", "verse_text": "His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires." }, { "point_text": "(Put on the hands,) of favor", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:22", "verse_text": "But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:" } ] }, { "name": "Rivers", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Rivers.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Source of", "verse_ref": "Job 28:10", "verse_text": "He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing." }, { "point_text": "Source of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:8", "verse_text": "They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them." }, { "point_text": "Source of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:10", "verse_text": "He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills." }, { "point_text": "Enclosed within banks", "verse_ref": "Daniel 12:5", "verse_text": "Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river." }, { "point_text": "Flow through valleys", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:8", "verse_text": "They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them." }, { "point_text": "Flow through valleys", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:10", "verse_text": "He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills." }, { "point_text": "SOME OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Great and mighty", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:18", "verse_text": "In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:" }, { "point_text": "Great and mighty", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:15", "verse_text": "Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers." }, { "point_text": "Deep", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 47:5", "verse_text": "Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over." }, { "point_text": "Deep", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 10:11", "verse_text": "And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away." }, { "point_text": "Broad", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:21", "verse_text": "But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby." }, { "point_text": "Rapid", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:21", "verse_text": "The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength." }, { "point_text": "Parted into many streams", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:10", "verse_text": "And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads." }, { "point_text": "Parted into many streams", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:5", "verse_text": "And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins." }, { "point_text": "Run into the sea", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 1:7", "verse_text": "All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again." }, { "point_text": "Run into the sea", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 47:8", "verse_text": "Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed." }, { "point_text": "God's power over, unlimited", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 50:2", "verse_text": "Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst." }, { "point_text": "God's power over, unlimited", "verse_ref": "Nahum 1:4", "verse_text": "He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth." }, { "point_text": "USEFUL FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Supplying drink to the people", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:18", "verse_text": "And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?" }, { "point_text": "Commerce", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:3", "verse_text": "And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations." }, { "point_text": "Promoting vegetation", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:10", "verse_text": "And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads." }, { "point_text": "Bathing", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:5", "verse_text": "And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it." }, { "point_text": "Baptism often performed in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:6", "verse_text": "And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins." }, { "point_text": "Of Canaan abounded with fish", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:9-10", "verse_text": "These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat. 10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:" }, { "point_text": "BANKS OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Covered with flags", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:3", "verse_text": "And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink." }, { "point_text": "Covered with flags", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:5", "verse_text": "And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it." }, { "point_text": "Planted with trees", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 47:7", "verse_text": "Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other." }, { "point_text": "Frequented by doves", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:12", "verse_text": "His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set." }, { "point_text": "Frequented by wild beasts", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:19", "verse_text": "Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?" }, { "point_text": "Places of common resort", "verse_ref": "Psalm 137:1", "verse_text": "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion." }, { "point_text": "Frequently overflowed", "verse_ref": "Joshua 3:15", "verse_text": "And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,)" }, { "point_text": "Frequently overflowed", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:15", "verse_text": "These are they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west." }, { "point_text": "Peculiarly fruitful", "verse_ref": "Psalm 1:3", "verse_text": "And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper." }, { "point_text": "Peculiarly fruitful", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:20", "verse_text": "Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass." }, { "point_text": "Gardens often made beside", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:6", "verse_text": "As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters." }, { "point_text": "Cities often built beside", "verse_ref": "Psalm 46:4", "verse_text": "There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High." }, { "point_text": "Cities often built beside", "verse_ref": "Psalm 137:1", "verse_text": "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion." }, { "point_text": "Often the boundaries of kingdoms", "verse_ref": "Joshua 22:25", "verse_text": "For the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the LORD: so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Often the boundaries of kingdoms", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:24", "verse_text": "For he had dominion over all the region on this side the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the river: and he had peace on all sides round about him." }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of Eden", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:10", "verse_text": "And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads." }, { "point_text": "Of Jotbath", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:7", "verse_text": "From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters." }, { "point_text": "Of Ethiopia", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 18:1", "verse_text": "Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:" }, { "point_text": "Of Babylon", "verse_ref": "Psalm 137:1", "verse_text": "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion." }, { "point_text": "Of Egypt", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:18", "verse_text": "In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:" }, { "point_text": "Of Damascus", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:12", "verse_text": "Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage." }, { "point_text": "Of Ahava", "verse_ref": "Ezra 8:15", "verse_text": "And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi." }, { "point_text": "Of Judah", "verse_ref": "Joel 3:18", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim." }, { "point_text": "Of Philippi", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:13", "verse_text": "And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither." }, { "point_text": "Abana", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:12", "verse_text": "Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage." }, { "point_text": "Arnon", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:36", "verse_text": "From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us:" }, { "point_text": "Arnon", "verse_ref": "Joshua 12:1", "verse_text": "Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:" }, { "point_text": "Chebar", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 1:1", "verse_text": "Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God." }, { "point_text": "Chebar", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 10:15", "verse_text": "And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar." }, { "point_text": "Chebar", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 10:20", "verse_text": "This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubims." }, { "point_text": "Euphrates", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:14", "verse_text": "And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates." }, { "point_text": "Gihon", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:13", "verse_text": "And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia." }, { "point_text": "Gozan", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:6", "verse_text": "In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes." }, { "point_text": "Gozan", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 5:26", "verse_text": "And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Hiddekel", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:14", "verse_text": "And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates." }, { "point_text": "Jabbok", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:37", "verse_text": "Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us." }, { "point_text": "Jabbok", "verse_ref": "Joshua 12:2", "verse_text": "Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;" }, { "point_text": "Jordan", "verse_ref": "Joshua 3:8", "verse_text": "And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When ye are come to the brink of the water of Jordan, ye shall stand still in Jordan." }, { "point_text": "Jordan", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:10", "verse_text": "And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean." }, { "point_text": "Kanah", "verse_ref": "Joshua 16:8", "verse_text": "The border went out from Tappuah westward unto the river Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families." }, { "point_text": "Kishon", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:21", "verse_text": "The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength." }, { "point_text": "Pharpar", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:12", "verse_text": "Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage." }, { "point_text": "Pison", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:11", "verse_text": "The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;" }, { "point_text": "Ulai", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:16", "verse_text": "And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision." }, { "point_text": "Many, fordable in some places", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:22", "verse_text": "And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok." }, { "point_text": "Many, fordable in some places", "verse_ref": "Joshua 2:7", "verse_text": "And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the fords: and as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate." }, { "point_text": "Many, fordable in some places", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 16:2", "verse_text": "For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the abundance of grace in Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:2", "verse_text": "And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land." }, { "point_text": "Of the abundance of grace in Christ", "verse_ref": "John 1:16", "verse_text": "And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace." }, { "point_text": "Of the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit", "verse_ref": "Psalm 46:4", "verse_text": "There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High." }, { "point_text": "Of the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:18", "verse_text": "I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water." }, { "point_text": "Of the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 43:19-20", "verse_text": "Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. 20 The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen." }, { "point_text": "Of heavy afflictions", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:2", "verse_text": "I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me." }, { "point_text": "Of heavy afflictions", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 43:2", "verse_text": "When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee." }, { "point_text": "Of abundance", "verse_ref": "Job 20:17", "verse_text": "He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter." }, { "point_text": "Of abundance", "verse_ref": "Job 29:6", "verse_text": "When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;" }, { "point_text": "Of people flying from judgments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:10", "verse_text": "Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength." }, { "point_text": "(Steady course of,) of peace of saints", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:12", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees." }, { "point_text": "(Fruitfulness of trees planted by,) of the permanent prosperity of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 1:3", "verse_text": "And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper." }, { "point_text": "(Fruitfulness of trees planted by,) of the permanent prosperity of saints", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:8", "verse_text": "For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit." }, { "point_text": "(Drying up of,) of God's judgments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:1-8", "verse_text": "The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. 2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. 3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards. 4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts. ..." }, { "point_text": "(Drying up of,) of God's judgments", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:36", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry." }, { "point_text": "(Drying up of,) of God's judgments", "verse_ref": "Nahum 1:4", "verse_text": "He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth." }, { "point_text": "(Drying up of,) of God's judgments", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 10:11", "verse_text": "And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away." }, { "point_text": "(Overflowing of,) of God's judgments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:7", "verse_text": "Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:" }, { "point_text": "(Overflowing of,) of God's judgments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:2", "verse_text": "Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand." }, { "point_text": "(Overflowing of,) of God's judgments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:18", "verse_text": "And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it." } ] }, { "name": "Roe, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Roe-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Clean and fit for food", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:15", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart." }, { "point_text": "Clean and fit for food", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:5", "verse_text": "The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois." }, { "point_text": "Male of, called the roebuck", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:23", "verse_text": "Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Cheerful", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 5:19", "verse_text": "Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love." }, { "point_text": "Wild", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 2:18", "verse_text": "And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe." }, { "point_text": "Swift", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:8", "verse_text": "And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains;" }, { "point_text": "Inhabits the mountains", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:8", "verse_text": "And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains;" }, { "point_text": "Often hunted by men", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:5", "verse_text": "Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:9", "verse_text": "My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice." }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:17", "verse_text": "Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether." }, { "point_text": "The church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:5", "verse_text": "Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies." }, { "point_text": "The church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 7:3", "verse_text": "Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins." }, { "point_text": "A good wife", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 5:19", "verse_text": "Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love." }, { "point_text": "The swift of foot", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 2:18", "verse_text": "And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe." } ] }, { "name": "Rocks", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Rocks.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Often composed of flint", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:15", "verse_text": "Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;" }, { "point_text": "Often composed of flint", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:13", "verse_text": "He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;" }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Hard", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:3", "verse_text": "O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return." }, { "point_text": "Durable", "verse_ref": "Job 19:24", "verse_text": "That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!" }, { "point_text": "Barren", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:4", "verse_text": "And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock." }, { "point_text": "Barren", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:14", "verse_text": "And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Often sharp-pointed and craggy", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:4", "verse_text": "And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines' garrison, there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh." }, { "point_text": "Often had holes and clefts", "verse_ref": "Exodus 33:22", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:" }, { "point_text": "Were a defence to a country", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:16", "verse_text": "He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure." }, { "point_text": "Dreaded by mariners", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:29", "verse_text": "Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day." }, { "point_text": "INHABITED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Wild goats", "verse_ref": "Job 39:1", "verse_text": "Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?" }, { "point_text": "Conies", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:18", "verse_text": "The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies." }, { "point_text": "Conies", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:26", "verse_text": "The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;" }, { "point_text": "Doves", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:14", "verse_text": "O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely." }, { "point_text": "Doves", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:28", "verse_text": "O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth." }, { "point_text": "Eagles", "verse_ref": "Job 39:28", "verse_text": "She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place." }, { "point_text": "Eagles", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:16", "verse_text": "Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The olive tree flourished amongst", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:13", "verse_text": "He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;" }, { "point_text": "The olive tree flourished amongst", "verse_ref": "Job 29:6", "verse_text": "When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;" }, { "point_text": "Bees often made their honey amongst", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:13", "verse_text": "He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;" }, { "point_text": "Bees often made their honey amongst", "verse_ref": "Psalm 81:16", "verse_text": "He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee." }, { "point_text": "USED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Altars", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:20-21", "verse_text": "And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so. 21 Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD departed out of his sight." }, { "point_text": "Altars", "verse_ref": "Judges 13:19", "verse_text": "So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on." }, { "point_text": "Places for idolatrous worship", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:5", "verse_text": "Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?" }, { "point_text": "Places of Observation", "verse_ref": "Exodus 33:21", "verse_text": "And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:" }, { "point_text": "Places of Observation", "verse_ref": "Numbers 23:9", "verse_text": "For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations." }, { "point_text": "Places of safety in danger", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:6", "verse_text": "When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits." }, { "point_text": "Places of safety in danger", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:19", "verse_text": "And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth." }, { "point_text": "Places of safety in danger", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 16:16", "verse_text": "Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks." }, { "point_text": "Places of safety in danger", "verse_ref": "Revelation 6:15", "verse_text": "And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;" }, { "point_text": "Places for shelter by the poor in their distress", "verse_ref": "Job 24:8", "verse_text": "They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter." }, { "point_text": "Places for shelter by the poor in their distress", "verse_ref": "Job 30:3", "verse_text": "For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste." }, { "point_text": "Places for shelter by the poor in their distress", "verse_ref": "Job 30:6", "verse_text": "To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks." }, { "point_text": "The shadow of, grateful to travelers during the heat of the day", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:2", "verse_text": "And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land." }, { "point_text": "Houses often built on", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:24-25", "verse_text": "Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: 25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock." }, { "point_text": "Tombs often hewn out of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:16", "verse_text": "What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?" }, { "point_text": "Tombs often hewn out of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:60", "verse_text": "And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed." }, { "point_text": "Important events often engraved upon", "verse_ref": "Job 19:24", "verse_text": "That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!" }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Adullam", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 11:15", "verse_text": "Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim." }, { "point_text": "Bozez", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:4", "verse_text": "And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines' garrison, there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh." }, { "point_text": "Engedi", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 24:1-2", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi. 2 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats." }, { "point_text": "Etam", "verse_ref": "Judges 15:8", "verse_text": "And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam." }, { "point_text": "Horeb in Rephidim", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:1-6", "verse_text": "And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink. 2 Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD? 3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst? 4 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me. ..." }, { "point_text": "Meribah in Kadesh", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:1-11", "verse_text": "Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there. 2 And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. 3 And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD! 4 And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there? ..." }, { "point_text": "Oreb", "verse_ref": "Judges 7:25", "verse_text": "And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan." }, { "point_text": "Oreb", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:26", "verse_text": "And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Rimmon", "verse_ref": "Judges 20:45", "verse_text": "And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them." }, { "point_text": "Seneh", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:4", "verse_text": "And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines' garrison, there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh." }, { "point_text": "Sela-hammahlekoth in the wilderness of Maon", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 23:25", "verse_text": "Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon." }, { "point_text": "Sela-hammahlekoth in the wilderness of Maon", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 23:28", "verse_text": "Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Selahammahlekoth." }, { "point_text": "Selah in the valley of salt", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 14:7", "verse_text": "He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Selah in the valley of salt", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 25:11-12", "verse_text": "And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand. 12 And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces." }, { "point_text": "Man's industry in cutting through", "verse_ref": "Job 28:9-10", "verse_text": "He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots. 10 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing." }, { "point_text": "Hammers used for breaking", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:29", "verse_text": "Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?" }, { "point_text": "Casting down from, a punishment", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 25:12", "verse_text": "And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces." }, { "point_text": "MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Water brought from", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:6", "verse_text": "Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Water brought from", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:11", "verse_text": "And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also." }, { "point_text": "Fire ascended out of", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:21", "verse_text": "Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD departed out of his sight." }, { "point_text": "Broken in pieces by the wind", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:11", "verse_text": "And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:" }, { "point_text": "Rent at the death of Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:51", "verse_text": "And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;" }, { "point_text": "God's power exhibited in removing", "verse_ref": "Job 14:18", "verse_text": "And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place." }, { "point_text": "God's power exhibited in removing", "verse_ref": "Nahum 1:6", "verse_text": "Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "God as creator of His people", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:18", "verse_text": "Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee." }, { "point_text": "God as the strength of His people", "verse_ref": "Psalm 18:1", "verse_text": "I will love thee, O LORD, my strength." }, { "point_text": "God as the strength of His people", "verse_ref": "Psalm 62:7", "verse_text": "In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God." }, { "point_text": "God as the strength of His people", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 17:10", "verse_text": "Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:" }, { "point_text": "God as defence of His people", "verse_ref": "Psalm 31:2-3", "verse_text": "Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me. 3 For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me." }, { "point_text": "God as refuge of His people", "verse_ref": "Psalm 94:22", "verse_text": "But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge." }, { "point_text": "God as salvation of His people", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:15", "verse_text": "But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation." }, { "point_text": "God as salvation of His people", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:26", "verse_text": "He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation." }, { "point_text": "God as salvation of His people", "verse_ref": "Psalm 95:1", "verse_text": "O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation." }, { "point_text": "Christ as refuge of His people", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:2", "verse_text": "And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land." }, { "point_text": "Christ as foundation of His church", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:18", "verse_text": "And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." }, { "point_text": "Christ as foundation of His church", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:6", "verse_text": "Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded." }, { "point_text": "Christ as source of spiritual gifts", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:4", "verse_text": "And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ." }, { "point_text": "Christ as a stumbling-stone to the wicked", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:14", "verse_text": "And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Christ as a stumbling-stone to the wicked", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:33", "verse_text": "As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed." }, { "point_text": "Christ as a stumbling-stone to the wicked", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:8", "verse_text": "And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed." }, { "point_text": "A place of safety", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:5", "verse_text": "For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock." }, { "point_text": "A place of safety", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:2", "verse_text": "He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings." }, { "point_text": "Whatever we trust in", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:31", "verse_text": "For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges." }, { "point_text": "Whatever we trust in", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:37", "verse_text": "And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted," }, { "point_text": "The ancestor of a nation", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 51:1", "verse_text": "Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged." } ] }, { "name": "Sackcloth", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Sackcloth.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Made of coarse hair", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:4", "verse_text": "And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey." }, { "point_text": "Made of coarse hair", "verse_ref": "Revelation 6:12", "verse_text": "And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;" }, { "point_text": "Rough and unsightly", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 13:4", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive:" }, { "point_text": "Of a black color", "verse_ref": "Revelation 6:12", "verse_text": "And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;" }, { "point_text": "WAS WORN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "By God's prophets", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 1:8", "verse_text": "And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite." }, { "point_text": "By God's prophets", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 20:2", "verse_text": "At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot." }, { "point_text": "By God's prophets", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:4", "verse_text": "And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey." }, { "point_text": "By God's prophets", "verse_ref": "Revelation 11:3", "verse_text": "And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth." }, { "point_text": "By persons in affliction", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:1", "verse_text": "Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them." }, { "point_text": "By persons in affliction", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:11", "verse_text": "I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them." }, { "point_text": "By persons in affliction", "verse_ref": "Jonah 3:5", "verse_text": "So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them." }, { "point_text": "Girt about the loins", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:34", "verse_text": "And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days." }, { "point_text": "Girt about the loins", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:31", "verse_text": "And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life." }, { "point_text": "Frequently next the skin in deep afflictions", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:27", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly." }, { "point_text": "Frequently next the skin in deep afflictions", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:30", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh." }, { "point_text": "Frequently next the skin in deep afflictions", "verse_ref": "Job 16:15", "verse_text": "I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust." }, { "point_text": "Often over the whole person", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:1-2", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD. 2 And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz." }, { "point_text": "With ashes on the head", "verse_ref": "Esther 4:1", "verse_text": "When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;" }, { "point_text": "Often with ropes on the head", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:31", "verse_text": "And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life." }, { "point_text": "In the streets", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 15:3", "verse_text": "In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly." }, { "point_text": "At funerals", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 3:31", "verse_text": "And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier." }, { "point_text": "The Jews lay in, when in deep affliction", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 21:10", "verse_text": "And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night." }, { "point_text": "The Jews lay in, when in deep affliction", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:27", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly." }, { "point_text": "The Jews lay in, when in deep affliction", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:13", "verse_text": "Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God." }, { "point_text": "No one clothed in, allowed into the palaces of kings", "verse_ref": "Esther 4:2", "verse_text": "And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "(Girding with,) of heavy afflictions", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:24", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty." }, { "point_text": "(Girding with,) of heavy afflictions", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:12", "verse_text": "And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:" }, { "point_text": "(Girding with,) of heavy afflictions", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:11", "verse_text": "Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins." }, { "point_text": "(Covering the heavens with,) of severe judgments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 50:3", "verse_text": "I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering." }, { "point_text": "(Heavens becoming black as,) of severe judgments", "verse_ref": "Revelation 6:12", "verse_text": "And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;" }, { "point_text": "(Putting of,) of joy and gladness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 30:11", "verse_text": "Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;" } ] }, { "name": "Sadducees, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Sadducees-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "A sect of the Jews", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:17", "verse_text": "Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation," }, { "point_text": "Denied the resurrection and a future stated", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:23", "verse_text": "The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him," }, { "point_text": "Denied the resurrection and a future stated", "verse_ref": "Luke 20:27", "verse_text": "Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him," }, { "point_text": "The resurrection a cause of dispute between them and the Pharisees", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:6-9", "verse_text": "But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question. 7 And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided. 8 For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both. 9 And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees' part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God." }, { "point_text": "Were refused baptism by John", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:7", "verse_text": "But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?" }, { "point_text": "CHRIST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Tempted by", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:1", "verse_text": "The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven." }, { "point_text": "Cautioned His disciples against their principles", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:6", "verse_text": "Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees." }, { "point_text": "Cautioned His disciples against their principles", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:11-12", "verse_text": "How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? 12 Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees." }, { "point_text": "Vindicated the resurrection against", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:24-32", "verse_text": "Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. 25 Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother: 26 Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh. 27 And last of all the woman died also. ..." }, { "point_text": "Vindicated the resurrection against", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:19-27", "verse_text": "Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. 20 Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed. 21 And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise. 22 And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also. ..." }, { "point_text": "Silenced", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:34", "verse_text": "But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together." }, { "point_text": "Persecuted the Christians", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:1", "verse_text": "And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them," }, { "point_text": "Persecuted the Christians", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:17-18", "verse_text": "Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation, 18 And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison." }, { "point_text": "Persecuted the Christians", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:40", "verse_text": "And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go." } ] }, { "name": "Roman Empire, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Roman-Empire-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Called the world from its extent", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed." }, { "point_text": "REPRESENTED BY THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Legs of iron in Nebuchadnezzar's vision", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:33", "verse_text": "His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay." }, { "point_text": "Legs of iron in Nebuchadnezzar's vision", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:40", "verse_text": "And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise." }, { "point_text": "Terrible beast in Daniel's vision", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:7", "verse_text": "After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns." }, { "point_text": "Terrible beast in Daniel's vision", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:19", "verse_text": "Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;" }, { "point_text": "Rome the capital of", "verse_ref": "Acts 18:2", "verse_text": "And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them." }, { "point_text": "Rome the capital of", "verse_ref": "Acts 19:21", "verse_text": "After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome." }, { "point_text": "Judea a province of, under a procurator or a governor", "verse_ref": "Luke 3:2", "verse_text": "Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "Judea a province of, under a procurator or a governor", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:34", "verse_text": "And when the governor had read the letter, he asked of what province he was. And when he understood that he was of Cilicia;" }, { "point_text": "Judea a province of, under a procurator or a governor", "verse_ref": "Acts 25:1", "verse_text": "Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "ALLUSIONS TO MILITARY AFFAIRS OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Strict obedience to superiors", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:8-9", "verse_text": "The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. 9 For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it." }, { "point_text": "Use of the panoply or defensive armor", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:12", "verse_text": "The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light." }, { "point_text": "Use of the panoply or defensive armor", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:7", "verse_text": "By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left," }, { "point_text": "Use of the panoply or defensive armor", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:11-17", "verse_text": "Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; ..." }, { "point_text": "Soldiers not allowed to entangle themselves with earthly cares", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:4", "verse_text": "No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." }, { "point_text": "Hardship endured by soldiers", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:3", "verse_text": "Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "The soldier's special comrade who shared his toils and dangers", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:25", "verse_text": "Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants." }, { "point_text": "Danger of sentinels' sleeping", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:13-14", "verse_text": "Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept. 14 And if this come to the governor's ears, we will persuade him, and secure you." }, { "point_text": "Expunging from the muster roll names of soldiers guilty of crimes", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:5", "verse_text": "He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels." }, { "point_text": "Crowning of soldiers who distinguished themselves", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:7-8", "verse_text": "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: 8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing." }, { "point_text": "Triumphs of victorious generals", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 2:14-16", "verse_text": "Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. 15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: 16 To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?" }, { "point_text": "Triumphs of victorious generals", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:15", "verse_text": "And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it." }, { "point_text": "Different military officers, &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:31", "verse_text": "And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar." }, { "point_text": "Different military officers, &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:23-24", "verse_text": "And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night; 24 And provide them beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring him safe unto Felix the governor." }, { "point_text": "Italian and Augustus' band", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:1", "verse_text": "There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band," }, { "point_text": "Italian and Augustus' band", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:1", "verse_text": "And when it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto one named Julius, a centurion of Augustus' band." }, { "point_text": "ALLUSIONS TO JUDICIAL AFFAIRS OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Person accused, examined by scourging", "verse_ref": "Acts 22:24", "verse_text": "The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him." }, { "point_text": "Person accused, examined by scourging", "verse_ref": "Acts 22:29", "verse_text": "Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him." }, { "point_text": "Criminals delivered over to the soldiers for execution", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:26-27", "verse_text": "Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified. 27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers." }, { "point_text": "Accusation in writing placed over the head of those executed", "verse_ref": "John 19:19", "verse_text": "And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS." }, { "point_text": "Garments of those executed given to the soldiers", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:35", "verse_text": "And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots." }, { "point_text": "Garments of those executed given to the soldiers", "verse_ref": "John 19:23", "verse_text": "Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout." }, { "point_text": "Prisoners chained to soldiers for safety", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:33", "verse_text": "Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done." }, { "point_text": "Prisoners chained to soldiers for safety", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:6", "verse_text": "And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison." }, { "point_text": "Prisoners chained to soldiers for safety", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:16", "verse_text": "The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:" }, { "point_text": "Prisoners chained to soldiers for safety", "verse_ref": "Acts 28:16", "verse_text": "And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him." }, { "point_text": "Accusers and accused confronted together", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:35", "verse_text": "I will hear thee, said he, when thine accusers are also come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's judgment hall." }, { "point_text": "Accusers and accused confronted together", "verse_ref": "Acts 25:16-19", "verse_text": "To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him. 17 Therefore, when they were come hither, without any delay on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat, and commanded the man to be brought forth. 18 Against whom when the accusers stood up, they brought none accusation of such things as I supposed: 19 But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive." }, { "point_text": "Accused person protected from popular violence", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:20", "verse_text": "And he said, The Jews have agreed to desire thee that thou wouldest bring down Paul to morrow into the council, as though they would inquire somewhat of him more perfectly." }, { "point_text": "Accused person protected from popular violence", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:24-27", "verse_text": "And provide them beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring him safe unto Felix the governor. 25 And he wrote a letter after this manner: 26 Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix sendeth greeting. 27 This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman." }, { "point_text": "Power of life and death vested in its authorities", "verse_ref": "John 18:31", "verse_text": "Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death:" }, { "point_text": "Power of life and death vested in its authorities", "verse_ref": "John 18:39", "verse_text": "But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?" }, { "point_text": "Power of life and death vested in its authorities", "verse_ref": "John 19:10", "verse_text": "Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee?" }, { "point_text": "All appeals made to the emperor", "verse_ref": "Acts 25:11-12", "verse_text": "For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar. 12 Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shalt thou go." }, { "point_text": "Those who appealed to Cæsar, to be brought before him", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:32", "verse_text": "Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar." }, { "point_text": "ALLUSIONS TO CITIZENSHIP OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Obtained by purchase", "verse_ref": "Acts 22:28", "verse_text": "And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born." }, { "point_text": "Obtained by birth", "verse_ref": "Acts 22:28", "verse_text": "And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born." }, { "point_text": "Exempted from the degradation of scourging", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:37", "verse_text": "But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out." }, { "point_text": "Exempted from the degradation of scourging", "verse_ref": "Acts 22:25", "verse_text": "And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?" }, { "point_text": "ALLUSIONS TO GRECIAN GAME ADAPTED BY;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Gladiatorial fights", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 4:9", "verse_text": "For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men." }, { "point_text": "Gladiatorial fights", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:32", "verse_text": "If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die." }, { "point_text": "Foot races", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:24", "verse_text": "Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain." }, { "point_text": "Foot races", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:16", "verse_text": "Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain." }, { "point_text": "Foot races", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:11-14", "verse_text": "If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. 12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. 13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Foot races", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:1-2", "verse_text": "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." }, { "point_text": "Wrestling", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:12", "verse_text": "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." }, { "point_text": "Training of combatants", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:25", "verse_text": "And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible." }, { "point_text": "Training of combatants", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:27", "verse_text": "But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway." }, { "point_text": "Crowning of conquerors", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:25", "verse_text": "And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible." }, { "point_text": "Crowning of conquerors", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:14", "verse_text": "I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Crowning of conquerors", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:8", "verse_text": "Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing." }, { "point_text": "Rules observed in conducting", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:5", "verse_text": "And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully." }, { "point_text": "EMPERORS OF, MENTIONED;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Tiberius", "verse_ref": "Luke 3:1", "verse_text": "Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene," }, { "point_text": "Augustus", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed." }, { "point_text": "Claudius", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:28", "verse_text": "And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar." }, { "point_text": "Nero", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:22", "verse_text": "All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar's household." }, { "point_text": "Nero", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:22", "verse_text": "The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen." }, { "point_text": "PREDICTIONS RESPECTING;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Its universal dominion", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:23", "verse_text": "Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces." }, { "point_text": "Its division into ten parts", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:41-43", "verse_text": "And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. 42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. 43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay." }, { "point_text": "Its division into ten parts", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:20", "verse_text": "And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows." }, { "point_text": "Its division into ten parts", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:24", "verse_text": "And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings." }, { "point_text": "Origin of papal power in", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:8", "verse_text": "I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things." }, { "point_text": "Origin of papal power in", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:20-25", "verse_text": "And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows. 21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; 22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom. 23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. ..." } ] }, { "name": "Sabbath, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Sabbath-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Instituted by God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:3", "verse_text": "And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made." }, { "point_text": "Grounds of its institution", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:2-3", "verse_text": "And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made." }, { "point_text": "The seventh day observed as", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:9-11", "verse_text": "Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it." }, { "point_text": "Made for man", "verse_ref": "Mark 2:27", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:" }, { "point_text": "GOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Blessed", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:3", "verse_text": "And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made." }, { "point_text": "Blessed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:11", "verse_text": "For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it." }, { "point_text": "Sanctified", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:3", "verse_text": "And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made." }, { "point_text": "Sanctified", "verse_ref": "Exodus 31:15", "verse_text": "Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death." }, { "point_text": "Hallowed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:11", "verse_text": "For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it." }, { "point_text": "Commanded, to be kept", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:3", "verse_text": "Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "Commanded, to be kept", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:30", "verse_text": "Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Commanded to be sanctified", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:8", "verse_text": "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy." }, { "point_text": "Will have His goodness commemorated in the observance of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:15", "verse_text": "And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day." }, { "point_text": "Shows favor in appointing", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:14", "verse_text": "And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:" }, { "point_text": "Shows considerate kindness in appointing", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:12", "verse_text": "Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed." }, { "point_text": "A sign of the covenant", "verse_ref": "Exodus 31:13", "verse_text": "Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you." }, { "point_text": "A sign of the covenant", "verse_ref": "Exodus 31:17", "verse_text": "It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed." }, { "point_text": "A type of the heavenly rest", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:4", "verse_text": "For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works." }, { "point_text": "A type of the heavenly rest", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:9", "verse_text": "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God." }, { "point_text": "CHRIST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Is Lord of", "verse_ref": "Mark 2:28", "verse_text": "Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath." }, { "point_text": "Was accustomed to observe", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:16", "verse_text": "And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read." }, { "point_text": "Taught on", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:31", "verse_text": "And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days." }, { "point_text": "Taught on", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:6", "verse_text": "And it came to pass also on another sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue and taught: and there was a man whose right hand was withered." }, { "point_text": "Servants and cattle should be allowed to rest upon", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:10", "verse_text": "But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:" }, { "point_text": "Servants and cattle should be allowed to rest upon", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:14", "verse_text": "But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou." }, { "point_text": "No manner of work to be done on", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:10", "verse_text": "But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:" }, { "point_text": "No manner of work to be done on", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:3", "verse_text": "Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings." }, { "point_text": "No purchases to be made on", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 10:31", "verse_text": "And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt." }, { "point_text": "No purchases to be made on", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:15-17", "verse_text": "In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals. 16 There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem. 17 Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?" }, { "point_text": "No burdens to be carried on", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:19", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day." }, { "point_text": "No burdens to be carried on", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:21", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;" }, { "point_text": "Divine worship to be celebrated on", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 46:3", "verse_text": "Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons." }, { "point_text": "Divine worship to be celebrated on", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:13", "verse_text": "And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither." }, { "point_text": "The Scriptures to be read on", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:27", "verse_text": "For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him." }, { "point_text": "The Scriptures to be read on", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:21", "verse_text": "For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day." }, { "point_text": "The word of God to be preached on", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:14-15", "verse_text": "But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down. 15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on." }, { "point_text": "The word of God to be preached on", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:2", "verse_text": "And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures," }, { "point_text": "The word of God to be preached on", "verse_ref": "Acts 18:4", "verse_text": "And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks." }, { "point_text": "Works connected with religious service lawful on", "verse_ref": "Numbers 28:9", "verse_text": "And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof:" }, { "point_text": "Works connected with religious service lawful on", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:5", "verse_text": "Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?" }, { "point_text": "Works connected with religious service lawful on", "verse_ref": "John 7:23", "verse_text": "If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?" }, { "point_text": "Works of mercy lawful on", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:12", "verse_text": "How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days." }, { "point_text": "Works of mercy lawful on", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:16", "verse_text": "And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?" }, { "point_text": "Works of mercy lawful on", "verse_ref": "John 9:14", "verse_text": "And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes." }, { "point_text": "Necessary wants may be supplied on", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:1", "verse_text": "At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat." }, { "point_text": "Necessary wants may be supplied on", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:15", "verse_text": "The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?" }, { "point_text": "Necessary wants may be supplied on", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him." }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The Sabbath of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:10", "verse_text": "But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:" }, { "point_text": "The Sabbath of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:3", "verse_text": "Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings." }, { "point_text": "The Sabbath of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:14", "verse_text": "But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou." }, { "point_text": "The Sabbath of rest", "verse_ref": "Exodus 31:15", "verse_text": "Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death." }, { "point_text": "The rest of the holy Sabbath", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:23", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning." }, { "point_text": "God's holy day", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:13", "verse_text": "If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:" }, { "point_text": "The Lord's day", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:10", "verse_text": "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet," }, { "point_text": "First day of the week kept as, by primitive church", "verse_ref": "John 20:26", "verse_text": "And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you." }, { "point_text": "First day of the week kept as, by primitive church", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:7", "verse_text": "And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight." }, { "point_text": "First day of the week kept as, by primitive church", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 16:2", "verse_text": "Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Observe", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:22", "verse_text": "And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy." }, { "point_text": "Honor God in observing", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:13", "verse_text": "If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:" }, { "point_text": "Rejoice in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 118:24", "verse_text": "This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it." }, { "point_text": "Rejoice in", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:13", "verse_text": "If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:" }, { "point_text": "Rejoice in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 118:24", "verse_text": "This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it." }, { "point_text": "Rejoice in", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:13", "verse_text": "If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:" }, { "point_text": "Testify against those who desecrate", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:15", "verse_text": "In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals." }, { "point_text": "Testify against those who desecrate", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:20-21", "verse_text": "So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice. 21 Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath." }, { "point_text": "Observance of, to be perpetual", "verse_ref": "Exodus 31:16-17", "verse_text": "Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. 17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of honoring", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:13-14", "verse_text": "If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: 14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of keeping", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:2", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of keeping", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:6", "verse_text": "Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;" }, { "point_text": "Denunciations against those who profane", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:18", "verse_text": "Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath." }, { "point_text": "Denunciations against those who profane", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:27", "verse_text": "But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of those who profane", "verse_ref": "Exodus 31:14-15", "verse_text": "Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 15 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Mock at", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 1:7", "verse_text": "Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths." }, { "point_text": "Pollute", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:2", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil." }, { "point_text": "Pollute", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:13", "verse_text": "But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them." }, { "point_text": "Pollute", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:16", "verse_text": "Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols." }, { "point_text": "Profane", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:17", "verse_text": "Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?" }, { "point_text": "Profane", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:8", "verse_text": "Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths." }, { "point_text": "Wearied by", "verse_ref": "Amos 8:5", "verse_text": "Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?" }, { "point_text": "Hide their eyes from", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:26", "verse_text": "Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them." }, { "point_text": "Do their own pleasure on", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:13", "verse_text": "If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:" }, { "point_text": "Bear burdens on", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:15", "verse_text": "In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals." }, { "point_text": "Work on", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:15", "verse_text": "In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals." }, { "point_text": "Traffic on", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 10:31", "verse_text": "And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt." }, { "point_text": "Traffic on", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:15-16", "verse_text": "In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals. 16 There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes pretend to be zealous for", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:14", "verse_text": "And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes pretend to be zealous for", "verse_ref": "John 9:16", "verse_text": "Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them." }, { "point_text": "May be judicially deprived of", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 2:6", "verse_text": "And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest." }, { "point_text": "May be judicially deprived of", "verse_ref": "Hosea 2:11", "verse_text": "I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts." }, { "point_text": "Honoring of--Exemplified.\r\n\nMoses, &c. \nNehemiah, \n\nThe women, \nPaul, \nDisciples, \nJohn,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:32-34", "verse_text": "And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. 33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation. 34 And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him." }, { "point_text": "Honoring of--Exemplified.\r\n\nMoses, &c. \nNehemiah, \n\nThe women, \nPaul, \nDisciples, \nJohn,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:15", "verse_text": "In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals." }, { "point_text": "Honoring of--Exemplified.\r\n\nMoses, &c. \nNehemiah, \n\nThe women, \nPaul, \nDisciples, \nJohn,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:21", "verse_text": "Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath." }, { "point_text": "Honoring of--Exemplified.\r\n\nMoses, &c. \nNehemiah, \n\nThe women, \nPaul, \nDisciples, \nJohn,", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:56", "verse_text": "And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment." }, { "point_text": "Honoring of--Exemplified.\r\n\nMoses, &c. \nNehemiah, \n\nThe women, \nPaul, \nDisciples, \nJohn,", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:14", "verse_text": "But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down." }, { "point_text": "Honoring of--Exemplified.\r\n\nMoses, &c. \nNehemiah, \n\nThe women, \nPaul, \nDisciples, \nJohn,", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:13", "verse_text": "And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither." }, { "point_text": "Honoring of--Exemplified.\r\n\nMoses, &c. \nNehemiah, \n\nThe women, \nPaul, \nDisciples, \nJohn,", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:10", "verse_text": "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet," }, { "point_text": "Dishonoring of--Exemplified.\r\n\nGatherers of manna, \nGatherers of sticks, \nMen of Tyre, \nInhabitants of Jerusalem,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:27", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none." }, { "point_text": "Dishonoring of--Exemplified.\r\n\nGatherers of manna, \nGatherers of sticks, \nMen of Tyre, \nInhabitants of Jerusalem,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:32", "verse_text": "And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day." }, { "point_text": "Dishonoring of--Exemplified.\r\n\nGatherers of manna, \nGatherers of sticks, \nMen of Tyre, \nInhabitants of Jerusalem,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:16", "verse_text": "There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Dishonoring of--Exemplified.\r\n\nGatherers of manna, \nGatherers of sticks, \nMen of Tyre, \nInhabitants of Jerusalem,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:21-23", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem; 22 Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers. 23 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction." } ] }, { "name": "Rebellion against God", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Rebellion-against-God.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:9", "verse_text": "Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Joshua 22:19", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein the LORD'S tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the LORD our God." }, { "point_text": "Provokes God", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:30", "verse_text": "But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Provokes God", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:26", "verse_text": "Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations." }, { "point_text": "Provokes Christ", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:20-21", "verse_text": "Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. 21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him." }, { "point_text": "Provokes Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:9", "verse_text": "Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents." }, { "point_text": "Vexes the Holy Spirit", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:10", "verse_text": "But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them." }, { "point_text": "EXHIBITED IN", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Unbelief", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:23", "verse_text": "Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice." }, { "point_text": "Unbelief", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:24-25", "verse_text": "Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word: 25 But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Rejecting His government", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 8:7", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them." }, { "point_text": "Rejecting His government", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:23", "verse_text": "For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king." }, { "point_text": "Revolting from Him", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:5", "verse_text": "Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint." }, { "point_text": "Revolting from Him", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 31:6", "verse_text": "Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted." }, { "point_text": "Despising His law", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:26", "verse_text": "Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations." }, { "point_text": "Despising His counsels", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:11", "verse_text": "Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:" }, { "point_text": "Distrusting His power", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:15", "verse_text": "But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?" }, { "point_text": "Murmuring against Him", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:3", "verse_text": "And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!" }, { "point_text": "Murmuring against Him", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:10", "verse_text": "And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?" }, { "point_text": "Refusing to hearken to Him", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:23", "verse_text": "Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice." }, { "point_text": "Refusing to hearken to Him", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:8", "verse_text": "But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Refusing to hearken to Him", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 7:11", "verse_text": "But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear." }, { "point_text": "Departing from Him", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:13", "verse_text": "In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood." }, { "point_text": "Rebellion against governors appointed by Him", "verse_ref": "Joshua 1:18", "verse_text": "Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment, and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage." }, { "point_text": "Departing from His precepts", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:5", "verse_text": "We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:" }, { "point_text": "Departing from His instituted worship", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:8-9", "verse_text": "They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 9 And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:" }, { "point_text": "Sinning against light", "verse_ref": "Job 24:13", "verse_text": "They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof." }, { "point_text": "Sinning against light", "verse_ref": "John 15:22", "verse_text": "If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin." }, { "point_text": "Sinning against light", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:41", "verse_text": "Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you." }, { "point_text": "Walking after our own thoughts", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:2", "verse_text": "I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;" }, { "point_text": "CONNECTED WITH", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Stubbornness", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 31:27", "verse_text": "For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?" }, { "point_text": "Injustice and corruption", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:23", "verse_text": "Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them." }, { "point_text": "Contempt of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:11", "verse_text": "Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:" }, { "point_text": "Man is prone to", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 31:27", "verse_text": "For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?" }, { "point_text": "Man is prone to", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:14-18", "verse_text": "For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. 16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. 17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. ..." }, { "point_text": "The heart is the seat of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:23", "verse_text": "But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone." }, { "point_text": "The heart is the seat of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:18-19", "verse_text": "But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:" }, { "point_text": "THEY WHO ARE GUILTY OF,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Aggravate their sin by", "verse_ref": "Job 34:27", "verse_text": "Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:" }, { "point_text": "Practice hypocrisy to hide", "verse_ref": "Hosea 7:14", "verse_text": "And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me." }, { "point_text": "Persevere in", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:7", "verse_text": "Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Persevere in", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:24", "verse_text": "Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you." }, { "point_text": "Increase in, though chastised", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:5", "verse_text": "Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint." }, { "point_text": "Warned not to exalt themselves", "verse_ref": "Psalm 66:7", "verse_text": "He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Denounced", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:1", "verse_text": "Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:" }, { "point_text": "Have God as their enemy", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:10", "verse_text": "But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them." }, { "point_text": "Have God's hand against them", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 12:15", "verse_text": "But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as it was against your fathers." }, { "point_text": "Have God's hand against them", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:26-27", "verse_text": "Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness: 27 To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands." }, { "point_text": "Impoverished for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:6", "verse_text": "God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land." }, { "point_text": "Brought low for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:11-12", "verse_text": "Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High: 12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help." }, { "point_text": "Delivered into the hands of enemies on account of", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:26-27", "verse_text": "Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations. 27 Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies." }, { "point_text": "Cast out in their sins for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 5:10", "verse_text": "Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee." }, { "point_text": "Cast out of the Church for", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:38", "verse_text": "And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Restored through Christ alone", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:18", "verse_text": "Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them." }, { "point_text": "Heinousness of", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:23", "verse_text": "For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king." }, { "point_text": "GUILT OF,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Aggravated by God's fatherly care", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:2", "verse_text": "Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me." }, { "point_text": "Aggravated by God's unceasing invitations to return to Him", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:2", "verse_text": "I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;" }, { "point_text": "To be deprecated", "verse_ref": "Joshua 22:29", "verse_text": "God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of the LORD our God that is before his tabernacle." }, { "point_text": "To be confessed", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 1:18", "verse_text": "The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity." }, { "point_text": "To be confessed", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 1:20", "verse_text": "Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death." }, { "point_text": "God alone can forgive", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:9", "verse_text": "To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;" }, { "point_text": "God is ready to forgive", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:17", "verse_text": "And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not." }, { "point_text": "Religious instruction designed to prevent", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:5", "verse_text": "For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:" }, { "point_text": "Religious instruction designed to prevent", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:8", "verse_text": "And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God." }, { "point_text": "Promises to those who avoid", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:1-13", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: 2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. 3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. ..." }, { "point_text": "Promises to those who avoid", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 12:14", "verse_text": "If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD your God:" }, { "point_text": "Forgiven upon repentance", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:26-27", "verse_text": "Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations. 27 Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies." }, { "point_text": "MINISTERS", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Cautioned against", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 2:8", "verse_text": "But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee." }, { "point_text": "Sent to those guilty of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 2:3-7", "verse_text": "And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day. 4 For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD. 5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them. 6 And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house. ..." }, { "point_text": "Sent to those guilty of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 3:4-9", "verse_text": "And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them. 5 For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel; 6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee. 7 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted. ..." }, { "point_text": "Sent to those guilty of", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:4-8", "verse_text": "And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled. 5 And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some. 6 Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son. 7 But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours. ..." }, { "point_text": "Should warn against", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:9", "verse_text": "Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not." }, { "point_text": "Should testify against", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:8-9", "verse_text": "Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: 9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Should remind their people of past", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:7", "verse_text": "Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Should remind their people of past", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 31:27", "verse_text": "For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?" }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:14-39", "verse_text": "But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; 15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: 16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. ..." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 12:15", "verse_text": "But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as it was against your fathers." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:20", "verse_text": "But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:16-18", "verse_text": "Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah. 17 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD. 18 Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:8", "verse_text": "But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:38", "verse_text": "And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for teaching", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 28:16", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Ingratitude of--Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:2-3", "verse_text": "Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. 3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, \nKorah, &c. \nMoses and Aaron, \n\nIsraelites, \nSaul, \n\nJeroboam, \nZedekiah, \nKingdom of Israel,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 5:1-2", "verse_text": "And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. 2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, \nKorah, &c. \nMoses and Aaron, \n\nIsraelites, \nSaul, \n\nJeroboam, \nZedekiah, \nKingdom of Israel,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:11", "verse_text": "For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the LORD: and what is Aaron, that ye murmur against him?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, \nKorah, &c. \nMoses and Aaron, \n\nIsraelites, \nSaul, \n\nJeroboam, \nZedekiah, \nKingdom of Israel,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:12", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, \nKorah, &c. \nMoses and Aaron, \n\nIsraelites, \nSaul, \n\nJeroboam, \nZedekiah, \nKingdom of Israel,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:24", "verse_text": "Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, \nKorah, &c. \nMoses and Aaron, \n\nIsraelites, \nSaul, \n\nJeroboam, \nZedekiah, \nKingdom of Israel,", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:23-24", "verse_text": "Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice. 24 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, \nKorah, &c. \nMoses and Aaron, \n\nIsraelites, \nSaul, \n\nJeroboam, \nZedekiah, \nKingdom of Israel,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:9", "verse_text": "But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, \nKorah, &c. \nMoses and Aaron, \n\nIsraelites, \nSaul, \n\nJeroboam, \nZedekiah, \nKingdom of Israel,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:23", "verse_text": "For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, \nKorah, &c. \nMoses and Aaron, \n\nIsraelites, \nSaul, \n\nJeroboam, \nZedekiah, \nKingdom of Israel,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:28-33", "verse_text": "Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 29 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan. 30 And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan. 31 And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, \nKorah, &c. \nMoses and Aaron, \n\nIsraelites, \nSaul, \n\nJeroboam, \nZedekiah, \nKingdom of Israel,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:13", "verse_text": "And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, \nKorah, &c. \nMoses and Aaron, \n\nIsraelites, \nSaul, \n\nJeroboam, \nZedekiah, \nKingdom of Israel,", "verse_ref": "Hosea 7:14", "verse_text": "And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, \nKorah, &c. \nMoses and Aaron, \n\nIsraelites, \nSaul, \n\nJeroboam, \nZedekiah, \nKingdom of Israel,", "verse_ref": "Hosea 13:16", "verse_text": "Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:9", "verse_text": "Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Joshua 22:19", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein the LORD'S tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the LORD our God." }, { "point_text": "Provokes God", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:30", "verse_text": "But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Provokes God", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:26", "verse_text": "Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations." }, { "point_text": "Provokes Christ", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:20-21", "verse_text": "Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. 21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him." }, { "point_text": "Provokes Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:9", "verse_text": "Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents." }, { "point_text": "Vexes the Holy Spirit", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:10", "verse_text": "But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them." }, { "point_text": "EXHIBITED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Unbelief", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:23", "verse_text": "Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice." }, { "point_text": "Unbelief", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:24-25", "verse_text": "Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word: 25 But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Rejecting His government", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 8:7", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them." }, { "point_text": "Rejecting His government", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:23", "verse_text": "For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king." }, { "point_text": "Revolting from Him", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:5", "verse_text": "Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint." }, { "point_text": "Revolting from Him", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 31:6", "verse_text": "Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted." }, { "point_text": "Despising His law", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:26", "verse_text": "Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations." }, { "point_text": "Despising His counsels", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:11", "verse_text": "Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:" }, { "point_text": "Distrusting His power", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:15", "verse_text": "But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?" }, { "point_text": "Murmuring against Him", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:3", "verse_text": "And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!" }, { "point_text": "Murmuring against Him", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:10", "verse_text": "And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?" }, { "point_text": "Refusing to hearken to Him", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:23", "verse_text": "Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice." }, { "point_text": "Refusing to hearken to Him", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:8", "verse_text": "But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Refusing to hearken to Him", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 7:11", "verse_text": "But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear." }, { "point_text": "Departing from Him", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:13", "verse_text": "In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood." }, { "point_text": "Rebellion against governors appointed by Him", "verse_ref": "Joshua 1:18", "verse_text": "Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment, and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage." }, { "point_text": "Departing from His precepts", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:5", "verse_text": "We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:" }, { "point_text": "Departing from His instituted worship", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:8-9", "verse_text": "They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 9 And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:" }, { "point_text": "Sinning against light", "verse_ref": "Job 24:13", "verse_text": "They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof." }, { "point_text": "Sinning against light", "verse_ref": "John 15:22", "verse_text": "If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin." }, { "point_text": "Sinning against light", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:41", "verse_text": "Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you." }, { "point_text": "Walking after our own thoughts", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:2", "verse_text": "I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;" }, { "point_text": "CONNECTED WITH", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Stubbornness", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 31:27", "verse_text": "For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?" }, { "point_text": "Injustice and corruption", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:23", "verse_text": "Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them." }, { "point_text": "Contempt of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:11", "verse_text": "Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:" }, { "point_text": "Man is prone to", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 31:27", "verse_text": "For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?" }, { "point_text": "Man is prone to", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:14-18", "verse_text": "For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. 16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. 17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. ..." }, { "point_text": "The heart is the seat of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:23", "verse_text": "But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone." }, { "point_text": "The heart is the seat of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:18-19", "verse_text": "But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:" }, { "point_text": "THEY WHO ARE GUILTY OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Aggravate their sin by", "verse_ref": "Job 34:27", "verse_text": "Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:" }, { "point_text": "Practice hypocrisy to hide", "verse_ref": "Hosea 7:14", "verse_text": "And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me." }, { "point_text": "Persevere in", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:7", "verse_text": "Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Persevere in", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:24", "verse_text": "Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you." }, { "point_text": "Increase in, though chastised", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:5", "verse_text": "Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint." }, { "point_text": "Warned not to exalt themselves", "verse_ref": "Psalm 66:7", "verse_text": "He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Denounced", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:1", "verse_text": "Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:" }, { "point_text": "Have God as their enemy", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:10", "verse_text": "But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them." }, { "point_text": "Have God's hand against them", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 12:15", "verse_text": "But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as it was against your fathers." }, { "point_text": "Have God's hand against them", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:26-27", "verse_text": "Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness: 27 To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands." }, { "point_text": "Impoverished for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:6", "verse_text": "God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land." }, { "point_text": "Brought low for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:11-12", "verse_text": "Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High: 12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help." }, { "point_text": "Delivered into the hands of enemies on account of", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:26-27", "verse_text": "Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations. 27 Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies." }, { "point_text": "Cast out in their sins for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 5:10", "verse_text": "Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee." }, { "point_text": "Cast out of the Church for", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:38", "verse_text": "And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Restored through Christ alone", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:18", "verse_text": "Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them." }, { "point_text": "Heinousness of", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:23", "verse_text": "For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king." }, { "point_text": "GUILT OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Aggravated by God's fatherly care", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:2", "verse_text": "Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me." }, { "point_text": "Aggravated by God's unceasing invitations to return to Him", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:2", "verse_text": "I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;" }, { "point_text": "To be deprecated", "verse_ref": "Joshua 22:29", "verse_text": "God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of the LORD our God that is before his tabernacle." }, { "point_text": "To be confessed", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 1:18", "verse_text": "The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity." }, { "point_text": "To be confessed", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 1:20", "verse_text": "Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death." }, { "point_text": "God alone can forgive", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:9", "verse_text": "To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;" }, { "point_text": "God is ready to forgive", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:17", "verse_text": "And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not." }, { "point_text": "Religious instruction designed to prevent", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:5", "verse_text": "For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:" }, { "point_text": "Religious instruction designed to prevent", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:8", "verse_text": "And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God." }, { "point_text": "Promises to those who avoid", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:1-13", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: 2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. 3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. ..." }, { "point_text": "Promises to those who avoid", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 12:14", "verse_text": "If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD your God:" }, { "point_text": "Forgiven upon repentance", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:26-27", "verse_text": "Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations. 27 Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies." }, { "point_text": "MINISTERS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Cautioned against", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 2:8", "verse_text": "But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee." }, { "point_text": "Sent to those guilty of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 2:3-7", "verse_text": "And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day. 4 For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD. 5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them. 6 And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house. ..." }, { "point_text": "Sent to those guilty of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 3:4-9", "verse_text": "And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them. 5 For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel; 6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee. 7 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted. ..." }, { "point_text": "Sent to those guilty of", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:4-8", "verse_text": "And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled. 5 And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some. 6 Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son. 7 But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours. ..." }, { "point_text": "Should warn against", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:9", "verse_text": "Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not." }, { "point_text": "Should testify against", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:8-9", "verse_text": "Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: 9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Should remind their people of past", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:7", "verse_text": "Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Should remind their people of past", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 31:27", "verse_text": "For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?" }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:14-39", "verse_text": "But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; 15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: 16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. ..." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 12:15", "verse_text": "But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as it was against your fathers." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:20", "verse_text": "But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:16-18", "verse_text": "Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah. 17 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD. 18 Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:8", "verse_text": "But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:38", "verse_text": "And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for teaching", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 28:16", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Ingratitude of--Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:2-3", "verse_text": "Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. 3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, \nKorah, &c. \nMoses and Aaron, \n\nIsraelites, \nSaul, \n\nJeroboam, \nZedekiah, \nKingdom of Israel,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 5:1-2", "verse_text": "And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. 2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, \nKorah, &c. \nMoses and Aaron, \n\nIsraelites, \nSaul, \n\nJeroboam, \nZedekiah, \nKingdom of Israel,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 16:11", "verse_text": "For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the LORD: and what is Aaron, that ye murmur against him?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, \nKorah, &c. \nMoses and Aaron, \n\nIsraelites, \nSaul, \n\nJeroboam, \nZedekiah, \nKingdom of Israel,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:12", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, \nKorah, &c. \nMoses and Aaron, \n\nIsraelites, \nSaul, \n\nJeroboam, \nZedekiah, \nKingdom of Israel,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:24", "verse_text": "Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, \nKorah, &c. \nMoses and Aaron, \n\nIsraelites, \nSaul, \n\nJeroboam, \nZedekiah, \nKingdom of Israel,", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:23-24", "verse_text": "Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice. 24 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, \nKorah, &c. \nMoses and Aaron, \n\nIsraelites, \nSaul, \n\nJeroboam, \nZedekiah, \nKingdom of Israel,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:9", "verse_text": "But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, \nKorah, &c. \nMoses and Aaron, \n\nIsraelites, \nSaul, \n\nJeroboam, \nZedekiah, \nKingdom of Israel,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:23", "verse_text": "For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, \nKorah, &c. \nMoses and Aaron, \n\nIsraelites, \nSaul, \n\nJeroboam, \nZedekiah, \nKingdom of Israel,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:28-33", "verse_text": "Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 29 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan. 30 And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan. 31 And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, \nKorah, &c. \nMoses and Aaron, \n\nIsraelites, \nSaul, \n\nJeroboam, \nZedekiah, \nKingdom of Israel,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:13", "verse_text": "And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, \nKorah, &c. \nMoses and Aaron, \n\nIsraelites, \nSaul, \n\nJeroboam, \nZedekiah, \nKingdom of Israel,", "verse_ref": "Hosea 7:14", "verse_text": "And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nPharaoh, \nKorah, &c. \nMoses and Aaron, \n\nIsraelites, \nSaul, \n\nJeroboam, \nZedekiah, \nKingdom of Israel,", "verse_ref": "Hosea 13:16", "verse_text": "Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up." } ] }, { "name": "Sacrifices", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Sacrifices.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Divine institution of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:21", "verse_text": "Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them." }, { "point_text": "Divine institution of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:29", "verse_text": "And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat." }, { "point_text": "Divine institution of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:3", "verse_text": "Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things." }, { "point_text": "Divine institution of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:4-5", "verse_text": "And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: 5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell." }, { "point_text": "To be offered to God alone", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:20", "verse_text": "He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed." }, { "point_text": "To be offered to God alone", "verse_ref": "Judges 13:16", "verse_text": "And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "To be offered to God alone", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:36", "verse_text": "But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice." }, { "point_text": "When offered to God, an acknowledgement of His being the supreme God", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:17", "verse_text": "And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "When offered to God, an acknowledgement of His being the supreme God", "verse_ref": "Jonah 1:16", "verse_text": "Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows." }, { "point_text": "CONSISTED OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Clean animals or bloody sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:20", "verse_text": "And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar." }, { "point_text": "The fruits of the earth or unbloody sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:4", "verse_text": "And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:" }, { "point_text": "The fruits of the earth or unbloody sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 2:1", "verse_text": "And when any will offer a meat offering unto the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon:" }, { "point_text": "Always offered upon altars", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:24", "verse_text": "An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee." }, { "point_text": "The offering of, an acknowledgment of sin", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:3", "verse_text": "But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year." }, { "point_text": "WERE OFFERED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "From the earliest age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:3-4", "verse_text": "And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. 4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:" }, { "point_text": "By the patriarchs", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:2", "verse_text": "And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of." }, { "point_text": "By the patriarchs", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:54", "verse_text": "Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount." }, { "point_text": "By the patriarchs", "verse_ref": "Genesis 46:1", "verse_text": "And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac." }, { "point_text": "By the patriarchs", "verse_ref": "Job 1:5", "verse_text": "And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually." }, { "point_text": "After the departure of Israel from Egypt", "verse_ref": "Exodus 5:3", "verse_text": "And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword." }, { "point_text": "After the departure of Israel from Egypt", "verse_ref": "Exodus 18:12", "verse_text": "And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father in law before God." }, { "point_text": "After the departure of Israel from Egypt", "verse_ref": "Exodus 24:5", "verse_text": "And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Under the Mosaic dispensation", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1-7", "verse_text": "And the LORD called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock. 3 If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD. 4 And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. ..." }, { "point_text": "Under the Mosaic dispensation", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:1-3", "verse_text": "For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. 2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. 3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year." }, { "point_text": "Daily", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:38-39", "verse_text": "Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually. 39 The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even:" }, { "point_text": "Weekly", "verse_ref": "Numbers 28:9-10", "verse_text": "And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof: 10 This is the burnt offering of every sabbath, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering." }, { "point_text": "Monthly", "verse_ref": "Numbers 28:11", "verse_text": "And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;" }, { "point_text": "Yearly", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:3", "verse_text": "Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering." }, { "point_text": "Yearly", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:3", "verse_text": "And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were there." }, { "point_text": "Yearly", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 20:6", "verse_text": "If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city: for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family." }, { "point_text": "At all the feasts", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:10", "verse_text": "Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "For the whole nation", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:15-30", "verse_text": "Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat: 16 And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness. 17 And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel. 18 And he shall go out unto the altar that is before the LORD, and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about. ..." }, { "point_text": "For the whole nation", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:21", "verse_text": "And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings unto the LORD, on the morrow after that day, even a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel:" }, { "point_text": "For individuals", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:2", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock." }, { "point_text": "For individuals", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 17:8", "verse_text": "And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn among you, that offereth a burnt offering or sacrifice," }, { "point_text": "In faith of a coming Saviour", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:4", "verse_text": "By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh." }, { "point_text": "In faith of a coming Saviour", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:17", "verse_text": "By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son," }, { "point_text": "In faith of a coming Saviour", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:28", "verse_text": "Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them." }, { "point_text": "Required to be perfect and without blemish", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:19", "verse_text": "Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats." }, { "point_text": "Required to be perfect and without blemish", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 15:21", "verse_text": "And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God." }, { "point_text": "Required to be perfect and without blemish", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:1", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God." }, { "point_text": "Required to be perfect and without blemish", "verse_ref": "Malachi 1:8", "verse_text": "And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Required to be perfect and without blemish", "verse_ref": "Malachi 1:14", "verse_text": "But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen." }, { "point_text": "Generally the best of their kind", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:4", "verse_text": "And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:" }, { "point_text": "Generally the best of their kind", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:22", "verse_text": "And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams." }, { "point_text": "Generally the best of their kind", "verse_ref": "Psalm 66:15", "verse_text": "I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Generally the best of their kind", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:11", "verse_text": "To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats." }, { "point_text": "DIFFERENT KINDS OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Burnt offering wholly consumed by fire", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1", "verse_text": "And the LORD called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock. 3 If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD. 4 And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. ..." }, { "point_text": "Burnt offering wholly consumed by fire", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:38", "verse_text": "Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench." }, { "point_text": "Sin offering for sins of ignorance", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them: 3 If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering. 4 And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD; and shall lay his hand upon the bullock's head, and kill the bullock before the LORD. ..." }, { "point_text": "Trespass offering for intentional sins", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:1-7", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour; 3 Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein: 4 Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found, ..." }, { "point_text": "Trespass offering for intentional sins", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:1-7", "verse_text": "Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy. 2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar. 3 And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof; the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, 4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul that is above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away: ..." }, { "point_text": "Peace offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 3", "verse_text": "And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD. 2 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about. 3 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards, 4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away. ..." }, { "point_text": "To be brought to the place appointed by God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:6", "verse_text": "And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:" }, { "point_text": "To be brought to the place appointed by God", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:12", "verse_text": "And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice." }, { "point_text": "Were bound to the horns of the altar", "verse_ref": "Psalm 118:27", "verse_text": "God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar." }, { "point_text": "Were salted with salt", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 2:13", "verse_text": "And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt." }, { "point_text": "Were salted with salt", "verse_ref": "Mark 9:49", "verse_text": "For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt." }, { "point_text": "Often consumed by fire from heaven", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 9:24", "verse_text": "And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces." }, { "point_text": "Often consumed by fire from heaven", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:38", "verse_text": "Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench." }, { "point_text": "Often consumed by fire from heaven", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:1", "verse_text": "Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house." }, { "point_text": "When bloody, accompanied with meat and drink offering", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:3-12", "verse_text": "And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock: 4 Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the LORD bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oil. 5 And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb. 6 Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil. ..." }, { "point_text": "No leaven offered with, except for thanksgiving", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:18", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning." }, { "point_text": "No leaven offered with, except for thanksgiving", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:13", "verse_text": "Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings." }, { "point_text": "Fat of, not to remain until morning", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:8", "verse_text": "And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous." }, { "point_text": "THE PRIESTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Appointed to offer", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:28", "verse_text": "And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?" }, { "point_text": "Appointed to offer", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 44:11", "verse_text": "Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them." }, { "point_text": "Appointed to offer", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 44:15", "verse_text": "But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:" }, { "point_text": "Had a portion of, and lived by", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:27-28", "verse_text": "And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons: 28 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it is an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Were typical of Christ's sacrifice", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 5:7", "verse_text": "Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:" }, { "point_text": "Were typical of Christ's sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:2", "verse_text": "And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour." }, { "point_text": "Were typical of Christ's sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:1", "verse_text": "For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect." }, { "point_text": "Were typical of Christ's sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:11-12", "verse_text": "And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;" }, { "point_text": "Were accepted when offered in sincerity and faith", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:4", "verse_text": "And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:" }, { "point_text": "Were accepted when offered in sincerity and faith", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:4", "verse_text": "By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh." }, { "point_text": "Were accepted when offered in sincerity and faith", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:21", "verse_text": "And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done." }, { "point_text": "Imparted a legal purification", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:13", "verse_text": "For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:" }, { "point_text": "Imparted a legal purification", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:22", "verse_text": "And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission." }, { "point_text": "Could not take away sin", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:6", "verse_text": "Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required." }, { "point_text": "Could not take away sin", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:9", "verse_text": "Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;" }, { "point_text": "Could not take away sin", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:1-11", "verse_text": "For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. 2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. 3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. 4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. ..." }, { "point_text": "Without obedience, worthless", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:22", "verse_text": "And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams." }, { "point_text": "Without obedience, worthless", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:3", "verse_text": "To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice." }, { "point_text": "Without obedience, worthless", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:33", "verse_text": "And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices." }, { "point_text": "The covenants of God confirmed by", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:9-17", "verse_text": "And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. 10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not. 11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away. 12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. ..." }, { "point_text": "The covenants of God confirmed by", "verse_ref": "Exodus 24:5-8", "verse_text": "And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD. 6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. 7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient. 8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words." }, { "point_text": "The covenants of God confirmed by", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:19-20", "verse_text": "For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, 20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you." }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Condemned for not treating with respect", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:29", "verse_text": "Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?" }, { "point_text": "Condemned for not treating with respect", "verse_ref": "Malachi 1:12", "verse_text": "But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible." }, { "point_text": "Condemned for bringing defective and blemished", "verse_ref": "Malachi 1:13-14", "verse_text": "Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD. 14 But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen." }, { "point_text": "Condemned for not offering", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 43:23-24", "verse_text": "Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense. 24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities." }, { "point_text": "Unaccepted in, on account of sin", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:11", "verse_text": "To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats." }, { "point_text": "Unaccepted in, on account of sin", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:3", "verse_text": "He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations." }, { "point_text": "Unaccepted in, on account of sin", "verse_ref": "Hosea 8:13", "verse_text": "They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Condemned for offering, to idols", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 34:25", "verse_text": "Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched." }, { "point_text": "Condemned for offering, to idols", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:3", "verse_text": "A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;" }, { "point_text": "Condemned for offering, to idols", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:7", "verse_text": "Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom." }, { "point_text": "Offered to false gods, are offered to devils", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 17:7", "verse_text": "And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations." }, { "point_text": "Offered to false gods, are offered to devils", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:17", "verse_text": "They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not." }, { "point_text": "Offered to false gods, are offered to devils", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:37", "verse_text": "Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils," }, { "point_text": "Offered to false gods, are offered to devils", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:20", "verse_text": "But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils." }, { "point_text": "On great occasions, very numerous", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 5:6", "verse_text": "Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude." }, { "point_text": "On great occasions, very numerous", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:5", "verse_text": "And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God." }, { "point_text": "For public use often provided by the state", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:3", "verse_text": "He appointed also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 141:2", "verse_text": "Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice." }, { "point_text": "Thanksgiving", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:6", "verse_text": "And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Thanksgiving", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:22", "verse_text": "And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing." }, { "point_text": "Thanksgiving", "verse_ref": "Psalm 116:17", "verse_text": "I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Thanksgiving", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:15", "verse_text": "By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name." }, { "point_text": "Devotedness", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:1", "verse_text": "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service." }, { "point_text": "Devotedness", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:17", "verse_text": "Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all." }, { "point_text": "Benevolence", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:18", "verse_text": "But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God." }, { "point_text": "Benevolence", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:16", "verse_text": "But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased." }, { "point_text": "Righteousness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 4:5", "verse_text": "Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Righteousness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:19", "verse_text": "Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar." }, { "point_text": "A broken spirit", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:17", "verse_text": "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise." }, { "point_text": "Martyrdom", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:7", "verse_text": "But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:" }, { "point_text": "Martyrdom", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:6", "verse_text": "For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand." }, { "point_text": "Divine institution of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:21", "verse_text": "Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them." }, { "point_text": "Divine institution of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:29", "verse_text": "And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat." }, { "point_text": "Divine institution of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:3", "verse_text": "Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things." }, { "point_text": "Divine institution of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:4-5", "verse_text": "And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: 5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell." }, { "point_text": "To be offered to God alone", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:20", "verse_text": "He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed." }, { "point_text": "To be offered to God alone", "verse_ref": "Judges 13:16", "verse_text": "And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "To be offered to God alone", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:36", "verse_text": "But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice." }, { "point_text": "When offered to God, an acknowledgement of His being the supreme God", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:17", "verse_text": "And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "When offered to God, an acknowledgement of His being the supreme God", "verse_ref": "Jonah 1:16", "verse_text": "Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows." }, { "point_text": "CONSISTED OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Clean animals or bloody sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:20", "verse_text": "And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar." }, { "point_text": "The fruits of the earth or unbloody sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:4", "verse_text": "And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:" }, { "point_text": "The fruits of the earth or unbloody sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 2:1", "verse_text": "And when any will offer a meat offering unto the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon:" }, { "point_text": "Always offered upon altars", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:24", "verse_text": "An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee." }, { "point_text": "The offering of, an acknowledgment of sin", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:3", "verse_text": "But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year." }, { "point_text": "WERE OFFERED", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "From the earliest age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:3-4", "verse_text": "And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. 4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:" }, { "point_text": "By the patriarchs", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:2", "verse_text": "And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of." }, { "point_text": "By the patriarchs", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:54", "verse_text": "Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount." }, { "point_text": "By the patriarchs", "verse_ref": "Genesis 46:1", "verse_text": "And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac." }, { "point_text": "By the patriarchs", "verse_ref": "Job 1:5", "verse_text": "And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually." }, { "point_text": "After the departure of Israel from Egypt", "verse_ref": "Exodus 5:3", "verse_text": "And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword." }, { "point_text": "After the departure of Israel from Egypt", "verse_ref": "Exodus 18:12", "verse_text": "And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father in law before God." }, { "point_text": "After the departure of Israel from Egypt", "verse_ref": "Exodus 24:5", "verse_text": "And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Under the Mosaic dispensation", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1-7", "verse_text": "And the LORD called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock. 3 If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD. 4 And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. ..." }, { "point_text": "Under the Mosaic dispensation", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:1-3", "verse_text": "For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. 2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. 3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year." }, { "point_text": "Daily", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:38-39", "verse_text": "Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually. 39 The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even:" }, { "point_text": "Weekly", "verse_ref": "Numbers 28:9-10", "verse_text": "And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof: 10 This is the burnt offering of every sabbath, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering." }, { "point_text": "Monthly", "verse_ref": "Numbers 28:11", "verse_text": "And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;" }, { "point_text": "Yearly", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:3", "verse_text": "Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering." }, { "point_text": "Yearly", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:3", "verse_text": "And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were there." }, { "point_text": "Yearly", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 20:6", "verse_text": "If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city: for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family." }, { "point_text": "At all the feasts", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:10", "verse_text": "Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "For the whole nation", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:15-30", "verse_text": "Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat: 16 And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness. 17 And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel. 18 And he shall go out unto the altar that is before the LORD, and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about. ..." }, { "point_text": "For the whole nation", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:21", "verse_text": "And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings unto the LORD, on the morrow after that day, even a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel:" }, { "point_text": "For individuals", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:2", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock." }, { "point_text": "For individuals", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 17:8", "verse_text": "And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn among you, that offereth a burnt offering or sacrifice," }, { "point_text": "In faith of a coming Saviour", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:4", "verse_text": "By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh." }, { "point_text": "In faith of a coming Saviour", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:17", "verse_text": "By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son," }, { "point_text": "In faith of a coming Saviour", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:28", "verse_text": "Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them." }, { "point_text": "Required to be perfect and without blemish", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:19", "verse_text": "Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats." }, { "point_text": "Required to be perfect and without blemish", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 15:21", "verse_text": "And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God." }, { "point_text": "Required to be perfect and without blemish", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:1", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God." }, { "point_text": "Required to be perfect and without blemish", "verse_ref": "Malachi 1:8", "verse_text": "And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Required to be perfect and without blemish", "verse_ref": "Malachi 1:14", "verse_text": "But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen." }, { "point_text": "Generally the best of their kind", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:4", "verse_text": "And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:" }, { "point_text": "Generally the best of their kind", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:22", "verse_text": "And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams." }, { "point_text": "Generally the best of their kind", "verse_ref": "Psalm 66:15", "verse_text": "I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Generally the best of their kind", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:11", "verse_text": "To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats." }, { "point_text": "DIFFERENT KINDS OF;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Burnt offering wholly consumed by fire", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1", "verse_text": "And the LORD called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock. 3 If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD. 4 And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. ..." }, { "point_text": "Burnt offering wholly consumed by fire", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:38", "verse_text": "Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench." }, { "point_text": "Sin offering for sins of ignorance", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them: 3 If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering. 4 And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD; and shall lay his hand upon the bullock's head, and kill the bullock before the LORD. ..." }, { "point_text": "Trespass offering for intentional sins", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:1-7", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour; 3 Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein: 4 Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found, ..." }, { "point_text": "Trespass offering for intentional sins", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:1-7", "verse_text": "Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy. 2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar. 3 And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof; the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, 4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul that is above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away: ..." }, { "point_text": "Peace offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 3", "verse_text": "And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD. 2 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about. 3 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards, 4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away. ..." }, { "point_text": "To be brought to the place appointed by God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:6", "verse_text": "And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:" }, { "point_text": "To be brought to the place appointed by God", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:12", "verse_text": "And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice." }, { "point_text": "Were bound to the horns of the altar", "verse_ref": "Psalm 118:27", "verse_text": "God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar." }, { "point_text": "Were salted with salt", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 2:13", "verse_text": "And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt." }, { "point_text": "Were salted with salt", "verse_ref": "Mark 9:49", "verse_text": "For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt." }, { "point_text": "Often consumed by fire from heaven", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 9:24", "verse_text": "And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces." }, { "point_text": "Often consumed by fire from heaven", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:38", "verse_text": "Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench." }, { "point_text": "Often consumed by fire from heaven", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:1", "verse_text": "Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house." }, { "point_text": "When bloody, accompanied with meat and drink offering", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:3-12", "verse_text": "And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock: 4 Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the LORD bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oil. 5 And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb. 6 Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil. ..." }, { "point_text": "No leaven offered with, except for thanksgiving", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:18", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning." }, { "point_text": "No leaven offered with, except for thanksgiving", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:13", "verse_text": "Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings." }, { "point_text": "Fat of, not to remain until morning", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:8", "verse_text": "And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous." }, { "point_text": "THE PRIESTS", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Appointed to offer", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:28", "verse_text": "And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?" }, { "point_text": "Appointed to offer", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 44:11", "verse_text": "Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them." }, { "point_text": "Appointed to offer", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 44:15", "verse_text": "But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:" }, { "point_text": "Had a portion of, and lived by", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:27-28", "verse_text": "And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons: 28 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it is an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Were typical of Christ's sacrifice", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 5:7", "verse_text": "Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:" }, { "point_text": "Were typical of Christ's sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:2", "verse_text": "And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour." }, { "point_text": "Were typical of Christ's sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:1", "verse_text": "For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect." }, { "point_text": "Were typical of Christ's sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:11-12", "verse_text": "And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;" }, { "point_text": "Were accepted when offered in sincerity and faith", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:4", "verse_text": "And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:" }, { "point_text": "Were accepted when offered in sincerity and faith", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:4", "verse_text": "By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh." }, { "point_text": "Were accepted when offered in sincerity and faith", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:21", "verse_text": "And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done." }, { "point_text": "Imparted a legal purification", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:13", "verse_text": "For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:" }, { "point_text": "Imparted a legal purification", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:22", "verse_text": "And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission." }, { "point_text": "Could not take away sin", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:6", "verse_text": "Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required." }, { "point_text": "Could not take away sin", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:9", "verse_text": "Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;" }, { "point_text": "Could not take away sin", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:1-11", "verse_text": "For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. 2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. 3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. 4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. ..." }, { "point_text": "Without obedience, worthless", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:22", "verse_text": "And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams." }, { "point_text": "Without obedience, worthless", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:3", "verse_text": "To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice." }, { "point_text": "Without obedience, worthless", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:33", "verse_text": "And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices." }, { "point_text": "The covenants of God confirmed by", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:9-17", "verse_text": "And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. 10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not. 11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away. 12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. ..." }, { "point_text": "The covenants of God confirmed by", "verse_ref": "Exodus 24:5-8", "verse_text": "And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD. 6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. 7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient. 8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words." }, { "point_text": "The covenants of God confirmed by", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:19-20", "verse_text": "For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, 20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you." }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Condemned for not treating with respect", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:29", "verse_text": "Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?" }, { "point_text": "Condemned for not treating with respect", "verse_ref": "Malachi 1:12", "verse_text": "But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible." }, { "point_text": "Condemned for bringing defective and blemished", "verse_ref": "Malachi 1:13-14", "verse_text": "Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD. 14 But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen." }, { "point_text": "Condemned for not offering", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 43:23-24", "verse_text": "Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense. 24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities." }, { "point_text": "Unaccepted in, on account of sin", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:11", "verse_text": "To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats." }, { "point_text": "Unaccepted in, on account of sin", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:3", "verse_text": "He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations." }, { "point_text": "Unaccepted in, on account of sin", "verse_ref": "Hosea 8:13", "verse_text": "They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Condemned for offering, to idols", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 34:25", "verse_text": "Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched." }, { "point_text": "Condemned for offering, to idols", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:3", "verse_text": "A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;" }, { "point_text": "Condemned for offering, to idols", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:7", "verse_text": "Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom." }, { "point_text": "Offered to false gods, are offered to devils", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 17:7", "verse_text": "And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations." }, { "point_text": "Offered to false gods, are offered to devils", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:17", "verse_text": "They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not." }, { "point_text": "Offered to false gods, are offered to devils", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:37", "verse_text": "Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils," }, { "point_text": "Offered to false gods, are offered to devils", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:20", "verse_text": "But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils." }, { "point_text": "On great occasions, very numerous", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 5:6", "verse_text": "Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude." }, { "point_text": "On great occasions, very numerous", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:5", "verse_text": "And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God." }, { "point_text": "For public use often provided by the state", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:3", "verse_text": "He appointed also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 141:2", "verse_text": "Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice." }, { "point_text": "Thanksgiving", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:6", "verse_text": "And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Thanksgiving", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:22", "verse_text": "And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing." }, { "point_text": "Thanksgiving", "verse_ref": "Psalm 116:17", "verse_text": "I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Thanksgiving", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:15", "verse_text": "By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name." }, { "point_text": "Devotedness", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:1", "verse_text": "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service." }, { "point_text": "Devotedness", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:17", "verse_text": "Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all." }, { "point_text": "Benevolence", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:18", "verse_text": "But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God." }, { "point_text": "Benevolence", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:16", "verse_text": "But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased." }, { "point_text": "Righteousness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 4:5", "verse_text": "Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Righteousness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:19", "verse_text": "Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar." }, { "point_text": "A broken spirit", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:17", "verse_text": "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise." }, { "point_text": "Martyrdom", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:7", "verse_text": "But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:" }, { "point_text": "Martyrdom", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:6", "verse_text": "For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand." } ] }, { "name": "Saints, Compared to", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Saints-Compared-to.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The sun", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:31", "verse_text": "So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years." }, { "point_text": "The sun", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:43", "verse_text": "Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear." }, { "point_text": "Stars", "verse_ref": "Daniel 12:3", "verse_text": "And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever." }, { "point_text": "Lights", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:14", "verse_text": "Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid." }, { "point_text": "Lights", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:15", "verse_text": "That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;" }, { "point_text": "Mount Zion", "verse_ref": "Psalm 125:1-2", "verse_text": "They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever. 2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever." }, { "point_text": "Lebanon", "verse_ref": "Hosea 14:5-7", "verse_text": "I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. 6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. 7 They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Treasure", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:5", "verse_text": "Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:" }, { "point_text": "Treasure", "verse_ref": "Psalm 135:4", "verse_text": "For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure." }, { "point_text": "Jewels", "verse_ref": "Malachi 3:17", "verse_text": "And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him." }, { "point_text": "Gold", "verse_ref": "Job 23:10", "verse_text": "But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold." }, { "point_text": "Gold", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 4:2", "verse_text": "The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!" }, { "point_text": "Vessels of gold and silver", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:20", "verse_text": "But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour." }, { "point_text": "Stones of a crown", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:16", "verse_text": "And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land." }, { "point_text": "Lively stones", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:5", "verse_text": "Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Babes", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:25", "verse_text": "At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes." }, { "point_text": "Babes", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:2", "verse_text": "As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:" }, { "point_text": "Little children", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:3", "verse_text": "And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." }, { "point_text": "Little children", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:20", "verse_text": "Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men." }, { "point_text": "Obedient children", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:14", "verse_text": "As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:" }, { "point_text": "Members of the body", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:20", "verse_text": "But now are they many members, yet but one body." }, { "point_text": "Members of the body", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:27", "verse_text": "Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular." }, { "point_text": "Soldiers", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:3-4", "verse_text": "Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." }, { "point_text": "Runners in a race.\r\n\n\r\n", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:24", "verse_text": "Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain." }, { "point_text": "Runners in a race.\r\n\n\r\n", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:1", "verse_text": "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us," }, { "point_text": "Wrestlers", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:5", "verse_text": "And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully." }, { "point_text": "Good servants", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:21", "verse_text": "His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord." }, { "point_text": "Strangers and pilgrims", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:11", "verse_text": "Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;" }, { "point_text": "Sheep", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:52", "verse_text": "But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock." }, { "point_text": "Sheep", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:33", "verse_text": "And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left." }, { "point_text": "Sheep", "verse_ref": "John 10:4", "verse_text": "And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice." }, { "point_text": "Lambs", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:11", "verse_text": "He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young." }, { "point_text": "Lambs", "verse_ref": "John 21:15", "verse_text": "So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs." }, { "point_text": "Calves of the stall", "verse_ref": "Malachi 4:2", "verse_text": "But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall." }, { "point_text": "Lions", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:1", "verse_text": "The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion." }, { "point_text": "Lions", "verse_ref": "Micah 5:8", "verse_text": "And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver." }, { "point_text": "Eagles", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:5", "verse_text": "Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's." }, { "point_text": "Eagles", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:31", "verse_text": "But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." }, { "point_text": "Doves", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:13", "verse_text": "Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold." }, { "point_text": "Doves", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:8", "verse_text": "Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?" }, { "point_text": "Thirsting deer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 42:1", "verse_text": "As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God." }, { "point_text": "Good fishes", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:48", "verse_text": "Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away." }, { "point_text": "Dew and showers", "verse_ref": "Micah 5:7", "verse_text": "And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men." }, { "point_text": "Watered gardens", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:11", "verse_text": "And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not." }, { "point_text": "Unfailing springs", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:11", "verse_text": "And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not." }, { "point_text": "Vines", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 6:11", "verse_text": "I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded." }, { "point_text": "Vines", "verse_ref": "Hosea 14:7", "verse_text": "They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Branches of a vine", "verse_ref": "John 15:2", "verse_text": "Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit." }, { "point_text": "Branches of a vine", "verse_ref": "John 15:4-5", "verse_text": "Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing." }, { "point_text": "Pomegranates", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:13", "verse_text": "Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard," }, { "point_text": "Good figs", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 24:2-7", "verse_text": "One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. 3 Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. 4 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 5 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good. ..." }, { "point_text": "Lilies", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:2", "verse_text": "As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters." }, { "point_text": "Lilies", "verse_ref": "Hosea 14:5", "verse_text": "I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Willows by the water-courses", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:4", "verse_text": "And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses." }, { "point_text": "Trees planted by rivers", "verse_ref": "Psalm 1:3", "verse_text": "And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper." }, { "point_text": "Cedars in Lebanon", "verse_ref": "Psalm 92:12", "verse_text": "The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Palm trees", "verse_ref": "Psalm 92:12", "verse_text": "The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Green olive trees", "verse_ref": "Psalm 52:8", "verse_text": "But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever." }, { "point_text": "Green olive trees", "verse_ref": "Hosea 14:6", "verse_text": "His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Fruitful trees", "verse_ref": "Psalm 1:3", "verse_text": "And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper." }, { "point_text": "Fruitful trees", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:8", "verse_text": "For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit." }, { "point_text": "Corn", "verse_ref": "Hosea 14:7", "verse_text": "They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Wheat", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:12", "verse_text": "Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire." }, { "point_text": "Wheat", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:29-30", "verse_text": "But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn." }, { "point_text": "Salt", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:13", "verse_text": "Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men." } ] }, { "name": "Salutations", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Salutations.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:2", "verse_text": "And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground," }, { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 19:1", "verse_text": "And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;" }, { "point_text": "WERE GIVEN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "By brethren to each other", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:22", "verse_text": "And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren." }, { "point_text": "By inferiors to their superiors", "verse_ref": "Genesis 47:7", "verse_text": "And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh." }, { "point_text": "By superiors to inferiors", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 30:21", "verse_text": "And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them." }, { "point_text": "By all passers-by", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 10:3-4", "verse_text": "Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine: 4 And they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hands." }, { "point_text": "On entering a house", "verse_ref": "Judges 18:15", "verse_text": "And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him." }, { "point_text": "On entering a house", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:12", "verse_text": "And when ye come into an house, salute it." }, { "point_text": "On entering a house", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:40-41", "verse_text": "And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth. 41 And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:" }, { "point_text": "On entering a house", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:44", "verse_text": "For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy." }, { "point_text": "Often sent through messengers", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:5", "verse_text": "And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:" }, { "point_text": "Often sent through messengers", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:14", "verse_text": "But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them." }, { "point_text": "Often sent through messengers", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:10", "verse_text": "Then Toi sent Joram his son unto king David, to salute him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer, and smitten him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. And Joram brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass:" }, { "point_text": "Often sent by letter", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:21-23", "verse_text": "Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you. 22 I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord. 23 Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother." }, { "point_text": "Often sent by letter", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 16:21", "verse_text": "The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand." }, { "point_text": "Often sent by letter", "verse_ref": "Colossians 4:18", "verse_text": "The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Often sent by letter", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 3:17", "verse_text": "The salutation of Paul with mine own hand, which is the token in every epistle: so I write." }, { "point_text": "Denied to persons of bad character", "verse_ref": "2 John 10", "verse_text": "If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:" }, { "point_text": "Persons in haste excused from giving or receiving", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:29", "verse_text": "Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child." }, { "point_text": "Persons in haste excused from giving or receiving", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:24", "verse_text": "For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them." }, { "point_text": "EXPRESSIONS USED AS;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Peace be with thee", "verse_ref": "Judges 19:20", "verse_text": "And the old man said, Peace be with thee; howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street." }, { "point_text": "Peace to thee, and peace to thine house, and peace unto all that thou hast", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:6", "verse_text": "And thus shall ye say to him that liveth in prosperity, Peace be both to thee, and peace be to thine house, and peace be unto all that thou hast." }, { "point_text": "Peace be to this house", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:5", "verse_text": "And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house." }, { "point_text": "The Lord be with you", "verse_ref": "Ruth 2:4", "verse_text": "And, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the reapers, The LORD be with you. And they answered him, The LORD bless thee." }, { "point_text": "The Lord bless thee", "verse_ref": "Ruth 2:4", "verse_text": "And, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the reapers, The LORD be with you. And they answered him, The LORD bless thee." }, { "point_text": "The blessing of the Lord be upon you, we bless you in the name of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Psalm 129:8", "verse_text": "Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Blessed be thou of the Lord", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:13", "verse_text": "And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "God be gracious unto thee", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:29", "verse_text": "And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son." }, { "point_text": "Art thou in health?", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 20:9", "verse_text": "And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him." }, { "point_text": "Hail", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:49", "verse_text": "And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him." }, { "point_text": "Hail", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:28", "verse_text": "And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women." }, { "point_text": "All hail", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:9", "verse_text": "And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him." }, { "point_text": "Often perfidious", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 20:9", "verse_text": "And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him." }, { "point_text": "Often perfidious", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:49", "verse_text": "And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him." }, { "point_text": "Given to Christ in derision", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:29", "verse_text": "And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!" }, { "point_text": "Given to Christ in derision", "verse_ref": "Mark 15:18", "verse_text": "And began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews!" }, { "point_text": "OFTEN ACCOMPANIED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Falling on the neck and kissing", "verse_ref": "Genesis 33:4", "verse_text": "And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept." }, { "point_text": "Falling on the neck and kissing", "verse_ref": "Genesis 45:14-15", "verse_text": "And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck. 15 Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him." }, { "point_text": "Laying hold of the beard with the right hand, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 20:9", "verse_text": "And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him." }, { "point_text": "Bowing frequently to the ground", "verse_ref": "Genesis 33:3", "verse_text": "And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother." }, { "point_text": "Embracing and kissing the feet", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:9", "verse_text": "And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him." }, { "point_text": "Embracing and kissing the feet", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:38", "verse_text": "And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment." }, { "point_text": "Embracing and kissing the feet", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:45", "verse_text": "Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet." }, { "point_text": "Touching the hem of the garment", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:36", "verse_text": "And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole." }, { "point_text": "Falling prostrate on the ground", "verse_ref": "Esther 8:3", "verse_text": "And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews." }, { "point_text": "Falling prostrate on the ground", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:11", "verse_text": "And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh." }, { "point_text": "Falling prostrate on the ground", "verse_ref": "Luke 8:41", "verse_text": "And, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus' feet, and besought him that he would come into his house:" }, { "point_text": "Kissing the dust", "verse_ref": "Psalm 72:9", "verse_text": "They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust." }, { "point_text": "Kissing the dust", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:23", "verse_text": "And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me." }, { "point_text": "The Jews condemned for giving, only to their countrymen", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:47", "verse_text": "And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?" }, { "point_text": "The Pharisees condemned for seeking, in public", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:7", "verse_text": "And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi." }, { "point_text": "The Pharisees condemned for seeking, in public", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:38", "verse_text": "And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces," } ] }, { "name": "Salt", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Salt.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Characterized as good and useful", "verse_ref": "Mark 9:50", "verse_text": "Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another." }, { "point_text": "USED FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Seasoning food", "verse_ref": "Job 6:6", "verse_text": "Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?" }, { "point_text": "Seasoning sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 2:13", "verse_text": "And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt." }, { "point_text": "Seasoning sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 43:24", "verse_text": "And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Ratifying covenants", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:19", "verse_text": "All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee." }, { "point_text": "Ratifying covenants", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 13:5", "verse_text": "Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?" }, { "point_text": "Strengthening new-born infants", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:4", "verse_text": "And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all." }, { "point_text": "Partaking of another's, a bond of friendship.\r\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Ezra 4:14", "verse_text": "Now because we have maintenance from the king's palace, and it was not meet for us to see the king's dishonour, therefore have we sent and certified the king;" }, { "point_text": "Lost its savor when exposed to the air", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:13", "verse_text": "Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men." }, { "point_text": "Lost its savor when exposed to the air", "verse_ref": "Mark 9:50", "verse_text": "Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another." }, { "point_text": "OFTEN FOUND", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In pits", "verse_ref": "Joshua 11:8", "verse_text": "And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto Misrephothmaim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them none remaining." }, { "point_text": "In pits", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 2:9", "verse_text": "Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them." }, { "point_text": "In springs", "verse_ref": "James 3:12", "verse_text": "Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh." }, { "point_text": "Near the Dead Sea", "verse_ref": "Numbers 34:12", "verse_text": "And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about." }, { "point_text": "Near the Dead Sea", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 3:17", "verse_text": "The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdothpisgah eastward." }, { "point_text": "Places where it abounded barren and unfruitful", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:6", "verse_text": "For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited." }, { "point_text": "Places where it abounded barren and unfruitful", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 47:11", "verse_text": "But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt." }, { "point_text": "The valley of, celebrated for victories", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:13", "verse_text": "And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men." }, { "point_text": "The valley of, celebrated for victories", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 14:7", "verse_text": "He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day." }, { "point_text": "The valley of, celebrated for victories", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 18:12", "verse_text": "Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in the valley of salt eighteen thousand." }, { "point_text": "MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Lot's wife turned into a pillar of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 19:26", "verse_text": "But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt." }, { "point_text": "Elisha healed the bad water with", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:21", "verse_text": "And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife." }, { "point_text": "Places sown with, to denote perpetual desolation", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:45", "verse_text": "And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt." }, { "point_text": "Liberally afforded to the Jews after the captivity", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:9", "verse_text": "And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:" }, { "point_text": "Liberally afforded to the Jews after the captivity", "verse_ref": "Ezra 7:22", "verse_text": "Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of saints", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:13", "verse_text": "Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men." }, { "point_text": "Of grace in the heart", "verse_ref": "Mark 9:50", "verse_text": "Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another." }, { "point_text": "Of wisdom in speech", "verse_ref": "Colossians 4:6", "verse_text": "Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man." }, { "point_text": "(Without savor,) of graceless professors", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:13", "verse_text": "Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men." }, { "point_text": "(Without savor,) of graceless professors", "verse_ref": "Mark 9:50", "verse_text": "Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another." }, { "point_text": "(Pits of,) of desolation", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 2:9", "verse_text": "Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them." }, { "point_text": "(Salted with fire,) of preparation of the wicked for destruction", "verse_ref": "Mark 9:49", "verse_text": "For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt." } ] }, { "name": "Samaria, Modern", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Samaria-Modern.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Situated between Judea and Galilee", "verse_ref": "Luke 17:11", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee." }, { "point_text": "Situated between Judea and Galilee", "verse_ref": "John 4:3-4", "verse_text": "He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee. 4 And he must needs go through Samaria." }, { "point_text": "Had many cities, &c", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:5", "verse_text": "These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:" }, { "point_text": "Had many cities, &c", "verse_ref": "Luke 9:52", "verse_text": "And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him." }, { "point_text": "CITIES OF, MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Samaria", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:5", "verse_text": "Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them." }, { "point_text": "Sychar", "verse_ref": "John 4:5", "verse_text": "Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph." }, { "point_text": "Antipatris", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:31", "verse_text": "Then the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul, and brought him by night to Antipatris." }, { "point_text": "Christ preached in", "verse_ref": "John 4:39-42", "verse_text": "And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did. 40 So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days. 41 And many more believed because of his own word; 42 And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world." }, { "point_text": "Christ at first forbade His disciples to visit", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:5", "verse_text": "These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:" }, { "point_text": "Christ after His resurrection commanded the gospel to be preached in", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:8", "verse_text": "But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth." }, { "point_text": "INHABITANTS OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Their true descent", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:24", "verse_text": "And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof." }, { "point_text": "Their true descent", "verse_ref": "Ezra 4:9-10", "verse_text": "Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and the Elamites, 10 And the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnappar brought over, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest that are on this side the river, and at such a time." }, { "point_text": "Boasted descent from Jacob", "verse_ref": "John 4:12", "verse_text": "Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?" }, { "point_text": "Professed to worship God", "verse_ref": "Ezra 4:2", "verse_text": "Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither." }, { "point_text": "Their religion mixed with idolatry", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:41", "verse_text": "So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Their religion mixed with idolatry", "verse_ref": "John 4:22", "verse_text": "Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews." }, { "point_text": "Worshipped on Mount Gerizim", "verse_ref": "John 4:20", "verse_text": "Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship." }, { "point_text": "Opposed the Jews after their return from captivity", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 4:1-18", "verse_text": "But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. 2 And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned? 3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall. 4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity: ..." }, { "point_text": "Expected the Messiah", "verse_ref": "John 4:25", "verse_text": "The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things." }, { "point_text": "Expected the Messiah", "verse_ref": "John 4:29", "verse_text": "Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" }, { "point_text": "Were superstitious", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:9-11", "verse_text": "But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one: 10 To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God. 11 And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries." }, { "point_text": "More humane and grateful than the Jews", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:33-36", "verse_text": "But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, 34 And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. 35 And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee. 36 Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?" }, { "point_text": "More humane and grateful than the Jews", "verse_ref": "Luke 17:16-18", "verse_text": "And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan. 17 And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine? 18 There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger." }, { "point_text": "Abhorred by the Jews", "verse_ref": "John 8:48", "verse_text": "Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?" }, { "point_text": "Had no intercourse or dealings with the Jews", "verse_ref": "Luke 9:52-53", "verse_text": "And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him. 53 And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Ready to hear and embrace the gospel", "verse_ref": "John 4:39-42", "verse_text": "And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did. 40 So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days. 41 And many more believed because of his own word; 42 And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world." }, { "point_text": "Ready to hear and embrace the gospel", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:6-8", "verse_text": "And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. 7 For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed. 8 And there was great joy in that city." }, { "point_text": "The persecuted Christians fled to", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:1", "verse_text": "And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles." }, { "point_text": "The gospel first preached in, by Philip", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:5", "verse_text": "Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them." }, { "point_text": "Many Christian churches in", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:31", "verse_text": "Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied." } ] }, { "name": "Samaria, Ancient", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Samaria-Ancient.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The territory of Ephraim and Manasseh properly so called", "verse_ref": "Joshua 17:17-18", "verse_text": "And Joshua spake unto the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great power: thou shalt not have one lot only: 18 But the mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they be strong." }, { "point_text": "The whole kingdom of Israel sometimes called", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:46", "verse_text": "And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters." }, { "point_text": "The whole kingdom of Israel sometimes called", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:51", "verse_text": "Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done." }, { "point_text": "Had many cities", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 13:32", "verse_text": "For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass." }, { "point_text": "SAMARIA THE CAPITAL OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Built by Omri king of Israel", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:23-24", "verse_text": "In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign over Israel, twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah. 24 And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria." }, { "point_text": "Called after Shemer the owner of the hill on which it was built", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:24", "verse_text": "And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria." }, { "point_text": "Called the mountain of Samaria", "verse_ref": "Amos 4:1", "verse_text": "Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink." }, { "point_text": "Called the mountain of Samaria", "verse_ref": "Amos 6:1", "verse_text": "Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!" }, { "point_text": "Called the head of Ephraim", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:9", "verse_text": "And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established." }, { "point_text": "Kings of Israel sometime took their titles from", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria." }, { "point_text": "Kings of Israel sometime took their titles from", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 1:3", "verse_text": "But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?" }, { "point_text": "The residence of the kings of Israel", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:29", "verse_text": "And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years." }, { "point_text": "The residence of the kings of Israel", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 1:2", "verse_text": "And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease." }, { "point_text": "The residence of the kings of Israel", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 3:1", "verse_text": "Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years." }, { "point_text": "The residence of the kings of Israel", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 3:6", "verse_text": "And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and numbered all Israel." }, { "point_text": "The burial place of the kings of Israel", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:28", "verse_text": "So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead." }, { "point_text": "The burial place of the kings of Israel", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:37", "verse_text": "So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria." }, { "point_text": "The burial place of the kings of Israel", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 13:13", "verse_text": "And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Was a fenced city, and well provided with arms", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 10:2", "verse_text": "Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and armour;" }, { "point_text": "The pool of Samaria near to", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:38", "verse_text": "And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake." }, { "point_text": "The prophet Elisha dwelt in", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 2:25", "verse_text": "And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he returned to Samaria." }, { "point_text": "The prophet Elisha dwelt in", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:3", "verse_text": "And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy." }, { "point_text": "The prophet Elisha dwelt in", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:32", "verse_text": "But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?" }, { "point_text": "Besieged by Benhadad", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:1-12", "verse_text": "And Benhadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it. 2 And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith Benhadad, 3 Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine. 4 And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according to thy saying, I am thine, and all that I have. ..." }, { "point_text": "Deliverance of, predicted", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:13-14", "verse_text": "And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thine hand this day; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD. 14 And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Even by the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall order the battle? And he answered, Thou." }, { "point_text": "Deliverance of, effected", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:15-21", "verse_text": "Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand. 16 And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him. 17 And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Benhadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out of Samaria. 18 And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive. ..." }, { "point_text": "Besieged again by Benhadad", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:24", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria." }, { "point_text": "Suffered severely from famine", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:25-29", "verse_text": "And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver. 26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. 27 And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? 28 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow. ..." }, { "point_text": "Elisha predicted plenty in", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 7:1-2", "verse_text": "Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria. 2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof." }, { "point_text": "Delivered by miraculous means", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 7:6-7", "verse_text": "For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us. 7 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life." }, { "point_text": "Remarkable plenty in, as foretold by Elisha", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 7:16-20", "verse_text": "And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD. 17 And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him. 18 And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria: 19 And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof. ..." }, { "point_text": "Besieged and taken by Shalmaneser", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:5", "verse_text": "Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years." }, { "point_text": "Besieged and taken by Shalmaneser", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:9-10", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it. 10 And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken." }, { "point_text": "A mountainous country", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:5", "verse_text": "Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things." }, { "point_text": "A mountainous country", "verse_ref": "Amos 3:9", "verse_text": "Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof." }, { "point_text": "PEOPLE OF CHARACTERIZED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Proud and arrogant", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:9", "verse_text": "And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart," }, { "point_text": "Corrupt and wicked", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:46-47", "verse_text": "And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters. 47 Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways." }, { "point_text": "Idolatrous", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 23:5", "verse_text": "And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours," }, { "point_text": "Idolatrous", "verse_ref": "Amos 8:14", "verse_text": "They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again." }, { "point_text": "Idolatrous", "verse_ref": "Micah 1:7", "verse_text": "And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot." }, { "point_text": "Predictions respecting its destruction", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:4", "verse_text": "For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria." }, { "point_text": "Predictions respecting its destruction", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:11-12", "verse_text": "Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together; 12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still." }, { "point_text": "Inhabitants of, carried captive to Assyria", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:6", "verse_text": "In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes." }, { "point_text": "Inhabitants of, carried captive to Assyria", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:11", "verse_text": "And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:" }, { "point_text": "Repeopled from Assyria", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:24-25", "verse_text": "And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof. 25 And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew some of them." } ] }, { "name": "Scape-goat, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Scapegoat-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Part of the sin offering on the day of atonement", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:5", "verse_text": "And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering." }, { "point_text": "Part of the sin offering on the day of atonement", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:7", "verse_text": "And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "Chosen by lot", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:8", "verse_text": "And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat." }, { "point_text": "The high priest transferred the sins of Israel to, by confessing them with both hands upon its head", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:21", "verse_text": "And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:" }, { "point_text": "Sent into the wilderness by the hands of a fit person", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:21-22", "verse_text": "And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: 22 And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "COMMUNICATED UNCLEANNESS TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The high priest", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:24", "verse_text": "And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for the people." }, { "point_text": "The man who lead him away", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:26", "verse_text": "And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the camp." }, { "point_text": "Typical of Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:6", "verse_text": "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." }, { "point_text": "Typical of Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:11-12", "verse_text": "He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." } ] }, { "name": "Sanctification", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Sanctification.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is separation to the service of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 4:3", "verse_text": "But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him." }, { "point_text": "Is separation to the service of God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:17", "verse_text": "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you," }, { "point_text": "EFFECTED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "God", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 37:28", "verse_text": "And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore." }, { "point_text": "God", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:23", "verse_text": "And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "God", "verse_ref": "Jude 1", "verse_text": "Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:" }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:11", "verse_text": "For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren," }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:12", "verse_text": "Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate." }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:16", "verse_text": "That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:11", "verse_text": "And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God." }, { "point_text": "In Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:2", "verse_text": "Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:" }, { "point_text": "Through the atonement of Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:10", "verse_text": "By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all." }, { "point_text": "Through the atonement of Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:12", "verse_text": "Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate." }, { "point_text": "Through the word of God", "verse_ref": "John 17:17", "verse_text": "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth." }, { "point_text": "Through the word of God", "verse_ref": "John 17:19", "verse_text": "And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth." }, { "point_text": "Christ made, of God, to us", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:30", "verse_text": "But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:" }, { "point_text": "Saints elected to salvation through", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:13", "verse_text": "But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:" }, { "point_text": "Saints elected to salvation through", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:2", "verse_text": "Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied." }, { "point_text": "All saints are in a state of", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:32", "verse_text": "And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified." }, { "point_text": "All saints are in a state of", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:18", "verse_text": "To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me." }, { "point_text": "All saints are in a state of", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:11", "verse_text": "And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God." }, { "point_text": "The Church made glorious by", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:26-27", "verse_text": "That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD LEAD TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Mortification of sin", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:3-4", "verse_text": "For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: 4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;" }, { "point_text": "Holiness", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:22", "verse_text": "But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life." }, { "point_text": "Holiness", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:7-9", "verse_text": "Be not ye therefore partakers with them. 8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: 9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)" }, { "point_text": "Offering up of saints acceptable through", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:16", "verse_text": "That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Saints fitted for the service of God by", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:21", "verse_text": "If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work." }, { "point_text": "God wills all saints to have", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:3", "verse_text": "For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:" }, { "point_text": "MINISTERS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Set apart to God's service by", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 1:5", "verse_text": "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations." }, { "point_text": "Should pray that their people may enjoy complete", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:23", "verse_text": "And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Should exhort their people to walk in", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:1", "verse_text": "Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more." }, { "point_text": "Should exhort their people to walk in", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:3", "verse_text": "For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:" }, { "point_text": "None can inherit the kingdom of God without", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:9-11", "verse_text": "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:3", "verse_text": "And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:2", "verse_text": "Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:14", "verse_text": "And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:9-15", "verse_text": "And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels thereof: and it shall be holy. 10 And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar most holy. 11 And thou shalt anoint the laver and his foot, and sanctify it. 12 And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with water. ..." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 27:14-16", "verse_text": "And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand. 15 And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his. 16 And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver." } ] }, { "name": "Sciences", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Sciences.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Architecture", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:12", "verse_text": "Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;" }, { "point_text": "Architecture", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:19", "verse_text": "And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for the which I have made provision." }, { "point_text": "Arithmetic", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:5", "verse_text": "And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be." }, { "point_text": "Arithmetic", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:8", "verse_text": "And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword." }, { "point_text": "Arithmetic", "verse_ref": "Job 29:18", "verse_text": "Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand." }, { "point_text": "Astronomy", "verse_ref": "Job 38:31-32", "verse_text": "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? 32 Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?" }, { "point_text": "Astrology", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 47:13", "verse_text": "Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee." }, { "point_text": "Botany", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:33", "verse_text": "And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes." }, { "point_text": "Geography", "verse_ref": "Genesis 10:1-30", "verse_text": "Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood. 2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. 3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. 4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. ..." }, { "point_text": "Geography", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:11", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea." }, { "point_text": "History and Chronology", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:39", "verse_text": "Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?" }, { "point_text": "History and Chronology", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 1:18", "verse_text": "Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?" }, { "point_text": "History and Chronology", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 9:1", "verse_text": "So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who were carried away to Babylon for their transgression." }, { "point_text": "History and Chronology", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:29", "verse_text": "Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer," }, { "point_text": "Mechanics", "verse_ref": "Genesis 6:14-16", "verse_text": "Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. 15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. 16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it." }, { "point_text": "Mechanics", "verse_ref": "Genesis 11:4", "verse_text": "And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." }, { "point_text": "Mechanics", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:6-7", "verse_text": "And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him: 7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them." }, { "point_text": "Medicine", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:22", "verse_text": "Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?" }, { "point_text": "Medicine", "verse_ref": "Mark 5:26", "verse_text": "And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse," }, { "point_text": "Music", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:4-7", "verse_text": "And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, and to record, and to thank and praise the LORD God of Israel: 5 Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obededom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals; 6 Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God. 7 Then on that day David delivered first this psalm to thank the LORD into the hand of Asaph and his brethren." }, { "point_text": "Music", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 25:6", "verse_text": "All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king's order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman." }, { "point_text": "Navigation", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 9:27", "verse_text": "And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon." }, { "point_text": "Navigation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:23", "verse_text": "They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;" }, { "point_text": "Surveying", "verse_ref": "Joshua 18:4-9", "verse_text": "Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me. 5 And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their coasts on the north. 6 Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven parts, and bring the description hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD our God. 7 But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them. ..." }, { "point_text": "Surveying", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 2:12-16", "verse_text": "And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon. 13 And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire. 14 Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass. 15 Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned. ..." }, { "point_text": "Surveying", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 40:5-6", "verse_text": "And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed. 6 Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad; and the other threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad." }, { "point_text": "Zoology", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:33", "verse_text": "And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes." } ] }, { "name": "Salvation", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Salvation.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 3:8", "verse_text": "Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Is of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:39", "verse_text": "But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble." }, { "point_text": "Is of God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:23", "verse_text": "Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Is of the purpose of God", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:9", "verse_text": "Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began," }, { "point_text": "Is of the appointment of God", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:9", "verse_text": "For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ," }, { "point_text": "God is willing to give", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:4", "verse_text": "Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth." }, { "point_text": "Is by Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:9", "verse_text": "In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old." }, { "point_text": "Is by Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:23", "verse_text": "For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body." }, { "point_text": "Is by Christ alone", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:21", "verse_text": "Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me." }, { "point_text": "Is by Christ alone", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:16", "verse_text": "And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him." }, { "point_text": "Is by Christ alone", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:12", "verse_text": "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." }, { "point_text": "Announced after the fall", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:15", "verse_text": "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." }, { "point_text": "Of Israel, predicted", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 35:4", "verse_text": "Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you." }, { "point_text": "Of Israel, predicted", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:17", "verse_text": "But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end." }, { "point_text": "Of Israel, predicted", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:16", "verse_text": "And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land." }, { "point_text": "Of Israel, predicted", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:26", "verse_text": "And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:" }, { "point_text": "Of the Gentiles, predicted", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:22", "verse_text": "Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else." }, { "point_text": "Of the Gentiles, predicted", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:6", "verse_text": "And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Of the Gentiles, predicted", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 52:10", "verse_text": "The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God." }, { "point_text": "Revealed in the gospel", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:13", "verse_text": "In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise," }, { "point_text": "Revealed in the gospel", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:10", "verse_text": "But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:" }, { "point_text": "Came to the Gentiles through the fall of the Jews", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:11", "verse_text": "I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy." }, { "point_text": "CHRIST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The Captain of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:10", "verse_text": "For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings." }, { "point_text": "The Author of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 5:9", "verse_text": "And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;" }, { "point_text": "Appointed for", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:6", "verse_text": "And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Raised up for", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:69", "verse_text": "And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;" }, { "point_text": "Has", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:9", "verse_text": "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass." }, { "point_text": "Brings, with Him", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 62:11", "verse_text": "Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him." }, { "point_text": "Brings, with Him", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:9", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham." }, { "point_text": "Mighty to effect", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:1", "verse_text": "Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save." }, { "point_text": "Mighty to effect", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:25", "verse_text": "Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them." }, { "point_text": "Came to effect", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:11", "verse_text": "For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost." }, { "point_text": "Came to effect", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:15", "verse_text": "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief." }, { "point_text": "Died to effect", "verse_ref": "John 3:14-15", "verse_text": "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." }, { "point_text": "Exalted to give", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:31", "verse_text": "Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins." }, { "point_text": "Is not by works", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:6", "verse_text": "And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work." }, { "point_text": "Is not by works", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:9", "verse_text": "Not of works, lest any man should boast." }, { "point_text": "Is not by works", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:9", "verse_text": "Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began," }, { "point_text": "Is not by works", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:5", "verse_text": "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;" }, { "point_text": "Is of grace", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:5", "verse_text": "Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)" }, { "point_text": "Is of grace", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:8", "verse_text": "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:" }, { "point_text": "Is of grace", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:9", "verse_text": "Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began," }, { "point_text": "Is of grace", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:11", "verse_text": "For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men," }, { "point_text": "Is of love", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:8", "verse_text": "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." }, { "point_text": "Is of love", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:9-10", "verse_text": "In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins." }, { "point_text": "Is of mercy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 6:4", "verse_text": "Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake." }, { "point_text": "Is of mercy", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:5", "verse_text": "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;" }, { "point_text": "Is of the long-suffering of God", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:15", "verse_text": "And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;" }, { "point_text": "Is through faith in Christ", "verse_ref": "Mark 16:16", "verse_text": "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned." }, { "point_text": "Is through faith in Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:31", "verse_text": "And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." }, { "point_text": "Is through faith in Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:9", "verse_text": "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." }, { "point_text": "Is through faith in Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:8", "verse_text": "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:" }, { "point_text": "Is through faith in Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:5", "verse_text": "Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time." }, { "point_text": "Reconciliation to God, a pledge of", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:10", "verse_text": "For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life." }, { "point_text": "IS DELIVERANCE FROM", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Sin", "verse_ref": "Matthew 1:21", "verse_text": "And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins." }, { "point_text": "Sin", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:5", "verse_text": "And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin." }, { "point_text": "Uncleanness", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 36:29", "verse_text": "I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you." }, { "point_text": "The devil", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:15", "verse_text": "And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it." }, { "point_text": "The devil", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:14-15", "verse_text": "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; 15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage." }, { "point_text": "Wrath", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:9", "verse_text": "Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him." }, { "point_text": "Wrath", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 1:10", "verse_text": "And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come." }, { "point_text": "This present evil world", "verse_ref": "Galatians 1:4", "verse_text": "Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:" }, { "point_text": "Enemies", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:71", "verse_text": "That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;" }, { "point_text": "Enemies", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:74", "verse_text": "That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear," }, { "point_text": "Eternal death", "verse_ref": "John 3:16-17", "verse_text": "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved." }, { "point_text": "Confession of Christ necessary to", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:10", "verse_text": "For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." }, { "point_text": "Regeneration necessary to", "verse_ref": "John 3:3", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Final perseverance necessary to", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:22", "verse_text": "And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Great", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:3", "verse_text": "How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;" }, { "point_text": "Glorious", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:10", "verse_text": "Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory." }, { "point_text": "Common", "verse_ref": "Jude 3", "verse_text": "Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints." }, { "point_text": "From generation to generation", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 51:8", "verse_text": "For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation." }, { "point_text": "To the uttermost", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:25", "verse_text": "Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them." }, { "point_text": "Eternal", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:17", "verse_text": "But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end." }, { "point_text": "Eternal", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 51:6", "verse_text": "Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished." }, { "point_text": "Eternal", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 5:9", "verse_text": "And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;" }, { "point_text": "Searched into and exhibited by the prophets", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:10", "verse_text": "Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:" }, { "point_text": "The gospel is the power of God unto", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:16", "verse_text": "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek." }, { "point_text": "The gospel is the power of God unto", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:18", "verse_text": "For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God." }, { "point_text": "Preaching the word is the appointed means of", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:21", "verse_text": "For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe." }, { "point_text": "The Scriptures are able to make wise unto", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:15", "verse_text": "And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "The Scriptures are able to make wise unto", "verse_ref": "James 1:21", "verse_text": "Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls." }, { "point_text": "Now is the day of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:8", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;" }, { "point_text": "Now is the day of", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:2", "verse_text": "(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)" }, { "point_text": "From sin, to be worked out with fear and trembling", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:12", "verse_text": "Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Chosen to", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:13", "verse_text": "But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:" }, { "point_text": "Chosen to", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:9", "verse_text": "Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began," }, { "point_text": "Appointed to obtain", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:9", "verse_text": "For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ," }, { "point_text": "Are heirs of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:14", "verse_text": "Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?" }, { "point_text": "Have, through grace", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:11", "verse_text": "But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they." }, { "point_text": "Have a token of, in their patient suffering for Christ", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:28-29", "verse_text": "And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God. 29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;" }, { "point_text": "Kept by the power of God unto", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:5", "verse_text": "Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time." }, { "point_text": "Beautified with", "verse_ref": "Psalm 149:4", "verse_text": "For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation." }, { "point_text": "Clothed with", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:10", "verse_text": "I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels." }, { "point_text": "Satisfied by", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:30", "verse_text": "For mine eyes have seen thy salvation," }, { "point_text": "Love", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:16", "verse_text": "Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified." }, { "point_text": "Hope for", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:26", "verse_text": "It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Hope for", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:24", "verse_text": "For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?" }, { "point_text": "Wait for", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:18", "verse_text": "I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD." }, { "point_text": "Wait for", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:26", "verse_text": "It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Long for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:81", "verse_text": "CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word." }, { "point_text": "Long for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:174", "verse_text": "I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight." }, { "point_text": "Earnestly look for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:123", "verse_text": "Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Daily approach nearer to", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:11", "verse_text": "And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed." }, { "point_text": "Receive, as the end of their faith", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:9", "verse_text": "Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls." }, { "point_text": "Welcome the tidings of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 52:7", "verse_text": "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!" }, { "point_text": "Welcome the tidings of", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:15", "verse_text": "And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!" }, { "point_text": "Pray to be visited with", "verse_ref": "Psalm 85:7", "verse_text": "Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation." }, { "point_text": "Pray to be visited with", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:4", "verse_text": "Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;" }, { "point_text": "Pray to be visited with", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:41", "verse_text": "VAU. Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word." }, { "point_text": "Pray for assurance of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 35:3", "verse_text": "Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation." }, { "point_text": "Pray for a joyful sense of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:12", "verse_text": "Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit." }, { "point_text": "Evidence, by works", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:9-10", "verse_text": "But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. 10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister." }, { "point_text": "Ascribe, to God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 25:5", "verse_text": "Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day." }, { "point_text": "Ascribe, to God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 12:2", "verse_text": "Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation." }, { "point_text": "Praise God for", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:23", "verse_text": "Sing unto the LORD, all the earth; shew forth from day to day his salvation." }, { "point_text": "Praise God for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 96:2", "verse_text": "Sing unto the LORD, bless his name; shew forth his salvation from day to day." }, { "point_text": "Commemorate, with thanks", "verse_ref": "Psalm 116:12", "verse_text": "What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me?" }, { "point_text": "Rejoice in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 9:14", "verse_text": "That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation." }, { "point_text": "Rejoice in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 21:1", "verse_text": "The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!" }, { "point_text": "Rejoice in", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 25:9", "verse_text": "And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation." }, { "point_text": "Glory in", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:31", "verse_text": "That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Glory in", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:14", "verse_text": "But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world." }, { "point_text": "Declare", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:10", "verse_text": "I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation." }, { "point_text": "Declare", "verse_ref": "Psalm 71:15", "verse_text": "My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof." }, { "point_text": "Godly sorrow worketh repentance unto", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 7:10", "verse_text": "For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death." }, { "point_text": "All the earth shall see", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 52:10", "verse_text": "The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God." }, { "point_text": "All the earth shall see", "verse_ref": "Luke 3:6", "verse_text": "And all flesh shall see the salvation of God." }, { "point_text": "MINISTERS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Give the knowledge of", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:77", "verse_text": "To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins," }, { "point_text": "Show the way of", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:17", "verse_text": "The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation." }, { "point_text": "Should exhort to", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 3:18-19", "verse_text": "When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. 19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul." }, { "point_text": "Should labor to lead others to", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:14", "verse_text": "If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them." }, { "point_text": "Should be clothed in", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 6:41", "verse_text": "Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness." }, { "point_text": "Should be clothed in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 132:16", "verse_text": "I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy." }, { "point_text": "Should use self-denial to lead others to", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:22", "verse_text": "To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some." }, { "point_text": "Should endure suffering that the elect may obtain", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:10", "verse_text": "Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory." }, { "point_text": "Are a sweet savor of Christ unto God, in those who obtain", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 2:15", "verse_text": "For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:" }, { "point_text": "The heavenly host ascribe, to God", "verse_ref": "Revelation 7:10", "verse_text": "And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb." }, { "point_text": "The heavenly host ascribe, to God", "verse_ref": "Revelation 19:1", "verse_text": "And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:" }, { "point_text": "SOUGHT IN VAIN FROM", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Idols", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:20", "verse_text": "Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save." }, { "point_text": "Idols", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:28", "verse_text": "But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah." }, { "point_text": "Earthly power", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:23", "verse_text": "Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel." }, { "point_text": "No escape for those who neglect", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:3", "verse_text": "How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;" }, { "point_text": "Is far off from the wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:155", "verse_text": "Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes." }, { "point_text": "Is far off from the wicked", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:11", "verse_text": "We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "A rock", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:15", "verse_text": "But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation." }, { "point_text": "A rock", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 22:47", "verse_text": "The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation." }, { "point_text": "A rock", "verse_ref": "Psalm 95:1", "verse_text": "O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation." }, { "point_text": "A horn", "verse_ref": "Psalm 18:2", "verse_text": "The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower." }, { "point_text": "A horn", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:69", "verse_text": "And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;" }, { "point_text": "A tower", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 22:51", "verse_text": "He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore." }, { "point_text": "A helmet", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:17", "verse_text": "For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke." }, { "point_text": "A helmet", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:17", "verse_text": "And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:" }, { "point_text": "A shield", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 22:36", "verse_text": "Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great." }, { "point_text": "A lamp", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 62:1", "verse_text": "For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth." }, { "point_text": "A cup", "verse_ref": "Psalm 116:13", "verse_text": "I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Clothing", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 6:41", "verse_text": "Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness." }, { "point_text": "Clothing", "verse_ref": "Psalm 132:16", "verse_text": "I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy." }, { "point_text": "Clothing", "verse_ref": "Psalm 149:4", "verse_text": "For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation." }, { "point_text": "Clothing", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:10", "verse_text": "I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels." }, { "point_text": "Wells", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 12:3", "verse_text": "Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation." }, { "point_text": "Walls and bulwarks", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:1", "verse_text": "In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks." }, { "point_text": "Walls and bulwarks", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:18", "verse_text": "Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise." }, { "point_text": "Chariots", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 3:8", "verse_text": "Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?" }, { "point_text": "A victory", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:57", "verse_text": "But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:4-9", "verse_text": "And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way. 5 And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread. 6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. 7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. ..." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "John 3:14-15", "verse_text": "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." } ] }, { "name": "Scorning and Mocking", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Scorning-and-Mocking.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The sufferings of Christ by, predicted", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:6-8", "verse_text": "But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. 7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, 8 He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him." }, { "point_text": "The sufferings of Christ by, predicted", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:3", "verse_text": "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not." }, { "point_text": "The sufferings of Christ by, predicted", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:32", "verse_text": "For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on:" }, { "point_text": "Christ endured", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:24", "verse_text": "He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn." }, { "point_text": "Christ endured", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:29", "verse_text": "And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!" }, { "point_text": "SAINTS ENDURE, ON ACCOUNT OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Being children of God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:9", "verse_text": "And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking." }, { "point_text": "Being children of God", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:29", "verse_text": "But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now." }, { "point_text": "Their uprightness", "verse_ref": "Job 12:4", "verse_text": "I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn." }, { "point_text": "Their faith", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:36", "verse_text": "And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:" }, { "point_text": "Their faithfulness in declaring the word of God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 20:7-8", "verse_text": "O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me. 8 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily." }, { "point_text": "Their zeal for God's house", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 2:19", "verse_text": "But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?" }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED INDULGE IN, AGAINST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The second coming of Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:3-4", "verse_text": "Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation." }, { "point_text": "The gifts of the Spirit", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:13", "verse_text": "Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine." }, { "point_text": "God's threatening", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:19", "verse_text": "That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!" }, { "point_text": "God's threatening", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:15", "verse_text": "Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now." }, { "point_text": "God's ministers", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:16", "verse_text": "But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy." }, { "point_text": "God's ordinances", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 1:7", "verse_text": "Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths." }, { "point_text": "Saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 123:4", "verse_text": "Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud." }, { "point_text": "Saints", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:14", "verse_text": "I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day." }, { "point_text": "Saints", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:63", "verse_text": "Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick." }, { "point_text": "The resurrection of the dead", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:32", "verse_text": "And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter." }, { "point_text": "All solemn admonitions", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 30:6-10", "verse_text": "So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria. 7 And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see. 8 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you. 9 For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him. ..." }, { "point_text": "Idolaters addicted to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:3-6", "verse_text": "But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore. 4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood, 5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? 6 Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?" }, { "point_text": "Drunkards addicted to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:12", "verse_text": "They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards." }, { "point_text": "Drunkards addicted to", "verse_ref": "Hosea 7:5", "verse_text": "In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners." }, { "point_text": "THOSE WHO ARE ADDICTED TO,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Delight in", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:22", "verse_text": "How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?" }, { "point_text": "Are contentious", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:10", "verse_text": "Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease." }, { "point_text": "Are scorned by God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:34", "verse_text": "Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly." }, { "point_text": "Are hated by men", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 24:9", "verse_text": "The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men." }, { "point_text": "Are avoided by saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 1:1", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful." }, { "point_text": "Are avoided by saints", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 15:17", "verse_text": "I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation." }, { "point_text": "Walk after their own lusts", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:3", "verse_text": "Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts," }, { "point_text": "Are proud and haughty", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:24", "verse_text": "Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath." }, { "point_text": "Hear not rebuke", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 13:1", "verse_text": "A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke." }, { "point_text": "Love not those who reprove", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:12", "verse_text": "A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise." }, { "point_text": "Hate those who reprove", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 9:8", "verse_text": "Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee." }, { "point_text": "Go not to the wise", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:12", "verse_text": "A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise." }, { "point_text": "Bring others into danger", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 29:8", "verse_text": "Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath." }, { "point_text": "Shall themselves endure", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 23:32", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much." }, { "point_text": "Characteristic of the latter days", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:3", "verse_text": "Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts," }, { "point_text": "Characteristic of the latter days", "verse_ref": "Jude 18", "verse_text": "How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts." }, { "point_text": "Woe denounced against", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:18-19", "verse_text": "Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: 19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!" }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:17", "verse_text": "Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:29", "verse_text": "Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 29:20", "verse_text": "For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:" }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:64-66", "verse_text": "Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. 65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. 66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIshmael, \nChildren at Bethel, \nEphraim and Manasseh, \nChiefs of Judah, \nSanballat, \nEnemies of Job, \n\nEnemies of David, \nRulers of Israel, \nAmmonites, \nTyrians, \nHeathen, \nSoldiers, \n\nChief Priests, &c. \nPharisees, \nThe men who held Jesus, \nHerod, &c. \nPeople and rulers, \nSome of the multitude, \nAthenians,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:9", "verse_text": "And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIshmael, \nChildren at Bethel, \nEphraim and Manasseh, \nChiefs of Judah, \nSanballat, \nEnemies of Job, \n\nEnemies of David, \nRulers of Israel, \nAmmonites, \nTyrians, \nHeathen, \nSoldiers, \n\nChief Priests, &c. \nPharisees, \nThe men who held Jesus, \nHerod, &c. \nPeople and rulers, \nSome of the multitude, \nAthenians,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 2:23", "verse_text": "And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIshmael, \nChildren at Bethel, \nEphraim and Manasseh, \nChiefs of Judah, \nSanballat, \nEnemies of Job, \n\nEnemies of David, \nRulers of Israel, \nAmmonites, \nTyrians, \nHeathen, \nSoldiers, \n\nChief Priests, &c. \nPharisees, \nThe men who held Jesus, \nHerod, &c. \nPeople and rulers, \nSome of the multitude, \nAthenians,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 30:10", "verse_text": "So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIshmael, \nChildren at Bethel, \nEphraim and Manasseh, \nChiefs of Judah, \nSanballat, \nEnemies of Job, \n\nEnemies of David, \nRulers of Israel, \nAmmonites, \nTyrians, \nHeathen, \nSoldiers, \n\nChief Priests, &c. \nPharisees, \nThe men who held Jesus, \nHerod, &c. \nPeople and rulers, \nSome of the multitude, \nAthenians,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:16", "verse_text": "But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIshmael, \nChildren at Bethel, \nEphraim and Manasseh, \nChiefs of Judah, \nSanballat, \nEnemies of Job, \n\nEnemies of David, \nRulers of Israel, \nAmmonites, \nTyrians, \nHeathen, \nSoldiers, \n\nChief Priests, &c. \nPharisees, \nThe men who held Jesus, \nHerod, &c. \nPeople and rulers, \nSome of the multitude, \nAthenians,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 4:1", "verse_text": "But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIshmael, \nChildren at Bethel, \nEphraim and Manasseh, \nChiefs of Judah, \nSanballat, \nEnemies of Job, \n\nEnemies of David, \nRulers of Israel, \nAmmonites, \nTyrians, \nHeathen, \nSoldiers, \n\nChief Priests, &c. \nPharisees, \nThe men who held Jesus, \nHerod, &c. \nPeople and rulers, \nSome of the multitude, \nAthenians,", "verse_ref": "Job 30:1", "verse_text": "But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIshmael, \nChildren at Bethel, \nEphraim and Manasseh, \nChiefs of Judah, \nSanballat, \nEnemies of Job, \n\nEnemies of David, \nRulers of Israel, \nAmmonites, \nTyrians, \nHeathen, \nSoldiers, \n\nChief Priests, &c. \nPharisees, \nThe men who held Jesus, \nHerod, &c. \nPeople and rulers, \nSome of the multitude, \nAthenians,", "verse_ref": "Job 30:9", "verse_text": "And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIshmael, \nChildren at Bethel, \nEphraim and Manasseh, \nChiefs of Judah, \nSanballat, \nEnemies of Job, \n\nEnemies of David, \nRulers of Israel, \nAmmonites, \nTyrians, \nHeathen, \nSoldiers, \n\nChief Priests, &c. \nPharisees, \nThe men who held Jesus, \nHerod, &c. \nPeople and rulers, \nSome of the multitude, \nAthenians,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 35:15-16", "verse_text": "But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not: 16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIshmael, \nChildren at Bethel, \nEphraim and Manasseh, \nChiefs of Judah, \nSanballat, \nEnemies of Job, \n\nEnemies of David, \nRulers of Israel, \nAmmonites, \nTyrians, \nHeathen, \nSoldiers, \n\nChief Priests, &c. \nPharisees, \nThe men who held Jesus, \nHerod, &c. \nPeople and rulers, \nSome of the multitude, \nAthenians,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:14", "verse_text": "Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIshmael, \nChildren at Bethel, \nEphraim and Manasseh, \nChiefs of Judah, \nSanballat, \nEnemies of Job, \n\nEnemies of David, \nRulers of Israel, \nAmmonites, \nTyrians, \nHeathen, \nSoldiers, \n\nChief Priests, &c. \nPharisees, \nThe men who held Jesus, \nHerod, &c. \nPeople and rulers, \nSome of the multitude, \nAthenians,", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 25:3", "verse_text": "And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIshmael, \nChildren at Bethel, \nEphraim and Manasseh, \nChiefs of Judah, \nSanballat, \nEnemies of Job, \n\nEnemies of David, \nRulers of Israel, \nAmmonites, \nTyrians, \nHeathen, \nSoldiers, \n\nChief Priests, &c. \nPharisees, \nThe men who held Jesus, \nHerod, &c. \nPeople and rulers, \nSome of the multitude, \nAthenians,", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:2", "verse_text": "Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIshmael, \nChildren at Bethel, \nEphraim and Manasseh, \nChiefs of Judah, \nSanballat, \nEnemies of Job, \n\nEnemies of David, \nRulers of Israel, \nAmmonites, \nTyrians, \nHeathen, \nSoldiers, \n\nChief Priests, &c. \nPharisees, \nThe men who held Jesus, \nHerod, &c. \nPeople and rulers, \nSome of the multitude, \nAthenians,", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 36:2-3", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession: 3 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIshmael, \nChildren at Bethel, \nEphraim and Manasseh, \nChiefs of Judah, \nSanballat, \nEnemies of Job, \n\nEnemies of David, \nRulers of Israel, \nAmmonites, \nTyrians, \nHeathen, \nSoldiers, \n\nChief Priests, &c. \nPharisees, \nThe men who held Jesus, \nHerod, &c. \nPeople and rulers, \nSome of the multitude, \nAthenians,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:28-30", "verse_text": "And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe. 29 And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews! 30 And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIshmael, \nChildren at Bethel, \nEphraim and Manasseh, \nChiefs of Judah, \nSanballat, \nEnemies of Job, \n\nEnemies of David, \nRulers of Israel, \nAmmonites, \nTyrians, \nHeathen, \nSoldiers, \n\nChief Priests, &c. \nPharisees, \nThe men who held Jesus, \nHerod, &c. \nPeople and rulers, \nSome of the multitude, \nAthenians,", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:36", "verse_text": "And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIshmael, \nChildren at Bethel, \nEphraim and Manasseh, \nChiefs of Judah, \nSanballat, \nEnemies of Job, \n\nEnemies of David, \nRulers of Israel, \nAmmonites, \nTyrians, \nHeathen, \nSoldiers, \n\nChief Priests, &c. \nPharisees, \nThe men who held Jesus, \nHerod, &c. \nPeople and rulers, \nSome of the multitude, \nAthenians,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:41", "verse_text": "Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIshmael, \nChildren at Bethel, \nEphraim and Manasseh, \nChiefs of Judah, \nSanballat, \nEnemies of Job, \n\nEnemies of David, \nRulers of Israel, \nAmmonites, \nTyrians, \nHeathen, \nSoldiers, \n\nChief Priests, &c. \nPharisees, \nThe men who held Jesus, \nHerod, &c. \nPeople and rulers, \nSome of the multitude, \nAthenians,", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:14", "verse_text": "And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIshmael, \nChildren at Bethel, \nEphraim and Manasseh, \nChiefs of Judah, \nSanballat, \nEnemies of Job, \n\nEnemies of David, \nRulers of Israel, \nAmmonites, \nTyrians, \nHeathen, \nSoldiers, \n\nChief Priests, &c. \nPharisees, \nThe men who held Jesus, \nHerod, &c. \nPeople and rulers, \nSome of the multitude, \nAthenians,", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:63-64", "verse_text": "And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him. 64 And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIshmael, \nChildren at Bethel, \nEphraim and Manasseh, \nChiefs of Judah, \nSanballat, \nEnemies of Job, \n\nEnemies of David, \nRulers of Israel, \nAmmonites, \nTyrians, \nHeathen, \nSoldiers, \n\nChief Priests, &c. \nPharisees, \nThe men who held Jesus, \nHerod, &c. \nPeople and rulers, \nSome of the multitude, \nAthenians,", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:11", "verse_text": "And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIshmael, \nChildren at Bethel, \nEphraim and Manasseh, \nChiefs of Judah, \nSanballat, \nEnemies of Job, \n\nEnemies of David, \nRulers of Israel, \nAmmonites, \nTyrians, \nHeathen, \nSoldiers, \n\nChief Priests, &c. \nPharisees, \nThe men who held Jesus, \nHerod, &c. \nPeople and rulers, \nSome of the multitude, \nAthenians,", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:35", "verse_text": "And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIshmael, \nChildren at Bethel, \nEphraim and Manasseh, \nChiefs of Judah, \nSanballat, \nEnemies of Job, \n\nEnemies of David, \nRulers of Israel, \nAmmonites, \nTyrians, \nHeathen, \nSoldiers, \n\nChief Priests, &c. \nPharisees, \nThe men who held Jesus, \nHerod, &c. \nPeople and rulers, \nSome of the multitude, \nAthenians,", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:13", "verse_text": "Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nIshmael, \nChildren at Bethel, \nEphraim and Manasseh, \nChiefs of Judah, \nSanballat, \nEnemies of Job, \n\nEnemies of David, \nRulers of Israel, \nAmmonites, \nTyrians, \nHeathen, \nSoldiers, \n\nChief Priests, &c. \nPharisees, \nThe men who held Jesus, \nHerod, &c. \nPeople and rulers, \nSome of the multitude, \nAthenians,", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:32", "verse_text": "And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter." } ] }, { "name": "Scorpion, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Scorpion-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Armed with a sharp sting in its tail", "verse_ref": "Revelation 9:10", "verse_text": "And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months." }, { "point_text": "Sting of, venomous and caused torment", "verse_ref": "Revelation 9:5", "verse_text": "And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man." }, { "point_text": "Abounded in the great desert", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:15", "verse_text": "Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;" }, { "point_text": "Unfit for food", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:12", "verse_text": "Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?" }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Wicked men", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 2:6", "verse_text": "And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house." }, { "point_text": "Ministers of Antichrist", "verse_ref": "Revelation 9:3", "verse_text": "And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power." }, { "point_text": "Ministers of Antichrist", "verse_ref": "Revelation 9:5", "verse_text": "And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man." }, { "point_text": "Ministers of Antichrist", "verse_ref": "Revelation 9:10", "verse_text": "And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months." }, { "point_text": "Severe scourges", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:11", "verse_text": "And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions." }, { "point_text": "Christ gave His disciples power over", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:19", "verse_text": "Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you." }, { "point_text": "Armed with a sharp sting in its tail", "verse_ref": "Revelation 9:10", "verse_text": "And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months." }, { "point_text": "Sting of, venomous and caused torment", "verse_ref": "Revelation 9:5", "verse_text": "And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man." }, { "point_text": "Abounded in the great desert", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:15", "verse_text": "Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;" }, { "point_text": "Unfit for food", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:12", "verse_text": "Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?" }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Wicked men", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 2:6", "verse_text": "And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house." }, { "point_text": "Ministers of Antichrist", "verse_ref": "Revelation 9:3", "verse_text": "And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power." }, { "point_text": "Ministers of Antichrist", "verse_ref": "Revelation 9:5", "verse_text": "And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man." }, { "point_text": "Ministers of Antichrist", "verse_ref": "Revelation 9:10", "verse_text": "And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months." }, { "point_text": "Severe scourges", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:11", "verse_text": "And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions." }, { "point_text": "Christ gave His disciples power over", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:19", "verse_text": "Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you." } ] }, { "name": "Scribes", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Scribes.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:14", "verse_text": "Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer." }, { "point_text": "Wore an inkhorn at their girdles", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 9:2-3", "verse_text": "And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar. 3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side;" }, { "point_text": "FAMILIES CELEBRATED FOR FURNISHING;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Kenites", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 2:55", "verse_text": "And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab." }, { "point_text": "Zebulun", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:14", "verse_text": "Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer." }, { "point_text": "Levi", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 24:6", "verse_text": "And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar." }, { "point_text": "Levi", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 34:13", "verse_text": "Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters." }, { "point_text": "Generally men of great wisdom", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:32", "verse_text": "Also Jonathan David's uncle was a counseller, a wise man, and a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king's sons:" }, { "point_text": "Often learned in the law", "verse_ref": "Ezra 7:6", "verse_text": "This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him." }, { "point_text": "Were ready writers", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:1", "verse_text": "My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer." }, { "point_text": "ACTED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Secretaries to kings", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:17", "verse_text": "And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Seraiah was the scribe;" }, { "point_text": "Secretaries to kings", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 20:25", "verse_text": "And Sheva was scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:" }, { "point_text": "Secretaries to kings", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 12:10", "verse_text": "And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Secretaries to kings", "verse_ref": "Esther 3:12", "verse_text": "Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring." }, { "point_text": "Secretaries to prophets", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 36:4", "verse_text": "Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book." }, { "point_text": "Secretaries to prophets", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 36:26", "verse_text": "But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them." }, { "point_text": "Notaries in courts of justice", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 32:11-12", "verse_text": "So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open: 12 And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison." }, { "point_text": "Religious teachers", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:2-6", "verse_text": "And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month. 3 And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law. 4 And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam. 5 And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up: ..." }, { "point_text": "Writers of public documents", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 24:6", "verse_text": "And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar." }, { "point_text": "Keepers of the muster-rolls of the host", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:19", "verse_text": "And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the city:" }, { "point_text": "Keepers of the muster-rolls of the host", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:11", "verse_text": "Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's captains." }, { "point_text": "Keepers of the muster-rolls of the host", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 52:25", "verse_text": "He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king's person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city." }, { "point_text": "MODERN,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Were doctors of the law", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:28", "verse_text": "And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?" }, { "point_text": "Were doctors of the law", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:35", "verse_text": "Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying," }, { "point_text": "Wore long robes and loved pre-eminence", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:38-39", "verse_text": "And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces, 39 And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts:" }, { "point_text": "Sat in Moses' seat", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:2", "verse_text": "Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:" }, { "point_text": "Were frequently Pharisees", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:9", "verse_text": "And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees' part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God." }, { "point_text": "Esteemed wise and learned", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:20", "verse_text": "Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?" }, { "point_text": "Regarded as interpreters of Scripture", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:4", "verse_text": "And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born." }, { "point_text": "Regarded as interpreters of Scripture", "verse_ref": "Matthew 17:10", "verse_text": "And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?" }, { "point_text": "Regarded as interpreters of Scripture", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:35", "verse_text": "And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the Son of David?" }, { "point_text": "Their manner of teaching contrasting with that of Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:29", "verse_text": "For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes." }, { "point_text": "Their manner of teaching contrasting with that of Christ", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:22", "verse_text": "And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes." }, { "point_text": "Condemned by Christ for hypocrisy", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:15", "verse_text": "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves." }, { "point_text": "Often offended at out Lord's conduct and teaching", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:15", "verse_text": "And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; they were sore displeased," }, { "point_text": "Often offended at out Lord's conduct and teaching", "verse_ref": "Mark 2:6-7", "verse_text": "But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, 7 Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?" }, { "point_text": "Often offended at out Lord's conduct and teaching", "verse_ref": "Mark 3:22", "verse_text": "And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils." }, { "point_text": "Tempted our Lord", "verse_ref": "John 8:3", "verse_text": "And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst," }, { "point_text": "Active in procuring our Lord's death", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:3", "verse_text": "Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas," }, { "point_text": "Active in procuring our Lord's death", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:10", "verse_text": "And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused him." }, { "point_text": "Persecuted the early Christians", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:5", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes," }, { "point_text": "Persecuted the early Christians", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:18", "verse_text": "And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Persecuted the early Christians", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:12", "verse_text": "And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council," }, { "point_text": "Illustrated of well-instructed ministers of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:52", "verse_text": "Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old." } ] }, { "name": "Scriptures, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Scriptures-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Given by inspiration of God", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:16", "verse_text": "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:" }, { "point_text": "Given by inspiration of the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:16", "verse_text": "Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Given by inspiration of the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:7", "verse_text": "Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice," }, { "point_text": "Given by inspiration of the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:21", "verse_text": "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Christ sanctioned, by appealing to them", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:4", "verse_text": "But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." }, { "point_text": "Christ sanctioned, by appealing to them", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:10", "verse_text": "And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:" }, { "point_text": "Christ sanctioned, by appealing to them", "verse_ref": "John 7:42", "verse_text": "Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?" }, { "point_text": "Christ taught out of", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:27", "verse_text": "And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself." }, { "point_text": "ARE CALLED THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Word", "verse_ref": "James 1:21-23", "verse_text": "Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. 22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:" }, { "point_text": "Word", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:2", "verse_text": "As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:" }, { "point_text": "Word of God", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:28", "verse_text": "But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it." }, { "point_text": "Word of God", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:12", "verse_text": "For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." }, { "point_text": "Word of Christ", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:16", "verse_text": "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Word of truth", "verse_ref": "James 1:18", "verse_text": "Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures." }, { "point_text": "Holy Scriptures", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:2", "verse_text": "(Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)" }, { "point_text": "Holy Scriptures", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:15", "verse_text": "And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Scripture of truth", "verse_ref": "Daniel 10:21", "verse_text": "But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince." }, { "point_text": "Book", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:7", "verse_text": "Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me," }, { "point_text": "Book", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:19", "verse_text": "And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book." }, { "point_text": "Book of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 34:16", "verse_text": "Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them." }, { "point_text": "Book of the law", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:3", "verse_text": "And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law." }, { "point_text": "Book of the law", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:10", "verse_text": "For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them." }, { "point_text": "Law of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Psalm 1:2", "verse_text": "But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night." }, { "point_text": "Law of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:9", "verse_text": "That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Sword of the Spirit", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:17", "verse_text": "And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:" }, { "point_text": "Oracles of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:2", "verse_text": "Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God." }, { "point_text": "Oracles of God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:11", "verse_text": "If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Contain the promises of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:2", "verse_text": "(Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)" }, { "point_text": "Reveal the laws, statutes, and judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:5", "verse_text": "Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it." }, { "point_text": "Reveal the laws, statutes, and judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:14", "verse_text": "And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it." }, { "point_text": "Record divine prophecies", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:19-21", "verse_text": "We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: 20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. 21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Testify of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 5:39", "verse_text": "Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me." }, { "point_text": "Testify of Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:43", "verse_text": "To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins." }, { "point_text": "Testify of Christ", "verse_ref": "Acts 18:28", "verse_text": "For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ." }, { "point_text": "Testify of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:3", "verse_text": "For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;" }, { "point_text": "Are full and sufficient", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:29", "verse_text": "Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them." }, { "point_text": "Are full and sufficient", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:31", "verse_text": "And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead." }, { "point_text": "Are an unerring guide", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:23", "verse_text": "For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:" }, { "point_text": "Are an unerring guide", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:19", "verse_text": "We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:" }, { "point_text": "Are able to make wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:15", "verse_text": "And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Are profitable both for doctrine and practice", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:16-17", "verse_text": "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Pure", "verse_ref": "Psalm 12:6", "verse_text": "The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times." }, { "point_text": "Pure", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:140", "verse_text": "Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it." }, { "point_text": "Pure", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:5", "verse_text": "Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him." }, { "point_text": "True", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:160", "verse_text": "Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever." }, { "point_text": "True", "verse_ref": "John 17:17", "verse_text": "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth." }, { "point_text": "Perfect", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:7", "verse_text": "The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple." }, { "point_text": "Precious", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:10", "verse_text": "More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb." }, { "point_text": "Quick and powerful", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:12", "verse_text": "For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." }, { "point_text": "Written for our instruction", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:4", "verse_text": "For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope." }, { "point_text": "Intended for the use of all men", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:26", "verse_text": "But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:" }, { "point_text": "Nothing to be taken from, or added to", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:2", "verse_text": "Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you." }, { "point_text": "Nothing to be taken from, or added to", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:32", "verse_text": "What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it." }, { "point_text": "One portion of, to be compared with another", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:13", "verse_text": "Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual." }, { "point_text": "DESIGNED FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Regenerating", "verse_ref": "James 1:18", "verse_text": "Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures." }, { "point_text": "Regenerating", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:23", "verse_text": "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever." }, { "point_text": "Quickening", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:50", "verse_text": "This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me." }, { "point_text": "Quickening", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:93", "verse_text": "I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me." }, { "point_text": "Illuminating", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:130", "verse_text": "The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple." }, { "point_text": "Converting the soul", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:7", "verse_text": "The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple." }, { "point_text": "Making wise the simple", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:7", "verse_text": "The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple." }, { "point_text": "Sanctifying", "verse_ref": "John 17:17", "verse_text": "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth." }, { "point_text": "Sanctifying", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:26", "verse_text": "That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word," }, { "point_text": "Producing faith", "verse_ref": "John 20:31", "verse_text": "But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name." }, { "point_text": "Producing hope", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:49", "verse_text": "ZAIN. Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope." }, { "point_text": "Producing hope", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:4", "verse_text": "For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope." }, { "point_text": "Producing obedience", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:19-20", "verse_text": "And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them: 20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Cleansing the heart", "verse_ref": "John 15:3", "verse_text": "Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you." }, { "point_text": "Cleansing the heart", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:26", "verse_text": "That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word," }, { "point_text": "Cleansing the ways", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:9", "verse_text": "BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word." }, { "point_text": "Keeping from destructive paths", "verse_ref": "Psalm 17:4", "verse_text": "Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer." }, { "point_text": "Supporting life", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:3", "verse_text": "And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live." }, { "point_text": "Supporting life", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:4", "verse_text": "But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." }, { "point_text": "Promoting growth in grace", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:2", "verse_text": "As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:" }, { "point_text": "Building up in the faith", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:32", "verse_text": "And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified." }, { "point_text": "Admonishing", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:11", "verse_text": "Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward." }, { "point_text": "Admonishing", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:11", "verse_text": "Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come." }, { "point_text": "Comforting", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:82", "verse_text": "Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?" }, { "point_text": "Comforting", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:4", "verse_text": "For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope." }, { "point_text": "Rejoicing the heart", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:8", "verse_text": "The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes." }, { "point_text": "Rejoicing the heart", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:111", "verse_text": "Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart." }, { "point_text": "Work effectually in them that believe", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:13", "verse_text": "For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe." }, { "point_text": "The letter of, without the spirit, killeth", "verse_ref": "John 6:63", "verse_text": "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." }, { "point_text": "The letter of, without the spirit, killeth", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 3:6", "verse_text": "Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life." }, { "point_text": "Ignorance of, a source of error", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:29", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God." }, { "point_text": "Ignorance of, a source of error", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:27", "verse_text": "For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him." }, { "point_text": "Christ enables us to understand", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:45", "verse_text": "Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures," }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost enables us to understand", "verse_ref": "John 16:13", "verse_text": "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come." }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost enables us to understand", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:10-14", "verse_text": "But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. ..." }, { "point_text": "No prophecy of, is of any private interpretation", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:20", "verse_text": "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation." }, { "point_text": "Everything should be tried by", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:20", "verse_text": "To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." }, { "point_text": "Everything should be tried by", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:11", "verse_text": "These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The standard of teaching", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:11", "verse_text": "If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Believed", "verse_ref": "John 2:22", "verse_text": "When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said." }, { "point_text": "Appealed to", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:31", "verse_text": "That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Appealed to", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:16", "verse_text": "Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy." }, { "point_text": "Read", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:19", "verse_text": "And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:" }, { "point_text": "Read", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 34:16", "verse_text": "Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them." }, { "point_text": "Read publicly to ALL", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 31:11-13", "verse_text": "When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12 Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law: 13 And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it." }, { "point_text": "Read publicly to ALL", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:3", "verse_text": "And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law." }, { "point_text": "Read publicly to ALL", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 36:6", "verse_text": "Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD'S house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities." }, { "point_text": "Read publicly to ALL", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:15", "verse_text": "And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on." }, { "point_text": "Known", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:15", "verse_text": "And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Received, not as the word of men, but as the word of God", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:13", "verse_text": "For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe." }, { "point_text": "Received with meekness", "verse_ref": "James 1:21", "verse_text": "Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls." }, { "point_text": "Searched", "verse_ref": "John 5:39", "verse_text": "Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me." }, { "point_text": "Searched", "verse_ref": "John 7:52", "verse_text": "They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet." }, { "point_text": "Searched daily", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:11", "verse_text": "These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so." }, { "point_text": "Laid up in the heart", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 6:6", "verse_text": "And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:" }, { "point_text": "Laid up in the heart", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:18", "verse_text": "Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes." }, { "point_text": "Taught to children", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 6:7", "verse_text": "And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." }, { "point_text": "Taught to children", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:19", "verse_text": "And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." }, { "point_text": "Taught to children", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:15", "verse_text": "And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Taught to ALL", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 17:7-9", "verse_text": "Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, even to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah. 8 And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests. 9 And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people." }, { "point_text": "Taught to ALL", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:7-8", "verse_text": "Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place. 8 So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading." }, { "point_text": "Talked of continually", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 6:7", "verse_text": "And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." }, { "point_text": "Not handled deceitfully", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:2", "verse_text": "But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God." }, { "point_text": "Not only heard, but obeyed", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:24", "verse_text": "Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:" }, { "point_text": "Not only heard, but obeyed", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:28", "verse_text": "But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it." }, { "point_text": "Not only heard, but obeyed", "verse_ref": "James 1:22", "verse_text": "But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves." }, { "point_text": "Used against our spiritual enemies", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:4", "verse_text": "But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." }, { "point_text": "Used against our spiritual enemies", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:7", "verse_text": "Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God." }, { "point_text": "Used against our spiritual enemies", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:10", "verse_text": "Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve." }, { "point_text": "All should desire to hear", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:1", "verse_text": "And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel." }, { "point_text": "Mere hearers of, deceive themselves", "verse_ref": "James 1:22", "verse_text": "But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves." }, { "point_text": "Advantage of possessing", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:2", "verse_text": "Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Love exceedingly", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:97", "verse_text": "MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day." }, { "point_text": "Love exceedingly", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:113", "verse_text": "SAMECH. I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love." }, { "point_text": "Love exceedingly", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:159", "verse_text": "Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness." }, { "point_text": "Love exceedingly", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:167", "verse_text": "My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly." }, { "point_text": "Delight in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 1:2", "verse_text": "But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night." }, { "point_text": "Regard, as sweet", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:103", "verse_text": "How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!" }, { "point_text": "Esteem, above all things", "verse_ref": "Job 23:12", "verse_text": "Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food." }, { "point_text": "Long after", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:82", "verse_text": "Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?" }, { "point_text": "Stand in awe of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:161", "verse_text": "SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word." }, { "point_text": "Stand in awe of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:2", "verse_text": "For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word." }, { "point_text": "Keep, in remembrance", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:16", "verse_text": "I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word." }, { "point_text": "Grieve when men disobey", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:158", "verse_text": "I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word." }, { "point_text": "Hide, in their hearts", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:11", "verse_text": "Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee." }, { "point_text": "Hope in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:74", "verse_text": "They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word." }, { "point_text": "Hope in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:81", "verse_text": "CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word." }, { "point_text": "Hope in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:147", "verse_text": "I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word." }, { "point_text": "Meditate in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 1:2", "verse_text": "But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night." }, { "point_text": "Meditate in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:99", "verse_text": "I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation." }, { "point_text": "Meditate in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:148", "verse_text": "Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word." }, { "point_text": "Rejoice in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:162", "verse_text": "I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil." }, { "point_text": "Rejoice in", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 15:16", "verse_text": "Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Trust in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:42", "verse_text": "So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word." }, { "point_text": "Obey", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:67", "verse_text": "Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word." }, { "point_text": "Obey", "verse_ref": "Luke 8:21", "verse_text": "And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it." }, { "point_text": "Obey", "verse_ref": "John 17:6", "verse_text": "I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word." }, { "point_text": "Speak of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:172", "verse_text": "My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Esteem, as a light", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:105", "verse_text": "NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." }, { "point_text": "Pray to be taught", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:12-13", "verse_text": "Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes. 13 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth." }, { "point_text": "Pray to be taught", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:33", "verse_text": "HE. Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end." }, { "point_text": "Pray to be taught", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:66", "verse_text": "Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments." }, { "point_text": "Pray to be conformed to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:133", "verse_text": "Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me." }, { "point_text": "Plead the promises of, in prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:25", "verse_text": "DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word." }, { "point_text": "Plead the promises of, in prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:28", "verse_text": "My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word." }, { "point_text": "Plead the promises of, in prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:41", "verse_text": "VAU. Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word." }, { "point_text": "Plead the promises of, in prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:76", "verse_text": "Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant." }, { "point_text": "Plead the promises of, in prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:169", "verse_text": "TAU. Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word." }, { "point_text": "They who search, are truly noble", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:11", "verse_text": "These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of hearing and obeying", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:28", "verse_text": "But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of hearing and obeying", "verse_ref": "James 1:25", "verse_text": "But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed." }, { "point_text": "Let them dwell richly in you", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:16", "verse_text": "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Corrupt", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 2:17", "verse_text": "For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ." }, { "point_text": "Make, of none effect through their traditions", "verse_ref": "Mark 7:9-13", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. 10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: 11 But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free. 12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother; ..." }, { "point_text": "Reject", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:9", "verse_text": "The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?" }, { "point_text": "Stumble at", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:8", "verse_text": "And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed." }, { "point_text": "Obey not", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:158", "verse_text": "I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word." }, { "point_text": "Frequently wrest, to their own destruction", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:16", "verse_text": "As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction." }, { "point_text": "Denunciations against those who add to, or take from", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:18-19", "verse_text": "For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of, punished", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 36:29-31", "verse_text": "And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast? 30 Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost. 31 And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not." } ] }, { "name": "Sea, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Sea-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The gathering together of the waters originally called", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:10", "verse_text": "And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good." }, { "point_text": "Great rivers often called", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:15", "verse_text": "And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod." }, { "point_text": "Great rivers often called", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:36", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry." }, { "point_text": "Lakes often called", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 3:17", "verse_text": "The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdothpisgah eastward." }, { "point_text": "Lakes often called", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:24", "verse_text": "And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep." }, { "point_text": "Lakes often called", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:27", "verse_text": "But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!" }, { "point_text": "Lakes often called", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:32", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters." }, { "point_text": "GOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Created", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:11", "verse_text": "For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it." }, { "point_text": "Created", "verse_ref": "Psalm 95:5", "verse_text": "The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land." }, { "point_text": "Created", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:15", "verse_text": "And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:" }, { "point_text": "Made the birds and fishes out of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:20-22", "verse_text": "And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth." }, { "point_text": "Founded the earth upon", "verse_ref": "Psalm 24:2", "verse_text": "For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods." }, { "point_text": "Set bounds to, by a perpetual decree", "verse_ref": "Job 26:10", "verse_text": "He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end." }, { "point_text": "Set bounds to, by a perpetual decree", "verse_ref": "Job 38:8", "verse_text": "Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?" }, { "point_text": "Set bounds to, by a perpetual decree", "verse_ref": "Job 38:10-11", "verse_text": "And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, 11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?" }, { "point_text": "Measures the waters of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:12", "verse_text": "Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?" }, { "point_text": "Does what He pleases in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 135:6", "verse_text": "Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places." }, { "point_text": "Dries up, by His rebuke", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 50:2", "verse_text": "Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst." }, { "point_text": "Dries up, by His rebuke", "verse_ref": "Nahum 1:4", "verse_text": "He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth." }, { "point_text": "Shakes, by His word", "verse_ref": "Haggai 2:6", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;" }, { "point_text": "Stills, by His power", "verse_ref": "Psalm 65:7", "verse_text": "Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people." }, { "point_text": "Stills, by His power", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:9", "verse_text": "Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them." }, { "point_text": "Stills, by His power", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:29", "verse_text": "He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still." }, { "point_text": "Of immense extent", "verse_ref": "Job 11:9", "verse_text": "The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea." }, { "point_text": "Of immense extent", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:25", "verse_text": "So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts." }, { "point_text": "Of great depth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:22", "verse_text": "The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:" }, { "point_text": "Rivers supplied by exhalations from", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 1:7", "verse_text": "All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again." }, { "point_text": "Replenished by rivers", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 1:7", "verse_text": "All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again." }, { "point_text": "Replenished by rivers", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 47:8", "verse_text": "Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed." }, { "point_text": "CALLED THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Deep", "verse_ref": "Job 41:31", "verse_text": "He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment." }, { "point_text": "Deep", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:24", "verse_text": "These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep." }, { "point_text": "Deep", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 11:25", "verse_text": "Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;" }, { "point_text": "Great waters", "verse_ref": "Psalm 77:19", "verse_text": "Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known." }, { "point_text": "Great and wide sea", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:25", "verse_text": "So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts." }, { "point_text": "The clouds the garment of", "verse_ref": "Job 38:9", "verse_text": "When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it," }, { "point_text": "Darkness the swaddling band of", "verse_ref": "Job 38:9", "verse_text": "When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it," }, { "point_text": "Sand the barrier of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:22", "verse_text": "Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?" }, { "point_text": "Inhabited by innumerable creatures great and small", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:25-26", "verse_text": "So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. 26 There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein." }, { "point_text": "The wonders of God seen in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:24", "verse_text": "These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep." }, { "point_text": "Made to glorify God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:34", "verse_text": "Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein." }, { "point_text": "Made to glorify God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:7", "verse_text": "Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:" }, { "point_text": "SEAS MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The Adriatic or sea of Adria", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:27", "verse_text": "But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country;" }, { "point_text": "Mediterranean or great sea", "verse_ref": "Numbers 34:6", "verse_text": "And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border." }, { "point_text": "Mediterranean or great sea", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:24", "verse_text": "Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be." }, { "point_text": "Mediterranean or great sea", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 34:2", "verse_text": "And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea," }, { "point_text": "Mediterranean or great sea", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 14:8", "verse_text": "And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be." }, { "point_text": "Red Sea", "verse_ref": "Exodus 10:19", "verse_text": "And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Red Sea", "verse_ref": "Exodus 13:18", "verse_text": "But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Red Sea", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:31", "verse_text": "And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee." }, { "point_text": "Sea of Joppa or sea of the Philistines", "verse_ref": "Ezra 3:7", "verse_text": "They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia." }, { "point_text": "Sea of Joppa or sea of the Philistines", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:21", "verse_text": "Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him." }, { "point_text": "Salt or Dead Sea", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:3", "verse_text": "All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea." }, { "point_text": "Salt or Dead Sea", "verse_ref": "Numbers 34:12", "verse_text": "And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about." }, { "point_text": "Sea of Galilee", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:18", "verse_text": "And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers." }, { "point_text": "Sea of Galilee", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:32", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters." }, { "point_text": "Sea of Galilee", "verse_ref": "John 6:1", "verse_text": "After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias." }, { "point_text": "Sea of Jazer", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:32", "verse_text": "O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage." }, { "point_text": "Raised by the wind", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:25-26", "verse_text": "For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. 26 They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble." }, { "point_text": "Caused to foam by Leviathan", "verse_ref": "Job 41:31-32", "verse_text": "He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment. 32 He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary." }, { "point_text": "THE WAVES OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Raised upon high", "verse_ref": "Psalm 93:3", "verse_text": "The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves." }, { "point_text": "Raised upon high", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:25", "verse_text": "For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof." }, { "point_text": "Tossed to and fro", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:22", "verse_text": "Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?" }, { "point_text": "Multitudinous", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:42", "verse_text": "The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof." }, { "point_text": "Mighty", "verse_ref": "Psalm 93:4", "verse_text": "The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea." }, { "point_text": "Mighty", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:41", "verse_text": "And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves." }, { "point_text": "Tumultuous", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:25", "verse_text": "And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;" }, { "point_text": "Tumultuous", "verse_ref": "Jude 13", "verse_text": "Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever." }, { "point_text": "The shore of, covered with sand", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:17", "verse_text": "That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;" }, { "point_text": "The shore of, covered with sand", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:29", "verse_text": "And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore." }, { "point_text": "The shore of, covered with sand", "verse_ref": "Job 6:3", "verse_text": "For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up." }, { "point_text": "The shore of, covered with sand", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:27", "verse_text": "He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:" }, { "point_text": "Numerous islands in", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:18", "verse_text": "Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure." }, { "point_text": "Passed over in ships", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:26", "verse_text": "There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein." }, { "point_text": "Passed over in ships", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:23", "verse_text": "They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;" }, { "point_text": "Sailing on, dangerous", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:9", "verse_text": "Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished them," }, { "point_text": "Sailing on, dangerous", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:20", "verse_text": "And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away." }, { "point_text": "Sailing on, dangerous", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 11:26", "verse_text": "In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;" }, { "point_text": "COMMERCIAL NATIONS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Often built cities on the borders of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:13", "verse_text": "Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon." }, { "point_text": "Often built cities on the borders of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:3", "verse_text": "And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty." }, { "point_text": "Often built cities on the borders of", "verse_ref": "Nahum 3:8", "verse_text": "Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?" }, { "point_text": "Derived great wealth from", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:19", "verse_text": "They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand." }, { "point_text": "Shall give up its dead at the last day", "verse_ref": "Revelation 20:13", "verse_text": "And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works." }, { "point_text": "The renewed earth shall be without", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:1", "verse_text": "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of heavy afflictions", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 43:2", "verse_text": "When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee." }, { "point_text": "Of heavy afflictions", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 2:13", "verse_text": "What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?" }, { "point_text": "(Trouble,) of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:20", "verse_text": "But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt." }, { "point_text": "(Roaring,) of hostile armies", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:30", "verse_text": "And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof." }, { "point_text": "(Roaring,) of hostile armies", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:23", "verse_text": "They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion." }, { "point_text": "(Waves of,) of righteousness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 48:18", "verse_text": "O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:" }, { "point_text": "(Waves of,) of devastating armies", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:3-4", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up. 4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock." }, { "point_text": "(Waves of,) of the unsteady", "verse_ref": "James 1:6", "verse_text": "But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed." }, { "point_text": "(Covered with waters,) of the diffusion of spiritual knowledge over the earth in the latter days", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:9", "verse_text": "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea." }, { "point_text": "(Covered with waters,) of the diffusion of spiritual knowledge over the earth in the latter days", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:14", "verse_text": "For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea." }, { "point_text": "(Smooth as glass,) of the peace of heaven", "verse_ref": "Revelation 4:6", "verse_text": "And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind." }, { "point_text": "(Smooth as glass,) of the peace of heaven", "verse_ref": "Revelation 15:2", "verse_text": "And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God." } ] }, { "name": "Sealing of the Holy Ghost", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Sealing-of-the-Holy-Ghost.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Christ received", "verse_ref": "John 6:27", "verse_text": "Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed." }, { "point_text": "Saints receive", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:22", "verse_text": "Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts." }, { "point_text": "Saints receive", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:13", "verse_text": "In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise," }, { "point_text": "Is unto the day of redemption", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:30", "verse_text": "And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption." }, { "point_text": "The wicked do not receive", "verse_ref": "Revelation 9:4", "verse_text": "And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads." }, { "point_text": "Judgment suspended until all saints receive", "verse_ref": "Revelation 7:3", "verse_text": "Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads." }, { "point_text": "Typified", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:11", "verse_text": "And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:" } ] }, { "name": "Second Coming of Christ, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Second-Coming-of-Christ-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Time of, unknown", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:36", "verse_text": "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." }, { "point_text": "Time of, unknown", "verse_ref": "Mark 13:32", "verse_text": "But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father." }, { "point_text": "CALLED THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:19", "verse_text": "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;" }, { "point_text": "Times of restitution of all things", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:21", "verse_text": "Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began." }, { "point_text": "Times of restitution of all things", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:21", "verse_text": "Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God." }, { "point_text": "Last time", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:5", "verse_text": "Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time." }, { "point_text": "Appearing of Jesus Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:7", "verse_text": "That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Revelation of Jesus Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:13", "verse_text": "Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;" }, { "point_text": "Glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:13", "verse_text": "Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;" }, { "point_text": "Coming of the day of God", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:12", "verse_text": "Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?" }, { "point_text": "Day of our Lord Jesus Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:8", "verse_text": "Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "FORETOLD BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Prophets", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:13", "verse_text": "I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him." }, { "point_text": "Prophets", "verse_ref": "Jude 14", "verse_text": "And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints," }, { "point_text": "Himself", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:31", "verse_text": "When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:" }, { "point_text": "Himself", "verse_ref": "John 14:3", "verse_text": "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." }, { "point_text": "Apostles", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:20", "verse_text": "And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:" }, { "point_text": "Apostles", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:14", "verse_text": "That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Angels", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:10-11", "verse_text": "And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; 11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven." }, { "point_text": "Signs preceding", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:3-51", "verse_text": "And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? 4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. 6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. ..." }, { "point_text": "THE MANNER OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In clouds", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:30", "verse_text": "And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory." }, { "point_text": "In clouds", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:64", "verse_text": "Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven." }, { "point_text": "In clouds", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:7", "verse_text": "Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen." }, { "point_text": "In the glory of His Father", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:27", "verse_text": "For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works." }, { "point_text": "In His own glory", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:31", "verse_text": "When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:" }, { "point_text": "In flaming fire", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:8", "verse_text": "In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "With power and great glory", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:30", "verse_text": "And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory." }, { "point_text": "As He ascended", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:9", "verse_text": "And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight." }, { "point_text": "As He ascended", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:11", "verse_text": "Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven." }, { "point_text": "With a shout and the voice of the Archangel, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:16", "verse_text": "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:" }, { "point_text": "Accompanied by Angels", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:27", "verse_text": "For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works." }, { "point_text": "Accompanied by Angels", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:31", "verse_text": "When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:" }, { "point_text": "Accompanied by Angels", "verse_ref": "Mark 8:38", "verse_text": "Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels." }, { "point_text": "Accompanied by Angels", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:7", "verse_text": "And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels," }, { "point_text": "With His saints", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 3:13", "verse_text": "To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints." }, { "point_text": "With His saints", "verse_ref": "Jude 14", "verse_text": "And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints," }, { "point_text": "Suddenly", "verse_ref": "Mark 13:36", "verse_text": "Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping." }, { "point_text": "Unexpectedly", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:44", "verse_text": "Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh." }, { "point_text": "Unexpectedly", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:40", "verse_text": "Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not." }, { "point_text": "As a thief in the night", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:2", "verse_text": "For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night." }, { "point_text": "As a thief in the night", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:10", "verse_text": "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up." }, { "point_text": "As a thief in the night", "verse_ref": "Revelation 16:15", "verse_text": "Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame." }, { "point_text": "As the lightning", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:27", "verse_text": "For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." }, { "point_text": "The heavens and earth shall be dissolved, &c. at", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:10", "verse_text": "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up." }, { "point_text": "The heavens and earth shall be dissolved, &c. at", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:12", "verse_text": "Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?" }, { "point_text": "They who shall have died in Christ shall rise first at", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:16", "verse_text": "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:" }, { "point_text": "The saints alive at, shall be caught up to meet Him", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:17", "verse_text": "Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Is not to make atonement", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:28", "verse_text": "So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation." }, { "point_text": "Is not to make atonement", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:9-10", "verse_text": "Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. 10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God." }, { "point_text": "THE PURPOSES OF, ARE TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Complete the salvation of saints", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:28", "verse_text": "So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation." }, { "point_text": "Complete the salvation of saints", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:5", "verse_text": "Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time." }, { "point_text": "Be glorified in His saints", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:10", "verse_text": "When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day." }, { "point_text": "Be admired in them that believe", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:10", "verse_text": "When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day." }, { "point_text": "Bring to light the hidden things of darkness, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 4:5", "verse_text": "Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God." }, { "point_text": "Judge", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:3-4", "verse_text": "Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. 4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people." }, { "point_text": "Reign", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 24:23", "verse_text": "Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously." }, { "point_text": "Reign", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:14", "verse_text": "And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed." }, { "point_text": "Reign", "verse_ref": "Revelation 11:15", "verse_text": "And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever." }, { "point_text": "Destroy death", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:25-26", "verse_text": "For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." }, { "point_text": "Every eye shall see Him at", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:7", "verse_text": "Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen." }, { "point_text": "Should be always considered as at hand", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:12", "verse_text": "The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light." }, { "point_text": "Should be always considered as at hand", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:5", "verse_text": "Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand." }, { "point_text": "Should be always considered as at hand", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:7", "verse_text": "But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of being prepared for", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:46", "verse_text": "Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of being prepared for", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:37-38", "verse_text": "Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. 38 And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Assured of", "verse_ref": "Job 19:25-26", "verse_text": "For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: 26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:" }, { "point_text": "Love", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:8", "verse_text": "Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing." }, { "point_text": "Look for", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:20", "verse_text": "For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Look for", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:13", "verse_text": "Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;" }, { "point_text": "Wait for", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:7", "verse_text": "So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Wait for", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 1:10", "verse_text": "And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come." }, { "point_text": "Haste unto", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:12", "verse_text": "Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?" }, { "point_text": "Pray for", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:20", "verse_text": "He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Should be ready for", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:44", "verse_text": "Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh." }, { "point_text": "Should be ready for", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:40", "verse_text": "Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not." }, { "point_text": "Should watch for", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:42", "verse_text": "Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come." }, { "point_text": "Should watch for", "verse_ref": "Mark 13:35-37", "verse_text": "Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: 36 Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. 37 And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch." }, { "point_text": "Should watch for", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:36", "verse_text": "Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man." }, { "point_text": "Should be patient unto", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 3:5", "verse_text": "And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ." }, { "point_text": "Should be patient unto", "verse_ref": "James 5:7-8", "verse_text": "Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. 8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh." }, { "point_text": "Shall be preserved unto", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:6", "verse_text": "Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Shall be preserved unto", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:18", "verse_text": "And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Shall be preserved unto", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:5", "verse_text": "Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time." }, { "point_text": "Shall be preserved unto", "verse_ref": "Jude 24", "verse_text": "Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy," }, { "point_text": "Shall not be ashamed at", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:28", "verse_text": "And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming." }, { "point_text": "Shall not be ashamed at", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:17", "verse_text": "Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world." }, { "point_text": "Shall be blameless at", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:8", "verse_text": "Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Shall be blameless at", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 3:13", "verse_text": "To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints." }, { "point_text": "Shall be blameless at", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:23", "verse_text": "And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Shall be blameless at", "verse_ref": "Jude 24", "verse_text": "Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy," }, { "point_text": "Shall be like Him at", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:21", "verse_text": "Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself." }, { "point_text": "Shall be like Him at", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:2", "verse_text": "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." }, { "point_text": "Shall see Him as he is, at", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:2", "verse_text": "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." }, { "point_text": "Shall appear with Him in glory at", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:4", "verse_text": "When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory." }, { "point_text": "Shall receive a crown of glory at", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:8", "verse_text": "Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing." }, { "point_text": "Shall receive a crown of glory at", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:4", "verse_text": "And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away." }, { "point_text": "Shall reign with Him at", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:27", "verse_text": "And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him." }, { "point_text": "Shall reign with Him at", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:12", "verse_text": "If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:" }, { "point_text": "Shall reign with Him at", "verse_ref": "Revelation 5:10", "verse_text": "And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth." }, { "point_text": "Shall reign with Him at", "verse_ref": "Revelation 20:6", "verse_text": "Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years." }, { "point_text": "Shall reign with Him at", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:5", "verse_text": "And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever." }, { "point_text": "Faith of, shall be found unto praise at", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:7", "verse_text": "That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Scoff at", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:3-4", "verse_text": "Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation." }, { "point_text": "Presume upon the delay of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:48", "verse_text": "But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;" }, { "point_text": "Shall be surprised by", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:37-39", "verse_text": "But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." }, { "point_text": "Shall be surprised by", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:3", "verse_text": "For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape." }, { "point_text": "Shall be surprised by", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:10", "verse_text": "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up." }, { "point_text": "Shall be punished at", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:8-9", "verse_text": "In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: 9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;" }, { "point_text": "The man of sin to be destroyed at", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:8", "verse_text": "And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:" }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:6", "verse_text": "And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:36", "verse_text": "And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:12", "verse_text": "He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:15", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that when he was returned, having received the kingdom, then he commanded these servants to be called unto him, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading." } ] }, { "name": "Seeking God", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Seeking-God.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 55:6", "verse_text": "Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:" }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:7", "verse_text": "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:" }, { "point_text": "INCLUDES SEEKING", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "His name", "verse_ref": "Psalm 83:16", "verse_text": "Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD." }, { "point_text": "His word", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 34:16", "verse_text": "Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them." }, { "point_text": "His face", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:8", "verse_text": "When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek." }, { "point_text": "His face", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:4", "verse_text": "Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore." }, { "point_text": "His strength", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:11", "verse_text": "Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually." }, { "point_text": "His strength", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:4", "verse_text": "Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore." }, { "point_text": "His commandments", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 28:8", "verse_text": "Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the LORD, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek for all the commandments of the LORD your God: that ye may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance for your children after you for ever." }, { "point_text": "His commandments", "verse_ref": "Malachi 2:7", "verse_text": "For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "His precepts", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:45", "verse_text": "And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts." }, { "point_text": "His precepts", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:94", "verse_text": "I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts." }, { "point_text": "His kingdom", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:33", "verse_text": "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." }, { "point_text": "His kingdom", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:31", "verse_text": "But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you." }, { "point_text": "His righteousness", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:33", "verse_text": "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "Malachi 3:1", "verse_text": "Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:15-16", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us. 16 And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger." }, { "point_text": "Honor which comes from Him", "verse_ref": "John 5:44", "verse_text": "How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?" }, { "point_text": "Justification by Christ", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:16-17", "verse_text": "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. 17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid." }, { "point_text": "The city which God has prepared", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:10", "verse_text": "For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God." }, { "point_text": "The city which God has prepared", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:14", "verse_text": "For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come." }, { "point_text": "By prayer", "verse_ref": "Job 8:5", "verse_text": "If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;" }, { "point_text": "By prayer", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:3", "verse_text": "And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:" }, { "point_text": "In His house", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:5", "verse_text": "But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:" }, { "point_text": "In His house", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:4", "verse_text": "One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Immediate", "verse_ref": "Hosea 10:12", "verse_text": "Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you." }, { "point_text": "Evermore", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:4", "verse_text": "Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore." }, { "point_text": "While He may be found", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 55:6", "verse_text": "Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:" }, { "point_text": "With diligence", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:6", "verse_text": "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." }, { "point_text": "With the heart", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:29", "verse_text": "But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul." }, { "point_text": "With the heart", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 22:19", "verse_text": "Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "In the day of trouble", "verse_ref": "Psalm 77:2", "verse_text": "In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted." }, { "point_text": "ENSURES", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "His being found", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:29", "verse_text": "But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul." }, { "point_text": "His being found", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 28:9", "verse_text": "And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever." }, { "point_text": "His being found", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 8:17", "verse_text": "I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me." }, { "point_text": "His being found", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 29:13", "verse_text": "And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart." }, { "point_text": "His favor", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:25", "verse_text": "The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him." }, { "point_text": "His protection", "verse_ref": "Ezra 8:22", "verse_text": "For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him." }, { "point_text": "His not forsaking us", "verse_ref": "Psalm 9:10", "verse_text": "And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee." }, { "point_text": "Life", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:32", "verse_text": "The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God." }, { "point_text": "Life", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:4", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:" }, { "point_text": "Life", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:6", "verse_text": "Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel." }, { "point_text": "Prosperity", "verse_ref": "Job 8:5-6", "verse_text": "If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; 6 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous." }, { "point_text": "Being heard of Him", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:4", "verse_text": "I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears." }, { "point_text": "Understanding all things", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:5", "verse_text": "Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things." }, { "point_text": "Gifts of righteousness", "verse_ref": "Hosea 10:12", "verse_text": "Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you." }, { "point_text": "Imperative upon all", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:19", "verse_text": "And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?" }, { "point_text": "Afflictions designed to lead to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:33-34", "verse_text": "Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble. 34 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God." }, { "point_text": "None, by nature, are found to be engaged in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 14:2", "verse_text": "The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God." }, { "point_text": "None, by nature, are found to be engaged in", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:11", "verse_text": "There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God." }, { "point_text": "None, by nature, are found to be engaged in", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:23", "verse_text": "The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment." }, { "point_text": "None, by nature, are found to be engaged in", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:30", "verse_text": "For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Specially exhorted to", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 2:3", "verse_text": "Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger." }, { "point_text": "Desirous of", "verse_ref": "Job 5:8", "verse_text": "I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:" }, { "point_text": "Purpose, in heart", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:8", "verse_text": "When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek." }, { "point_text": "Prepare their hearts for", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 30:19", "verse_text": "That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary." }, { "point_text": "Set their hearts to", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 11:16", "verse_text": "And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the LORD God of their fathers." }, { "point_text": "Engage in, with the whole heart", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 15:12", "verse_text": "And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;" }, { "point_text": "Engage in, with the whole heart", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:10", "verse_text": "With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments." }, { "point_text": "Early in", "verse_ref": "Job 8:5", "verse_text": "If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;" }, { "point_text": "Early in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 63:1", "verse_text": "O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;" }, { "point_text": "Early in", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:9", "verse_text": "With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Earnest in", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 3:2", "verse_text": "I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not." }, { "point_text": "Earnest in", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 3:4", "verse_text": "It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me." }, { "point_text": "Characterized by", "verse_ref": "Psalm 24:6", "verse_text": "This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Is never in vain", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:19", "verse_text": "I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:2", "verse_text": "Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart." }, { "point_text": "Leads to joy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 70:4", "verse_text": "Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified." }, { "point_text": "Leads to joy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:3", "verse_text": "Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Ends in praise", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:26", "verse_text": "The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever." }, { "point_text": "Promise connected with", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:32", "verse_text": "The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God." }, { "point_text": "Shall be rewarded", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:6", "verse_text": "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Are gone out of the way of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 14:2-3", "verse_text": "The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. 3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one." }, { "point_text": "Prepare not their hearts for", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 12:14", "verse_text": "And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Refuse, through pride", "verse_ref": "Psalm 10:4", "verse_text": "The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts." }, { "point_text": "Not led to, by affliction", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:13", "verse_text": "For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes pretend to", "verse_ref": "Ezra 4:2", "verse_text": "Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes pretend to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:2", "verse_text": "Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God." }, { "point_text": "Rejected, when too late in", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:28", "verse_text": "Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:" }, { "point_text": "They who neglect denounced", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 31:1", "verse_text": "Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!" }, { "point_text": "Punishment of those who neglect", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 1:4-6", "verse_text": "I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests; 5 And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham; 6 And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired for him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nUzziah, \nHezekiah, \nJosiah, \nEzra, \nDavid, \nDaniel,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 14:7", "verse_text": "Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nUzziah, \nHezekiah, \nJosiah, \nEzra, \nDavid, \nDaniel,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 17:3-4", "verse_text": "And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim; 4 But sought to the LORD God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nUzziah, \nHezekiah, \nJosiah, \nEzra, \nDavid, \nDaniel,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:5", "verse_text": "And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nUzziah, \nHezekiah, \nJosiah, \nEzra, \nDavid, \nDaniel,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:21", "verse_text": "And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nUzziah, \nHezekiah, \nJosiah, \nEzra, \nDavid, \nDaniel,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 34:3", "verse_text": "For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nUzziah, \nHezekiah, \nJosiah, \nEzra, \nDavid, \nDaniel,", "verse_ref": "Ezra 7:10", "verse_text": "For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nUzziah, \nHezekiah, \nJosiah, \nEzra, \nDavid, \nDaniel,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:4", "verse_text": "I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAsa, \nJehoshaphat, \nUzziah, \nHezekiah, \nJosiah, \nEzra, \nDavid, \nDaniel,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:3-4", "verse_text": "And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: 4 And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;" } ] }, { "name": "Seals", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Seals.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Called signets", "verse_ref": "Genesis 38:18", "verse_text": "And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand. And he gave it her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him." }, { "point_text": "Called signets", "verse_ref": "Genesis 38:25", "verse_text": "When she was brought forth, she sent to her father in law, saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff." }, { "point_text": "Precious stones set in gold used as", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:11", "verse_text": "With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold." }, { "point_text": "Inscriptions upon, alluded to", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:19", "verse_text": "Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Generally worn as rings or bracelets", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 22:24", "verse_text": "As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;" }, { "point_text": "IMPRESSIONS OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Frequently taken in clay", "verse_ref": "Job 38:14", "verse_text": "It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment." }, { "point_text": "Used for security", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:17", "verse_text": "And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel." }, { "point_text": "Used for security", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:66", "verse_text": "So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch." }, { "point_text": "Attached to all royal decrees", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:8", "verse_text": "So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth." }, { "point_text": "Attached to all royal decrees", "verse_ref": "Esther 3:12", "verse_text": "Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring." }, { "point_text": "Attached to all royal decrees", "verse_ref": "Esther 8:8", "verse_text": "Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring: for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse." }, { "point_text": "Attached to covenants", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:38-10:1", "verse_text": "And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it. 1 Now those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah," }, { "point_text": "Attached to leases and transfers of property", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 32:9-12", "verse_text": "And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver. 10 And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances. 11 So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open: 12 And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison." }, { "point_text": "Attached to leases and transfers of property", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 32:44", "verse_text": "Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Set upon treasures", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:34", "verse_text": "Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?" }, { "point_text": "Attached to the victims approved for sacrifice, alluded to", "verse_ref": "John 6:27", "verse_text": "Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed." }, { "point_text": "Were given by kings as a badge of authority", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:41-42", "verse_text": "And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt. 42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;" }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Circumcision", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:11", "verse_text": "And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:" }, { "point_text": "Converts", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:2", "verse_text": "If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord." }, { "point_text": "What is dear or valued", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 8:6", "verse_text": "Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame." }, { "point_text": "What is dear or valued", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 22:24", "verse_text": "As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;" }, { "point_text": "What is dear or valued", "verse_ref": "Haggai 2:23", "verse_text": "In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Secrecy", "verse_ref": "Daniel 12:4", "verse_text": "But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased." }, { "point_text": "Secrecy", "verse_ref": "Revelation 5:1", "verse_text": "And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals." }, { "point_text": "Secrecy", "verse_ref": "Revelation 10:4", "verse_text": "And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not." }, { "point_text": "Security", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:12", "verse_text": "A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed." }, { "point_text": "Security", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:19", "verse_text": "Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Security", "verse_ref": "Revelation 7:2-8", "verse_text": "And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, 3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. 4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel. 5 Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand. ..." }, { "point_text": "Security", "verse_ref": "Revelation 20:3", "verse_text": "And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season." }, { "point_text": "Full approval", "verse_ref": "John 3:33", "verse_text": "He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true." }, { "point_text": "Appropriation of saints to God by the Spirit", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:22", "verse_text": "Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts." }, { "point_text": "Appropriation of saints to God by the Spirit", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:13", "verse_text": "In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise," }, { "point_text": "Appropriation of saints to God by the Spirit", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:30", "verse_text": "And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption." }, { "point_text": "Restraint", "verse_ref": "Job 9:7", "verse_text": "Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars." }, { "point_text": "Restraint", "verse_ref": "Job 37:7", "verse_text": "He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work." }, { "point_text": "Restraint", "verse_ref": "Revelation 20:3", "verse_text": "And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season." } ] }, { "name": "Self-denial", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Selfdenial.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Christ set an example of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:8-10", "verse_text": "Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; 9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. 10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve." }, { "point_text": "Christ set an example of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:20", "verse_text": "And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head." }, { "point_text": "Christ set an example of", "verse_ref": "John 6:38", "verse_text": "For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me." }, { "point_text": "Christ set an example of", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:3", "verse_text": "For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me." }, { "point_text": "Christ set an example of", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:6-8", "verse_text": "Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." }, { "point_text": "A test of devotedness to Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:37-38", "verse_text": "He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me." }, { "point_text": "NECESSARY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In following Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:27-33", "verse_text": "And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. 28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? 29 Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, 30 Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. ..." }, { "point_text": "In the warfare of saints", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:4", "verse_text": "No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." }, { "point_text": "To the triumph of saints", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:25-27", "verse_text": "And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway." }, { "point_text": "Ministers especially called to exercise", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:4-5", "verse_text": "But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, 5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;" }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE EXERCISED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Denying ungodliness and worldly lusts", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:12", "verse_text": "Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof." }, { "point_text": "Denying ungodliness and worldly lusts", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:12", "verse_text": "Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;" }, { "point_text": "Controlling the appetite", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:2", "verse_text": "And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite." }, { "point_text": "Abstaining from fleshly lusts", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:11", "verse_text": "Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;" }, { "point_text": "No longer living to lusts of men", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:2", "verse_text": "That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God." }, { "point_text": "Mortifying sinful lusts", "verse_ref": "Mark 9:43", "verse_text": "And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:" }, { "point_text": "Mortifying sinful lusts", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:5", "verse_text": "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:" }, { "point_text": "Mortifying deeds of the body", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:13", "verse_text": "For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live." }, { "point_text": "Not pleasing ourselves", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:1-3", "verse_text": "We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification. 3 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me." }, { "point_text": "Not seeking our own profit", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:24", "verse_text": "Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth." }, { "point_text": "Not seeking our own profit", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 13:5", "verse_text": "Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;" }, { "point_text": "Not seeking our own profit", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:4", "verse_text": "Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others." }, { "point_text": "Preferring the profit of others", "verse_ref": "Romans 14:20-21", "verse_text": "For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence. 21 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak." }, { "point_text": "Preferring the profit of others", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:24", "verse_text": "Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth." }, { "point_text": "Preferring the profit of others", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:33", "verse_text": "Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved." }, { "point_text": "Assisting others", "verse_ref": "Luke 3:11", "verse_text": "He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise." }, { "point_text": "Even lawful things", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:23", "verse_text": "All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not." }, { "point_text": "Forsaking all", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:33", "verse_text": "So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple." }, { "point_text": "Taking up the cross and following Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:38", "verse_text": "And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me." }, { "point_text": "Taking up the cross and following Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:24", "verse_text": "Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me." }, { "point_text": "Crucifying the flesh", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:24", "verse_text": "And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts." }, { "point_text": "Being crucified with Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:6", "verse_text": "Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin." }, { "point_text": "Being crucified unto the world", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:14", "verse_text": "But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world." }, { "point_text": "Putting off the old man which is corrupt", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:22", "verse_text": "That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;" }, { "point_text": "Putting off the old man which is corrupt", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:9", "verse_text": "Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;" }, { "point_text": "Preferring Christ to all earthly relations", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:21-22", "verse_text": "And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. 22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead." }, { "point_text": "Becomes strangers and pilgrims", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:13-15", "verse_text": "These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. 15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned." }, { "point_text": "Becomes strangers and pilgrims", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:11", "verse_text": "Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;" }, { "point_text": "Danger of neglecting", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:25-26", "verse_text": "For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. 26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" }, { "point_text": "Danger of neglecting", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:27", "verse_text": "But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway." }, { "point_text": "Reward of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:28-29", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life." }, { "point_text": "Happy result", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:4", "verse_text": "Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \n\nWidow of Zarephath, \nEsther, \nRechabites, \nDaniel, \nApostles, \nSimon, Andrew, James, and John, \nPoor Widow, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\nBarnabas, \nPaul, \n\n\nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 13:9", "verse_text": "Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \n\nWidow of Zarephath, \nEsther, \nRechabites, \nDaniel, \nApostles, \nSimon, Andrew, James, and John, \nPoor Widow, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\nBarnabas, \nPaul, \n\n\nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:8-9", "verse_text": "By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. 9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \n\nWidow of Zarephath, \nEsther, \nRechabites, \nDaniel, \nApostles, \nSimon, Andrew, James, and John, \nPoor Widow, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\nBarnabas, \nPaul, \n\n\nMoses,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 17:12-15", "verse_text": "And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. 13 And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son. 14 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth. 15 And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \n\nWidow of Zarephath, \nEsther, \nRechabites, \nDaniel, \nApostles, \nSimon, Andrew, James, and John, \nPoor Widow, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\nBarnabas, \nPaul, \n\n\nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Esther 4:16", "verse_text": "Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \n\nWidow of Zarephath, \nEsther, \nRechabites, \nDaniel, \nApostles, \nSimon, Andrew, James, and John, \nPoor Widow, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\nBarnabas, \nPaul, \n\n\nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 35:6-7", "verse_text": "But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever: 7 Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \n\nWidow of Zarephath, \nEsther, \nRechabites, \nDaniel, \nApostles, \nSimon, Andrew, James, and John, \nPoor Widow, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\nBarnabas, \nPaul, \n\n\nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 1:8-16", "verse_text": "But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself. 9 Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs. 10 And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? then shall ye make me endanger my head to the king. 11 Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \n\nWidow of Zarephath, \nEsther, \nRechabites, \nDaniel, \nApostles, \nSimon, Andrew, James, and John, \nPoor Widow, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\nBarnabas, \nPaul, \n\n\nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:27", "verse_text": "Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \n\nWidow of Zarephath, \nEsther, \nRechabites, \nDaniel, \nApostles, \nSimon, Andrew, James, and John, \nPoor Widow, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\nBarnabas, \nPaul, \n\n\nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:16-20", "verse_text": "Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. 17 And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men. 18 And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him. 19 And when he had gone a little further thence, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \n\nWidow of Zarephath, \nEsther, \nRechabites, \nDaniel, \nApostles, \nSimon, Andrew, James, and John, \nPoor Widow, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\nBarnabas, \nPaul, \n\n\nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:4", "verse_text": "For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \n\nWidow of Zarephath, \nEsther, \nRechabites, \nDaniel, \nApostles, \nSimon, Andrew, James, and John, \nPoor Widow, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\nBarnabas, \nPaul, \n\n\nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:45", "verse_text": "And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \n\nWidow of Zarephath, \nEsther, \nRechabites, \nDaniel, \nApostles, \nSimon, Andrew, James, and John, \nPoor Widow, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\nBarnabas, \nPaul, \n\n\nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:34", "verse_text": "Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \n\nWidow of Zarephath, \nEsther, \nRechabites, \nDaniel, \nApostles, \nSimon, Andrew, James, and John, \nPoor Widow, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\nBarnabas, \nPaul, \n\n\nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:36-37", "verse_text": "And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus, 37 Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \n\nWidow of Zarephath, \nEsther, \nRechabites, \nDaniel, \nApostles, \nSimon, Andrew, James, and John, \nPoor Widow, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\nBarnabas, \nPaul, \n\n\nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:24", "verse_text": "But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \n\nWidow of Zarephath, \nEsther, \nRechabites, \nDaniel, \nApostles, \nSimon, Andrew, James, and John, \nPoor Widow, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\nBarnabas, \nPaul, \n\n\nMoses,", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:19", "verse_text": "For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \n\nWidow of Zarephath, \nEsther, \nRechabites, \nDaniel, \nApostles, \nSimon, Andrew, James, and John, \nPoor Widow, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\nBarnabas, \nPaul, \n\n\nMoses,", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:27", "verse_text": "But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAbraham, \n\nWidow of Zarephath, \nEsther, \nRechabites, \nDaniel, \nApostles, \nSimon, Andrew, James, and John, \nPoor Widow, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\nBarnabas, \nPaul, \n\n\nMoses,", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:24-25", "verse_text": "By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; 25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;" } ] }, { "name": "Seed", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Seed.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Every herb, tree and grass yields its own", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:11-12", "verse_text": "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good." }, { "point_text": "Every herb, tree and grass yields its own", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:29", "verse_text": "And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat." }, { "point_text": "Each kind of, has its own body", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:38", "verse_text": "But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body." }, { "point_text": "SOWING OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Time for, called seed-time", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:22", "verse_text": "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." }, { "point_text": "Necessary to its productiveness", "verse_ref": "John 12:24", "verse_text": "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." }, { "point_text": "Necessary to its productiveness", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:36", "verse_text": "Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:" }, { "point_text": "Required constant diligence", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 11:4", "verse_text": "He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap." }, { "point_text": "Required constant diligence", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 11:6", "verse_text": "In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good." }, { "point_text": "Often attended with great waste", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:4-5", "verse_text": "And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: 5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:" }, { "point_text": "Often attended with great waste", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:7", "verse_text": "And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:" }, { "point_text": "Often attended with danger", "verse_ref": "Psalm 126:5-6", "verse_text": "They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. 6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him." }, { "point_text": "Yearly return of time of sowing, secured by covenant", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:21-22", "verse_text": "And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." }, { "point_text": "The ground carefully plowed, and prepared for", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:24-25", "verse_text": "Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? 25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?" }, { "point_text": "Often sown beside rivers", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 11:1", "verse_text": "Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days." }, { "point_text": "Often sown beside rivers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:20", "verse_text": "Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass." }, { "point_text": "Often trodden into the ground, by the feet of oxen, &c", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:20", "verse_text": "Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass." }, { "point_text": "Required to be watered by the rain", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 55:10", "verse_text": "For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:" }, { "point_text": "In Egypt required to be artificially watered", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:10", "verse_text": "For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:" }, { "point_text": "Yielded an abundant increase in Canaan", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:12", "verse_text": "Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him." }, { "point_text": "Yielded an abundant increase in Canaan", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:23", "verse_text": "But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty." }, { "point_text": "MOSAIC LAWS RESPECTING;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Different kinds of, not to be sown in the same field", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:19", "verse_text": "Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee." }, { "point_text": "Different kinds of, not to be sown in the same field", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 22:9", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled." }, { "point_text": "If dry, exempted from uncleanness though touched by an unclean thing", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:37", "verse_text": "And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean." }, { "point_text": "If wet, rendered unclean by contact with an unclean thing", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:38", "verse_text": "But if any water be put upon the seed, and any part of their carcase fall thereon, it shall be unclean unto you." }, { "point_text": "The tithe of, to be given to God", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 27:30", "verse_text": "And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD'S: it is holy unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Not to be sown during the sabbatical year", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:4", "verse_text": "But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard." }, { "point_text": "Not to be sown during the sabbatical year", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:20", "verse_text": "And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:" }, { "point_text": "Not to be sown in year of jubilee", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:11", "verse_text": "A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed." }, { "point_text": "Difference between, and the plant which grows from it, noticed", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:37-38", "verse_text": "And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: 38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body." }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS PUNISHED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Its rotting in the ground", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:17", "verse_text": "The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered." }, { "point_text": "Its rotting in the ground", "verse_ref": "Malachi 2:3", "verse_text": "Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it." }, { "point_text": "Its yielding but little increase", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:10", "verse_text": "Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah." }, { "point_text": "Its yielding but little increase", "verse_ref": "Haggai 1:6", "verse_text": "Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes." }, { "point_text": "Its increase being consumed by locusts, &c", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:38", "verse_text": "Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it." }, { "point_text": "Its increase being consumed by locusts, &c", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:4", "verse_text": "That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten." }, { "point_text": "Its increase being consumed by enemies", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:16", "verse_text": "I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it." }, { "point_text": "Its increase being consumed by enemies", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:33", "verse_text": "The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:" }, { "point_text": "Its increase being consumed by enemies", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:51", "verse_text": "And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee." }, { "point_text": "Its being choked by thorns", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 12:13", "verse_text": "They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Its being choked by thorns", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:7", "verse_text": "And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:" }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The word of God", "verse_ref": "Luke 8:11", "verse_text": "Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God." }, { "point_text": "The word of God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:23", "verse_text": "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever." }, { "point_text": "Spiritual life", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:9", "verse_text": "Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God." }, { "point_text": "SOWING, ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Preaching the gospel", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:3", "verse_text": "And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;" }, { "point_text": "Preaching the gospel", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:32", "verse_text": "Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof." }, { "point_text": "Preaching the gospel", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:11", "verse_text": "If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?" }, { "point_text": "Scattering or dispersing a people", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 10:9", "verse_text": "And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again." }, { "point_text": "Christian liberality", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 11:6", "verse_text": "In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good." }, { "point_text": "Christian liberality", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 9:6", "verse_text": "But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully." }, { "point_text": "Men's works producing a corresponding recompense", "verse_ref": "Job 4:8", "verse_text": "Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same." }, { "point_text": "Men's works producing a corresponding recompense", "verse_ref": "Hosea 10:12", "verse_text": "Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you." }, { "point_text": "Men's works producing a corresponding recompense", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:7-8", "verse_text": "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting." }, { "point_text": "The death of Christ and its effects", "verse_ref": "John 12:24", "verse_text": "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." }, { "point_text": "The burial of the body", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:36-38", "verse_text": "Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: 37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: 38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body." }, { "point_text": "Every herb, tree and grass yields its own", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:11-12", "verse_text": "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good." }, { "point_text": "Every herb, tree and grass yields its own", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:29", "verse_text": "And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat." }, { "point_text": "Each kind of, has its own body", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:38", "verse_text": "But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body." }, { "point_text": "SOWING OF,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Time for, called seed-time", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:22", "verse_text": "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." }, { "point_text": "Necessary to its productiveness", "verse_ref": "John 12:24", "verse_text": "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." }, { "point_text": "Necessary to its productiveness", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:36", "verse_text": "Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:" }, { "point_text": "Required constant diligence", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 11:4", "verse_text": "He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap." }, { "point_text": "Required constant diligence", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 11:6", "verse_text": "In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good." }, { "point_text": "Often attended with great waste", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:4-5", "verse_text": "And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: 5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:" }, { "point_text": "Often attended with great waste", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:7", "verse_text": "And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:" }, { "point_text": "Often attended with danger", "verse_ref": "Psalm 126:5-6", "verse_text": "They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. 6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him." }, { "point_text": "Yearly return of time of sowing, secured by covenant", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:21-22", "verse_text": "And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." }, { "point_text": "The ground carefully plowed, and prepared for", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:24-25", "verse_text": "Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? 25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?" }, { "point_text": "Often sown beside rivers", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 11:1", "verse_text": "Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days." }, { "point_text": "Often sown beside rivers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:20", "verse_text": "Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass." }, { "point_text": "Often trodden into the ground, by the feet of oxen, &c", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:20", "verse_text": "Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass." }, { "point_text": "Required to be watered by the rain", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 55:10", "verse_text": "For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:" }, { "point_text": "In Egypt required to be artificially watered", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:10", "verse_text": "For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:" }, { "point_text": "Yielded an abundant increase in Canaan", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:12", "verse_text": "Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him." }, { "point_text": "Yielded an abundant increase in Canaan", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:23", "verse_text": "But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty." }, { "point_text": "MOSAIC LAWS RESPECTING;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Different kinds of, not to be sown in the same field", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:19", "verse_text": "Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee." }, { "point_text": "Different kinds of, not to be sown in the same field", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 22:9", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled." }, { "point_text": "If dry, exempted from uncleanness though touched by an unclean thing", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:37", "verse_text": "And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean." }, { "point_text": "If wet, rendered unclean by contact with an unclean thing", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:38", "verse_text": "But if any water be put upon the seed, and any part of their carcase fall thereon, it shall be unclean unto you." }, { "point_text": "The tithe of, to be given to God", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 27:30", "verse_text": "And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD'S: it is holy unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Not to be sown during the sabbatical year", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:4", "verse_text": "But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard." }, { "point_text": "Not to be sown during the sabbatical year", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:20", "verse_text": "And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:" }, { "point_text": "Not to be sown in year of jubilee", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:11", "verse_text": "A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed." }, { "point_text": "Difference between, and the plant which grows from it, noticed", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:37-38", "verse_text": "And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: 38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body." }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS PUNISHED BY", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Its rotting in the ground", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:17", "verse_text": "The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered." }, { "point_text": "Its rotting in the ground", "verse_ref": "Malachi 2:3", "verse_text": "Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it." }, { "point_text": "Its yielding but little increase", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:10", "verse_text": "Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah." }, { "point_text": "Its yielding but little increase", "verse_ref": "Haggai 1:6", "verse_text": "Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes." }, { "point_text": "Its increase being consumed by locusts, &c", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:38", "verse_text": "Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it." }, { "point_text": "Its increase being consumed by locusts, &c", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:4", "verse_text": "That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten." }, { "point_text": "Its increase being consumed by enemies", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:16", "verse_text": "I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it." }, { "point_text": "Its increase being consumed by enemies", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:33", "verse_text": "The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:" }, { "point_text": "Its increase being consumed by enemies", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:51", "verse_text": "And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee." }, { "point_text": "Its being choked by thorns", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 12:13", "verse_text": "They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Its being choked by thorns", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:7", "verse_text": "And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:" }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "The word of God", "verse_ref": "Luke 8:11", "verse_text": "Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God." }, { "point_text": "The word of God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:23", "verse_text": "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever." }, { "point_text": "Spiritual life", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:9", "verse_text": "Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God." }, { "point_text": "SOWING, ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Preaching the gospel", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:3", "verse_text": "And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;" }, { "point_text": "Preaching the gospel", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:32", "verse_text": "Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof." }, { "point_text": "Preaching the gospel", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:11", "verse_text": "If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?" }, { "point_text": "Scattering or dispersing a people", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 10:9", "verse_text": "And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again." }, { "point_text": "Christian liberality", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 11:6", "verse_text": "In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good." }, { "point_text": "Christian liberality", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 9:6", "verse_text": "But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully." }, { "point_text": "Men's works producing a corresponding recompense", "verse_ref": "Job 4:8", "verse_text": "Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same." }, { "point_text": "Men's works producing a corresponding recompense", "verse_ref": "Hosea 10:12", "verse_text": "Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you." }, { "point_text": "Men's works producing a corresponding recompense", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:7-8", "verse_text": "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting." }, { "point_text": "The death of Christ and its effects", "verse_ref": "John 12:24", "verse_text": "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." }, { "point_text": "The burial of the body", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:36-38", "verse_text": "Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: 37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: 38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body." } ] }, { "name": "Self-delusion", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Selfdelusion.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "A characteristic of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 49:18", "verse_text": "Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself." }, { "point_text": "Prosperity frequently leads to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 30:6", "verse_text": "And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved." }, { "point_text": "Prosperity frequently leads to", "verse_ref": "Hosea 12:8", "verse_text": "And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin." }, { "point_text": "Prosperity frequently leads to", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:17-19", "verse_text": "And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? 18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry." }, { "point_text": "Obstinate sinners often given up to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 81:11-12", "verse_text": "But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. 12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels." }, { "point_text": "EXHIBITED IN THINKING THAT", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Our own ways are right", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:12", "verse_text": "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." }, { "point_text": "We should adhere to established wicked practices", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 44:17", "verse_text": "But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil." }, { "point_text": "We are pure", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:12", "verse_text": "There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness." }, { "point_text": "We are better than others", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:11", "verse_text": "The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican." }, { "point_text": "We are rich in spiritual things", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:17", "verse_text": "Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:" }, { "point_text": "We may have peace while in sin", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 29:19", "verse_text": "And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:" }, { "point_text": "We are above adversity", "verse_ref": "Psalm 10:6", "verse_text": "He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity." }, { "point_text": "Gifts entitle us to heaven", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:21-22", "verse_text": "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?" }, { "point_text": "Privileges entitle us to heaven", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:9", "verse_text": "And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham." }, { "point_text": "Privileges entitle us to heaven", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:25-26", "verse_text": "When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are: 26 Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets." }, { "point_text": "God will not punish our sins", "verse_ref": "Psalm 10:11", "verse_text": "He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it." }, { "point_text": "God will not punish our sins", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:12", "verse_text": "They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:" }, { "point_text": "Christ shall not come to judge", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:4", "verse_text": "And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation." }, { "point_text": "Our lives shall be prolonged", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:12", "verse_text": "Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant." }, { "point_text": "Our lives shall be prolonged", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:19", "verse_text": "And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry." }, { "point_text": "Our lives shall be prolonged", "verse_ref": "James 4:13", "verse_text": "Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:" }, { "point_text": "Frequently preserved in, to the last", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:22", "verse_text": "Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?" }, { "point_text": "Frequently preserved in, to the last", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:11-12", "verse_text": "Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. 12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not." }, { "point_text": "Fatal consequences of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:23", "verse_text": "And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Fatal consequences of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:48-51", "verse_text": "But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; 49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; 50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, 51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." }, { "point_text": "Fatal consequences of", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:20", "verse_text": "But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?" }, { "point_text": "Fatal consequences of", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:3", "verse_text": "For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAhab, \n\nIsraelites, \nJews, \n\nChurch of Laodicea, \nBabylon,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:27", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, and went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAhab, \n\nIsraelites, \nJews, \n\nChurch of Laodicea, \nBabylon,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:34", "verse_text": "And Benhadad said unto him, The cities, which my father took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAhab, \n\nIsraelites, \nJews, \n\nChurch of Laodicea, \nBabylon,", "verse_ref": "Hosea 12:8", "verse_text": "And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAhab, \n\nIsraelites, \nJews, \n\nChurch of Laodicea, \nBabylon,", "verse_ref": "John 8:33", "verse_text": "They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAhab, \n\nIsraelites, \nJews, \n\nChurch of Laodicea, \nBabylon,", "verse_ref": "John 8:41", "verse_text": "Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAhab, \n\nIsraelites, \nJews, \n\nChurch of Laodicea, \nBabylon,", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:17", "verse_text": "Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nAhab, \n\nIsraelites, \nJews, \n\nChurch of Laodicea, \nBabylon,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 47:7-11", "verse_text": "And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. 8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: 9 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments. 10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me. ..." } ] }, { "name": "Selfishness", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Selfishness.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Contrary to the law of God", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:18", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Contrary to the law of God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:39", "verse_text": "And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." }, { "point_text": "Contrary to the law of God", "verse_ref": "James 2:8", "verse_text": "If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:" }, { "point_text": "The example of Christ condemns", "verse_ref": "John 4:34", "verse_text": "Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work." }, { "point_text": "The example of Christ condemns", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:3", "verse_text": "For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me." }, { "point_text": "The example of Christ condemns", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:9", "verse_text": "For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich." }, { "point_text": "God hates", "verse_ref": "Malachi 1:10", "verse_text": "Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand." }, { "point_text": "EXHIBITED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Being lovers of ourselves", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:2", "verse_text": "For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy," }, { "point_text": "Pleasing ourselves", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:1", "verse_text": "We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves." }, { "point_text": "Seeking our own", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:33", "verse_text": "Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved." }, { "point_text": "Seeking our own", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:21", "verse_text": "For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's." }, { "point_text": "Seeking after gain", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:11", "verse_text": "Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter." }, { "point_text": "Seeking undue precedence", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:21", "verse_text": "And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom." }, { "point_text": "Living to ourselves", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:15", "verse_text": "And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again." }, { "point_text": "Neglect of the poor", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:17", "verse_text": "But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?" }, { "point_text": "Serving God for reward", "verse_ref": "Malachi 1:10", "verse_text": "Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand." }, { "point_text": "Performing duty for reward", "verse_ref": "Micah 3:11", "verse_text": "The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us." }, { "point_text": "Inconsistent with Christian love", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 13:5", "verse_text": "Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;" }, { "point_text": "Inconsistent with communion of saints", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:4-5", "verse_text": "For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: 5 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another." }, { "point_text": "Inconsistent with communion of saints", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:12-27", "verse_text": "For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. 14 For the body is not one member, but many. 15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? ..." }, { "point_text": "Especially forbidden to saints", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:24", "verse_text": "Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth." }, { "point_text": "Especially forbidden to saints", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:4", "verse_text": "Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others." }, { "point_text": "The love of Christ should constrain us to avoid", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:14-15", "verse_text": "For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: 15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again." }, { "point_text": "Ministers should be devoid of", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:19-23", "verse_text": "For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. 20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; 21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. 22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. ..." }, { "point_text": "Ministers should be devoid of", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:33", "verse_text": "Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved." }, { "point_text": "All men addicted to", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:3", "verse_text": "Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others." }, { "point_text": "All men addicted to", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:21", "verse_text": "For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's." }, { "point_text": "Saints falsely accused of", "verse_ref": "Job 1:9-11", "verse_text": "Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? 10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. 11 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face." }, { "point_text": "Characteristic of the last days", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:1-2", "verse_text": "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nNabal, \n\nHaman, \nPriests, \nJews, \nJames and John, \nMultitude,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:9", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nNabal, \n\nHaman, \nPriests, \nJews, \nJames and John, \nMultitude,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:3", "verse_text": "Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nNabal, \n\nHaman, \nPriests, \nJews, \nJames and John, \nMultitude,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:11", "verse_text": "Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nNabal, \n\nHaman, \nPriests, \nJews, \nJames and John, \nMultitude,", "verse_ref": "Esther 6:6", "verse_text": "So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nNabal, \n\nHaman, \nPriests, \nJews, \nJames and John, \nMultitude,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:11", "verse_text": "Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nNabal, \n\nHaman, \nPriests, \nJews, \nJames and John, \nMultitude,", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 7:6", "verse_text": "And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nNabal, \n\nHaman, \nPriests, \nJews, \nJames and John, \nMultitude,", "verse_ref": "Mark 10:37", "verse_text": "They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCain, \nNabal, \n\nHaman, \nPriests, \nJews, \nJames and John, \nMultitude,", "verse_ref": "John 6:26", "verse_text": "Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled." } ] }, { "name": "Self-examination", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Selfexamination.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Enjoined", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 13:5", "verse_text": "Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?" }, { "point_text": "Necessary before the communion", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:28", "verse_text": "But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup." }, { "point_text": "Cause of difficulty in", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:9", "verse_text": "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE ENGAGED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "With holy awe", "verse_ref": "Psalm 4:4", "verse_text": "Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah." }, { "point_text": "With diligent search", "verse_ref": "Psalm 77:6", "verse_text": "I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search." }, { "point_text": "With diligent search", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:40", "verse_text": "Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD." }, { "point_text": "With prayer for divine searching", "verse_ref": "Psalm 26:2", "verse_text": "Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart." }, { "point_text": "With prayer for divine searching", "verse_ref": "Psalm 139:23-24", "verse_text": "Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: 24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." }, { "point_text": "With purpose of amendment", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:59", "verse_text": "I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies." }, { "point_text": "With purpose of amendment", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:40", "verse_text": "Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Advantages of", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:31", "verse_text": "For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged." }, { "point_text": "Advantages of", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:4", "verse_text": "But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another." }, { "point_text": "Advantages of", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:20-22", "verse_text": "For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. 21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. 22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight." } ] }, { "name": "Self-righteousness", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Selfrighteousness.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Man is prone to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:6", "verse_text": "Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?" }, { "point_text": "Man is prone to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:12", "verse_text": "There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness." }, { "point_text": "Hateful to God", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:15", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God." }, { "point_text": "IS VAIN BECAUSE OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS IS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "But external", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:25-28", "verse_text": "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. 26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. 27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. 28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity." }, { "point_text": "But external", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:39-44", "verse_text": "And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. 40 Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also? 41 But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you. 42 But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. ..." }, { "point_text": "But partial", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:25", "verse_text": "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess." }, { "point_text": "But partial", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:42", "verse_text": "But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone." }, { "point_text": "No better than filthy rags", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 64:6", "verse_text": "But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away." }, { "point_text": "Ineffectual for salvation", "verse_ref": "Job 9:30-31", "verse_text": "If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; 31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me." }, { "point_text": "Unprofitable", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:12", "verse_text": "I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee." }, { "point_text": "Is boastful", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:30", "verse_text": "And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets." }, { "point_text": "THEY WHO ARE GIVEN TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Audaciously approach God", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:11", "verse_text": "The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican." }, { "point_text": "Seek to justify themselves", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:29", "verse_text": "But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?" }, { "point_text": "Seek to justify themselves before men", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:15", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God." }, { "point_text": "Reject the righteousness of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:3", "verse_text": "For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God." }, { "point_text": "Condemn others", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:11-13", "verse_text": "And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? 12 But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. 13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." }, { "point_text": "Condemn others", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:39", "verse_text": "Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner." }, { "point_text": "Consider their own way right", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:2", "verse_text": "Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts." }, { "point_text": "Despise others", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:5", "verse_text": "Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day." }, { "point_text": "Despise others", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:9", "verse_text": "And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:" }, { "point_text": "Proclaim their own goodness", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:6", "verse_text": "Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?" }, { "point_text": "Are pure in their own eyes", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:12", "verse_text": "There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness." }, { "point_text": "Are abominable before God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:5", "verse_text": "Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day." }, { "point_text": "Folly of", "verse_ref": "Job 9:20", "verse_text": "If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse." }, { "point_text": "Saints renounce", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:7-10", "verse_text": "But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. 8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, 9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: 10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;" }, { "point_text": "Warning against", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:4", "verse_text": "Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee." }, { "point_text": "Denunciation against", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:27-28", "verse_text": "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. 28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:10-12", "verse_text": "Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. 12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSaul, \nYoung man, \nLawyer, \n\nPharisees, \n\n\nIsrael, \nChurch of Laodicea,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:13", "verse_text": "And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSaul, \nYoung man, \nLawyer, \n\nPharisees, \n\n\nIsrael, \nChurch of Laodicea,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:20", "verse_text": "The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSaul, \nYoung man, \nLawyer, \n\nPharisees, \n\n\nIsrael, \nChurch of Laodicea,", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:25", "verse_text": "And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSaul, \nYoung man, \nLawyer, \n\nPharisees, \n\n\nIsrael, \nChurch of Laodicea,", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:29", "verse_text": "But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSaul, \nYoung man, \nLawyer, \n\nPharisees, \n\n\nIsrael, \nChurch of Laodicea,", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:39", "verse_text": "And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSaul, \nYoung man, \nLawyer, \n\nPharisees, \n\n\nIsrael, \nChurch of Laodicea,", "verse_ref": "John 8:33", "verse_text": "They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSaul, \nYoung man, \nLawyer, \n\nPharisees, \n\n\nIsrael, \nChurch of Laodicea,", "verse_ref": "John 9:28", "verse_text": "Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSaul, \nYoung man, \nLawyer, \n\nPharisees, \n\n\nIsrael, \nChurch of Laodicea,", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:3", "verse_text": "For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSaul, \nYoung man, \nLawyer, \n\nPharisees, \n\n\nIsrael, \nChurch of Laodicea,", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:17", "verse_text": "Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:" } ] }, { "name": "Serpents", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Serpents.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Created by God", "verse_ref": "Job 26:13", "verse_text": "By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent." }, { "point_text": "Characterized as subtle", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:1", "verse_text": "Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?" }, { "point_text": "Characterized as subtle", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:16", "verse_text": "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." }, { "point_text": "Called crooked", "verse_ref": "Job 26:13", "verse_text": "By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent." }, { "point_text": "Called crooked", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 27:1", "verse_text": "In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea." }, { "point_text": "Unclean and unfit for food", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:10", "verse_text": "Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?" }, { "point_text": "INFEST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Hedges", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 10:8", "verse_text": "He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him." }, { "point_text": "Holes in walls", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:19", "verse_text": "As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him." }, { "point_text": "Deserts", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:15", "verse_text": "Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;" }, { "point_text": "Produced from eggs", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:5", "verse_text": "They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper." }, { "point_text": "Cursed above all creatures", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:14", "verse_text": "And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:" }, { "point_text": "Doomed to creep on their belly", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:14", "verse_text": "And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:" }, { "point_text": "Doomed to eat their food mingled with dust", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:14", "verse_text": "And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:" }, { "point_text": "Doomed to eat their food mingled with dust", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:25", "verse_text": "The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Doomed to eat their food mingled with dust", "verse_ref": "Micah 7:17", "verse_text": "They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee." }, { "point_text": "Many kinds of poisonous", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:24", "verse_text": "They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust." }, { "point_text": "Many kinds of poisonous", "verse_ref": "Psalm 58:4", "verse_text": "Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;" }, { "point_text": "All kinds of, can be tamed", "verse_ref": "James 3:7", "verse_text": "For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:" }, { "point_text": "Were often enchanted or fascinated", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 10:11", "verse_text": "Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better." }, { "point_text": "Dangerous to travellers", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:17", "verse_text": "Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward." }, { "point_text": "Man's aversion and hatred to", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:15", "verse_text": "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." }, { "point_text": "Often sent as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:6", "verse_text": "And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died." }, { "point_text": "Often sent as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:24", "verse_text": "They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust." }, { "point_text": "Often sent as a punishment", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:9", "verse_text": "Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents." }, { "point_text": "MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Moses' rod turned into", "verse_ref": "Exodus 4:3", "verse_text": "And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it." }, { "point_text": "Moses' rod turned into", "verse_ref": "Exodus 7:9", "verse_text": "When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle for you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent." }, { "point_text": "Moses' rod turned into", "verse_ref": "Exodus 7:15", "verse_text": "Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand." }, { "point_text": "Israelites cured by looking at one of brass", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:8-9", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. 9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived." }, { "point_text": "Power over, given to the disciples", "verse_ref": "Mark 16:18", "verse_text": "They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." }, { "point_text": "Power over, given to the disciples", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:19", "verse_text": "Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the devil", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:1", "verse_text": "Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?" }, { "point_text": "Of the devil", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 11:3", "verse_text": "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ." }, { "point_text": "Of the devil", "verse_ref": "Revelation 12:9", "verse_text": "And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him." }, { "point_text": "Of the devil", "verse_ref": "Revelation 20:2", "verse_text": "And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years," }, { "point_text": "Of hypocrites", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:33", "verse_text": "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?" }, { "point_text": "Of the tribe of Dan", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:17", "verse_text": "Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward." }, { "point_text": "Of enemies who harass and destroy", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:29", "verse_text": "Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent." }, { "point_text": "Of enemies who harass and destroy", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:17", "verse_text": "For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "(Sharp tongue of,) of malice of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 140:3", "verse_text": "They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah." }, { "point_text": "(Poisonous bite of,) of baneful effects of wine", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:21", "verse_text": "For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags." }, { "point_text": "(Poisonous bite of,) of baneful effects of wine", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:32", "verse_text": "At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder." } ] }, { "name": "Self-will and Stubbornness", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Selfwill-and-Stubbornness.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 30:8", "verse_text": "Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Psalm 75:5", "verse_text": "Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Psalm 95:8", "verse_text": "Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:" }, { "point_text": "PROCEED FROM", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Unbelief", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:14", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God." }, { "point_text": "Pride", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:16", "verse_text": "But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments," }, { "point_text": "Pride", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:29", "verse_text": "And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear." }, { "point_text": "An evil heart", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:24", "verse_text": "But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward." }, { "point_text": "God knows", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 48:4", "verse_text": "Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;" }, { "point_text": "EXHIBITED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Refusing to hearken to God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:24", "verse_text": "Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;" }, { "point_text": "Refusing to hearken to the messengers of God", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 8:19", "verse_text": "Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;" }, { "point_text": "Refusing to hearken to the messengers of God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 44:16", "verse_text": "As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Refusing to hearken to the messengers of God", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 7:11", "verse_text": "But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear." }, { "point_text": "Refusing to walk in the ways of God", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:17", "verse_text": "And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not." }, { "point_text": "Refusing to walk in the ways of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:10", "verse_text": "They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;" }, { "point_text": "Refusing to walk in the ways of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:24", "verse_text": "Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law." }, { "point_text": "Refusing to walk in the ways of God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:16", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein." }, { "point_text": "Refusing to hearken to parents", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 21:18-19", "verse_text": "If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: 19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;" }, { "point_text": "Refusing to receive correction", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 21:18", "verse_text": "If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:" }, { "point_text": "Refusing to receive correction", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:3", "verse_text": "O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return." }, { "point_text": "Refusing to receive correction", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:28", "verse_text": "But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth." }, { "point_text": "Rebelling against God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 31:27", "verse_text": "For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?" }, { "point_text": "Rebelling against God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:8", "verse_text": "And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God." }, { "point_text": "Resisting the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:51", "verse_text": "Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye." }, { "point_text": "Walking in the counsels of an evil heart", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:24", "verse_text": "But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward." }, { "point_text": "Walking in the counsels of an evil heart", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:17", "verse_text": "They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you." }, { "point_text": "Hardening the neck", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:16", "verse_text": "But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments," }, { "point_text": "Hardening the heart", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:13", "verse_text": "And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Going backward and not forward", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:24", "verse_text": "But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward." }, { "point_text": "Heinousness of", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:23", "verse_text": "For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king." }, { "point_text": "MINISTERS SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Be without", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:7", "verse_text": "For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;" }, { "point_text": "Warn their people against", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:7-12", "verse_text": "Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. 10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. ..." }, { "point_text": "Pray that their people may be forgiven for", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:9", "verse_text": "And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance." }, { "point_text": "Pray that their people may be forgiven for", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:27", "verse_text": "Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:" }, { "point_text": "Characteristic of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 7:11", "verse_text": "(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:" }, { "point_text": "Characteristic of the wicked", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:10", "verse_text": "But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities." }, { "point_text": "The wicked cease not from", "verse_ref": "Judges 2:19", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 21:21", "verse_text": "And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 29:1", "verse_text": "He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Psalm 32:9", "verse_text": "Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:18", "verse_text": "I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSimeon and Levi, \nIsraelites, \n\n\nSaul, \nDavid, \nJosiah, \nZedekiah,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:6", "verse_text": "O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSimeon and Levi, \nIsraelites, \n\n\nSaul, \nDavid, \nJosiah, \nZedekiah,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:9", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSimeon and Levi, \nIsraelites, \n\n\nSaul, \nDavid, \nJosiah, \nZedekiah,", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:6", "verse_text": "Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSimeon and Levi, \nIsraelites, \n\n\nSaul, \nDavid, \nJosiah, \nZedekiah,", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:13", "verse_text": "Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSimeon and Levi, \nIsraelites, \n\n\nSaul, \nDavid, \nJosiah, \nZedekiah,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:19-23", "verse_text": "Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD? 20 And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. 21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal. 22 And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSimeon and Levi, \nIsraelites, \n\n\nSaul, \nDavid, \nJosiah, \nZedekiah,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:4", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSimeon and Levi, \nIsraelites, \n\n\nSaul, \nDavid, \nJosiah, \nZedekiah,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 35:22", "verse_text": "Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSimeon and Levi, \nIsraelites, \n\n\nSaul, \nDavid, \nJosiah, \nZedekiah,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:13", "verse_text": "And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel." } ] }, { "name": "Servants", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Servants.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Early mention of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:25-26", "verse_text": "And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. 26 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant." }, { "point_text": "DIVIDED INTO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Male", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:34", "verse_text": "And he said, I am Abraham's servant." }, { "point_text": "Male", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:5", "verse_text": "And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight." }, { "point_text": "Female", "verse_ref": "Genesis 16:6", "verse_text": "But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face." }, { "point_text": "Female", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:5", "verse_text": "And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight." }, { "point_text": "Bond", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:18", "verse_text": "And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses." }, { "point_text": "Bond", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:46", "verse_text": "And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour." }, { "point_text": "Hired", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:20", "verse_text": "And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him." }, { "point_text": "Hired", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:17", "verse_text": "And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!" }, { "point_text": "Persons devoted to the service of another so called", "verse_ref": "Exodus 24:13", "verse_text": "And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God." }, { "point_text": "Persons devoted to the service of another so called", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:21", "verse_text": "And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him." }, { "point_text": "The subjects of a prince or king so called", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:20", "verse_text": "He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:" }, { "point_text": "The subjects of a prince or king so called", "verse_ref": "Exodus 11:8", "verse_text": "And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee: and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger." }, { "point_text": "Persons of low condition so called", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 10:7", "verse_text": "I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Persons devoted to God so called", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:49", "verse_text": "ZAIN. Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope." }, { "point_text": "Persons devoted to God so called", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:6", "verse_text": "Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;" }, { "point_text": "Persons devoted to God so called", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:1", "verse_text": "Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God," }, { "point_text": "The term often used to express humility", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:3", "verse_text": "And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:" }, { "point_text": "The term often used to express humility", "verse_ref": "Genesis 33:5", "verse_text": "And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant." }, { "point_text": "The term often used to express humility", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 20:7", "verse_text": "If he say thus, It is well; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be very wroth, then be sure that evil is determined by him." }, { "point_text": "The term often used to express humility", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:32", "verse_text": "So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Benhadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother." }, { "point_text": "HIRED,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Called hirelings", "verse_ref": "Job 7:1", "verse_text": "Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?" }, { "point_text": "Called hirelings", "verse_ref": "John 10:12-13", "verse_text": "But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. 13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep." }, { "point_text": "Engaged by the year", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:53", "verse_text": "And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight." }, { "point_text": "Engaged by the year", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 16:14", "verse_text": "But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble." }, { "point_text": "Engaged by the day", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:2", "verse_text": "And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard." }, { "point_text": "Not to be oppressed", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:14", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:" }, { "point_text": "To be paid without delay at the expiration of their service", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:13", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning." }, { "point_text": "To be paid without delay at the expiration of their service", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:15", "verse_text": "At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee." }, { "point_text": "To be esteemed worthy of their hire", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:7", "verse_text": "And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house." }, { "point_text": "To partake of the produce of the land the sabbatical year", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:6", "verse_text": "And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee," }, { "point_text": "If foreigners not allowed to partake of the passover or holy things", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:45", "verse_text": "A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof." }, { "point_text": "If foreigners not allowed to partake of the passover or holy things", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:10", "verse_text": "There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing." }, { "point_text": "Anxiety of, for the end of their daily toil, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Job 7:2", "verse_text": "As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:" }, { "point_text": "Hebrew slaves serving their brethren to be treated as", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:39-40", "verse_text": "And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: 40 But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:" }, { "point_text": "Hebrew slaves serving strangers to be treated as", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:47", "verse_text": "And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family:" }, { "point_text": "Hebrew slaves serving strangers to be treated as", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:53", "verse_text": "And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight." }, { "point_text": "Often stood in the market place waiting for employment", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:1-3", "verse_text": "For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. 2 And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3 And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace," }, { "point_text": "Often will fed and taken care of", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:17", "verse_text": "And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!" }, { "point_text": "Often oppressed and their wages kept back", "verse_ref": "Malachi 3:5", "verse_text": "And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Often oppressed and their wages kept back", "verse_ref": "James 5:4", "verse_text": "Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth." }, { "point_text": "SLAVES OR BOND,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Called bondmen", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:18", "verse_text": "And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses." }, { "point_text": "Called bondmen", "verse_ref": "Genesis 44:9", "verse_text": "With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen." }, { "point_text": "By birth", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:14", "verse_text": "And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan." }, { "point_text": "By birth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 116:16", "verse_text": "O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds." }, { "point_text": "By birth", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:14", "verse_text": "Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?" }, { "point_text": "By purchase", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:27", "verse_text": "And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him." }, { "point_text": "By purchase", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:36", "verse_text": "And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard." }, { "point_text": "Captives taken in war often kept as", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 20:14", "verse_text": "But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee." }, { "point_text": "Captives taken in war often kept as", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:2", "verse_text": "And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife." }, { "point_text": "Strangers sojourning in Israel might be purchased as", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:45", "verse_text": "Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession." }, { "point_text": "Persons belonging to other nations might be purchased as", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:44", "verse_text": "Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids." }, { "point_text": "Persons unable to pay their debts liable to be sold as", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:1", "verse_text": "Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen." }, { "point_text": "Persons unable to pay their debts liable to be sold as", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 5:4-5", "verse_text": "There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards. 5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards." }, { "point_text": "Thieves unable to make restitution were sold as", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:3", "verse_text": "If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft." }, { "point_text": "More valuable than hired servants", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 15:18", "verse_text": "It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest." }, { "point_text": "When Israelites not to be treated with rigor", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:39-40", "verse_text": "And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: 40 But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:" }, { "point_text": "When Israelites not to be treated with rigor", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:46", "verse_text": "And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour." }, { "point_text": "When Israelites to have their liberty after six years service", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:2", "verse_text": "If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing." }, { "point_text": "When Israelites to have their liberty after six years service", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 15:12", "verse_text": "And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee." }, { "point_text": "Israelites sold as, refusing their liberty, to have their ears bored to the door", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:5-6", "verse_text": "And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: 6 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever." }, { "point_text": "Israelites sold to strangers as, might be redeemed by their nearest of kin", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:47-55", "verse_text": "And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family: 48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him: 49 Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself. 50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him. ..." }, { "point_text": "All Israelites sold as, to be free at the jubilee", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:10", "verse_text": "And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family." }, { "point_text": "All Israelites sold as, to be free at the jubilee", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:40-41", "verse_text": "But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile: 41 And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return." }, { "point_text": "All Israelites sold as, to be free at the jubilee", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:54", "verse_text": "And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him." }, { "point_text": "Could not when set free demand wives or children procured during servitude", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:3-4", "verse_text": "If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself." }, { "point_text": "To be furnished liberally, when their servitude expired", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 15:13-14", "verse_text": "And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: 14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him." }, { "point_text": "When foreigners to be circumcised", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:13", "verse_text": "He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant." }, { "point_text": "When foreigners to be circumcised", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:27", "verse_text": "And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him." }, { "point_text": "To be allowed to rest on the Sabbath", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:10", "verse_text": "But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:" }, { "point_text": "To participate in all national rejoicings", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:18", "verse_text": "But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto." }, { "point_text": "To participate in all national rejoicings", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:11", "verse_text": "And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there." }, { "point_text": "To participate in all national rejoicings", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:14", "verse_text": "And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates." }, { "point_text": "Persons of distinction had many", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:14", "verse_text": "And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan." }, { "point_text": "Persons of distinction had many", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:7", "verse_text": "I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:" }, { "point_text": "Engaged in the most menial offices", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:41", "verse_text": "And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord." }, { "point_text": "Engaged in the most menial offices", "verse_ref": "John 13:4-5", "verse_text": "He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself. 5 After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded." }, { "point_text": "Maimed or injured by masters, to have their freedom", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:26-27", "verse_text": "And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. 27 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake." }, { "point_text": "Masters to be recompensed for injury done to", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:32", "verse_text": "If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned." }, { "point_text": "Laws respecting the killing of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:20-21", "verse_text": "And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. 21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money." }, { "point_text": "Of others not to be coveted or enticed away", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:17", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's." }, { "point_text": "Of others not to be coveted or enticed away", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:21", "verse_text": "Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's." }, { "point_text": "Seeking protection not to be delivered up to masters", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:15", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:" }, { "point_text": "Custom of branding, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:17", "verse_text": "From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes rose to rank and station", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 10:7", "verse_text": "I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes intermarried with their master's family", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 2:34-35", "verse_text": "Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha. 35 And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife; and she bare him Attai." }, { "point_text": "Laws respecting marriage with female", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:7-11", "verse_text": "And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do. 8 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. 9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. 10 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish. ..." }, { "point_text": "Seizing and stealing of men for, condemned and punished by the law", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:16", "verse_text": "And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." }, { "point_text": "Seizing and stealing of men for, condemned and punished by the law", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:7", "verse_text": "If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you." }, { "point_text": "Seizing and stealing of men for, condemned and punished by the law", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:10", "verse_text": "For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;" }, { "point_text": "Laws respecting, often violated", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 34:8-16", "verse_text": "This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them; 9 That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother. 10 Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go. 11 But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids. ..." }, { "point_text": "BOND, ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of Christ", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:6", "verse_text": "Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required." }, { "point_text": "Of Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:5", "verse_text": "Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:" }, { "point_text": "Of Christ", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:7-8", "verse_text": "But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." }, { "point_text": "Of saints", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:20", "verse_text": "For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." }, { "point_text": "Of saints", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:23", "verse_text": "Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men." }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:19", "verse_text": "While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage." }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:16", "verse_text": "Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?" }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:19", "verse_text": "I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness." }, { "point_text": "Christ condescended to the office of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:28", "verse_text": "Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many." }, { "point_text": "Christ condescended to the office of", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:27", "verse_text": "For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth." }, { "point_text": "Christ condescended to the office of", "verse_ref": "John 13:5", "verse_text": "After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded." }, { "point_text": "Christ condescended to the office of", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:7", "verse_text": "But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:" }, { "point_text": "Are inferior to their masters", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:27", "verse_text": "For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth." }, { "point_text": "Should follow Christ's example", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:21", "verse_text": "For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:" }, { "point_text": "DUTIES OF, TO MASTERS;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To pray for them", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:12", "verse_text": "And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham." }, { "point_text": "To honor them", "verse_ref": "Malachi 1:6", "verse_text": "A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?" }, { "point_text": "To honor them", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:1", "verse_text": "Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed." }, { "point_text": "To revere them the more, when they are believers", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:2", "verse_text": "And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort." }, { "point_text": "To be subject to them", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:18", "verse_text": "Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward." }, { "point_text": "To obey them", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:5", "verse_text": "Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;" }, { "point_text": "To obey them", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:9", "verse_text": "Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;" }, { "point_text": "To attend to their call", "verse_ref": "Psalm 123:2", "verse_text": "Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us." }, { "point_text": "To please them well in all things", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:9", "verse_text": "Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;" }, { "point_text": "To sympathize with them", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:18", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?" }, { "point_text": "To prefer their business to their own necessary food", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:33", "verse_text": "And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on." }, { "point_text": "To bless God for mercies shown to them", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:27", "verse_text": "And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren." }, { "point_text": "To bless God for mercies shown to them", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:48", "verse_text": "And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son." }, { "point_text": "To be faithful to them", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:10-12", "verse_text": "He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. 11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? 12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?" }, { "point_text": "To be faithful to them", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 4:2", "verse_text": "Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful." }, { "point_text": "To be faithful to them", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:10", "verse_text": "Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things." }, { "point_text": "To be profitable to them", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:15-16", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that when he was returned, having received the kingdom, then he commanded these servants to be called unto him, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading. 16 Then came the first, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained ten pounds." }, { "point_text": "To be profitable to them", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:18", "verse_text": "And the second came, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained five pounds." }, { "point_text": "To be anxious for their welfare", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:14-17", "verse_text": "But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them. 15 But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields: 16 They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep. 17 Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him." }, { "point_text": "To be anxious for their welfare", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:2-3", "verse_text": "And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife. 3 And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy." }, { "point_text": "To be earnest in transacting their business", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:54-56", "verse_text": "And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master. 55 And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go. 56 And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master." }, { "point_text": "To be prudent in the management of their affairs", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:34-49", "verse_text": "And he said, I am Abraham's servant. 35 And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses. 36 And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath. 37 And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell: ..." }, { "point_text": "To be industrious in laboring for them", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 4:16", "verse_text": "And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah." }, { "point_text": "To be industrious in laboring for them", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 4:23", "verse_text": "So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing." }, { "point_text": "To be kind and attentive to their guests", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:23-24", "verse_text": "And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them. 24 And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender." }, { "point_text": "To be submissive even to the froward", "verse_ref": "Genesis 16:6", "verse_text": "But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face." }, { "point_text": "To be submissive even to the froward", "verse_ref": "Genesis 16:9", "verse_text": "And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands." }, { "point_text": "To be submissive even to the froward", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:18", "verse_text": "Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward." }, { "point_text": "Not to answer them rudely", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:9", "verse_text": "Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;" }, { "point_text": "Not to serve them with eye-service, as men-pleasers", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:6", "verse_text": "Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;" }, { "point_text": "Not to serve them with eye-service, as men-pleasers", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:22", "verse_text": "Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:" }, { "point_text": "Not to defraud them", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:10", "verse_text": "Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things." }, { "point_text": "Should be contented in their situation", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:20-21", "verse_text": "Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called. 21 Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather." }, { "point_text": "Should be compassionate to their fellows", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:33", "verse_text": "Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?" }, { "point_text": "SHOULD SERVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "For conscience towards God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:19", "verse_text": "For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully." }, { "point_text": "In the fear of God", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:5", "verse_text": "Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;" }, { "point_text": "In the fear of God", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:22", "verse_text": "Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:" }, { "point_text": "As the servants of Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:5-6", "verse_text": "Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; 6 Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;" }, { "point_text": "Heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:7", "verse_text": "With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:" }, { "point_text": "Heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:23", "verse_text": "And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;" }, { "point_text": "As doing the will of God from the heart", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:6", "verse_text": "Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;" }, { "point_text": "In singleness of heart", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:5", "verse_text": "Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;" }, { "point_text": "In singleness of heart", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:22", "verse_text": "Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:" }, { "point_text": "With good will", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:7", "verse_text": "With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:" }, { "point_text": "When patient under injury are acceptable to God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:19-20", "verse_text": "For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. 20 For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God." }, { "point_text": "WHEN GOOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Are the servants of Christ", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:24", "verse_text": "Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ." }, { "point_text": "Are brethren beloved in the Lord", "verse_ref": "Philemon 16", "verse_text": "Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?" }, { "point_text": "Are the Lord's freemen", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:22", "verse_text": "For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant." }, { "point_text": "Are partakers of gospel privileges", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:13", "verse_text": "For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit." }, { "point_text": "Are partakers of gospel privileges", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:28", "verse_text": "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Are partakers of gospel privileges", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:8", "verse_text": "Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free." }, { "point_text": "Are partakers of gospel privileges", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:11", "verse_text": "Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all." }, { "point_text": "Deserve the confidence of their masters", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:2", "verse_text": "And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:" }, { "point_text": "Deserve the confidence of their masters", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:4", "verse_text": "But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac." }, { "point_text": "Deserve the confidence of their masters", "verse_ref": "Genesis 39:4", "verse_text": "And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand." }, { "point_text": "Often exalted", "verse_ref": "Genesis 41:40", "verse_text": "Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou." }, { "point_text": "Often exalted", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:2", "verse_text": "A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren." }, { "point_text": "Often advanced by master", "verse_ref": "Genesis 39:4-5", "verse_text": "And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand. 5 And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field." }, { "point_text": "To be honored", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:31", "verse_text": "And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels." }, { "point_text": "To be honored", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:18", "verse_text": "Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured." }, { "point_text": "Bring God's blessing upon their masters", "verse_ref": "Genesis 30:27", "verse_text": "And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake." }, { "point_text": "Bring God's blessing upon their masters", "verse_ref": "Genesis 39:3", "verse_text": "And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand." }, { "point_text": "Adorn the doctrine of God their Saviour in all things", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:10", "verse_text": "Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things." }, { "point_text": "Have God with them", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:42", "verse_text": "Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight." }, { "point_text": "Have God with them", "verse_ref": "Genesis 39:21", "verse_text": "But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison." }, { "point_text": "Have God with them", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:9-10", "verse_text": "And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him, 10 And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house." }, { "point_text": "Are prospered by God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 39:3", "verse_text": "And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand." }, { "point_text": "Are protected by God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:7", "verse_text": "And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me." }, { "point_text": "Are guided by God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:7", "verse_text": "The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence." }, { "point_text": "Are guided by God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:27", "verse_text": "And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren." }, { "point_text": "Are blessed by God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:46", "verse_text": "Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing." }, { "point_text": "Are mourned over after death.\r\n\r\n (See marginal notes.)", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:8", "verse_text": "But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth." }, { "point_text": "Shall be rewarded", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:8", "verse_text": "Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free." }, { "point_text": "Shall be rewarded", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:24", "verse_text": "Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ." }, { "point_text": "The property of masters increased by faithful", "verse_ref": "Genesis 30:29-30", "verse_text": "And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me. 30 For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?" }, { "point_text": "CHARACTERISTICS OF WICKED SERVANTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Eye-servants", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:6", "verse_text": "Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;" }, { "point_text": "Eye-servants", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:22", "verse_text": "Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:" }, { "point_text": "Men-pleasers", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:6", "verse_text": "Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;" }, { "point_text": "Men-pleasers", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:22", "verse_text": "Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:" }, { "point_text": "Deceit", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 19:26", "verse_text": "And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame." }, { "point_text": "Deceit", "verse_ref": "Psalm 101:6-7", "verse_text": "Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me. 7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight." }, { "point_text": "Quarrelsomeness", "verse_ref": "Genesis 13:7", "verse_text": "And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land." }, { "point_text": "Quarrelsomeness", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:20", "verse_text": "And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him." }, { "point_text": "Covetousness", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:20", "verse_text": "But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him." }, { "point_text": "Lying", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:22", "verse_text": "And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments." }, { "point_text": "Lying", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:25", "verse_text": "But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no whither." }, { "point_text": "Stealing", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:10", "verse_text": "Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things." }, { "point_text": "Gluttony, &c", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:49", "verse_text": "And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;" }, { "point_text": "Unmerciful to their fellows", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:30", "verse_text": "And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt." }, { "point_text": "Will not submit to correction", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 29:19", "verse_text": "A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer." }, { "point_text": "Do not bear to be exalted", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:21-22", "verse_text": "For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear: 22 For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;" }, { "point_text": "Shall be punished", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:50", "verse_text": "The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of," }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nEliezer, \nDeborah, \n\nJacob, \nJoseph, \n\nServants of Boaz, \nJonathan's armor-bearer, \nDavid's servants, \nCaptive maid, \nServants of Naaman, \nServants of Centurion, \nServants of Cornelius, \nOnesimus after his conversion,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24", "verse_text": "And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things. 2 And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh: 3 And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: 4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac. ..." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nEliezer, \nDeborah, \n\nJacob, \nJoseph, \n\nServants of Boaz, \nJonathan's armor-bearer, \nDavid's servants, \nCaptive maid, \nServants of Naaman, \nServants of Centurion, \nServants of Cornelius, \nOnesimus after his conversion,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:59", "verse_text": "And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nEliezer, \nDeborah, \n\nJacob, \nJoseph, \n\nServants of Boaz, \nJonathan's armor-bearer, \nDavid's servants, \nCaptive maid, \nServants of Naaman, \nServants of Centurion, \nServants of Cornelius, \nOnesimus after his conversion,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:8", "verse_text": "But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nEliezer, \nDeborah, \n\nJacob, \nJoseph, \n\nServants of Boaz, \nJonathan's armor-bearer, \nDavid's servants, \nCaptive maid, \nServants of Naaman, \nServants of Centurion, \nServants of Cornelius, \nOnesimus after his conversion,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:36-40", "verse_text": "And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me? 37 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both. 38 This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. 39 That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night. ..." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nEliezer, \nDeborah, \n\nJacob, \nJoseph, \n\nServants of Boaz, \nJonathan's armor-bearer, \nDavid's servants, \nCaptive maid, \nServants of Naaman, \nServants of Centurion, \nServants of Cornelius, \nOnesimus after his conversion,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 39:3", "verse_text": "And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nEliezer, \nDeborah, \n\nJacob, \nJoseph, \n\nServants of Boaz, \nJonathan's armor-bearer, \nDavid's servants, \nCaptive maid, \nServants of Naaman, \nServants of Centurion, \nServants of Cornelius, \nOnesimus after his conversion,", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:10", "verse_text": "And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nEliezer, \nDeborah, \n\nJacob, \nJoseph, \n\nServants of Boaz, \nJonathan's armor-bearer, \nDavid's servants, \nCaptive maid, \nServants of Naaman, \nServants of Centurion, \nServants of Cornelius, \nOnesimus after his conversion,", "verse_ref": "Ruth 2:4", "verse_text": "And, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the reapers, The LORD be with you. And they answered him, The LORD bless thee." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nEliezer, \nDeborah, \n\nJacob, \nJoseph, \n\nServants of Boaz, \nJonathan's armor-bearer, \nDavid's servants, \nCaptive maid, \nServants of Naaman, \nServants of Centurion, \nServants of Cornelius, \nOnesimus after his conversion,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:6-7", "verse_text": "And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few. 7 And his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that is in thine heart: turn thee; behold, I am with thee according to thy heart." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nEliezer, \nDeborah, \n\nJacob, \nJoseph, \n\nServants of Boaz, \nJonathan's armor-bearer, \nDavid's servants, \nCaptive maid, \nServants of Naaman, \nServants of Centurion, \nServants of Cornelius, \nOnesimus after his conversion,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:18", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?" }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nEliezer, \nDeborah, \n\nJacob, \nJoseph, \n\nServants of Boaz, \nJonathan's armor-bearer, \nDavid's servants, \nCaptive maid, \nServants of Naaman, \nServants of Centurion, \nServants of Cornelius, \nOnesimus after his conversion,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:2-4", "verse_text": "And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife. 3 And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy. 4 And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nEliezer, \nDeborah, \n\nJacob, \nJoseph, \n\nServants of Boaz, \nJonathan's armor-bearer, \nDavid's servants, \nCaptive maid, \nServants of Naaman, \nServants of Centurion, \nServants of Cornelius, \nOnesimus after his conversion,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:13", "verse_text": "And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?" }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nEliezer, \nDeborah, \n\nJacob, \nJoseph, \n\nServants of Boaz, \nJonathan's armor-bearer, \nDavid's servants, \nCaptive maid, \nServants of Naaman, \nServants of Centurion, \nServants of Cornelius, \nOnesimus after his conversion,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:9", "verse_text": "For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nEliezer, \nDeborah, \n\nJacob, \nJoseph, \n\nServants of Boaz, \nJonathan's armor-bearer, \nDavid's servants, \nCaptive maid, \nServants of Naaman, \nServants of Centurion, \nServants of Cornelius, \nOnesimus after his conversion,", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:7", "verse_text": "And when the angel which spake unto Cornelius was departed, he called two of his household servants, and a devout soldier of them that waited on him continually;" }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nEliezer, \nDeborah, \n\nJacob, \nJoseph, \n\nServants of Boaz, \nJonathan's armor-bearer, \nDavid's servants, \nCaptive maid, \nServants of Naaman, \nServants of Centurion, \nServants of Cornelius, \nOnesimus after his conversion,", "verse_ref": "Philemon 11", "verse_text": "Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:" }, { "point_text": "Bad--Exemplified.\r\n\nServants of Abraham and Lot, \nServants of Abimelech, \nAbsalom's servants, \n\r\n [Absalom's servants obeyed a bad master; they were bad men rather than bad servants.]\r\n\nZiba, \nServants of Shimei, \nJeroboam, \nZimri, \nGehazi, \nServants of Amon, \nJob's servants, \nServants of the High Priest, \nOnesimus before his conversion,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 13:7", "verse_text": "And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land." }, { "point_text": "Bad--Exemplified.\r\n\nServants of Abraham and Lot, \nServants of Abimelech, \nAbsalom's servants, \n\r\n [Absalom's servants obeyed a bad master; they were bad men rather than bad servants.]\r\n\nZiba, \nServants of Shimei, \nJeroboam, \nZimri, \nGehazi, \nServants of Amon, \nJob's servants, \nServants of the High Priest, \nOnesimus before his conversion,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:25", "verse_text": "And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away." }, { "point_text": "Bad--Exemplified.\r\n\nServants of Abraham and Lot, \nServants of Abimelech, \nAbsalom's servants, \n\r\n [Absalom's servants obeyed a bad master; they were bad men rather than bad servants.]\r\n\nZiba, \nServants of Shimei, \nJeroboam, \nZimri, \nGehazi, \nServants of Amon, \nJob's servants, \nServants of the High Priest, \nOnesimus before his conversion,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 13:28", "verse_text": "Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant." }, { "point_text": "Bad--Exemplified.\r\n\nServants of Abraham and Lot, \nServants of Abimelech, \nAbsalom's servants, \n\r\n [Absalom's servants obeyed a bad master; they were bad men rather than bad servants.]\r\n\nZiba, \nServants of Shimei, \nJeroboam, \nZimri, \nGehazi, \nServants of Amon, \nJob's servants, \nServants of the High Priest, \nOnesimus before his conversion,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 14:30", "verse_text": "Therefore he said unto his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire. And Absalom's servants set the field on fire." }, { "point_text": "Bad--Exemplified.\r\n\nServants of Abraham and Lot, \nServants of Abimelech, \nAbsalom's servants, \n\r\n [Absalom's servants obeyed a bad master; they were bad men rather than bad servants.]\r\n\nZiba, \nServants of Shimei, \nJeroboam, \nZimri, \nGehazi, \nServants of Amon, \nJob's servants, \nServants of the High Priest, \nOnesimus before his conversion,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 16:1-4", "verse_text": "And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine. 2 And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink. 3 And the king said, And where is thy master's son? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem: for he said, To day shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father. 4 Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, thine are all that pertained unto Mephibosheth. And Ziba said, I humbly beseech thee that I may find grace in thy sight, my lord, O king." }, { "point_text": "Bad--Exemplified.\r\n\nServants of Abraham and Lot, \nServants of Abimelech, \nAbsalom's servants, \n\r\n [Absalom's servants obeyed a bad master; they were bad men rather than bad servants.]\r\n\nZiba, \nServants of Shimei, \nJeroboam, \nZimri, \nGehazi, \nServants of Amon, \nJob's servants, \nServants of the High Priest, \nOnesimus before his conversion,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:39", "verse_text": "And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants be in Gath." }, { "point_text": "Bad--Exemplified.\r\n\nServants of Abraham and Lot, \nServants of Abimelech, \nAbsalom's servants, \n\r\n [Absalom's servants obeyed a bad master; they were bad men rather than bad servants.]\r\n\nZiba, \nServants of Shimei, \nJeroboam, \nZimri, \nGehazi, \nServants of Amon, \nJob's servants, \nServants of the High Priest, \nOnesimus before his conversion,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:26", "verse_text": "And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up his hand against the king." }, { "point_text": "Bad--Exemplified.\r\n\nServants of Abraham and Lot, \nServants of Abimelech, \nAbsalom's servants, \n\r\n [Absalom's servants obeyed a bad master; they were bad men rather than bad servants.]\r\n\nZiba, \nServants of Shimei, \nJeroboam, \nZimri, \nGehazi, \nServants of Amon, \nJob's servants, \nServants of the High Priest, \nOnesimus before his conversion,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:9", "verse_text": "And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah." }, { "point_text": "Bad--Exemplified.\r\n\nServants of Abraham and Lot, \nServants of Abimelech, \nAbsalom's servants, \n\r\n [Absalom's servants obeyed a bad master; they were bad men rather than bad servants.]\r\n\nZiba, \nServants of Shimei, \nJeroboam, \nZimri, \nGehazi, \nServants of Amon, \nJob's servants, \nServants of the High Priest, \nOnesimus before his conversion,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:20", "verse_text": "But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him." }, { "point_text": "Bad--Exemplified.\r\n\nServants of Abraham and Lot, \nServants of Abimelech, \nAbsalom's servants, \n\r\n [Absalom's servants obeyed a bad master; they were bad men rather than bad servants.]\r\n\nZiba, \nServants of Shimei, \nJeroboam, \nZimri, \nGehazi, \nServants of Amon, \nJob's servants, \nServants of the High Priest, \nOnesimus before his conversion,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 21:23", "verse_text": "And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house." }, { "point_text": "Bad--Exemplified.\r\n\nServants of Abraham and Lot, \nServants of Abimelech, \nAbsalom's servants, \n\r\n [Absalom's servants obeyed a bad master; they were bad men rather than bad servants.]\r\n\nZiba, \nServants of Shimei, \nJeroboam, \nZimri, \nGehazi, \nServants of Amon, \nJob's servants, \nServants of the High Priest, \nOnesimus before his conversion,", "verse_ref": "Job 19:16", "verse_text": "I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth." }, { "point_text": "Bad--Exemplified.\r\n\nServants of Abraham and Lot, \nServants of Abimelech, \nAbsalom's servants, \n\r\n [Absalom's servants obeyed a bad master; they were bad men rather than bad servants.]\r\n\nZiba, \nServants of Shimei, \nJeroboam, \nZimri, \nGehazi, \nServants of Amon, \nJob's servants, \nServants of the High Priest, \nOnesimus before his conversion,", "verse_ref": "Mark 14:65", "verse_text": "And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands." }, { "point_text": "Bad--Exemplified.\r\n\nServants of Abraham and Lot, \nServants of Abimelech, \nAbsalom's servants, \n\r\n [Absalom's servants obeyed a bad master; they were bad men rather than bad servants.]\r\n\nZiba, \nServants of Shimei, \nJeroboam, \nZimri, \nGehazi, \nServants of Amon, \nJob's servants, \nServants of the High Priest, \nOnesimus before his conversion,", "verse_ref": "Philemon 11", "verse_text": "Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:" } ] }, { "name": "Shields", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Shields.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "A part of defensive armor", "verse_ref": "Psalm 115:9", "verse_text": "O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he is their help and their shield." }, { "point_text": "A part of defensive armor", "verse_ref": "Psalm 140:7", "verse_text": "O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle." }, { "point_text": "FREQUENTLY MADE OF, OR COVERED WITH", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Gold", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:7", "verse_text": "And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Gold", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:17", "verse_text": "And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Brass", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 14:27", "verse_text": "And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's house." }, { "point_text": "Said to belong to God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 47:9", "verse_text": "The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted." }, { "point_text": "KINDS OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The buckler or target", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:15", "verse_text": "And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target." }, { "point_text": "The buckler or target", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 5:18", "verse_text": "The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war." }, { "point_text": "The buckler or target", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:8", "verse_text": "He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee." }, { "point_text": "The small shield", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:16", "verse_text": "And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Often borne by an armor-bearer", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:7", "verse_text": "And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him." }, { "point_text": "BEFORE WAR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Gathered together", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:11", "verse_text": "Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple." }, { "point_text": "Uncovered", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:6", "verse_text": "And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield." }, { "point_text": "Repaired", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 46:3", "verse_text": "Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle." }, { "point_text": "Anointed", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 1:21", "verse_text": "Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil." }, { "point_text": "Anointed", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 21:5", "verse_text": "Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield." }, { "point_text": "Often made red", "verse_ref": "Nahum 2:3", "verse_text": "The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken." }, { "point_text": "Provided by the kings of Israel in great abundance", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 11:12", "verse_text": "And in every several city he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side." }, { "point_text": "Provided by the kings of Israel in great abundance", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:14", "verse_text": "And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones." }, { "point_text": "Provided by the kings of Israel in great abundance", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 32:5", "verse_text": "Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance." }, { "point_text": "A disgrace to lose, or throw away", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 1:21", "verse_text": "Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil." }, { "point_text": "Of the vanquished, often burned", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 39:9", "verse_text": "And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:" }, { "point_text": "In times of peace were hung up in towers of armories", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:10", "verse_text": "They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness." }, { "point_text": "In times of peace were hung up in towers of armories", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:4", "verse_text": "Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men." }, { "point_text": "Were scarce in Israel in the days of Deborah and Barak", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:8", "verse_text": "They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?" }, { "point_text": "Many of the Israelites used, with expertness", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:8", "verse_text": "And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains;" }, { "point_text": "Many of the Israelites used, with expertness", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:24", "verse_text": "The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war." }, { "point_text": "Many of the Israelites used, with expertness", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:34", "verse_text": "And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand." }, { "point_text": "Many of the Israelites used, with expertness", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 14:8", "verse_text": "And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valour." }, { "point_text": "Many of the Israelites used, with expertness", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 25:5", "verse_text": "Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Protection of God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:1", "verse_text": "After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward." }, { "point_text": "Protection of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 33:20", "verse_text": "Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield." }, { "point_text": "Favor of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 5:12", "verse_text": "For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield." }, { "point_text": "Truth of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 91:4", "verse_text": "He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler." }, { "point_text": "Salvation of God", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 22:36", "verse_text": "Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great." }, { "point_text": "Salvation of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 18:35", "verse_text": "Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great." }, { "point_text": "Faith", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:16", "verse_text": "Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked." } ] }, { "name": "Ships", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Ships.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Probably originated from the ark made by Noah", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:17-18", "verse_text": "And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. 18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters." }, { "point_text": "Antiquity of, among the Jews", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:13", "verse_text": "Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon." }, { "point_text": "Antiquity of, among the Jews", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:17", "verse_text": "Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Gallant", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:21", "verse_text": "But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby." }, { "point_text": "Large", "verse_ref": "James 3:4", "verse_text": "Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth." }, { "point_text": "Strong", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:14", "verse_text": "Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste." }, { "point_text": "Swift", "verse_ref": "Job 9:26", "verse_text": "They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey." }, { "point_text": "Solomon built a navy of", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 9:26", "verse_text": "And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom." }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of Chittim", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:24", "verse_text": "And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever." }, { "point_text": "Of Chittim", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:30", "verse_text": "For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant." }, { "point_text": "Of Tarshish", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:1", "verse_text": "The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them." }, { "point_text": "Of Tarshish", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:9", "verse_text": "Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee." }, { "point_text": "Of Adramyttium", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:2", "verse_text": "And entering into a ship of Adramyttium, we launched, meaning to sail by the coasts of Asia; one Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us." }, { "point_text": "Of Alexandria", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:6", "verse_text": "And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy; and he put us therein." }, { "point_text": "Of Chaldea", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 43:14", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships." }, { "point_text": "Of Tyre", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 8:18", "verse_text": "And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon." }, { "point_text": "Generally made of the fir tree", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:5", "verse_text": "They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes made of bulrushes", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 18:2", "verse_text": "That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!" }, { "point_text": "The seams of, were calked", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:9", "verse_text": "The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise." }, { "point_text": "The seams of, were calked", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:27", "verse_text": "Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin." }, { "point_text": "PARTS OF MENTIONED;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The forepart or foreship", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:30", "verse_text": "And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship," }, { "point_text": "The forepart or foreship", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:41", "verse_text": "And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves." }, { "point_text": "The hinder part or stern", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:29", "verse_text": "Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day." }, { "point_text": "The hinder part or stern", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:41", "verse_text": "And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves." }, { "point_text": "The hold or between the sides", "verse_ref": "Jonah 1:5", "verse_text": "Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep." }, { "point_text": "The mast", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:23", "verse_text": "Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey." }, { "point_text": "The mast", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:5", "verse_text": "They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee." }, { "point_text": "The sails", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:23", "verse_text": "Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey." }, { "point_text": "The sails", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:7", "verse_text": "Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee." }, { "point_text": "The tackling", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:23", "verse_text": "Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey." }, { "point_text": "The tackling", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:19", "verse_text": "And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship." }, { "point_text": "The rudder or helm", "verse_ref": "James 3:4", "verse_text": "Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth." }, { "point_text": "The rudder-bands", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:40", "verse_text": "And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore." }, { "point_text": "The anchors", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:29", "verse_text": "Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day." }, { "point_text": "The anchors", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:40", "verse_text": "And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore." }, { "point_text": "The boats", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:30", "verse_text": "And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship," }, { "point_text": "The boats", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:32", "verse_text": "Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off." }, { "point_text": "The oars", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:21", "verse_text": "But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby." }, { "point_text": "The oars", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:6", "verse_text": "Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim." }, { "point_text": "Often the property of individuals", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:11", "verse_text": "Nevertheless the centurion believed the master and the owner of the ship, more than those things which were spoken by Paul." }, { "point_text": "Commanded by a master", "verse_ref": "Jonah 1:6", "verse_text": "So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not." }, { "point_text": "Commanded by a master", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:11", "verse_text": "Nevertheless the centurion believed the master and the owner of the ship, more than those things which were spoken by Paul." }, { "point_text": "Guided in their course by pilots", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:8", "verse_text": "The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots." }, { "point_text": "Guided in their course by pilots", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:27-29", "verse_text": "Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin. 28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. 29 And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land;" }, { "point_text": "Governed and directed by the helm", "verse_ref": "James 3:4", "verse_text": "Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth." }, { "point_text": "Course of frequently directed by the heavenly bodies", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:20", "verse_text": "And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away." }, { "point_text": "Worked by mariners or sailors", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:9", "verse_text": "The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise." }, { "point_text": "Worked by mariners or sailors", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:27", "verse_text": "Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin." }, { "point_text": "Generally impelled by sails", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:2-7", "verse_text": "And entering into a ship of Adramyttium, we launched, meaning to sail by the coasts of Asia; one Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us. 3 And the next day we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously entreated Paul, and gave him liberty to go unto his friends to refresh himself. 4 And when we had launched from thence, we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds were contrary. 5 And when we had sailed over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia. ..." }, { "point_text": "Often impelled by oars", "verse_ref": "Jonah 1:13", "verse_text": "Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them." }, { "point_text": "Often impelled by oars", "verse_ref": "John 6:19", "verse_text": "So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid." }, { "point_text": "NAVIGATED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Rivers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:21", "verse_text": "But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby." }, { "point_text": "Lakes", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:1-2", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret, 2 And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets." }, { "point_text": "The ocean", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:26", "verse_text": "There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein." }, { "point_text": "The ocean", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:23", "verse_text": "They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;" }, { "point_text": "Soundings usually taken for, in dangerous places", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:28", "verse_text": "And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms." }, { "point_text": "Usually distinguished by signs or figure heads", "verse_ref": "Acts 28:11", "verse_text": "And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux." }, { "point_text": "Course of, through the midst of the sea, wonderful", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:18-19", "verse_text": "There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: 19 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid." }, { "point_text": "EMPLOYED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Trading", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:48", "verse_text": "Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber." }, { "point_text": "Trading", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 8:18", "verse_text": "And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon." }, { "point_text": "Trading", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:21", "verse_text": "For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks." }, { "point_text": "Fishing", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:21", "verse_text": "And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them." }, { "point_text": "Fishing", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:4-9", "verse_text": "Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught. 5 And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net. 6 And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake. 7 And they beckoned unto their partners, which were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they came, and filled both the ships, so that they began to sink. ..." }, { "point_text": "Fishing", "verse_ref": "John 21:3-8", "verse_text": "Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing. 4 But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus. 5 Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered him, No. 6 And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes. ..." }, { "point_text": "War", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:24", "verse_text": "And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever." }, { "point_text": "War", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:30", "verse_text": "For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant." }, { "point_text": "War", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:40", "verse_text": "And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over." }, { "point_text": "Carrying passengers", "verse_ref": "Jonah 1:3", "verse_text": "But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Carrying passengers", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:2", "verse_text": "And entering into a ship of Adramyttium, we launched, meaning to sail by the coasts of Asia; one Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us." }, { "point_text": "Carrying passengers", "verse_ref": "Acts 28:11", "verse_text": "And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux." }, { "point_text": "The hinder part of, occupied by the passengers", "verse_ref": "Mark 4:38", "verse_text": "And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?" }, { "point_text": "ENDANGERED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Storms", "verse_ref": "Jonah 1:4", "verse_text": "But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken." }, { "point_text": "Storms", "verse_ref": "Mark 4:37-38", "verse_text": "And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. 38 And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?" }, { "point_text": "Quicksands", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:17", "verse_text": "Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven." }, { "point_text": "Rocks", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:29", "verse_text": "Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day." }, { "point_text": "When damaged were sometimes undergirded with cables", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:17", "verse_text": "Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven." }, { "point_text": "Were often wrecked", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:48", "verse_text": "Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber." }, { "point_text": "Were often wrecked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 48:7", "verse_text": "Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind." }, { "point_text": "Were often wrecked", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:41-44", "verse_text": "And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves. 42 And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape. 43 But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land: 44 And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land." }, { "point_text": "Were often wrecked", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 11:25", "verse_text": "Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;" }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of industrious women", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:14", "verse_text": "She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar." }, { "point_text": "(Wrecked,) of departure from the faith", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:19", "verse_text": "Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:" } ] }, { "name": "Sheep", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Sheep.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Clean and used as food", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:4", "verse_text": "These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat," }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Innocent", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:17", "verse_text": "And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house." }, { "point_text": "Sagacious", "verse_ref": "John 10:4-5", "verse_text": "And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. 5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers." }, { "point_text": "Agile", "verse_ref": "Psalm 114:4", "verse_text": "The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs." }, { "point_text": "Agile", "verse_ref": "Psalm 114:6", "verse_text": "Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?" }, { "point_text": "Being covered with a fleece", "verse_ref": "Job 31:20", "verse_text": "If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;" }, { "point_text": "Remarkably prolific", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:41", "verse_text": "Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock." }, { "point_text": "Remarkably prolific", "verse_ref": "Psalm 144:13", "verse_text": "That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:" }, { "point_text": "Remarkably prolific", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:2", "verse_text": "Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them." }, { "point_text": "Remarkably prolific", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 36:37", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock." }, { "point_text": "Bleating of, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:16", "verse_text": "Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart." }, { "point_text": "Bleating of, alluded to", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:14", "verse_text": "And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?" }, { "point_text": "Under man's care from the earliest age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:4", "verse_text": "And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:" }, { "point_text": "Constituted a great part of patriarchal wealth", "verse_ref": "Genesis 13:5", "verse_text": "And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents." }, { "point_text": "Constituted a great part of patriarchal wealth", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:35", "verse_text": "And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses." }, { "point_text": "Constituted a great part of patriarchal wealth", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:14", "verse_text": "For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him." }, { "point_text": "Males of, called rams", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:22", "verse_text": "And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams." }, { "point_text": "Males of, called rams", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:40", "verse_text": "I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats." }, { "point_text": "Females of, called ewes", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:71", "verse_text": "From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance." }, { "point_text": "Young of, called lambs", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:3", "verse_text": "Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:" }, { "point_text": "Young of, called lambs", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:6", "verse_text": "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them." }, { "point_text": "PLACES CELEBRATED FOR;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Kedar", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:21", "verse_text": "Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants." }, { "point_text": "Bashan", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:14", "verse_text": "Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape." }, { "point_text": "Nebaioth", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:7", "verse_text": "All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory." }, { "point_text": "Bozra", "verse_ref": "Micah 2:12", "verse_text": "I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men." }, { "point_text": "Flesh of, extensively used as food", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:18", "verse_text": "Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses." }, { "point_text": "Flesh of, extensively used as food", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 1:19", "verse_text": "And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the host: but Solomon thy servant hath he not called." }, { "point_text": "Flesh of, extensively used as food", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:23", "verse_text": "Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl." }, { "point_text": "Flesh of, extensively used as food", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 5:18", "verse_text": "Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people." }, { "point_text": "Flesh of, extensively used as food", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:13", "verse_text": "And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die." }, { "point_text": "Milk of, used as food", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:14", "verse_text": "Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape." }, { "point_text": "Milk of, used as food", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:21-22", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep; 22 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land." }, { "point_text": "Milk of, used as food", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:7", "verse_text": "Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?" }, { "point_text": "Skins of, worn as clothing by the poor", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:37", "verse_text": "They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;" }, { "point_text": "Skins of, made into a covering for the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:5", "verse_text": "And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood," }, { "point_text": "Skins of, made into a covering for the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 36:10", "verse_text": "And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and the other five curtains he coupled one unto another." }, { "point_text": "Skins of, made into a covering for the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 39:34", "verse_text": "And the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers' skins, and the vail of the covering," }, { "point_text": "Wool of, made into clothing", "verse_ref": "Job 31:20", "verse_text": "If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;" }, { "point_text": "Wool of, made into clothing", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:13", "verse_text": "She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands." }, { "point_text": "Wool of, made into clothing", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 34:3", "verse_text": "Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock." }, { "point_text": "Offered in sacrifice from the earliest age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:4", "verse_text": "And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:" }, { "point_text": "Offered in sacrifice from the earliest age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:20", "verse_text": "And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar." }, { "point_text": "Offered in sacrifice from the earliest age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:9-10", "verse_text": "And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. 10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not." }, { "point_text": "Offered in sacrifice under the law", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:24", "verse_text": "An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee." }, { "point_text": "Offered in sacrifice under the law", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:10", "verse_text": "And if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without blemish." }, { "point_text": "Offered in sacrifice under the law", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:5", "verse_text": "And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude." }, { "point_text": "Offered in sacrifice under the law", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:63", "verse_text": "And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "FLOCKS OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Attended by members of the family", "verse_ref": "Genesis 29:9", "verse_text": "And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them." }, { "point_text": "Attended by members of the family", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:16", "verse_text": "Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock." }, { "point_text": "Attended by members of the family", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 16:11", "verse_text": "And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither." }, { "point_text": "Attended by servants", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:20", "verse_text": "And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle." }, { "point_text": "Attended by servants", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:5", "verse_text": "And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers." }, { "point_text": "Guarded by dogs", "verse_ref": "Job 30:1", "verse_text": "But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock." }, { "point_text": "Kept in folds or cotes", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 24:3", "verse_text": "And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave." }, { "point_text": "Kept in folds or cotes", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:8", "verse_text": "Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:" }, { "point_text": "Kept in folds or cotes", "verse_ref": "John 10:1", "verse_text": "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber." }, { "point_text": "Conducted to the richest pastures", "verse_ref": "Psalm 23:2", "verse_text": "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters." }, { "point_text": "Fed on the mountains", "verse_ref": "Exodus 3:1", "verse_text": "Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb." }, { "point_text": "Fed on the mountains", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 34:6", "verse_text": "My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them." }, { "point_text": "Fed on the mountains", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 34:13", "verse_text": "And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country." }, { "point_text": "Fed in the valleys", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:10", "verse_text": "And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me." }, { "point_text": "Frequently covered the pastures", "verse_ref": "Psalm 65:13", "verse_text": "The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing." }, { "point_text": "Watered every day", "verse_ref": "Genesis 29:8-10", "verse_text": "And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep. 9 And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them. 10 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother." }, { "point_text": "Watered every day", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:16-17", "verse_text": "Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. 17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock." }, { "point_text": "Made to rest at noon", "verse_ref": "Psalm 23:2", "verse_text": "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters." }, { "point_text": "Made to rest at noon", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 1:7", "verse_text": "Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?" }, { "point_text": "Followed the shepherd", "verse_ref": "John 10:4", "verse_text": "And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice." }, { "point_text": "Followed the shepherd", "verse_ref": "John 10:27", "verse_text": "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:" }, { "point_text": "Fled from strangers", "verse_ref": "John 10:5", "verse_text": "And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers." }, { "point_text": "Washed and shorn every year", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:2", "verse_text": "Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them." }, { "point_text": "Firstlings of, not to be shorn", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 15:19", "verse_text": "All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep." }, { "point_text": "Firstlings of, not to be redeemed", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:17", "verse_text": "But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Firstlings of, could not be dedicated as a free-will offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 27:26", "verse_text": "Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the LORD'S firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep: it is the LORD'S." }, { "point_text": "Tithe of, given to the Levites", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:4-6", "verse_text": "Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD. 5 And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly. 6 And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the LORD their God, and laid them by heaps." }, { "point_text": "First wool of, given to the priests", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:4", "verse_text": "The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him." }, { "point_text": "Time of shearing, a time of rejoicing", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:2", "verse_text": "And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel." }, { "point_text": "Time of shearing, a time of rejoicing", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:11", "verse_text": "Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?" }, { "point_text": "Time of shearing, a time of rejoicing", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:36", "verse_text": "And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light." }, { "point_text": "Time of shearing, a time of rejoicing", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 13:23", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baalhazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king's sons." }, { "point_text": "WERE FREQUENTLY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Given as presents", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 17:29", "verse_text": "And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "Given as presents", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:40", "verse_text": "Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel." }, { "point_text": "Given as tribute", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 3:4", "verse_text": "And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool." }, { "point_text": "Given as tribute", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 17:11", "verse_text": "Also some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred he goats." }, { "point_text": "Destroyed by wild beasts", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:17", "verse_text": "Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones." }, { "point_text": "Destroyed by wild beasts", "verse_ref": "Micah 5:8", "verse_text": "And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver." }, { "point_text": "Destroyed by wild beasts", "verse_ref": "John 10:12", "verse_text": "But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep." }, { "point_text": "Taken in great numbers in war", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:4", "verse_text": "And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass." }, { "point_text": "Taken in great numbers in war", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:32", "verse_text": "And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood." }, { "point_text": "Taken in great numbers in war", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 5:21", "verse_text": "And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand." }, { "point_text": "Taken in great numbers in war", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 14:15", "verse_text": "They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Cut off by disease", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:3", "verse_text": "Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain." }, { "point_text": "False prophets assume the simple appearance", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:15", "verse_text": "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the Jews", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:1", "verse_text": "O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?" }, { "point_text": "Of the Jews", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:52", "verse_text": "But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock." }, { "point_text": "Of the Jews", "verse_ref": "Psalm 79:13", "verse_text": "So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations." }, { "point_text": "Of the people of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 10:7-26", "verse_text": "Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. 8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. 9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. 10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. ..." }, { "point_text": "Of the people of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 21:16-17", "verse_text": "He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep. 17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep." }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked in their death", "verse_ref": "Psalm 49:14", "verse_text": "Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling." }, { "point_text": "Of those under God's judgment", "verse_ref": "Psalm 44:1", "verse_text": "We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old." }, { "point_text": "(In patience and simplicity,) of patience, &c. of Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:7", "verse_text": "He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth." }, { "point_text": "(In proneness to wander,) of those who depart from God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:176", "verse_text": "I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments." }, { "point_text": "(In proneness to wander,) of those who depart from God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:6", "verse_text": "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." }, { "point_text": "(In proneness to wander,) of those who depart from God", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 34:16", "verse_text": "I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment." }, { "point_text": "(Lost,) of the unregenerate", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:6", "verse_text": "But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." }, { "point_text": "(When found,) of restored sinners", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:5", "verse_text": "And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing." }, { "point_text": "(When found,) of restored sinners", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:7", "verse_text": "I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance." }, { "point_text": "(Separated from the goats,) of the separation of saints from the wicked", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:32-33", "verse_text": "And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: 33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left." } ] }, { "name": "Shoes", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Shoes.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Early use of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:23", "verse_text": "That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:" }, { "point_text": "Called sandals", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:9", "verse_text": "But be shod with sandals; and not put on two coats." }, { "point_text": "Called sandals", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:8", "verse_text": "And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me." }, { "point_text": "Soles of, sometimes plated with brass or iron", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:25", "verse_text": "Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be." }, { "point_text": "Bound round the feet with latchets or strings", "verse_ref": "John 1:27", "verse_text": "He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose." }, { "point_text": "Bound round the feet with latchets or strings", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:8", "verse_text": "And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me." }, { "point_text": "OF LADIES OF DISTINCTION", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Often made of badgers' skins", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:10", "verse_text": "I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk." }, { "point_text": "Often highly ornamental", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 7:1", "verse_text": "How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman." }, { "point_text": "Probably often adorned with tinkling ornaments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:18", "verse_text": "In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon," }, { "point_text": "Loosing of, for another a degrading office", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:17", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men." }, { "point_text": "Loosing of, for another a degrading office", "verse_ref": "John 1:27", "verse_text": "He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose." }, { "point_text": "Bearing, for another a degrading office, only performed by slaves", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:11", "verse_text": "I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:" }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Put on, before beginning a journey", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:11", "verse_text": "And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover." }, { "point_text": "Never wore, in mourning", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 15:30", "verse_text": "And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that was with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up." }, { "point_text": "Never wore, in mourning", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 20:2-3", "verse_text": "At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. 3 And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;" }, { "point_text": "Put off, when they entered sacred places", "verse_ref": "Exodus 3:5", "verse_text": "And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground." }, { "point_text": "Put off, when they entered sacred places", "verse_ref": "Joshua 5:15", "verse_text": "And the captain of the LORD'S host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so." }, { "point_text": "Worn out by a long journey", "verse_ref": "Joshua 9:5", "verse_text": "And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy." }, { "point_text": "Worn out by a long journey", "verse_ref": "Joshua 9:13", "verse_text": "And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey." }, { "point_text": "Of Israel preserved for forty years, while journeying in the wilderness", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 29:5", "verse_text": "And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot." }, { "point_text": "Often given as bribes", "verse_ref": "Amos 2:6", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;" }, { "point_text": "Often given as bribes", "verse_ref": "Amos 8:6", "verse_text": "That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?" }, { "point_text": "CUSTOMS CONNECTED WITH;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "A man who refused to marry a deceased brother's wife disgraced by pulling off his shoes", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 25:9-10", "verse_text": "Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house. 10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed." }, { "point_text": "The right of redemption resigned by a man's giving one of his shoes to the next of kin", "verse_ref": "Ruth 4:7-8", "verse_text": "Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour: and this was a testimony in Israel. 8 Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thee. So he drew off his shoe." }, { "point_text": "The Apostles prohibited from taking for their journey more, than the pair they had on", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:10", "verse_text": "Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat." }, { "point_text": "The Apostles prohibited from taking for their journey more, than the pair they had on", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:9", "verse_text": "But be shod with sandals; and not put on two coats." }, { "point_text": "The Apostles prohibited from taking for their journey more, than the pair they had on", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:4", "verse_text": "Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the preparation of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:15", "verse_text": "And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;" }, { "point_text": "Of the beauty conferred on saints", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 7:1", "verse_text": "How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman." }, { "point_text": "Of the beauty conferred on saints", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:22", "verse_text": "But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:" }, { "point_text": "(Having blood on,) of being engaged in war and slaughter", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:5", "verse_text": "Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet." }, { "point_text": "(Taken off,) of an ignominious and servile condition", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 47:2", "verse_text": "Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers." }, { "point_text": "(Taken off,) of an ignominious and servile condition", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:25", "verse_text": "Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go." }, { "point_text": "(Thrown over a place,) of subjection", "verse_ref": "Psalm 60:8", "verse_text": "Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me." }, { "point_text": "(Thrown over a place,) of subjection", "verse_ref": "Psalm 108:9", "verse_text": "Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph." } ] }, { "name": "Showbread", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Showbread.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Twelve cakes of fine flour", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 24:5", "verse_text": "And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake." }, { "point_text": "Called hallowed bread", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 21:4", "verse_text": "And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women." }, { "point_text": "Materials for, provided by the people", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 24:8", "verse_text": "Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant." }, { "point_text": "Materials for, provided by the people", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 10:32-33", "verse_text": "Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God; 33 For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God." }, { "point_text": "Prepared by Levites", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 9:32", "verse_text": "And other of their brethren, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the shewbread, to prepare it every sabbath." }, { "point_text": "Prepared by Levites", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:29", "verse_text": "Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size;" }, { "point_text": "Placed in two rows on the table by the priests", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:30", "verse_text": "And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway." }, { "point_text": "Placed in two rows on the table by the priests", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:23", "verse_text": "And he set the bread in order upon it before the LORD; as the LORD had commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "Placed in two rows on the table by the priests", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 24:6", "verse_text": "And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "TABLE OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Dimensions, &c. of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:23", "verse_text": "Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof." }, { "point_text": "Covered with gold", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:24", "verse_text": "And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about." }, { "point_text": "Had an ornamental border", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:25", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about." }, { "point_text": "Had staves of shittim wood covered with gold", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:28", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them." }, { "point_text": "Had rings of gold in the corners for the staves", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:26-27", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof. 27 Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table." }, { "point_text": "Had dishes, spoons, covers, and bowls of gold", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:29", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt thou make them." }, { "point_text": "Placed in the north side of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:22", "verse_text": "And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the vail." }, { "point_text": "Placed in the north side of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:2", "verse_text": "For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary." }, { "point_text": "Directions for removing", "verse_ref": "Numbers 4:7", "verse_text": "And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon:" }, { "point_text": "Pure frankincense placed on", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 24:7", "verse_text": "And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Was changed every Sabbath day", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 24:8", "verse_text": "Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant." }, { "point_text": "After removal from the table given to the priests", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 24:9", "verse_text": "And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute." }, { "point_text": "Not lawful for any but the priests to eat, except in extreme cases", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 21:4-6", "verse_text": "And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women. 5 And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel. 6 So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away." }, { "point_text": "Not lawful for any but the priests to eat, except in extreme cases", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:4", "verse_text": "How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?" }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Christ as the bread of life", "verse_ref": "John 6:48", "verse_text": "I am that bread of life." }, { "point_text": "The Church", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 5:7", "verse_text": "Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:" }, { "point_text": "The Church", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:17", "verse_text": "For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread." } ] }, { "name": "Sickness", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Sickness.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Sent by God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:59-61", "verse_text": "Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. 60 Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee. 61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed." }, { "point_text": "Sent by God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:39", "verse_text": "See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand." }, { "point_text": "Sent by God", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:15", "verse_text": "And Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick." }, { "point_text": "Sent by God", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:23", "verse_text": "And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost." }, { "point_text": "The devil sometimes permitted to inflict", "verse_ref": "Job 2:6-7", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life. 7 So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown." }, { "point_text": "Often brought on by intemperance", "verse_ref": "Hosea 7:5", "verse_text": "In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners." }, { "point_text": "Often sent as a punishment of sin", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:14-16", "verse_text": "But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; 15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: 16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it." }, { "point_text": "Often sent as a punishment of sin", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 21:12-15", "verse_text": "And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah, 13 But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were better than thyself: 14 Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods: 15 And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day." }, { "point_text": "Often sent as a punishment of sin", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:30", "verse_text": "For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep." }, { "point_text": "One of God's four sore judgments on a guilty land", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 14:19-21", "verse_text": "Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast: 20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness. 21 For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?" }, { "point_text": "GOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Promises to heal", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:25", "verse_text": "And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee." }, { "point_text": "Promises to heal", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:5", "verse_text": "Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Heals", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:39", "verse_text": "See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand." }, { "point_text": "Heals", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:3", "verse_text": "Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;" }, { "point_text": "Heals", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:5", "verse_text": "Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years." }, { "point_text": "Heals", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:9", "verse_text": "The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:" }, { "point_text": "Exhibits His mercy in healing", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:27", "verse_text": "For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow." }, { "point_text": "Exhibits His power in healing", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:17", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them." }, { "point_text": "Exhibits His love in healing", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:17", "verse_text": "Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back." }, { "point_text": "Often manifests saving grace to sinners during", "verse_ref": "Job 33:19-24", "verse_text": "He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain: 20 So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat. 21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out. 22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers. ..." }, { "point_text": "Often manifests saving grace to sinners during", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:17-21", "verse_text": "Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. 18 Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death. 19 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses. 20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. ..." }, { "point_text": "Permits saints to be tried by", "verse_ref": "Job 2:5-6", "verse_text": "But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face. 6 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life." }, { "point_text": "Strengthens saints in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 41:3", "verse_text": "The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness." }, { "point_text": "Comforts saints in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 41:3", "verse_text": "The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness." }, { "point_text": "Hears the prayers of those in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 30:2", "verse_text": "O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me." }, { "point_text": "Hears the prayers of those in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:18-20", "verse_text": "Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death. 19 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses. 20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions." }, { "point_text": "Preserves saints in time of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 91:3-7", "verse_text": "Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. 4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. 5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; 6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. ..." }, { "point_text": "Abandons the wicked to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 34:17", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Persecutes the wicked by", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 29:18", "verse_text": "And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:" }, { "point_text": "Healing of, lawful on the Sabbath", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:14-16", "verse_text": "And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day. 15 The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering? 16 And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?" }, { "point_text": "Christ compassionated those in", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:4", "verse_text": "Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted." }, { "point_text": "Christ compassionated those in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:16-17", "verse_text": "When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick: 17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses." }, { "point_text": "CHRIST HEALED,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Being present", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:31", "verse_text": "And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them." }, { "point_text": "Being present", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:23", "verse_text": "And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people." }, { "point_text": "Not being present", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:13", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour." }, { "point_text": "By imposition of hands", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:5", "verse_text": "And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them." }, { "point_text": "By imposition of hands", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:13", "verse_text": "And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God." }, { "point_text": "With a touch", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:3", "verse_text": "And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed." }, { "point_text": "Through the touch of His garment", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:35-36", "verse_text": "And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased; 36 And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole." }, { "point_text": "With a word", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:8", "verse_text": "The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed." }, { "point_text": "With a word", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:13", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour." }, { "point_text": "Faith required in those healed of, by Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:28-29", "verse_text": "And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord. 29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you." }, { "point_text": "Often incurable by human means", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:27", "verse_text": "The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed." }, { "point_text": "Often incurable by human means", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 21:18", "verse_text": "And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease." }, { "point_text": "The Apostles were endued with power to heal", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:1", "verse_text": "And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease." }, { "point_text": "The Apostles were endued with power to heal", "verse_ref": "Mark 16:18", "verse_text": "They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." }, { "point_text": "The Apostles were endued with power to heal", "verse_ref": "Mark 16:20", "verse_text": "And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen." }, { "point_text": "THE POWER OF HEALING", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "One of the miraculous gifts bestowed on the early Church", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:9", "verse_text": "To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;" }, { "point_text": "One of the miraculous gifts bestowed on the early Church", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:30", "verse_text": "Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?" }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Acknowledge that, comes from God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 31:1-8", "verse_text": "In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness. 2 Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me. 3 For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me. 4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength. ..." }, { "point_text": "Acknowledge that, comes from God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:12", "verse_text": "Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me." }, { "point_text": "Acknowledge that, comes from God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:15", "verse_text": "What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul." }, { "point_text": "Are resigned under", "verse_ref": "Job 2:10", "verse_text": "But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips." }, { "point_text": "Mourn under, with prayer", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:14", "verse_text": "Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me." }, { "point_text": "Pray for recovery from", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:2-3", "verse_text": "Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, 3 And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore." }, { "point_text": "Ascribe recovery from, to God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:20", "verse_text": "The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Praise God for recovery from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:1-3", "verse_text": "Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. 2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: 3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;" }, { "point_text": "Praise God for recovery from", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:19", "verse_text": "The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth." }, { "point_text": "Praise God for recovery from", "verse_ref": "Luke 17:15", "verse_text": "And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God," }, { "point_text": "Thank God publicly for recovery from", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:20", "verse_text": "The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Thank God publicly for recovery from", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:8", "verse_text": "And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God." }, { "point_text": "Feel for others in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 35:13", "verse_text": "But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom." }, { "point_text": "Visit those in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:36", "verse_text": "Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me." }, { "point_text": "Visiting those in, an evidence of belonging to Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:34", "verse_text": "Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:" }, { "point_text": "Visiting those in, an evidence of belonging to Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:36", "verse_text": "Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me." }, { "point_text": "Visiting those in, an evidence of belonging to Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:40", "verse_text": "And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." }, { "point_text": "Pray for those afflicted with", "verse_ref": "Acts 28:8", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him." }, { "point_text": "Pray for those afflicted with", "verse_ref": "James 5:14-15", "verse_text": "Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him." }, { "point_text": "God's aid should be sought in", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 16:12", "verse_text": "And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Have much sorrow, &c. with", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 5:17", "verse_text": "All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness." }, { "point_text": "Forsake those in", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 30:13", "verse_text": "And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick." }, { "point_text": "Visit not those in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:43", "verse_text": "I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not." }, { "point_text": "Not visiting those in, an evidence of not belonging to Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:43", "verse_text": "I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not." }, { "point_text": "Not visiting those in, an evidence of not belonging to Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:45", "verse_text": "Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me." }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of sin", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 13:45-46", "verse_text": "And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean. 46 All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be." } ] }, { "name": "Shepherds", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Shepherds.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Early mention of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:2", "verse_text": "And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground." }, { "point_text": "Usually carried a scrip or bag", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:40", "verse_text": "And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine." }, { "point_text": "Carried a staff or rod", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 27:32", "verse_text": "And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Carried a staff or rod", "verse_ref": "Psalm 23:4", "verse_text": "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." }, { "point_text": "Dwelt in tents while tending their flocks", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 1:8", "verse_text": "If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents." }, { "point_text": "Dwelt in tents while tending their flocks", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:12", "verse_text": "Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me." }, { "point_text": "Members of the family both male and female acted as", "verse_ref": "Genesis 29:6", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Is he well? And they said, He is well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep." }, { "point_text": "Members of the family both male and female acted as", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 16:11", "verse_text": "And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither." }, { "point_text": "Members of the family both male and female acted as", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:15", "verse_text": "But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem." }, { "point_text": "Had hired keepers under them", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:20", "verse_text": "And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle." }, { "point_text": "The unfaithfulness of hireling, alluded to", "verse_ref": "John 10:12", "verse_text": "But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep." }, { "point_text": "CARE OF THE SHEEP BY, EXHIBITED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Knowing them", "verse_ref": "John 10:14", "verse_text": "I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine." }, { "point_text": "Going before and leading them", "verse_ref": "Psalm 77:20", "verse_text": "Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron." }, { "point_text": "Going before and leading them", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:52", "verse_text": "But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock." }, { "point_text": "Going before and leading them", "verse_ref": "Psalm 80:1", "verse_text": "Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth." }, { "point_text": "Seeking out good pasture for them", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 4:39-41", "verse_text": "And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks. 40 And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old. 41 And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms: because there was pasture there for their flocks." }, { "point_text": "Seeking out good pasture for them", "verse_ref": "Psalm 23:2", "verse_text": "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters." }, { "point_text": "Numbering them when they return from pasture", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 33:13", "verse_text": "In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth them, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Watching over them by night", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:8", "verse_text": "And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night." }, { "point_text": "Tenderness to the ewes in lamb, and to the young", "verse_ref": "Genesis 33:13-14", "verse_text": "And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die. 14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir." }, { "point_text": "Defending them when attacked by wild beasts", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:34-36", "verse_text": "And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock: 35 And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. 36 Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God." }, { "point_text": "Defending them when attacked by wild beasts", "verse_ref": "Amos 3:12", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch." }, { "point_text": "Searching them out when lost and straying", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 34:12", "verse_text": "As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day." }, { "point_text": "Searching them out when lost and straying", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:4-5", "verse_text": "What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? 5 And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing." }, { "point_text": "Attending them when sick", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 34:16", "verse_text": "I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment." }, { "point_text": "An abomination to the Egyptians", "verse_ref": "Genesis 46:34", "verse_text": "That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of God as leader of Israel", "verse_ref": "Psalm 77:20", "verse_text": "Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron." }, { "point_text": "Of God as leader of Israel", "verse_ref": "Psalm 80:1", "verse_text": "Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth." }, { "point_text": "Of Christ as the good shepherd", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 34:23", "verse_text": "And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd." }, { "point_text": "Of Christ as the good shepherd", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 13:7", "verse_text": "Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones." }, { "point_text": "Of Christ as the good shepherd", "verse_ref": "John 10:14", "verse_text": "I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine." }, { "point_text": "Of Christ as the good shepherd", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:20", "verse_text": "Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant," }, { "point_text": "Of kings as the leaders of the people", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:28", "verse_text": "That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid." }, { "point_text": "Of kings as the leaders of the people", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:3", "verse_text": "The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place." }, { "point_text": "Of kings as the leaders of the people", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:19", "verse_text": "Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?" }, { "point_text": "Of ministers of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:4", "verse_text": "And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "(Searching out straying sheep,) of Christ seeking the lost", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 34:12", "verse_text": "As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day." }, { "point_text": "(Searching out straying sheep,) of Christ seeking the lost", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:2-7", "verse_text": "And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them. 3 And he spake this parable unto them, saying, 4 What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? 5 And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. ..." }, { "point_text": "(Their care and tenderness,) of tenderness of Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:11", "verse_text": "He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young." }, { "point_text": "(Their care and tenderness,) of tenderness of Christ", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 34:13-16", "verse_text": "And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country. 14 I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel. 15 I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD. 16 I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment." }, { "point_text": "(Ignorant and foolish,) of bad ministers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:11", "verse_text": "Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter." }, { "point_text": "(Ignorant and foolish,) of bad ministers", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:6", "verse_text": "My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace." }, { "point_text": "(Ignorant and foolish,) of bad ministers", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 34:2", "verse_text": "Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?" }, { "point_text": "(Ignorant and foolish,) of bad ministers", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 34:10", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them." } ] }, { "name": "Sieges", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Sieges.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Fenced cities invested by", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:13", "verse_text": "Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them." }, { "point_text": "Threatened as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:52", "verse_text": "And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Encamping against", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:28", "verse_text": "Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it: lest I take the city, and it be called after my name." }, { "point_text": "Encamping against", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 32:1", "verse_text": "After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself." }, { "point_text": "Pitching against", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about." }, { "point_text": "Compassing about with armies", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:14", "verse_text": "Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about." }, { "point_text": "Compassing about with armies", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:20", "verse_text": "And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh." }, { "point_text": "Setting in array against", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:9", "verse_text": "For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain." }, { "point_text": "Being against round about", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:2", "verse_text": "And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about." }, { "point_text": "Often lasted for a long time", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:5", "verse_text": "Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years." }, { "point_text": "Great noise and tumult of, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:5", "verse_text": "Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array." }, { "point_text": "THOSE ENGAGED IN,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Built forts and mounts", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 4:2", "verse_text": "And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about." }, { "point_text": "Built forts and mounts", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:8", "verse_text": "He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee." }, { "point_text": "Dug a trench round the city", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:43", "verse_text": "For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side," }, { "point_text": "Invested the city on every side", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 23:24", "verse_text": "And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments." }, { "point_text": "Cut off all supplies", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:24", "verse_text": "I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places." }, { "point_text": "Frequently laid ambushes", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:34", "verse_text": "And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies." }, { "point_text": "Called upon the city to surrender", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:2-3", "verse_text": "And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith Benhadad, 3 Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine." }, { "point_text": "Called upon the city to surrender", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:18", "verse_text": "And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder." }, { "point_text": "Called upon the city to surrender", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:20", "verse_text": "Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?" }, { "point_text": "Employed battering rams, &c. against the walls", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 4:2", "verse_text": "And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about." }, { "point_text": "Employed battering rams, &c. against the walls", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:9", "verse_text": "And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers." }, { "point_text": "Cast arrows and other missiles into the city", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:32", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it." }, { "point_text": "Often suffered much during", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 29:18", "verse_text": "Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it:" }, { "point_text": "The Jews forbidden to cut down fruit trees for the purpose of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 20:19-20", "verse_text": "When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege: 20 Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued." }, { "point_text": "Extreme difficulty of taking cities by, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 18:19", "verse_text": "A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle." }, { "point_text": "CITIES INVESTED BY,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Repaired and newly fortified beforehand", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 32:5", "verse_text": "Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance." }, { "point_text": "Repaired and newly fortified beforehand", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:9-10", "verse_text": "Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool. 10 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall." }, { "point_text": "Supplied with water beforehand", "verse_ref": "Nahum 3:14", "verse_text": "Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln." }, { "point_text": "The inhabitants of, cut off beforehand supplies of water outside, useful to besiegers", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 32:3-4", "verse_text": "He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city: and they did help him. 4 So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?" }, { "point_text": "Were strictly shut up", "verse_ref": "Joshua 6:1", "verse_text": "Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in." }, { "point_text": "Walls of, defended by the inhabitants", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 11:20-21", "verse_text": "And if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall? 21 Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also." }, { "point_text": "Walls of, defended by the inhabitants", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:26", "verse_text": "Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall." }, { "point_text": "Walls of, defended by the inhabitants", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 32:18", "verse_text": "Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes used ambushes or sorties", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:12", "verse_text": "Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon." }, { "point_text": "Often suffered from famine", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:26-29", "verse_text": "And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. 27 And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? 28 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow. 29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son." }, { "point_text": "Often suffered from famine", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:3", "verse_text": "And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land." }, { "point_text": "Often suffered from famine", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 6:12", "verse_text": "He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them." }, { "point_text": "Often suffered from pestilence", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 21:6", "verse_text": "And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence." }, { "point_text": "Often suffered from pestilence", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 32:24", "verse_text": "Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest it." }, { "point_text": "Often demanded terms of peace", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 11:1-3", "verse_text": "Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabeshgilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee. 2 And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel. 3 And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and then, if there be no man to save us, we will come out to thee." }, { "point_text": "Frequently taken by ambush", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:43-44", "verse_text": "And he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold, the people were come forth out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote them. 44 And Abimelech, and the company that was with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and the two other companies ran upon all the people that were in the fields, and slew them." }, { "point_text": "Frequently taken by assault", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:35", "verse_text": "And they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish." }, { "point_text": "Frequently taken by assault", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:29", "verse_text": "And David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it." }, { "point_text": "Frequently succored by allies", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 11:11", "verse_text": "And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together." }, { "point_text": "Frequently succored by allies", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 23:5", "verse_text": "So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah." }, { "point_text": "Inhabitants of, exhorted to be courageous", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 32:6-8", "verse_text": "And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying, 7 Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there be more with us than with him: 8 With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah." }, { "point_text": "CITIES TAKEN BY,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Given up to pillage", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:26-27", "verse_text": "Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left. 27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation." }, { "point_text": "Inhabitants of, often put to the sword", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:28", "verse_text": "And that day Joshua took Makkedah, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed, them, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain: and he did to the king of Makkedah as he did unto the king of Jericho." }, { "point_text": "Inhabitants of, often put to the sword", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:30", "verse_text": "And the LORD delivered it also, and the king thereof, into the hand of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain in it; but did unto the king thereof as he did unto the king of Jericho." }, { "point_text": "Inhabitants of, often put to the sword", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:32", "verse_text": "And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, which took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah." }, { "point_text": "Inhabitants of, often put to the sword", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:35", "verse_text": "And they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish." }, { "point_text": "Frequently broken down", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:45", "verse_text": "And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt." }, { "point_text": "Frequently destroyed by fire", "verse_ref": "Joshua 8:19", "verse_text": "And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes sown with salt", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:45", "verse_text": "And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes called after the name of the captor", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:28", "verse_text": "Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it: lest I take the city, and it be called after my name." }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Jericho", "verse_ref": "Joshua 6:2-20", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour. 3 And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days. 4 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets. 5 And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him. ..." }, { "point_text": "Ai", "verse_ref": "Joshua 7:2-4", "verse_text": "And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Bethaven, on the east side of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai. 3 And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; and make not all the people to labour thither; for they are but few. 4 So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai." }, { "point_text": "Ai", "verse_ref": "Joshua 8:1-19", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land: 2 And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it. 3 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night. 4 And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready: ..." }, { "point_text": "Makkedah", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:28", "verse_text": "And that day Joshua took Makkedah, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed, them, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain: and he did to the king of Makkedah as he did unto the king of Jericho." }, { "point_text": "Libnah", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:29-30", "verse_text": "Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah: 30 And the LORD delivered it also, and the king thereof, into the hand of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain in it; but did unto the king thereof as he did unto the king of Jericho." }, { "point_text": "Lachish", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:31-32", "verse_text": "And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, unto Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it: 32 And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, which took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah." }, { "point_text": "Eglon", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:34-35", "verse_text": "And from Lachish Joshua passed unto Eglon, and all Israel with him; and they encamped against it, and fought against it: 35 And they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish." }, { "point_text": "Hebron", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:36-37", "verse_text": "And Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, unto Hebron; and they fought against it: 37 And they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but destroyed it utterly, and all the souls that were therein." }, { "point_text": "Debir", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:38-39", "verse_text": "And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and fought against it: 39 And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof; as he had done also to Libnah, and to her king." }, { "point_text": "Shechem", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:34", "verse_text": "And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies." }, { "point_text": "Shechem", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:45", "verse_text": "And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt." }, { "point_text": "Thebez", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:50", "verse_text": "Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it." }, { "point_text": "Jabesh-gilead", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 11:1", "verse_text": "Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabeshgilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee." }, { "point_text": "Keilah", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 23:1", "verse_text": "Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors." }, { "point_text": "Ziklag", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 30:1-2", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire; 2 And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way." }, { "point_text": "Rabbah", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 11:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Rabbah", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:26-29", "verse_text": "And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city. 27 And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters. 28 Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it: lest I take the city, and it be called after my name. 29 And David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it." }, { "point_text": "Gibbethon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:15", "verse_text": "In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines." }, { "point_text": "Tirzah", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:17", "verse_text": "And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah." }, { "point_text": "Samaria", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:1", "verse_text": "And Benhadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it." }, { "point_text": "Samaria", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:24", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria." }, { "point_text": "Samaria", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:5", "verse_text": "Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years." }, { "point_text": "Ramoth-gilead", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:4", "verse_text": "And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramothgilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses." }, { "point_text": "Ramoth-gilead", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:29", "verse_text": "So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramothgilead." }, { "point_text": "Cities of Israel in Galilee", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 15:29", "verse_text": "In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria." }, { "point_text": "Cities of Judah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:13", "verse_text": "Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them." }, { "point_text": "Jerusalem", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 24:10", "verse_text": "At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged." }, { "point_text": "Jerusalem", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:1-2", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about. 2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The omnipresence of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 139:5", "verse_text": "Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me." }, { "point_text": "The judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Micah 5:1", "verse_text": "Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek." }, { "point_text": "Zion in her affliction", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:8", "verse_text": "And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city." } ] }, { "name": "Simeon, The Tribe of", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Simeon-The-Tribe-of.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Descended from Jacob's second son by Leah", "verse_ref": "Genesis 29:33", "verse_text": "And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon." }, { "point_text": "Predictions respecting", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:5-7", "verse_text": "Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. 6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall. 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel." }, { "point_text": "PERSONS SELECTED FROM,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To number the people", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:6", "verse_text": "Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai." }, { "point_text": "To spy out the land", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:5", "verse_text": "Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori." }, { "point_text": "To divide the land", "verse_ref": "Numbers 34:20", "verse_text": "And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud." }, { "point_text": "Formed part of the second division of Israel in their journeys", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:18-19", "verse_text": "And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur. 19 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai." }, { "point_text": "Encamped under the standard of Reuben south of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 2:12", "verse_text": "And those which pitch by him shall be the tribe of Simeon: and the captain of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai." }, { "point_text": "Strength of, on leaving Egypt", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:22", "verse_text": "Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;" }, { "point_text": "Strength of, on leaving Egypt", "verse_ref": "Numbers 2:13", "verse_text": "And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred." }, { "point_text": "Offering of, at the dedication", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:36-41", "verse_text": "On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon, did offer: 37 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: 38 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: 39 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: ..." }, { "point_text": "Families of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:12-13", "verse_text": "The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites: 13 Of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites." }, { "point_text": "Strength of, on entering Canaan", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:14", "verse_text": "These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred." }, { "point_text": "Plagued for following the idolatry, &c. of Midian, which accounts for their decrease", "verse_ref": "Numbers 25:9", "verse_text": "And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand." }, { "point_text": "Plagued for following the idolatry, &c. of Midian, which accounts for their decrease", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:14", "verse_text": "These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred." }, { "point_text": "Plagued for following the idolatry, &c. of Midian, which accounts for their decrease", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:23", "verse_text": "Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred." }, { "point_text": "On Mount Gerizim said amen to the blessings", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 27:12", "verse_text": "These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:" }, { "point_text": "Inheritance of, within Judah", "verse_ref": "Joshua 19:1-8", "verse_text": "And the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah. 2 And they had in their inheritance Beersheba, or Sheba, and Moladah, 3 And Hazarshual, and Balah, and Azem, 4 And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah, ..." }, { "point_text": "Bounds of their inheritance with cities and villages", "verse_ref": "Joshua 19:2-8", "verse_text": "And they had in their inheritance Beersheba, or Sheba, and Moladah, 3 And Hazarshual, and Balah, and Azem, 4 And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah, 5 And Ziklag, and Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusah, ..." }, { "point_text": "Bounds of their inheritance with cities and villages", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 4:28-33", "verse_text": "And they dwelt at Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual, 29 And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad, 30 And at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag, 31 And at Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusim, and at Bethbirei, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities unto the reign of David. ..." }, { "point_text": "United with Judah in expelling the Canaanites from their inheritance", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:3", "verse_text": "And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him." }, { "point_text": "United with Judah in expelling the Canaanites from their inheritance", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:17", "verse_text": "And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the city was called Hormah." }, { "point_text": "Many of, at the coronation of David", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:25", "verse_text": "Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valour for the war, seven thousand and one hundred." }, { "point_text": "Officer appointed over, by David", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:16", "verse_text": "Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri: of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maachah:" }, { "point_text": "Part of, united with Judah under Asa", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 15:9", "verse_text": "And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the LORD his God was with him." }, { "point_text": "Josiah purged their land of idols", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 34:6", "verse_text": "And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about." }, { "point_text": "Part of, destroyed the remnant of the Amalekites, and dwelt in their land", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 4:39-43", "verse_text": "And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks. 40 And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old. 41 And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms: because there was pasture there for their flocks. 42 And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi. ..." } ] }, { "name": "Silver", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Silver.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Veins of, found in the earth", "verse_ref": "Job 28:1", "verse_text": "Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it." }, { "point_text": "Generally found in an impure state", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:4", "verse_text": "Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer." }, { "point_text": "Comparative value of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:17", "verse_text": "For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "White and shining", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:13-14", "verse_text": "Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold. 14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon." }, { "point_text": "Fusible", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:20", "verse_text": "As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you." }, { "point_text": "Fusible", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:22", "verse_text": "As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the LORD have poured out my fury upon you." }, { "point_text": "Malleable", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 10:9", "verse_text": "Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men." }, { "point_text": "Purified by fire", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:3", "verse_text": "The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts." }, { "point_text": "Purified by fire", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 13:9", "verse_text": "And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God." }, { "point_text": "PURIFIED, CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Refined silver", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:4", "verse_text": "Even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses withal:" }, { "point_text": "Choice silver", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 8:19", "verse_text": "My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver." }, { "point_text": "Tarshish carried on extensive commerce in", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 10:9", "verse_text": "Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men." }, { "point_text": "Tarshish carried on extensive commerce in", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:12", "verse_text": "Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs." }, { "point_text": "The patriarchs rich in", "verse_ref": "Genesis 13:2", "verse_text": "And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold." }, { "point_text": "The patriarchs rich in", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:35", "verse_text": "And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses." }, { "point_text": "Used as money from the earliest age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 23:15", "verse_text": "My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead." }, { "point_text": "Used as money from the earliest age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:28", "verse_text": "Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Used as money from the earliest age", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:24", "verse_text": "And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria." }, { "point_text": "Very abundant in the reign of Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:21-22", "verse_text": "And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon. 22 For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks." }, { "point_text": "Very abundant in the reign of Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:27", "verse_text": "And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance." }, { "point_text": "Very abundant in the reign of Solomon", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:20-21", "verse_text": "And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon. 21 For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks." }, { "point_text": "Very abundant in the reign of Solomon", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:27", "verse_text": "And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in abundance." }, { "point_text": "The working in, a trade", "verse_ref": "Acts 19:24", "verse_text": "For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;" }, { "point_text": "MADE INTO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Cups", "verse_ref": "Genesis 44:2", "verse_text": "And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken." }, { "point_text": "Dishes", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:13", "verse_text": "And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:" }, { "point_text": "Dishes", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:84-85", "verse_text": "This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold: 85 Each charger of silver weighing an hundred and thirty shekels, each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels weighed two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:" }, { "point_text": "Bowls", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:13", "verse_text": "And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:" }, { "point_text": "Bowls", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:84", "verse_text": "This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:" }, { "point_text": "Thin plates", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 10:9", "verse_text": "Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men." }, { "point_text": "Chains", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:19", "verse_text": "The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains." }, { "point_text": "Wires (alluded to)", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 12:6", "verse_text": "Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern." }, { "point_text": "Sockets for the boards of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:19", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons." }, { "point_text": "Sockets for the boards of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:25", "verse_text": "And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board." }, { "point_text": "Sockets for the boards of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 36:24", "verse_text": "And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons." }, { "point_text": "Sockets for the boards of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 36:26", "verse_text": "And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board." }, { "point_text": "Sockets for the boards of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 36:30", "verse_text": "And there were eight boards; and their sockets were sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two sockets." }, { "point_text": "Sockets for the boards of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 36:36", "verse_text": "And he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver." }, { "point_text": "Ornaments and hooks for the pillars of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 27:17", "verse_text": "All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass." }, { "point_text": "Ornaments and hooks for the pillars of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 38:19", "verse_text": "And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of silver." }, { "point_text": "Candlesticks", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 28:15", "verse_text": "Even the weight for the candlesticks of gold, and for their lamps of gold, by weight for every candlestick, and for the lamps thereof: and for the candlesticks of silver by weight, both for the candlestick, and also for the lamps thereof, according to the use of every candlestick." }, { "point_text": "Tables", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 28:16", "verse_text": "And by weight he gave gold for the tables of shewbread, for every table; and likewise silver for the tables of silver:" }, { "point_text": "Beds or couches", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:6", "verse_text": "Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble." }, { "point_text": "Vessels", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:10", "verse_text": "Then Toi sent Joram his son unto king David, to salute him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer, and smitten him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. And Joram brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass:" }, { "point_text": "Vessels", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:5", "verse_text": "And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to his place, and place them in the house of God." }, { "point_text": "Idols", "verse_ref": "Psalm 115:4", "verse_text": "Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands." }, { "point_text": "Idols", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:20", "verse_text": "In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;" }, { "point_text": "Idols", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:22", "verse_text": "Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence." }, { "point_text": "Ornaments for the person", "verse_ref": "Exodus 3:22", "verse_text": "But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians." }, { "point_text": "Given by the Israelite for making the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:3", "verse_text": "And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass," }, { "point_text": "Given by the Israelite for making the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 35:24", "verse_text": "Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought the LORD'S offering: and every man, with whom was found shittim wood for any work of the service, brought it." }, { "point_text": "Given by David and his subjects for making the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 28:14", "verse_text": "He gave of gold by weight for things of gold, for all instruments of all manner of service; silver also for all instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of every kind of service:" }, { "point_text": "Given by David and his subjects for making the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:2", "verse_text": "Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance." }, { "point_text": "Given by David and his subjects for making the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:6-9", "verse_text": "Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers of the king's work, offered willingly, 7 And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron. 8 And they with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of the LORD, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite. 9 Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy." }, { "point_text": "Taken in war often consecrated to God", "verse_ref": "Joshua 6:19", "verse_text": "But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Taken in war often consecrated to God", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:11", "verse_text": "Which also king David did dedicate unto the LORD, with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued;" }, { "point_text": "Taken in war often consecrated to God", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:15", "verse_text": "And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the LORD, silver, and gold, and vessels." }, { "point_text": "Taken in war purified by fire", "verse_ref": "Numbers 31:22-23", "verse_text": "Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, 23 Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water." }, { "point_text": "Often given as presents", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:25", "verse_text": "And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year." }, { "point_text": "Often given as presents", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:5", "verse_text": "And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment." }, { "point_text": "Often given as presents", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:23", "verse_text": "And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him." }, { "point_text": "Tribute often paid in", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 17:11", "verse_text": "Also some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred he goats." }, { "point_text": "Tribute often paid in", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 5:15", "verse_text": "But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the words of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Psalm 12:6", "verse_text": "The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times." }, { "point_text": "Of the tongue of the just", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:20", "verse_text": "The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth." }, { "point_text": "Of good rulers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:22-23", "verse_text": "Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water: 23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them." }, { "point_text": "Of the Medo-Persian kingdom", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:32", "verse_text": "This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass," }, { "point_text": "Of the Medo-Persian kingdom", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:39", "verse_text": "And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth." }, { "point_text": "Of saints purified by affliction", "verse_ref": "Psalm 66:10", "verse_text": "For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried." }, { "point_text": "Of saints purified by affliction", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 13:9", "verse_text": "And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God." }, { "point_text": "(Labor of seeking for,) of diligence required for attaining knowledge", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 2:4", "verse_text": "If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;" }, { "point_text": "(Reprobate,) of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:30", "verse_text": "Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them." }, { "point_text": "(Dross of,) of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:22", "verse_text": "Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:" }, { "point_text": "(Dross of,) of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:18", "verse_text": "Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver." }, { "point_text": "Wisdom to be esteemed more than", "verse_ref": "Job 28:15", "verse_text": "It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof." }, { "point_text": "Wisdom to be esteemed more than", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:14", "verse_text": "For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold." }, { "point_text": "Wisdom to be esteemed more than", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 8:10", "verse_text": "Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold." }, { "point_text": "Wisdom to be esteemed more than", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:16", "verse_text": "How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!" } ] }, { "name": "Simplicity", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Simplicity.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is opposed to fleshly wisdom", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:12", "verse_text": "For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward." }, { "point_text": "Necessity for", "verse_ref": "Matthew 18:2-3", "verse_text": "And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, 3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE EXHIBITED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In preaching the gospel", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:3-7", "verse_text": "For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: 4 But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts. 5 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness: 6 Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ. ..." }, { "point_text": "In acts of benevolence", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:8", "verse_text": "Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness." }, { "point_text": "In all our conduct", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:12", "verse_text": "For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward." }, { "point_text": "Concerning our own wisdom", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:18", "verse_text": "Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise." }, { "point_text": "Concerning evil", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:19", "verse_text": "For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil." }, { "point_text": "Concerning malice", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:20", "verse_text": "Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men." }, { "point_text": "Exhortation to", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:19", "verse_text": "For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil." }, { "point_text": "Exhortation to", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:2", "verse_text": "As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:" }, { "point_text": "THEY WHO HAVE THE GRACE OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Are made wise by God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:25", "verse_text": "At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes." }, { "point_text": "Are made wise by the word of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:7", "verse_text": "The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple." }, { "point_text": "Are made wise by the word of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:130", "verse_text": "The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple." }, { "point_text": "Are preserved by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 116:6", "verse_text": "The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me." }, { "point_text": "Made circumspect by instruction", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:4", "verse_text": "To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion." }, { "point_text": "Profit by the correction of others", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:25", "verse_text": "Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge." }, { "point_text": "Profit by the correction of others", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:11", "verse_text": "When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge." }, { "point_text": "Beware of being corrupted from that, which is in Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 11:3", "verse_text": "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:22", "verse_text": "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 131:1-2", "verse_text": "LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. 2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 1:6", "verse_text": "Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:46", "verse_text": "And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:32", "verse_text": "And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nJeremiah, \nPrimitive Christians, \n\nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:12", "verse_text": "For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward." } ] }, { "name": "Sidonians, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Sidonians-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Descended from Sidon, son of Canaan", "verse_ref": "Genesis 10:15", "verse_text": "And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth," }, { "point_text": "Descended from Sidon, son of Canaan", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 1:13", "verse_text": "And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth," }, { "point_text": "Formerly a part of the PhSnician nation", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:21-22", "verse_text": "Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. 22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil." }, { "point_text": "Dwelt on the sea coast", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:17", "verse_text": "And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;" }, { "point_text": "Dwelt on the sea coast", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:3", "verse_text": "And the next day we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously entreated Paul, and gave him liberty to go unto his friends to refresh himself." }, { "point_text": "CITIES OF MENTIONED;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Zidon", "verse_ref": "Joshua 11:8", "verse_text": "And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto Misrephothmaim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them none remaining." }, { "point_text": "Zidon", "verse_ref": "Joshua 19:28", "verse_text": "And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great Zidon;" }, { "point_text": "Zarephath or Sarepta", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 17:9", "verse_text": "Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee." }, { "point_text": "Zarephath or Sarepta", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:26", "verse_text": "But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow." }, { "point_text": "Governed by kings", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 25:22", "verse_text": "And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea," }, { "point_text": "Governed by kings", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:3", "verse_text": "And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;" }, { "point_text": "CHARACTER OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Careless and secure", "verse_ref": "Judges 18:7", "verse_text": "Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man." }, { "point_text": "Idolatrous", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:5", "verse_text": "For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites." }, { "point_text": "Superstitious", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:3", "verse_text": "And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;" }, { "point_text": "Superstitious", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:9", "verse_text": "Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:" }, { "point_text": "Wicked and impenitent", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:21-22", "verse_text": "Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you." }, { "point_text": "Engaged in extensive commerce", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:2", "verse_text": "Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished." }, { "point_text": "Were skilful sailors", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:8", "verse_text": "The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots." }, { "point_text": "Supplied the Jews with timber", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 22:4", "verse_text": "Also cedar trees in abundance: for the Zidonians and they of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David." }, { "point_text": "Supplied the Jews with timber", "verse_ref": "Ezra 3:7", "verse_text": "They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia." }, { "point_text": "Supplied from Judea with provisions", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:20", "verse_text": "And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king's country." }, { "point_text": "Supplied from Judea with provisions", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:17", "verse_text": "Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm." }, { "point_text": "TERRITORY OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Bordered on the land of Canaan", "verse_ref": "Genesis 10:19", "verse_text": "And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha." }, { "point_text": "Given by God to Israel", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:13", "verse_text": "Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon." }, { "point_text": "Given by God to Israel", "verse_ref": "Joshua 13:6", "verse_text": "All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto Misrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee." }, { "point_text": "Allotted to the tribe of Asher", "verse_ref": "Joshua 19:24", "verse_text": "And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families." }, { "point_text": "Allotted to the tribe of Asher", "verse_ref": "Joshua 19:28", "verse_text": "And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great Zidon;" }, { "point_text": "Visited by our Lord", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:21", "verse_text": "Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon." }, { "point_text": "Israel unable to expel", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:31", "verse_text": "Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob:" }, { "point_text": "Israel unable to expel", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:3", "verse_text": "Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath." }, { "point_text": "Hostile and oppressive to God's people", "verse_ref": "Judges 10:12", "verse_text": "The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand." }, { "point_text": "Hostile and oppressive to God's people", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:22", "verse_text": "And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her." }, { "point_text": "Hostile and oppressive to God's people", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:24", "verse_text": "And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Solomon intermarried with", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:1", "verse_text": "But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;" }, { "point_text": "Ahab intermarried with", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:31", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him." }, { "point_text": "Israel followed the idolatry of", "verse_ref": "Judges 10:6", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him." }, { "point_text": "Israel followed the idolatry of", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:33", "verse_text": "Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father." }, { "point_text": "PREDICTIONS RESPECTING;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Territory of, to be given to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:3", "verse_text": "And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;" }, { "point_text": "Territory of, to be given to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:6", "verse_text": "And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him." }, { "point_text": "Partaking with the other nations of God's judgments", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 25:22-28", "verse_text": "And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea, 23 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners, 24 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert, 25 And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes, ..." }, { "point_text": "Partaking with the other nations of God's judgments", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 32:30", "verse_text": "There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit." }, { "point_text": "All their helpers to be cut off", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 47:4", "verse_text": "Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor." }, { "point_text": "That God should be glorified in the judgments upon them", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:21-23", "verse_text": "Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it, 22 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her. 23 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Their spoliation and oppression of the Jews to be fully recompensed", "verse_ref": "Joel 3:4", "verse_text": "Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;" }, { "point_text": "Their spoliation and oppression of the Jews to be fully recompensed", "verse_ref": "Joel 3:8", "verse_text": "And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it." }, { "point_text": "Many of, attended Christ's ministry", "verse_ref": "Mark 3:8", "verse_text": "And from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him." }, { "point_text": "Having revolted from Herod, were obliged to propitiate him", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:20", "verse_text": "And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king's country." }, { "point_text": "Descended from Sidon, son of Canaan", "verse_ref": "Genesis 10:15", "verse_text": "And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth," }, { "point_text": "Descended from Sidon, son of Canaan", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 1:13", "verse_text": "And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth," }, { "point_text": "Formerly a part of the PhSnician nation", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:21-22", "verse_text": "Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. 22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil." }, { "point_text": "Dwelt on the sea coast", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:17", "verse_text": "And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;" }, { "point_text": "Dwelt on the sea coast", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:3", "verse_text": "And the next day we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously entreated Paul, and gave him liberty to go unto his friends to refresh himself." }, { "point_text": "CITIES OF MENTIONED;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Zidon", "verse_ref": "Joshua 11:8", "verse_text": "And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto Misrephothmaim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them none remaining." }, { "point_text": "Zidon", "verse_ref": "Joshua 19:28", "verse_text": "And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great Zidon;" }, { "point_text": "Zarephath or Sarepta", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 17:9", "verse_text": "Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee." }, { "point_text": "Zarephath or Sarepta", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:26", "verse_text": "But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow." }, { "point_text": "Governed by kings", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 25:22", "verse_text": "And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea," }, { "point_text": "Governed by kings", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:3", "verse_text": "And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;" }, { "point_text": "CHARACTER OF;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Careless and secure", "verse_ref": "Judges 18:7", "verse_text": "Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man." }, { "point_text": "Idolatrous", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:5", "verse_text": "For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites." }, { "point_text": "Superstitious", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:3", "verse_text": "And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;" }, { "point_text": "Superstitious", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:9", "verse_text": "Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:" }, { "point_text": "Wicked and impenitent", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:21-22", "verse_text": "Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you." }, { "point_text": "Engaged in extensive commerce", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:2", "verse_text": "Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished." }, { "point_text": "Were skilful sailors", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:8", "verse_text": "The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots." }, { "point_text": "Supplied the Jews with timber", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 22:4", "verse_text": "Also cedar trees in abundance: for the Zidonians and they of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David." }, { "point_text": "Supplied the Jews with timber", "verse_ref": "Ezra 3:7", "verse_text": "They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia." }, { "point_text": "Supplied from Judea with provisions", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:20", "verse_text": "And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king's country." }, { "point_text": "Supplied from Judea with provisions", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:17", "verse_text": "Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm." }, { "point_text": "TERRITORY OF,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Bordered on the land of Canaan", "verse_ref": "Genesis 10:19", "verse_text": "And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha." }, { "point_text": "Given by God to Israel", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:13", "verse_text": "Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon." }, { "point_text": "Given by God to Israel", "verse_ref": "Joshua 13:6", "verse_text": "All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto Misrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee." }, { "point_text": "Allotted to the tribe of Asher", "verse_ref": "Joshua 19:24", "verse_text": "And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families." }, { "point_text": "Allotted to the tribe of Asher", "verse_ref": "Joshua 19:28", "verse_text": "And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great Zidon;" }, { "point_text": "Visited by our Lord", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:21", "verse_text": "Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon." }, { "point_text": "Israel unable to expel", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:31", "verse_text": "Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob:" }, { "point_text": "Israel unable to expel", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:3", "verse_text": "Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath." }, { "point_text": "Hostile and oppressive to God's people", "verse_ref": "Judges 10:12", "verse_text": "The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand." }, { "point_text": "Hostile and oppressive to God's people", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:22", "verse_text": "And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her." }, { "point_text": "Hostile and oppressive to God's people", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:24", "verse_text": "And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Solomon intermarried with", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:1", "verse_text": "But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;" }, { "point_text": "Ahab intermarried with", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:31", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him." }, { "point_text": "Israel followed the idolatry of", "verse_ref": "Judges 10:6", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him." }, { "point_text": "Israel followed the idolatry of", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 11:33", "verse_text": "Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father." }, { "point_text": "PREDICTIONS RESPECTING;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Territory of, to be given to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:3", "verse_text": "And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;" }, { "point_text": "Territory of, to be given to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:6", "verse_text": "And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him." }, { "point_text": "Partaking with the other nations of God's judgments", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 25:22-28", "verse_text": "And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea, 23 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners, 24 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert, 25 And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes, ..." }, { "point_text": "Partaking with the other nations of God's judgments", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 32:30", "verse_text": "There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit." }, { "point_text": "All their helpers to be cut off", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 47:4", "verse_text": "Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor." }, { "point_text": "That God should be glorified in the judgments upon them", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:21-23", "verse_text": "Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it, 22 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her. 23 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Their spoliation and oppression of the Jews to be fully recompensed", "verse_ref": "Joel 3:4", "verse_text": "Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;" }, { "point_text": "Their spoliation and oppression of the Jews to be fully recompensed", "verse_ref": "Joel 3:8", "verse_text": "And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it." }, { "point_text": "Many of, attended Christ's ministry", "verse_ref": "Mark 3:8", "verse_text": "And from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him." }, { "point_text": "Having revolted from Herod, were obliged to propitiate him", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:20", "verse_text": "And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king's country." } ] }, { "name": "Sincerity", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Sincerity.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Christ was an example of", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:22", "verse_text": "Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:" }, { "point_text": "Ministers should be examples of", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:7", "verse_text": "In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity," }, { "point_text": "Opposed to fleshly wisdom", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:12", "verse_text": "For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD CHARACTERIZE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Our love to God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:8", "verse_text": "I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love." }, { "point_text": "Our love to God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:24", "verse_text": "Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf." }, { "point_text": "Our love to Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:24", "verse_text": "Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Our service to God", "verse_ref": "Joshua 24:14", "verse_text": "Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Our service to God", "verse_ref": "John 4:23-24", "verse_text": "But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." }, { "point_text": "Our faith", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:5", "verse_text": "Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:" }, { "point_text": "Our love to one another", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:9", "verse_text": "Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good." }, { "point_text": "Our love to one another", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:22", "verse_text": "Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:" }, { "point_text": "Our love to one another", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:18", "verse_text": "My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth." }, { "point_text": "Our whole conduct", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:12", "verse_text": "For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward." }, { "point_text": "The preaching of the gospel", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 2:17", "verse_text": "For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ." }, { "point_text": "The preaching of the gospel", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:3-5", "verse_text": "For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: 4 But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts. 5 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:" }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of the doctrines of the gospel", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:2", "verse_text": "As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:" }, { "point_text": "The gospel sometimes preached without", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:16", "verse_text": "The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:" }, { "point_text": "The wicked devoid of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 5:9", "verse_text": "For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue." }, { "point_text": "The wicked devoid of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 55:21", "verse_text": "The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:13", "verse_text": "Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 5:8", "verse_text": "Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:1", "verse_text": "Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings," }, { "point_text": "Pray for, on behalf of others", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:10", "verse_text": "That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;" }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 32:2", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMen of Zebulun, \nHezekiah, \nNathanael, \nPaul, \nTimothy, \nLois and Eunice, \nThe Redeemed,", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:33", "verse_text": "Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: they were not of double heart." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMen of Zebulun, \nHezekiah, \nNathanael, \nPaul, \nTimothy, \nLois and Eunice, \nThe Redeemed,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:3", "verse_text": "And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMen of Zebulun, \nHezekiah, \nNathanael, \nPaul, \nTimothy, \nLois and Eunice, \nThe Redeemed,", "verse_ref": "John 1:47", "verse_text": "Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMen of Zebulun, \nHezekiah, \nNathanael, \nPaul, \nTimothy, \nLois and Eunice, \nThe Redeemed,", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:12", "verse_text": "For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMen of Zebulun, \nHezekiah, \nNathanael, \nPaul, \nTimothy, \nLois and Eunice, \nThe Redeemed,", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:5", "verse_text": "When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMen of Zebulun, \nHezekiah, \nNathanael, \nPaul, \nTimothy, \nLois and Eunice, \nThe Redeemed,", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:5", "verse_text": "When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nMen of Zebulun, \nHezekiah, \nNathanael, \nPaul, \nTimothy, \nLois and Eunice, \nThe Redeemed,", "verse_ref": "Revelation 14:5", "verse_text": "And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God." } ] }, { "name": "Sin-offering", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Sinoffering.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Probable origin of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:4", "verse_text": "And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:" }, { "point_text": "Probable origin of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:7", "verse_text": "If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him." }, { "point_text": "WAS OFFERED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "For sins of ignorance", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:2", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them:" }, { "point_text": "For sins of ignorance", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:13", "verse_text": "And if the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done somewhat against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which should not be done, and are guilty;" }, { "point_text": "For sins of ignorance", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:22", "verse_text": "When a ruler hath sinned, and done somewhat through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD his God concerning things which should not be done, and is guilty;" }, { "point_text": "For sins of ignorance", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:27", "verse_text": "And if any one of the common people sin through ignorance, while he doeth somewhat against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and be guilty;" }, { "point_text": "At the consecration of priests", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:10", "verse_text": "And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock." }, { "point_text": "At the consecration of priests", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:14", "verse_text": "But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering." }, { "point_text": "At the consecration of Levites", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:8", "verse_text": "Then let them take a young bullock with his meat offering, even fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou take for a sin offering." }, { "point_text": "At the expiration of a Nazarite's vow", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:14", "verse_text": "And he shall offer his offering unto the LORD, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings," }, { "point_text": "On the day of atonement", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:3", "verse_text": "Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering." }, { "point_text": "On the day of atonement", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:9", "verse_text": "And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD'S lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering." }, { "point_text": "Was a most holy sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:25", "verse_text": "Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD: it is most holy." }, { "point_text": "Was a most holy sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:29", "verse_text": "All the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most holy." }, { "point_text": "CONSISTED OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "A young bullock for priests", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:3", "verse_text": "If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering." }, { "point_text": "A young bullock for priests", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 9:2", "verse_text": "And he said unto Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "A young bullock for priests", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:3", "verse_text": "Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering." }, { "point_text": "A young bullock for priests", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:6", "verse_text": "And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house." }, { "point_text": "A young bullock or he-goat for the congregation", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:14", "verse_text": "When the sin, which they have sinned against it, is known, then the congregation shall offer a young bullock for the sin, and bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "A young bullock or he-goat for the congregation", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:9", "verse_text": "And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD'S lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering." }, { "point_text": "A young bullock or he-goat for the congregation", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 29:23", "verse_text": "And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:" }, { "point_text": "A male kid for a ruler", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:23", "verse_text": "Or if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish:" }, { "point_text": "A female kid or female lamb for a private person", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:28", "verse_text": "Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned." }, { "point_text": "A female kid or female lamb for a private person", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:32", "verse_text": "And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring it a female without blemish." }, { "point_text": "Sins of the offerer transferred to, by imposition of hands", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:4", "verse_text": "And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD; and shall lay his hand upon the bullock's head, and kill the bullock before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Sins of the offerer transferred to, by imposition of hands", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:15", "verse_text": "And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before the LORD: and the bullock shall be killed before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Sins of the offerer transferred to, by imposition of hands", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:24", "verse_text": "And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the LORD: it is a sin offering." }, { "point_text": "Sins of the offerer transferred to, by imposition of hands", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:29", "verse_text": "And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering." }, { "point_text": "Sins of the offerer transferred to, by imposition of hands", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 29:23", "verse_text": "And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:" }, { "point_text": "Was killed in the same place as the burnt-offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:24", "verse_text": "And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the LORD: it is a sin offering." }, { "point_text": "Was killed in the same place as the burnt-offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:25", "verse_text": "Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD: it is most holy." }, { "point_text": "THE BLOOD OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "For a priest or for the congregation, brought by the priest into the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:5", "verse_text": "And the priest that is anointed shall take of the bullock's blood, and bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation:" }, { "point_text": "For a priest or for the congregation, brought by the priest into the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:16", "verse_text": "And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock's blood to the tabernacle of the congregation:" }, { "point_text": "For a priest or for the congregation, sprinkled seven times before the Lord, outside the vail, by the priest with his finger", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:6", "verse_text": "And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the LORD, before the vail of the sanctuary." }, { "point_text": "For a priest or for the congregation, sprinkled seven times before the Lord, outside the vail, by the priest with his finger", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:17", "verse_text": "And the priest shall dip his finger in some of the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, even before the vail." }, { "point_text": "For a priest or for the congregation, put upon the horns of the altar of incense", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:7", "verse_text": "And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "For a priest or for the congregation, put upon the horns of the altar of incense", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:18", "verse_text": "And he shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar which is before the LORD, that is in the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "For a ruler or for a private person put upon the horns of the altar of burnt-offering by the priest with his finger", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:25", "verse_text": "And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering." }, { "point_text": "For a ruler or for a private person put upon the horns of the altar of burnt-offering by the priest with his finger", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:30", "verse_text": "And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar." }, { "point_text": "In every case poured at the foot of the altar of burnt-offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:7", "verse_text": "And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "In every case poured at the foot of the altar of burnt-offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:18", "verse_text": "And he shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar which is before the LORD, that is in the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "In every case poured at the foot of the altar of burnt-offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:25", "verse_text": "And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering." }, { "point_text": "In every case poured at the foot of the altar of burnt-offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 9:9", "verse_text": "And the sons of Aaron brought the blood unto him: and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar:" }, { "point_text": "Fat of the inside, kidneys, &c. burned on the altar of burnt-offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:8-10", "verse_text": "And he shall take off from it all the fat of the bullock for the sin offering; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards, 9 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away, 10 As it was taken off from the bullock of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of the burnt offering." }, { "point_text": "Fat of the inside, kidneys, &c. burned on the altar of burnt-offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:19", "verse_text": "And he shall take all his fat from him, and burn it upon the altar." }, { "point_text": "Fat of the inside, kidneys, &c. burned on the altar of burnt-offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:26", "verse_text": "And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him." }, { "point_text": "Fat of the inside, kidneys, &c. burned on the altar of burnt-offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 9:10", "verse_text": "But the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver of the sin offering, he burnt upon the altar; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "When for a priest or the congregation, the skin, carcass, &c. burned without the camp", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:11-12", "verse_text": "And the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung, 12 Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt." }, { "point_text": "When for a priest or the congregation, the skin, carcass, &c. burned without the camp", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:30", "verse_text": "And no sin offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile withal in the holy place, shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the fire." }, { "point_text": "When for a priest or the congregation, the skin, carcass, &c. burned without the camp", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 9:11", "verse_text": "And the flesh and the hide he burnt with fire without the camp." }, { "point_text": "Was eaten by the priests in a holy place, when its blood had not been brought into the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:26", "verse_text": "The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "Was eaten by the priests in a holy place, when its blood had not been brought into the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:29-30", "verse_text": "All the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most holy. 30 And no sin offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile withal in the holy place, shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the fire." }, { "point_text": "Aaron, &c. rebuked for burning and not eating that of the congregation, its blood not having been brought into the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 10:16-18", "verse_text": "And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burnt: and he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron which were left alive, saying, 17 Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy place, seeing it is most holy, and God hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD? 18 Behold, the blood of it was not brought in within the holy place: ye should indeed have eaten it in the holy place, as I commanded." }, { "point_text": "Aaron, &c. rebuked for burning and not eating that of the congregation, its blood not having been brought into the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 9:9", "verse_text": "And the sons of Aaron brought the blood unto him: and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar:" }, { "point_text": "Aaron, &c. rebuked for burning and not eating that of the congregation, its blood not having been brought into the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 9:15", "verse_text": "And he brought the people's offering, and took the goat, which was the sin offering for the people, and slew it, and offered it for sin, as the first." }, { "point_text": "Whatever touched the flesh of, was rendered holy", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:27", "verse_text": "Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place." }, { "point_text": "Garments sprinkled with the blood of, to be washed", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:27", "verse_text": "Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place." }, { "point_text": "Laws respecting the vessels used for boiling the flesh of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:28", "verse_text": "But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken: and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be both scoured, and rinsed in water." }, { "point_text": "Was typical of Christ's sacrifice", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:21", "verse_text": "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." }, { "point_text": "Was typical of Christ's sacrifice", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:11-13", "verse_text": "For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp. 12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. 13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach." } ] }, { "name": "Sin", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Sin.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is the transgression of the law", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:4", "verse_text": "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law." }, { "point_text": "Is of the devil", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:8", "verse_text": "He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil." }, { "point_text": "Is of the devil", "verse_ref": "John 8:44", "verse_text": "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." }, { "point_text": "All unrighteousness is", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:17", "verse_text": "All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death." }, { "point_text": "Omission of what we know to be good is", "verse_ref": "James 4:17", "verse_text": "Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin." }, { "point_text": "Whatever is not of faith is", "verse_ref": "Romans 14:23", "verse_text": "And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin." }, { "point_text": "The thought of foolishness is", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 24:9", "verse_text": "The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men." }, { "point_text": "All the imaginations of the unrenewed heart are", "verse_ref": "Genesis 6:5", "verse_text": "And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." }, { "point_text": "All the imaginations of the unrenewed heart are", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:21", "verse_text": "And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Coming from the heart", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:19", "verse_text": "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:" }, { "point_text": "The fruit of lust", "verse_ref": "James 1:15", "verse_text": "Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death." }, { "point_text": "The sting of death", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:56", "verse_text": "The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law." }, { "point_text": "Rebellion against God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:7", "verse_text": "Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Rebellion against God", "verse_ref": "Joshua 1:18", "verse_text": "Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment, and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage." }, { "point_text": "Works of darkness", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:11", "verse_text": "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." }, { "point_text": "Dead works", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:1", "verse_text": "Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God," }, { "point_text": "Dead works", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:14", "verse_text": "How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" }, { "point_text": "The abominable thing that God hates", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:9", "verse_text": "The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness." }, { "point_text": "The abominable thing that God hates", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 44:4", "verse_text": "Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate." }, { "point_text": "The abominable thing that God hates", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 44:11", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah." }, { "point_text": "Reproaching the Lord", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:30", "verse_text": "But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people." }, { "point_text": "Reproaching the Lord", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:18", "verse_text": "Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name." }, { "point_text": "Defiling", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:12", "verse_text": "There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness." }, { "point_text": "Defiling", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:3", "verse_text": "For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness." }, { "point_text": "Deceitful", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:13", "verse_text": "But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin." }, { "point_text": "Disgraceful", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:34", "verse_text": "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people." }, { "point_text": "Often very great", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:20", "verse_text": "And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it." }, { "point_text": "Often very great", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:17", "verse_text": "Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Often mighty", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:12", "verse_text": "For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right." }, { "point_text": "Often manifold", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:12", "verse_text": "For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right." }, { "point_text": "Often presumptuous", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:13", "verse_text": "Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes open and manifest", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:24", "verse_text": "Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes secret", "verse_ref": "Psalm 90:8", "verse_text": "Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes secret", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:24", "verse_text": "Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after." }, { "point_text": "Besetting", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:1", "verse_text": "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us," }, { "point_text": "Like scarlet and crimson", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:18", "verse_text": "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." }, { "point_text": "Reaching unto heaven", "verse_ref": "Revelation 18:5", "verse_text": "For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities." }, { "point_text": "Entered into the world by Adam", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:6-7", "verse_text": "And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. 7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons." }, { "point_text": "All men are conceived and born in", "verse_ref": "Genesis 5:3", "verse_text": "And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:" }, { "point_text": "All men are conceived and born in", "verse_ref": "Job 15:14", "verse_text": "What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?" }, { "point_text": "All men are conceived and born in", "verse_ref": "Job 25:4", "verse_text": "How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?" }, { "point_text": "All men are conceived and born in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:5", "verse_text": "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me." }, { "point_text": "All men are shapen in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:5", "verse_text": "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me." }, { "point_text": "Scripture concludes all under", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:22", "verse_text": "But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe." }, { "point_text": "No man is without", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:46", "verse_text": "If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;" }, { "point_text": "No man is without", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 7:20", "verse_text": "For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not." }, { "point_text": "Christ alone was without", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:21", "verse_text": "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." }, { "point_text": "Christ alone was without", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:15", "verse_text": "For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." }, { "point_text": "Christ alone was without", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:26", "verse_text": "For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;" }, { "point_text": "Christ alone was without", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:5", "verse_text": "And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin." }, { "point_text": "GOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Abominates", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 25:16", "verse_text": "For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God." }, { "point_text": "Abominates", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:16-19", "verse_text": "These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, 19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren." }, { "point_text": "Marks", "verse_ref": "Job 10:14", "verse_text": "If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Remembers", "verse_ref": "Revelation 18:5", "verse_text": "For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities." }, { "point_text": "Is provoked to jealousy by", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 14:22", "verse_text": "And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done." }, { "point_text": "Is provoked to anger by", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:2", "verse_text": "Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee prince over my people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;" }, { "point_text": "Alone can forgive", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:7", "verse_text": "Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation." }, { "point_text": "Alone can forgive", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:9", "verse_text": "To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;" }, { "point_text": "Alone can forgive", "verse_ref": "Micah 7:18", "verse_text": "Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy." }, { "point_text": "Alone can forgive", "verse_ref": "Mark 2:7", "verse_text": "Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?" }, { "point_text": "Recompenses", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 16:18", "verse_text": "And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things." }, { "point_text": "Recompenses", "verse_ref": "Revelation 18:6", "verse_text": "Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double." }, { "point_text": "Punishes", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:11", "verse_text": "And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible." }, { "point_text": "Punishes", "verse_ref": "Amos 3:2", "verse_text": "You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities." }, { "point_text": "THE LAW", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Is transgressed by every", "verse_ref": "James 2:10-11", "verse_text": "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. 11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law." }, { "point_text": "Is transgressed by every", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:4", "verse_text": "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law." }, { "point_text": "Gives knowledge of", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:20", "verse_text": "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin." }, { "point_text": "Gives knowledge of", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:7", "verse_text": "What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet." }, { "point_text": "Shows exceeding sinfulness of", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:13", "verse_text": "Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful." }, { "point_text": "Made to restrain", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:9-10", "verse_text": "Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;" }, { "point_text": "By its strictness stirs up", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:5", "verse_text": "For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death." }, { "point_text": "By its strictness stirs up", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:8", "verse_text": "But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead." }, { "point_text": "By its strictness stirs up", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:11", "verse_text": "For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me." }, { "point_text": "Is the strength of", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:56", "verse_text": "The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law." }, { "point_text": "Curses those guilty of", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:10", "verse_text": "For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them." }, { "point_text": "No man can cleanse himself from", "verse_ref": "Job 9:30-31", "verse_text": "If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; 31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me." }, { "point_text": "No man can atone for", "verse_ref": "Micah 6:7", "verse_text": "Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?" }, { "point_text": "God has opened a fountain for", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 13:1", "verse_text": "In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness." }, { "point_text": "Christ was manifested to take away", "verse_ref": "John 1:29", "verse_text": "The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." }, { "point_text": "Christ was manifested to take away", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:5", "verse_text": "And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin." }, { "point_text": "Christ's blood redeems from", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:7", "verse_text": "In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;" }, { "point_text": "Christ's blood cleanses from", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:7", "verse_text": "But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Made free from", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:18", "verse_text": "Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Dead to", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:2", "verse_text": "God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?" }, { "point_text": "Dead to", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:11", "verse_text": "Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord." }, { "point_text": "Dead to", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:24", "verse_text": "Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed." }, { "point_text": "Profess to have ceased from", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:1", "verse_text": "Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;" }, { "point_text": "Cannot live in", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:9", "verse_text": "Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God." }, { "point_text": "Cannot live in", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:18", "verse_text": "We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not." }, { "point_text": "Resolve against", "verse_ref": "Job 34:32", "verse_text": "That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more." }, { "point_text": "Ashamed of having committed", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:21", "verse_text": "What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death." }, { "point_text": "Abhor themselves on account of", "verse_ref": "Job 42:6", "verse_text": "Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes." }, { "point_text": "Abhor themselves on account of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:43", "verse_text": "And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed." }, { "point_text": "Have yet the remains of, in them", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:17", "verse_text": "Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me." }, { "point_text": "Have yet the remains of, in them", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:23", "verse_text": "But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members." }, { "point_text": "The fear of God restrains", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:20", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not." }, { "point_text": "The fear of God restrains", "verse_ref": "Psalm 4:4", "verse_text": "Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah." }, { "point_text": "The fear of God restrains", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:6", "verse_text": "By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil." }, { "point_text": "The word of God keeps from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 17:4", "verse_text": "Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer." }, { "point_text": "The word of God keeps from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:11", "verse_text": "Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee." }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost convinces of", "verse_ref": "John 16:8-9", "verse_text": "And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: 9 Of sin, because they believe not on me;" }, { "point_text": "If we say that we have no, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:8", "verse_text": "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." }, { "point_text": "If we say that we have no, we make God a liar", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:10", "verse_text": "If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us." }, { "point_text": "Confusion of face belongs to those guilty of", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:7-8", "verse_text": "O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee. 8 O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Confessed", "verse_ref": "Job 33:27", "verse_text": "He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;" }, { "point_text": "Confessed", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:13", "verse_text": "He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy." }, { "point_text": "Mourned over", "verse_ref": "Psalm 38:18", "verse_text": "For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin." }, { "point_text": "Mourned over", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:21", "verse_text": "A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God." }, { "point_text": "Hated", "verse_ref": "Psalm 97:10", "verse_text": "Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked." }, { "point_text": "Hated", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 8:13", "verse_text": "The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate." }, { "point_text": "Hated", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:15", "verse_text": "Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph." }, { "point_text": "Abhorred", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:9", "verse_text": "Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good." }, { "point_text": "Put away", "verse_ref": "Job 11:14", "verse_text": "If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles." }, { "point_text": "Departed from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:14", "verse_text": "Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it." }, { "point_text": "Departed from", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:19", "verse_text": "Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Avoided even in appearance", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:22", "verse_text": "Abstain from all appearance of evil." }, { "point_text": "Guarded against", "verse_ref": "Psalm 4:4", "verse_text": "Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Guarded against", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:1", "verse_text": "I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me." }, { "point_text": "Striven against", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:4", "verse_text": "Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin." }, { "point_text": "Mortified", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:13", "verse_text": "For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live." }, { "point_text": "Mortified", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:5", "verse_text": "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:" }, { "point_text": "Wholly destroyed", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:6", "verse_text": "Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin." }, { "point_text": "Specially strive against besetting", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:1", "verse_text": "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us," }, { "point_text": "Aggravated by neglecting advantages", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:47", "verse_text": "And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes." }, { "point_text": "Aggravated by neglecting advantages", "verse_ref": "John 15:22", "verse_text": "If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin." }, { "point_text": "Guilt of concerning", "verse_ref": "Job 31:33", "verse_text": "If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:" }, { "point_text": "Guilt of concerning", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:13", "verse_text": "He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy." }, { "point_text": "WE SHOULD PRAY TO GOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To search for, in our hearts", "verse_ref": "Psalm 139:23-24", "verse_text": "Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: 24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." }, { "point_text": "To make us know our", "verse_ref": "Job 13:23", "verse_text": "How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin." }, { "point_text": "To forgive our", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:9", "verse_text": "And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance." }, { "point_text": "To forgive our", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:4", "verse_text": "And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil." }, { "point_text": "To keep us from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:13", "verse_text": "Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression." }, { "point_text": "To deliver us from", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:13", "verse_text": "And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "To cleanse us from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:2", "verse_text": "Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin." }, { "point_text": "Prayer hindered by", "verse_ref": "Psalm 66:18", "verse_text": "If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:" }, { "point_text": "Prayer hindered by", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:2", "verse_text": "But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear." }, { "point_text": "Blessings withheld on account of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:25", "verse_text": "Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Servants to", "verse_ref": "John 8:34", "verse_text": "Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin." }, { "point_text": "Servants to", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:16", "verse_text": "Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?" }, { "point_text": "Dead in", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:1", "verse_text": "And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;" }, { "point_text": "Guilty of, in everything they do", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:4", "verse_text": "An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin." }, { "point_text": "Guilty of, in everything they do", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 21:24", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand." }, { "point_text": "Plead necessity for", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:11-12", "verse_text": "And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash; 12 Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the LORD: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering." }, { "point_text": "Excuse", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:12-13", "verse_text": "And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. 13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat." }, { "point_text": "Excuse", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:13-15", "verse_text": "And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD. 14 And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear? 15 And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed." }, { "point_text": "Encourage themselves in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 64:5", "verse_text": "They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?" }, { "point_text": "Defy God in committing", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:18-19", "verse_text": "Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: 19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!" }, { "point_text": "Boast of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:9", "verse_text": "The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves." }, { "point_text": "Make a mock at", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:9", "verse_text": "Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour." }, { "point_text": "Expect impunity in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 10:11", "verse_text": "He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it." }, { "point_text": "Expect impunity in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:21", "verse_text": "These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes." }, { "point_text": "Expect impunity in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 94:7", "verse_text": "Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it." }, { "point_text": "Cannot cease from", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:14", "verse_text": "Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:" }, { "point_text": "Heap up", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:17", "verse_text": "And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "Heap up", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:1", "verse_text": "Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:" }, { "point_text": "Encouraged in, by prosperity", "verse_ref": "Job 21:7-15", "verse_text": "Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? 8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. 9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. 10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. ..." }, { "point_text": "Encouraged in, by prosperity", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:16", "verse_text": "The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin." }, { "point_text": "Led by despair to continue in", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:25", "verse_text": "Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go." }, { "point_text": "Led by despair to continue in", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 18:12", "verse_text": "And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart." }, { "point_text": "Try to conceal, from God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:8", "verse_text": "And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden." }, { "point_text": "Try to conceal, from God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:10", "verse_text": "And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself." }, { "point_text": "Throw the blame of, on God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:12", "verse_text": "And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat." }, { "point_text": "Throw the blame of, on God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:10", "verse_text": "And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?" }, { "point_text": "Throw the blame of, on others", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:12-13", "verse_text": "And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. 13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat." }, { "point_text": "Tempt others to", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:6", "verse_text": "And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat." }, { "point_text": "Tempt others to", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:2", "verse_text": "Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee prince over my people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;" }, { "point_text": "Tempt others to", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:25", "verse_text": "But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up." }, { "point_text": "Tempt others to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:10-14", "verse_text": "My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: ..." }, { "point_text": "Delight in those who commit", "verse_ref": "Psalm 10:3", "verse_text": "For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth." }, { "point_text": "Delight in those who commit", "verse_ref": "Hosea 7:3", "verse_text": "They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies." }, { "point_text": "Delight in those who commit", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:32", "verse_text": "Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them." }, { "point_text": "Shall bear the shame of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:52", "verse_text": "Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters." }, { "point_text": "Shall find out the wicked", "verse_ref": "Numbers 32:23", "verse_text": "But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out." }, { "point_text": "Ministers should warn the wicked to forsake", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 33:9", "verse_text": "Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul." }, { "point_text": "Ministers should warn the wicked to forsake", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:27", "verse_text": "Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity." }, { "point_text": "LEADS TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Shame", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:21", "verse_text": "What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death." }, { "point_text": "Disquiet", "verse_ref": "Psalm 38:3", "verse_text": "There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin." }, { "point_text": "Disease", "verse_ref": "Job 20:11", "verse_text": "His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust." }, { "point_text": "The ground was cursed on account of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:17-18", "verse_text": "And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;" }, { "point_text": "Toil and sorrow originated in", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:16-17", "verse_text": "Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. 17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;" }, { "point_text": "Toil and sorrow originated in", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:19", "verse_text": "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." }, { "point_text": "Excludes from heaven", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:9-10", "verse_text": "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "When finished brings forth death", "verse_ref": "James 1:15", "verse_text": "Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death." }, { "point_text": "Death, the wages of", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:23", "verse_text": "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." }, { "point_text": "Death, the punishment of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:17", "verse_text": "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." }, { "point_text": "Death, the punishment of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 18:4", "verse_text": "Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die." } ] }, { "name": "Sins, National", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Sins-National.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Pervade all ranks", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:5", "verse_text": "Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint." }, { "point_text": "Pervade all ranks", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:1-5", "verse_text": "Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it. 2 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely. 3 O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. 4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God. ..." }, { "point_text": "Pervade all ranks", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:13", "verse_text": "For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely." }, { "point_text": "Often caused and encouraged by rulers", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:26-33", "verse_text": "And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David: 27 If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah. 28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 29 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan. ..." }, { "point_text": "Often caused and encouraged by rulers", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 14:16", "verse_text": "And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin." }, { "point_text": "Often caused and encouraged by rulers", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 21:11-13", "verse_text": "Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto. 12 And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah, 13 But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were better than thyself:" }, { "point_text": "Often caused and encouraged by rulers", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 29:12", "verse_text": "If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked." }, { "point_text": "Often caused by prosperity", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:15", "verse_text": "But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation." }, { "point_text": "Often caused by prosperity", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:28", "verse_text": "But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies;" }, { "point_text": "Often caused by prosperity", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:11", "verse_text": "Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed." }, { "point_text": "Often caused by prosperity", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:49", "verse_text": "Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy." }, { "point_text": "Often caused by prosperity", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:5", "verse_text": "By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:" }, { "point_text": "DEFILE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The land", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 18:25", "verse_text": "And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants." }, { "point_text": "The land", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:33-34", "verse_text": "So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. 34 Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "The people", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 18:24", "verse_text": "Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:" }, { "point_text": "The people", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 14:11", "verse_text": "That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "National worship", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:10-15", "verse_text": "Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. 11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. ..." }, { "point_text": "National worship", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:21-22", "verse_text": "I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. 22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts." }, { "point_text": "Aggravated by privileges", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:4-7", "verse_text": "What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? 5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down: 6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. 7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry." }, { "point_text": "Aggravated by privileges", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 20:11-13", "verse_text": "And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them. 12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them. 13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them." }, { "point_text": "Aggravated by privileges", "verse_ref": "Amos 2:4", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:" }, { "point_text": "Aggravated by privileges", "verse_ref": "Amos 3:1-2", "verse_text": "Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying, 2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities." }, { "point_text": "Lead the heathen to blaspheme", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 36:20", "verse_text": "And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land." }, { "point_text": "Lead the heathen to blaspheme", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 36:23", "verse_text": "And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes." }, { "point_text": "Are a reproach to a people", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:34", "verse_text": "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Repented of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 18:8", "verse_text": "If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them." }, { "point_text": "Repented of", "verse_ref": "Jonah 3:5", "verse_text": "So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them." }, { "point_text": "Mourned over", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:12", "verse_text": "Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:" }, { "point_text": "Confessed", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:40", "verse_text": "If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;" }, { "point_text": "Confessed", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 30:2", "verse_text": "And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;" }, { "point_text": "Confessed", "verse_ref": "Judges 10:10", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim." }, { "point_text": "Confessed", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:47-48", "verse_text": "Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness; 48 And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:" }, { "point_text": "Turned from", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:16", "verse_text": "Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;" }, { "point_text": "Turned from", "verse_ref": "Hosea 14:1-2", "verse_text": "O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. 2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips." }, { "point_text": "Saints especially mourn over", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:136", "verse_text": "Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law." }, { "point_text": "Saints especially mourn over", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 9:4", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof." }, { "point_text": "MINISTERS SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Mourn over", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 10:6", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels." }, { "point_text": "Mourn over", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 13:17", "verse_text": "But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive." }, { "point_text": "Mourn over", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 6:11", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence." }, { "point_text": "Mourn over", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:17", "verse_text": "Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?" }, { "point_text": "Testify against", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:8", "verse_text": "Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:" }, { "point_text": "Testify against", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:1", "verse_text": "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins." }, { "point_text": "Testify against", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 2:3-5", "verse_text": "And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day. 4 For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD. 5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them." }, { "point_text": "Testify against", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:2", "verse_text": "Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations." }, { "point_text": "Testify against", "verse_ref": "Jonah 1:2", "verse_text": "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me." }, { "point_text": "Try to turn the people from", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:22", "verse_text": "But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings." }, { "point_text": "Pray for forgiveness of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:31-32", "verse_text": "And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. 32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written." }, { "point_text": "National prayer rejected on account of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:15", "verse_text": "And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood." }, { "point_text": "National prayer rejected on account of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:2", "verse_text": "But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear." }, { "point_text": "National worship rejected on account of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:10-14", "verse_text": "Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. 11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. ..." }, { "point_text": "National worship rejected on account of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:19", "verse_text": "Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it." }, { "point_text": "National worship rejected on account of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:9-14", "verse_text": "Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; 10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? 11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD. 12 But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel. ..." }, { "point_text": "Cause the withdrawal of privileges", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 2:9", "verse_text": "Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Cause the withdrawal of privileges", "verse_ref": "Amos 8:11", "verse_text": "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Cause the withdrawal of privileges", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:37-39", "verse_text": "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! 38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. 39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Bring down national judgments", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:35", "verse_text": "That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar." }, { "point_text": "Bring down national judgments", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:25", "verse_text": "Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children." }, { "point_text": "Denunciations against", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:24", "verse_text": "Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:" }, { "point_text": "Denunciations against", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:1", "verse_text": "Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:" }, { "point_text": "Denunciations against", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:9", "verse_text": "Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?" }, { "point_text": "Denunciations against", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:27-30", "verse_text": "I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way. 28 They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters. 29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. 30 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:8", "verse_text": "For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 12:17", "verse_text": "But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 25:12", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:7-10", "verse_text": "Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness. 8 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas. 9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee. 10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for, averted on repentance", "verse_ref": "Judges 10:15-16", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day. 16 And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for, averted on repentance", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 12:6-7", "verse_text": "Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous. 7 And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSodom and Gomorrah, \n\nChildren of Israel, \n\nNations of Canaan, \nKingdom of Israel, \n\nKingdom of Judah, \n\nMoab, \nBabylon, \n\n\nTyre, \nNineveh,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:20", "verse_text": "And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSodom and Gomorrah, \n\nChildren of Israel, \n\nNations of Canaan, \nKingdom of Israel, \n\nKingdom of Judah, \n\nMoab, \nBabylon, \n\n\nTyre, \nNineveh,", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:6", "verse_text": "And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSodom and Gomorrah, \n\nChildren of Israel, \n\nNations of Canaan, \nKingdom of Israel, \n\nKingdom of Judah, \n\nMoab, \nBabylon, \n\n\nTyre, \nNineveh,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:8", "verse_text": "And Moses said, This shall be, when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSodom and Gomorrah, \n\nChildren of Israel, \n\nNations of Canaan, \nKingdom of Israel, \n\nKingdom of Judah, \n\nMoab, \nBabylon, \n\n\nTyre, \nNineveh,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 32:31", "verse_text": "And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSodom and Gomorrah, \n\nChildren of Israel, \n\nNations of Canaan, \nKingdom of Israel, \n\nKingdom of Judah, \n\nMoab, \nBabylon, \n\n\nTyre, \nNineveh,", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:4", "verse_text": "Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSodom and Gomorrah, \n\nChildren of Israel, \n\nNations of Canaan, \nKingdom of Israel, \n\nKingdom of Judah, \n\nMoab, \nBabylon, \n\n\nTyre, \nNineveh,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:8-12", "verse_text": "And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. 9 And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. 10 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: 11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger: ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSodom and Gomorrah, \n\nChildren of Israel, \n\nNations of Canaan, \nKingdom of Israel, \n\nKingdom of Judah, \n\nMoab, \nBabylon, \n\n\nTyre, \nNineveh,", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:1-2", "verse_text": "Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSodom and Gomorrah, \n\nChildren of Israel, \n\nNations of Canaan, \nKingdom of Israel, \n\nKingdom of Judah, \n\nMoab, \nBabylon, \n\n\nTyre, \nNineveh,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:19", "verse_text": "Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSodom and Gomorrah, \n\nChildren of Israel, \n\nNations of Canaan, \nKingdom of Israel, \n\nKingdom of Judah, \n\nMoab, \nBabylon, \n\n\nTyre, \nNineveh,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:2-7", "verse_text": "Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. 3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. 5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSodom and Gomorrah, \n\nChildren of Israel, \n\nNations of Canaan, \nKingdom of Israel, \n\nKingdom of Judah, \n\nMoab, \nBabylon, \n\n\nTyre, \nNineveh,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:29-30", "verse_text": "We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart. 30 I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but it shall not be so; his lies shall not so effect it." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSodom and Gomorrah, \n\nChildren of Israel, \n\nNations of Canaan, \nKingdom of Israel, \n\nKingdom of Judah, \n\nMoab, \nBabylon, \n\n\nTyre, \nNineveh,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:6", "verse_text": "Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSodom and Gomorrah, \n\nChildren of Israel, \n\nNations of Canaan, \nKingdom of Israel, \n\nKingdom of Judah, \n\nMoab, \nBabylon, \n\n\nTyre, \nNineveh,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:13", "verse_text": "O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSodom and Gomorrah, \n\nChildren of Israel, \n\nNations of Canaan, \nKingdom of Israel, \n\nKingdom of Judah, \n\nMoab, \nBabylon, \n\n\nTyre, \nNineveh,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:52", "verse_text": "Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSodom and Gomorrah, \n\nChildren of Israel, \n\nNations of Canaan, \nKingdom of Israel, \n\nKingdom of Judah, \n\nMoab, \nBabylon, \n\n\nTyre, \nNineveh,", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:2", "verse_text": "Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSodom and Gomorrah, \n\nChildren of Israel, \n\nNations of Canaan, \nKingdom of Israel, \n\nKingdom of Judah, \n\nMoab, \nBabylon, \n\n\nTyre, \nNineveh,", "verse_ref": "Nahum 3:1", "verse_text": "Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;" } ] }, { "name": "Sobriety", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Sobriety.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:13", "verse_text": "Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;" }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:8", "verse_text": "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:" }, { "point_text": "The gospel designed to teach", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:11-12", "verse_text": "For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, 12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;" }, { "point_text": "With watchfulness", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:6", "verse_text": "Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober." }, { "point_text": "With prayer", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:7", "verse_text": "But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer." }, { "point_text": "REQUIRED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Ministers", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:2-3", "verse_text": "A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; 3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;" }, { "point_text": "Wives of ministers", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:11", "verse_text": "Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things." }, { "point_text": "Aged men", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:2", "verse_text": "That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience." }, { "point_text": "Young men", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:6", "verse_text": "Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded." }, { "point_text": "Young women", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:4", "verse_text": "That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children," }, { "point_text": "All saints", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:6", "verse_text": "Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober." }, { "point_text": "All saints", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:8", "verse_text": "But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation." }, { "point_text": "Women should exhibit, in dress", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:9", "verse_text": "In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;" }, { "point_text": "We should estimate our character and talents with", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:3", "verse_text": "For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith." }, { "point_text": "We should live in", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:12", "verse_text": "Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;" }, { "point_text": "Motives to", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:7", "verse_text": "But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer." }, { "point_text": "Motives to", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:8", "verse_text": "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:" } ] }, { "name": "Slander", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Slander.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "An abomination unto God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:16", "verse_text": "These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:" }, { "point_text": "An abomination unto God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:19", "verse_text": "A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:1", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:31", "verse_text": "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:" }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "James 4:11", "verse_text": "Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge." }, { "point_text": "INCLUDES", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Whispering", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:29", "verse_text": "Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers," }, { "point_text": "Whispering", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 12:20", "verse_text": "For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:" }, { "point_text": "Backbiting", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:30", "verse_text": "Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents," }, { "point_text": "Backbiting", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 12:20", "verse_text": "For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:" }, { "point_text": "Evil surmising", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:4", "verse_text": "He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings," }, { "point_text": "Tale-bearing", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:16", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Babbling", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 10:11", "verse_text": "Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better." }, { "point_text": "Tattling", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:13", "verse_text": "And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not." }, { "point_text": "Evil speaking", "verse_ref": "Psalm 41:5", "verse_text": "Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?" }, { "point_text": "Evil speaking", "verse_ref": "Psalm 109:20", "verse_text": "Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul." }, { "point_text": "Defaming", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 20:10", "verse_text": "For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him." }, { "point_text": "Defaming", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 4:13", "verse_text": "Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Bearing false witness", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:16", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour." }, { "point_text": "Bearing false witness", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:20", "verse_text": "Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour." }, { "point_text": "Bearing false witness", "verse_ref": "Luke 3:14", "verse_text": "And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages." }, { "point_text": "Judging uncharitably", "verse_ref": "James 4:11-12", "verse_text": "Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?" }, { "point_text": "Raising false reports", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:1", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness." }, { "point_text": "Repeating matters", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:9", "verse_text": "He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends." }, { "point_text": "Is a deceitful work", "verse_ref": "Psalm 52:2", "verse_text": "Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully." }, { "point_text": "Comes from the evil heart", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:19", "verse_text": "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:" }, { "point_text": "Comes from the evil heart", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:45", "verse_text": "A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh." }, { "point_text": "Often arises from hatred", "verse_ref": "Psalm 41:7", "verse_text": "All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt." }, { "point_text": "Often arises from hatred", "verse_ref": "Psalm 109:3", "verse_text": "They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause." }, { "point_text": "Idleness leads to", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:13", "verse_text": "And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not." }, { "point_text": "The wicked addicted to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:20", "verse_text": "Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son." }, { "point_text": "The wicked addicted to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:28", "verse_text": "They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters." }, { "point_text": "The wicked addicted to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:4", "verse_text": "Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders." }, { "point_text": "Hypocrites addicted to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:9", "verse_text": "An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of the devil", "verse_ref": "Revelation 12:10", "verse_text": "And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night." }, { "point_text": "The wicked love", "verse_ref": "Psalm 52:4", "verse_text": "Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue." }, { "point_text": "They who indulge in, are fools", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:18", "verse_text": "He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool." }, { "point_text": "They who indulge in, not to be trusted", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:4", "verse_text": "Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders." }, { "point_text": "Women warned against", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:3", "verse_text": "The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;" }, { "point_text": "Minister's wives should avoid", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:11", "verse_text": "Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things." }, { "point_text": "Christ was exposed to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 35:11", "verse_text": "False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not." }, { "point_text": "Christ was exposed to", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:60", "verse_text": "But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses," }, { "point_text": "Rulers exposed to", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:10", "verse_text": "But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities." }, { "point_text": "Rulers exposed to", "verse_ref": "Jude 8", "verse_text": "Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities." }, { "point_text": "Ministers exposed to", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:8", "verse_text": "And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just." }, { "point_text": "Ministers exposed to", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:8", "verse_text": "By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;" }, { "point_text": "The nearest relations exposed to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:20", "verse_text": "Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son." }, { "point_text": "Saints exposed to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 38:12", "verse_text": "They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long." }, { "point_text": "Saints exposed to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 109:2", "verse_text": "For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue." }, { "point_text": "Saints exposed to", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:4", "verse_text": "Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:" }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Should keep their tongue from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:13", "verse_text": "Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile." }, { "point_text": "Should keep their tongue from", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:10", "verse_text": "For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:" }, { "point_text": "Should lay aside", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:31", "verse_text": "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:" }, { "point_text": "Should lay aside", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:1", "verse_text": "Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings," }, { "point_text": "Should be warned against", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:1-2", "verse_text": "Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, 2 To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men." }, { "point_text": "Should give no occasion for", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:12", "verse_text": "Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation." }, { "point_text": "Should give no occasion for", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:16", "verse_text": "Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ." }, { "point_text": "Should return good for", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 4:13", "verse_text": "Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Blessed in enduring", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:11", "verse_text": "Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake." }, { "point_text": "Characterized as avoiding", "verse_ref": "Psalm 15:1", "verse_text": "LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?" }, { "point_text": "Characterized as avoiding", "verse_ref": "Psalm 15:3", "verse_text": "He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour." }, { "point_text": "Should not be listened to", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 24:9", "verse_text": "And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?" }, { "point_text": "Should be discountenanced with anger", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:23", "verse_text": "The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue." }, { "point_text": "EFFECTS OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Separating friends", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:28", "verse_text": "A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends." }, { "point_text": "Separating friends", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:9", "verse_text": "He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends." }, { "point_text": "Deadly wounds", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 18:8", "verse_text": "The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly." }, { "point_text": "Deadly wounds", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:22", "verse_text": "The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly." }, { "point_text": "Strife", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:20", "verse_text": "Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth." }, { "point_text": "Discord among brethren", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:19", "verse_text": "A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren." }, { "point_text": "Murder", "verse_ref": "Psalm 31:13", "verse_text": "For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life." }, { "point_text": "Murder", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:9", "verse_text": "In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness." }, { "point_text": "The tongue of, is a scourge", "verse_ref": "Job 5:21", "verse_text": "Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh." }, { "point_text": "Is venomous", "verse_ref": "Psalm 140:3", "verse_text": "They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Is venomous", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 10:11", "verse_text": "Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better." }, { "point_text": "Is destructive", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:9", "verse_text": "An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered." }, { "point_text": "End of, is mischievous madness", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 10:13", "verse_text": "The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness." }, { "point_text": "Men shall give account for", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:36", "verse_text": "But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment." }, { "point_text": "Men shall give account for", "verse_ref": "James 1:26", "verse_text": "If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 19:16-21", "verse_text": "If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong; 17 Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days; 18 And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother; 19 Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you. ..." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 101:5", "verse_text": "Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:18", "verse_text": "There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:18", "verse_text": "A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:1", "verse_text": "And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 22:9-11", "verse_text": "Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. 10 And he inquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine. 11 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 10:3", "verse_text": "And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David rather sent his servants unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 16:3", "verse_text": "And the king said, And where is thy master's son? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem: for he said, To day shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:13", "verse_text": "And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "Ezra 4:7-16", "verse_text": "And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue. 8 Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort: 9 Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and the Elamites, 10 And the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnappar brought over, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest that are on this side the river, and at such a time. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 6:6", "verse_text": "Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these words." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "Esther 3:8", "verse_text": "And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 31:13", "verse_text": "For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 38:4", "verse_text": "Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:18-19", "verse_text": "For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil. 19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:59-61", "verse_text": "Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death; 60 But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses, 61 And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "Mark 15:3", "verse_text": "And the chief priests accused him of many things: but he answered nothing." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:11", "verse_text": "Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:7", "verse_text": "Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "Acts 24:2", "verse_text": "And when he was called forth, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, Seeing that by thee we enjoy great quietness, and that very worthy deeds are done unto this nation by thy providence," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "Acts 24:5", "verse_text": "For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:" }, { "point_text": "An abomination unto God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:16", "verse_text": "These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:" }, { "point_text": "An abomination unto God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:19", "verse_text": "A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:1", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:31", "verse_text": "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:" }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "James 4:11", "verse_text": "Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge." }, { "point_text": "INCLUDES", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Whispering", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:29", "verse_text": "Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers," }, { "point_text": "Whispering", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 12:20", "verse_text": "For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:" }, { "point_text": "Backbiting", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:30", "verse_text": "Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents," }, { "point_text": "Backbiting", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 12:20", "verse_text": "For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:" }, { "point_text": "Evil surmising", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:4", "verse_text": "He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings," }, { "point_text": "Tale-bearing", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:16", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Babbling", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 10:11", "verse_text": "Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better." }, { "point_text": "Tattling", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:13", "verse_text": "And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not." }, { "point_text": "Evil speaking", "verse_ref": "Psalm 41:5", "verse_text": "Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?" }, { "point_text": "Evil speaking", "verse_ref": "Psalm 109:20", "verse_text": "Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul." }, { "point_text": "Defaming", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 20:10", "verse_text": "For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him." }, { "point_text": "Defaming", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 4:13", "verse_text": "Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Bearing false witness", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:16", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour." }, { "point_text": "Bearing false witness", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:20", "verse_text": "Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour." }, { "point_text": "Bearing false witness", "verse_ref": "Luke 3:14", "verse_text": "And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages." }, { "point_text": "Judging uncharitably", "verse_ref": "James 4:11-12", "verse_text": "Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?" }, { "point_text": "Raising false reports", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:1", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness." }, { "point_text": "Repeating matters", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:9", "verse_text": "He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends." }, { "point_text": "Is a deceitful work", "verse_ref": "Psalm 52:2", "verse_text": "Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully." }, { "point_text": "Comes from the evil heart", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:19", "verse_text": "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:" }, { "point_text": "Comes from the evil heart", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:45", "verse_text": "A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh." }, { "point_text": "Often arises from hatred", "verse_ref": "Psalm 41:7", "verse_text": "All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt." }, { "point_text": "Often arises from hatred", "verse_ref": "Psalm 109:3", "verse_text": "They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause." }, { "point_text": "Idleness leads to", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:13", "verse_text": "And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not." }, { "point_text": "The wicked addicted to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:20", "verse_text": "Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son." }, { "point_text": "The wicked addicted to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:28", "verse_text": "They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters." }, { "point_text": "The wicked addicted to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:4", "verse_text": "Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders." }, { "point_text": "Hypocrites addicted to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:9", "verse_text": "An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of the devil", "verse_ref": "Revelation 12:10", "verse_text": "And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night." }, { "point_text": "The wicked love", "verse_ref": "Psalm 52:4", "verse_text": "Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue." }, { "point_text": "They who indulge in, are fools", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:18", "verse_text": "He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool." }, { "point_text": "They who indulge in, not to be trusted", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:4", "verse_text": "Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders." }, { "point_text": "Women warned against", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:3", "verse_text": "The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;" }, { "point_text": "Minister's wives should avoid", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:11", "verse_text": "Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things." }, { "point_text": "Christ was exposed to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 35:11", "verse_text": "False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not." }, { "point_text": "Christ was exposed to", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:60", "verse_text": "But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses," }, { "point_text": "Rulers exposed to", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:10", "verse_text": "But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities." }, { "point_text": "Rulers exposed to", "verse_ref": "Jude 8", "verse_text": "Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities." }, { "point_text": "Ministers exposed to", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:8", "verse_text": "And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just." }, { "point_text": "Ministers exposed to", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:8", "verse_text": "By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;" }, { "point_text": "The nearest relations exposed to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:20", "verse_text": "Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son." }, { "point_text": "Saints exposed to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 38:12", "verse_text": "They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long." }, { "point_text": "Saints exposed to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 109:2", "verse_text": "For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue." }, { "point_text": "Saints exposed to", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:4", "verse_text": "Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:" }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Should keep their tongue from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:13", "verse_text": "Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile." }, { "point_text": "Should keep their tongue from", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:10", "verse_text": "For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:" }, { "point_text": "Should lay aside", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:31", "verse_text": "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:" }, { "point_text": "Should lay aside", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:1", "verse_text": "Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings," }, { "point_text": "Should be warned against", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:1-2", "verse_text": "Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, 2 To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men." }, { "point_text": "Should give no occasion for", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:12", "verse_text": "Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation." }, { "point_text": "Should give no occasion for", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:16", "verse_text": "Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ." }, { "point_text": "Should return good for", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 4:13", "verse_text": "Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Blessed in enduring", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:11", "verse_text": "Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake." }, { "point_text": "Characterized as avoiding", "verse_ref": "Psalm 15:1", "verse_text": "LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?" }, { "point_text": "Characterized as avoiding", "verse_ref": "Psalm 15:3", "verse_text": "He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour." }, { "point_text": "Should not be listened to", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 24:9", "verse_text": "And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?" }, { "point_text": "Should be discountenanced with anger", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:23", "verse_text": "The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue." }, { "point_text": "EFFECTS OF;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Separating friends", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:28", "verse_text": "A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends." }, { "point_text": "Separating friends", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:9", "verse_text": "He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends." }, { "point_text": "Deadly wounds", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 18:8", "verse_text": "The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly." }, { "point_text": "Deadly wounds", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:22", "verse_text": "The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly." }, { "point_text": "Strife", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:20", "verse_text": "Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth." }, { "point_text": "Discord among brethren", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:19", "verse_text": "A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren." }, { "point_text": "Murder", "verse_ref": "Psalm 31:13", "verse_text": "For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life." }, { "point_text": "Murder", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:9", "verse_text": "In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness." }, { "point_text": "The tongue of, is a scourge", "verse_ref": "Job 5:21", "verse_text": "Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh." }, { "point_text": "Is venomous", "verse_ref": "Psalm 140:3", "verse_text": "They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Is venomous", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 10:11", "verse_text": "Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better." }, { "point_text": "Is destructive", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:9", "verse_text": "An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered." }, { "point_text": "End of, is mischievous madness", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 10:13", "verse_text": "The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness." }, { "point_text": "Men shall give account for", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:36", "verse_text": "But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment." }, { "point_text": "Men shall give account for", "verse_ref": "James 1:26", "verse_text": "If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 19:16-21", "verse_text": "If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong; 17 Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days; 18 And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother; 19 Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you. ..." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 101:5", "verse_text": "Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:18", "verse_text": "There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:18", "verse_text": "A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:1", "verse_text": "And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 22:9-11", "verse_text": "Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. 10 And he inquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine. 11 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 10:3", "verse_text": "And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David rather sent his servants unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 16:3", "verse_text": "And the king said, And where is thy master's son? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem: for he said, To day shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:13", "verse_text": "And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "Ezra 4:7-16", "verse_text": "And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue. 8 Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort: 9 Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and the Elamites, 10 And the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnappar brought over, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest that are on this side the river, and at such a time. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 6:6", "verse_text": "Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these words." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "Esther 3:8", "verse_text": "And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 31:13", "verse_text": "For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 38:4", "verse_text": "Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:18-19", "verse_text": "For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil. 19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:59-61", "verse_text": "Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death; 60 But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses, 61 And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "Mark 15:3", "verse_text": "And the chief priests accused him of many things: but he answered nothing." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:11", "verse_text": "Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:7", "verse_text": "Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "Acts 24:2", "verse_text": "And when he was called forth, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, Seeing that by thee we enjoy great quietness, and that very worthy deeds are done unto this nation by thy providence," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nLaban's Sons, \nDoeg, \nPrinces of Ammon, \nZiba, \nChildren of Belial, \nEnemies of the Jews, \nGashmu, \nHaman, \nDavid's enemies, \nJeremiah's enemies, \nJews, \nWitnesses against Christ, \nPriests, \nEnemies of Stephen, \nEnemies of Paul, &c. \nTertullus,", "verse_ref": "Acts 24:5", "verse_text": "For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:" } ] }, { "name": "Spear, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Spear-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "An offensive weapon", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 23:8", "verse_text": "These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time." }, { "point_text": "An offensive weapon", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 23:18", "verse_text": "And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three." }, { "point_text": "First mention of, in Scripture", "verse_ref": "Joshua 8:18", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city." }, { "point_text": "PARTS OF MENTIONED;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The staff of wood", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:7", "verse_text": "And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him." }, { "point_text": "The head of iron or brass", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:7", "verse_text": "And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him." }, { "point_text": "The head of iron or brass", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 21:16", "verse_text": "And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David." }, { "point_text": "Probably pointed at both ends", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 2:23", "verse_text": "Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still." }, { "point_text": "Called the glittering spear", "verse_ref": "Job 39:23", "verse_text": "The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield." }, { "point_text": "Called the glittering spear", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 3:11", "verse_text": "The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear." }, { "point_text": "DIFFERENT KINDS OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Lances", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:42", "verse_text": "They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon." }, { "point_text": "Javelins", "verse_ref": "Numbers 25:7", "verse_text": "And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;" }, { "point_text": "Javelins", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 18:10", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul's hand." }, { "point_text": "Darts", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 18:14", "verse_text": "Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak." }, { "point_text": "Darts", "verse_ref": "Job 41:26", "verse_text": "The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon." }, { "point_text": "Darts", "verse_ref": "Job 41:29", "verse_text": "Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear." }, { "point_text": "Those who used, called spearmen", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:30", "verse_text": "Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war." }, { "point_text": "Those who used, called spearmen", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:23", "verse_text": "And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;" }, { "point_text": "Frequently used by horse soldiers", "verse_ref": "Nahum 3:3", "verse_text": "The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:" }, { "point_text": "Furbished before war", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 46:4", "verse_text": "Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines." }, { "point_text": "Pruning-hooks made into, before war", "verse_ref": "Joel 3:10", "verse_text": "Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong." }, { "point_text": "Made into pruning-hooks in peace", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:4", "verse_text": "And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." }, { "point_text": "Made into pruning-hooks in peace", "verse_ref": "Micah 4:3", "verse_text": "And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." }, { "point_text": "THE ISRAELITES", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Acquainted with the making of", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:19", "verse_text": "Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:" }, { "point_text": "Frequently used", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 4:13", "verse_text": "Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows." }, { "point_text": "Frequently used", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 4:16", "verse_text": "And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah." }, { "point_text": "Ill provided with, in the times of Deborah and Saul", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:8", "verse_text": "They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?" }, { "point_text": "Ill provided with, in the times of Deborah and Saul", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:22", "verse_text": "So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found." }, { "point_text": "Provided by the kings of Israel in great abundance", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 11:12", "verse_text": "And in every several city he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side." }, { "point_text": "Provided by the kings of Israel in great abundance", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 32:5", "verse_text": "Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance." }, { "point_text": "Frequently thrown from the hand", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 18:11", "verse_text": "And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice." }, { "point_text": "Frequently thrown from the hand", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 19:10", "verse_text": "And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night." }, { "point_text": "Often retained in the hand of the person using", "verse_ref": "Numbers 25:7", "verse_text": "And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;" }, { "point_text": "Often retained in the hand of the person using", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 2:23", "verse_text": "Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still." }, { "point_text": "Stuck in the ground beside the bolster during sleep", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 26:7-11", "verse_text": "So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him. 8 Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time. 9 And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD'S anointed, and be guiltless? 10 David said furthermore, As the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish. ..." }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of the bitterness of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 57:4", "verse_text": "My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword." } ] }, { "name": "Strangers in Israel", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Strangers-in-Israel.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "All foreigners sojourning in Israel were counted as", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:49", "verse_text": "One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you." }, { "point_text": "Under the care and protection of God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:18", "verse_text": "He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment." }, { "point_text": "Under the care and protection of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 146:9", "verse_text": "The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down." }, { "point_text": "Very numerous in Solomon's reign", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:17", "verse_text": "And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred." }, { "point_text": "CHIEFLY CONSISTED OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The remnant of the mixed multitude who came out of Egypt", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:38", "verse_text": "And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle." }, { "point_text": "The remnant of the nations of the land", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 9:20", "verse_text": "And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel," }, { "point_text": "The remnant of the nations of the land", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 8:7", "verse_text": "As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which were not of Israel," }, { "point_text": "Captives taken in war", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 21:10", "verse_text": "When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive," }, { "point_text": "Foreign servants", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:44-45", "verse_text": "Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. 45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession." }, { "point_text": "Persons who sought employment among the Jews", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 7:13", "verse_text": "And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre." }, { "point_text": "Persons who sought employment among the Jews", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 9:27", "verse_text": "And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon." }, { "point_text": "Persons who came into Israel for the sake of religious privileges", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:41", "verse_text": "Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake;" }, { "point_text": "LAWS RESPECTING;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Not to practice idolatrous rites", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 20:2", "verse_text": "Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones." }, { "point_text": "Not to blaspheme God", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 24:16", "verse_text": "And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death." }, { "point_text": "Not to eat blood", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 17:10-12", "verse_text": "And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people. 11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. 12 Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood." }, { "point_text": "Not to eat the passover while uncircumcised", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:43-44", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof: 44 But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof." }, { "point_text": "Not to work on the Sabbath", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:10", "verse_text": "But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:" }, { "point_text": "Not to work on the Sabbath", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:12", "verse_text": "Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed." }, { "point_text": "Not to work on the Sabbath", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:14", "verse_text": "But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou." }, { "point_text": "Not to be vexed or oppressed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:21", "verse_text": "Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Not to be vexed or oppressed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:9", "verse_text": "Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Not to be vexed or oppressed", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:33", "verse_text": "And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him." }, { "point_text": "Not to be chosen as kings in Israel", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:15", "verse_text": "Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother." }, { "point_text": "To be loved", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:34", "verse_text": "But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "To be loved", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:19", "verse_text": "Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "To be relieved in distress", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:35", "verse_text": "And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee." }, { "point_text": "Subject to the civil law", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 24:22", "verse_text": "Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "To have justice done to them in all disputes", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:16", "verse_text": "And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him." }, { "point_text": "To have justice done to them in all disputes", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:17", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:" }, { "point_text": "To enjoy the benefit of the cities of refuge", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:15", "verse_text": "These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither." }, { "point_text": "To have the gleaning of the harvest", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:10", "verse_text": "And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "To have the gleaning of the harvest", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:22", "verse_text": "And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "To have the gleaning of the harvest", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:19-22", "verse_text": "When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands. 20 When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 21 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 22 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing." }, { "point_text": "To participate in the rejoicings of the people", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:29", "verse_text": "And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest." }, { "point_text": "To participate in the rejoicings of the people", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:11", "verse_text": "And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there." }, { "point_text": "To participate in the rejoicings of the people", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 26:11", "verse_text": "And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you." }, { "point_text": "To have the law read to them", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 31:12", "verse_text": "Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:" }, { "point_text": "To have the law read to them", "verse_ref": "Joshua 8:32-35", "verse_text": "And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel. 33 And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel. 34 And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law. 35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them." }, { "point_text": "The Jews might purchase and have them as slaves", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:44-45", "verse_text": "Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. 45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession." }, { "point_text": "The Jews might take usury from", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:20", "verse_text": "Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it." }, { "point_text": "Might purchase Hebrew servants subject to release", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:47-48", "verse_text": "And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family: 48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:" }, { "point_text": "Might offer their burnt-offerings on the altar of God", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 17:8", "verse_text": "And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn among you, that offereth a burnt offering or sacrifice," }, { "point_text": "Might offer their burnt-offerings on the altar of God", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:18", "verse_text": "Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering;" }, { "point_text": "Might offer their burnt-offerings on the altar of God", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:14", "verse_text": "And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do." }, { "point_text": "Allowed to eat what died of itself", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:21", "verse_text": "Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk." }, { "point_text": "Motives urged on the Jews for being kind to", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:21", "verse_text": "Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Motives urged on the Jews for being kind to", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:9", "verse_text": "Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Admitted to worship in the outer court of the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:41-43", "verse_text": "Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake; 42 (For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house; 43 Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name." }, { "point_text": "Admitted to worship in the outer court of the temple", "verse_ref": "Revelation 11:2", "verse_text": "But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months." }, { "point_text": "Admitted to worship in the outer court of the temple", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:14", "verse_text": "For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;" }, { "point_text": "Were frequently employed in public works", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 22:2", "verse_text": "And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God." }, { "point_text": "Were frequently employed in public works", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:18", "verse_text": "And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work." }, { "point_text": "The Jews condemned for oppressing", "verse_ref": "Psalm 94:6", "verse_text": "They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless." }, { "point_text": "The Jews condemned for oppressing", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:7", "verse_text": "In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow." }, { "point_text": "The Jews condemned for oppressing", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:29", "verse_text": "The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully." } ] }, { "name": "Strife", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Strife.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Christ, an example of avoiding", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:2", "verse_text": "He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street." }, { "point_text": "Christ, an example of avoiding", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:15-19", "verse_text": "But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all; 16 And charged them that they should not make him known: 17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, 18 Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles. ..." }, { "point_text": "Christ, an example of avoiding", "verse_ref": "Luke 9:52-56", "verse_text": "And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him. 53 And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem. 54 And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? 55 But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. ..." }, { "point_text": "Christ, an example of avoiding", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:23", "verse_text": "Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:" }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:30", "verse_text": "Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:8", "verse_text": "Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame." }, { "point_text": "A work of the flesh", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:20", "verse_text": "Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies," }, { "point_text": "An evidence of a carnal spirit", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:3", "verse_text": "For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?" }, { "point_text": "Existed in primitive church", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:11", "verse_text": "For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you." }, { "point_text": "EXCITED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Hatred", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:12", "verse_text": "Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins." }, { "point_text": "Pride", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 13:10", "verse_text": "Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom." }, { "point_text": "Pride", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:25", "verse_text": "He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat." }, { "point_text": "Wrath", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:18", "verse_text": "A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife." }, { "point_text": "Wrath", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:33", "verse_text": "Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife." }, { "point_text": "Frowardness", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:28", "verse_text": "A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends." }, { "point_text": "A contentious disposition", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:21", "verse_text": "As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife." }, { "point_text": "Tale-bearing", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:20", "verse_text": "Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth." }, { "point_text": "Drunkenness", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:29-30", "verse_text": "Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? 30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine." }, { "point_text": "Lusts", "verse_ref": "James 4:1", "verse_text": "From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?" }, { "point_text": "Curious questions", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:4", "verse_text": "He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings," }, { "point_text": "Curious questions", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:23", "verse_text": "But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes." }, { "point_text": "Scorning", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:10", "verse_text": "Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease." }, { "point_text": "Difficulty of stopping, a reason for avoiding it", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:14", "verse_text": "The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with." }, { "point_text": "Shameful in saints", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 12:20", "verse_text": "For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:" }, { "point_text": "Shameful in saints", "verse_ref": "James 3:14", "verse_text": "But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Avoid", "verse_ref": "Genesis 13:8", "verse_text": "And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren." }, { "point_text": "Avoid", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:3", "verse_text": "Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace." }, { "point_text": "Avoid questions that lead to", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:14", "verse_text": "Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers." }, { "point_text": "Not walk in", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:13", "verse_text": "Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying." }, { "point_text": "Not act from", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:3", "verse_text": "Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves." }, { "point_text": "Do all things without", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:14", "verse_text": "Do all things without murmurings and disputings:" }, { "point_text": "Submit to wrong rather than engage in", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:22", "verse_text": "Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee." }, { "point_text": "Submit to wrong rather than engage in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:39-40", "verse_text": "But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. 40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also." }, { "point_text": "Submit to wrong rather than engage in", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:7", "verse_text": "Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?" }, { "point_text": "Seek God's protection from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 35:1", "verse_text": "Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me." }, { "point_text": "Seek God's protection from", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 18:19", "verse_text": "Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me." }, { "point_text": "Praise God for protection from", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 22:44", "verse_text": "Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me." }, { "point_text": "Praise God for protection from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 18:43", "verse_text": "Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me." }, { "point_text": "Saints kept from tongues of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 31:20", "verse_text": "Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues." }, { "point_text": "MINISTERS SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Avoid", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:3", "verse_text": "Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;" }, { "point_text": "Avoid", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:24", "verse_text": "And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient," }, { "point_text": "Avoid questions that lead to", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:23", "verse_text": "But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes." }, { "point_text": "Avoid questions that lead to", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:9", "verse_text": "But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain." }, { "point_text": "Not preach through", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:15-16", "verse_text": "Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will: 16 The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:" }, { "point_text": "Warn against", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:10", "verse_text": "Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment." }, { "point_text": "Warn against", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:14", "verse_text": "Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers." }, { "point_text": "Reprove", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:11", "verse_text": "For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you." }, { "point_text": "Reprove", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:3", "verse_text": "For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?" }, { "point_text": "Reprove", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:17-18", "verse_text": "Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse. 18 For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it." }, { "point_text": "Appeased by slowness to anger", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:18", "verse_text": "A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife." }, { "point_text": "It is honorable to cease from", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:3", "verse_text": "It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling." }, { "point_text": "Hypocrites make religion a pretence for", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:4", "verse_text": "Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high." }, { "point_text": "Fools engage in", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 18:6", "verse_text": "A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes." }, { "point_text": "Evidences a love of transgression", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:19", "verse_text": "He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction." }, { "point_text": "LEADS TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Blasphemy", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 24:10-11", "verse_text": "And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp; 11 And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the LORD, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)" }, { "point_text": "Injustice", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 1:3-4", "verse_text": "Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention. 4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth." }, { "point_text": "Confusion and every evil work", "verse_ref": "James 3:16", "verse_text": "For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work." }, { "point_text": "Violence", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:18", "verse_text": "And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:" }, { "point_text": "Violence", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:22", "verse_text": "If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine." }, { "point_text": "Mutual destruction", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:15", "verse_text": "But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another." }, { "point_text": "Temporal blessing embittered by", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:1", "verse_text": "Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife." }, { "point_text": "Excludes from heaven", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:20-21", "verse_text": "Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Promoters of, should be expelled", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:10", "verse_text": "Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 55:9", "verse_text": "Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city." }, { "point_text": "Strength and violence of--Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:14", "verse_text": "The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with." }, { "point_text": "Strength and violence of--Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 18:19", "verse_text": "A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle." }, { "point_text": "Danger of joining in--Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:17", "verse_text": "He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHerdmen of Abram and of Lot, \nHerdmen of Gerar and of Isaac, \nLaban and Jacob, \nTwo Hebrews, \nIsraelites, \nJudah and Israel, \nDisciples, \nJudaizing Teachers, \nPaul and Barnabas, \nPharisees and Sadducees, \nCorinthians,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 13:7", "verse_text": "And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHerdmen of Abram and of Lot, \nHerdmen of Gerar and of Isaac, \nLaban and Jacob, \nTwo Hebrews, \nIsraelites, \nJudah and Israel, \nDisciples, \nJudaizing Teachers, \nPaul and Barnabas, \nPharisees and Sadducees, \nCorinthians,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:20", "verse_text": "And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHerdmen of Abram and of Lot, \nHerdmen of Gerar and of Isaac, \nLaban and Jacob, \nTwo Hebrews, \nIsraelites, \nJudah and Israel, \nDisciples, \nJudaizing Teachers, \nPaul and Barnabas, \nPharisees and Sadducees, \nCorinthians,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:36", "verse_text": "And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHerdmen of Abram and of Lot, \nHerdmen of Gerar and of Isaac, \nLaban and Jacob, \nTwo Hebrews, \nIsraelites, \nJudah and Israel, \nDisciples, \nJudaizing Teachers, \nPaul and Barnabas, \nPharisees and Sadducees, \nCorinthians,", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:13", "verse_text": "And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHerdmen of Abram and of Lot, \nHerdmen of Gerar and of Isaac, \nLaban and Jacob, \nTwo Hebrews, \nIsraelites, \nJudah and Israel, \nDisciples, \nJudaizing Teachers, \nPaul and Barnabas, \nPharisees and Sadducees, \nCorinthians,", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:12", "verse_text": "How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHerdmen of Abram and of Lot, \nHerdmen of Gerar and of Isaac, \nLaban and Jacob, \nTwo Hebrews, \nIsraelites, \nJudah and Israel, \nDisciples, \nJudaizing Teachers, \nPaul and Barnabas, \nPharisees and Sadducees, \nCorinthians,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 19:41-43", "verse_text": "And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said unto the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and have brought the king, and his household, and all David's men with him, over Jordan? 42 And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all of the king's cost? or hath he given us any gift? 43 And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHerdmen of Abram and of Lot, \nHerdmen of Gerar and of Isaac, \nLaban and Jacob, \nTwo Hebrews, \nIsraelites, \nJudah and Israel, \nDisciples, \nJudaizing Teachers, \nPaul and Barnabas, \nPharisees and Sadducees, \nCorinthians,", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:24", "verse_text": "And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHerdmen of Abram and of Lot, \nHerdmen of Gerar and of Isaac, \nLaban and Jacob, \nTwo Hebrews, \nIsraelites, \nJudah and Israel, \nDisciples, \nJudaizing Teachers, \nPaul and Barnabas, \nPharisees and Sadducees, \nCorinthians,", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:2", "verse_text": "When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHerdmen of Abram and of Lot, \nHerdmen of Gerar and of Isaac, \nLaban and Jacob, \nTwo Hebrews, \nIsraelites, \nJudah and Israel, \nDisciples, \nJudaizing Teachers, \nPaul and Barnabas, \nPharisees and Sadducees, \nCorinthians,", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:39", "verse_text": "And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHerdmen of Abram and of Lot, \nHerdmen of Gerar and of Isaac, \nLaban and Jacob, \nTwo Hebrews, \nIsraelites, \nJudah and Israel, \nDisciples, \nJudaizing Teachers, \nPaul and Barnabas, \nPharisees and Sadducees, \nCorinthians,", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:7", "verse_text": "And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHerdmen of Abram and of Lot, \nHerdmen of Gerar and of Isaac, \nLaban and Jacob, \nTwo Hebrews, \nIsraelites, \nJudah and Israel, \nDisciples, \nJudaizing Teachers, \nPaul and Barnabas, \nPharisees and Sadducees, \nCorinthians,", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:11", "verse_text": "For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nHerdmen of Abram and of Lot, \nHerdmen of Gerar and of Isaac, \nLaban and Jacob, \nTwo Hebrews, \nIsraelites, \nJudah and Israel, \nDisciples, \nJudaizing Teachers, \nPaul and Barnabas, \nPharisees and Sadducees, \nCorinthians,", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:6", "verse_text": "But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers." } ] }, { "name": "Stars, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Stars-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Infinite in number", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:5", "verse_text": "And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be." }, { "point_text": "Infinite in number", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 33:2", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;" }, { "point_text": "GOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Created", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:16", "verse_text": "And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also." }, { "point_text": "Created", "verse_ref": "Psalm 8:3", "verse_text": "When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;" }, { "point_text": "Created", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:5", "verse_text": "Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created." }, { "point_text": "Set, in the firmament of heaven", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:17", "verse_text": "And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth," }, { "point_text": "Appointed to give light by night", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:16", "verse_text": "And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also." }, { "point_text": "Appointed to give light by night", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:14", "verse_text": "And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:" }, { "point_text": "Numbers and names", "verse_ref": "Psalm 147:4", "verse_text": "He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names." }, { "point_text": "Established, for ever", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:3", "verse_text": "Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light." }, { "point_text": "Established, for ever", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:6", "verse_text": "He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass." }, { "point_text": "Obscures", "verse_ref": "Job 9:7", "verse_text": "Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars." }, { "point_text": "Revolve in fixed orbits", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:20", "verse_text": "They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera." }, { "point_text": "Shine in the firmament of heaven", "verse_ref": "Daniel 12:3", "verse_text": "And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever." }, { "point_text": "Appear of different magnitudes", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:41", "verse_text": "There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory." }, { "point_text": "Appear after sunset", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 4:21", "verse_text": "So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared." }, { "point_text": "Appear after sunset", "verse_ref": "Job 3:9", "verse_text": "Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:" }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The host of heaven", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:3", "verse_text": "And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;" }, { "point_text": "The host of heaven", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 33:22", "verse_text": "As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me." }, { "point_text": "Stars of light", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:3", "verse_text": "Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light." }, { "point_text": "Stars of heaven", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:10", "verse_text": "For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine." }, { "point_text": "When grouped together called constellations", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:5", "verse_text": "And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven." }, { "point_text": "When grouped together called constellations", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:10", "verse_text": "For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine." }, { "point_text": "Exhibit the greatness of God's power", "verse_ref": "Psalm 8:3", "verse_text": "When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;" }, { "point_text": "Exhibit the greatness of God's power", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:26", "verse_text": "Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth." }, { "point_text": "Made to praise God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:3", "verse_text": "Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light." }, { "point_text": "Impure in the sight of God", "verse_ref": "Job 25:5", "verse_text": "Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight." }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Morning star", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:28", "verse_text": "And I will give him the morning star." }, { "point_text": "Arcturus", "verse_ref": "Job 9:9", "verse_text": "Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south." }, { "point_text": "Arcturus", "verse_ref": "Job 38:32", "verse_text": "Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?" }, { "point_text": "Pleiades", "verse_ref": "Job 9:9", "verse_text": "Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south." }, { "point_text": "Pleiades", "verse_ref": "Job 38:31", "verse_text": "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?" }, { "point_text": "Pleiades", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:8", "verse_text": "Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:" }, { "point_text": "Orion", "verse_ref": "Job 9:9", "verse_text": "Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south." }, { "point_text": "Orion", "verse_ref": "Job 38:31", "verse_text": "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?" }, { "point_text": "Orion", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:8", "verse_text": "Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:" }, { "point_text": "Mazzaroth", "verse_ref": "Job 38:32", "verse_text": "Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?" }, { "point_text": "One of extraordinary brightness (a meteor) appeared at Christ's birth", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:2", "verse_text": "Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him." }, { "point_text": "One of extraordinary brightness (a meteor) appeared at Christ's birth", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:9", "verse_text": "When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was." }, { "point_text": "Idolaters worshipped", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:2", "verse_text": "And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Idolaters worshipped", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 19:13", "verse_text": "And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods." }, { "point_text": "The Israelites forbidden to worship", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:19", "verse_text": "And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven." }, { "point_text": "The Israelites forbidden to worship", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:2-4", "verse_text": "If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant, 3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; 4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and inquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:" }, { "point_text": "Punishment for worshipping", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:5-7", "verse_text": "Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die. 6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. 7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you." }, { "point_text": "False gods frequently worshipped under the representation of", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:26", "verse_text": "But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves." }, { "point_text": "False gods frequently worshipped under the representation of", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:43", "verse_text": "Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon." }, { "point_text": "Astrology and star-gazing practised by the Babylonians, &c", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 47:13", "verse_text": "Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee." }, { "point_text": "Use of, in navigation, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:20", "verse_text": "And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of Christ", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:17", "verse_text": "I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth." }, { "point_text": "Of angels", "verse_ref": "Job 38:7", "verse_text": "When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?" }, { "point_text": "Of ministers", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:16", "verse_text": "And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength." }, { "point_text": "Of ministers", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:1", "verse_text": "Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;" }, { "point_text": "Of princes and subordinate governors", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:10", "verse_text": "And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them." }, { "point_text": "Of princes and subordinate governors", "verse_ref": "Revelation 8:12", "verse_text": "And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise." }, { "point_text": "(Bright and morning star,) of Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:16", "verse_text": "I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star." }, { "point_text": "(Morning star,) of glory to be given to faithful saints", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:28", "verse_text": "And I will give him the morning star." }, { "point_text": "(Shining of,) of the reward of faithful ministers", "verse_ref": "Daniel 12:3", "verse_text": "And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever." }, { "point_text": "(Withdrawing their light,) of severe judgments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:10", "verse_text": "For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine." }, { "point_text": "(Withdrawing their light,) of severe judgments", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 32:7", "verse_text": "And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light." }, { "point_text": "(Withdrawing their light,) of severe judgments", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:10", "verse_text": "The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:" }, { "point_text": "(Withdrawing their light,) of severe judgments", "verse_ref": "Joel 3:15", "verse_text": "The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining." }, { "point_text": "(Setting the nest amongst,) of pride and carnal security", "verse_ref": "Obadiah 4", "verse_text": "Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "(Wandering,) of false teachers", "verse_ref": "Jude 13", "verse_text": "Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever." } ] }, { "name": "Sun, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Sun-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Called the greater light", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:16", "verse_text": "And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also." }, { "point_text": "GOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Created", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:14", "verse_text": "And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:" }, { "point_text": "Created", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:16", "verse_text": "And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also." }, { "point_text": "Placed in the firmament", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:17", "verse_text": "And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth," }, { "point_text": "Appointed to rule the day", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:16", "verse_text": "And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also." }, { "point_text": "Appointed to rule the day", "verse_ref": "Psalm 136:8", "verse_text": "The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever:" }, { "point_text": "Appointed to rule the day", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:35", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:" }, { "point_text": "Appointed to divide seasons, &c", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:14", "verse_text": "And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:" }, { "point_text": "Exercises sovereign power over", "verse_ref": "Job 9:7", "verse_text": "Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars." }, { "point_text": "Causes, to rise both on evil and good", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:45", "verse_text": "That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." }, { "point_text": "Causes to know its time of setting", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:19", "verse_text": "He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down." }, { "point_text": "Made to praise and glorify God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:3", "verse_text": "Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light." }, { "point_text": "The power and brilliancy of its rising alluded to", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:31", "verse_text": "So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years." }, { "point_text": "The power and brilliancy of its rising alluded to", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 23:4", "verse_text": "And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain." }, { "point_text": "Clearness of its light alluded to", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 6:10", "verse_text": "Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?" }, { "point_text": "Compared to a bridegroom coming forth from his chamber", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:5", "verse_text": "Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race." }, { "point_text": "Compared to a strong man rejoicing to run a race", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:5", "verse_text": "Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race." }, { "point_text": "Diffuses light and heat to all the earth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:6", "verse_text": "His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof." }, { "point_text": "THE RAYS OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Pleasant to man", "verse_ref": "Job 30:28", "verse_text": "I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation." }, { "point_text": "Pleasant to man", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 11:7", "verse_text": "Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:" }, { "point_text": "Produce and ripen fruits", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:14", "verse_text": "And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon," }, { "point_text": "Soften and melt some substances", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:21", "verse_text": "And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted." }, { "point_text": "Wither and burn up the herbs of the field", "verse_ref": "Mark 4:6", "verse_text": "But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away." }, { "point_text": "Wither and burn up the herbs of the field", "verse_ref": "James 1:11", "verse_text": "For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways." }, { "point_text": "Change the color of the skin", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 1:6", "verse_text": "Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept." }, { "point_text": "Frequently destructive to human life", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:18-20", "verse_text": "And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers. 19 And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother. 20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died." }, { "point_text": "Frequently destructive to human life", "verse_ref": "Psalm 121:6", "verse_text": "The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night." }, { "point_text": "Frequently destructive to human life", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:10", "verse_text": "They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them." }, { "point_text": "Indicates the hours of the day by the shadow on the dial", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:9", "verse_text": "And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?" }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Commenced their day with the rising of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 19:23-24", "verse_text": "The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. 24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;" }, { "point_text": "Commenced their day with the rising of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 19:27-28", "verse_text": "And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD: 28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace." }, { "point_text": "Commenced their evening with the setting of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:11", "verse_text": "And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep." }, { "point_text": "Commenced their evening with the setting of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:13", "verse_text": "In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God." }, { "point_text": "Commenced their evening with the setting of", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:32", "verse_text": "And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils." }, { "point_text": "Expressed the east by rising of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:11", "verse_text": "And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising." }, { "point_text": "Expressed the east by rising of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:41", "verse_text": "Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;" }, { "point_text": "Expressed the east by rising of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:47", "verse_text": "And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;" }, { "point_text": "Expressed the west by setting of", "verse_ref": "James 1:4", "verse_text": "But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing." }, { "point_text": "Expressed the whole earth by, from rising of, to setting of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:1", "verse_text": "The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof." }, { "point_text": "Expressed the whole earth by, from rising of, to setting of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 113:3", "verse_text": "From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD'S name is to be praised." }, { "point_text": "Expressed the whole earth by, from rising of, to setting of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:6", "verse_text": "That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to worship", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:19", "verse_text": "And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to worship", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:3", "verse_text": "And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;" }, { "point_text": "Made images of", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 14:5", "verse_text": "Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him." }, { "point_text": "Made images of", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 34:4", "verse_text": "And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them." }, { "point_text": "Consecrated chariots and horses, as symbols of", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:11", "verse_text": "And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire." }, { "point_text": "Worshipped", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:5", "verse_text": "And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven." }, { "point_text": "Worshipped", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:2", "verse_text": "And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Worshippers of, turned their faces towards the east", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 8:16", "verse_text": "And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east." }, { "point_text": "MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Standing still for a whole day in the valley of Ajalon", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:12-13", "verse_text": "Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. 13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day." }, { "point_text": "Shadow put back on the dial", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:11", "verse_text": "And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz." }, { "point_text": "Darkened at the crucifixion", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:44-45", "verse_text": "And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. 45 And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of God's favor", "verse_ref": "Psalm 84:11", "verse_text": "For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly." }, { "point_text": "Of Christ's coming", "verse_ref": "Malachi 4:2", "verse_text": "But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall." }, { "point_text": "Of the glory of Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 17:2", "verse_text": "And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light." }, { "point_text": "Of the glory of Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:16", "verse_text": "And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength." }, { "point_text": "Of the glory of Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 10:1", "verse_text": "And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:" }, { "point_text": "Of supreme rulers", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:9", "verse_text": "And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me." }, { "point_text": "Of supreme rulers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:10", "verse_text": "For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine." }, { "point_text": "(Its clearness,) of the purity of the church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 6:10", "verse_text": "Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?" }, { "point_text": "(Its brightness,) of the future glory of saints", "verse_ref": "Daniel 12:3", "verse_text": "And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever." }, { "point_text": "(Its brightness,) of the future glory of saints", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:43", "verse_text": "Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear." }, { "point_text": "(Its power,) of the triumph of saints", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:31", "verse_text": "So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years." }, { "point_text": "(Darkened,) of severe calamities", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 32:7", "verse_text": "And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light." }, { "point_text": "(Darkened,) of severe calamities", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:10", "verse_text": "The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:" }, { "point_text": "(Darkened,) of severe calamities", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:31", "verse_text": "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come." }, { "point_text": "(Going down at noon,) of premature destruction", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 15:9", "verse_text": "She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "(Going down at noon,) of premature destruction", "verse_ref": "Amos 8:9", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:" }, { "point_text": "(No more going down,) of perpetual blessedness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:20", "verse_text": "Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended." }, { "point_text": "(Before or in sight of,) of public ignominy", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:11-12", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. 12 For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun." } ] }, { "name": "Summer", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Summer.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Made by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:17", "verse_text": "Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter." }, { "point_text": "Yearly return of, secured by covenant", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:22", "verse_text": "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." }, { "point_text": "CHARACTERIZED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Excessive heat", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:8", "verse_text": "For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit." }, { "point_text": "Excessive drought", "verse_ref": "Psalm 32:4", "verse_text": "For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Approach of, indicated by shooting out of leaves on trees", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:32", "verse_text": "Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:" }, { "point_text": "Many kinds of fruit were ripe and used during", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 16:1", "verse_text": "And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine." }, { "point_text": "Many kinds of fruit were ripe and used during", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 40:10", "verse_text": "As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah to serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken." }, { "point_text": "Many kinds of fruit were ripe and used during", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:32", "verse_text": "O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage." }, { "point_text": "The ancients had houses or apartments suited to", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:20", "verse_text": "And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat." }, { "point_text": "The ancients had houses or apartments suited to", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:24", "verse_text": "When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber." }, { "point_text": "The ant provided her winter food during", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 6:8", "verse_text": "Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest." }, { "point_text": "The ant provided her winter food during", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:25", "verse_text": "The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;" }, { "point_text": "The wise are diligent during", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:5", "verse_text": "He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame." }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of seasons of grace", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:20", "verse_text": "The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved." } ] }, { "name": "Steadfastness", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Steadfastness.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Exhibited by God in all His purposes and ways", "verse_ref": "Numbers 23:19", "verse_text": "God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?" }, { "point_text": "Exhibited by God in all His purposes and ways", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:26", "verse_text": "I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end." }, { "point_text": "Exhibited by God in all His purposes and ways", "verse_ref": "James 1:17", "verse_text": "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:1", "verse_text": "Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved." }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:15", "verse_text": "Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle." }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "James 1:6-8", "verse_text": "But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. 7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. 8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways." }, { "point_text": "Godliness necessary to", "verse_ref": "Job 11:13-15", "verse_text": "If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; 14 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. 15 For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:" }, { "point_text": "SECURED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The power of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 55:22", "verse_text": "Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved." }, { "point_text": "The power of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 62:2", "verse_text": "He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved." }, { "point_text": "The power of God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:5", "verse_text": "Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time." }, { "point_text": "The power of God", "verse_ref": "Jude 24", "verse_text": "Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy," }, { "point_text": "The presence of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 16:8", "verse_text": "I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved." }, { "point_text": "Trust in God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 26:1", "verse_text": "Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide." }, { "point_text": "The intercession of Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:31-32", "verse_text": "And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: 32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of saints", "verse_ref": "Job 17:9", "verse_text": "The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of saints", "verse_ref": "John 8:31", "verse_text": "Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;" }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE MANIFESTED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In cleaving to God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:20", "verse_text": "Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name." }, { "point_text": "In cleaving to God", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:23", "verse_text": "Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord." }, { "point_text": "In the work of the Lord", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:58", "verse_text": "Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord." }, { "point_text": "In continuing in the Apostles' doctrine and fellowship", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:42", "verse_text": "And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers." }, { "point_text": "In holding fast our profession", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:14", "verse_text": "Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession." }, { "point_text": "In holding fast our profession", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:23", "verse_text": "Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)" }, { "point_text": "In holding fast the confidence and rejoicing of the hope", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:6", "verse_text": "But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end." }, { "point_text": "In holding fast the confidence and rejoicing of the hope", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:14", "verse_text": "For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;" }, { "point_text": "In keeping the faith", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:5", "verse_text": "For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ." }, { "point_text": "In keeping the faith", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:9", "verse_text": "Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world." }, { "point_text": "In standing fast in the faith", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 16:13", "verse_text": "Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong." }, { "point_text": "In holding fast what is good", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:21", "verse_text": "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." }, { "point_text": "In maintaining Christian liberty", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:1", "verse_text": "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage." }, { "point_text": "In striving for the faith of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:27", "verse_text": "Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;" }, { "point_text": "In striving for the faith of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Jude 3", "verse_text": "Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints." }, { "point_text": "Even under affliction", "verse_ref": "Psalm 44:17-19", "verse_text": "All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. 18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; 19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death." }, { "point_text": "Even under affliction", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:35-37", "verse_text": "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us." }, { "point_text": "Even under affliction", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 3:3", "verse_text": "That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto." }, { "point_text": "Saints pray for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 17:5", "verse_text": "Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not." }, { "point_text": "Saints praise God for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 116:8", "verse_text": "For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling." }, { "point_text": "MINISTERS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Exhorted to", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:13-14", "verse_text": "Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 14 That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us." }, { "point_text": "Should exhort to", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:43", "verse_text": "Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God." }, { "point_text": "Should exhort to", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:22", "verse_text": "Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Should pray for, in their people", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 3:13", "verse_text": "To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints." }, { "point_text": "Should pray for, in their people", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:17", "verse_text": "Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work." }, { "point_text": "Encouraged by, in their people", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 3:8", "verse_text": "For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Rejoiced by, in their people", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:5", "verse_text": "For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ." }, { "point_text": "The wicked devoid of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:8", "verse_text": "And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God." }, { "point_text": "The wicked devoid of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:37", "verse_text": "For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant." }, { "point_text": "Principle of--Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:24-25", "verse_text": "Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: 25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock." }, { "point_text": "Want of--Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 8:6", "verse_text": "And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture." }, { "point_text": "Want of--Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 8:13", "verse_text": "They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJoshua, \nJosiah, \nJob, \nDavid, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \nPrimitive Christians, \nCorinthians, \nColossians, \nThose who overcame Satan,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:24", "verse_text": "But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJoshua, \nJosiah, \nJob, \nDavid, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \nPrimitive Christians, \nCorinthians, \nColossians, \nThose who overcame Satan,", "verse_ref": "Joshua 24:15", "verse_text": "And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJoshua, \nJosiah, \nJob, \nDavid, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \nPrimitive Christians, \nCorinthians, \nColossians, \nThose who overcame Satan,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 22:2", "verse_text": "And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJoshua, \nJosiah, \nJob, \nDavid, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \nPrimitive Christians, \nCorinthians, \nColossians, \nThose who overcame Satan,", "verse_ref": "Job 2:3", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJoshua, \nJosiah, \nJob, \nDavid, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \nPrimitive Christians, \nCorinthians, \nColossians, \nThose who overcame Satan,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 18:21-22", "verse_text": "For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. 22 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJoshua, \nJosiah, \nJob, \nDavid, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \nPrimitive Christians, \nCorinthians, \nColossians, \nThose who overcame Satan,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:18", "verse_text": "But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJoshua, \nJosiah, \nJob, \nDavid, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \nPrimitive Christians, \nCorinthians, \nColossians, \nThose who overcame Satan,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:10", "verse_text": "Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJoshua, \nJosiah, \nJob, \nDavid, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \nPrimitive Christians, \nCorinthians, \nColossians, \nThose who overcame Satan,", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:42", "verse_text": "And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJoshua, \nJosiah, \nJob, \nDavid, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \nPrimitive Christians, \nCorinthians, \nColossians, \nThose who overcame Satan,", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:1", "verse_text": "Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJoshua, \nJosiah, \nJob, \nDavid, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \nPrimitive Christians, \nCorinthians, \nColossians, \nThose who overcame Satan,", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:5", "verse_text": "For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nCaleb, \nJoshua, \nJosiah, \nJob, \nDavid, \nShadrach, &c. \nDaniel, \nPrimitive Christians, \nCorinthians, \nColossians, \nThose who overcame Satan,", "verse_ref": "Revelation 12:11", "verse_text": "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death." } ] }, { "name": "Swearing Falsely", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Swearing-Falsely.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:12", "verse_text": "And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Numbers 30:2", "verse_text": "If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:33", "verse_text": "Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths:" }, { "point_text": "Hateful to God", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 8:17", "verse_text": "And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "We should not love", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 8:17", "verse_text": "And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Fraud often leads to", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:2-3", "verse_text": "If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour; 3 Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:" }, { "point_text": "Saints abstain from", "verse_ref": "Joshua 9:20", "verse_text": "This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them." }, { "point_text": "Saints abstain from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 15:4", "verse_text": "In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of abstaining from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 24:4-5", "verse_text": "He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. 5 He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Addicted to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:2", "verse_text": "And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely." }, { "point_text": "Addicted to", "verse_ref": "Hosea 10:4", "verse_text": "They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field." }, { "point_text": "Plead excuses for", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:9-10", "verse_text": "Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; 10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?" }, { "point_text": "Shall be judged on account of", "verse_ref": "Malachi 3:5", "verse_text": "And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Shall be cut off for", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 5:3", "verse_text": "Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it." }, { "point_text": "Shall have a curse upon their houses for", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 5:4", "verse_text": "I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof." }, { "point_text": "False witnesses guilty of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 19:16", "verse_text": "If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;" }, { "point_text": "False witnesses guilty of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 19:18", "verse_text": "And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSaul, \n\nShimei, \nJews, \nZedekiah, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 19:6", "verse_text": "And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, As the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSaul, \n\nShimei, \nJews, \nZedekiah, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 19:10", "verse_text": "And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSaul, \n\nShimei, \nJews, \nZedekiah, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:41-43", "verse_text": "And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again. 42 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD, and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word that I have heard is good. 43 Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSaul, \n\nShimei, \nJews, \nZedekiah, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:59", "verse_text": "For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSaul, \n\nShimei, \nJews, \nZedekiah, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:13-19", "verse_text": "And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land: 14 That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand. 15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered? 16 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSaul, \n\nShimei, \nJews, \nZedekiah, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:72", "verse_text": "And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSaul, \n\nShimei, \nJews, \nZedekiah, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:74", "verse_text": "Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew." } ] }, { "name": "Swearing, Profane", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Swearing-Profane.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Of all kinds is desecration of God's name and is forbidden", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:7", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain." }, { "point_text": "Of all kinds is desecration of God's name and is forbidden", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:34-36", "verse_text": "But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne: 35 Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King. 36 Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black." }, { "point_text": "Of all kinds is desecration of God's name and is forbidden", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:21-22", "verse_text": "And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein. 22 And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Addicted to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 10:7", "verse_text": "His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity." }, { "point_text": "Addicted to", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:14", "verse_text": "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:" }, { "point_text": "Love", "verse_ref": "Psalm 109:17", "verse_text": "As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him." }, { "point_text": "Clothe themselves with", "verse_ref": "Psalm 109:18", "verse_text": "As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones." }, { "point_text": "Guilt of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:7", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain." }, { "point_text": "Guilt of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:11", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain." }, { "point_text": "Woe denounced against", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:16", "verse_text": "Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!" }, { "point_text": "Nations visited for", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:10", "verse_text": "For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right." }, { "point_text": "Nations visited for", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:1-3", "verse_text": "Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. 3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 24:16", "verse_text": "And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 24:23", "verse_text": "And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSon of Israelitish woman, \nGehazi, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 24:11", "verse_text": "And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the LORD, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSon of Israelitish woman, \nGehazi, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:20", "verse_text": "But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nSon of Israelitish woman, \nGehazi, \nPeter,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:74", "verse_text": "Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew." } ] }, { "name": "Sword, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Sword-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Probable origin", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:24", "verse_text": "So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life." }, { "point_text": "Was pointed", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 21:15", "verse_text": "I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter." }, { "point_text": "Frequently had two edges", "verse_ref": "Psalm 149:6", "verse_text": "Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand;" }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Sharp", "verse_ref": "Psalm 57:4", "verse_text": "My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword." }, { "point_text": "Bright", "verse_ref": "Nahum 3:3", "verse_text": "The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:" }, { "point_text": "Glittering", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:41", "verse_text": "If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me." }, { "point_text": "Glittering", "verse_ref": "Job 20:25", "verse_text": "It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him." }, { "point_text": "Oppressive", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 46:16", "verse_text": "He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword." }, { "point_text": "Hurtful", "verse_ref": "Psalm 144:10", "verse_text": "It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword." }, { "point_text": "Carried in a sheath or scabbard", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 21:27", "verse_text": "And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof." }, { "point_text": "Carried in a sheath or scabbard", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 47:6", "verse_text": "O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still." }, { "point_text": "Carried in a sheath or scabbard", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 21:3-5", "verse_text": "And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked. 4 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north: 5 That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more." }, { "point_text": "Suspended from the girdle", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:39", "verse_text": "And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him." }, { "point_text": "Suspended from the girdle", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 20:8", "verse_text": "When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab's garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out." }, { "point_text": "Suspended from the girdle", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 4:18", "verse_text": "For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me." }, { "point_text": "Suspended from the girdle", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:3", "verse_text": "Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty." }, { "point_text": "WAS USED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "By the patriarchs", "verse_ref": "Genesis 34:25", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males." }, { "point_text": "By the patriarchs", "verse_ref": "Genesis 48:22", "verse_text": "Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow." }, { "point_text": "By the Jews", "verse_ref": "Judges 20:2", "verse_text": "And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword." }, { "point_text": "By the Jews", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:9", "verse_text": "And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men." }, { "point_text": "By heathen nations", "verse_ref": "Judges 7:22", "verse_text": "And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath." }, { "point_text": "By heathen nations", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:33", "verse_text": "And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal." }, { "point_text": "For self-defence", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:36", "verse_text": "Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one." }, { "point_text": "For destruction of enemies", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:24", "verse_text": "And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong." }, { "point_text": "For destruction of enemies", "verse_ref": "Joshua 6:21", "verse_text": "And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword." }, { "point_text": "For punishing criminals", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 15:33", "verse_text": "And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal." }, { "point_text": "For punishing criminals", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:2", "verse_text": "And he killed James the brother of John with the sword." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes for self-destruction", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 31:4-5", "verse_text": "Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it. 5 And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him." }, { "point_text": "Hebrews early acquainted with making of", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:19", "verse_text": "Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:" }, { "point_text": "In time of war, plowshares made into", "verse_ref": "Joel 3:10", "verse_text": "Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong." }, { "point_text": "In time of peace made into plowshares", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:4", "verse_text": "And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." }, { "point_text": "In time of peace made into plowshares", "verse_ref": "Micah 4:3", "verse_text": "And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." }, { "point_text": "Sharpened and furbished before going to war", "verse_ref": "Psalm 7:12", "verse_text": "If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready." }, { "point_text": "Sharpened and furbished before going to war", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 21:9", "verse_text": "Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:" }, { "point_text": "Was brandished over the head", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 32:10", "verse_text": "Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall." }, { "point_text": "Was thrust through enemies", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 16:40", "verse_text": "They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords." }, { "point_text": "Often threatened as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:25", "verse_text": "And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy." }, { "point_text": "Often threatened as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:33", "verse_text": "And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste." }, { "point_text": "Often sent as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Ezra 9:7", "verse_text": "Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day." }, { "point_text": "Often sent as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:62", "verse_text": "He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance." }, { "point_text": "Was one of God's four sore judgments", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 14:21", "verse_text": "For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?" }, { "point_text": "Those slain by, communicated ceremonial uncleanness", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:16", "verse_text": "And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the word of God", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:17", "verse_text": "And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:" }, { "point_text": "Of the word of God", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:12", "verse_text": "For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." }, { "point_text": "Of the word of Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:2", "verse_text": "And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;" }, { "point_text": "Of the word of Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:16", "verse_text": "And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength." }, { "point_text": "Of the justice of God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:41", "verse_text": "If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me." }, { "point_text": "Of the justice of God", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 13:7", "verse_text": "Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones." }, { "point_text": "Of the protection of God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:29", "verse_text": "Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places." }, { "point_text": "Of war and contention", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:34", "verse_text": "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword." }, { "point_text": "Of severe and heavy calamities", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 5:2", "verse_text": "Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them." }, { "point_text": "Of severe and heavy calamities", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 14:17", "verse_text": "Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:" }, { "point_text": "Of severe and heavy calamities", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 21:9", "verse_text": "Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:" }, { "point_text": "Of deep mental affliction", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:35", "verse_text": "(Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed." }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 17:13", "verse_text": "Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:" }, { "point_text": "Of the tongue of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 57:4", "verse_text": "My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword." }, { "point_text": "Of the tongue of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 64:3", "verse_text": "Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:" }, { "point_text": "Of the tongue of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:18", "verse_text": "There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health." }, { "point_text": "Of persecuting spirit of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:14", "verse_text": "The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation." }, { "point_text": "Of the end of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 5:4", "verse_text": "But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword." }, { "point_text": "Of false witnesses", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:18", "verse_text": "A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow." }, { "point_text": "Of judicial authority", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:4", "verse_text": "For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil." }, { "point_text": "(Drawing of,) of war and destruction", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:33", "verse_text": "And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste." }, { "point_text": "(Drawing of,) of war and destruction", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 21:3-5", "verse_text": "And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked. 4 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north: 5 That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more." }, { "point_text": "(Putting, into its sheath,) of peace and friendship", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 47:6", "verse_text": "O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still." }, { "point_text": "(Living by,) of rapine", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:40", "verse_text": "And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck." }, { "point_text": "(Not departing from one's house,) of perpetual calamity", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:10", "verse_text": "Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife." } ] }, { "name": "Swine", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Swine.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "When wild inhabited the woods", "verse_ref": "Psalm 80:13", "verse_text": "The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it." }, { "point_text": "Unclean and not to be eaten", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 11:7-8", "verse_text": "And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you. 8 Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Fierce and ungenerous", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:6", "verse_text": "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you." }, { "point_text": "Filthy in its habits", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:22", "verse_text": "But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire." }, { "point_text": "Destructive to agriculture", "verse_ref": "Psalm 80:13", "verse_text": "The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it." }, { "point_text": "Fed upon husks", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:16", "verse_text": "And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him." }, { "point_text": "Sacrificing of, and abomination", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:3", "verse_text": "He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations." }, { "point_text": "Kept in large herds", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:30", "verse_text": "And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding." }, { "point_text": "Herding of, considered as the greatest degradation to a Jew", "verse_ref": "Luke 15:15", "verse_text": "And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine." }, { "point_text": "The Gergesenes punished for having", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:31-32", "verse_text": "So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine. 32 And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters." }, { "point_text": "The ungodly Jews condemned for eating", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:4", "verse_text": "Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;" }, { "point_text": "The ungodly Jews condemned for eating", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:17", "verse_text": "They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The wicked", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:6", "verse_text": "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you." }, { "point_text": "Hypocrites", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:22", "verse_text": "But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire." } ] }, { "name": "Syria", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Syria.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Originally included Mesopotamia", "verse_ref": "Genesis 25:20", "verse_text": "And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian." }, { "point_text": "Originally included Mesopotamia", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:5", "verse_text": "And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother." }, { "point_text": "Originally included Mesopotamia", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 26:5", "verse_text": "And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:" }, { "point_text": "Originally included Mesopotamia", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:2", "verse_text": "And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran," }, { "point_text": "More properly the country around Damascus", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:6", "verse_text": "Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went." }, { "point_text": "Damascus the capital of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:8", "verse_text": "For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people." }, { "point_text": "Abana and Pharpar rivers of", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:12", "verse_text": "Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage." }, { "point_text": "Governed by kings", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:31", "verse_text": "But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains that had rule over his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Governed by kings", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:1", "verse_text": "Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper." }, { "point_text": "INHABITANTS OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Called Syrians", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 10:11", "verse_text": "And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will come and help thee." }, { "point_text": "Called Syrians", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:20", "verse_text": "But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him." }, { "point_text": "Called Syrians of Damascus", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:5", "verse_text": "And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men." }, { "point_text": "An idolatrous people", "verse_ref": "Judges 10:6", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him." }, { "point_text": "An idolatrous people", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:18", "verse_text": "In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing." }, { "point_text": "A warlike people", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:23", "verse_text": "And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their gods are gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they." }, { "point_text": "A warlike people", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:25", "verse_text": "And number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so." }, { "point_text": "A commercial people", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:18", "verse_text": "Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool." }, { "point_text": "Spoke the Syriac language", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:26", "verse_text": "Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall." }, { "point_text": "Spoke the Syriac language", "verse_ref": "Ezra 4:7", "verse_text": "And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue." }, { "point_text": "Spoke the Syriac language", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:4", "verse_text": "Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation." }, { "point_text": "Israel followed the idolatry of", "verse_ref": "Judges 10:6", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him." }, { "point_text": "DAVID", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Destroyed the army of, which assisted Hadadezer", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:5", "verse_text": "And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men." }, { "point_text": "Garrisoned and made tributary", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:6", "verse_text": "Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went." }, { "point_text": "Dedicated the spoils of", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:11-12", "verse_text": "Which also king David did dedicate unto the LORD, with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued; 12 Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah." }, { "point_text": "Obtained renown by his victory over", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:13", "verse_text": "And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men." }, { "point_text": "Sent Joab against the armies of, hired by the Ammonites", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 10:6-14", "verse_text": "And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men. 7 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men. 8 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entering in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba, and of Rehob, and Ishtob, and Maacah, were by themselves in the field. 9 When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians: ..." }, { "point_text": "Destroyed a second army of", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 10:15-19", "verse_text": "And when the Syrians saw that they were smitten before Israel, they gathered themselves together. 16 And Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Syrians that were beyond the river: and they came to Helam; and Shobach the captain of the host of Hadarezer went before them. 17 And when it was told David, he gathered all Israel together, and passed over Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Syrians set themselves in array against David, and fought with him. 18 And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men of seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there. ..." }, { "point_text": "Asa sought aid of, against Israel", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:18-20", "verse_text": "Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Benhadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying, 19 There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me. 20 So Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelbethmaachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali." }, { "point_text": "Elijah anointed Hazael king over, by divine direction", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:15", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria:" }, { "point_text": "Benhadad king of, besieged Samaria", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:1-12", "verse_text": "And Benhadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it. 2 And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith Benhadad, 3 Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine. 4 And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according to thy saying, I am thine, and all that I have. ..." }, { "point_text": "THE ISRAELITES", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Under Ahab encouraged and assisted by God, overcame", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:13-20", "verse_text": "And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thine hand this day; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD. 14 And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Even by the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall order the battle? And he answered, Thou. 15 Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand. 16 And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him. ..." }, { "point_text": "Forewarned of invasion by, at the return of the year", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:22-25", "verse_text": "And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said unto him, Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou doest: for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee. 23 And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their gods are gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. 24 And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their rooms: 25 And number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so." }, { "point_text": "Insignificant before", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:26-27", "verse_text": "And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Benhadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel. 27 And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, and went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country." }, { "point_text": "Encouraged and assisted by God overcame, a second time", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:28-30", "verse_text": "And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 29 And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day. 30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber." }, { "point_text": "Craftily drawn into a league with", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:31-43", "verse_text": "And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life. 32 So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Benhadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother. 33 Now the men did diligently observe whether any thing would come from him, and did hastily catch it: and they said, Thy brother Benhadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Benhadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot. 34 And Benhadad said unto him, The cities, which my father took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away. ..." }, { "point_text": "At peace with, for three years", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:1", "verse_text": "And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel." }, { "point_text": "Under Ahab sought to recover Ramoth-gilead from", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:3-29", "verse_text": "And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we be still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria? 4 And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramothgilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses. 5 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Inquire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD to day. 6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king. ..." }, { "point_text": "Defeated by, and Ahab slain", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:30-36", "verse_text": "And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle. 31 But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains that had rule over his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel. 32 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel. And they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out. 33 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him. ..." }, { "point_text": "Harassed by frequent incursions of", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:2", "verse_text": "And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife." }, { "point_text": "Harassed by frequent incursions of", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:23", "verse_text": "And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Heard the secrets of, from Elisha", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:8-12", "verse_text": "Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp. 9 And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are come down. 10 And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once nor twice. 11 Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which of us is for the king of Israel? ..." }, { "point_text": "God smote with blindness those sent against Elisha by the king of", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:14", "verse_text": "Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about." }, { "point_text": "God smote with blindness those sent against Elisha by the king of", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:18-20", "verse_text": "And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha. 19 And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led them to Samaria. 20 And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria." }, { "point_text": "Besieged Samaria again", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:24-29", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria. 25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver. 26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. 27 And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? ..." }, { "point_text": "Army of, miraculously routed", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 7:5-6", "verse_text": "And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there. 6 For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us." }, { "point_text": "Death of the king of, and the cruelty of his successor foretold by Elisha", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 8:7", "verse_text": "And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither." }, { "point_text": "Death of the king of, and the cruelty of his successor foretold by Elisha", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 8:15", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead." }, { "point_text": "Joram king of Israel in seeking to recover Ramoth-gilead from, severely wounded", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 8:28", "verse_text": "And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king of Syria in Ramothgilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram." }, { "point_text": "Joram king of Israel in seeking to recover Ramoth-gilead from, severely wounded", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 9:15", "verse_text": "But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel." }, { "point_text": "Israel delivered into the hands of, for the sins of Jehoahaz", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 13:3", "verse_text": "And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, all their days." }, { "point_text": "Israel delivered into the hands of, for the sins of Jehoahaz", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 13:7", "verse_text": "Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing." }, { "point_text": "Israel delivered into the hands of, for the sins of Jehoahaz", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 13:22", "verse_text": "But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz." }, { "point_text": "A savior raised up for Israel against", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 13:5", "verse_text": "(And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime." }, { "point_text": "A savior raised up for Israel against", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 13:23-25", "verse_text": "And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet. 24 So Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son reigned in his stead. 25 And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash beat him, and recovered the cities of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Elisha predicted to Joash his three victories over", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 13:14-19", "verse_text": "Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. 15 And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him bow and arrows. 16 And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the bow. And he put his hand upon it: and Elisha put his hands upon the king's hands. 17 And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD'S deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them. ..." }, { "point_text": "Joined with Israel against Ahaz and besieged Jerusalem", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 16:5", "verse_text": "Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him." }, { "point_text": "Joined with Israel against Ahaz and besieged Jerusalem", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:12", "verse_text": "But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Retook Elath and drove out the Jews", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 16:6", "verse_text": "At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Subdued and its inhabitants taken captive by Assyria", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 16:9", "verse_text": "And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin." }, { "point_text": "PROPHECIES RESPECTING;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Destruction of Rezin king of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:8", "verse_text": "For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of Rezin king of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:16", "verse_text": "For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings." }, { "point_text": "Ceasing to be a kingdom", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 17:1-3", "verse_text": "The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. 2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. 3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Terror and dismay in, occasioned by its invasion", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:23-24", "verse_text": "Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet. 24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of its inhabitants", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:26", "verse_text": "Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Spoliation of Damascus", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:4", "verse_text": "For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria." }, { "point_text": "Burning of Damascus", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:27", "verse_text": "And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad." }, { "point_text": "Burning of Damascus", "verse_ref": "Amos 1:4", "verse_text": "But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad." }, { "point_text": "Its calamities, the punishments of its sins", "verse_ref": "Amos 1:3", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:" }, { "point_text": "Its inhabitants to be captives", "verse_ref": "Amos 1:5", "verse_text": "I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Its history in connection with the Macedonia empire", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:6-45", "verse_text": "And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times. 7 But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail: 8 And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the north. 9 So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land. ..." }, { "point_text": "Subdued and governed by the Romans", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:2", "verse_text": "(And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)" }, { "point_text": "Gospel preached and many churches founded in", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:23", "verse_text": "And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia:" }, { "point_text": "Gospel preached and many churches founded in", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:41", "verse_text": "And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches." } ] }, { "name": "Tabernacle", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Tabernacle.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Moses was commanded to make, after a divine pattern", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:9", "verse_text": "According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it." }, { "point_text": "Moses was commanded to make, after a divine pattern", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:30", "verse_text": "And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount." }, { "point_text": "Moses was commanded to make, after a divine pattern", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 8:5", "verse_text": "Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount." }, { "point_text": "Made of the free-will offerings of the people", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:1-8", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering. 3 And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass, 4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, ..." }, { "point_text": "Made of the free-will offerings of the people", "verse_ref": "Exodus 35:4-5", "verse_text": "And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD commanded, saying, 5 Take ye from among you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD; gold, and silver, and brass," }, { "point_text": "Made of the free-will offerings of the people", "verse_ref": "Exodus 35:21-29", "verse_text": "And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought the LORD'S offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments. 22 And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the LORD. 23 And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, and red skins of rams, and badgers' skins, brought them. 24 Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought the LORD'S offering: and every man, with whom was found shittim wood for any work of the service, brought it. ..." }, { "point_text": "Divine wisdom given to Bezaleel, &c. to make", "verse_ref": "Exodus 31:2-7", "verse_text": "See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah: 3 And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, 4 To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, 5 And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship. ..." }, { "point_text": "Divine wisdom given to Bezaleel, &c. to make", "verse_ref": "Exodus 35:30-35", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the LORD hath called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; 31 And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship; 32 And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, 33 And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work. ..." }, { "point_text": "Divine wisdom given to Bezaleel, &c. to make", "verse_ref": "Exodus 36:1", "verse_text": "Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD had commanded." }, { "point_text": "CALLED THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Tabernacle of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Joshua 22:19", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein the LORD'S tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the LORD our God." }, { "point_text": "Tabernacle of the Lord", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:28", "verse_text": "Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar." }, { "point_text": "Tabernacle of the Lord", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:39", "verse_text": "And Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon," }, { "point_text": "Tabernacle of testimony or witness", "verse_ref": "Exodus 38:21", "verse_text": "This is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest." }, { "point_text": "Tabernacle of testimony or witness", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:50", "verse_text": "But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle." }, { "point_text": "Tabernacle of testimony or witness", "verse_ref": "Numbers 17:7-8", "verse_text": "And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the tabernacle of witness. 8 And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds." }, { "point_text": "Tabernacle of testimony or witness", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 24:6", "verse_text": "And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?" }, { "point_text": "Tabernacle of testimony or witness", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:44", "verse_text": "Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen." }, { "point_text": "Tabernacle of the congregation", "verse_ref": "Exodus 27:21", "verse_text": "In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Tabernacle of the congregation", "verse_ref": "Exodus 33:7", "verse_text": "And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, that every one which sought the LORD went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which was without the camp." }, { "point_text": "Tabernacle of the congregation", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:26", "verse_text": "And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the vail:" }, { "point_text": "Tabernacle of Shiloh", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:60", "verse_text": "So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;" }, { "point_text": "Tabernacle of Joseph", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:67", "verse_text": "Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:" }, { "point_text": "Temple of the Lord", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:9", "verse_text": "So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Temple of the Lord", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 3:3", "verse_text": "And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep;" }, { "point_text": "House of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Joshua 6:24", "verse_text": "And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "House of the Lord", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:7", "verse_text": "And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat." }, { "point_text": "House of the Lord", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:24", "verse_text": "And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young." }, { "point_text": "Was a moveable tent suited to the unsettled condition of Israel", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:6-7", "verse_text": "Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle. 7 In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?" }, { "point_text": "Designed for manifestation of God's presence and for His worship", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:8", "verse_text": "And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them." }, { "point_text": "Designed for manifestation of God's presence and for His worship", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:42-43", "verse_text": "This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee. 43 And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory." }, { "point_text": "THE BOARDS OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Made of shittim wood", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:15", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up." }, { "point_text": "Made of shittim wood", "verse_ref": "Exodus 36:20", "verse_text": "And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up." }, { "point_text": "Ten cubits high by one and a half broad", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:16", "verse_text": "Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board." }, { "point_text": "Ten cubits high by one and a half broad", "verse_ref": "Exodus 36:21", "verse_text": "The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half." }, { "point_text": "Had each two tenons fitted into sockets of silver", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:17", "verse_text": "Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle." }, { "point_text": "Had each two tenons fitted into sockets of silver", "verse_ref": "Exodus 36:22-24", "verse_text": "One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle. 23 And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward: 24 And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons." }, { "point_text": "Twenty on south side", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:18", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward." }, { "point_text": "Twenty on south side", "verse_ref": "Exodus 36:23", "verse_text": "And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:" }, { "point_text": "Twenty on north side", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:20", "verse_text": "And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards:" }, { "point_text": "Twenty on north side", "verse_ref": "Exodus 36:25", "verse_text": "And for the other side of the tabernacle, which is toward the north corner, he made twenty boards," }, { "point_text": "Six, and two corner boards for west side", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:22-25", "verse_text": "And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards. 23 And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides. 24 And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners. 25 And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board." }, { "point_text": "Six, and two corner boards for west side", "verse_ref": "Exodus 36:27-30", "verse_text": "And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six boards. 28 And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides. 29 And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners. 30 And there were eight boards; and their sockets were sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two sockets." }, { "point_text": "Supported by bars of shittim wood resting in rings of gold", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:26-29", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, 27 And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward. 28 And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end. 29 And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold." }, { "point_text": "Supported by bars of shittim wood resting in rings of gold", "verse_ref": "Exodus 36:31-33", "verse_text": "And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, 32 And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the sides westward. 33 And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other." }, { "point_text": "With the bars, covered with gold", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:26-29", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, 27 And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward. 28 And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end. 29 And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold." }, { "point_text": "With the bars, covered with gold", "verse_ref": "Exodus 36:34", "verse_text": "And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold." }, { "point_text": "The door of, a curtain of blue and purple suspended by gold rings from five pillars of shittim wood, &c", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:36", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework." }, { "point_text": "The door of, a curtain of blue and purple suspended by gold rings from five pillars of shittim wood, &c", "verse_ref": "Exodus 36:37-38", "verse_text": "And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework; 38 And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass." }, { "point_text": "COVERINGS OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The first or inner, ten curtains of blue, purple, &c. joined with loops and golden taches", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:1-6", "verse_text": "Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them. 2 The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure. 3 The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another. 4 And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second. ..." }, { "point_text": "The first or inner, ten curtains of blue, purple, &c. joined with loops and golden taches", "verse_ref": "Exodus 36:8-13", "verse_text": "And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them. 9 The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size. 10 And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and the other five curtains he coupled one unto another. 11 And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost side of another curtain, in the coupling of the second. ..." }, { "point_text": "The second, eleven curtains of goats' hair, &c", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:7-13", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make. 8 The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure. 9 And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle. 10 And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second. ..." }, { "point_text": "The second, eleven curtains of goats' hair, &c", "verse_ref": "Exodus 36:14-18", "verse_text": "And he made curtains of goats' hair for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them. 15 The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains were of one size. 16 And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves. 17 And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second. ..." }, { "point_text": "The third of rams' skins dyed red", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:14", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers' skins." }, { "point_text": "The third of rams' skins dyed red", "verse_ref": "Exodus 36:19", "verse_text": "And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers' skins above that." }, { "point_text": "The fourth or outward of badgers' skins", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:14", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers' skins." }, { "point_text": "The fourth or outward of badgers' skins", "verse_ref": "Exodus 36:19", "verse_text": "And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers' skins above that." }, { "point_text": "Divided by a vail of blue, purple, &c. suspended from four pillars of shittim wood by gold hooks", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:31-33", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made: 32 And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver. 33 And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy." }, { "point_text": "Divided by a vail of blue, purple, &c. suspended from four pillars of shittim wood by gold hooks", "verse_ref": "Exodus 36:35", "verse_text": "And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work." }, { "point_text": "Divided by a vail of blue, purple, &c. suspended from four pillars of shittim wood by gold hooks", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:21", "verse_text": "And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the vail of the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "DIVIDED INTO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The holy place", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:33", "verse_text": "And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy." }, { "point_text": "The holy place", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:2-6", "verse_text": "For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary. 3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all; 4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant; 5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly. ..." }, { "point_text": "The most holy place", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:34", "verse_text": "And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place." }, { "point_text": "The most holy place", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:3", "verse_text": "And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;" }, { "point_text": "The most holy place", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:7", "verse_text": "But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:" }, { "point_text": "Had a court round about", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:8", "verse_text": "And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court gate." }, { "point_text": "The table of show-bread, the golden candlestick, and the altar of incense were place in the holy place", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:35", "verse_text": "And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side." }, { "point_text": "The table of show-bread, the golden candlestick, and the altar of incense were place in the holy place", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:22", "verse_text": "And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the vail." }, { "point_text": "The table of show-bread, the golden candlestick, and the altar of incense were place in the holy place", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:24", "verse_text": "And he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation, over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward." }, { "point_text": "The table of show-bread, the golden candlestick, and the altar of incense were place in the holy place", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:26", "verse_text": "And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the vail:" }, { "point_text": "The ark and mercy-seat put in the most holy place", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:33", "verse_text": "And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy." }, { "point_text": "The ark and mercy-seat put in the most holy place", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:20-21", "verse_text": "And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark: 21 And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the vail of the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "COURT OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "One hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide", "verse_ref": "Exodus 27:18", "verse_text": "The length of the court shall be an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass." }, { "point_text": "Surrounded by curtains of fine linen suspended from pillars in sockets of brass", "verse_ref": "Exodus 27:9-15", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side: 10 And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver. 11 And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver. 12 And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. ..." }, { "point_text": "Surrounded by curtains of fine linen suspended from pillars in sockets of brass", "verse_ref": "Exodus 38:9-16", "verse_text": "And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits: 10 Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. 11 And for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver. 12 And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver. ..." }, { "point_text": "The gate of, a hanging of blue, purple, &c. twenty cubits wide, suspended from four pillars, &c", "verse_ref": "Exodus 27:16", "verse_text": "And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four." }, { "point_text": "The gate of, a hanging of blue, purple, &c. twenty cubits wide, suspended from four pillars, &c", "verse_ref": "Exodus 38:18", "verse_text": "And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court." }, { "point_text": "Contained the brazen altar and laver of brass", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:29-30", "verse_text": "And he put the altar of burnt offering by the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meat offering; as the LORD commanded Moses. 30 And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and put water there, to wash withal." }, { "point_text": "All the pillars of, filleted with silver, &c", "verse_ref": "Exodus 27:17", "verse_text": "All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass." }, { "point_text": "All the pillars of, filleted with silver, &c", "verse_ref": "Exodus 38:17", "verse_text": "And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their chapiters of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver." }, { "point_text": "All the vessels of, made of brass", "verse_ref": "Exodus 27:19", "verse_text": "All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass." }, { "point_text": "First reared, on the first day of the second year after the exodus", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:2", "verse_text": "On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "First reared, on the first day of the second year after the exodus", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:17", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up." }, { "point_text": "WAS SET UP", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "By Moses at Mount Sinai", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:18-19", "verse_text": "And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars. 19 And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "At Gilgal", "verse_ref": "Joshua 5:10-11", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho. 11 And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day." }, { "point_text": "In Shiloh", "verse_ref": "Joshua 18:1", "verse_text": "And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them." }, { "point_text": "In Shiloh", "verse_ref": "Joshua 19:51", "verse_text": "These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they made an end of dividing the country." }, { "point_text": "In Nob", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 21:1-6", "verse_text": "Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee? 2 And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place. 3 Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present. 4 And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women. ..." }, { "point_text": "Finally at Gibeon", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:39", "verse_text": "And Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon," }, { "point_text": "Finally at Gibeon", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 21:29", "verse_text": "For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon." }, { "point_text": "Anointed and consecrated with oil", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:9", "verse_text": "And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels thereof: and it shall be holy." }, { "point_text": "Anointed and consecrated with oil", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:10", "verse_text": "And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was therein, and sanctified them." }, { "point_text": "Anointed and consecrated with oil", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them;" }, { "point_text": "Sprinkled and purified with blood", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:21", "verse_text": "Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry." }, { "point_text": "Sanctified by the glory of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:43", "verse_text": "And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory." }, { "point_text": "Sanctified by the glory of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:34", "verse_text": "Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle." }, { "point_text": "Sanctified by the glory of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Numbers 9:15", "verse_text": "And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning." }, { "point_text": "The Lord appeared in, over the mercy-seat", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:22", "verse_text": "And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "The Lord appeared in, over the mercy-seat", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:2", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat." }, { "point_text": "The Lord appeared in, over the mercy-seat", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:89", "verse_text": "And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him." }, { "point_text": "The cloud of glory rested on, by night and day during its abode in the wilderness", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:38", "verse_text": "For the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys." }, { "point_text": "The cloud of glory rested on, by night and day during its abode in the wilderness", "verse_ref": "Numbers 9:15-16", "verse_text": "And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning. 16 So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night." }, { "point_text": "The journeys of Israel regulated by the cloud on", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:36-37", "verse_text": "And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys: 37 But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up." }, { "point_text": "THE PRIESTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Alone could enter", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:3", "verse_text": "And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die." }, { "point_text": "Alone could enter", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:5", "verse_text": "And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Performed all services in", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:10", "verse_text": "And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest's office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death." }, { "point_text": "Performed all services in", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:1-2", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. 2 And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness." }, { "point_text": "Were the ministers of", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 8:2", "verse_text": "A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man." }, { "point_text": "THE LEVITES", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Appointed over, and had charge of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:50", "verse_text": "But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle." }, { "point_text": "Appointed over, and had charge of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 8:24", "verse_text": "This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:" }, { "point_text": "Appointed over, and had charge of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:2-4", "verse_text": "And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness. 3 And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die. 4 And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you." }, { "point_text": "Did the inferior service of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:6-8", "verse_text": "Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him. 7 And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do the service of the tabernacle. 8 And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle." }, { "point_text": "Took down, and put up", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:51", "verse_text": "And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death." }, { "point_text": "Carried", "verse_ref": "Numbers 4:15", "verse_text": "And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear it: but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "Carried", "verse_ref": "Numbers 4:25", "verse_text": "And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering of the badgers' skins that is above upon it, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation," }, { "point_text": "Carried", "verse_ref": "Numbers 4:31", "verse_text": "And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and sockets thereof," }, { "point_text": "Pitched their tents around", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:53", "verse_text": "But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony." }, { "point_text": "Pitched their tents around", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:23", "verse_text": "The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward." }, { "point_text": "Pitched their tents around", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:29", "verse_text": "The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward." }, { "point_text": "Pitched their tents around", "verse_ref": "Numbers 3:35", "verse_text": "And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: these shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward." }, { "point_text": "Free-will offerings made at the first rearing of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:1-9", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them; 2 That the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their fathers, who were the princes of the tribes, and were over them that were numbered, offered: 3 And they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they brought them before the tabernacle. 4 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ..." }, { "point_text": "Free-will offerings made at the dedication of the altar of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:10-87", "verse_text": "And the princes offered for dedicating of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes offered their offering before the altar. 11 And the LORD said unto Moses, They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedicating of the altar. 12 And he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah: 13 And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: ..." }, { "point_text": "All offerings to be made at", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 17:4", "verse_text": "And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD; blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:" }, { "point_text": "All offerings to be made at", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:5-6", "verse_text": "But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come: 6 And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:" }, { "point_text": "All offerings to be made at", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:11", "verse_text": "Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "All offerings to be made at", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:13-14", "verse_text": "Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest: 14 But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for defiling", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 15:31", "verse_text": "Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for defiling", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:13", "verse_text": "Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him." }, { "point_text": "A permanent house substituted for, when the kingdom was established", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:5-13", "verse_text": "Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in? 6 Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle. 7 In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar? 8 Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel: ..." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 4:6", "verse_text": "And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain." }, { "point_text": "Of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 1:14", "verse_text": "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." }, { "point_text": "Of Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:8-9", "verse_text": "The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: 9 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;" }, { "point_text": "Of Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:11", "verse_text": "But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;" }, { "point_text": "Of the church", "verse_ref": "Psalm 15:1", "verse_text": "LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?" }, { "point_text": "Of the church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 16:5", "verse_text": "And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Of the church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:2", "verse_text": "Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;" }, { "point_text": "Of the church", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 8:2", "verse_text": "A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man." }, { "point_text": "Of the church", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:2-3", "verse_text": "And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God." }, { "point_text": "Of the body", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:1", "verse_text": "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." }, { "point_text": "Of the body", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 1:13", "verse_text": "Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;" }, { "point_text": "(The holy of holies,) of heaven", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:19", "verse_text": "Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;" }, { "point_text": "(The holy of holies,) of heaven", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:12", "verse_text": "Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us." }, { "point_text": "(The holy of holies,) of heaven", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:19", "verse_text": "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus," }, { "point_text": "(The vail,) of Christ's body", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:20", "verse_text": "By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;" }, { "point_text": "(The vail,) of the obscurity of the Mosaic dispensation", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:8", "verse_text": "The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:" }, { "point_text": "(The vail,) of the obscurity of the Mosaic dispensation", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:10", "verse_text": "Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation." } ] }, { "name": "Temptation", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Temptation.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "God cannot be the subject of", "verse_ref": "James 1:13", "verse_text": "Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:" }, { "point_text": "Does not come from God", "verse_ref": "James 1:13", "verse_text": "Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:" }, { "point_text": "COMES FROM", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Lusts", "verse_ref": "James 1:14", "verse_text": "But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed." }, { "point_text": "Covetousness", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:20", "verse_text": "A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent." }, { "point_text": "Covetousness", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:9-10", "verse_text": "But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." }, { "point_text": "The devil is the author of", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 21:1", "verse_text": "And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel." }, { "point_text": "The devil is the author of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:1", "verse_text": "Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil." }, { "point_text": "The devil is the author of", "verse_ref": "John 13:2", "verse_text": "And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him;" }, { "point_text": "The devil is the author of", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 3:5", "verse_text": "For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain." }, { "point_text": "Evil associates, the instruments of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:10", "verse_text": "My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not." }, { "point_text": "Evil associates, the instruments of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 7:6", "verse_text": "For at the window of my house I looked through my casement," }, { "point_text": "Evil associates, the instruments of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:29", "verse_text": "A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good." }, { "point_text": "OFTEN ARISES THROUGH", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Poverty", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:9", "verse_text": "Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." }, { "point_text": "Poverty", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:2-3", "verse_text": "And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. 3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread." }, { "point_text": "Prosperity", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:9", "verse_text": "Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." }, { "point_text": "Prosperity", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:8", "verse_text": "Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;" }, { "point_text": "Worldly glory", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:17", "verse_text": "For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people." }, { "point_text": "Worldly glory", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:30", "verse_text": "The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?" }, { "point_text": "Worldly glory", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:2", "verse_text": "Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein." }, { "point_text": "Worldly glory", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:8", "verse_text": "Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;" }, { "point_text": "To distrust of God's providence", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:3", "verse_text": "And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread." }, { "point_text": "To presumption", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:6", "verse_text": "And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone." }, { "point_text": "To worshipping the god of this world", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:9", "verse_text": "And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me." }, { "point_text": "Often strengthened by the perversion of God's word", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:6", "verse_text": "And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone." }, { "point_text": "PERMITTED AS A TRIAL OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Faith", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:7", "verse_text": "That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Faith", "verse_ref": "James 1:2-3", "verse_text": "My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience." }, { "point_text": "Disinterestedness", "verse_ref": "Job 1:9-12", "verse_text": "Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? 10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. 11 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. 12 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Always conformable to the nature of man", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:13", "verse_text": "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it." }, { "point_text": "Often ends in sin and perdition", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:9", "verse_text": "But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition." }, { "point_text": "Often ends in sin and perdition", "verse_ref": "James 1:15", "verse_text": "Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death." }, { "point_text": "CHRIST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Endured, from the devil", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:13", "verse_text": "And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him." }, { "point_text": "Endured, from the wicked", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:1", "verse_text": "The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven." }, { "point_text": "Endured, from the wicked", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:18", "verse_text": "But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?" }, { "point_text": "Endured, from the wicked", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:25", "verse_text": "And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" }, { "point_text": "Resisted by the word of God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:4", "verse_text": "But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." }, { "point_text": "Resisted by the word of God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:7", "verse_text": "Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God." }, { "point_text": "Resisted by the word of God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:10", "verse_text": "Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve." }, { "point_text": "Overcame", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:11", "verse_text": "Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him." }, { "point_text": "Sympathizes with those under", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:15", "verse_text": "For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." }, { "point_text": "Is able to succor those under", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:18", "verse_text": "For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted." }, { "point_text": "Intercedes for His people under", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:31-32", "verse_text": "And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: 32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren." }, { "point_text": "God will not suffer saints to be exposed to, beyond their powers to bear", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:13", "verse_text": "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it." }, { "point_text": "God will make a way for saints to escape out of", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:13", "verse_text": "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it." }, { "point_text": "God enables the saints to bear", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:13", "verse_text": "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it." }, { "point_text": "God knows how to deliver saints out of", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:9", "verse_text": "The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:" }, { "point_text": "Christ keeps faithful saints from the hour of", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:10", "verse_text": "Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Saints may be in heaviness through", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:6", "verse_text": "Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:" }, { "point_text": "SAINTS SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Resist, in faith", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:16", "verse_text": "Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked." }, { "point_text": "Resist, in faith", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:9", "verse_text": "Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world." }, { "point_text": "Watch against", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:41", "verse_text": "Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." }, { "point_text": "Watch against", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:8", "verse_text": "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:" }, { "point_text": "Pray to be kept from", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:13", "verse_text": "And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Pray to be kept from", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:41", "verse_text": "Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." }, { "point_text": "Not to occasion, to others", "verse_ref": "Romans 14:13", "verse_text": "Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way." }, { "point_text": "Restore those overcome by", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:1", "verse_text": "Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted." }, { "point_text": "Avoid the way of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 4:14-15", "verse_text": "Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. 15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away." }, { "point_text": "The devil will renew", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:13", "verse_text": "And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season." }, { "point_text": "Has strength through the weakness of the flesh", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:41", "verse_text": "Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." }, { "point_text": "Mere professors fall away in time of", "verse_ref": "Luke 8:13", "verse_text": "They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of those who meet and overcome", "verse_ref": "James 1:2-4", "verse_text": "My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of those who meet and overcome", "verse_ref": "James 1:12", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEve, \n\nJoseph, \nBalaam, \nAchan, \nDavid, \nJeroboam, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:1", "verse_text": "Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEve, \n\nJoseph, \nBalaam, \nAchan, \nDavid, \nJeroboam, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:4-5", "verse_text": "And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEve, \n\nJoseph, \nBalaam, \nAchan, \nDavid, \nJeroboam, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 39:7", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEve, \n\nJoseph, \nBalaam, \nAchan, \nDavid, \nJeroboam, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:17", "verse_text": "For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEve, \n\nJoseph, \nBalaam, \nAchan, \nDavid, \nJeroboam, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Joshua 7:21", "verse_text": "When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEve, \n\nJoseph, \nBalaam, \nAchan, \nDavid, \nJeroboam, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 11:2", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEve, \n\nJoseph, \nBalaam, \nAchan, \nDavid, \nJeroboam, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:30", "verse_text": "Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEve, \n\nJoseph, \nBalaam, \nAchan, \nDavid, \nJeroboam, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Mark 14:67-71", "verse_text": "And when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked upon him, and said, And thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth. 68 But he denied, saying, I know not, neither understand I what thou sayest. And he went out into the porch; and the cock crew. 69 And a maid saw him again, and began to say to them that stood by, This is one of them. 70 And he denied it again. And a little after, they that stood by said again to Peter, Surely thou art one of them: for thou art a Galilaean, and thy speech agreeth thereto. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEve, \n\nJoseph, \nBalaam, \nAchan, \nDavid, \nJeroboam, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 12:7", "verse_text": "And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEve, \n\nJoseph, \nBalaam, \nAchan, \nDavid, \nJeroboam, \nPeter, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:14", "verse_text": "And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus." } ] }, { "name": "Synagogues", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Synagogues.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Places in which the Jews assembled for worship", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:5", "verse_text": "And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister." }, { "point_text": "Places in which the Jews assembled for worship", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:14", "verse_text": "But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down." }, { "point_text": "Early notice of their existence", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:8", "verse_text": "They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land." }, { "point_text": "Probably originated in the schools of the prophets", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 19:18-24", "verse_text": "So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth. 19 And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah. 20 And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied. 21 And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they prophesied likewise. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they prophesied also. ..." }, { "point_text": "Probably originated in the schools of the prophets", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:23", "verse_text": "And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well." }, { "point_text": "Revival of, after the captivity", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:1-8", "verse_text": "And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel. 2 And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month. 3 And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law. 4 And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam. ..." }, { "point_text": "SERVICE OF, CONSISTED OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Prayer", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:5", "verse_text": "And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward." }, { "point_text": "Reading the word of God", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:18", "verse_text": "Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner." }, { "point_text": "Reading the word of God", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:3", "verse_text": "And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the LORD their God." }, { "point_text": "Reading the word of God", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:1", "verse_text": "On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;" }, { "point_text": "Reading the word of God", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:21", "verse_text": "For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day." }, { "point_text": "Expounding the word of God", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:8", "verse_text": "So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading." }, { "point_text": "Expounding the word of God", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:21", "verse_text": "And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears." }, { "point_text": "Praise and thanksgiving", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:5", "verse_text": "Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise." }, { "point_text": "Service in, on the Sabbath day", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:16", "verse_text": "And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read." }, { "point_text": "Service in, on the Sabbath day", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:14", "verse_text": "But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down." }, { "point_text": "GOVERNED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "A president or chief ruler", "verse_ref": "Acts 18:8", "verse_text": "And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized." }, { "point_text": "A president or chief ruler", "verse_ref": "Acts 18:17", "verse_text": "Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things." }, { "point_text": "Ordinary rulers", "verse_ref": "Mark 5:22", "verse_text": "And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet," }, { "point_text": "Ordinary rulers", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:15", "verse_text": "And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on." }, { "point_text": "Provided with a chazan or minister, who had charge of the sacred books", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:17", "verse_text": "And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written," }, { "point_text": "Provided with a chazan or minister, who had charge of the sacred books", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:20", "verse_text": "And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him." }, { "point_text": "Had seats fro the congregation", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:14", "verse_text": "But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down." }, { "point_text": "Chief seats in, reserved for elders", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:6", "verse_text": "And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues," }, { "point_text": "The portion of Scripture for the day sometimes read by one of the congregation", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:16", "verse_text": "And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read." }, { "point_text": "Strangers were invited to address the congregation in", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:15", "verse_text": "And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on." }, { "point_text": "CHRIST OFTEN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Attended", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:16", "verse_text": "And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read." }, { "point_text": "Preached and taught in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:23", "verse_text": "And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people." }, { "point_text": "Preached and taught in", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:39", "verse_text": "And he preached in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and cast out devils." }, { "point_text": "Preached and taught in", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:10", "verse_text": "And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath." }, { "point_text": "Performed miracles in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:9-10", "verse_text": "And when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue: 10 And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him." }, { "point_text": "The Apostles frequently taught and preached in", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:20", "verse_text": "And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God." }, { "point_text": "The Apostles frequently taught and preached in", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:5", "verse_text": "And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister." }, { "point_text": "The Apostles frequently taught and preached in", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:1", "verse_text": "Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:" }, { "point_text": "The Apostles frequently taught and preached in", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:17", "verse_text": "Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him." }, { "point_text": "Often used as courts of justice", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:2", "verse_text": "And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Often used as courts of justice", "verse_ref": "James 2:2", "verse_text": "For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;" }, { "point_text": "OFFENDERS WERE OFTEN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Given up to, for trial", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:11", "verse_text": "And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:" }, { "point_text": "Given up to, for trial", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:12", "verse_text": "But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake." }, { "point_text": "Punished in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:17", "verse_text": "But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;" }, { "point_text": "Punished in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:34", "verse_text": "Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:" }, { "point_text": "Punished in", "verse_ref": "Acts 22:19", "verse_text": "And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:" }, { "point_text": "Expelled from", "verse_ref": "John 9:22", "verse_text": "These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue." }, { "point_text": "Expelled from", "verse_ref": "John 12:42", "verse_text": "Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue:" }, { "point_text": "Expelled from", "verse_ref": "John 16:2", "verse_text": "They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service." }, { "point_text": "The building of, considered a noble and meritorious work", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:5", "verse_text": "For he loveth our nation, and he hath built us a synagogue." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes several, in the same city", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:9", "verse_text": "Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes several, in the same city", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:2", "verse_text": "And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Each sect had its own", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:9", "verse_text": "Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen." }, { "point_text": "Places in which the Jews assembled for worship", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:5", "verse_text": "And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister." }, { "point_text": "Places in which the Jews assembled for worship", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:14", "verse_text": "But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down." }, { "point_text": "Early notice of their existence", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:8", "verse_text": "They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land." }, { "point_text": "Probably originated in the schools of the prophets", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 19:18-24", "verse_text": "So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth. 19 And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah. 20 And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied. 21 And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they prophesied likewise. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they prophesied also. ..." }, { "point_text": "Probably originated in the schools of the prophets", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:23", "verse_text": "And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well." }, { "point_text": "Revival of, after the captivity", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:1-8", "verse_text": "And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel. 2 And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month. 3 And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law. 4 And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam. ..." }, { "point_text": "SERVICE OF, CONSISTED OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Prayer", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:5", "verse_text": "And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward." }, { "point_text": "Reading the word of God", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:18", "verse_text": "Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner." }, { "point_text": "Reading the word of God", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:3", "verse_text": "And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the LORD their God." }, { "point_text": "Reading the word of God", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:1", "verse_text": "On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;" }, { "point_text": "Reading the word of God", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:21", "verse_text": "For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day." }, { "point_text": "Expounding the word of God", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 8:8", "verse_text": "So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading." }, { "point_text": "Expounding the word of God", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:21", "verse_text": "And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears." }, { "point_text": "Praise and thanksgiving", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:5", "verse_text": "Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise." }, { "point_text": "Service in, on the Sabbath day", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:16", "verse_text": "And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read." }, { "point_text": "Service in, on the Sabbath day", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:14", "verse_text": "But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down." }, { "point_text": "GOVERNED BY", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "A president or chief ruler", "verse_ref": "Acts 18:8", "verse_text": "And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized." }, { "point_text": "A president or chief ruler", "verse_ref": "Acts 18:17", "verse_text": "Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things." }, { "point_text": "Ordinary rulers", "verse_ref": "Mark 5:22", "verse_text": "And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet," }, { "point_text": "Ordinary rulers", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:15", "verse_text": "And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on." }, { "point_text": "Provided with a chazan or minister, who had charge of the sacred books", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:17", "verse_text": "And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written," }, { "point_text": "Provided with a chazan or minister, who had charge of the sacred books", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:20", "verse_text": "And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him." }, { "point_text": "Had seats fro the congregation", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:14", "verse_text": "But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down." }, { "point_text": "Chief seats in, reserved for elders", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:6", "verse_text": "And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues," }, { "point_text": "The portion of Scripture for the day sometimes read by one of the congregation", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:16", "verse_text": "And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read." }, { "point_text": "Strangers were invited to address the congregation in", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:15", "verse_text": "And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on." }, { "point_text": "CHRIST OFTEN", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Attended", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:16", "verse_text": "And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read." }, { "point_text": "Preached and taught in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:23", "verse_text": "And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people." }, { "point_text": "Preached and taught in", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:39", "verse_text": "And he preached in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and cast out devils." }, { "point_text": "Preached and taught in", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:10", "verse_text": "And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath." }, { "point_text": "Performed miracles in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:9-10", "verse_text": "And when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue: 10 And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him." }, { "point_text": "The Apostles frequently taught and preached in", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:20", "verse_text": "And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God." }, { "point_text": "The Apostles frequently taught and preached in", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:5", "verse_text": "And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister." }, { "point_text": "The Apostles frequently taught and preached in", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:1", "verse_text": "Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:" }, { "point_text": "The Apostles frequently taught and preached in", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:17", "verse_text": "Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him." }, { "point_text": "Often used as courts of justice", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:2", "verse_text": "And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Often used as courts of justice", "verse_ref": "James 2:2", "verse_text": "For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;" }, { "point_text": "OFFENDERS WERE OFTEN", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Given up to, for trial", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:11", "verse_text": "And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:" }, { "point_text": "Given up to, for trial", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:12", "verse_text": "But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake." }, { "point_text": "Punished in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:17", "verse_text": "But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;" }, { "point_text": "Punished in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:34", "verse_text": "Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:" }, { "point_text": "Punished in", "verse_ref": "Acts 22:19", "verse_text": "And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:" }, { "point_text": "Expelled from", "verse_ref": "John 9:22", "verse_text": "These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue." }, { "point_text": "Expelled from", "verse_ref": "John 12:42", "verse_text": "Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue:" }, { "point_text": "Expelled from", "verse_ref": "John 16:2", "verse_text": "They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service." }, { "point_text": "The building of, considered a noble and meritorious work", "verse_ref": "Luke 7:5", "verse_text": "For he loveth our nation, and he hath built us a synagogue." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes several, in the same city", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:9", "verse_text": "Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes several, in the same city", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:2", "verse_text": "And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Each sect had its own", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:9", "verse_text": "Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen." } ] }, { "name": "Temple, The Second", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Temple-The-Second.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Built on the site of the first temple.\r\n\r\n, &c", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:3", "verse_text": "In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;" }, { "point_text": "CYRUS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "His decree for building, predicted", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:28", "verse_text": "That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid." }, { "point_text": "Gave a decree for building, in the first year of his reign", "verse_ref": "Ezra 1:1", "verse_text": "Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying," }, { "point_text": "Gave a decree for building, in the first year of his reign", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:3", "verse_text": "In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;" }, { "point_text": "Gave permission to the Jews to go to Jerusalem to build", "verse_ref": "Ezra 1:3", "verse_text": "Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Furnished means for building", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:4", "verse_text": "With three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expences be given out of the king's house:" }, { "point_text": "Ordered those who remained in Babylon to contribute to the building of", "verse_ref": "Ezra 1:4", "verse_text": "And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Gave the vessels of the first temple for", "verse_ref": "Ezra 1:7-11", "verse_text": "Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods; 8 Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah. 9 And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives, 10 Thirty basons of gold, silver basons of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand. ..." }, { "point_text": "Gave the vessels of the first temple for", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:5", "verse_text": "And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to his place, and place them in the house of God." }, { "point_text": "Divine worship commenced before the foundation was laid", "verse_ref": "Ezra 3:1-6", "verse_text": "And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem. 2 Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God. 3 And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and evening. 4 They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required; ..." }, { "point_text": "Materials for building, procured from Tyre and Sidon", "verse_ref": "Ezra 3:7", "verse_text": "They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia." }, { "point_text": "Foundation of, laid the second month of second year after the captivity", "verse_ref": "Ezra 3:8", "verse_text": "Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Solemnities connected with laying the foundation of", "verse_ref": "Ezra 3:9-11", "verse_text": "Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites. 10 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel. 11 And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid." }, { "point_text": "Its dimensions", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:3-4", "verse_text": "In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits; 4 With three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expences be given out of the king's house:" }, { "point_text": "Grief of those who had seen the first temple", "verse_ref": "Ezra 3:12", "verse_text": "But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:" }, { "point_text": "Grief of those who had seen the first temple", "verse_ref": "Haggai 2:3", "verse_text": "Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing?" }, { "point_text": "Joy of those who had not seen the first temple", "verse_ref": "Ezra 3:13", "verse_text": "So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off." }, { "point_text": "THE SAMARITANS, &c", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Proposed to assist in building", "verse_ref": "Ezra 4:1-2", "verse_text": "Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the LORD God of Israel; 2 Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither." }, { "point_text": "Their help refused by the Jews", "verse_ref": "Ezra 4:3", "verse_text": "But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us." }, { "point_text": "Weakened the hands of the Jews in building", "verse_ref": "Ezra 4:4-5", "verse_text": "Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building, 5 And hired counsellers against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia." }, { "point_text": "Wrote to Artaxerxes Smerdis to interrupt the building", "verse_ref": "Ezra 4:6-16", "verse_text": "And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they unto him an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem. 7 And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue. 8 Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort: 9 Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and the Elamites, ..." }, { "point_text": "Procured its interruption for fifteen years", "verse_ref": "Ezra 4:24", "verse_text": "Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia." }, { "point_text": "The Jews reproved for not building", "verse_ref": "Haggai 1:1-5", "verse_text": "In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying, 2 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD'S house should be built. 3 Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, 4 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? ..." }, { "point_text": "The Jews punished for not persevering in building", "verse_ref": "Haggai 1:6", "verse_text": "Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes." }, { "point_text": "The Jews punished for not persevering in building", "verse_ref": "Haggai 1:9-11", "verse_text": "Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. 10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit. 11 And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands." }, { "point_text": "The Jews punished for not persevering in building", "verse_ref": "Haggai 2:15", "verse_text": "And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "The Jews punished for not persevering in building", "verse_ref": "Haggai 2:17", "verse_text": "I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The Jews encouraged to proceed in building", "verse_ref": "Haggai 1:8", "verse_text": "Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The Jews encouraged to proceed in building", "verse_ref": "Haggai 2:19", "verse_text": "Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you." }, { "point_text": "The Jews encouraged to proceed in building", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 8:9", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built." }, { "point_text": "Resumed by Zerubbabel and Jeshua", "verse_ref": "Ezra 5:2", "verse_text": "Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem: and with them were the prophets of God helping them." }, { "point_text": "Its completion by Zerubbabel foretold, to encourage the Jews", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 4:4-10", "verse_text": "So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord? 5 Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord. 6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. 7 Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it. ..." }, { "point_text": "Future glory of, predicted", "verse_ref": "Haggai 2:7-9", "verse_text": "And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts. 8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts. 9 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Tatnai the governor wrote to Darius to know if the building had his sanction", "verse_ref": "Ezra 5:3-17", "verse_text": "At the same time came to them Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shetharboznai, and their companions, and said thus unto them, Who hath commanded you to build this house, and to make up this wall? 4 Then said we unto them after this manner, What are the names of the men that make this building? 5 But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this matter. 6 The copy of the letter that Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shetharboznai, and his companions the Apharsachites, which were on this side the river, sent unto Darius the king: ..." }, { "point_text": "The decree of Cyrus found and confirmed by Darius", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:1-2", "verse_text": "Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon. 2 And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:" }, { "point_text": "The decree of Cyrus found and confirmed by Darius", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:6-12", "verse_text": "Now therefore, Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shetharboznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, which are beyond the river, be ye far from thence: 7 Let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in his place. 8 Moreover I make a decree what ye shall do to the elders of these Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king's goods, even of the tribute beyond the river, forthwith expences be given unto these men, that they be not hindered. 9 And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail: ..." }, { "point_text": "Finished the third of the twelfth month in the sixth year of Darius", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:15", "verse_text": "And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king." }, { "point_text": "Dedication of, celebrated with joy and thankfulness", "verse_ref": "Ezra 6:16-18", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy, 17 And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel. 18 And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses." }, { "point_text": "Repaired and beautified by Herod, which occupied forty-six years", "verse_ref": "John 2:20", "verse_text": "Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?" }, { "point_text": "The magnificence of its building and ornaments", "verse_ref": "John 2:20", "verse_text": "Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?" }, { "point_text": "The magnificence of its building and ornaments", "verse_ref": "Mark 13:1", "verse_text": "And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here!" }, { "point_text": "The magnificence of its building and ornaments", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:5", "verse_text": "And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said," }, { "point_text": "Beautiful gate of, mentioned", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:2", "verse_text": "And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;" }, { "point_text": "Solomon's porch connected with", "verse_ref": "John 10:23", "verse_text": "And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch." }, { "point_text": "Solomon's porch connected with", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:11", "verse_text": "And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering." }, { "point_text": "CHRIST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To appear in", "verse_ref": "Haggai 2:7", "verse_text": "And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "To appear in", "verse_ref": "Malachi 3:1", "verse_text": "Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Presented in", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:22", "verse_text": "And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;" }, { "point_text": "Presented in", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:27", "verse_text": "And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law," }, { "point_text": "Miraculously transported to a pinnacle of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:5", "verse_text": "Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple," }, { "point_text": "Miraculously transported to a pinnacle of", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:9", "verse_text": "And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence:" }, { "point_text": "Frequently taught in", "verse_ref": "Mark 14:49", "verse_text": "I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled." }, { "point_text": "Purified, and the commencement of His ministry", "verse_ref": "John 2:15-17", "verse_text": "And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; 16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise. 17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up." }, { "point_text": "Purified, at the close of His ministry", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:12-13", "verse_text": "And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, 13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves." }, { "point_text": "Predicted its destruction", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:2", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down." }, { "point_text": "Predicted its destruction", "verse_ref": "Mark 13:2", "verse_text": "And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down." }, { "point_text": "Predicted its destruction", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:6", "verse_text": "As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down." }, { "point_text": "The vail of, rent at our Lord's death", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:51", "verse_text": "And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;" }, { "point_text": "Separation between the outer or Gentile court and that of the Jews, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:13-14", "verse_text": "But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. 14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;" }, { "point_text": "No Gentile allowed to enter the inner courts of", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:27-30", "verse_text": "And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him, 28 Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place. 29 (For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.) 30 And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut." }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Prayed without, while the priest offered incense within", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:10", "verse_text": "And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense." }, { "point_text": "Prayed without, while the priest offered incense within", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:10", "verse_text": "Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican." }, { "point_text": "Considered it blasphemy to speak against", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:61", "verse_text": "And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days." }, { "point_text": "Considered it blasphemy to speak against", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:13", "verse_text": "And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:" }, { "point_text": "Considered it blasphemy to speak against", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:28", "verse_text": "Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place." }, { "point_text": "Desecrated by selling oxen, &c. in", "verse_ref": "John 2:14", "verse_text": "And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:" }, { "point_text": "Desecration of, foretold", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:27", "verse_text": "And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate." }, { "point_text": "Desecration of, foretold", "verse_ref": "Daniel 11:31", "verse_text": "And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate." }, { "point_text": "Cleansed and re-dedicated by Judas Maccabæus after its desecration by Antiochus Epiphanes", "verse_ref": "John 10:22", "verse_text": "And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter." }, { "point_text": "Desecrated by the Romans", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:27", "verse_text": "And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate." }, { "point_text": "Desecrated by the Romans", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:15", "verse_text": "When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)" } ] }, { "name": "Tents", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Tents.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Origin and antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:20", "verse_text": "And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle." }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Tabernacles", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:5", "verse_text": "How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!" }, { "point_text": "Tabernacles", "verse_ref": "Job 12:6", "verse_text": "The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly." }, { "point_text": "Tabernacles", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:9", "verse_text": "By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:" }, { "point_text": "Curtains", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:2", "verse_text": "Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;" }, { "point_text": "Curtains", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:7", "verse_text": "Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice," }, { "point_text": "Were spread out", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:22", "verse_text": "It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:" }, { "point_text": "Fastened by cords to stakes or nails", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:2", "verse_text": "Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;" }, { "point_text": "Fastened by cords to stakes or nails", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 10:20", "verse_text": "My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains." }, { "point_text": "Fastened by cords to stakes or nails", "verse_ref": "Judges 4:21", "verse_text": "Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died." }, { "point_text": "WERE USED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Patriarchs", "verse_ref": "Genesis 13:5", "verse_text": "And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents." }, { "point_text": "Patriarchs", "verse_ref": "Genesis 25:27", "verse_text": "And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents." }, { "point_text": "Patriarchs", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:9", "verse_text": "By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:" }, { "point_text": "Israel in the desert", "verse_ref": "Exodus 33:8", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, that all the people rose up, and stood every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tabernacle." }, { "point_text": "Israel in the desert", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:2", "verse_text": "And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him." }, { "point_text": "The people of Israel in all their wars", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 4:3", "verse_text": "And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies." }, { "point_text": "The people of Israel in all their wars", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 29:1", "verse_text": "Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in Jezreel." }, { "point_text": "The people of Israel in all their wars", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 16:16", "verse_text": "And the people that were encamped heard say, Zimri hath conspired, and hath also slain the king: wherefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp." }, { "point_text": "The Rechabites", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 35:7", "verse_text": "Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers." }, { "point_text": "The Rechabites", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 35:10", "verse_text": "But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us." }, { "point_text": "The Arabs", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 13:20", "verse_text": "It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there." }, { "point_text": "Shepherds while tending their flocks", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 1:8", "verse_text": "If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents." }, { "point_text": "Shepherds while tending their flocks", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:12", "verse_text": "Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me." }, { "point_text": "All eastern nations", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:5", "verse_text": "For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it." }, { "point_text": "All eastern nations", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:4", "verse_text": "And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span." }, { "point_text": "All eastern nations", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 7:7", "verse_text": "Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life." }, { "point_text": "All eastern nations", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 5:10", "verse_text": "And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east land of Gilead." }, { "point_text": "Separate, for females of the family", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:67", "verse_text": "And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death." }, { "point_text": "Separate, for the servants", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:33", "verse_text": "And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two maidservants' tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent." }, { "point_text": "WERE PITCHED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "With order and regularity", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:52", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts." }, { "point_text": "In the neighborhood of wells, &c", "verse_ref": "Genesis 13:10", "verse_text": "And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar." }, { "point_text": "In the neighborhood of wells, &c", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:17-18", "verse_text": "And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. 18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them." }, { "point_text": "In the neighborhood of wells, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 29:1", "verse_text": "Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in Jezreel." }, { "point_text": "Under trees", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:1", "verse_text": "And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;" }, { "point_text": "Under trees", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:4", "verse_text": "Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:" }, { "point_text": "On the tops of houses", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 16:22", "verse_text": "So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel." }, { "point_text": "Sending persons to seek a convenient place for, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:33", "verse_text": "Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day." }, { "point_text": "Ease and rapidity of their removal, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:12", "verse_text": "Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me." }, { "point_text": "Of the Jews contrasted with those of the Arabs", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:5", "verse_text": "How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!" }, { "point_text": "Of the Jews contrasted with those of the Arabs", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 1:5", "verse_text": "I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon." }, { "point_text": "Custom of sitting and standing at the door of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:1", "verse_text": "And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;" }, { "point_text": "Custom of sitting and standing at the door of", "verse_ref": "Judges 4:20", "verse_text": "Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and inquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "(Spread out,) of the heavens", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:22", "verse_text": "It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:" }, { "point_text": "(Enlarging of,) of the great extension of the Church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:2", "verse_text": "Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;" } ] }, { "name": "Thanksgiving", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Thanksgiving.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Christ set an example of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:25", "verse_text": "At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes." }, { "point_text": "Christ set an example of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:27", "verse_text": "And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;" }, { "point_text": "Christ set an example of", "verse_ref": "John 6:11", "verse_text": "And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would." }, { "point_text": "Christ set an example of", "verse_ref": "John 11:41", "verse_text": "Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me." }, { "point_text": "The heavenly host engaged in", "verse_ref": "Revelation 4:9", "verse_text": "And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever," }, { "point_text": "The heavenly host engaged in", "verse_ref": "Revelation 7:11", "verse_text": "And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God," }, { "point_text": "The heavenly host engaged in", "verse_ref": "Revelation 11:16-17", "verse_text": "And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, 17 Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned." }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:14", "verse_text": "Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:" }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:6", "verse_text": "Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God." }, { "point_text": "Is a good thing", "verse_ref": "Psalm 92:1", "verse_text": "It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:" }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE OFFERED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:14", "verse_text": "Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:" }, { "point_text": "To Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:12", "verse_text": "And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;" }, { "point_text": "Through Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:8", "verse_text": "First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world." }, { "point_text": "Through Christ", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:17", "verse_text": "And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him." }, { "point_text": "Through Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:15", "verse_text": "By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name." }, { "point_text": "In the name of Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:20", "verse_text": "Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;" }, { "point_text": "In behalf of ministers", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:11", "verse_text": "Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf." }, { "point_text": "In private worship", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:10", "verse_text": "Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime." }, { "point_text": "In public worship", "verse_ref": "Psalm 35:18", "verse_text": "I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people." }, { "point_text": "In everything", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:18", "verse_text": "In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you." }, { "point_text": "Upon the completion of great undertakings", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 12:31", "verse_text": "Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks, whereof one went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate:" }, { "point_text": "Upon the completion of great undertakings", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 12:40", "verse_text": "So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me:" }, { "point_text": "Before taking food", "verse_ref": "John 6:11", "verse_text": "And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would." }, { "point_text": "Before taking food", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:35", "verse_text": "And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: and when he had broken it, he began to eat." }, { "point_text": "Always", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:16", "verse_text": "Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;" }, { "point_text": "Always", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:20", "verse_text": "Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;" }, { "point_text": "Always", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 1:2", "verse_text": "We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;" }, { "point_text": "At the remembrance of God's holiness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 30:4", "verse_text": "Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness." }, { "point_text": "At the remembrance of God's holiness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 97:12", "verse_text": "Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness." }, { "point_text": "For the goodness and mercy of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:1", "verse_text": "Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever." }, { "point_text": "For the goodness and mercy of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:1", "verse_text": "O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever." }, { "point_text": "For the goodness and mercy of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 136:1-3", "verse_text": "O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. 2 O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever. 3 O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever." }, { "point_text": "For the gift of Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 9:15", "verse_text": "Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift." }, { "point_text": "For Christ's power and reign", "verse_ref": "Revelation 11:17", "verse_text": "Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned." }, { "point_text": "For the reception and effectual working of the word of God in others", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:13", "verse_text": "For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe." }, { "point_text": "For deliverance through Christ from in-dwelling sin", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:23-25", "verse_text": "But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin." }, { "point_text": "For victory over death and the grave", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:57", "verse_text": "But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "For wisdom and might", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:23", "verse_text": "I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king's matter." }, { "point_text": "For the triumph of the gospel", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 2:14", "verse_text": "Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place." }, { "point_text": "For the conversion of others", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:17", "verse_text": "But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you." }, { "point_text": "For faith exhibited by others", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:8", "verse_text": "First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world." }, { "point_text": "For faith exhibited by others", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:3", "verse_text": "We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;" }, { "point_text": "For love exhibited by others", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 1:3", "verse_text": "We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;" }, { "point_text": "For the grace bestowed on others", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:4", "verse_text": "I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;" }, { "point_text": "For the grace bestowed on others", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:3-5", "verse_text": "I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, 4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, 5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;" }, { "point_text": "For the grace bestowed on others", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:3-6", "verse_text": "We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, 4 Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints, 5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; 6 Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:" }, { "point_text": "For the zeal exhibited by others", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:16", "verse_text": "But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you." }, { "point_text": "For the nearness of God's presence", "verse_ref": "Psalm 75:1", "verse_text": "Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare." }, { "point_text": "For appointment to the ministry", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:12", "verse_text": "And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;" }, { "point_text": "For willingness to offer our property for God's service", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:6-14", "verse_text": "Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers of the king's work, offered willingly, 7 And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron. 8 And they with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of the LORD, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite. 9 Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy. ..." }, { "point_text": "For the supply of our bodily wants", "verse_ref": "Romans 14:6-7", "verse_text": "He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks. 7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself." }, { "point_text": "For the supply of our bodily wants", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:3-4", "verse_text": "Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. 4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:" }, { "point_text": "For all men", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:1", "verse_text": "I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;" }, { "point_text": "For all things", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 9:11", "verse_text": "Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God." }, { "point_text": "For all things", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:20", "verse_text": "Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;" }, { "point_text": "Should be accompanied by intercession for others", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:1", "verse_text": "I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;" }, { "point_text": "Should be accompanied by intercession for others", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:3", "verse_text": "I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;" }, { "point_text": "Should be accompanied by intercession for others", "verse_ref": "Philemon 4", "verse_text": "I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers," }, { "point_text": "Should always accompany prayer", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 11:17", "verse_text": "And Mattaniah the son of Micha, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, was the principal to begin the thanksgiving in prayer: and Bakbukiah the second among his brethren, and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun." }, { "point_text": "Should always accompany prayer", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:6", "verse_text": "Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God." }, { "point_text": "Should always accompany prayer", "verse_ref": "Colossians 4:2", "verse_text": "Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;" }, { "point_text": "Should always accompany praise", "verse_ref": "Psalm 92:1", "verse_text": "It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:" }, { "point_text": "Should always accompany praise", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:15", "verse_text": "By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name." }, { "point_text": "Expressed in psalms", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:7", "verse_text": "Then on that day David delivered first this psalm to thank the LORD into the hand of Asaph and his brethren." }, { "point_text": "Ministers appointed to offer, in public", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:4", "verse_text": "And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, and to record, and to thank and praise the LORD God of Israel:" }, { "point_text": "Ministers appointed to offer, in public", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 23:30", "verse_text": "And to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise at even;" }, { "point_text": "Ministers appointed to offer, in public", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:2", "verse_text": "And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Exhorted to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:1", "verse_text": "O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people." }, { "point_text": "Exhorted to", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:15", "verse_text": "And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful." }, { "point_text": "Resolved to offer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 18:49", "verse_text": "Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name." }, { "point_text": "Resolved to offer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 30:12", "verse_text": "To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever." }, { "point_text": "Habitually offer", "verse_ref": "Daniel 6:10", "verse_text": "Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime." }, { "point_text": "Offer sacrifices of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 116:17", "verse_text": "I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Abound in the faith with", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:7", "verse_text": "Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving." }, { "point_text": "Magnify God by", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:30", "verse_text": "I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving." }, { "point_text": "Come before God with", "verse_ref": "Psalm 95:2", "verse_text": "Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms." }, { "point_text": "Should enter God's gate with", "verse_ref": "Psalm 100:4", "verse_text": "Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name." }, { "point_text": "Of hypocrites, full of boasting", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:11", "verse_text": "The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican." }, { "point_text": "The wicked averse to", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:21", "verse_text": "Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nLevites, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \nSimeon, \nAnna, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:13", "verse_text": "Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nLevites, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \nSimeon, \nAnna, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 5:12-13", "verse_text": "Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:) 13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nLevites, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \nSimeon, \nAnna, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:23", "verse_text": "I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king's matter." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nLevites, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \nSimeon, \nAnna, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Jonah 2:9", "verse_text": "But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nLevites, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \nSimeon, \nAnna, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:28", "verse_text": "Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said," }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nLevites, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \nSimeon, \nAnna, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:38", "verse_text": "And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nLevites, \nDaniel, \nJonah, \nSimeon, \nAnna, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Acts 28:15", "verse_text": "And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii forum, and The three taverns: whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage." } ] }, { "name": "Theft", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Theft.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is an abomination", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:9-10", "verse_text": "Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; 10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?" }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:15", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not steal." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Mark 10:19", "verse_text": "Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:9", "verse_text": "For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." }, { "point_text": "From the poor specially forbidden", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:2", "verse_text": "The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all." }, { "point_text": "Includes fraud in general", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:13", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning." }, { "point_text": "Includes fraud concerning wages", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:13", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning." }, { "point_text": "Includes fraud concerning wages", "verse_ref": "Malachi 3:5", "verse_text": "And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Includes fraud concerning wages", "verse_ref": "James 5:4", "verse_text": "Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth." }, { "point_text": "Proceeds from the heart", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:19", "verse_text": "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:" }, { "point_text": "Defiles a man", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:20", "verse_text": "These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Addicted to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:61", "verse_text": "The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law." }, { "point_text": "Store up the fruits of", "verse_ref": "Amos 3:10", "verse_text": "For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces." }, { "point_text": "Lie in wait to commit", "verse_ref": "Hosea 6:9", "verse_text": "And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness." }, { "point_text": "Commit, under shelter of the night", "verse_ref": "Job 24:14", "verse_text": "The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief." }, { "point_text": "Commit, under shelter of the night", "verse_ref": "Obadiah 5", "verse_text": "If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?" }, { "point_text": "Consent to those who commit", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:18", "verse_text": "When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers." }, { "point_text": "Associate with those who commit", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:23", "verse_text": "Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them." }, { "point_text": "May, for a season, prosper in", "verse_ref": "Job 12:6", "verse_text": "The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly." }, { "point_text": "Plead excuses for", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:9-10", "verse_text": "Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; 10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?" }, { "point_text": "Repent not of", "verse_ref": "Revelation 9:21", "verse_text": "Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts." }, { "point_text": "Destroy themselves by", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:7", "verse_text": "The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment." }, { "point_text": "Connected with murder", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:9", "verse_text": "Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;" }, { "point_text": "Connected with murder", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:2", "verse_text": "By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood." }, { "point_text": "Shame follows the detection of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:26", "verse_text": "As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets," }, { "point_text": "Brings a curse on those who commit it", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:2-3", "verse_text": "By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. 3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away." }, { "point_text": "Brings the wrath of God upon those who commit it", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:29", "verse_text": "The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully." }, { "point_text": "Brings the wrath of God upon those who commit it", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:31", "verse_text": "Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Excludes from heaven", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:10", "verse_text": "Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." }, { "point_text": "THEY WHO CONNIVE AT,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Hate their own souls", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 29:24", "verse_text": "Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not." }, { "point_text": "Shall be reproved of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:18", "verse_text": "When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers." }, { "point_text": "Shall be reproved of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 50:21", "verse_text": "These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes." }, { "point_text": "Mosaic law respecting", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:1-8", "verse_text": "If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. 2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. 3 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. 4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double. ..." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Warned against", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:28", "verse_text": "Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth." }, { "point_text": "Warned against", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:15", "verse_text": "But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters." }, { "point_text": "All earthly treasure exposed to", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:19", "verse_text": "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:" }, { "point_text": "Heavenly treasure secure from", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:20", "verse_text": "But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:" }, { "point_text": "Heavenly treasure secure from", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:33", "verse_text": "Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth." }, { "point_text": "Woe denounced against", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:2", "verse_text": "To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!" }, { "point_text": "Woe denounced against", "verse_ref": "Nahum 3:1", "verse_text": "Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;" }, { "point_text": "Illustrates the guilt of false teachers", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:30", "verse_text": "Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour." }, { "point_text": "Illustrates the guilt of false teachers", "verse_ref": "John 10:1", "verse_text": "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber." }, { "point_text": "Illustrates the guilt of false teachers", "verse_ref": "John 10:8", "verse_text": "All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them." }, { "point_text": "Illustrates the guilt of false teachers", "verse_ref": "John 10:10", "verse_text": "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nRachel, \nAchan, \nShechemites, \nMicah,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:19", "verse_text": "And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nRachel, \nAchan, \nShechemites, \nMicah,", "verse_ref": "Joshua 7:21", "verse_text": "When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nRachel, \nAchan, \nShechemites, \nMicah,", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:25", "verse_text": "And the men of Shechem set liers in wait for him in the top of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nRachel, \nAchan, \nShechemites, \nMicah,", "verse_ref": "Judges 17:2", "verse_text": "And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my son." } ] }, { "name": "Theocracy, The, or Immediate Government by God", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Theocracy-The-or-Immediate-Government-by-God.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Lasted from the deliverance out of Egypt until the appointment of kings", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:4-6", "verse_text": "Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. 5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: 6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Lasted from the deliverance out of Egypt until the appointment of kings", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 8:7", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them." }, { "point_text": "WAS ESTABLISHED ON", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The right of redemption", "verse_ref": "Exodus 6:6-7", "verse_text": "Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments: 7 And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians." }, { "point_text": "The right of redemption", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:23", "verse_text": "And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?" }, { "point_text": "The right of redemption", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 43:3", "verse_text": "For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee." }, { "point_text": "The right of covenant", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 26:17-19", "verse_text": "Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice: 18 And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments; 19 And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken." }, { "point_text": "CONSISTED IN HIS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Promulgating laws", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20-23", "verse_text": "And God spake all these words, saying, 2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: ..." }, { "point_text": "Promulgating laws", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 5:22-23", "verse_text": "These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me. 23 And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;" }, { "point_text": "Directing the movements of the nation", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:36-37", "verse_text": "And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys: 37 But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up." }, { "point_text": "Proclaiming war", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:14-16", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. 15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi: 16 For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation." }, { "point_text": "Proclaiming war", "verse_ref": "Numbers 31:1-2", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people." }, { "point_text": "Appointing civil officers", "verse_ref": "Exodus 3:10", "verse_text": "Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Appointing civil officers", "verse_ref": "Numbers 27:18", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him;" }, { "point_text": "Appointing civil officers", "verse_ref": "Numbers 27:20", "verse_text": "And thou shalt put some of thine honour upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient." }, { "point_text": "Appointing ecclesiastical officers", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:1", "verse_text": "And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons." }, { "point_text": "Appointing ecclesiastical officers", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:12-15", "verse_text": "And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with water. 13 And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him, and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the priest's office. 14 And thou shalt bring his sons, and clothe them with coats: 15 And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office: for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations." }, { "point_text": "Being the supreme judge", "verse_ref": "Numbers 9:8-11", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you. 9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD. 11 The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs." }, { "point_text": "Being the supreme judge", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:34", "verse_text": "And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him." }, { "point_text": "Being the supreme judge", "verse_ref": "Numbers 27:5-11", "verse_text": "And Moses brought their cause before the LORD. 6 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 7 The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them. 8 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exercise of the prerogative of mercy", "verse_ref": "Numbers 14:20", "verse_text": "And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:" }, { "point_text": "Exercise of the prerogative of mercy", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:18-20", "verse_text": "And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also. 20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time." }, { "point_text": "Distribution of conquered lands", "verse_ref": "Joshua 13:1-7", "verse_text": "Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the LORD said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. 2 This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri, 3 From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites: 4 From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites: ..." }, { "point_text": "Exacting tribute", "verse_ref": "Exodus 35:4-29", "verse_text": "And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD commanded, saying, 5 Take ye from among you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD; gold, and silver, and brass, 6 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, 7 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood, ..." }, { "point_text": "Exacting tribute", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 27:30", "verse_text": "And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD'S: it is holy unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exacting tribute", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:16", "verse_text": "Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:" }, { "point_text": "Exacting tribute", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 26:1-4", "verse_text": "And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein; 2 That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there. 3 And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us. 4 And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God." }, { "point_text": "The tabernacle designed as a royal residence for God during", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:8", "verse_text": "And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them." }, { "point_text": "The tabernacle designed as a royal residence for God during", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:11-12", "verse_text": "And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you. 12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people." }, { "point_text": "The emblem of the divine presence appeared over the tabernacle during", "verse_ref": "Numbers 9:15-16", "verse_text": "And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning. 16 So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night." }, { "point_text": "Guilt of Israel in rejecting", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:17", "verse_text": "Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD." } ] }, { "name": "Threshing", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Threshing.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The removing or separating corn, &c. from the straw", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 21:20", "verse_text": "And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat." }, { "point_text": "WAS PERFORMED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "By a rod or staff", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:27", "verse_text": "For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod." }, { "point_text": "By cart wheels", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:27-28", "verse_text": "For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod. 28 Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen." }, { "point_text": "By instruments with teeth", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:15", "verse_text": "Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff." }, { "point_text": "By instruments with teeth", "verse_ref": "Amos 1:3", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:" }, { "point_text": "By the feet of horses and oxen", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:28", "verse_text": "Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen." }, { "point_text": "By the feet of horses and oxen", "verse_ref": "Hosea 10:11", "verse_text": "And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods." }, { "point_text": "By the feet of horses and oxen", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:22", "verse_text": "And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood." }, { "point_text": "Cattle employed in, not to be muzzled", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 25:4", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn." }, { "point_text": "Cattle employed in, not to be muzzled", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:9", "verse_text": "For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?" }, { "point_text": "Cattle employed in, not to be muzzled", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:18", "verse_text": "For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward." }, { "point_text": "Continued until the vintage in years of abundance", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:5", "verse_text": "And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely." }, { "point_text": "THE PLACE FOR,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Called the floor", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:37", "verse_text": "Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said." }, { "point_text": "Called the floor", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 21:10", "verse_text": "O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you." }, { "point_text": "Called the threshing-floor", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:27", "verse_text": "And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress." }, { "point_text": "Called the threshing-floor", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:18", "verse_text": "And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite." }, { "point_text": "Called the barn-floor", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:27", "verse_text": "And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?" }, { "point_text": "Called the corn-floor", "verse_ref": "Hosea 9:1", "verse_text": "Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor." }, { "point_text": "Was large and roomy", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:10", "verse_text": "And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days." }, { "point_text": "Generally on high ground", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 21:18", "verse_text": "Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite." }, { "point_text": "Generally on high ground", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:1", "verse_text": "Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes beside the wine-press for concealment", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:11", "verse_text": "And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites." }, { "point_text": "Used for winnowing the corn", "verse_ref": "Ruth 3:2", "verse_text": "And now is not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley to night in the threshingfloor." }, { "point_text": "Often robbed", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 23:1", "verse_text": "Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors." }, { "point_text": "The Jews slept on, during the time of", "verse_ref": "Ruth 3:7", "verse_text": "And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn: and she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid her down." }, { "point_text": "Fulness of, promised as a blessing", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:24", "verse_text": "And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil." }, { "point_text": "Scarcity in, a punishment", "verse_ref": "Hosea 9:2", "verse_text": "The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her." }, { "point_text": "Followed by a winnowing with a shovel or fan", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:24", "verse_text": "The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan." }, { "point_text": "Followed by a winnowing with a shovel or fan", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:16", "verse_text": "Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Followed by a winnowing with a shovel or fan", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:12", "verse_text": "Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 21:10", "verse_text": "O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you." }, { "point_text": "Of the judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:33", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come." }, { "point_text": "Of the judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 3:12", "verse_text": "Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger." }, { "point_text": "Of the labors of ministers", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:9-10", "verse_text": "For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? 10 Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope." }, { "point_text": "Of the church in her conquests", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:15-16", "verse_text": "Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. 16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel." }, { "point_text": "(Gathering the sheaves for,) of preparing the enemies of the Church for judgments", "verse_ref": "Micah 4:12", "verse_text": "But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor." }, { "point_text": "(Dust made by,) of complete destruction.\r\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 13:7", "verse_text": "Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing." }, { "point_text": "(Dust made by,) of complete destruction.\r\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:15", "verse_text": "Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff." }, { "point_text": "(An instrument for, with teeth,) of the Church overcoming opposition", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:15", "verse_text": "Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff." } ] }, { "name": "Temple, The First", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Temple-The-First.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Built on Mount Moriah on the threshing-floor of Ornan or Araunah", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 21:28-30", "verse_text": "At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there. 29 For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon. 30 But David could not go before it to inquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Built on Mount Moriah on the threshing-floor of Ornan or Araunah", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 22:1", "verse_text": "Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel." }, { "point_text": "Built on Mount Moriah on the threshing-floor of Ornan or Araunah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:1", "verse_text": "Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite." }, { "point_text": "DAVID", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Anxious to build", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:2", "verse_text": "That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains." }, { "point_text": "Anxious to build", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 22:7", "verse_text": "And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God:" }, { "point_text": "Anxious to build", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:3", "verse_text": "Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house," }, { "point_text": "Anxious to build", "verse_ref": "Psalm 132:2-5", "verse_text": "How he sware unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob; 3 Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed; 4 I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids, 5 Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob." }, { "point_text": "Being a man of war not permitted to build", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:5-9", "verse_text": "Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in? 6 Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle. 7 In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar? 8 Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel: ..." }, { "point_text": "Being a man of war not permitted to build", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:3", "verse_text": "Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet." }, { "point_text": "Being a man of war not permitted to build", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 22:8", "verse_text": "But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight." }, { "point_text": "Told by the prophet that Solomon should build", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:12-13", "verse_text": "And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever." }, { "point_text": "Told by the prophet that Solomon should build", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 17:12", "verse_text": "He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever." }, { "point_text": "Made preparations for building", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 22:2-5", "verse_text": "And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God. 3 And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight; 4 Also cedar trees in abundance: for the Zidonians and they of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David. 5 And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded for the LORD must be exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death." }, { "point_text": "Made preparations for building", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 22:14-16", "verse_text": "Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto. 15 Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work. 16 Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise therefore, and be doing, and the LORD be with thee." }, { "point_text": "Made preparations for building", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:2-5", "verse_text": "Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance. 3 Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house, 4 Even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses withal: 5 The gold for things of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and for all manner of work to be made by the hands of artificers. And who then is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the LORD?" }, { "point_text": "Charged Solomon to build", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 22:6-7", "verse_text": "Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build an house for the LORD God of Israel. 7 And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God:" }, { "point_text": "Charged Solomon to build", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 22:11", "verse_text": "Now, my son, the LORD be with thee; and prosper thou, and build the house of the LORD thy God, as he hath said of thee." }, { "point_text": "Prayed that Solomon might have wisdom to build", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:19", "verse_text": "And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for the which I have made provision." }, { "point_text": "Charged his princes to assist in building", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 22:17-19", "verse_text": "David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying, 18 Is not the LORD your God with you? and hath he not given you rest on every side? for he hath given the inhabitants of the land into mine hand; and the land is subdued before the LORD, and before his people. 19 Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Free-will offering of the people for the building", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:6-9", "verse_text": "Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers of the king's work, offered willingly, 7 And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron. 8 And they with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of the LORD, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite. 9 Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy." }, { "point_text": "SOLOMON", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Determined to build", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:1", "verse_text": "And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the LORD, and an house for his kingdom." }, { "point_text": "Specially instructed for", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:3", "verse_text": "Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits." }, { "point_text": "Employed all the strangers in preparing for", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:2", "verse_text": "And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them." }, { "point_text": "Employed all the strangers in preparing for", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:17-18", "verse_text": "And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred. 18 And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work." }, { "point_text": "Employed all the strangers in preparing for", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:15", "verse_text": "And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;" }, { "point_text": "Applied to Hiram for a skilful workman to superintend, &c. the building of", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:7", "verse_text": "Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide." }, { "point_text": "Applied to Hiram for a skilful workman to superintend, &c. the building of", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:13-14", "verse_text": "And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father's, 14 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father." }, { "point_text": "Employed thirty thousand Israelites in the work", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:13-14", "verse_text": "And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. 14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home: and Adoniram was over the levy." }, { "point_text": "Contracted with Hiram for wood, stone, and labor", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:6-12", "verse_text": "Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians. 7 And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be the LORD this day, which hath given unto David a wise son over this great people. 8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things which thou sentest to me for: and I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir. 9 My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household. ..." }, { "point_text": "Contracted with Hiram for wood, stone, and labor", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:8-10", "verse_text": "Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants, 9 Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great. 10 And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil." }, { "point_text": "Commenced second day of second month of fourth year of Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Commenced second day of second month of fourth year of Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:37", "verse_text": "In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:" }, { "point_text": "Commenced second day of second month of fourth year of Solomon", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:2", "verse_text": "And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign." }, { "point_text": "Built without the noise of hammers, ax, or any tool", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:7", "verse_text": "And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building." }, { "point_text": "DIVIDED INTO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The sanctuary or greater house", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:5", "verse_text": "And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains." }, { "point_text": "The oracle or most holy place", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:19", "verse_text": "And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The porch", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:4", "verse_text": "And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold." }, { "point_text": "Surrounded with three stories of chambers communicating with the interior on the right side", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:5-6", "verse_text": "And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about: 6 The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house." }, { "point_text": "Surrounded with three stories of chambers communicating with the interior on the right side", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:8", "verse_text": "The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third." }, { "point_text": "Surrounded with three stories of chambers communicating with the interior on the right side", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:10", "verse_text": "And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar." }, { "point_text": "Surrounded with spacious courts", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:36", "verse_text": "And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams." }, { "point_text": "Surrounded with spacious courts", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 4:9", "verse_text": "Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass." }, { "point_text": "Was three score cubits longs, twenty broad, and thirty high", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:2", "verse_text": "And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits." }, { "point_text": "Was three score cubits longs, twenty broad, and thirty high", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:3", "verse_text": "Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits." }, { "point_text": "Was lighted by narrow windows", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:4", "verse_text": "And for the house he made windows of narrow lights." }, { "point_text": "Was roofed with cedar", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:9", "verse_text": "So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar." }, { "point_text": "THE GREATER OR OUTER HOUSE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Was forty cubits long", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:17", "verse_text": "And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha." }, { "point_text": "Had folding doors of fir wood carved and gilded", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:34-35", "verse_text": "And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding. 35 And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work." }, { "point_text": "Had door posts of olive-wood carved and gilded", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:33", "verse_text": "So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall." }, { "point_text": "Had door posts of olive-wood carved and gilded", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:7", "verse_text": "He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls." }, { "point_text": "THE ORACLE OR MOST HOLY PLACE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Was twenty cubits every way", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:16", "verse_text": "And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place." }, { "point_text": "Was twenty cubits every way", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:20", "verse_text": "And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar." }, { "point_text": "Two cherubims of gilded olive-wood made within", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:23-28", "verse_text": "And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high. 24 And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits. 25 And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubims were of one measure and one size. 26 The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub. ..." }, { "point_text": "Two cherubims of gilded olive-wood made within", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:11-13", "verse_text": "And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub. 12 And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was five cubits also, joining to the wing of the other cherub. 13 The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward." }, { "point_text": "A partition of chains of gold between it and outer house", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:21", "verse_text": "So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold." }, { "point_text": "The doors and the posts of, of olive-wood carved and gilded", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:31-32", "verse_text": "And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall. 32 The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees." }, { "point_text": "Separated from the outer house by a vail", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:14", "verse_text": "And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon." }, { "point_text": "The floor and walls of, covered with cedar and fir wood", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:15", "verse_text": "And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir." }, { "point_text": "Cedar of, carved with flowers, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:18", "verse_text": "And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen." }, { "point_text": "Ceiled with fir wood and gilt", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:5", "verse_text": "And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains." }, { "point_text": "The whole inside and outside covered with gold", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:21-22", "verse_text": "So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold. 22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold." }, { "point_text": "The whole inside and outside covered with gold", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:7", "verse_text": "He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls." }, { "point_text": "Garnished with precious stones", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:6", "verse_text": "And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim." }, { "point_text": "THE PORCH OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Twenty cubits long and ten broad", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:3", "verse_text": "And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house." }, { "point_text": "One hundred and twenty cubits high", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:4", "verse_text": "And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold." }, { "point_text": "Pillars of, with their chapiters described", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 7:15-22", "verse_text": "For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about. 16 And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits: 17 And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter. 18 And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter. ..." }, { "point_text": "Pillars of, with their chapiters described", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:15-17", "verse_text": "Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits. 16 And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains. 17 And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz." }, { "point_text": "Its magnificence", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:5", "verse_text": "And the house which I build is great: for great is our God above all gods." }, { "point_text": "Its magnificence", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:9", "verse_text": "Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great." }, { "point_text": "Was seven years in building", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:38", "verse_text": "And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it." }, { "point_text": "Was finished in the eighth month of the eleventh year of Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:38", "verse_text": "And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it." }, { "point_text": "WAS CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The house of the Lord", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 23:5", "verse_text": "And a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The house of the Lord", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 23:12", "verse_text": "Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "The mountain of the Lord's house", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:2", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it." }, { "point_text": "House of the God of Jacob", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:3", "verse_text": "And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Zion", "verse_ref": "Psalm 84:1-7", "verse_text": "How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts! 2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. 3 Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God. 4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah. ..." }, { "point_text": "Mount Zion", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:2", "verse_text": "Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt." }, { "point_text": "Appointed as a house of sacrifice", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:12", "verse_text": "And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice." }, { "point_text": "Appointed as a house of prayer", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:7", "verse_text": "Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people." }, { "point_text": "Appointed as a house of prayer", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:13", "verse_text": "And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves." }, { "point_text": "God promised to dwell in", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:12-13", "verse_text": "Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father: 13 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel." }, { "point_text": "All dedicated things placed in", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 5:1", "verse_text": "Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God." }, { "point_text": "The ark of God brought into with great solemnity", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:1-9", "verse_text": "Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion. 2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. 3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. 4 And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up. ..." }, { "point_text": "The ark of God brought into with great solemnity", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 5:2-10", "verse_text": "Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion. 3 Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which was in the seventh month. 4 And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark. 5 And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, these did the priests and the Levites bring up. ..." }, { "point_text": "Filled with the cloud of glory", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:10-11", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD, 11 So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Filled with the cloud of glory", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 5:13", "verse_text": "It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;" }, { "point_text": "Filled with the cloud of glory", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:2", "verse_text": "And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD'S house." }, { "point_text": "Solemnly dedicated to God by Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:12-66", "verse_text": "Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. 13 I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever. 14 And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel stood;) 15 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which spake with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying, ..." }, { "point_text": "Solemnly dedicated to God by Solomon", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 6", "verse_text": "Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. 2 But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever. 3 And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood. 4 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my father David, saying, ..." }, { "point_text": "Sacred fire sent down from heaven at its dedication", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:3", "verse_text": "And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever." }, { "point_text": "Was but a temple built with hands", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:47-48", "verse_text": "But Solomon built him an house. 48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet," }, { "point_text": "Complete destruction of, predicted", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 26:18", "verse_text": "Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest." }, { "point_text": "Complete destruction of, predicted", "verse_ref": "Micah 3:12", "verse_text": "Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest." }, { "point_text": "HISTORICAL NOTICES OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Pillaged by Shishak king of Egypt", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 14:25-26", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem: 26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made." }, { "point_text": "Pillaged by Shishak king of Egypt", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 12:9", "verse_text": "So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he took all: he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made." }, { "point_text": "Repaired by Jehoash at the instigation of Jehoiada", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 12:4-14", "verse_text": "And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, even the money of every one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at, and all the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD, 5 Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found. 6 But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house. 7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house. ..." }, { "point_text": "Repaired by Jehoash at the instigation of Jehoiada", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 24:4-13", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair the house of the LORD. 5 And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not. 6 And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness? 7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD did they bestow upon Baalim. ..." }, { "point_text": "Treasures of given by Jehoash to propitiate the Syrians", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 12:17-18", "verse_text": "Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem. 18 And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Defiled and its treasures given by Ahaz to the king of Assyria", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 16:14", "verse_text": "And he brought also the brasen altar, which was before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar." }, { "point_text": "Defiled and its treasures given by Ahaz to the king of Assyria", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 16:18", "verse_text": "And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD for the king of Assyria." }, { "point_text": "Defiled and its treasures given by Ahaz to the king of Assyria", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 28:20-21", "verse_text": "And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not. 21 For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD, and out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not." }, { "point_text": "Purified and divine worship restored under Hezekiah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 29:3-35", "verse_text": "He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them. 4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street, 5 And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place. 6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs. ..." }, { "point_text": "Its treasures, &c. given by Hezekiah to the Assyrians to procure a treaty", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:13-16", "verse_text": "Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them. 14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. 15 And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house. 16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria." }, { "point_text": "Polluted by the idolatrous worship of Manasseh", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 21:4-7", "verse_text": "And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. 6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:" }, { "point_text": "Polluted by the idolatrous worship of Manasseh", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:4-5", "verse_text": "Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever. 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Polluted by the idolatrous worship of Manasseh", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:7", "verse_text": "And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:" }, { "point_text": "Repaired by Josiah in the eighteenth year of his reign", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 22:3-7", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying, 4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people: 5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house, 6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house. ..." }, { "point_text": "Repaired by Josiah in the eighteenth year of his reign", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 34:8-13", "verse_text": "Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God. 9 And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem. 10 And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and amend the house: 11 Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed. ..." }, { "point_text": "Purified by Josiah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:4-7", "verse_text": "And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel. 5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven. 6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people. 7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove." }, { "point_text": "Purified by Josiah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:11-12", "verse_text": "And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire. 12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron." }, { "point_text": "Pillaged and burned by the Babylonians", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:9", "verse_text": "And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire." }, { "point_text": "Pillaged and burned by the Babylonians", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:13-17", "verse_text": "And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon. 14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away. 15 And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away. 16 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels was without weight. ..." }, { "point_text": "Pillaged and burned by the Babylonians", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:18-19", "verse_text": "And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon. 19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "John 2:19", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "John 2:21", "verse_text": "But he spake of the temple of his body." }, { "point_text": "The spiritual church", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:16", "verse_text": "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" }, { "point_text": "The spiritual church", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:16", "verse_text": "And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people." }, { "point_text": "The spiritual church", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:20-22", "verse_text": "And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; 21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: 22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit." }, { "point_text": "The bodies of saints", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:19", "verse_text": "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?" }, { "point_text": "Built on Mount Moriah on the threshing-floor of Ornan or Araunah", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 21:28-30", "verse_text": "At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there. 29 For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon. 30 But David could not go before it to inquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Built on Mount Moriah on the threshing-floor of Ornan or Araunah", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 22:1", "verse_text": "Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel." }, { "point_text": "Built on Mount Moriah on the threshing-floor of Ornan or Araunah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:1", "verse_text": "Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite." }, { "point_text": "DAVID", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Anxious to build", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:2", "verse_text": "That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains." }, { "point_text": "Anxious to build", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 22:7", "verse_text": "And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God:" }, { "point_text": "Anxious to build", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:3", "verse_text": "Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house," }, { "point_text": "Anxious to build", "verse_ref": "Psalm 132:2-5", "verse_text": "How he sware unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob; 3 Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed; 4 I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids, 5 Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob." }, { "point_text": "Being a man of war not permitted to build", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:5-9", "verse_text": "Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in? 6 Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle. 7 In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar? 8 Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel: ..." }, { "point_text": "Being a man of war not permitted to build", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:3", "verse_text": "Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet." }, { "point_text": "Being a man of war not permitted to build", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 22:8", "verse_text": "But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight." }, { "point_text": "Told by the prophet that Solomon should build", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:12-13", "verse_text": "And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever." }, { "point_text": "Told by the prophet that Solomon should build", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 17:12", "verse_text": "He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever." }, { "point_text": "Made preparations for building", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 22:2-5", "verse_text": "And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God. 3 And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight; 4 Also cedar trees in abundance: for the Zidonians and they of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David. 5 And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded for the LORD must be exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death." }, { "point_text": "Made preparations for building", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 22:14-16", "verse_text": "Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto. 15 Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work. 16 Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise therefore, and be doing, and the LORD be with thee." }, { "point_text": "Made preparations for building", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:2-5", "verse_text": "Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance. 3 Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house, 4 Even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses withal: 5 The gold for things of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and for all manner of work to be made by the hands of artificers. And who then is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the LORD?" }, { "point_text": "Charged Solomon to build", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 22:6-7", "verse_text": "Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build an house for the LORD God of Israel. 7 And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God:" }, { "point_text": "Charged Solomon to build", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 22:11", "verse_text": "Now, my son, the LORD be with thee; and prosper thou, and build the house of the LORD thy God, as he hath said of thee." }, { "point_text": "Prayed that Solomon might have wisdom to build", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:19", "verse_text": "And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for the which I have made provision." }, { "point_text": "Charged his princes to assist in building", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 22:17-19", "verse_text": "David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying, 18 Is not the LORD your God with you? and hath he not given you rest on every side? for he hath given the inhabitants of the land into mine hand; and the land is subdued before the LORD, and before his people. 19 Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Free-will offering of the people for the building", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:6-9", "verse_text": "Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers of the king's work, offered willingly, 7 And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron. 8 And they with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of the LORD, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite. 9 Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy." }, { "point_text": "SOLOMON", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Determined to build", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:1", "verse_text": "And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the LORD, and an house for his kingdom." }, { "point_text": "Specially instructed for", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:3", "verse_text": "Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits." }, { "point_text": "Employed all the strangers in preparing for", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:2", "verse_text": "And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them." }, { "point_text": "Employed all the strangers in preparing for", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:17-18", "verse_text": "And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred. 18 And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work." }, { "point_text": "Employed all the strangers in preparing for", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:15", "verse_text": "And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;" }, { "point_text": "Applied to Hiram for a skilful workman to superintend, &c. the building of", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:7", "verse_text": "Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide." }, { "point_text": "Applied to Hiram for a skilful workman to superintend, &c. the building of", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:13-14", "verse_text": "And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father's, 14 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father." }, { "point_text": "Employed thirty thousand Israelites in the work", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:13-14", "verse_text": "And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. 14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home: and Adoniram was over the levy." }, { "point_text": "Contracted with Hiram for wood, stone, and labor", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:6-12", "verse_text": "Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians. 7 And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be the LORD this day, which hath given unto David a wise son over this great people. 8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things which thou sentest to me for: and I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir. 9 My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household. ..." }, { "point_text": "Contracted with Hiram for wood, stone, and labor", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:8-10", "verse_text": "Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants, 9 Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great. 10 And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil." }, { "point_text": "Commenced second day of second month of fourth year of Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Commenced second day of second month of fourth year of Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:37", "verse_text": "In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:" }, { "point_text": "Commenced second day of second month of fourth year of Solomon", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:2", "verse_text": "And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign." }, { "point_text": "Built without the noise of hammers, ax, or any tool", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:7", "verse_text": "And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building." }, { "point_text": "DIVIDED INTO", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "The sanctuary or greater house", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:5", "verse_text": "And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains." }, { "point_text": "The oracle or most holy place", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:19", "verse_text": "And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The porch", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:4", "verse_text": "And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold." }, { "point_text": "Surrounded with three stories of chambers communicating with the interior on the right side", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:5-6", "verse_text": "And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about: 6 The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house." }, { "point_text": "Surrounded with three stories of chambers communicating with the interior on the right side", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:8", "verse_text": "The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third." }, { "point_text": "Surrounded with three stories of chambers communicating with the interior on the right side", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:10", "verse_text": "And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar." }, { "point_text": "Surrounded with spacious courts", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:36", "verse_text": "And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams." }, { "point_text": "Surrounded with spacious courts", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 4:9", "verse_text": "Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass." }, { "point_text": "Was three score cubits longs, twenty broad, and thirty high", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:2", "verse_text": "And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits." }, { "point_text": "Was three score cubits longs, twenty broad, and thirty high", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:3", "verse_text": "Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits." }, { "point_text": "Was lighted by narrow windows", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:4", "verse_text": "And for the house he made windows of narrow lights." }, { "point_text": "Was roofed with cedar", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:9", "verse_text": "So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar." }, { "point_text": "THE GREATER OR OUTER HOUSE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Was forty cubits long", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:17", "verse_text": "And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha." }, { "point_text": "Had folding doors of fir wood carved and gilded", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:34-35", "verse_text": "And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding. 35 And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work." }, { "point_text": "Had door posts of olive-wood carved and gilded", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:33", "verse_text": "So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall." }, { "point_text": "Had door posts of olive-wood carved and gilded", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:7", "verse_text": "He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls." }, { "point_text": "THE ORACLE OR MOST HOLY PLACE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Was twenty cubits every way", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:16", "verse_text": "And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place." }, { "point_text": "Was twenty cubits every way", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:20", "verse_text": "And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar." }, { "point_text": "Two cherubims of gilded olive-wood made within", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:23-28", "verse_text": "And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high. 24 And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits. 25 And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubims were of one measure and one size. 26 The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub. ..." }, { "point_text": "Two cherubims of gilded olive-wood made within", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:11-13", "verse_text": "And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub. 12 And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was five cubits also, joining to the wing of the other cherub. 13 The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward." }, { "point_text": "A partition of chains of gold between it and outer house", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:21", "verse_text": "So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold." }, { "point_text": "The doors and the posts of, of olive-wood carved and gilded", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:31-32", "verse_text": "And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall. 32 The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees." }, { "point_text": "Separated from the outer house by a vail", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:14", "verse_text": "And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon." }, { "point_text": "The floor and walls of, covered with cedar and fir wood", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:15", "verse_text": "And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir." }, { "point_text": "Cedar of, carved with flowers, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:18", "verse_text": "And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen." }, { "point_text": "Ceiled with fir wood and gilt", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:5", "verse_text": "And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains." }, { "point_text": "The whole inside and outside covered with gold", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:21-22", "verse_text": "So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold. 22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold." }, { "point_text": "The whole inside and outside covered with gold", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:7", "verse_text": "He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls." }, { "point_text": "Garnished with precious stones", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:6", "verse_text": "And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim." }, { "point_text": "THE PORCH OF,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Twenty cubits long and ten broad", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:3", "verse_text": "And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house." }, { "point_text": "One hundred and twenty cubits high", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:4", "verse_text": "And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold." }, { "point_text": "Pillars of, with their chapiters described", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 7:15-22", "verse_text": "For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about. 16 And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits: 17 And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter. 18 And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter. ..." }, { "point_text": "Pillars of, with their chapiters described", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:15-17", "verse_text": "Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits. 16 And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains. 17 And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz." }, { "point_text": "Its magnificence", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:5", "verse_text": "And the house which I build is great: for great is our God above all gods." }, { "point_text": "Its magnificence", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:9", "verse_text": "Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great." }, { "point_text": "Was seven years in building", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:38", "verse_text": "And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it." }, { "point_text": "Was finished in the eighth month of the eleventh year of Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:38", "verse_text": "And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it." }, { "point_text": "WAS CALLED", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "The house of the Lord", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 23:5", "verse_text": "And a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The house of the Lord", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 23:12", "verse_text": "Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "The mountain of the Lord's house", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:2", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it." }, { "point_text": "House of the God of Jacob", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:3", "verse_text": "And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Zion", "verse_ref": "Psalm 84:1-7", "verse_text": "How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts! 2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. 3 Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God. 4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah. ..." }, { "point_text": "Mount Zion", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:2", "verse_text": "Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt." }, { "point_text": "Appointed as a house of sacrifice", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:12", "verse_text": "And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice." }, { "point_text": "Appointed as a house of prayer", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:7", "verse_text": "Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people." }, { "point_text": "Appointed as a house of prayer", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:13", "verse_text": "And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves." }, { "point_text": "God promised to dwell in", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:12-13", "verse_text": "Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father: 13 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel." }, { "point_text": "All dedicated things placed in", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 5:1", "verse_text": "Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God." }, { "point_text": "The ark of God brought into with great solemnity", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:1-9", "verse_text": "Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion. 2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. 3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. 4 And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up. ..." }, { "point_text": "The ark of God brought into with great solemnity", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 5:2-10", "verse_text": "Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion. 3 Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which was in the seventh month. 4 And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark. 5 And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, these did the priests and the Levites bring up. ..." }, { "point_text": "Filled with the cloud of glory", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:10-11", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD, 11 So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Filled with the cloud of glory", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 5:13", "verse_text": "It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;" }, { "point_text": "Filled with the cloud of glory", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:2", "verse_text": "And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD'S house." }, { "point_text": "Solemnly dedicated to God by Solomon", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 8:12-66", "verse_text": "Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. 13 I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever. 14 And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel stood;) 15 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which spake with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying, ..." }, { "point_text": "Solemnly dedicated to God by Solomon", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 6", "verse_text": "Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. 2 But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever. 3 And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood. 4 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my father David, saying, ..." }, { "point_text": "Sacred fire sent down from heaven at its dedication", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:3", "verse_text": "And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever." }, { "point_text": "Was but a temple built with hands", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:47-48", "verse_text": "But Solomon built him an house. 48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet," }, { "point_text": "Complete destruction of, predicted", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 26:18", "verse_text": "Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest." }, { "point_text": "Complete destruction of, predicted", "verse_ref": "Micah 3:12", "verse_text": "Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest." }, { "point_text": "HISTORICAL NOTICES OF;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Pillaged by Shishak king of Egypt", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 14:25-26", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem: 26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made." }, { "point_text": "Pillaged by Shishak king of Egypt", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 12:9", "verse_text": "So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he took all: he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made." }, { "point_text": "Repaired by Jehoash at the instigation of Jehoiada", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 12:4-14", "verse_text": "And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, even the money of every one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at, and all the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD, 5 Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found. 6 But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house. 7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house. ..." }, { "point_text": "Repaired by Jehoash at the instigation of Jehoiada", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 24:4-13", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair the house of the LORD. 5 And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not. 6 And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness? 7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD did they bestow upon Baalim. ..." }, { "point_text": "Treasures of given by Jehoash to propitiate the Syrians", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 12:17-18", "verse_text": "Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem. 18 And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Defiled and its treasures given by Ahaz to the king of Assyria", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 16:14", "verse_text": "And he brought also the brasen altar, which was before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar." }, { "point_text": "Defiled and its treasures given by Ahaz to the king of Assyria", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 16:18", "verse_text": "And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD for the king of Assyria." }, { "point_text": "Defiled and its treasures given by Ahaz to the king of Assyria", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 28:20-21", "verse_text": "And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not. 21 For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD, and out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not." }, { "point_text": "Purified and divine worship restored under Hezekiah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 29:3-35", "verse_text": "He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them. 4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street, 5 And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place. 6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs. ..." }, { "point_text": "Its treasures, &c. given by Hezekiah to the Assyrians to procure a treaty", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:13-16", "verse_text": "Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them. 14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. 15 And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house. 16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria." }, { "point_text": "Polluted by the idolatrous worship of Manasseh", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 21:4-7", "verse_text": "And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. 6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:" }, { "point_text": "Polluted by the idolatrous worship of Manasseh", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:4-5", "verse_text": "Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever. 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Polluted by the idolatrous worship of Manasseh", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 33:7", "verse_text": "And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:" }, { "point_text": "Repaired by Josiah in the eighteenth year of his reign", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 22:3-7", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying, 4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people: 5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house, 6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house. ..." }, { "point_text": "Repaired by Josiah in the eighteenth year of his reign", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 34:8-13", "verse_text": "Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God. 9 And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem. 10 And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and amend the house: 11 Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed. ..." }, { "point_text": "Purified by Josiah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:4-7", "verse_text": "And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel. 5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven. 6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people. 7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove." }, { "point_text": "Purified by Josiah", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:11-12", "verse_text": "And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire. 12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron." }, { "point_text": "Pillaged and burned by the Babylonians", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:9", "verse_text": "And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire." }, { "point_text": "Pillaged and burned by the Babylonians", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:13-17", "verse_text": "And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon. 14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away. 15 And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away. 16 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels was without weight. ..." }, { "point_text": "Pillaged and burned by the Babylonians", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:18-19", "verse_text": "And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon. 19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "John 2:19", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "John 2:21", "verse_text": "But he spake of the temple of his body." }, { "point_text": "The spiritual church", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:16", "verse_text": "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" }, { "point_text": "The spiritual church", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:16", "verse_text": "And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people." }, { "point_text": "The spiritual church", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:20-22", "verse_text": "And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; 21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: 22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit." }, { "point_text": "The bodies of saints", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:19", "verse_text": "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?" } ] }, { "name": "Time", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Time.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The duration of the world", "verse_ref": "Job 22:16", "verse_text": "Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:" }, { "point_text": "The duration of the world", "verse_ref": "Revelation 10:6", "verse_text": "And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:" }, { "point_text": "The measure of the continuance of anything", "verse_ref": "Judges 18:31", "verse_text": "And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh." }, { "point_text": "An appointed season", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 2:6", "verse_text": "And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time." }, { "point_text": "An appointed season", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 3:1", "verse_text": "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:" }, { "point_text": "An appointed season", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 3:17", "verse_text": "I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work." }, { "point_text": "COMPUTED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Years", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:13", "verse_text": "And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;" }, { "point_text": "Years", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 21:1", "verse_text": "Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites." }, { "point_text": "Years", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:2", "verse_text": "In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Months", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:10", "verse_text": "Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "Months", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:1", "verse_text": "Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand." }, { "point_text": "Months", "verse_ref": "Job 3:6", "verse_text": "As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months." }, { "point_text": "Weeks", "verse_ref": "Daniel 10:2", "verse_text": "In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks." }, { "point_text": "Weeks", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:12", "verse_text": "I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess." }, { "point_text": "Days", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:3", "verse_text": "And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated." }, { "point_text": "Days", "verse_ref": "Job 1:4", "verse_text": "And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them." }, { "point_text": "Days", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:3", "verse_text": "Give us day by day our daily bread." }, { "point_text": "Hours, after the captivity", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:5", "verse_text": "In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote." }, { "point_text": "Hours, after the captivity", "verse_ref": "John 11:9", "verse_text": "Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world." }, { "point_text": "Moments", "verse_ref": "Exodus 33:5", "verse_text": "For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Moments", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:5", "verse_text": "And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time." }, { "point_text": "Moments", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:52", "verse_text": "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed." }, { "point_text": "The heavenly bodies, appointed as a means for computing", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:14", "verse_text": "And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:" }, { "point_text": "The sun-dial early invented for pointing out", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:9-11", "verse_text": "And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees? 10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees. 11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz." }, { "point_text": "ERAS FROM WHICH, COMPUTED;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Nativity of the patriarchs during the patriarchal age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:11", "verse_text": "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." }, { "point_text": "Nativity of the patriarchs during the patriarchal age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:13", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry." }, { "point_text": "Nativity of the patriarchs during the patriarchal age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:1", "verse_text": "And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect." }, { "point_text": "The exodus from Egypt", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:1", "verse_text": "In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai." }, { "point_text": "The exodus from Egypt", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:17", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up." }, { "point_text": "The exodus from Egypt", "verse_ref": "Numbers 9:1", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying," }, { "point_text": "The exodus from Egypt", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:38", "verse_text": "And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month." }, { "point_text": "The exodus from Egypt", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The jubilee", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:15", "verse_text": "According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:" }, { "point_text": "Accession of kings", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Accession of kings", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:1", "verse_text": "Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah." }, { "point_text": "Accession of kings", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 36:1", "verse_text": "Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them." }, { "point_text": "Accession of kings", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 1:2", "verse_text": "To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign." }, { "point_text": "Accession of kings", "verse_ref": "Luke 3:1", "verse_text": "Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene," }, { "point_text": "Building of the temple", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 9:10", "verse_text": "And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king's house," }, { "point_text": "Building of the temple", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 8:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house," }, { "point_text": "The captivity", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 1:1", "verse_text": "Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God." }, { "point_text": "The captivity", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 33:21", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten." }, { "point_text": "The captivity", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 40:1", "verse_text": "In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither." }, { "point_text": "Part of a period of, usually counted as the whole", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:1", "verse_text": "Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel," }, { "point_text": "Part of a period of, usually counted as the whole", "verse_ref": "Esther 4:16", "verse_text": "Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish." }, { "point_text": "Part of a period of, usually counted as the whole", "verse_ref": "Esther 5:1", "verse_text": "Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house." }, { "point_text": "In prophetic language, means a prophetic year, or 365 natural days", "verse_ref": "Daniel 12:7", "verse_text": "And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished." }, { "point_text": "In prophetic language, means a prophetic year, or 365 natural days", "verse_ref": "Revelation 12:14", "verse_text": "And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent." }, { "point_text": "Shortness of man's portion of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:47", "verse_text": "Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?" }, { "point_text": "Should be redeemed", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:16", "verse_text": "Redeeming the time, because the days are evil." }, { "point_text": "Should be redeemed", "verse_ref": "Colossians 4:5", "verse_text": "Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time." }, { "point_text": "Should be spent in the fear of God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:17", "verse_text": "And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:" }, { "point_text": "PARTICULAR PERIODS OF, MENTIONED;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The ancient time", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:21", "verse_text": "Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me." }, { "point_text": "The accepted time", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:8", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;" }, { "point_text": "The accepted time", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:2", "verse_text": "(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)" }, { "point_text": "The time of visitation", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 46:21", "verse_text": "Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation." }, { "point_text": "The time of visitation", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:27", "verse_text": "Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation." }, { "point_text": "The time of refreshing", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:19", "verse_text": "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;" }, { "point_text": "The time of restitution of all things", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:21", "verse_text": "Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began." }, { "point_text": "The time of reformation", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:10", "verse_text": "Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation." }, { "point_text": "The time of healing", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:19", "verse_text": "Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!" }, { "point_text": "The time of need", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:16", "verse_text": "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." }, { "point_text": "The time of temptation", "verse_ref": "Luke 8:13", "verse_text": "They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away." }, { "point_text": "The evil time", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:19", "verse_text": "They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied." }, { "point_text": "The evil time", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 9:12", "verse_text": "For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them." }, { "point_text": "The time of trouble", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:5", "verse_text": "For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock." }, { "point_text": "The time of trouble", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:8", "verse_text": "O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?" }, { "point_text": "All events of, predetermined by God", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:26", "verse_text": "And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;" }, { "point_text": "All God's purposes fulfilled in due time", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:15", "verse_text": "And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel." }, { "point_text": "All God's purposes fulfilled in due time", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:4", "verse_text": "But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law," } ] }, { "name": "Tithe", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Tithe.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The tenth of anything", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 8:15", "verse_text": "And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants." }, { "point_text": "The tenth of anything", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 8:17", "verse_text": "He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants." }, { "point_text": "Antiquity of the custom of giving to God's ministers", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:20", "verse_text": "And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all." }, { "point_text": "Antiquity of the custom of giving to God's ministers", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:6", "verse_text": "But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises." }, { "point_text": "Considered a just return to God for His blessings", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:22", "verse_text": "And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Under the law belonged to God", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 27:30", "verse_text": "And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD'S: it is holy unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "CONSISTED OF A TENTH,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of all the produce of the land", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 27:30", "verse_text": "And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD'S: it is holy unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Of all cattle", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 27:32", "verse_text": "And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Of holy things dedicated", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:6", "verse_text": "And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the LORD their God, and laid them by heaps." }, { "point_text": "Given by God to the Levites for their services", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:21", "verse_text": "And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "Given by God to the Levites for their services", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:24", "verse_text": "But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance." }, { "point_text": "The tenth of, offered by the Levites as an heave offering to God", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:26-27", "verse_text": "Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe. 27 And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress." }, { "point_text": "The tenth of, given by the Levites to the priests as their portion", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:26", "verse_text": "Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe." }, { "point_text": "The tenth of, given by the Levites to the priests as their portion", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:28", "verse_text": "Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the LORD'S heave offering to Aaron the priest." }, { "point_text": "Reasonableness of appointing, for the Levites", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:20", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Reasonableness of appointing, for the Levites", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:23-24", "verse_text": "But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance. 24 But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance." }, { "point_text": "When redeemed to a fifth part of the value added", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 27:31", "verse_text": "And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for changing", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 27:33", "verse_text": "He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed." }, { "point_text": "The Jews slow in giving", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:10", "verse_text": "And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field." }, { "point_text": "The Jews reproved for withholding", "verse_ref": "Malachi 3:8", "verse_text": "Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings." }, { "point_text": "The pious governors of Israel caused the payment of", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:5", "verse_text": "And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly." }, { "point_text": "The pious governors of Israel caused the payment of", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:11-12", "verse_text": "Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place. 12 Then brought all Judah the tithe of the corn and the new wine and the oil unto the treasuries." }, { "point_text": "Rulers appointed over, for distributing", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:12", "verse_text": "And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next." }, { "point_text": "Rulers appointed over, for distributing", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:13", "verse_text": "And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah: for they were counted faithful, and their office was to distribute unto their brethren." }, { "point_text": "The Pharisees scrupulous in paying", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:42", "verse_text": "But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone." }, { "point_text": "The Pharisees scrupulous in paying", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:12", "verse_text": "I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess." }, { "point_text": "A SECOND,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Or its value yearly brought to the tabernacle and eaten before the Lord", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:6-7", "verse_text": "And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks: 7 And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee." }, { "point_text": "Or its value yearly brought to the tabernacle and eaten before the Lord", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:17-19", "verse_text": "Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand: 18 But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto. 19 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Or its value yearly brought to the tabernacle and eaten before the Lord", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:22-27", "verse_text": "Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year. 23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always. 24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee: 25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: ..." }, { "point_text": "To be consumed at home every third year to promote hospitality and charity", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:28", "verse_text": "At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:" }, { "point_text": "To be consumed at home every third year to promote hospitality and charity", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 26:12-15", "verse_text": "When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled; 13 Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them: 14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me. 15 Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey." } ] }, { "name": "Titles and Names of Christ", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Titles-and-Names-of-Christ.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Adam, Second", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:45", "verse_text": "And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit." }, { "point_text": "Almighty", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:18", "verse_text": "I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death." }, { "point_text": "Amen", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:14", "verse_text": "And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;" }, { "point_text": "Alpha and Omega", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:8", "verse_text": "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty." }, { "point_text": "Alpha and Omega", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:13", "verse_text": "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last." }, { "point_text": "Advocate", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:1", "verse_text": "My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:" }, { "point_text": "Angel", "verse_ref": "Genesis 48:16", "verse_text": "The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Angel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:20-21", "verse_text": "Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. 21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him." }, { "point_text": "Angel of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Exodus 3:2", "verse_text": "And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed." }, { "point_text": "Angel of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Judges 13:15-18", "verse_text": "And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee. 16 And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the LORD. 17 And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour? 18 And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?" }, { "point_text": "Angel of God's presence", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:9", "verse_text": "In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old." }, { "point_text": "Apostle", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:1", "verse_text": "Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;" }, { "point_text": "Arm of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 51:9", "verse_text": "Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?" }, { "point_text": "Arm of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:1", "verse_text": "Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?" }, { "point_text": "Author and Finisher of our faith", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:2", "verse_text": "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." }, { "point_text": "Blessed and only Potentate", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:15", "verse_text": "Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;" }, { "point_text": "Beginning of the creation of God", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:14", "verse_text": "And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;" }, { "point_text": "Branch", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:5", "verse_text": "Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth." }, { "point_text": "Branch", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 3:8", "verse_text": "Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH." }, { "point_text": "Branch", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 6:12", "verse_text": "And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Bread of Life", "verse_ref": "John 6:35", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst." }, { "point_text": "Bread of Life", "verse_ref": "John 6:48", "verse_text": "I am that bread of life." }, { "point_text": "Captain of the Lord's hosts", "verse_ref": "Joshua 5:14-15", "verse_text": "And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant? 15 And the captain of the LORD'S host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so." }, { "point_text": "Captain of salvation", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:10", "verse_text": "For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings." }, { "point_text": "Chief Shepherd", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:4", "verse_text": "And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away." }, { "point_text": "Christ of God", "verse_ref": "Luke 9:20", "verse_text": "He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said, The Christ of God." }, { "point_text": "Consolation of Israel", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:25", "verse_text": "And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him." }, { "point_text": "Chief Corner-stone", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:20", "verse_text": "And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;" }, { "point_text": "Chief Corner-stone", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:6", "verse_text": "Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded." }, { "point_text": "Commander", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 55:4", "verse_text": "Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people." }, { "point_text": "Counsellor", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:6", "verse_text": "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." }, { "point_text": "David", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 30:9", "verse_text": "But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them." }, { "point_text": "David", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 34:23", "verse_text": "And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd." }, { "point_text": "Day-spring", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:78", "verse_text": "Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us," }, { "point_text": "Deliverer", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:26", "verse_text": "And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:" }, { "point_text": "Desire of all nations", "verse_ref": "Haggai 2:7", "verse_text": "And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Door", "verse_ref": "John 10:7", "verse_text": "Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep." }, { "point_text": "Elect of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:1", "verse_text": "Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles." }, { "point_text": "Emmanuel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:14", "verse_text": "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel." }, { "point_text": "Emmanuel", "verse_ref": "Matthew 1:23", "verse_text": "Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us." }, { "point_text": "Eternal life", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:2", "verse_text": "(For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)" }, { "point_text": "Eternal life", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:20", "verse_text": "And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life." }, { "point_text": "Everlasting Father", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:6", "verse_text": "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." }, { "point_text": "Faithful witness", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:5", "verse_text": "And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood," }, { "point_text": "Faithful witness", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:14", "verse_text": "And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;" }, { "point_text": "First and Last", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:17", "verse_text": "And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:" }, { "point_text": "First and Last", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:8", "verse_text": "And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;" }, { "point_text": "First-begotten of the dead", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:5", "verse_text": "And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood," }, { "point_text": "First-born of every creature", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:15", "verse_text": "Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:" }, { "point_text": "Forerunner", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:20", "verse_text": "Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec." }, { "point_text": "God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:9", "verse_text": "O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!" }, { "point_text": "God", "verse_ref": "John 20:28", "verse_text": "And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God." }, { "point_text": "God blessed for ever", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:5", "verse_text": "Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "God's fellow", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 13:7", "verse_text": "Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones." }, { "point_text": "Glory of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:5", "verse_text": "And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it." }, { "point_text": "Good Shepherd", "verse_ref": "John 10:14", "verse_text": "I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine." }, { "point_text": "Great High Priest", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:14", "verse_text": "Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession." }, { "point_text": "Governor", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:6", "verse_text": "And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel." }, { "point_text": "Head of the Church", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:23", "verse_text": "For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body." }, { "point_text": "Head of the Church", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:18", "verse_text": "And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence." }, { "point_text": "Heir of all things", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:2", "verse_text": "Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;" }, { "point_text": "Holy One", "verse_ref": "Psalm 16:10", "verse_text": "For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption." }, { "point_text": "Holy One", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:27", "verse_text": "Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption." }, { "point_text": "Holy One", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:31", "verse_text": "He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption." }, { "point_text": "Holy One of God", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:24", "verse_text": "Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God." }, { "point_text": "Holy One of Israel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:14", "verse_text": "Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Horn of salvation", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:69", "verse_text": "And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;" }, { "point_text": "I AM", "verse_ref": "Exodus 3:14", "verse_text": "And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you." }, { "point_text": "I AM", "verse_ref": "John 8:58", "verse_text": "Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am." }, { "point_text": "JEHOVAH", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:4", "verse_text": "Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:" }, { "point_text": "Jesus", "verse_ref": "Matthew 1:21", "verse_text": "And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins." }, { "point_text": "Jesus", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 1:10", "verse_text": "And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come." }, { "point_text": "Judge of Israel", "verse_ref": "Micah 5:1", "verse_text": "Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek." }, { "point_text": "Just One", "verse_ref": "Acts 7:52", "verse_text": "Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:" }, { "point_text": "King", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:9", "verse_text": "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass." }, { "point_text": "King", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:5", "verse_text": "Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass." }, { "point_text": "King of Israel", "verse_ref": "John 1:49", "verse_text": "Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel." }, { "point_text": "King of the Jews", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:2", "verse_text": "Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him." }, { "point_text": "King of saints", "verse_ref": "Revelation 15:3", "verse_text": "And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints." }, { "point_text": "King of Kings", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:15", "verse_text": "Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;" }, { "point_text": "King of Kings", "verse_ref": "Revelation 17:14", "verse_text": "These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful." }, { "point_text": "Law-giver", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:22", "verse_text": "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us." }, { "point_text": "Lamb", "verse_ref": "Revelation 5:6", "verse_text": "And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth." }, { "point_text": "Lamb", "verse_ref": "Revelation 13:8", "verse_text": "And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world." }, { "point_text": "Lamb", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:22", "verse_text": "And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it." }, { "point_text": "Lamb", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:3", "verse_text": "And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:" }, { "point_text": "Lamb of God", "verse_ref": "John 1:29", "verse_text": "The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." }, { "point_text": "Lamb of God", "verse_ref": "John 1:36", "verse_text": "And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!" }, { "point_text": "Leader", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 55:4", "verse_text": "Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people." }, { "point_text": "Life", "verse_ref": "John 14:6", "verse_text": "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." }, { "point_text": "Life", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:4", "verse_text": "When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory." }, { "point_text": "Life", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:2", "verse_text": "(For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)" }, { "point_text": "Light of the world", "verse_ref": "John 8:12", "verse_text": "Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." }, { "point_text": "Lion of the tribe of Judah", "verse_ref": "Revelation 5:5", "verse_text": "And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof." }, { "point_text": "Lord of glory", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:8", "verse_text": "Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory." }, { "point_text": "Lord of all", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:36", "verse_text": "The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)" }, { "point_text": "LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:6", "verse_text": "In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS." }, { "point_text": "Lord God of the holy prophets", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:6", "verse_text": "And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done." }, { "point_text": "Lord God Almighty", "verse_ref": "Revelation 15:3", "verse_text": "And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints." }, { "point_text": "Mediator", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:5", "verse_text": "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;" }, { "point_text": "Messenger of the covenant", "verse_ref": "Malachi 3:1", "verse_text": "Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Messiah", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:25", "verse_text": "Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times." }, { "point_text": "Messiah", "verse_ref": "John 1:41", "verse_text": "He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ." }, { "point_text": "Mighty God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:6", "verse_text": "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." }, { "point_text": "Mighty One of Jacob", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:16", "verse_text": "Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob." }, { "point_text": "Morning-star", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:16", "verse_text": "I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star." }, { "point_text": "Nazarene", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:23", "verse_text": "And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene." }, { "point_text": "Offspring of David", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:16", "verse_text": "I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star." }, { "point_text": "Only-begotten", "verse_ref": "John 1:14", "verse_text": "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." }, { "point_text": "Our Passover", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 5:7", "verse_text": "Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:" }, { "point_text": "Plant of renown", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 34:29", "verse_text": "And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more." }, { "point_text": "Prince of life", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:15", "verse_text": "And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses." }, { "point_text": "Prince of peace", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:6", "verse_text": "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." }, { "point_text": "Prince of the kings of the earth", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:5", "verse_text": "And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood," }, { "point_text": "Prophet", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:19", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:" }, { "point_text": "Prophet", "verse_ref": "John 7:40", "verse_text": "Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet." }, { "point_text": "Ransom", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:6", "verse_text": "Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time." }, { "point_text": "Redeemer", "verse_ref": "Job 19:25", "verse_text": "For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:" }, { "point_text": "Redeemer", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:20", "verse_text": "And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Redeemer", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:16", "verse_text": "Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob." }, { "point_text": "Resurrection and life", "verse_ref": "John 11:25", "verse_text": "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:" }, { "point_text": "Rock", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:4", "verse_text": "And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ." }, { "point_text": "Root of David", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:16", "verse_text": "I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star." }, { "point_text": "Root of Jesse", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:10", "verse_text": "And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious." }, { "point_text": "Ruler of Israel", "verse_ref": "Micah 5:2", "verse_text": "But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting." }, { "point_text": "Saviour", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:20", "verse_text": "For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning." }, { "point_text": "Saviour", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:18", "verse_text": "But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Servant", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:1", "verse_text": "Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles." }, { "point_text": "Servant", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 52:13", "verse_text": "Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high." }, { "point_text": "Shepherd and Bishop of Souls", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:25", "verse_text": "For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls." }, { "point_text": "Shiloh", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:10", "verse_text": "The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be." }, { "point_text": "Son of the blessed", "verse_ref": "Mark 14:61", "verse_text": "But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?" }, { "point_text": "Son of God", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:35", "verse_text": "And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." }, { "point_text": "Son of God", "verse_ref": "John 1:49", "verse_text": "Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Son of the Highest", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:32", "verse_text": "He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:" }, { "point_text": "Son of David", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:27", "verse_text": "And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou Son of David, have mercy on us." }, { "point_text": "Son of man", "verse_ref": "John 5:27", "verse_text": "And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man." }, { "point_text": "Son of man", "verse_ref": "John 6:37", "verse_text": "All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." }, { "point_text": "Star", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:17", "verse_text": "I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth." }, { "point_text": "Sun of righteousness", "verse_ref": "Malachi 4:2", "verse_text": "But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall." }, { "point_text": "Surety", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:22", "verse_text": "By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament." }, { "point_text": "True God", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:20", "verse_text": "And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life." }, { "point_text": "True Light", "verse_ref": "John 1:9", "verse_text": "That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world." }, { "point_text": "True Vine", "verse_ref": "John 15:1", "verse_text": "I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman." }, { "point_text": "Truth", "verse_ref": "John 14:6", "verse_text": "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." }, { "point_text": "Way", "verse_ref": "John 14:6", "verse_text": "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." }, { "point_text": "Wisdom", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 8:12", "verse_text": "I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions." }, { "point_text": "Witness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 55:4", "verse_text": "Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people." }, { "point_text": "Wonderful", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:6", "verse_text": "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." }, { "point_text": "Word", "verse_ref": "John 1:1", "verse_text": "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." }, { "point_text": "Word", "verse_ref": "John 5:7", "verse_text": "The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me." }, { "point_text": "Word of God", "verse_ref": "Revelation 19:13", "verse_text": "And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God." }, { "point_text": "Word of Life", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:1", "verse_text": "That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;" } ] }, { "name": "Titles and Names of the Church", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Titles-and-Names-of-the-Church.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Assembly of the saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:7", "verse_text": "God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him." }, { "point_text": "Assembly of the upright", "verse_ref": "Psalm 111:1", "verse_text": "Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation." }, { "point_text": "Body of Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:22-23", "verse_text": "And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, 23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all." }, { "point_text": "Branch of God's planting", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:21", "verse_text": "Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified." }, { "point_text": "Bride of Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:9", "verse_text": "And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife." }, { "point_text": "Church of God", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:28", "verse_text": "Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood." }, { "point_text": "Church of the Living God", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:15", "verse_text": "But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth." }, { "point_text": "Church of the first-born", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:23", "verse_text": "To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect," }, { "point_text": "City of the Living God", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:22", "verse_text": "But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels," }, { "point_text": "Congregation of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 149:1", "verse_text": "Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints." }, { "point_text": "Congregation of the Lord's poor", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:19", "verse_text": "O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever." }, { "point_text": "Dove", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:14", "verse_text": "O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely." }, { "point_text": "Dove", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:2", "verse_text": "I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night." }, { "point_text": "Family in heaven and earth", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:15", "verse_text": "Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named," }, { "point_text": "Flock of God", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 34:15", "verse_text": "I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Flock of God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:2", "verse_text": "Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;" }, { "point_text": "Fold of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 10:16", "verse_text": "And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd." }, { "point_text": "General assembly of the first-born", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:23", "verse_text": "To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect," }, { "point_text": "Golden candlestick", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:20", "verse_text": "The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches." }, { "point_text": "God's building", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:9", "verse_text": "For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building." }, { "point_text": "God's husbandry", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:9", "verse_text": "For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building." }, { "point_text": "God's heritage", "verse_ref": "Joel 3:2", "verse_text": "I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land." }, { "point_text": "God's heritage", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:3", "verse_text": "Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock." }, { "point_text": "Habitation of God", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:22", "verse_text": "In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit." }, { "point_text": "Heavenly of Jerusalem", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:26", "verse_text": "But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all." }, { "point_text": "Heavenly of Jerusalem", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:22", "verse_text": "But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels," }, { "point_text": "Holy city", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:2", "verse_text": "And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband." }, { "point_text": "Holy mountain", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 8:3", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain." }, { "point_text": "Holy hill", "verse_ref": "Psalm 15:1", "verse_text": "LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?" }, { "point_text": "House of God", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:15", "verse_text": "But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth." }, { "point_text": "House of God", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:21", "verse_text": "And having an high priest over the house of God;" }, { "point_text": "House of the God of Jacob", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:3", "verse_text": "And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "House of Christ", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:6", "verse_text": "But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end." }, { "point_text": "Household of God", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:19", "verse_text": "Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;" }, { "point_text": "Inheritance", "verse_ref": "Psalm 28:9", "verse_text": "Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever." }, { "point_text": "Inheritance", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:25", "verse_text": "Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance." }, { "point_text": "Israel of God", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:16", "verse_text": "And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God." }, { "point_text": "King's daughter", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:13", "verse_text": "The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold." }, { "point_text": "Lamb's wife", "verse_ref": "Revelation 19:7", "verse_text": "Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready." }, { "point_text": "Lamb's wife", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:9", "verse_text": "And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife." }, { "point_text": "Lot of God's inheritance", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:9", "verse_text": "For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance." }, { "point_text": "Mount Zion", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:6", "verse_text": "Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion." }, { "point_text": "Mount Zion", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:22", "verse_text": "But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels," }, { "point_text": "Mountain of the Lord's house", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:2", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it." }, { "point_text": "New Jerusalem", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:2", "verse_text": "And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband." }, { "point_text": "Pillar and ground of the truth", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:15", "verse_text": "But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth." }, { "point_text": "Sanctuary of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 114:2", "verse_text": "Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion." }, { "point_text": "Spiritual house", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:5", "verse_text": "Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Spouse of Christ", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:12", "verse_text": "A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed." }, { "point_text": "Spouse of Christ", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:1", "verse_text": "I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved." }, { "point_text": "Sought out, a city not forsaken", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 62:12", "verse_text": "And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken." }, { "point_text": "Temple of God", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:16-17", "verse_text": "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are." }, { "point_text": "Temple of the Living God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:16", "verse_text": "And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people." }, { "point_text": "Vineyard", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 12:10", "verse_text": "Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness." }, { "point_text": "Vineyard", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:41", "verse_text": "They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons." } ] }, { "name": "Titles and Names of the Wicked", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Titles-and-Names-of-the-Wicked.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Adversaries of the Lord", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:10", "verse_text": "The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed." }, { "point_text": "Children of Belial", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 13:13", "verse_text": "Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;" }, { "point_text": "Children of Belial", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 13:7", "verse_text": "And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them." }, { "point_text": "Children of the devil", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:10", "verse_text": "And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?" }, { "point_text": "Children of the devil", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:10", "verse_text": "In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother." }, { "point_text": "Children of the wicked one", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:38", "verse_text": "The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;" }, { "point_text": "Children of hell", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:15", "verse_text": "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves." }, { "point_text": "Children of base men", "verse_ref": "Job 30:8", "verse_text": "They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth." }, { "point_text": "Children of fools", "verse_ref": "Job 30:8", "verse_text": "They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth." }, { "point_text": "Children of strangers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:6", "verse_text": "Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers." }, { "point_text": "Children of transgression", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:4", "verse_text": "Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood," }, { "point_text": "Children of disobedience", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:2", "verse_text": "Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:" }, { "point_text": "Children of disobedience", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:6", "verse_text": "For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:" }, { "point_text": "Children in whom is no faith", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:20", "verse_text": "And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith." }, { "point_text": "Children of the flesh", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:8", "verse_text": "That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed." }, { "point_text": "Children of iniquity", "verse_ref": "Hosea 10:9", "verse_text": "O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them." }, { "point_text": "Children that will not hear the law of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:9", "verse_text": "That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Children of pride", "verse_ref": "Job 41:34", "verse_text": "He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride." }, { "point_text": "Children of this world", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:8", "verse_text": "And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light." }, { "point_text": "Children of wickedness", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:10", "verse_text": "Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime," }, { "point_text": "Children of wrath", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:3", "verse_text": "Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others." }, { "point_text": "Children that are corrupters", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:4", "verse_text": "Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward." }, { "point_text": "Cursed children", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:14", "verse_text": "Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:" }, { "point_text": "Enemies of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:20", "verse_text": "But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away." }, { "point_text": "Enemies of God", "verse_ref": "James 4:4", "verse_text": "Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God." }, { "point_text": "Enemies of the cross of Christ", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:18", "verse_text": "(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Enemies of all righteousness", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:10", "verse_text": "And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?" }, { "point_text": "Evil doers", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:1", "verse_text": "Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Evil doers", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:14", "verse_text": "Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well." }, { "point_text": "Evil men", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 4:14", "verse_text": "Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men." }, { "point_text": "Evil men", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:13", "verse_text": "But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived." }, { "point_text": "Evil generation", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:35", "verse_text": "Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers," }, { "point_text": "Evil and adulterous generation", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:39", "verse_text": "But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:" }, { "point_text": "Fools", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:7", "verse_text": "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction." }, { "point_text": "Fools", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:22", "verse_text": "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools," }, { "point_text": "Froward generation", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:20", "verse_text": "And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith." }, { "point_text": "Generation of vipers", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:7", "verse_text": "But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?" }, { "point_text": "Generation of vipers", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:34", "verse_text": "O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh." }, { "point_text": "Grievous revolters", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:28", "verse_text": "They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters." }, { "point_text": "Haters of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 81:15", "verse_text": "The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever." }, { "point_text": "Haters of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:30", "verse_text": "Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents," }, { "point_text": "Impudent children", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 2:4", "verse_text": "For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Inventors of evil things", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:30", "verse_text": "Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents," }, { "point_text": "Lying children", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:9", "verse_text": "That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Men of the world", "verse_ref": "Psalm 17:14", "verse_text": "From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes." }, { "point_text": "People loaded with iniquity", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:4", "verse_text": "Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward." }, { "point_text": "Perverse and crooked generation", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:5", "verse_text": "They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation." }, { "point_text": "Perverse and crooked generation", "verse_ref": "Matthew 17:17", "verse_text": "Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me." }, { "point_text": "Perverse and crooked generation", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:15", "verse_text": "That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;" }, { "point_text": "Rebellious children", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:1", "verse_text": "Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:" }, { "point_text": "Rebellious people", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:9", "verse_text": "That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Rebellious people", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:2", "verse_text": "I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;" }, { "point_text": "Rebellious house", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 2:5", "verse_text": "And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them." }, { "point_text": "Rebellious house", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 12:2", "verse_text": "Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house." }, { "point_text": "Reprobates", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 13:5-7", "verse_text": "Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? 6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. 7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates." }, { "point_text": "Scornful, The", "verse_ref": "Psalm 1:1", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful." }, { "point_text": "Seed of falsehood", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:4", "verse_text": "Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood," }, { "point_text": "Seed of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:28", "verse_text": "For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off." }, { "point_text": "Seed of evil doers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:4", "verse_text": "Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward." }, { "point_text": "Seed of evil doers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:20", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned." }, { "point_text": "Serpents", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:33", "verse_text": "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?" }, { "point_text": "Servants of corruption", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:19", "verse_text": "While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage." }, { "point_text": "Servants of sin", "verse_ref": "John 8:34", "verse_text": "Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin." }, { "point_text": "Servants of sin", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:20", "verse_text": "For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Sinful generation", "verse_ref": "Mark 8:28", "verse_text": "And they answered, John the Baptist: but some say, Elias; and others, One of the prophets." }, { "point_text": "Sinners", "verse_ref": "Psalm 26:9", "verse_text": "Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:" }, { "point_text": "Sinners", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:10", "verse_text": "My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not." }, { "point_text": "Sons of Belial", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:12", "verse_text": "Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Sons of Belial", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:10", "verse_text": "And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die." }, { "point_text": "Sottish children", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:22", "verse_text": "For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge." }, { "point_text": "Strange children", "verse_ref": "Psalm 144:7", "verse_text": "Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;" }, { "point_text": "Stubborn and rebellious generation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:8", "verse_text": "And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God." }, { "point_text": "Transgressors", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:38", "verse_text": "But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off." }, { "point_text": "Transgressors", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:13", "verse_text": "Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Ungodly, The", "verse_ref": "Psalm 1:1", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful." }, { "point_text": "Ungodly men", "verse_ref": "Jude 4", "verse_text": "For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Unprofitable servants", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:30", "verse_text": "And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." }, { "point_text": "Untoward generation", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:40", "verse_text": "And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation." }, { "point_text": "Vessels of wrath", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:22", "verse_text": "What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:" }, { "point_text": "Wicked of the earth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 75:8", "verse_text": "For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them." }, { "point_text": "Wicked transgressors", "verse_ref": "Psalm 59:5", "verse_text": "Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Wicked servants", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:26", "verse_text": "His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:" }, { "point_text": "Wicked generation", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:45", "verse_text": "Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation." }, { "point_text": "Wicked generation", "verse_ref": "Matthew 16:4", "verse_text": "A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed." }, { "point_text": "Wicked-ones", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:33", "verse_text": "Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways." }, { "point_text": "Wicked-doers", "verse_ref": "Psalm 101:8", "verse_text": "I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Wicked-doers", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:4", "verse_text": "A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue." }, { "point_text": "Workers of iniquity", "verse_ref": "Psalm 28:3", "verse_text": "Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts." }, { "point_text": "Workers of iniquity", "verse_ref": "Psalm 36:12", "verse_text": "There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise." } ] }, { "name": "Titles and Names of Saints", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Titles-and-Names-of-Saints.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Believers", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:14", "verse_text": "And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)" }, { "point_text": "Believers", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:12", "verse_text": "Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity." }, { "point_text": "Beloved of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:7", "verse_text": "To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Beloved brethren", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:58", "verse_text": "Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Beloved brethren", "verse_ref": "James 2:5", "verse_text": "Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?" }, { "point_text": "Blessed of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:31", "verse_text": "And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels." }, { "point_text": "Blessed of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:29", "verse_text": "That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Blessed of the Father", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:34", "verse_text": "Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:" }, { "point_text": "Brethren", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:8", "verse_text": "But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren." }, { "point_text": "Brethren", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:17", "verse_text": "But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their peace, declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Go shew these things unto James, and to the brethren. And he departed, and went into another place." }, { "point_text": "Brethren of Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 8:21", "verse_text": "And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it." }, { "point_text": "Brethren of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 20:17", "verse_text": "Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God." }, { "point_text": "Called of Jesus Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:6", "verse_text": "Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Children of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:1", "verse_text": "Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead." }, { "point_text": "Children of God", "verse_ref": "John 11:52", "verse_text": "And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad." }, { "point_text": "Children of God", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:10", "verse_text": "In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother." }, { "point_text": "Children of the Living God", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:26", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God." }, { "point_text": "Children of the Father", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:45", "verse_text": "That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." }, { "point_text": "Children of the Highest", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:35", "verse_text": "But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil." }, { "point_text": "Children of Abraham", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:7", "verse_text": "Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham." }, { "point_text": "Children of Jacob", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:6", "verse_text": "O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen." }, { "point_text": "Children of promise", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:8", "verse_text": "That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed." }, { "point_text": "Children of promise", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:28", "verse_text": "Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise." }, { "point_text": "Children of the free-woman", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:31", "verse_text": "So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free." }, { "point_text": "Children of the kingdom", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:38", "verse_text": "The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;" }, { "point_text": "Children of Zion", "verse_ref": "Psalm 149:2", "verse_text": "Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King." }, { "point_text": "Children of Zion", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:23", "verse_text": "Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month." }, { "point_text": "Children of the bride-chamber", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:15", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast." }, { "point_text": "Children of light", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:8", "verse_text": "And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light." }, { "point_text": "Children of light", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:8", "verse_text": "For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:" }, { "point_text": "Children of light", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:5", "verse_text": "Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness." }, { "point_text": "Children of the day", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:5", "verse_text": "Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness." }, { "point_text": "Children of the resurrection", "verse_ref": "Luke 20:36", "verse_text": "Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection." }, { "point_text": "Chosen generation", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:9", "verse_text": "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:" }, { "point_text": "Chosen ones", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 16:13", "verse_text": "O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones." }, { "point_text": "Chosen vessels", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:15", "verse_text": "But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:" }, { "point_text": "Christians", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:26", "verse_text": "And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch." }, { "point_text": "Christians", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:28", "verse_text": "Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian." }, { "point_text": "Dear children", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:1", "verse_text": "Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;" }, { "point_text": "Disciples of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 8:31", "verse_text": "Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;" }, { "point_text": "Disciples of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 15:8", "verse_text": "Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples." }, { "point_text": "Elect of God", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:12", "verse_text": "Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;" }, { "point_text": "Elect of God", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:1", "verse_text": "Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;" }, { "point_text": "Epistles of Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 3:3", "verse_text": "Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart." }, { "point_text": "Excellent, The", "verse_ref": "Psalm 16:3", "verse_text": "But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight." }, { "point_text": "Faithful brethren in Christ", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:2", "verse_text": "To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Faithful, The", "verse_ref": "Psalm 12:1", "verse_text": "Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men." }, { "point_text": "Faithful of the land", "verse_ref": "Psalm 101:6", "verse_text": "Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me." }, { "point_text": "Fellow-citizens with the saints", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:19", "verse_text": "Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;" }, { "point_text": "Fellow-heirs", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:6", "verse_text": "That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:" }, { "point_text": "Fellow-servants", "verse_ref": "Revelation 6:11", "verse_text": "And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled." }, { "point_text": "Friends of God", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 20:7", "verse_text": "Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?" }, { "point_text": "Friends of God", "verse_ref": "James 2:23", "verse_text": "And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God." }, { "point_text": "Friends of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 15:15", "verse_text": "Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you." }, { "point_text": "Godly, The", "verse_ref": "Psalm 4:3", "verse_text": "But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him." }, { "point_text": "Godly, The", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:9", "verse_text": "The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:" }, { "point_text": "Heirs of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:17", "verse_text": "And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together." }, { "point_text": "Heirs of God", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:7", "verse_text": "Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ." }, { "point_text": "Heirs of the grace of life", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:7", "verse_text": "Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered." }, { "point_text": "Heirs of the kingdom", "verse_ref": "James 2:5", "verse_text": "Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?" }, { "point_text": "Heirs of promise", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:17", "verse_text": "Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:" }, { "point_text": "Heirs of promise", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:29", "verse_text": "And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." }, { "point_text": "Heirs of salvation", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:14", "verse_text": "Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?" }, { "point_text": "Holy brethren", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:27", "verse_text": "I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren." }, { "point_text": "Holy brethren", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:1", "verse_text": "Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;" }, { "point_text": "Holy nation", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:6", "verse_text": "And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Holy nation", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:9", "verse_text": "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:" }, { "point_text": "Holy people", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 26:19", "verse_text": "And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken." }, { "point_text": "Holy people", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 62:12", "verse_text": "And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken." }, { "point_text": "Holy priesthood", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:5", "verse_text": "Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Joint-heirs with Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:17", "verse_text": "And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together." }, { "point_text": "Just, The", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:4", "verse_text": "Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith." }, { "point_text": "Kings and priests unto God", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:6", "verse_text": "And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Kingdom of priests", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:6", "verse_text": "And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Lambs", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:11", "verse_text": "He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young." }, { "point_text": "Lambs", "verse_ref": "John 21:15", "verse_text": "So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs." }, { "point_text": "Lights of the world", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:14", "verse_text": "Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid." }, { "point_text": "Little children", "verse_ref": "John 13:33", "verse_text": "Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you." }, { "point_text": "Little children", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:1", "verse_text": "My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:" }, { "point_text": "Lively stones", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:5", "verse_text": "Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Members of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:15", "verse_text": "Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid." }, { "point_text": "Members of Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:30", "verse_text": "For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones." }, { "point_text": "Men of God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:1", "verse_text": "And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death." }, { "point_text": "Men of God", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:11", "verse_text": "But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness." }, { "point_text": "Men of God", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:17", "verse_text": "That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works." }, { "point_text": "Obedient children", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:14", "verse_text": "As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:" }, { "point_text": "Peculiar people", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:2", "verse_text": "For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Peculiar people", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:14", "verse_text": "Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works." }, { "point_text": "Peculiar people", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:9", "verse_text": "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:" }, { "point_text": "Peculiar treasure", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:5", "verse_text": "Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:" }, { "point_text": "Peculiar treasure", "verse_ref": "Psalm 135:4", "verse_text": "For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure." }, { "point_text": "People of God", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:9", "verse_text": "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God." }, { "point_text": "People of God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:10", "verse_text": "Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy." }, { "point_text": "People near unto God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:14", "verse_text": "He also exalteth the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near unto him. Praise ye the LORD." }, { "point_text": "People saved by the Lord", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:29", "verse_text": "Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places." }, { "point_text": "Pillars in the temple of God", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:12", "verse_text": "Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name." }, { "point_text": "Ransomed of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 35:10", "verse_text": "And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away." }, { "point_text": "Redeemed of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 51:11", "verse_text": "Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away." }, { "point_text": "Royal priesthood", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:9", "verse_text": "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:" }, { "point_text": "Salt of the earth", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:13", "verse_text": "Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men." }, { "point_text": "Servants of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:22", "verse_text": "For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant." }, { "point_text": "Servants of Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:6", "verse_text": "Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;" }, { "point_text": "Servants of righteousness", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:18", "verse_text": "Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Sheep of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 10:1-16", "verse_text": "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. 2 But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. 4 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. ..." }, { "point_text": "Sheep of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 21:16", "verse_text": "He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep." }, { "point_text": "Sojourners with God", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:23", "verse_text": "The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me." }, { "point_text": "Sojourners with God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:12", "verse_text": "Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were." }, { "point_text": "Sons of God", "verse_ref": "John 1:12", "verse_text": "But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:" }, { "point_text": "Sons of God", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:15", "verse_text": "That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;" }, { "point_text": "Sons of God", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:1-2", "verse_text": "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. 2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." }, { "point_text": "The Lord's freemen", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:22", "verse_text": "For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant." }, { "point_text": "Trees of righteousness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:3", "verse_text": "To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified." }, { "point_text": "Vessels unto honor", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:21", "verse_text": "If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work." }, { "point_text": "Vessels of mercy", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:23", "verse_text": "And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory," }, { "point_text": "Witnesses for God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:8", "verse_text": "Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any." } ] }, { "name": "Towers", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Towers.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Origin and antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 11:4", "verse_text": "And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." }, { "point_text": "WERE BUILT", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In cities", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:51", "verse_text": "But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower." }, { "point_text": "On the walls of cities", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 14:7", "verse_text": "Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered." }, { "point_text": "On the walls of cities", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:9", "verse_text": "Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them." }, { "point_text": "In the forests", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 27:4", "verse_text": "Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers." }, { "point_text": "In the deserts", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:10", "verse_text": "Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry." }, { "point_text": "In vineyards", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:2", "verse_text": "And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes." }, { "point_text": "In vineyards", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:33", "verse_text": "Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:" }, { "point_text": "Frequently very high", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:15", "verse_text": "And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall," }, { "point_text": "Frequently strong and well fortified", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:51", "verse_text": "But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower." }, { "point_text": "Frequently strong and well fortified", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:9", "verse_text": "Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them." }, { "point_text": "Were used as armories", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:4", "verse_text": "Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men." }, { "point_text": "Were used as citadels in times of war", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:51", "verse_text": "But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower." }, { "point_text": "Were used as citadels in times of war", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:11", "verse_text": "The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect." }, { "point_text": "Watchmen posted on, in times of danger", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 9:17", "verse_text": "And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?" }, { "point_text": "Watchmen posted on, in times of danger", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:1", "verse_text": "I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved." }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Babel", "verse_ref": "Genesis 11:9", "verse_text": "Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth." }, { "point_text": "Edar", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:21", "verse_text": "And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar." }, { "point_text": "Penuel", "verse_ref": "Judges 8:17", "verse_text": "And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city." }, { "point_text": "Shechem", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:46", "verse_text": "And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith." }, { "point_text": "Thebez", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:50-51", "verse_text": "Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it. 51 But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower." }, { "point_text": "David", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:4", "verse_text": "Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men." }, { "point_text": "Lebanon", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 7:4", "verse_text": "Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus." }, { "point_text": "Of the furnaces", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 3:11", "verse_text": "Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hashub the son of Pahathmoab, repaired the other piece, and the tower of the furnaces." }, { "point_text": "Meah", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 12:39", "verse_text": "And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate." }, { "point_text": "Jezreel", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 9:17", "verse_text": "And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?" }, { "point_text": "Hananeel", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:38", "verse_text": "Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner." }, { "point_text": "Hananeel", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 14:10", "verse_text": "All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses." }, { "point_text": "Syene", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 29:10", "verse_text": "Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia." }, { "point_text": "Syene", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 30:6", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Siloam", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:4", "verse_text": "Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?" }, { "point_text": "Of Jerusalem remarkable for number, strength and beauty", "verse_ref": "Psalm 48:12", "verse_text": "Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof." }, { "point_text": "Frequently thrown down in war", "verse_ref": "Judges 8:17", "verse_text": "And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city." }, { "point_text": "Frequently thrown down in war", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:49", "verse_text": "And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women." }, { "point_text": "Frequently thrown down in war", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:4", "verse_text": "And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock." }, { "point_text": "Frequently left desolate", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:14", "verse_text": "Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;" }, { "point_text": "Frequently left desolate", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 3:6", "verse_text": "I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "God as the protector of His people", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 22:3", "verse_text": "The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence." }, { "point_text": "God as the protector of His people", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 22:51", "verse_text": "He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore." }, { "point_text": "The name of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 18:10", "verse_text": "The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe." }, { "point_text": "Ministers", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:27", "verse_text": "I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way." }, { "point_text": "Mount Sion", "verse_ref": "Micah 4:8", "verse_text": "And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "The grace and dignity of the church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:4", "verse_text": "Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men." }, { "point_text": "The grace and dignity of the church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 7:4", "verse_text": "Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus." }, { "point_text": "The grace and dignity of the church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 8:10", "verse_text": "I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour." }, { "point_text": "The proud and haughty", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:15", "verse_text": "And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall," }, { "point_text": "The proud and haughty", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:25", "verse_text": "And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall." } ] }, { "name": "Titles and Names of Ministers", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Titles-and-Names-of-Ministers.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Ambassadors for Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:20", "verse_text": "Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God." }, { "point_text": "Angels of the Church", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:20-2:1", "verse_text": "The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches. 1 Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;" }, { "point_text": "Apostles", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:13", "verse_text": "And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles;" }, { "point_text": "Apostles", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:11", "verse_text": "And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;" }, { "point_text": "Apostles", "verse_ref": "Revelation 18:20", "verse_text": "Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her." }, { "point_text": "Apostles of Jesus Christ", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:1", "verse_text": "Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;" }, { "point_text": "Bishops", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:1", "verse_text": "Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:" }, { "point_text": "Bishops", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:1", "verse_text": "This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work." }, { "point_text": "Bishops", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:7", "verse_text": "For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;" }, { "point_text": "Deacons", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:1", "verse_text": "And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration." }, { "point_text": "Deacons", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:8", "verse_text": "Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;" }, { "point_text": "Deacons", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:1", "verse_text": "Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:" }, { "point_text": "Elders", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:17", "verse_text": "Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine." }, { "point_text": "Elders", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:1", "verse_text": "The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:" }, { "point_text": "Evangelists", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:11", "verse_text": "And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;" }, { "point_text": "Evangelists", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:5", "verse_text": "But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry." }, { "point_text": "Fishers of men", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:19", "verse_text": "And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." }, { "point_text": "Fishers of men", "verse_ref": "Mark 1:17", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men." }, { "point_text": "Laborers", "verse_ref": "Matthew 9:38", "verse_text": "Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest." }, { "point_text": "Laborers", "verse_ref": "Philemon 1", "verse_text": "Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer," }, { "point_text": "Laborers", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 2:2", "verse_text": "But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention." }, { "point_text": "Messengers of the Church", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 8:23", "verse_text": "Whether any do inquire of Titus, he is my partner and fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren be inquired of, they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ." }, { "point_text": "Messengers of the Lord of hosts", "verse_ref": "Malachi 2:7", "verse_text": "For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Ministers of God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:4", "verse_text": "But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses," }, { "point_text": "Ministers of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:17", "verse_text": "Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?" }, { "point_text": "Ministers of Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:16", "verse_text": "That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Ministers of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 4:1", "verse_text": "Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God." }, { "point_text": "Ministers of the sanctuary", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 45:4", "verse_text": "The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the LORD: and it shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for the sanctuary." }, { "point_text": "Ministers of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:7", "verse_text": "Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power." }, { "point_text": "Ministers of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:23", "verse_text": "If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;" }, { "point_text": "Ministers of the word", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:2", "verse_text": "Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;" }, { "point_text": "Ministers of the New Testament", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 3:6", "verse_text": "Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life." }, { "point_text": "Ministers of the Church", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:24-25", "verse_text": "Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church: 25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;" }, { "point_text": "Ministers of righteousness", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 11:15", "verse_text": "Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works." }, { "point_text": "Overseers", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:28", "verse_text": "Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood." }, { "point_text": "Pastors", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:15", "verse_text": "And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding." }, { "point_text": "Pastors", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:11", "verse_text": "And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;" }, { "point_text": "Preachers", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:14", "verse_text": "How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?" }, { "point_text": "Preachers", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:7", "verse_text": "Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity." }, { "point_text": "Servants of God", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:1", "verse_text": "Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;" }, { "point_text": "Servants of God", "verse_ref": "James 1:1", "verse_text": "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting." }, { "point_text": "Servants of the Lord", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:24", "verse_text": "And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient," }, { "point_text": "Servants of Jesus Christ", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:1", "verse_text": "Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:" }, { "point_text": "Servants of Jesus Christ", "verse_ref": "Jude 1", "verse_text": "Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:" }, { "point_text": "Servants of the Church", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:5", "verse_text": "For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake." }, { "point_text": "Shepherds", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:4", "verse_text": "And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Soldiers of Christ", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:25", "verse_text": "Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants." }, { "point_text": "Soldiers of Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:3", "verse_text": "Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Stars", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:20-2:1", "verse_text": "The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches. 1 Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;" }, { "point_text": "Stewards of God", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:7", "verse_text": "For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;" }, { "point_text": "Stewards of the grace of God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:10", "verse_text": "As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God." }, { "point_text": "Stewards of the mysteries of God", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 4:1", "verse_text": "Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God." }, { "point_text": "Teachers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:20", "verse_text": "And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:" }, { "point_text": "Teachers", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:11", "verse_text": "And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;" }, { "point_text": "Watchmen", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 62:6", "verse_text": "I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence," }, { "point_text": "Watchmen", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 33:7", "verse_text": "So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me." }, { "point_text": "Witnesses", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:8", "verse_text": "But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Witnesses", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:32", "verse_text": "And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him." }, { "point_text": "Witnesses", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:16", "verse_text": "But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;" }, { "point_text": "Workers together with God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:1", "verse_text": "We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain." } ] }, { "name": "Titles and Names of the Devil", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Titles-and-Names-of-the-Devil.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Abaddon", "verse_ref": "Revelation 9:11", "verse_text": "And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon." }, { "point_text": "Accuser of our brethren", "verse_ref": "Revelation 12:10", "verse_text": "And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night." }, { "point_text": "Adversary", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:8", "verse_text": "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:" }, { "point_text": "Angel of the bottomless pit", "verse_ref": "Revelation 9:11", "verse_text": "And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon." }, { "point_text": "Apollyon", "verse_ref": "Revelation 9:11", "verse_text": "And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon." }, { "point_text": "Beelzebub", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:24", "verse_text": "But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils." }, { "point_text": "Belial", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:15", "verse_text": "And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?" }, { "point_text": "Crooked serpent", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 27:1", "verse_text": "In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea." }, { "point_text": "Dragon", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 27:1", "verse_text": "In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea." }, { "point_text": "Dragon", "verse_ref": "Revelation 20:2", "verse_text": "And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years," }, { "point_text": "Enemy", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:39", "verse_text": "The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels." }, { "point_text": "Evil spirit", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 16:14", "verse_text": "But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him." }, { "point_text": "Father of lies", "verse_ref": "John 8:44", "verse_text": "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." }, { "point_text": "Great red dragon", "verse_ref": "Revelation 12:3", "verse_text": "And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads." }, { "point_text": "Leviathan", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 27:1", "verse_text": "In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea." }, { "point_text": "Liar", "verse_ref": "John 8:44", "verse_text": "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." }, { "point_text": "Lying spirit", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:22", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so." }, { "point_text": "Murderer", "verse_ref": "John 8:44", "verse_text": "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." }, { "point_text": "Old serpent", "verse_ref": "Revelation 12:9", "verse_text": "And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him." }, { "point_text": "Old serpent", "verse_ref": "Revelation 20:2", "verse_text": "And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years," }, { "point_text": "Piercing serpent", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 27:1", "verse_text": "In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea." }, { "point_text": "Power of darkness", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:13", "verse_text": "Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:" }, { "point_text": "Prince of this world", "verse_ref": "John 14:30", "verse_text": "Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me." }, { "point_text": "Prince of the devils", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:24", "verse_text": "But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils." }, { "point_text": "Prince of the power of the air", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:2", "verse_text": "Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:" }, { "point_text": "Ruler of the darkness of this world", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:12", "verse_text": "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." }, { "point_text": "Satan", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 21:1", "verse_text": "And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel." }, { "point_text": "Satan", "verse_ref": "Job 1:6", "verse_text": "Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them." }, { "point_text": "Serpent", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:4", "verse_text": "And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:" }, { "point_text": "Serpent", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:16", "verse_text": "Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee." }, { "point_text": "Serpent", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 11:3", "verse_text": "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ." }, { "point_text": "Spirit that worketh in the children of disobedience", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:2", "verse_text": "Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:" }, { "point_text": "Tempter", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:3", "verse_text": "And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread." }, { "point_text": "Tempter", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 3:5", "verse_text": "For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain." }, { "point_text": "The god of this world", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:4", "verse_text": "In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." }, { "point_text": "Unclean spirit", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:43", "verse_text": "When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none." }, { "point_text": "Wicked-one", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:19", "verse_text": "When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side." }, { "point_text": "Wicked-one", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:38", "verse_text": "The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;" } ] }, { "name": "Travelers", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Travelers.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Called way-faring men", "verse_ref": "Judges 19:17", "verse_text": "And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?" }, { "point_text": "Called way-faring men", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 35:8", "verse_text": "And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein." }, { "point_text": "Preparations made by, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 12:3-4", "verse_text": "Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they be a rebellious house. 4 Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing: and thou shalt go forth at even in their sight, as they that go forth into captivity." }, { "point_text": "Often collected together and formed caravans", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:25", "verse_text": "And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Often collected together and formed caravans", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 21:13", "verse_text": "The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim." }, { "point_text": "Often collected together and formed caravans", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:44", "verse_text": "But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance." }, { "point_text": "Often engaged persons acquainted with the country as guides", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:31-32", "verse_text": "And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes. 32 And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what goodness the LORD shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee." }, { "point_text": "FRIENDS OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Often supplied them with provision", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:14", "verse_text": "And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba." }, { "point_text": "Often supplied them with provision", "verse_ref": "Genesis 44:1", "verse_text": "And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth." }, { "point_text": "Often supplied them with provision", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 40:5", "verse_text": "Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward, and let him go." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes accompanied them a short way", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 19:31", "verse_text": "And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and went over Jordan with the king, to conduct him over Jordan." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes accompanied them a short way", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:38", "verse_text": "Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him unto the ship." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes accompanied them a short way", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:5", "verse_text": "And when we had accomplished those days, we departed and went our way; and they all brought us on our way, with wives and children, till we were out of the city: and we kneeled down on the shore, and prayed." }, { "point_text": "Frequently commended them to protection of God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:13-14", "verse_text": "Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man: 14 And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved." }, { "point_text": "Frequently took leave of them with sorrow", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:37", "verse_text": "And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him," }, { "point_text": "Frequently took leave of them with sorrow", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:6", "verse_text": "And when we had taken our leave one of another, we took ship; and they returned home again." }, { "point_text": "Often sent them away with music", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:27", "verse_text": "Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?" }, { "point_text": "Generally commenced their journey early in the morning", "verse_ref": "Judges 19:5", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early in the morning, that he rose up to depart: and the damsel's father said unto his son in law, Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward go your way." }, { "point_text": "Generally rested at noon", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:1", "verse_text": "And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;" }, { "point_text": "Generally rested at noon", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:3", "verse_text": "And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:" }, { "point_text": "Halted at even", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:11", "verse_text": "And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water." }, { "point_text": "Generally halted at wells or streams", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:11", "verse_text": "And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water." }, { "point_text": "Generally halted at wells or streams", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:21", "verse_text": "So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company." }, { "point_text": "Generally halted at wells or streams", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:23", "verse_text": "And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had." }, { "point_text": "CARRIED WITH THEM", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Provisions for the way", "verse_ref": "Joshua 9:11-12", "verse_text": "Wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spake to us, saying, Take victuals with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say unto them, We are your servants: therefore now make ye a league with us. 12 This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy:" }, { "point_text": "Provender for their beasts of burden", "verse_ref": "Genesis 42:27", "verse_text": "And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it was in his sack's mouth." }, { "point_text": "Provender for their beasts of burden", "verse_ref": "Judges 19:19", "verse_text": "Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants: there is no want of any thing." }, { "point_text": "Skins filled with water, wine, &c", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:14-15", "verse_text": "And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. 15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs." }, { "point_text": "Presents for those who entertained them", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:15", "verse_text": "And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph." }, { "point_text": "Presents for those who entertained them", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:2", "verse_text": "And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart." }, { "point_text": "Presents for those who entertained them", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:5", "verse_text": "And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment." }, { "point_text": "Presents for those who entertained them", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:11", "verse_text": "And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh." }, { "point_text": "Often traveled on foot", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:10", "verse_text": "And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran." }, { "point_text": "Often traveled on foot", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:10", "verse_text": "I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands." }, { "point_text": "Often traveled on foot", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:37", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children." }, { "point_text": "Often traveled on foot", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:13", "verse_text": "And we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos, there intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, minding himself to go afoot." }, { "point_text": "On foot, how attired", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:11", "verse_text": "And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover." }, { "point_text": "After a long journey, described", "verse_ref": "Joshua 9:4-5", "verse_text": "They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up; 5 And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy." }, { "point_text": "After a long journey, described", "verse_ref": "Joshua 9:13", "verse_text": "And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey." }, { "point_text": "OF DISTINCTION", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Rode on asses, camels, &c", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:3", "verse_text": "And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him." }, { "point_text": "Rode on asses, camels, &c", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:64", "verse_text": "And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel." }, { "point_text": "Rode on asses, camels, &c", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:21", "verse_text": "And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab." }, { "point_text": "Rode in chariots", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:9", "verse_text": "So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha." }, { "point_text": "Rode in chariots", "verse_ref": "Acts 8:27-28", "verse_text": "And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship, 28 Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet." }, { "point_text": "Generally attended by running footmen", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:27", "verse_text": "And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord." }, { "point_text": "Generally attended by running footmen", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:46", "verse_text": "And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel." }, { "point_text": "Generally attended by running footmen", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:24", "verse_text": "Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; slack not thy riding for me, except I bid thee." }, { "point_text": "Generally attended by running footmen", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 10:7", "verse_text": "I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth." }, { "point_text": "Often preceded by heralds, &c. to have the roads prepared", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:3-4", "verse_text": "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. 4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:" }, { "point_text": "Generally performed their journey in great state.\r\n\n\n\r\n, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:2", "verse_text": "And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart." }, { "point_text": "Generally performed their journey in great state.\r\n\n\n\r\n, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:5", "verse_text": "And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment." }, { "point_text": "Generally performed their journey in great state.\r\n\n\n\r\n, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:9", "verse_text": "So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha." }, { "point_text": "Frequently extorted provisions by the way", "verse_ref": "Judges 8:5", "verse_text": "And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian." }, { "point_text": "Frequently extorted provisions by the way", "verse_ref": "Judges 8:8", "verse_text": "And he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them likewise: and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered him." }, { "point_text": "Frequently extorted provisions by the way", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:4-13", "verse_text": "And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep. 5 And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name: 6 And thus shall ye say to him that liveth in prosperity, Peace be both to thee, and peace be to thine house, and peace be unto all that thou hast. 7 And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel. ..." }, { "point_text": "Before setting out gave employment, &c. to their servants", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:14", "verse_text": "For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods." }, { "point_text": "Strangers civil to", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:2", "verse_text": "And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground," }, { "point_text": "Strangers civil to", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:18-19", "verse_text": "And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink. 19 And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking." }, { "point_text": "Generally treated with great hospitality", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:3-8", "verse_text": "And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: 4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree: 5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said. 6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth. ..." }, { "point_text": "Generally treated with great hospitality", "verse_ref": "Genesis 19:2", "verse_text": "And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night." }, { "point_text": "Generally treated with great hospitality", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:24", "verse_text": "And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor." }, { "point_text": "Generally treated with great hospitality", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:32-33", "verse_text": "And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men's feet that were with him. 33 And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on." }, { "point_text": "Generally treated with great hospitality", "verse_ref": "Judges 19:20-21", "verse_text": "And the old man said, Peace be with thee; howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street. 21 So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink." }, { "point_text": "The caravansera or public inn for, noticed", "verse_ref": "Genesis 42:27", "verse_text": "And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it was in his sack's mouth." }, { "point_text": "The caravansera or public inn for, noticed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 4:24", "verse_text": "And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him." }, { "point_text": "The caravansera or public inn for, noticed", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:7", "verse_text": "And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn." }, { "point_text": "The caravansera or public inn for, noticed", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:34", "verse_text": "And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him." }, { "point_text": "Were frequently asked whence they came and whither they went", "verse_ref": "Judges 19:17", "verse_text": "And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?" }, { "point_text": "Protected by those who entertained them", "verse_ref": "Genesis 19:6-8", "verse_text": "And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, 7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. 8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof." }, { "point_text": "Protected by those who entertained them", "verse_ref": "Judges 19:23", "verse_text": "And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly." }, { "point_text": "For security often left the highways", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:6", "verse_text": "In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways." }, { "point_text": "Tesseræ hospitales or pledges of hospitality, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:17", "verse_text": "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it." }, { "point_text": "ON ERRANDS REQUIRING DESPATCH", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Went with great speed", "verse_ref": "Esther 8:10", "verse_text": "And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries:" }, { "point_text": "Went with great speed", "verse_ref": "Job 9:25", "verse_text": "Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good." }, { "point_text": "Saluted no man by the way", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:29", "verse_text": "Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child." }, { "point_text": "Saluted no man by the way", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:4", "verse_text": "Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way." }, { "point_text": "Estimated the length of their journey by the number of days which it occupied", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:23", "verse_text": "And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead." }, { "point_text": "Estimated the length of their journey by the number of days which it occupied", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:2", "verse_text": "(There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)" }, { "point_text": "Estimated the length of their journey by the number of days which it occupied", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 3:9", "verse_text": "So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them." }, { "point_text": "The Jews prohibited from taking long journeys on the Sabbath", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:10", "verse_text": "But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:" }, { "point_text": "The Jews prohibited from taking long journeys on the Sabbath", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:12", "verse_text": "Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey." }, { "point_text": "Ceasing of, threatened as a calamity", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:8", "verse_text": "The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man." } ] }, { "name": "Trees", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Trees.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Originally created by God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:11", "verse_text": "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so." }, { "point_text": "Originally created by God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:9", "verse_text": "And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil." }, { "point_text": "Made for the glory of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:9", "verse_text": "Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:" }, { "point_text": "DIFFERENT KINDS OF MENTIONED;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the wood", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:3", "verse_text": "As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste." }, { "point_text": "Of the forest", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:19", "verse_text": "And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them." }, { "point_text": "Bearing fruit", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:25", "verse_text": "And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness." }, { "point_text": "Bearing fruit", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:5", "verse_text": "I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:" }, { "point_text": "Bearing fruit", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 47:12", "verse_text": "And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine." }, { "point_text": "Evergreen", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:35", "verse_text": "I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree." }, { "point_text": "Evergreen", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:2", "verse_text": "Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills." }, { "point_text": "Deciduous or casting the leaves", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:13", "verse_text": "But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof." }, { "point_text": "Of various sizes", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:24", "verse_text": "And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it." }, { "point_text": "Given as food to the animal creation", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:29-30", "verse_text": "And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so." }, { "point_text": "Designed to beautify the earth", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:9", "verse_text": "And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil." }, { "point_text": "PARTS OF MENTIONED;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The roots", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:8", "verse_text": "For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit." }, { "point_text": "The stem or trunk", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:1", "verse_text": "And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:" }, { "point_text": "The stem or trunk", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:19", "verse_text": "And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?" }, { "point_text": "The branches", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:40", "verse_text": "And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days." }, { "point_text": "The branches", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:14", "verse_text": "He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches:" }, { "point_text": "The tender shoots", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:29-30", "verse_text": "And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; 30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand." }, { "point_text": "The leaves", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:13", "verse_text": "But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof." }, { "point_text": "The leaves", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:12", "verse_text": "The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it." }, { "point_text": "The leaves", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:19", "verse_text": "And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away." }, { "point_text": "The fruit or seeds", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 27:30", "verse_text": "And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD'S: it is holy unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The fruit or seeds", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 36:30", "verse_text": "And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen." }, { "point_text": "Each kind has its own seed for propagating its species", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:11-12", "verse_text": "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good." }, { "point_text": "Often propagated by birds who carry the seeds along with them", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:3", "verse_text": "And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:" }, { "point_text": "Often propagated by birds who carry the seeds along with them", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:5", "verse_text": "He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree." }, { "point_text": "Planted by man", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:23", "verse_text": "And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of." }, { "point_text": "Each kind of, known by its fruit", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:33", "verse_text": "Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit." }, { "point_text": "NOURISHED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "By the earth", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:12", "verse_text": "And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good." }, { "point_text": "By the earth", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:9", "verse_text": "And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil." }, { "point_text": "By the rain from heaven", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:14", "verse_text": "He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it." }, { "point_text": "Through their own sap", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:16", "verse_text": "The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted;" }, { "point_text": "Specially flourished beside the rivers and streams of water", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 47:12", "verse_text": "And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine." }, { "point_text": "When cut down often sprouted from their roots again", "verse_ref": "Job 14:7", "verse_text": "For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease." }, { "point_text": "Were sold with the land on which they grew", "verse_ref": "Genesis 23:17", "verse_text": "And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure" }, { "point_text": "OFTEN SUFFERED FROM", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Locusts", "verse_ref": "Exodus 10:5", "verse_text": "And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:" }, { "point_text": "Locusts", "verse_ref": "Exodus 10:15", "verse_text": "For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Hail and frost", "verse_ref": "Exodus 9:25", "verse_text": "And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field." }, { "point_text": "Hail and frost", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:47", "verse_text": "He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost." }, { "point_text": "Fire", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:19", "verse_text": "O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field." }, { "point_text": "Desolating armies", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:23", "verse_text": "By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel." }, { "point_text": "Desolating armies", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:34", "verse_text": "And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one." }, { "point_text": "Afford an agreeable shade in eastern countries during the heat of the day", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:4", "verse_text": "Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:" }, { "point_text": "Afford an agreeable shade in eastern countries during the heat of the day", "verse_ref": "Job 40:21", "verse_text": "He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens." }, { "point_text": "WERE CUT DOWN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "With axes", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 19:5", "verse_text": "As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:" }, { "point_text": "With axes", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:5", "verse_text": "A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees." }, { "point_text": "With axes", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:10", "verse_text": "And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire." }, { "point_text": "For building", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:2", "verse_text": "Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye." }, { "point_text": "For building", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:8", "verse_text": "Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants," }, { "point_text": "For building", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:10", "verse_text": "And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil." }, { "point_text": "By besieging armies for erecting forts", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 20:20", "verse_text": "Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued." }, { "point_text": "By besieging armies for erecting forts", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:6", "verse_text": "For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her." }, { "point_text": "For making idols", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:20", "verse_text": "He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved." }, { "point_text": "For making idols", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:14", "verse_text": "He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it." }, { "point_text": "For making idols", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:17", "verse_text": "And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god." }, { "point_text": "For fuel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:14-16", "verse_text": "He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it. 15 Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto. 16 He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire:" }, { "point_text": "For fuel", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:10", "verse_text": "And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire." }, { "point_text": "God increases and multiplies the fruit of, for His people", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:4", "verse_text": "Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit." }, { "point_text": "God increases and multiplies the fruit of, for His people", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 34:27", "verse_text": "And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them." }, { "point_text": "God increases and multiplies the fruit of, for His people", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:22", "verse_text": "Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength." }, { "point_text": "God often renders, barren as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:20", "verse_text": "And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits." }, { "point_text": "Early custom of planting, in consecrated grounds.\r\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:33", "verse_text": "And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God." }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Prohibited from planting in consecrated places", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:21", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee." }, { "point_text": "Prohibited from cutting down fruit-bearing, for sieges", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 20:19", "verse_text": "When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:" }, { "point_text": "Often pitched their tents under", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:1", "verse_text": "And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;" }, { "point_text": "Often pitched their tents under", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:4", "verse_text": "Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:" }, { "point_text": "Often buried under", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:8", "verse_text": "But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth." }, { "point_text": "Often buried under", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 21:13", "verse_text": "And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard." }, { "point_text": "Often executed criminals on", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 21:22-23", "verse_text": "And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: 23 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance." }, { "point_text": "Considered trees on which criminals were executed abominable", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:19", "verse_text": "But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet." }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Almond", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:11", "verse_text": "And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:" }, { "point_text": "Almond", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 12:5", "verse_text": "Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:" }, { "point_text": "Almond", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 1:11", "verse_text": "Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree." }, { "point_text": "Almug or algum", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:11-12", "verse_text": "And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones. 12 And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Almug or algum", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 9:10-11", "verse_text": "And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones. 11 And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah." }, { "point_text": "Apple", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:3", "verse_text": "As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste." }, { "point_text": "Apple", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 8:5", "verse_text": "Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee." }, { "point_text": "Apple", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:12", "verse_text": "The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men." }, { "point_text": "Ash", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:14", "verse_text": "He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it." }, { "point_text": "Bay", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:35", "verse_text": "I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree." }, { "point_text": "Box", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:19", "verse_text": "I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:" }, { "point_text": "Cedar", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:27", "verse_text": "And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance." }, { "point_text": "Chestnut", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 31:8", "verse_text": "The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty." }, { "point_text": "Cyprus", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:14", "verse_text": "He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it." }, { "point_text": "Fig", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:8", "verse_text": "A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;" }, { "point_text": "Fir", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:10", "verse_text": "So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire." }, { "point_text": "Fir", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:23", "verse_text": "By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel." }, { "point_text": "Fir", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:17", "verse_text": "Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house." }, { "point_text": "Juniper", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:4-5", "verse_text": "But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers. 5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat." }, { "point_text": "Lign-aloes", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:6", "verse_text": "As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters." }, { "point_text": "Mulberry", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 5:23-24", "verse_text": "And when David inquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees. 24 And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the LORD go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines." }, { "point_text": "Myrtle", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:19", "verse_text": "I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:" }, { "point_text": "Myrtle", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 55:13", "verse_text": "Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off." }, { "point_text": "Myrtle", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 1:8", "verse_text": "I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white." }, { "point_text": "Mustard", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:32", "verse_text": "Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof." }, { "point_text": "Oak", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:30", "verse_text": "For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water." }, { "point_text": "Oil-tree", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:19", "verse_text": "I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:" }, { "point_text": "Olive", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 6:11", "verse_text": "And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;" }, { "point_text": "Palm", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:27", "verse_text": "And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters." }, { "point_text": "Pine", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:19", "verse_text": "I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:" }, { "point_text": "Pomegranate", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:8", "verse_text": "A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;" }, { "point_text": "Pomegranate", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:12", "verse_text": "The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men." }, { "point_text": "Shittah or shittim", "verse_ref": "Exodus 36:20", "verse_text": "And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up." }, { "point_text": "Shittah or shittim", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:19", "verse_text": "I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:" }, { "point_text": "Sycamore", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:27", "verse_text": "And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance." }, { "point_text": "Sycamore", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:47", "verse_text": "He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost." }, { "point_text": "Sycamore", "verse_ref": "Amos 7:14", "verse_text": "Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:" }, { "point_text": "Sycamore", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:4", "verse_text": "And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way." }, { "point_text": "Teil", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:13", "verse_text": "But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof." }, { "point_text": "Vine", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:4", "verse_text": "All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk." }, { "point_text": "Vine", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 15:2", "verse_text": "Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?" }, { "point_text": "Willow", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:4", "verse_text": "And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses." }, { "point_text": "Willow", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:5", "verse_text": "He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree." }, { "point_text": "Solomon wrote the history of", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:33", "verse_text": "And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:24", "verse_text": "For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?" }, { "point_text": "Of Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:7", "verse_text": "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God." }, { "point_text": "Of Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:2", "verse_text": "In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations." }, { "point_text": "Of Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:14", "verse_text": "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city." }, { "point_text": "Of wisdom", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:18", "verse_text": "She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her." }, { "point_text": "Of kings, &c", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:34", "verse_text": "And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one." }, { "point_text": "Of kings, &c", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:24", "verse_text": "And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it." }, { "point_text": "Of kings, &c", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 31:7-10", "verse_text": "Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters. 8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty. 9 I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him. 10 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;" }, { "point_text": "Of kings, &c", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:10-14", "verse_text": "Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great. 11 The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth: 12 The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it. 13 I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven; ..." }, { "point_text": "Of the life and conversation of the righteous", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:30", "verse_text": "The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise." }, { "point_text": "Of the life and conversation of the righteous", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:4", "verse_text": "A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit." }, { "point_text": "(Green,) of the innocence of Christ", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:31", "verse_text": "For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?" }, { "point_text": "(Good and fruitful,) of saints", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:6", "verse_text": "As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters." }, { "point_text": "(Good and fruitful,) of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 1:3", "verse_text": "And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper." }, { "point_text": "(Good and fruitful,) of saints", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:3", "verse_text": "To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified." }, { "point_text": "(Good and fruitful,) of saints", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:8", "verse_text": "For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit." }, { "point_text": "(Good and fruitful,) of saints", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:17-18", "verse_text": "Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit." }, { "point_text": "(Evergreen,) of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 1:1-3", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper." }, { "point_text": "(Duration of,) of continued prosperity of saints", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:22", "verse_text": "They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands." }, { "point_text": "(Casting their leaves yet retaining their substance,) of the elect remnant in the church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:13", "verse_text": "But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof." }, { "point_text": "(Barren,) of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Hosea 9:16", "verse_text": "Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb." }, { "point_text": "(Shaking of the leaves off,) of the terror of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:2", "verse_text": "And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind." }, { "point_text": "(Producing evil fruit,) of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:17-19", "verse_text": "Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire." }, { "point_text": "(Dry,) of useless persons", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:3", "verse_text": "Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree." }, { "point_text": "(Dry,) of the wicked ripe for judgment", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:31", "verse_text": "For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?" } ] }, { "name": "Trespass offering", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Trespass-offering.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Esteemed as a sin offering, and frequently so called", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:6", "verse_text": "And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin." }, { "point_text": "Esteemed as a sin offering, and frequently so called", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:9", "verse_text": "And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar: it is a sin offering." }, { "point_text": "TO BE OFFERED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "For concealing knowledge of a crime", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:1", "verse_text": "And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity." }, { "point_text": "For involuntarily touching unclean things", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:2-3", "verse_text": "Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty. 3 Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty." }, { "point_text": "For rash swearing", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:4", "verse_text": "Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these." }, { "point_text": "For sins of ignorance in holy things", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:15", "verse_text": "If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:" }, { "point_text": "For any sin of ignorance", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:17", "verse_text": "And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity." }, { "point_text": "For breach of trust, or fraud", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:2-5", "verse_text": "If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour; 3 Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein: 4 Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found, 5 Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering." }, { "point_text": "Was a most holy offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:13", "verse_text": "And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass offering: it is most holy:" }, { "point_text": "CONSISTED OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "A she lamb or kid", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:6", "verse_text": "And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin." }, { "point_text": "A ram without blemish", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:15", "verse_text": "If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:" }, { "point_text": "A ram without blemish", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:6", "verse_text": "And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest:" }, { "point_text": "Two turtle doves by those unable to bring a lamb", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:7-10", "verse_text": "And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto the LORD; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. 8 And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin offering first, and wring off his head from his neck, but shall not divide it asunder: 9 And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar: it is a sin offering. 10 And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the manner: and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him." }, { "point_text": "A meat offering by the very poor", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:11-13", "verse_text": "But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense thereon: for it is a sin offering. 12 Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it, even a memorial thereof, and burn it on the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the LORD: it is a sin offering. 13 And the priest shall make an atonement for him as touching his sin that he hath sinned in one of these, and it shall be forgiven him: and the remnant shall be the priest's, as a meat offering." }, { "point_text": "Being for minor offences was lessened for the poor, not so the sin offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5", "verse_text": "And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity. 2 Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty. 3 Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty. 4 Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these. ..." }, { "point_text": "Being for minor offences was lessened for the poor, not so the sin offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them: 3 If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering. 4 And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD; and shall lay his hand upon the bullock's head, and kill the bullock before the LORD. ..." }, { "point_text": "Atonement made by", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:6", "verse_text": "And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin." }, { "point_text": "Atonement made by", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:10", "verse_text": "And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the manner: and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him." }, { "point_text": "Atonement made by", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:13", "verse_text": "And the priest shall make an atonement for him as touching his sin that he hath sinned in one of these, and it shall be forgiven him: and the remnant shall be the priest's, as a meat offering." }, { "point_text": "Atonement made by", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:16", "verse_text": "And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him." }, { "point_text": "Atonement made by", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:7", "verse_text": "And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD: and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath done in trespassing therein." }, { "point_text": "Atonement made by", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:22", "verse_text": "And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin which he hath done: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him." }, { "point_text": "Accompanied by confession", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:5", "verse_text": "And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing:" }, { "point_text": "Generally accompanied by restitution", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 5:16", "verse_text": "And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him." }, { "point_text": "Generally accompanied by restitution", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:5", "verse_text": "Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering." }, { "point_text": "To be slain where the sin offering and burnt offering were slain", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:13", "verse_text": "And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass offering: it is most holy:" }, { "point_text": "To be slain where the sin offering and burnt offering were slain", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 40:39", "verse_text": "And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes waved alive before the Lord", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:12-13", "verse_text": "And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD: 13 And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass offering: it is most holy:" }, { "point_text": "SPECIAL OCCASIONS OF OFFERING;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Cleansing of a leper", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:2", "verse_text": "This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:" }, { "point_text": "Cleansing of a leper", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:12-14", "verse_text": "And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD: 13 And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass offering: it is most holy: 14 And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:" }, { "point_text": "Cleansing of a leper", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:21-22", "verse_text": "And if he be poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make an atonement for him, and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering, and a log of oil; 22 And two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering." }, { "point_text": "Purification of women", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 12:6-8", "verse_text": "And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest: 7 Who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female. 8 And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean." }, { "point_text": "Purification of those with issues", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 15:14-15", "verse_text": "And on the eighth day he shall take to him two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before the LORD unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and give them unto the priest: 15 And the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD for his issue." }, { "point_text": "Purification of Nazarites who had broken their vow", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:12", "verse_text": "And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled." }, { "point_text": "For connection with a betrothed bondmaid", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:20-22", "verse_text": "And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free. 21 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for a trespass offering. 22 And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin which he hath done: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him." }, { "point_text": "Was the perquisites of the priest", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:13", "verse_text": "And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass offering: it is most holy:" }, { "point_text": "Was the perquisites of the priest", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 44:29", "verse_text": "They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs." }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:10", "verse_text": "Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand." }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of Christ", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 46:20", "verse_text": "Then said he unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat offering; that they bear them not out into the utter court, to sanctify the people." } ] }, { "name": "Tribes of Israel, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Tribes-of-Israel-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Were twelve in number", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:28", "verse_text": "All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them." }, { "point_text": "Were twelve in number", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:12", "verse_text": "Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests," }, { "point_text": "Were twelve in number", "verse_ref": "James 1:1", "verse_text": "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting." }, { "point_text": "Descended from Jacob's sons", "verse_ref": "Genesis 35:22-26", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: 23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun: 24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: 25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: ..." }, { "point_text": "Manasseh and Ephraim numbered among, instead of Joseph and Levi", "verse_ref": "Genesis 48:5", "verse_text": "And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine." }, { "point_text": "Manasseh and Ephraim numbered among, instead of Joseph and Levi", "verse_ref": "Joshua 14:3-4", "verse_text": "For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them. 4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance." }, { "point_text": "Predictions respecting each of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:3-27", "verse_text": "Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: 4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch. 5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. 6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall. ..." }, { "point_text": "Predictions respecting each of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:6-29", "verse_text": "Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few. 7 And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies. 8 And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah; 9 Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant. ..." }, { "point_text": "EACH OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Under a president or chief", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:4-16", "verse_text": "And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers. 5 And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: of the tribe of Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur. 6 Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. 7 Of Judah; Nahshon the son of Amminadab. ..." }, { "point_text": "Divided into families", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:2", "verse_text": "Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;" }, { "point_text": "Divided into families", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:5-50", "verse_text": "Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben; Hanoch, of whom cometh the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites: 6 Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites. 7 These are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty. 8 And the sons of Pallu; Eliab. ..." }, { "point_text": "Divided into families", "verse_ref": "Joshua 7:14", "verse_text": "In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD taketh shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which the LORD shall take shall come by households; and the household which the LORD shall take shall come man by man." }, { "point_text": "Usually furnished an equal number of men for war", "verse_ref": "Numbers 31:4", "verse_text": "Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war." }, { "point_text": "Each family of, had a chief or head", "verse_ref": "Numbers 36:1", "verse_text": "And the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel:" }, { "point_text": "Each family of, had a chief or head", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 4:38", "verse_text": "These mentioned by their names were princes in their families: and the house of their fathers increased greatly." }, { "point_text": "Total strength of, on leaving Egypt", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:37", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children." }, { "point_text": "Total strength of, on leaving Egypt", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:44-46", "verse_text": "These are those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: each one was for the house of his fathers. 45 So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel; 46 Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty." }, { "point_text": "Total strength of, on leaving Egypt", "verse_ref": "Numbers 2:32", "verse_text": "These are those which were numbered of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers: all those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty." }, { "point_text": "Divided into four divisions while in the wilderness", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:14-28", "verse_text": "In the first place went the standard of the camp of the children of Judah according to their armies: and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab. 15 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar was Nethaneel the son of Zuar. 16 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon. 17 And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the tabernacle. ..." }, { "point_text": "Encamped in their divisions and by their standards round the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 2:2-31", "verse_text": "Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch. 3 And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah. 4 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred. 5 And those that do pitch next unto him shall be the tribe of Issachar: and Nethaneel the son of Zuar shall be captain of the children of Issachar. ..." }, { "point_text": "Canaan to be divided amongst according to their numbers", "verse_ref": "Numbers 33:54", "verse_text": "And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit." }, { "point_text": "REUBEN, GAD AND HALF MANASSEH", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Settled on east side of Jordan", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 3:12-17", "verse_text": "And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites. 13 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants. 14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashanhavothjair, unto this day. 15 And I gave Gilead unto Machir. ..." }, { "point_text": "Settled on east side of Jordan", "verse_ref": "Joshua 13:23-32", "verse_text": "And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and the border thereof. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben after their families, the cities and the villages thereof. 24 And Moses gave inheritance unto the tribe of Gad, even unto the children of Gad according to their families. 25 And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before Rabbah; 26 And from Heshbon unto Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir; ..." }, { "point_text": "Were required to assist in subduing Canaan", "verse_ref": "Numbers 32:6-32", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here? 7 And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them? 8 Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land. 9 For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them. ..." }, { "point_text": "Were required to assist in subduing Canaan", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 3:18-20", "verse_text": "And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war. 19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you; 20 Until the LORD have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man unto his possession, which I have given you." }, { "point_text": "Total strength of, on entering the land of Canaan", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:51", "verse_text": "These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty." }, { "point_text": "Canaan divided amongst nine and a half of, by lot", "verse_ref": "Joshua 14:1-5", "verse_text": "And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them. 2 By lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe. 3 For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them. 4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance. ..." }, { "point_text": "Situation of, and bounds of the inheritance of each", "verse_ref": "Joshua 15-17", "verse_text": "This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast. 2 And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward: 3 And it went out to the south side to Maalehacrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadeshbarnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa: 4 From thence it passed toward Azmon, and went out unto the river of Egypt; and the goings out of that coast were at the sea: this shall be your south coast. ..." }, { "point_text": "All inheritance to remain in the tribe and family to which allotted", "verse_ref": "Numbers 36:3-9", "verse_text": "And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance. 4 And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers. 5 And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well. 6 This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry. ..." }, { "point_text": "Names of, engraven on the breastplate of the high priest", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:21", "verse_text": "And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes." }, { "point_text": "Names of, engraven on the breastplate of the high priest", "verse_ref": "Exodus 39:14", "verse_text": "And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve tribes." }, { "point_text": "Divided on mounts Ebal and Gerizim to hear the law", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 27:12-13", "verse_text": "These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin: 13 And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali." }, { "point_text": "Remained as one people until the reign of Rehoboam", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:16-20", "verse_text": "So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents. 17 But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. 18 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the tribute; and all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem. 19 So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day. ..." } ] }, { "name": "Tribute", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Tribute.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Sometimes exacted by kings from their own subjects", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 8:10-17", "verse_text": "And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king. 11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots. 12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots. 13 And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. ..." }, { "point_text": "Exacted from all conquered nations", "verse_ref": "Joshua 16:10", "verse_text": "And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute." }, { "point_text": "Exacted from all conquered nations", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:30", "verse_text": "Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries." }, { "point_text": "Exacted from all conquered nations", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:33", "verse_text": "Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Bethshemesh, nor the inhabitants of Bethanath; but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Bethshemesh and of Bethanath became tributaries unto them." }, { "point_text": "Exacted from all conquered nations", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:35", "verse_text": "But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributaries." }, { "point_text": "Exacted from all conquered nations", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:33", "verse_text": "And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold." }, { "point_text": "Exacted from all conquered nations", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:35", "verse_text": "And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaohnechoh." }, { "point_text": "OFTEN EXACTED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Labor", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:13", "verse_text": "And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men." }, { "point_text": "Labor", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 9:15", "verse_text": "And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer." }, { "point_text": "Labor", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 9:21", "verse_text": "Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Produce of land, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 8:15", "verse_text": "And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants." }, { "point_text": "Produce of land, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:7", "verse_text": "And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision." }, { "point_text": "Gold and silver", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:33", "verse_text": "And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold." }, { "point_text": "Gold and silver", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:35", "verse_text": "And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaohnechoh." }, { "point_text": "The Jews required to pay half a shekel to God as", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:12-16", "verse_text": "When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them. 13 This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD. 14 Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the LORD. 15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls. ..." }, { "point_text": "Christ to avoid offence wrought a miracle to pay, for Himself and Peter", "verse_ref": "Matthew 17:24-27", "verse_text": "And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute? 25 He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers? 26 Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free. 27 Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee." }, { "point_text": "KINGS OF ISRAEL", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to levy unnecessary or oppressive", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 17:17", "verse_text": "Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold." }, { "point_text": "Set officers over", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 20:24", "verse_text": "And Adoram was over the tribute: and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder:" }, { "point_text": "Set officers over", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:6-7", "verse_text": "And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute. 7 And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision." }, { "point_text": "Often oppressed the people with", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:4", "verse_text": "Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee." }, { "point_text": "Often oppressed the people with", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:11", "verse_text": "And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions." }, { "point_text": "When oppressive frequently led to rebellion", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 12:14-20", "verse_text": "And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. 15 Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat. 16 So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents. 17 But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. ..." }, { "point_text": "Priests and Levites exempted from", "verse_ref": "Ezra 7:24", "verse_text": "Also we certify you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, singers, porters, Nethinims, or ministers of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose toll, tribute, or custom, upon them." }, { "point_text": "ROMAN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Decree of Augustus for", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed." }, { "point_text": "First levied in Judea when Cyrenius was governor", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:2", "verse_text": "(And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)" }, { "point_text": "Persons enrolled for, in the native place of their tribe and family", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:3-5", "verse_text": "And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. 4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:) 5 To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child." }, { "point_text": "Collected by the Publicans", "verse_ref": "Luke 3:12", "verse_text": "Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said unto him, Master, what shall we do?" }, { "point_text": "Collected by the Publicans", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:27", "verse_text": "And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me." }, { "point_text": "Was paid in Roman coin", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:19-20", "verse_text": "Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny. 20 And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?" }, { "point_text": "Was resisted by the Galileans under Judas of Galilee", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:37", "verse_text": "After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the taxing, and drew away much people after him: he also perished; and all, even as many as obeyed him, were dispersed." }, { "point_text": "Was resisted by the Galileans under Judas of Galilee", "verse_ref": "Luke 13:1", "verse_text": "There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices." }, { "point_text": "Christ showed to the Pharisees and Herodians the propriety of paying", "verse_ref": "Matthew 22:15-22", "verse_text": "Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk. 16 And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men. 17 Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not? 18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites? ..." }, { "point_text": "Christ showed to the Pharisees and Herodians the propriety of paying", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:13-17", "verse_text": "And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words. 14 And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? 15 Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it. 16 And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar's. ..." }, { "point_text": "Our Lord falsely accused of forbidding to pay", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:2", "verse_text": "And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King." }, { "point_text": "All saints exhorted to pay", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:6-7", "verse_text": "For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing. 7 Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour." } ] }, { "name": "Trumpet", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Trumpet.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "An instrument of music", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 13:8", "verse_text": "And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets." }, { "point_text": "Called the trump", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:52", "verse_text": "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed." }, { "point_text": "MADE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Rams' horns", "verse_ref": "Joshua 6:4", "verse_text": "And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets." }, { "point_text": "Silver", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:2", "verse_text": "Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps." }, { "point_text": "Required to give an intelligible and understood sound", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:8", "verse_text": "For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?" }, { "point_text": "USED FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Regulating the journeys of the children of Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:2", "verse_text": "Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps." }, { "point_text": "Regulating the journeys of the children of Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:5-6", "verse_text": "When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward. 6 When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys." }, { "point_text": "Calling assemblies", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:2-3", "verse_text": "Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps. 3 And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "Calling assemblies", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:7", "verse_text": "But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm." }, { "point_text": "Blowing over the sacrifices on the feast day", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:10", "verse_text": "Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "Blowing over the sacrifices on the feast day", "verse_ref": "Psalm 81:3", "verse_text": "Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day." }, { "point_text": "Blowing at all religious processions and ceremonies", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 13:8", "verse_text": "And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets." }, { "point_text": "Blowing at all religious processions and ceremonies", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 15:24", "verse_text": "And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obededom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark." }, { "point_text": "Blowing at all religious processions and ceremonies", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 15:28", "verse_text": "Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps." }, { "point_text": "Blowing at all religious processions and ceremonies", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 5:13", "verse_text": "It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;" }, { "point_text": "Blowing at all religious processions and ceremonies", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 15:14", "verse_text": "And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets." }, { "point_text": "Assembling the people to war", "verse_ref": "Judges 3:27", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them." }, { "point_text": "Sounding for a memorial when the people went into battle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:9", "verse_text": "And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies." }, { "point_text": "Sounding for a memorial when the people went into battle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 31:6-7", "verse_text": "And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand. 7 And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males." }, { "point_text": "Proclaiming kings", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 9:13", "verse_text": "Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king." }, { "point_text": "Proclaiming kings", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 11:14", "verse_text": "And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason." }, { "point_text": "Giving alarm in cases of danger", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 33:2-6", "verse_text": "Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: 3 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; 4 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. 5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. ..." }, { "point_text": "Moses commanded to make two, for the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:2", "verse_text": "Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps." }, { "point_text": "Solomon made a great many, for the service of the temple", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 5:12", "verse_text": "Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)" }, { "point_text": "The priests to blow the sacred", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:8", "verse_text": "And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations." }, { "point_text": "The priests to blow the sacred", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 5:12", "verse_text": "Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)" }, { "point_text": "The priests to blow the sacred", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 7:6", "verse_text": "And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood." }, { "point_text": "The feast of trumpets celebrated by blowing of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:24", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation." }, { "point_text": "The feast of trumpets celebrated by blowing of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 29:1", "verse_text": "And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you." }, { "point_text": "The jubilee introduced by blowing of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:9", "verse_text": "Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land." }, { "point_text": "MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Falling of the walls of Jericho", "verse_ref": "Joshua 6:20", "verse_text": "So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city." }, { "point_text": "Heard at Mount Sinai at giving of the law", "verse_ref": "Exodus 19:16", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled." }, { "point_text": "Heard at Mount Sinai at giving of the law", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:18", "verse_text": "And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off." }, { "point_text": "Confusion produced in the camp of the Midianites by sound of", "verse_ref": "Judges 7:16", "verse_text": "And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers." }, { "point_text": "Confusion produced in the camp of the Midianites by sound of", "verse_ref": "Judges 7:22", "verse_text": "And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath." }, { "point_text": "The war-horse acquainted with the sound of", "verse_ref": "Job 39:24-25", "verse_text": "He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. 25 He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting." }, { "point_text": "SOUNDING OF, ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "God's power to raise the dead", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:52", "verse_text": "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed." }, { "point_text": "God's power to raise the dead", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 4:16", "verse_text": "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:" }, { "point_text": "The proclamation of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:15", "verse_text": "Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance." }, { "point_text": "The bold and faithful preaching of ministers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 58:1", "verse_text": "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins." }, { "point_text": "The bold and faithful preaching of ministers", "verse_ref": "Hosea 8:1", "verse_text": "Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law." }, { "point_text": "The bold and faithful preaching of ministers", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:1", "verse_text": "Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;" }, { "point_text": "The latter day judgments", "verse_ref": "Revelation 8:2", "verse_text": "And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets." }, { "point_text": "The latter day judgments", "verse_ref": "Revelation 8:13", "verse_text": "And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!" } ] }, { "name": "Trinity, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Trinity-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Doctrine of proved from Scripture", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:16", "verse_text": "And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:" }, { "point_text": "Doctrine of proved from Scripture", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:19", "verse_text": "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:" }, { "point_text": "Doctrine of proved from Scripture", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:9", "verse_text": "But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his." }, { "point_text": "Doctrine of proved from Scripture", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:3-6", "verse_text": "Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. 4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. 6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all." }, { "point_text": "Doctrine of proved from Scripture", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 13:14", "verse_text": "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Doctrine of proved from Scripture", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:4-6", "verse_text": "There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; 5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all." }, { "point_text": "Doctrine of proved from Scripture", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:2", "verse_text": "Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied." }, { "point_text": "Doctrine of proved from Scripture", "verse_ref": "Jude 20-21", "verse_text": "But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, 21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life." }, { "point_text": "Divine titles applied to the three Persons in", "verse_ref": "Exodus 20:2", "verse_text": "I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage." }, { "point_text": "Divine titles applied to the three Persons in", "verse_ref": "John 20:28", "verse_text": "And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God." }, { "point_text": "Divine titles applied to the three Persons in", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:3-4", "verse_text": "But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? 4 Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God." }, { "point_text": "EACH PERSON IN, DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Eternal", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:26", "verse_text": "But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:" }, { "point_text": "Eternal", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:13", "verse_text": "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last." }, { "point_text": "Eternal", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:14", "verse_text": "How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" }, { "point_text": "Holy", "verse_ref": "Revelation 4:8", "verse_text": "And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come." }, { "point_text": "Holy", "verse_ref": "Revelation 15:4", "verse_text": "Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest." }, { "point_text": "Holy", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:14", "verse_text": "But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;" }, { "point_text": "Holy", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:20", "verse_text": "But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things." }, { "point_text": "True", "verse_ref": "John 7:28", "verse_text": "Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not." }, { "point_text": "True", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:7", "verse_text": "And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;" }, { "point_text": "Omnipresent", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:24", "verse_text": "Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Omnipresent", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:23", "verse_text": "Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all." }, { "point_text": "Omnipresent", "verse_ref": "Psalm 139:7", "verse_text": "Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?" }, { "point_text": "Omnipotent", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:1", "verse_text": "And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect." }, { "point_text": "Omnipotent", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:8", "verse_text": "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty." }, { "point_text": "Omnipotent", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:19", "verse_text": "Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ." }, { "point_text": "Omnipotent", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 32:17", "verse_text": "Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:" }, { "point_text": "Omnipotent", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:3", "verse_text": "Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;" }, { "point_text": "Omnipotent", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:35", "verse_text": "And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." }, { "point_text": "Omniscient", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:18", "verse_text": "Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world." }, { "point_text": "Omniscient", "verse_ref": "John 21:17", "verse_text": "He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep." }, { "point_text": "Omniscient", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:10-11", "verse_text": "But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God." }, { "point_text": "Creator", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:1", "verse_text": "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." }, { "point_text": "Creator", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:16", "verse_text": "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:" }, { "point_text": "Creator", "verse_ref": "Job 33:4", "verse_text": "The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life." }, { "point_text": "Creator", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:5", "verse_text": "Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created." }, { "point_text": "Creator", "verse_ref": "John 1:3", "verse_text": "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." }, { "point_text": "Creator", "verse_ref": "Job 26:13", "verse_text": "By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent." }, { "point_text": "Sanctifier", "verse_ref": "Jude 1", "verse_text": "Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:" }, { "point_text": "Sanctifier", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:11", "verse_text": "For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren," }, { "point_text": "Sanctifier", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:2", "verse_text": "Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied." }, { "point_text": "Author of all spiritual operations", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:21", "verse_text": "Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Author of all spiritual operations", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:29", "verse_text": "Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily." }, { "point_text": "Author of all spiritual operations", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:11", "verse_text": "But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will." }, { "point_text": "Source of eternal life", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:23", "verse_text": "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." }, { "point_text": "Source of eternal life", "verse_ref": "John 10:28", "verse_text": "And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand." }, { "point_text": "Source of eternal life", "verse_ref": "Galatians 6:8", "verse_text": "For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting." }, { "point_text": "Teacher", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:13", "verse_text": "And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children." }, { "point_text": "Teacher", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:15", "verse_text": "For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist." }, { "point_text": "Teacher", "verse_ref": "John 14:26", "verse_text": "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." }, { "point_text": "Teacher", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 48:17", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go." }, { "point_text": "Teacher", "verse_ref": "Galatians 1:12", "verse_text": "For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Teacher", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:20", "verse_text": "But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things." }, { "point_text": "Raising Christ from the dead", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:14", "verse_text": "And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power." }, { "point_text": "Raising Christ from the dead", "verse_ref": "John 2:19", "verse_text": "Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." }, { "point_text": "Raising Christ from the dead", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:18", "verse_text": "For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:" }, { "point_text": "Inspiring the prophets, &c", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 1:1", "verse_text": "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets," }, { "point_text": "Inspiring the prophets, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 13:3", "verse_text": "Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you." }, { "point_text": "Inspiring the prophets, &c", "verse_ref": "Mark 13:11", "verse_text": "But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "Supplying ministers to the Church", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 3:15", "verse_text": "And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding." }, { "point_text": "Supplying ministers to the Church", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:11", "verse_text": "And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;" }, { "point_text": "Supplying ministers to the Church", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:28", "verse_text": "Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood." }, { "point_text": "Supplying ministers to the Church", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 26:5", "verse_text": "To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not hearkened;" }, { "point_text": "Supplying ministers to the Church", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:5", "verse_text": "These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:" }, { "point_text": "Supplying ministers to the Church", "verse_ref": "Acts 13:2", "verse_text": "As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them." }, { "point_text": "Salvation the work of", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:13-14", "verse_text": "But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: 14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Baptism administered in name of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:19", "verse_text": "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:" }, { "point_text": "Benediction given in name of", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 13:14", "verse_text": "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen." } ] }, { "name": "Trust", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Trust.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "God is the true object of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 65:5", "verse_text": "By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:" }, { "point_text": "The fear of God leads to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:26", "verse_text": "In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge." }, { "point_text": "ENCOURAGEMENTS TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The everlasting strength of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:4", "verse_text": "Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:" }, { "point_text": "The goodness of God", "verse_ref": "Nahum 1:7", "verse_text": "The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him." }, { "point_text": "The loving-kindness of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 36:7", "verse_text": "How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings." }, { "point_text": "The rich bounty of God", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:17", "verse_text": "Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;" }, { "point_text": "The care of God for us", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:7", "verse_text": "Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you." }, { "point_text": "Former deliverances", "verse_ref": "Psalm 9:10", "verse_text": "And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee." }, { "point_text": "Former deliverances", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:10", "verse_text": "Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;" }, { "point_text": "Should be with the whole heart", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:5", "verse_text": "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding." }, { "point_text": "Should be from youth up", "verse_ref": "Psalm 71:5", "verse_text": "For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth." }, { "point_text": "OF SAINTS IS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Not in the flesh", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:3-4", "verse_text": "For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. 4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:" }, { "point_text": "Not in themselves", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:9", "verse_text": "But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:" }, { "point_text": "Not in carnal weapons", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:38-39", "verse_text": "And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail. 39 And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him." }, { "point_text": "Not in carnal weapons", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:45", "verse_text": "Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied." }, { "point_text": "In God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 11:1", "verse_text": "In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?" }, { "point_text": "In God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 31:14", "verse_text": "But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God." }, { "point_text": "In God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:9", "verse_text": "But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:" }, { "point_text": "In the word of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:42", "verse_text": "So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word." }, { "point_text": "In the mercy of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 13:5", "verse_text": "But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation." }, { "point_text": "In the mercy of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 52:8", "verse_text": "But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever." }, { "point_text": "In Christ", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:12", "verse_text": "In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him." }, { "point_text": "Through Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 3:4", "verse_text": "And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:" }, { "point_text": "Grounded on the covenant", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 23:5", "verse_text": "Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow." }, { "point_text": "Strong in the prospect of death", "verse_ref": "Psalm 23:4", "verse_text": "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." }, { "point_text": "Fixed", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 22:3", "verse_text": "The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence." }, { "point_text": "Fixed", "verse_ref": "Psalm 112:7", "verse_text": "He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Unalterable", "verse_ref": "Job 13:15", "verse_text": "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him." }, { "point_text": "Despised by the wicked", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 36:4", "verse_text": "And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?" }, { "point_text": "Despised by the wicked", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 36:7", "verse_text": "But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?" }, { "point_text": "For ever", "verse_ref": "Psalm 52:8", "verse_text": "But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever." }, { "point_text": "For ever", "verse_ref": "Psalm 62:8", "verse_text": "Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah." }, { "point_text": "For ever", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:4", "verse_text": "Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:" }, { "point_text": "Saints plead, in prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 25:20", "verse_text": "O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee." }, { "point_text": "Saints plead, in prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 31:1", "verse_text": "In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Saints plead, in prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 141:8", "verse_text": "But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute." }, { "point_text": "The Lord knows those who have", "verse_ref": "Nahum 1:7", "verse_text": "The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 4:5", "verse_text": "Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 115:9-11", "verse_text": "O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. 10 O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. 11 Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield." }, { "point_text": "LEADS TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Being compassed with mercy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 32:10", "verse_text": "Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about." }, { "point_text": "Enjoyment of perfect peace", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:3", "verse_text": "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee." }, { "point_text": "Enjoyment of all temporal and spiritual blessings", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:13", "verse_text": "When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;" }, { "point_text": "Enjoyment of happiness", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:20", "verse_text": "He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the LORD, happy is he." }, { "point_text": "Rejoicing in God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 5:11", "verse_text": "But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee." }, { "point_text": "Rejoicing in God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 33:21", "verse_text": "For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name." }, { "point_text": "Fulfilment of all holy desires", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:5", "verse_text": "Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass." }, { "point_text": "Deliverance from enemies", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:40", "verse_text": "And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him." }, { "point_text": "Safety in times of danger", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 29:25", "verse_text": "The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe." }, { "point_text": "Stability", "verse_ref": "Psalm 125:1", "verse_text": "They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever." }, { "point_text": "Prosperity", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:25", "verse_text": "He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat." }, { "point_text": "KEEPS FROM", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Fear", "verse_ref": "Psalm 56:11", "verse_text": "In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me." }, { "point_text": "Fear", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 12:2", "verse_text": "Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation." }, { "point_text": "Fear", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:6", "verse_text": "So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me." }, { "point_text": "Sliding", "verse_ref": "Psalm 26:1", "verse_text": "Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide." }, { "point_text": "Desolation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:22", "verse_text": "The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate." }, { "point_text": "To be accompanied by doing good", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:3", "verse_text": "Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of placing, in God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:12", "verse_text": "Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of placing, in God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 34:8", "verse_text": "O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of placing, in God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:4", "verse_text": "Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of placing, in God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:7", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is." }, { "point_text": "OF THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Is not in God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:22", "verse_text": "Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:" }, { "point_text": "Is not in God", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 3:2", "verse_text": "She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God." }, { "point_text": "Is in idols", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:17", "verse_text": "They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods." }, { "point_text": "Is in idols", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:18", "verse_text": "What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?" }, { "point_text": "Is in man", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:26", "verse_text": "And Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brethren, and went over to Shechem: and the men of Shechem put their confidence in him." }, { "point_text": "Is in man", "verse_ref": "Psalm 118:8-9", "verse_text": "It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. 9 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes." }, { "point_text": "Is in their own heart", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:26", "verse_text": "He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered." }, { "point_text": "Is in their own righteousness", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:9", "verse_text": "And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:" }, { "point_text": "Is in their own righteousness", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:12", "verse_text": "I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess." }, { "point_text": "Is in vanity", "verse_ref": "Job 15:31", "verse_text": "Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence." }, { "point_text": "Is in vanity", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:4", "verse_text": "None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Is in falsehood", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:15", "verse_text": "Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:" }, { "point_text": "Is in falsehood", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 13:25", "verse_text": "This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood." }, { "point_text": "Is in earthly alliances", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:2", "verse_text": "That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!" }, { "point_text": "Is in earthly alliances", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:15", "verse_text": "But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?" }, { "point_text": "Is in wealth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 49:6", "verse_text": "They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;" }, { "point_text": "Is in wealth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 52:7", "verse_text": "Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness." }, { "point_text": "Is in wealth", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:28", "verse_text": "He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch." }, { "point_text": "Is in wealth", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:7", "verse_text": "For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together." }, { "point_text": "Is in wealth", "verse_ref": "Mark 10:24", "verse_text": "And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!" }, { "point_text": "Is vain and delusive", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:7", "verse_text": "For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still." }, { "point_text": "Is vain and delusive", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:37", "verse_text": "Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them." }, { "point_text": "Shall make them ashamed", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 20:5", "verse_text": "And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory." }, { "point_text": "Shall make them ashamed", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:3", "verse_text": "Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion." }, { "point_text": "Shall make them ashamed", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:5", "verse_text": "They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach." }, { "point_text": "Shall be destroyed", "verse_ref": "Job 18:14", "verse_text": "His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors." }, { "point_text": "Shall be destroyed", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:18", "verse_text": "And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it." }, { "point_text": "Woe and curse of false", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:1", "verse_text": "Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:" }, { "point_text": "Woe and curse of false", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 31:1-3", "verse_text": "Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD! 2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity. 3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together." }, { "point_text": "Woe and curse of false", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:5", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Of saints--Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Psalm 91:12", "verse_text": "They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone." }, { "point_text": "Of saints--Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 18:10", "verse_text": "The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe." }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked--Illustrated", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:21", "verse_text": "Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him." }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked--Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Job 8:14", "verse_text": "Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web." }, { "point_text": "Of saints--Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \n\nHezekiah, \nJehoshaphat, \nShadrach, &c. \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:45", "verse_text": "Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied." }, { "point_text": "Of saints--Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \n\nHezekiah, \nJehoshaphat, \nShadrach, &c. \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 30:6", "verse_text": "And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God." }, { "point_text": "Of saints--Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \n\nHezekiah, \nJehoshaphat, \nShadrach, &c. \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:5", "verse_text": "He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him." }, { "point_text": "Of saints--Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \n\nHezekiah, \nJehoshaphat, \nShadrach, &c. \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 20:12", "verse_text": "O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee." }, { "point_text": "Of saints--Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \n\nHezekiah, \nJehoshaphat, \nShadrach, &c. \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Daniel 3:28", "verse_text": "Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God." }, { "point_text": "Of saints--Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \n\nHezekiah, \nJehoshaphat, \nShadrach, &c. \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:12", "verse_text": "For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day." }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked--Exemplified.\r\n\nGoliath, \nBenhadad, \nSennacherib, \nIsraelites,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:43-45", "verse_text": "And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 44 And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field. 45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied." }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked--Exemplified.\r\n\nGoliath, \nBenhadad, \nSennacherib, \nIsraelites,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:10", "verse_text": "And Benhadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me." }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked--Exemplified.\r\n\nGoliath, \nBenhadad, \nSennacherib, \nIsraelites,", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 32:8", "verse_text": "With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah." }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked--Exemplified.\r\n\nGoliath, \nBenhadad, \nSennacherib, \nIsraelites,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 31:1", "verse_text": "Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!" } ] }, { "name": "Truth", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Truth.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "God is a God of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:4", "verse_text": "He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he." }, { "point_text": "God is a God of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 31:15", "verse_text": "My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me." }, { "point_text": "Christ is", "verse_ref": "John 14:6", "verse_text": "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." }, { "point_text": "Christ is", "verse_ref": "John 7:18", "verse_text": "He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him." }, { "point_text": "Christ was full of", "verse_ref": "John 1:14", "verse_text": "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." }, { "point_text": "Christ spoke", "verse_ref": "John 8:45", "verse_text": "And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not." }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of", "verse_ref": "John 14:17", "verse_text": "Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you." }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost guides into all", "verse_ref": "John 16:13", "verse_text": "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come." }, { "point_text": "The word of God is", "verse_ref": "Daniel 10:21", "verse_text": "But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince." }, { "point_text": "The word of God is", "verse_ref": "John 17:17", "verse_text": "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth." }, { "point_text": "God regards, with favor", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:3", "verse_text": "O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return." }, { "point_text": "The judgments of God are according to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 96:13", "verse_text": "Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth." }, { "point_text": "The judgments of God are according to", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:2", "verse_text": "But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Worship God in", "verse_ref": "John 4:24", "verse_text": "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." }, { "point_text": "Worship God in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:18", "verse_text": "The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth." }, { "point_text": "Serve God in", "verse_ref": "Joshua 24:14", "verse_text": "Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Serve God in", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 12:24", "verse_text": "Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you." }, { "point_text": "Walk before God in", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:4", "verse_text": "That the LORD may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Walk before God in", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:3", "verse_text": "I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore." }, { "point_text": "Keep religious feasts with", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 5:8", "verse_text": "Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." }, { "point_text": "Esteem, as inestimable", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:23", "verse_text": "Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding." }, { "point_text": "Rejoice in", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 13:6", "verse_text": "Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;" }, { "point_text": "Speak, to one another", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 8:16", "verse_text": "These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:" }, { "point_text": "Speak, to one another", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:25", "verse_text": "Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another." }, { "point_text": "Meditate upon", "verse_ref": "Philippians 4:8", "verse_text": "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." }, { "point_text": "Write, upon the tables of the heart", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:3", "verse_text": "Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:" }, { "point_text": "God desires in the heart", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:6", "verse_text": "Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom." }, { "point_text": "The fruit of the Spirit is in", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:9", "verse_text": "(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)" }, { "point_text": "MINISTERS SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Speak", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 12:6", "verse_text": "For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me." }, { "point_text": "Speak", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:16", "verse_text": "Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?" }, { "point_text": "Teach in", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:7", "verse_text": "Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity." }, { "point_text": "Approve themselves by", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:2", "verse_text": "But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God." }, { "point_text": "Approve themselves by", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:7", "verse_text": "By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left," }, { "point_text": "Approve themselves by", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 7:14", "verse_text": "For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth." }, { "point_text": "Magistrates should be men of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 18:21", "verse_text": "Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:" }, { "point_text": "Kings are preserved by", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:28", "verse_text": "Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy." }, { "point_text": "THEY WHO SPEAK,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Show forth righteousness", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:17", "verse_text": "He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit." }, { "point_text": "Shall be established", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:19", "verse_text": "The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment." }, { "point_text": "Are the delight of God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:22", "verse_text": "Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Destitute of", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:1", "verse_text": "Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land." }, { "point_text": "Speak not", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:5", "verse_text": "And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Uphold not", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:14-15", "verse_text": "And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. 15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment." }, { "point_text": "Plead not for", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 59:4", "verse_text": "None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Are not valiant for", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:3", "verse_text": "And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Punished for want of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:5", "verse_text": "And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Punished for want of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:9", "verse_text": "Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?" }, { "point_text": "THE GOSPEL AS,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Came by Christ", "verse_ref": "John 1:17", "verse_text": "For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Christ bear witness to", "verse_ref": "John 18:37", "verse_text": "Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice." }, { "point_text": "Is in Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 9:1", "verse_text": "I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost," }, { "point_text": "Is in Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:7", "verse_text": "Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity." }, { "point_text": "John bear witness to", "verse_ref": "John 5:33", "verse_text": "Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth." }, { "point_text": "Is according to godliness", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:1", "verse_text": "Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;" }, { "point_text": "Is sanctifying", "verse_ref": "John 17:17", "verse_text": "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth." }, { "point_text": "Is sanctifying", "verse_ref": "John 17:19", "verse_text": "And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth." }, { "point_text": "Is purifying", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:22", "verse_text": "Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:" }, { "point_text": "Is part of Christian armor", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:14", "verse_text": "Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;" }, { "point_text": "Revealed abundantly to saints", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 33:6", "verse_text": "Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth." }, { "point_text": "Abides continually with saints", "verse_ref": "2 John 2", "verse_text": "For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever." }, { "point_text": "Should be acknowledged", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:25", "verse_text": "In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;" }, { "point_text": "Should be believed", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:12-13", "verse_text": "That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:" }, { "point_text": "Should be believed", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:3", "verse_text": "Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth." }, { "point_text": "Should be obeyed", "verse_ref": "Romans 2:8", "verse_text": "But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath," }, { "point_text": "Should be obeyed", "verse_ref": "Galatians 3:1", "verse_text": "O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?" }, { "point_text": "Should be loved", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:10", "verse_text": "And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." }, { "point_text": "Should be manifested", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:2", "verse_text": "But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God." }, { "point_text": "Should be rightly divided", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:15", "verse_text": "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." }, { "point_text": "The wicked turn away from", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:4", "verse_text": "And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." }, { "point_text": "The wicked resist", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:8", "verse_text": "Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith." }, { "point_text": "The wicked destitute of", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:5", "verse_text": "Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself." }, { "point_text": "The church is the pillar and ground of", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:15", "verse_text": "But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth." }, { "point_text": "The devil is devoid of", "verse_ref": "John 8:44", "verse_text": "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." } ] }, { "name": "Truth of God, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Truth-of-God-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is one of His attributes", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:4", "verse_text": "He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he." }, { "point_text": "Is one of His attributes", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:16", "verse_text": "That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes." }, { "point_text": "Always goes before His face", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:14", "verse_text": "Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face." }, { "point_text": "He keeps, for ever", "verse_ref": "Psalm 146:6", "verse_text": "Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:" }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Great", "verse_ref": "Psalm 57:10", "verse_text": "For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds." }, { "point_text": "Plenteous", "verse_ref": "Psalm 86:15", "verse_text": "But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth." }, { "point_text": "Abundant", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:6", "verse_text": "And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth," }, { "point_text": "Inviolable", "verse_ref": "Numbers 23:19", "verse_text": "God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?" }, { "point_text": "Inviolable", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:2", "verse_text": "In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;" }, { "point_text": "Reaching to the clouds", "verse_ref": "Psalm 57:10", "verse_text": "For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds." }, { "point_text": "Enduring to all generations", "verse_ref": "Psalm 100:5", "verse_text": "For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations." }, { "point_text": "United with mercy in redemption", "verse_ref": "Psalm 85:10", "verse_text": "Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other." }, { "point_text": "EXHIBITED IN HIS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Counsels of old", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 25:1", "verse_text": "O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth." }, { "point_text": "Ways", "verse_ref": "Revelation 15:3", "verse_text": "And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints." }, { "point_text": "Works", "verse_ref": "Psalm 33:4", "verse_text": "For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth." }, { "point_text": "Works", "verse_ref": "Psalm 111:7", "verse_text": "The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure." }, { "point_text": "Works", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:37", "verse_text": "Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase." }, { "point_text": "Judicial statutes", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:9", "verse_text": "The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether." }, { "point_text": "Administration of justice", "verse_ref": "Psalm 96:13", "verse_text": "Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth." }, { "point_text": "Word", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:160", "verse_text": "Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever." }, { "point_text": "Word", "verse_ref": "John 17:17", "verse_text": "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth." }, { "point_text": "Fulfilment of promises in Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:20", "verse_text": "For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us." }, { "point_text": "Fulfilment of His covenant", "verse_ref": "Micah 7:20", "verse_text": "Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old." }, { "point_text": "Dealings with saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 25:10", "verse_text": "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies." }, { "point_text": "Deliverance of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 57:3", "verse_text": "He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth." }, { "point_text": "Punishment of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Revelation 16:7", "verse_text": "And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments." }, { "point_text": "Remembered toward saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 98:3", "verse_text": "He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God." }, { "point_text": "Is a shield and buckler to saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 91:4", "verse_text": "He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler." }, { "point_text": "WE SHOULD,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Confide in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 31:5", "verse_text": "Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth." }, { "point_text": "Confide in", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:2", "verse_text": "In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;" }, { "point_text": "Plead, in prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:49", "verse_text": "Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?" }, { "point_text": "Pray for its manifestation to ourselves", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 6:17", "verse_text": "Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David." }, { "point_text": "Pray for its exhibition to others", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 2:6", "verse_text": "And now the LORD shew kindness and truth unto you: and I also will requite you this kindness, because ye have done this thing." }, { "point_text": "Make known to others", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 38:19", "verse_text": "The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth." }, { "point_text": "Magnify", "verse_ref": "Psalm 71:22", "verse_text": "I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Magnify", "verse_ref": "Psalm 138:2", "verse_text": "I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name." }, { "point_text": "IS DENIED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The devil", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:4-5", "verse_text": "And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." }, { "point_text": "The self-righteous", "verse_ref": "1 John 1:10", "verse_text": "If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us." }, { "point_text": "Unbelievers", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:10", "verse_text": "He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified towards\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nIsrael,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:27", "verse_text": "And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified towards\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nIsrael,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:10", "verse_text": "I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified towards\r\n\nAbraham, \nJacob, \nIsrael,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 98:3", "verse_text": "He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God." } ] }, { "name": "Titles and Names of the Holy Ghost", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Titles-and-Names-of-the-Holy-Ghost.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Breath of the Almighty", "verse_ref": "Job 33:4", "verse_text": "The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life." }, { "point_text": "Comforter", "verse_ref": "John 14:16", "verse_text": "And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;" }, { "point_text": "Comforter", "verse_ref": "John 15:26", "verse_text": "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:" }, { "point_text": "Eternal Spirit", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:14", "verse_text": "How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" }, { "point_text": "Free Spirit", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:12", "verse_text": "Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit." }, { "point_text": "God", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:3-4", "verse_text": "But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? 4 Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God." }, { "point_text": "Good Spirit", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:20", "verse_text": "Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst." }, { "point_text": "Good Spirit", "verse_ref": "Psalm 143:10", "verse_text": "Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness." }, { "point_text": "Holy Spirit", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:11", "verse_text": "Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me." }, { "point_text": "Holy Spirit", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:13", "verse_text": "If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?" }, { "point_text": "Holy Spirit", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:13", "verse_text": "In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise," }, { "point_text": "Holy Spirit", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:30", "verse_text": "And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption." }, { "point_text": "Lord, The", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 3:5", "verse_text": "And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ." }, { "point_text": "Power of the Highest", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:35", "verse_text": "And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." }, { "point_text": "Spirit, The", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:1", "verse_text": "Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil." }, { "point_text": "Spirit, The", "verse_ref": "John 3:6", "verse_text": "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." }, { "point_text": "Spirit, The", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:1", "verse_text": "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;" }, { "point_text": "Spirit of the Lord God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:1", "verse_text": "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;" }, { "point_text": "Spirit of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:2", "verse_text": "And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;" }, { "point_text": "Spirit of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:9", "verse_text": "Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:2", "verse_text": "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of God", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:11", "verse_text": "For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of God", "verse_ref": "Job 33:4", "verse_text": "The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of the Father", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:20", "verse_text": "For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:9", "verse_text": "But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:11", "verse_text": "Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of the Son", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:6", "verse_text": "And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of life", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:2", "verse_text": "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of life", "verse_ref": "Revelation 11:11", "verse_text": "And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of grace", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 12:10", "verse_text": "And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of grace", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:29", "verse_text": "Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?" }, { "point_text": "Spirit of prophecy", "verse_ref": "Revelation 19:10", "verse_text": "And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of adoption", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:15", "verse_text": "For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of wisdom", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:2", "verse_text": "And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;" }, { "point_text": "Spirit of wisdom", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:17", "verse_text": "That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:" }, { "point_text": "Spirit of counsel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:2", "verse_text": "And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;" }, { "point_text": "Spirit of might", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:2", "verse_text": "And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;" }, { "point_text": "Spirit of understanding", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:2", "verse_text": "And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;" }, { "point_text": "Spirit of knowledge", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:2", "verse_text": "And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;" }, { "point_text": "Spirit of the fear of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:2", "verse_text": "And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;" }, { "point_text": "Spirit of truth", "verse_ref": "John 14:17", "verse_text": "Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of truth", "verse_ref": "John 15:26", "verse_text": "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:" }, { "point_text": "Spirit of holiness", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:4", "verse_text": "And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:" }, { "point_text": "Spirit of revelation", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:17", "verse_text": "That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:" }, { "point_text": "Spirit of judgment", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 4:4", "verse_text": "When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of judgment", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:6", "verse_text": "And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of burning", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 4:4", "verse_text": "When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of glory", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:14", "verse_text": "If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified." }, { "point_text": "Seven Spirits of God", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:4", "verse_text": "John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;" }, { "point_text": "Breath of the Almighty", "verse_ref": "Job 33:4", "verse_text": "The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life." }, { "point_text": "Comforter", "verse_ref": "John 14:16", "verse_text": "And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;" }, { "point_text": "Comforter", "verse_ref": "John 15:26", "verse_text": "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:" }, { "point_text": "Eternal Spirit", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:14", "verse_text": "How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" }, { "point_text": "Free Spirit", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:12", "verse_text": "Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit." }, { "point_text": "God", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:3-4", "verse_text": "But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? 4 Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God." }, { "point_text": "Good Spirit", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:20", "verse_text": "Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst." }, { "point_text": "Good Spirit", "verse_ref": "Psalm 143:10", "verse_text": "Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness." }, { "point_text": "Holy Spirit", "verse_ref": "Psalm 51:11", "verse_text": "Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me." }, { "point_text": "Holy Spirit", "verse_ref": "Luke 11:13", "verse_text": "If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?" }, { "point_text": "Holy Spirit", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:13", "verse_text": "In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise," }, { "point_text": "Holy Spirit", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:30", "verse_text": "And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption." }, { "point_text": "Lord, The", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 3:5", "verse_text": "And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ." }, { "point_text": "Power of the Highest", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:35", "verse_text": "And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." }, { "point_text": "Spirit, The", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:1", "verse_text": "Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil." }, { "point_text": "Spirit, The", "verse_ref": "John 3:6", "verse_text": "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." }, { "point_text": "Spirit, The", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:1", "verse_text": "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;" }, { "point_text": "Spirit of the Lord God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:1", "verse_text": "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;" }, { "point_text": "Spirit of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:2", "verse_text": "And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;" }, { "point_text": "Spirit of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:9", "verse_text": "Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:2", "verse_text": "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of God", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:11", "verse_text": "For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of God", "verse_ref": "Job 33:4", "verse_text": "The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of the Father", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:20", "verse_text": "For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:9", "verse_text": "But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:11", "verse_text": "Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of the Son", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:6", "verse_text": "And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of life", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:2", "verse_text": "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of life", "verse_ref": "Revelation 11:11", "verse_text": "And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of grace", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 12:10", "verse_text": "And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of grace", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:29", "verse_text": "Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?" }, { "point_text": "Spirit of prophecy", "verse_ref": "Revelation 19:10", "verse_text": "And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of adoption", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:15", "verse_text": "For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of wisdom", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:2", "verse_text": "And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;" }, { "point_text": "Spirit of wisdom", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:17", "verse_text": "That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:" }, { "point_text": "Spirit of counsel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:2", "verse_text": "And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;" }, { "point_text": "Spirit of might", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:2", "verse_text": "And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;" }, { "point_text": "Spirit of understanding", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:2", "verse_text": "And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;" }, { "point_text": "Spirit of knowledge", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:2", "verse_text": "And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;" }, { "point_text": "Spirit of the fear of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:2", "verse_text": "And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;" }, { "point_text": "Spirit of truth", "verse_ref": "John 14:17", "verse_text": "Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of truth", "verse_ref": "John 15:26", "verse_text": "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:" }, { "point_text": "Spirit of holiness", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:4", "verse_text": "And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:" }, { "point_text": "Spirit of revelation", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:17", "verse_text": "That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:" }, { "point_text": "Spirit of judgment", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 4:4", "verse_text": "When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of judgment", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:6", "verse_text": "And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of burning", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 4:4", "verse_text": "When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning." }, { "point_text": "Spirit of glory", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:14", "verse_text": "If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified." }, { "point_text": "Seven Spirits of God", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:4", "verse_text": "John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;" } ] }, { "name": "Unity of God", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Unity-of-God.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "A ground for obeying Him exclusively", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:39-40", "verse_text": "Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else. 40 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever." }, { "point_text": "A ground for loving Him supremely", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 6:4-5", "verse_text": "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: 5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." }, { "point_text": "ASSERTED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "God Himself", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:6", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God." }, { "point_text": "God Himself", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:18", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else." }, { "point_text": "God Himself", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:21", "verse_text": "Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me." }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:29", "verse_text": "And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:" }, { "point_text": "Christ", "verse_ref": "John 17:3", "verse_text": "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." }, { "point_text": "Moses", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:39", "verse_text": "Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else." }, { "point_text": "Moses", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 6:4", "verse_text": "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Apostles", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 8:4", "verse_text": "As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one." }, { "point_text": "Apostles", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 8:6", "verse_text": "But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him." }, { "point_text": "Consistent with the deity of Christ and of the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "John 10:30", "verse_text": "I and my Father are one." }, { "point_text": "Consistent with the deity of Christ and of the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:7", "verse_text": "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one." }, { "point_text": "Consistent with the deity of Christ and of the Holy Ghost", "verse_ref": "John 14:9-11", "verse_text": "Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? 10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. 11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake." }, { "point_text": "EXHIBITED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "His greatness and wonderful works", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:22", "verse_text": "Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears." }, { "point_text": "His greatness and wonderful works", "verse_ref": "Psalm 86:10", "verse_text": "For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone." }, { "point_text": "His works of creation and providence", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:24", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;" }, { "point_text": "His works of creation and providence", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:5-8", "verse_text": "I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: 6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. 7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. 8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it." }, { "point_text": "His being alone possessed of foreknowledge", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 46:9-11", "verse_text": "Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: 11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it." }, { "point_text": "His exercise of uncontrolled sovereignty", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:39", "verse_text": "See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand." }, { "point_text": "His being the sole object of worship in heaven and earth", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:6", "verse_text": "Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee." }, { "point_text": "His being the sole object of worship in heaven and earth", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:10", "verse_text": "Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve." }, { "point_text": "His being alone good", "verse_ref": "Matthew 19:17", "verse_text": "And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments." }, { "point_text": "His being the only Saviour", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 45:21-22", "verse_text": "Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. 22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else." }, { "point_text": "His being the only source of pardon", "verse_ref": "Micah 7:18", "verse_text": "Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy." }, { "point_text": "His being the only source of pardon", "verse_ref": "Mark 2:7", "verse_text": "Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?" }, { "point_text": "His unparalleled election and care of His people", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:32-35", "verse_text": "For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it? 33 Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live? 34 Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him." }, { "point_text": "The knowledge of, necessary to eternal life", "verse_ref": "John 17:3", "verse_text": "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." }, { "point_text": "All saints acknowledge, in worshipping Him", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:22", "verse_text": "Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears." }, { "point_text": "All saints acknowledge, in worshipping Him", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:15", "verse_text": "And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth." }, { "point_text": "All saints acknowledge, in worshipping Him", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 17:20", "verse_text": "O LORD, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears." }, { "point_text": "All should know and acknowledge", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 4:35", "verse_text": "Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him." }, { "point_text": "All should know and acknowledge", "verse_ref": "Psalm 83:18", "verse_text": "That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth." }, { "point_text": "May be acknowledged without saving faith", "verse_ref": "James 2:19-20", "verse_text": "Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. 20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?" } ] }, { "name": "Union with Christ", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Union-with-Christ.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "As Head of the Church", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:22", "verse_text": "And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church," }, { "point_text": "As Head of the Church", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:15-16", "verse_text": "But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: 16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love." }, { "point_text": "Christ prayed that all saints might have", "verse_ref": "John 17:21", "verse_text": "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me." }, { "point_text": "Christ prayed that all saints might have", "verse_ref": "John 17:23", "verse_text": "I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Christ being in us", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:17", "verse_text": "That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love," }, { "point_text": "Christ being in us", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:27", "verse_text": "To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:" }, { "point_text": "Our being in Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 12:2", "verse_text": "I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven." }, { "point_text": "Our being in Christ", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:20", "verse_text": "And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life." }, { "point_text": "Includes union with the Father", "verse_ref": "John 17:21", "verse_text": "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me." }, { "point_text": "Includes union with the Father", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:24", "verse_text": "Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father." }, { "point_text": "Is of God", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:30", "verse_text": "But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:" }, { "point_text": "MAINTAINED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Faith", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:20", "verse_text": "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." }, { "point_text": "Faith", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:17", "verse_text": "That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love," }, { "point_text": "Abiding in Him", "verse_ref": "John 15:4", "verse_text": "Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me." }, { "point_text": "Abiding in Him", "verse_ref": "John 15:7", "verse_text": "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you." }, { "point_text": "His word abiding in us", "verse_ref": "John 15:7", "verse_text": "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you." }, { "point_text": "His word abiding in us", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:24", "verse_text": "Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father." }, { "point_text": "His word abiding in us", "verse_ref": "2 John 9", "verse_text": "Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son." }, { "point_text": "Feeding on Him", "verse_ref": "John 6:56", "verse_text": "He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him." }, { "point_text": "Obeying Him", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:24", "verse_text": "And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us." }, { "point_text": "The Holy Ghost witnesses", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:24", "verse_text": "And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us." }, { "point_text": "The gift of the Holy Ghost is an evidence of", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:13", "verse_text": "Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Have, in mind", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:16", "verse_text": "For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ." }, { "point_text": "Have, in mind", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:5", "verse_text": "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:" }, { "point_text": "Have, in spirit", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 6:17", "verse_text": "But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit." }, { "point_text": "Have, in love", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:16", "verse_text": "My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies." }, { "point_text": "Have, in love", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 7:10", "verse_text": "I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me." }, { "point_text": "Have, in sufferings", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:10", "verse_text": "That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;" }, { "point_text": "Have, in sufferings", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:12", "verse_text": "If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:" }, { "point_text": "Have, in His death", "verse_ref": "Romans 6:3-8", "verse_text": "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. ..." }, { "point_text": "Have, in His death", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:20", "verse_text": "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." }, { "point_text": "Have assurance of", "verse_ref": "John 14:20", "verse_text": "At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you." }, { "point_text": "Enjoy, in the Lord's supper", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:16-17", "verse_text": "The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? 17 For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread." }, { "point_text": "Identified with Christ by", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:40", "verse_text": "And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." }, { "point_text": "Identified with Christ by", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:45", "verse_text": "Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me." }, { "point_text": "Are complete through", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:10", "verse_text": "And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:" }, { "point_text": "Exhorted to maintain", "verse_ref": "John 15:4", "verse_text": "Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me." }, { "point_text": "Exhorted to maintain", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:23", "verse_text": "Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord." }, { "point_text": "Exhorted to maintain", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:7", "verse_text": "Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving." }, { "point_text": "Necessary to growth in grace", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:15-16", "verse_text": "But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: 16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love." }, { "point_text": "Necessary to fruitfulness", "verse_ref": "John 15:4-5", "verse_text": "Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing." }, { "point_text": "BENEFICIAL RESULTS OF;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Righteousness imputed", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:21", "verse_text": "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." }, { "point_text": "Righteousness imputed", "verse_ref": "Philippians 3:9", "verse_text": "And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:" }, { "point_text": "Freedom from condemnation", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:1", "verse_text": "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." }, { "point_text": "Freedom from dominion of sin", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:6", "verse_text": "Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him." }, { "point_text": "Being created anew", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:17", "verse_text": "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." }, { "point_text": "The spirit alive to righteousness", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:10", "verse_text": "And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Confidence at His coming", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:28", "verse_text": "And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming." }, { "point_text": "Abundant fruitfulness", "verse_ref": "John 15:5", "verse_text": "I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing." }, { "point_text": "Answers to prayer", "verse_ref": "John 15:7", "verse_text": "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you." }, { "point_text": "They who have, ought to walk as He walked", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:6", "verse_text": "He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked." }, { "point_text": "False teachers have not", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:18-19", "verse_text": "Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God." }, { "point_text": "Is indissoluble", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:35", "verse_text": "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?" }, { "point_text": "Punishment of those who have not", "verse_ref": "John 15:6", "verse_text": "If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated.\r\n\nVine and branches, \n\nFoundation and building, \nBody and members, \n\nHusband and wife,", "verse_ref": "John 15:1", "verse_text": "I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated.\r\n\nVine and branches, \n\nFoundation and building, \nBody and members, \n\nHusband and wife,", "verse_ref": "John 15:5", "verse_text": "I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated.\r\n\nVine and branches, \n\nFoundation and building, \nBody and members, \n\nHusband and wife,", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:10-11", "verse_text": "According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. 11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated.\r\n\nVine and branches, \n\nFoundation and building, \nBody and members, \n\nHusband and wife,", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:12", "verse_text": "For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated.\r\n\nVine and branches, \n\nFoundation and building, \nBody and members, \n\nHusband and wife,", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 12:27", "verse_text": "Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated.\r\n\nVine and branches, \n\nFoundation and building, \nBody and members, \n\nHusband and wife,", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:25-32", "verse_text": "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. ..." } ] }, { "name": "Uprightness", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Uprightness.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "God is perfect in", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:7", "verse_text": "The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just." }, { "point_text": "God has pleasure in", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:17", "verse_text": "I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee." }, { "point_text": "God created man in", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 7:29", "verse_text": "Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions." }, { "point_text": "Man has deviated from", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 7:29", "verse_text": "Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Heart", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 29:34", "verse_text": "But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests." }, { "point_text": "Heart", "verse_ref": "Psalm 125:4", "verse_text": "Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts." }, { "point_text": "Speech", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:15", "verse_text": "He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;" }, { "point_text": "Walk", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:2", "verse_text": "He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him." }, { "point_text": "Judging", "verse_ref": "Psalm 58:1", "verse_text": "Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?" }, { "point_text": "Judging", "verse_ref": "Psalm 75:2", "verse_text": "When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly." }, { "point_text": "Ruling", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:72", "verse_text": "So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands." }, { "point_text": "The being kept from presumptuous sins is necessary to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 19:13", "verse_text": "Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression." }, { "point_text": "With poverty, is better than sin with riches", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:6", "verse_text": "Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich." }, { "point_text": "With poverty, is better than folly", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:1", "verse_text": "Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool." }, { "point_text": "THEY WHO WALK IN,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Fear God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:2", "verse_text": "He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him." }, { "point_text": "Love Christ", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 1:4", "verse_text": "Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee." }, { "point_text": "Countenanced by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 11:7", "verse_text": "For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright." }, { "point_text": "Delighted in by God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:20", "verse_text": "They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight." }, { "point_text": "Their prayer delighted in by God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:8", "verse_text": "The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight." }, { "point_text": "Prospered by God", "verse_ref": "Job 8:6", "verse_text": "If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous." }, { "point_text": "Prospered by God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 14:11", "verse_text": "The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish." }, { "point_text": "Defended by God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 2:7", "verse_text": "He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly." }, { "point_text": "Upheld in it by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 41:12", "verse_text": "And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever." }, { "point_text": "Recompensed by God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 18:23-24", "verse_text": "I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity. 24 Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight." }, { "point_text": "Find strength in God's way", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:29", "verse_text": "The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Obtain good from God's work", "verse_ref": "Micah 2:7", "verse_text": "O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?" }, { "point_text": "Obtain light in darkness", "verse_ref": "Psalm 112:4", "verse_text": "Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous." }, { "point_text": "Guided by integrity", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:3", "verse_text": "The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them." }, { "point_text": "Walk surely", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:9", "verse_text": "He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known." }, { "point_text": "Direct their way", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:29", "verse_text": "A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way." }, { "point_text": "Kept by righteousness", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 13:6", "verse_text": "Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner." }, { "point_text": "Scorned by the wicked", "verse_ref": "Job 12:4", "verse_text": "I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn." }, { "point_text": "Hated by the wicked", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 29:10", "verse_text": "The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul." }, { "point_text": "Hated by the wicked", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:10", "verse_text": "They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly." }, { "point_text": "Abominated by the wicked", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 29:21", "verse_text": "He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length." }, { "point_text": "Persecuted by the wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:14", "verse_text": "The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation." }, { "point_text": "Praise is comely for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 33:1", "verse_text": "Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright." }, { "point_text": "A blessing to others", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:11", "verse_text": "By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked." }, { "point_text": "The truly wise walk in", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:21", "verse_text": "Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly." }, { "point_text": "The way of, is to depart from evil", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:17", "verse_text": "The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul." }, { "point_text": "THEY WHO WALK IN, SHALL", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Possess good things", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:10", "verse_text": "Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession." }, { "point_text": "Have nothing good withheld", "verse_ref": "Psalm 84:11", "verse_text": "For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly." }, { "point_text": "Dwell in the land", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 2:21", "verse_text": "For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it." }, { "point_text": "Dwell on high and be provided for", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:16", "verse_text": "He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure." }, { "point_text": "Dwell with God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 15:2", "verse_text": "He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart." }, { "point_text": "Dwell with God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 140:13", "verse_text": "Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence." }, { "point_text": "Be blessed", "verse_ref": "Psalm 112:2", "verse_text": "His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed." }, { "point_text": "Be delivered by righteousness", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 11:6", "verse_text": "The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness." }, { "point_text": "Be delivered by their wisdom", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:6", "verse_text": "The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them." }, { "point_text": "Be saved", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:18", "verse_text": "Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once." }, { "point_text": "Enter into peace", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:37", "verse_text": "Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace." }, { "point_text": "Enter into peace", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:2", "verse_text": "He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness." }, { "point_text": "Have dominion over the wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 49:14", "verse_text": "Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling." }, { "point_text": "Have an inheritance for ever", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:18", "verse_text": "The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 111:1", "verse_text": "Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation." }, { "point_text": "A characteristic of saints", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:7", "verse_text": "The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just." }, { "point_text": "Saints should resolve to walk in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 26:11", "verse_text": "But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Have not, in heart", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:4", "verse_text": "Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith." }, { "point_text": "Leave not the path of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 2:13", "verse_text": "Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;" }, { "point_text": "Do not act with", "verse_ref": "Micah 7:2", "verse_text": "The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net." }, { "point_text": "Do not act with", "verse_ref": "Micah 7:4", "verse_text": "The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity." }, { "point_text": "Pray for those who walk in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 125:4", "verse_text": "Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts." }, { "point_text": "Reprove those who deviate from", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:14", "verse_text": "But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?" } ] }, { "name": "Urim and Thummim", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Urim-and-Thummim.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Placed in the breastplate of the high priest", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:30", "verse_text": "And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually." }, { "point_text": "Placed in the breastplate of the high priest", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:8", "verse_text": "And he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in the breastplate the Urim and the Thummim." }, { "point_text": "God to be consulted by", "verse_ref": "Numbers 27:21", "verse_text": "And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask counsel for him after the judgment of Urim before the LORD: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation." }, { "point_text": "Instances of consulting God by", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:1", "verse_text": "Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?" }, { "point_text": "Instances of consulting God by", "verse_ref": "Judges 20:18", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah shall go up first." }, { "point_text": "Instances of consulting God by", "verse_ref": "Judges 20:28", "verse_text": "And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand." }, { "point_text": "Instances of consulting God by", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 23:9-11", "verse_text": "And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod. 10 Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake. 11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And the LORD said, He will come down." }, { "point_text": "Instances of consulting God by", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 30:7-8", "verse_text": "And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David. 8 And David inquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes no answer by, in consequence of the sin of those consulting", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 28:6", "verse_text": "And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets." }, { "point_text": "Were wanting in the second temple", "verse_ref": "Ezra 2:63", "verse_text": "And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim." }, { "point_text": "Were wanting in the second temple", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 7:65", "verse_text": "And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim." }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of the light and perfection of Christ, the true high priest", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:8", "verse_text": "And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;" }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of the light and perfection of Christ, the true high priest", "verse_ref": "John 1:4", "verse_text": "In him was life; and the life was the light of men." }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of the light and perfection of Christ, the true high priest", "verse_ref": "John 1:9", "verse_text": "That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world." }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of the light and perfection of Christ, the true high priest", "verse_ref": "John 1:17", "verse_text": "For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." } ] }, { "name": "Usury or Interest", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Usury-or-Interest.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The lending of money or other property for increase", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:37", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase." }, { "point_text": "Those enriched by unlawful, not allowed to enjoy their gain", "verse_ref": "Psalm 28:8", "verse_text": "The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed." }, { "point_text": "The curse attending the giving or receiving of unlawful, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 15:10", "verse_text": "Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me." }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to take, from brethren", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:19", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:" }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to take, from brethren specially when poor", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:25", "verse_text": "If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to take, from brethren specially when poor", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:35-37", "verse_text": "And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee. 36 Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. 37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase." }, { "point_text": "Often guilty of taking", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 5:6-7", "verse_text": "And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words. 7 Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them." }, { "point_text": "Required to restore", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 5:9-13", "verse_text": "Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies? 10 I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury. 11 Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them. 12 Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise. ..." }, { "point_text": "Allowed to take, from strangers", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:20", "verse_text": "Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it." }, { "point_text": "True and faithful Israelites never took, from their brethren", "verse_ref": "Psalm 15:5", "verse_text": "He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved." }, { "point_text": "True and faithful Israelites never took, from their brethren", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 18:8-9", "verse_text": "He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man, 9 Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Judgments denounced against those who exacted unlawful", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 24:1-2", "verse_text": "Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. 2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him." }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of the improvement of talents received from God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:27", "verse_text": "Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury." }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of the improvement of talents received from God", "verse_ref": "Luke 19:23", "verse_text": "Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?" } ] }, { "name": "Unbelief", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Unbelief.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is sin", "verse_ref": "John 16:9", "verse_text": "Of sin, because they believe not on me;" }, { "point_text": "Defilement inseparable from", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:15", "verse_text": "Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled." }, { "point_text": "All, by nature, concluded in", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:32", "verse_text": "For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all." }, { "point_text": "PROCEEDS FROM", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "An evil heart", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:12", "verse_text": "Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God." }, { "point_text": "Slowness of heart", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:25", "verse_text": "Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:" }, { "point_text": "Hardness of heart", "verse_ref": "Mark 16:14", "verse_text": "Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen." }, { "point_text": "Hardness of heart", "verse_ref": "Acts 19:9", "verse_text": "But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus." }, { "point_text": "Disinclination to the truth", "verse_ref": "John 8:45-46", "verse_text": "And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. 46 Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?" }, { "point_text": "Judicial blindness", "verse_ref": "John 12:39-40", "verse_text": "Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again, 40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them." }, { "point_text": "Not being Christ's sheep", "verse_ref": "John 10:26", "verse_text": "But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you." }, { "point_text": "The devil blinding the mind", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:4", "verse_text": "In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." }, { "point_text": "The devil taking away the word out of the heart", "verse_ref": "Luke 8:12", "verse_text": "Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved." }, { "point_text": "Seeking honor from men", "verse_ref": "John 5:44", "verse_text": "How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?" }, { "point_text": "Impugns the veracity of God", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:10", "verse_text": "He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son." }, { "point_text": "EXHIBITED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Rejecting Christ", "verse_ref": "John 16:9", "verse_text": "Of sin, because they believe not on me;" }, { "point_text": "Rejecting the word of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 106:24", "verse_text": "Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:" }, { "point_text": "Rejecting the gospel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:1", "verse_text": "Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?" }, { "point_text": "Rejecting the gospel", "verse_ref": "John 12:38", "verse_text": "That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?" }, { "point_text": "Rejecting evidence of miracles", "verse_ref": "John 12:37", "verse_text": "But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him:" }, { "point_text": "Departing from God", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:12", "verse_text": "Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God." }, { "point_text": "Questioning the power of God", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 7:2", "verse_text": "Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof." }, { "point_text": "Questioning the power of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:19-20", "verse_text": "Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? 20 Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?" }, { "point_text": "Not believing the works of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:32", "verse_text": "For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works." }, { "point_text": "Staggering at the promise of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:20", "verse_text": "He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;" }, { "point_text": "Rebuked by Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 17:17", "verse_text": "Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me." }, { "point_text": "Rebuked by Christ", "verse_ref": "John 20:27", "verse_text": "Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing." }, { "point_text": "Was an impediment to the performance of miracles", "verse_ref": "Matthew 17:20", "verse_text": "And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you." }, { "point_text": "Was an impediment to the performance of miracles", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:5", "verse_text": "And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them." }, { "point_text": "Miracles designed to convince those in", "verse_ref": "John 10:37-38", "verse_text": "If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. 38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him." }, { "point_text": "Miracles designed to convince those in", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:22", "verse_text": "Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe." }, { "point_text": "The Jews rejected for", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:20", "verse_text": "Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:" }, { "point_text": "Believers should hold no communion with those in", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:14", "verse_text": "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?" }, { "point_text": "THEY WHO ARE GUILTY OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Have not the word of God in them", "verse_ref": "John 5:38", "verse_text": "And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not." }, { "point_text": "Cannot please God", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:6", "verse_text": "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." }, { "point_text": "Malign the gospel", "verse_ref": "Acts 19:9", "verse_text": "But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus." }, { "point_text": "Persecute the ministers of God", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:31", "verse_text": "That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judaea; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints;" }, { "point_text": "Excite others against saints", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:2", "verse_text": "But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren." }, { "point_text": "Persevere in it", "verse_ref": "John 12:37", "verse_text": "But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him:" }, { "point_text": "Harden their necks", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:14", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God." }, { "point_text": "Are condemned already", "verse_ref": "John 3:18", "verse_text": "He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." }, { "point_text": "Have the wrath of God abiding upon", "verse_ref": "John 3:36", "verse_text": "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him." }, { "point_text": "Shall not be established", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:9", "verse_text": "And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established." }, { "point_text": "Shall die in their sins", "verse_ref": "John 8:24", "verse_text": "I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins." }, { "point_text": "Shall not enter rest", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:19", "verse_text": "So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief." }, { "point_text": "Shall not enter rest", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:11", "verse_text": "Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief." }, { "point_text": "Shall be condemned", "verse_ref": "Mark 16:16", "verse_text": "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned." }, { "point_text": "Shall be condemned", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:12", "verse_text": "That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." }, { "point_text": "Shall be destroyed", "verse_ref": "Jude 5", "verse_text": "I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not." }, { "point_text": "Shall be cast into the lake of five", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:8", "verse_text": "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death." }, { "point_text": "Warnings against", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:12", "verse_text": "Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God." }, { "point_text": "Warnings against", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:11", "verse_text": "Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief." }, { "point_text": "Pray for help against", "verse_ref": "Mark 9:24", "verse_text": "And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief." }, { "point_text": "The portion of, awarded to all unfaithful servants", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:46", "verse_text": "The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEve, \nMoses and Aaron, \nIsraelites, \nNaaman, \nSamaritan lord, \nDisciples, \n\n\nZacharias, \nChief Priests, \nThe Jews, \nBrethren of Christ, \nThomas, \nJews of Iconium, \nThessalonian Jews, \nEphesians, \nSaul, \nPeople of Jericho,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:4-6", "verse_text": "And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEve, \nMoses and Aaron, \nIsraelites, \nNaaman, \nSamaritan lord, \nDisciples, \n\n\nZacharias, \nChief Priests, \nThe Jews, \nBrethren of Christ, \nThomas, \nJews of Iconium, \nThessalonian Jews, \nEphesians, \nSaul, \nPeople of Jericho,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:12", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEve, \nMoses and Aaron, \nIsraelites, \nNaaman, \nSamaritan lord, \nDisciples, \n\n\nZacharias, \nChief Priests, \nThe Jews, \nBrethren of Christ, \nThomas, \nJews of Iconium, \nThessalonian Jews, \nEphesians, \nSaul, \nPeople of Jericho,", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 9:23", "verse_text": "Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEve, \nMoses and Aaron, \nIsraelites, \nNaaman, \nSamaritan lord, \nDisciples, \n\n\nZacharias, \nChief Priests, \nThe Jews, \nBrethren of Christ, \nThomas, \nJews of Iconium, \nThessalonian Jews, \nEphesians, \nSaul, \nPeople of Jericho,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:12", "verse_text": "Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEve, \nMoses and Aaron, \nIsraelites, \nNaaman, \nSamaritan lord, \nDisciples, \n\n\nZacharias, \nChief Priests, \nThe Jews, \nBrethren of Christ, \nThomas, \nJews of Iconium, \nThessalonian Jews, \nEphesians, \nSaul, \nPeople of Jericho,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 7:2", "verse_text": "Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEve, \nMoses and Aaron, \nIsraelites, \nNaaman, \nSamaritan lord, \nDisciples, \n\n\nZacharias, \nChief Priests, \nThe Jews, \nBrethren of Christ, \nThomas, \nJews of Iconium, \nThessalonian Jews, \nEphesians, \nSaul, \nPeople of Jericho,", "verse_ref": "Matthew 17:17", "verse_text": "Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEve, \nMoses and Aaron, \nIsraelites, \nNaaman, \nSamaritan lord, \nDisciples, \n\n\nZacharias, \nChief Priests, \nThe Jews, \nBrethren of Christ, \nThomas, \nJews of Iconium, \nThessalonian Jews, \nEphesians, \nSaul, \nPeople of Jericho,", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:11", "verse_text": "And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEve, \nMoses and Aaron, \nIsraelites, \nNaaman, \nSamaritan lord, \nDisciples, \n\n\nZacharias, \nChief Priests, \nThe Jews, \nBrethren of Christ, \nThomas, \nJews of Iconium, \nThessalonian Jews, \nEphesians, \nSaul, \nPeople of Jericho,", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:25", "verse_text": "Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEve, \nMoses and Aaron, \nIsraelites, \nNaaman, \nSamaritan lord, \nDisciples, \n\n\nZacharias, \nChief Priests, \nThe Jews, \nBrethren of Christ, \nThomas, \nJews of Iconium, \nThessalonian Jews, \nEphesians, \nSaul, \nPeople of Jericho,", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:20", "verse_text": "And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEve, \nMoses and Aaron, \nIsraelites, \nNaaman, \nSamaritan lord, \nDisciples, \n\n\nZacharias, \nChief Priests, \nThe Jews, \nBrethren of Christ, \nThomas, \nJews of Iconium, \nThessalonian Jews, \nEphesians, \nSaul, \nPeople of Jericho,", "verse_ref": "Luke 22:67", "verse_text": "Art thou the Christ? tell us. And he said unto them, If I tell you, ye will not believe:" }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEve, \nMoses and Aaron, \nIsraelites, \nNaaman, \nSamaritan lord, \nDisciples, \n\n\nZacharias, \nChief Priests, \nThe Jews, \nBrethren of Christ, \nThomas, \nJews of Iconium, \nThessalonian Jews, \nEphesians, \nSaul, \nPeople of Jericho,", "verse_ref": "John 5:38", "verse_text": "And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEve, \nMoses and Aaron, \nIsraelites, \nNaaman, \nSamaritan lord, \nDisciples, \n\n\nZacharias, \nChief Priests, \nThe Jews, \nBrethren of Christ, \nThomas, \nJews of Iconium, \nThessalonian Jews, \nEphesians, \nSaul, \nPeople of Jericho,", "verse_ref": "John 7:5", "verse_text": "For neither did his brethren believe in him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEve, \nMoses and Aaron, \nIsraelites, \nNaaman, \nSamaritan lord, \nDisciples, \n\n\nZacharias, \nChief Priests, \nThe Jews, \nBrethren of Christ, \nThomas, \nJews of Iconium, \nThessalonian Jews, \nEphesians, \nSaul, \nPeople of Jericho,", "verse_ref": "John 20:25", "verse_text": "The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEve, \nMoses and Aaron, \nIsraelites, \nNaaman, \nSamaritan lord, \nDisciples, \n\n\nZacharias, \nChief Priests, \nThe Jews, \nBrethren of Christ, \nThomas, \nJews of Iconium, \nThessalonian Jews, \nEphesians, \nSaul, \nPeople of Jericho,", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:2", "verse_text": "But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEve, \nMoses and Aaron, \nIsraelites, \nNaaman, \nSamaritan lord, \nDisciples, \n\n\nZacharias, \nChief Priests, \nThe Jews, \nBrethren of Christ, \nThomas, \nJews of Iconium, \nThessalonian Jews, \nEphesians, \nSaul, \nPeople of Jericho,", "verse_ref": "Acts 17:5", "verse_text": "But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEve, \nMoses and Aaron, \nIsraelites, \nNaaman, \nSamaritan lord, \nDisciples, \n\n\nZacharias, \nChief Priests, \nThe Jews, \nBrethren of Christ, \nThomas, \nJews of Iconium, \nThessalonian Jews, \nEphesians, \nSaul, \nPeople of Jericho,", "verse_ref": "Acts 19:9", "verse_text": "But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEve, \nMoses and Aaron, \nIsraelites, \nNaaman, \nSamaritan lord, \nDisciples, \n\n\nZacharias, \nChief Priests, \nThe Jews, \nBrethren of Christ, \nThomas, \nJews of Iconium, \nThessalonian Jews, \nEphesians, \nSaul, \nPeople of Jericho,", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:13", "verse_text": "Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nEve, \nMoses and Aaron, \nIsraelites, \nNaaman, \nSamaritan lord, \nDisciples, \n\n\nZacharias, \nChief Priests, \nThe Jews, \nBrethren of Christ, \nThomas, \nJews of Iconium, \nThessalonian Jews, \nEphesians, \nSaul, \nPeople of Jericho,", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:31", "verse_text": "By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace." } ] }, { "name": "Types of Christ", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Types-of-Christ.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Adam", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:14", "verse_text": "Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come." }, { "point_text": "Adam", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:45", "verse_text": "And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit." }, { "point_text": "Abel", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:8", "verse_text": "And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him." }, { "point_text": "Abel", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:10", "verse_text": "And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground." }, { "point_text": "Abraham", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:5", "verse_text": "Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee." }, { "point_text": "Abraham", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:15", "verse_text": "Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named," }, { "point_text": "Aaron", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:1", "verse_text": "And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons." }, { "point_text": "Aaron", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 5:4-5", "verse_text": "And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron. 5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee." }, { "point_text": "Ark", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:16", "verse_text": "And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in." }, { "point_text": "Ark", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:20-21", "verse_text": "Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. 21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Ark of the covenant", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:16", "verse_text": "And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee." }, { "point_text": "Ark of the covenant", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:8", "verse_text": "I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart." }, { "point_text": "Ark of the covenant", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:6", "verse_text": "I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;" }, { "point_text": "Atonement, sacrifices offered on the day of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:15-16", "verse_text": "Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat: 16 And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness." }, { "point_text": "Brazen serpent", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:9", "verse_text": "And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived." }, { "point_text": "Brazen serpent", "verse_ref": "John 3:14-15", "verse_text": "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." }, { "point_text": "Brazen altar", "verse_ref": "Exodus 27:1-2", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits. 2 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass." }, { "point_text": "Burnt offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:2", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock." }, { "point_text": "Burnt offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:4", "verse_text": "And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him." }, { "point_text": "Cities of refuge", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:6", "verse_text": "And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites there shall be six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add forty and two cities." }, { "point_text": "Cities of refuge", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:18", "verse_text": "That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:" }, { "point_text": "David", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:15", "verse_text": "And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and justice unto all his people." }, { "point_text": "David", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 37:24", "verse_text": "And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them." }, { "point_text": "David", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:19-20", "verse_text": "Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. 20 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:" }, { "point_text": "Eliakim", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:20-22", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: 21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. 22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open." }, { "point_text": "Eliakim", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:7", "verse_text": "And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;" }, { "point_text": "First-fruits", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:29", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me." }, { "point_text": "First-fruits", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:20", "verse_text": "But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept." }, { "point_text": "Golden candlestick", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:31", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same." }, { "point_text": "Golden candlestick", "verse_ref": "John 8:12", "verse_text": "Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." }, { "point_text": "Golden altar", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:5", "verse_text": "And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle." }, { "point_text": "Golden altar", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:26-27", "verse_text": "And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the vail: 27 And he burnt sweet incense thereon; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "Isaac", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:1-2", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. 2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of." }, { "point_text": "Jacob", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:28", "verse_text": "And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed." }, { "point_text": "Jacob", "verse_ref": "John 11:42", "verse_text": "And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me." }, { "point_text": "Jacob", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:25", "verse_text": "Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them." }, { "point_text": "Jacob's ladder", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:12", "verse_text": "And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it." }, { "point_text": "Jacob's ladder", "verse_ref": "John 1:51", "verse_text": "And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man." }, { "point_text": "Joseph", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:19-20", "verse_text": "And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God? 20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive." }, { "point_text": "Joshua", "verse_ref": "Joshua 1:5-6", "verse_text": "There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. 6 Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them." }, { "point_text": "Jonah", "verse_ref": "Jonah 1:17", "verse_text": "Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights." }, { "point_text": "Jonah", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:40", "verse_text": "For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Laver of brass", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:18-20", "verse_text": "Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein. 19 For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat: 20 When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Laver of brass", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 13:1", "verse_text": "In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness." }, { "point_text": "Laver of brass", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:26-27", "verse_text": "That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish." }, { "point_text": "Leper's offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:4-7", "verse_text": "Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: 5 And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water: 6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water: 7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field." }, { "point_text": "Leper's offering", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:25", "verse_text": "Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification." }, { "point_text": "Manna", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:11-15", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God. 13 And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host. 14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground. ..." }, { "point_text": "Manna", "verse_ref": "John 6:32-35", "verse_text": "Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. 34 Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. 35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst." }, { "point_text": "Melchizedek", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:18-20", "verse_text": "And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. 19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: 20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all." }, { "point_text": "Melchizedek", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:1-17", "verse_text": "For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; 2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace; 3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually. 4 Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils. ..." }, { "point_text": "Mercy-seat", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:17-22", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof. 18 And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat. 19 And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof. 20 And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be. ..." }, { "point_text": "Mercy-seat", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:25", "verse_text": "Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;" }, { "point_text": "Mercy-seat", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:16", "verse_text": "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." }, { "point_text": "Morning and evening sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:38-41", "verse_text": "Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually. 39 The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even: 40 And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering. 41 And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Morning and evening sacrifices", "verse_ref": "John 1:29", "verse_text": "The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." }, { "point_text": "Morning and evening sacrifices", "verse_ref": "John 1:36", "verse_text": "And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!" }, { "point_text": "Moses", "verse_ref": "Numbers 12:7", "verse_text": "My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house." }, { "point_text": "Moses", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:2", "verse_text": "Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house." }, { "point_text": "Moses", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:15", "verse_text": "The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;" }, { "point_text": "Moses", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:20-22", "verse_text": "And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: 21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. 22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you." }, { "point_text": "Noah", "verse_ref": "Genesis 5:29", "verse_text": "And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed." }, { "point_text": "Noah", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:5", "verse_text": "For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ." }, { "point_text": "Paschal lamb", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:3-6", "verse_text": "Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: 4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: 6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening." }, { "point_text": "Paschal lamb", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:46", "verse_text": "In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof." }, { "point_text": "Peace-offerings", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 3:1", "verse_text": "And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Peace-offerings", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:14", "verse_text": "For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;" }, { "point_text": "Peace-offerings", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:16", "verse_text": "And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:" }, { "point_text": "Red heifer", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:2-6", "verse_text": "This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke: 3 And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face: 4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times: 5 And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn: ..." }, { "point_text": "Red heifer", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:13-14", "verse_text": "For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" }, { "point_text": "Rock of Horeb", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:6", "verse_text": "Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Rock of Horeb", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:4", "verse_text": "And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ." }, { "point_text": "Samson", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:30", "verse_text": "And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life." }, { "point_text": "Samson", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:14-15", "verse_text": "Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; 15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it." }, { "point_text": "Scape-goat", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:20-22", "verse_text": "And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat: 21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: 22 And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "Scape-goat", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:6", "verse_text": "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." }, { "point_text": "Scape-goat", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:12", "verse_text": "Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." }, { "point_text": "Sin-offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:2-3", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them: 3 If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering." }, { "point_text": "Sin-offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:12", "verse_text": "Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt." }, { "point_text": "Solomon", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:12-13", "verse_text": "And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever." }, { "point_text": "Tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:2", "verse_text": "On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "Tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:34", "verse_text": "Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle." }, { "point_text": "Table and show-bread", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:23-30", "verse_text": "Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. 24 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about. 25 And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about. 26 And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof. ..." }, { "point_text": "Table and show-bread", "verse_ref": "John 1:16", "verse_text": "And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace." }, { "point_text": "Table and show-bread", "verse_ref": "John 6:48", "verse_text": "I am that bread of life." }, { "point_text": "Temple", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Temple", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:38", "verse_text": "And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it." }, { "point_text": "Tree of life", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:9", "verse_text": "And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil." }, { "point_text": "Tree of life", "verse_ref": "John 1:4", "verse_text": "In him was life; and the life was the light of men." }, { "point_text": "Tree of life", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:2", "verse_text": "In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations." }, { "point_text": "Trespass-offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:1-7", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour; 3 Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein: 4 Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found, ..." }, { "point_text": "Trespass-offering", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:10", "verse_text": "Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand." }, { "point_text": "Vail of the tabernacle and temple", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:21", "verse_text": "And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the vail of the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "Vail of the tabernacle and temple", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:14", "verse_text": "And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon." }, { "point_text": "Vail of the tabernacle and temple", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:20", "verse_text": "By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;" }, { "point_text": "Zerubbabel", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 4:7-9", "verse_text": "Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it. 8 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you." }, { "point_text": "Zerubbabel", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:2-3", "verse_text": "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds." }, { "point_text": "Adam", "verse_ref": "Romans 5:14", "verse_text": "Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come." }, { "point_text": "Adam", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:45", "verse_text": "And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit." }, { "point_text": "Abel", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:8", "verse_text": "And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him." }, { "point_text": "Abel", "verse_ref": "Genesis 4:10", "verse_text": "And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground." }, { "point_text": "Abraham", "verse_ref": "Genesis 17:5", "verse_text": "Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee." }, { "point_text": "Abraham", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:15", "verse_text": "Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named," }, { "point_text": "Aaron", "verse_ref": "Exodus 28:1", "verse_text": "And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons." }, { "point_text": "Aaron", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 5:4-5", "verse_text": "And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron. 5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee." }, { "point_text": "Ark", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:16", "verse_text": "And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in." }, { "point_text": "Ark", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:20-21", "verse_text": "Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. 21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Ark of the covenant", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:16", "verse_text": "And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee." }, { "point_text": "Ark of the covenant", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:8", "verse_text": "I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart." }, { "point_text": "Ark of the covenant", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:6", "verse_text": "I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;" }, { "point_text": "Atonement, sacrifices offered on the day of", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:15-16", "verse_text": "Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat: 16 And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness." }, { "point_text": "Brazen serpent", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:9", "verse_text": "And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived." }, { "point_text": "Brazen serpent", "verse_ref": "John 3:14-15", "verse_text": "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." }, { "point_text": "Brazen altar", "verse_ref": "Exodus 27:1-2", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits. 2 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass." }, { "point_text": "Burnt offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:2", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock." }, { "point_text": "Burnt offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 1:4", "verse_text": "And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him." }, { "point_text": "Cities of refuge", "verse_ref": "Numbers 35:6", "verse_text": "And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites there shall be six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add forty and two cities." }, { "point_text": "Cities of refuge", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:18", "verse_text": "That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:" }, { "point_text": "David", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:15", "verse_text": "And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and justice unto all his people." }, { "point_text": "David", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 37:24", "verse_text": "And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them." }, { "point_text": "David", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:19-20", "verse_text": "Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. 20 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:" }, { "point_text": "Eliakim", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:20-22", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: 21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. 22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open." }, { "point_text": "Eliakim", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:7", "verse_text": "And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;" }, { "point_text": "First-fruits", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:29", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me." }, { "point_text": "First-fruits", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:20", "verse_text": "But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept." }, { "point_text": "Golden candlestick", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:31", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same." }, { "point_text": "Golden candlestick", "verse_ref": "John 8:12", "verse_text": "Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." }, { "point_text": "Golden altar", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:5", "verse_text": "And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle." }, { "point_text": "Golden altar", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:26-27", "verse_text": "And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the vail: 27 And he burnt sweet incense thereon; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "Isaac", "verse_ref": "Genesis 22:1-2", "verse_text": "And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. 2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of." }, { "point_text": "Jacob", "verse_ref": "Genesis 32:28", "verse_text": "And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed." }, { "point_text": "Jacob", "verse_ref": "John 11:42", "verse_text": "And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me." }, { "point_text": "Jacob", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:25", "verse_text": "Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them." }, { "point_text": "Jacob's ladder", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:12", "verse_text": "And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it." }, { "point_text": "Jacob's ladder", "verse_ref": "John 1:51", "verse_text": "And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man." }, { "point_text": "Joseph", "verse_ref": "Genesis 50:19-20", "verse_text": "And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God? 20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive." }, { "point_text": "Joshua", "verse_ref": "Joshua 1:5-6", "verse_text": "There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. 6 Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them." }, { "point_text": "Jonah", "verse_ref": "Jonah 1:17", "verse_text": "Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights." }, { "point_text": "Jonah", "verse_ref": "Matthew 12:40", "verse_text": "For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Laver of brass", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:18-20", "verse_text": "Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein. 19 For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat: 20 When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Laver of brass", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 13:1", "verse_text": "In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness." }, { "point_text": "Laver of brass", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:26-27", "verse_text": "That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish." }, { "point_text": "Leper's offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:4-7", "verse_text": "Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: 5 And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water: 6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water: 7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field." }, { "point_text": "Leper's offering", "verse_ref": "Romans 4:25", "verse_text": "Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification." }, { "point_text": "Manna", "verse_ref": "Exodus 16:11-15", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God. 13 And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host. 14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground. ..." }, { "point_text": "Manna", "verse_ref": "John 6:32-35", "verse_text": "Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. 34 Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. 35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst." }, { "point_text": "Melchizedek", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:18-20", "verse_text": "And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. 19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: 20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all." }, { "point_text": "Melchizedek", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 7:1-17", "verse_text": "For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; 2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace; 3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually. 4 Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils. ..." }, { "point_text": "Mercy-seat", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:17-22", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof. 18 And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat. 19 And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof. 20 And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be. ..." }, { "point_text": "Mercy-seat", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:25", "verse_text": "Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;" }, { "point_text": "Mercy-seat", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 4:16", "verse_text": "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." }, { "point_text": "Morning and evening sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:38-41", "verse_text": "Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually. 39 The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even: 40 And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering. 41 And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Morning and evening sacrifices", "verse_ref": "John 1:29", "verse_text": "The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." }, { "point_text": "Morning and evening sacrifices", "verse_ref": "John 1:36", "verse_text": "And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!" }, { "point_text": "Moses", "verse_ref": "Numbers 12:7", "verse_text": "My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house." }, { "point_text": "Moses", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 3:2", "verse_text": "Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house." }, { "point_text": "Moses", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:15", "verse_text": "The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;" }, { "point_text": "Moses", "verse_ref": "Acts 3:20-22", "verse_text": "And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: 21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. 22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you." }, { "point_text": "Noah", "verse_ref": "Genesis 5:29", "verse_text": "And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed." }, { "point_text": "Noah", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 1:5", "verse_text": "For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ." }, { "point_text": "Paschal lamb", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:3-6", "verse_text": "Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: 4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: 6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening." }, { "point_text": "Paschal lamb", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:46", "verse_text": "In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof." }, { "point_text": "Peace-offerings", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 3:1", "verse_text": "And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Peace-offerings", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:14", "verse_text": "For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;" }, { "point_text": "Peace-offerings", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:16", "verse_text": "And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:" }, { "point_text": "Red heifer", "verse_ref": "Numbers 19:2-6", "verse_text": "This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke: 3 And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face: 4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times: 5 And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn: ..." }, { "point_text": "Red heifer", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:13-14", "verse_text": "For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" }, { "point_text": "Rock of Horeb", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:6", "verse_text": "Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Rock of Horeb", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 10:4", "verse_text": "And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ." }, { "point_text": "Samson", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:30", "verse_text": "And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life." }, { "point_text": "Samson", "verse_ref": "Colossians 2:14-15", "verse_text": "Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; 15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it." }, { "point_text": "Scape-goat", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:20-22", "verse_text": "And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat: 21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: 22 And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "Scape-goat", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:6", "verse_text": "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." }, { "point_text": "Scape-goat", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:12", "verse_text": "Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." }, { "point_text": "Sin-offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:2-3", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them: 3 If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering." }, { "point_text": "Sin-offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 4:12", "verse_text": "Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt." }, { "point_text": "Solomon", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:12-13", "verse_text": "And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever." }, { "point_text": "Tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:2", "verse_text": "On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "Tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:34", "verse_text": "Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle." }, { "point_text": "Table and show-bread", "verse_ref": "Exodus 25:23-30", "verse_text": "Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. 24 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about. 25 And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about. 26 And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof. ..." }, { "point_text": "Table and show-bread", "verse_ref": "John 1:16", "verse_text": "And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace." }, { "point_text": "Table and show-bread", "verse_ref": "John 6:48", "verse_text": "I am that bread of life." }, { "point_text": "Temple", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Temple", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 6:38", "verse_text": "And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it." }, { "point_text": "Tree of life", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:9", "verse_text": "And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil." }, { "point_text": "Tree of life", "verse_ref": "John 1:4", "verse_text": "In him was life; and the life was the light of men." }, { "point_text": "Tree of life", "verse_ref": "Revelation 22:2", "verse_text": "In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations." }, { "point_text": "Trespass-offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 6:1-7", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour; 3 Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein: 4 Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found, ..." }, { "point_text": "Trespass-offering", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:10", "verse_text": "Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand." }, { "point_text": "Vail of the tabernacle and temple", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:21", "verse_text": "And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the vail of the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "Vail of the tabernacle and temple", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:14", "verse_text": "And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon." }, { "point_text": "Vail of the tabernacle and temple", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:20", "verse_text": "By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;" }, { "point_text": "Zerubbabel", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 4:7-9", "verse_text": "Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it. 8 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you." }, { "point_text": "Zerubbabel", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:2-3", "verse_text": "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds." } ] }, { "name": "Vail or Veil", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Vail-or-Veil.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "A covering for the head usually worn by women", "verse_ref": "Genesis 38:14", "verse_text": "And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife." }, { "point_text": "WAS WORN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "As a token of modesty", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:65", "verse_text": "For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself." }, { "point_text": "As a token of subjection", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:3", "verse_text": "But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God." }, { "point_text": "As a token of subjection", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:6-7", "verse_text": "For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered. 7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man." }, { "point_text": "As a token of subjection", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:10", "verse_text": "For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels." }, { "point_text": "For concealment", "verse_ref": "Genesis 38:14", "verse_text": "And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife." }, { "point_text": "The removing of, considered rude and insolent", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:7", "verse_text": "The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me." }, { "point_text": "Removing of, threatened as a punishment to ungodly women", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:23", "verse_text": "The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails." }, { "point_text": "Moses put one on to conceal the glory of his face", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:33", "verse_text": "And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face." }, { "point_text": "Moses put one on to conceal the glory of his face", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 3:13", "verse_text": "And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:" }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the spiritual blindness of the Gentile nations", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 25:7", "verse_text": "And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations." }, { "point_text": "Of the spiritual blindness of the Jewish nation", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 3:14-16", "verse_text": "But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ. 15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. 16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away." } ] }, { "name": "Vail, the Sacred", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Vail-the-Sacred.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Moses commanded to make", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:31", "verse_text": "And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:" }, { "point_text": "Made by Bezaleel for the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Exodus 36:35", "verse_text": "And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work." }, { "point_text": "Suspended from four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:32", "verse_text": "And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver." }, { "point_text": "Hung between the holy and most holy place", "verse_ref": "Exodus 26:33", "verse_text": "And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy." }, { "point_text": "Hung between the holy and most holy place", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:3", "verse_text": "And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;" }, { "point_text": "Designed to conceal the ark, mercy-seat, and the symbol of the divine presence", "verse_ref": "Exodus 40:3", "verse_text": "And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the vail." }, { "point_text": "THE HIGH PRIEST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Alone allowed to enter within", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:6-7", "verse_text": "Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God. 7 But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:" }, { "point_text": "Allowed to enter but once a year", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:2", "verse_text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat." }, { "point_text": "Allowed to enter but once a year", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:7", "verse_text": "But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:" }, { "point_text": "Could not enter without blood", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 16:3", "verse_text": "Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering." }, { "point_text": "Could not enter without blood", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:7", "verse_text": "But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:" }, { "point_text": "Made by Solomon for the temple", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 3:14", "verse_text": "And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon." }, { "point_text": "Was rent at the death of our Lord", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:51", "verse_text": "And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;" }, { "point_text": "Was rent at the death of our Lord", "verse_ref": "Mark 15:38", "verse_text": "And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom." }, { "point_text": "Was rent at the death of our Lord", "verse_ref": "Luke 23:45", "verse_text": "And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the obscurity of the Mosaic dispensation", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:8", "verse_text": "The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:" }, { "point_text": "Of the flesh of Christ which concealed His divinity", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:20", "verse_text": "By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;" }, { "point_text": "Of the flesh of Christ which concealed His divinity", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 53:2", "verse_text": "For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him." }, { "point_text": "(Rending of,) of the death of Christ which opened heaven to saints", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:19-20", "verse_text": "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;" } ] }, { "name": "Vanity", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Vanity.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "A consequence of the fall", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:20", "verse_text": "For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope," }, { "point_text": "Every man is", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:11", "verse_text": "When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Every state of man is", "verse_ref": "Psalm 62:9", "verse_text": "Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity." }, { "point_text": "Man at his best estate is", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:5", "verse_text": "Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah." }, { "point_text": "Man is like to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 144:4", "verse_text": "Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away." }, { "point_text": "The thoughts of man are", "verse_ref": "Psalm 94:11", "verse_text": "The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity." }, { "point_text": "The days of man are", "verse_ref": "Job 7:16", "verse_text": "I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity." }, { "point_text": "The days of man are", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 6:12", "verse_text": "For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?" }, { "point_text": "Childhood and youth are", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 11:10", "verse_text": "Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity." }, { "point_text": "The beauty of man is", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:11", "verse_text": "When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah." }, { "point_text": "The beauty of man is", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:30", "verse_text": "Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised." }, { "point_text": "The help of man is", "verse_ref": "Psalm 60:11", "verse_text": "Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man." }, { "point_text": "The help of man is", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 4:17", "verse_text": "As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us." }, { "point_text": "Man's own righteousness is", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:12", "verse_text": "I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee." }, { "point_text": "Worldly wisdom is", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:15", "verse_text": "Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity." }, { "point_text": "Worldly wisdom is", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:21", "verse_text": "For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil." }, { "point_text": "Worldly wisdom is", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 3:20", "verse_text": "And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain." }, { "point_text": "Worldly pleasure is", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:1", "verse_text": "I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity." }, { "point_text": "Worldly anxiety is", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:6", "verse_text": "Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them." }, { "point_text": "Worldly anxiety is", "verse_ref": "Psalm 127:2", "verse_text": "It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep." }, { "point_text": "Worldly labor is", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:11", "verse_text": "Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." }, { "point_text": "Worldly labor is", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 4:4", "verse_text": "Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit." }, { "point_text": "Worldly enjoyment is", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:3", "verse_text": "I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life." }, { "point_text": "Worldly enjoyment is", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:10-11", "verse_text": "And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. 11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." }, { "point_text": "Worldly possessions are", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:4-11", "verse_text": "I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: 5 I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: 6 I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees: 7 I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me: ..." }, { "point_text": "Treasures of wickedness are", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:2", "verse_text": "Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death." }, { "point_text": "Heaping up riches is", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 2:26", "verse_text": "For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit." }, { "point_text": "Heaping up riches is", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 4:8", "verse_text": "There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail." }, { "point_text": "Love of riches is", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 5:10", "verse_text": "He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity." }, { "point_text": "Unblessed riches are", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 6:2", "verse_text": "A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease." }, { "point_text": "Riches gotten by falsehood are", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:6", "verse_text": "The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death." }, { "point_text": "All earthly things are", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 1:2", "verse_text": "Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity." }, { "point_text": "Foolish questions, &c. are", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:6", "verse_text": "From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;" }, { "point_text": "Foolish questions, &c. are", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:20", "verse_text": "O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:" }, { "point_text": "Foolish questions, &c. are", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:14", "verse_text": "Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers." }, { "point_text": "Foolish questions, &c. are", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:16", "verse_text": "But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness." }, { "point_text": "The conduct of the ungodly is", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 1:18", "verse_text": "Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;" }, { "point_text": "The religion of hypocrites is", "verse_ref": "James 1:26", "verse_text": "If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." }, { "point_text": "The worship of the wicked is", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:13", "verse_text": "Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting." }, { "point_text": "The worship of the wicked is", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:7", "verse_text": "But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking." }, { "point_text": "Lying words are", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:8", "verse_text": "Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit." }, { "point_text": "False teaching is but", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:32", "verse_text": "Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Mere external religion is", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 4:8", "verse_text": "For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." }, { "point_text": "Mere external religion is", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:9", "verse_text": "Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein." }, { "point_text": "Almsgiving without charity is", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 13:3", "verse_text": "And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." }, { "point_text": "Faith without works is", "verse_ref": "James 2:14", "verse_text": "What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?" }, { "point_text": "Idolatry is", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 17:15", "verse_text": "And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them." }, { "point_text": "Idolatry is", "verse_ref": "Psalm 31:6", "verse_text": "I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Idolatry is", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:9-10", "verse_text": "They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. 10 Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?" }, { "point_text": "Wealth gotten by, diminishes", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 13:11", "verse_text": "Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Hate the thoughts of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:113", "verse_text": "SAMECH. I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love." }, { "point_text": "Pray to be kept from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:37", "verse_text": "Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way." }, { "point_text": "Pray to be kept from", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:8", "verse_text": "Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:" }, { "point_text": "Avoid", "verse_ref": "Psalm 24:4", "verse_text": "He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully." }, { "point_text": "Avoid those given to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 26:4", "verse_text": "I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers." }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Especially characterized by", "verse_ref": "Job 11:11", "verse_text": "For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?" }, { "point_text": "Though full of, affect to be wise", "verse_ref": "Job 11:12", "verse_text": "For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt." }, { "point_text": "Love", "verse_ref": "Psalm 4:2", "verse_text": "O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah." }, { "point_text": "Imagine", "verse_ref": "Psalm 2:1", "verse_text": "Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?" }, { "point_text": "Imagine", "verse_ref": "Acts 4:25", "verse_text": "Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?" }, { "point_text": "Imagine", "verse_ref": "Romans 1:21", "verse_text": "Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened." }, { "point_text": "Devise.\r\n\r\n (See marg.)", "verse_ref": "Psalm 36:4", "verse_text": "He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil." }, { "point_text": "Speak", "verse_ref": "Psalm 10:7", "verse_text": "His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity." }, { "point_text": "Speak", "verse_ref": "Psalm 12:2", "verse_text": "They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak." }, { "point_text": "Speak", "verse_ref": "Psalm 41:6", "verse_text": "And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it." }, { "point_text": "Count God's service as", "verse_ref": "Job 21:15", "verse_text": "What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?" }, { "point_text": "Count God's service as", "verse_ref": "Malachi 3:14", "verse_text": "Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?" }, { "point_text": "Allure others by words of", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:18", "verse_text": "For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error." }, { "point_text": "Walk after", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:5", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?" }, { "point_text": "Walk in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:6", "verse_text": "Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them." }, { "point_text": "Walk in", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:17", "verse_text": "This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind," }, { "point_text": "Inherit", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 16:19", "verse_text": "O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit." }, { "point_text": "Reap", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 22:8", "verse_text": "He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail." }, { "point_text": "Reap", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 12:13", "verse_text": "They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Judicially given up to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:33", "verse_text": "Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble." }, { "point_text": "Judicially given up to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:13", "verse_text": "When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;" }, { "point_text": "Fools follow those given to", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:11", "verse_text": "He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding." }, { "point_text": "Following those given to, leads to poverty", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 28:19", "verse_text": "He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough." }, { "point_text": "They who trust in, rewarded with", "verse_ref": "Job 15:31", "verse_text": "Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence." } ] }, { "name": "Valleys", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Valleys.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Tracts of land between mountains", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:3", "verse_text": "And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them." }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Vales", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:7", "verse_text": "Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates." }, { "point_text": "Vales", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:40", "verse_text": "So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded." }, { "point_text": "Dales", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:17", "verse_text": "And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale." }, { "point_text": "Dales", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 18:18", "verse_text": "Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place." }, { "point_text": "Fat valleys, when fruitful", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:1", "verse_text": "Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!" }, { "point_text": "Fat valleys, when fruitful", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:4", "verse_text": "And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up." }, { "point_text": "Rough valleys, when uncultivated and barren", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 21:4", "verse_text": "And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:" }, { "point_text": "Watered by mountain streams", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:8", "verse_text": "They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them." }, { "point_text": "Watered by mountain streams", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:10", "verse_text": "He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills." }, { "point_text": "Canaan abounded in", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:11", "verse_text": "But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:" }, { "point_text": "ABOUNDED WITH", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Fountains and springs", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:7", "verse_text": "For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;" }, { "point_text": "Fountains and springs", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:18", "verse_text": "I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water." }, { "point_text": "Rocks and caves", "verse_ref": "Job 30:6", "verse_text": "To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks." }, { "point_text": "Rocks and caves", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:5", "verse_text": "Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?" }, { "point_text": "Trees", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 10:27", "verse_text": "And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance." }, { "point_text": "Lily of the valley", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:1", "verse_text": "I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys." }, { "point_text": "Ravens", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:17", "verse_text": "The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it." }, { "point_text": "Doves", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 7:16", "verse_text": "But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Of Israel well tilled and fruitful", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 6:13", "verse_text": "And they of Bethshemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it." }, { "point_text": "Of Israel well tilled and fruitful", "verse_ref": "Psalm 65:13", "verse_text": "The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing." }, { "point_text": "Often the scenes of idolatrous rites", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:5", "verse_text": "Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?" }, { "point_text": "The heathen supposed that certain deities presided over", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:23", "verse_text": "And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their gods are gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they." }, { "point_text": "The heathen supposed that certain deities presided over", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:28", "verse_text": "And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The Canaanites held possession of, against Judah", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:19", "verse_text": "And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron." }, { "point_text": "Often the scenes of great contests", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:15", "verse_text": "And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart." }, { "point_text": "Often the scenes of great contests", "verse_ref": "Judges 7:8", "verse_text": "So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley." }, { "point_text": "Often the scenes of great contests", "verse_ref": "Judges 7:22", "verse_text": "And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath." }, { "point_text": "Often the scenes of great contests", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:19", "verse_text": "Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines." }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Achor", "verse_ref": "Joshua 7:24", "verse_text": "And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor." }, { "point_text": "Achor", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:10", "verse_text": "And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me." }, { "point_text": "Achor", "verse_ref": "Hosea 2:5", "verse_text": "For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink." }, { "point_text": "Ajalon", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:12", "verse_text": "Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon." }, { "point_text": "Baca", "verse_ref": "Psalm 84:6", "verse_text": "Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools." }, { "point_text": "Berachah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 20:26", "verse_text": "And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Bochim", "verse_ref": "Judges 2:5", "verse_text": "And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Charashim", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 4:14", "verse_text": "And Meonothai begat Ophrah: and Seraiah begat Joab, the father of the valley of Charashim; for they were craftsmen." }, { "point_text": "Elah", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 17:2", "verse_text": "And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines." }, { "point_text": "Elah", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 21:9", "verse_text": "And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me." }, { "point_text": "Eshcol", "verse_ref": "Numbers 32:9", "verse_text": "For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them." }, { "point_text": "Eshcol", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:24", "verse_text": "And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out." }, { "point_text": "Gad.\r\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:5", "verse_text": "And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer:" }, { "point_text": "Gerar", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:17", "verse_text": "And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there." }, { "point_text": "Gibeon", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:21", "verse_text": "For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act." }, { "point_text": "Hebron", "verse_ref": "Genesis 37:14", "verse_text": "And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem." }, { "point_text": "Hinnom or Tophet", "verse_ref": "Joshua 18:16", "verse_text": "And the border came down to the end of the mountain that lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended to Enrogel," }, { "point_text": "Hinnom or Tophet", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:10", "verse_text": "And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech." }, { "point_text": "Hinnom or Tophet", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 28:3", "verse_text": "Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Hinnom or Tophet", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:32", "verse_text": "Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place." }, { "point_text": "Jehoshaphat or decision", "verse_ref": "Joel 3:2", "verse_text": "I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land." }, { "point_text": "Jehoshaphat or decision", "verse_ref": "Joel 3:14", "verse_text": "Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision." }, { "point_text": "Jericho", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 34:3", "verse_text": "And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar." }, { "point_text": "Jezreel", "verse_ref": "Hosea 1:5", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel." }, { "point_text": "Jephthah-el", "verse_ref": "Joshua 19:14", "verse_text": "And the border compasseth it on the north side to Hannathon: and the outgoings thereof are in the valley of Jiphthahel:" }, { "point_text": "Jephthah-el", "verse_ref": "Joshua 19:27", "verse_text": "And turneth toward the sunrising to Bethdagon, and reacheth to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthahel toward the north side of Bethemek, and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul on the left hand," }, { "point_text": "Keziz", "verse_ref": "Joshua 18:21", "verse_text": "Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Bethhoglah, and the valley of Keziz," }, { "point_text": "Lebanon", "verse_ref": "Joshua 11:17", "verse_text": "Even from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them." }, { "point_text": "Megiddo", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 35:22", "verse_text": "Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo." }, { "point_text": "Megiddo", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 12:11", "verse_text": "In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon." }, { "point_text": "Moab where Moses was buried", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 34:6", "verse_text": "And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Passengers or Hamon-gog", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 39:11", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog." }, { "point_text": "Rephaim or giants", "verse_ref": "Joshua 15:8", "verse_text": "And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward:" }, { "point_text": "Rephaim or giants", "verse_ref": "Joshua 18:16", "verse_text": "And the border came down to the end of the mountain that lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended to Enrogel," }, { "point_text": "Rephaim or giants", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 5:18", "verse_text": "The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim." }, { "point_text": "Rephaim or giants", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 17:5", "verse_text": "And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim." }, { "point_text": "Salt", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 8:13", "verse_text": "And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men." }, { "point_text": "Salt", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 14:17", "verse_text": "And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years." }, { "point_text": "Shaveh or king's dale", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:17", "verse_text": "And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale." }, { "point_text": "Shaveh or king's dale", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 18:18", "verse_text": "Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place." }, { "point_text": "Shittim", "verse_ref": "Joel 3:18", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim." }, { "point_text": "Siddim", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:3", "verse_text": "All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea." }, { "point_text": "Siddim", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:8", "verse_text": "And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;" }, { "point_text": "Sorek", "verse_ref": "Judges 16:4", "verse_text": "And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah." }, { "point_text": "Succoth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 60:6", "verse_text": "God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth." }, { "point_text": "Zared", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:12", "verse_text": "From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared." }, { "point_text": "Zeboim", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 13:18", "verse_text": "And another company turned the way to Bethhoron: and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness." }, { "point_text": "Zephathah", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 14:10", "verse_text": "Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah." }, { "point_text": "To be filled with hostile chariots, threatened as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:7", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate." }, { "point_text": "MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The moon made to stand still over Ajalon", "verse_ref": "Joshua 10:12", "verse_text": "Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon." }, { "point_text": "Ditches in, filled with water", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 3:16-17", "verse_text": "And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches. 17 For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts." }, { "point_text": "Water in, made to appear to the Moabites like blood", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 3:22-23", "verse_text": "And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood: 23 And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the church of Christ", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 6:11", "verse_text": "I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded." }, { "point_text": "(Fruitful and well watered,) of the tents of Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:6", "verse_text": "As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters." }, { "point_text": "(Dark,) of affliction and death", "verse_ref": "Psalm 23:4", "verse_text": "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." }, { "point_text": "(Filling up of,) of removing all obstructions to the gospel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:4", "verse_text": "Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:" }, { "point_text": "(Filling up of,) of removing all obstructions to the gospel", "verse_ref": "Luke 3:5", "verse_text": "Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;" } ] }, { "name": "Vine, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Vine-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Often found wild", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 4:39", "verse_text": "And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not." }, { "point_text": "Often found wild", "verse_ref": "Hosea 9:10", "verse_text": "I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved." }, { "point_text": "CULTIVATED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In vineyards from the time of Noah", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:20", "verse_text": "And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:" }, { "point_text": "On the sides of hills", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:5", "verse_text": "Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things." }, { "point_text": "In the valleys", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 6:11", "verse_text": "I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded." }, { "point_text": "By the walls of houses", "verse_ref": "Psalm 128:3", "verse_text": "Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table." }, { "point_text": "Required to be dressed and pruned to increase its fruitfulness", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:3", "verse_text": "Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;" }, { "point_text": "Required to be dressed and pruned to increase its fruitfulness", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:10", "verse_text": "Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry." }, { "point_text": "Required to be dressed and pruned to increase its fruitfulness", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 18:5", "verse_text": "For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches." }, { "point_text": "Canaan abounded in", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 6:11", "verse_text": "And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;" }, { "point_text": "Canaan abounded in", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 8:8", "verse_text": "A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;" }, { "point_text": "PLACES CELEBRATED FOR;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Eshcol", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:23-24", "verse_text": "And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs. 24 The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence." }, { "point_text": "Sibmah", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 16:8-9", "verse_text": "For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea. 9 Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen." }, { "point_text": "Lebanon", "verse_ref": "Hosea 14:7", "verse_text": "They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Egypt", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:47", "verse_text": "He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost." }, { "point_text": "Egypt", "verse_ref": "Psalm 80:8", "verse_text": "Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it." }, { "point_text": "The dwarf and spreading vine particularly esteemed", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:6", "verse_text": "And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs." }, { "point_text": "Of Sodom bad and unfit for use", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:32", "verse_text": "For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:" }, { "point_text": "Often degenerated", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:2", "verse_text": "And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes." }, { "point_text": "Often degenerated", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:21", "verse_text": "Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?" }, { "point_text": "Frequently injured by hail and frost", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:47", "verse_text": "He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost." }, { "point_text": "Frequently injured by hail and frost", "verse_ref": "Psalm 105:32-33", "verse_text": "He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land. 33 He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts." }, { "point_text": "Foxes destructive to", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:15", "verse_text": "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes." }, { "point_text": "The wild boar destructive to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 80:13", "verse_text": "The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it." }, { "point_text": "THE FRUIT OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Called grapes", "verse_ref": "Genesis 40:10", "verse_text": "And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:" }, { "point_text": "Peculiarly sour when unripe", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:30", "verse_text": "But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge." }, { "point_text": "Eaten fresh from the tree", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:24", "verse_text": "When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel." }, { "point_text": "Eaten dried", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:18", "verse_text": "Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses." }, { "point_text": "Eaten dried", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 30:12", "verse_text": "And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights." }, { "point_text": "Sold in the markets", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:15", "verse_text": "In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals." }, { "point_text": "Made into wine", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:14", "verse_text": "Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape." }, { "point_text": "Made into wine", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:29", "verse_text": "But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom." }, { "point_text": "The wood of, fit only for burning", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 15:2-5", "verse_text": "Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest? 3 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon? 4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work? 5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned?" }, { "point_text": "Young cattle fed on its leaves and tender shoots", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:11", "verse_text": "Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:" }, { "point_text": "Probably produced two crops of fruit in the year", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:20", "verse_text": "And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes." }, { "point_text": "Perfumed the air with the fragrance of its flowers, &c.\r\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:13", "verse_text": "The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away." }, { "point_text": "Perfumed the air with the fragrance of its flowers, &c.\r\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Hosea 14:7", "verse_text": "They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "God made, fruitful for His people when obedient", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:22", "verse_text": "Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength." }, { "point_text": "God made, fruitful for His people when obedient", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 8:12", "verse_text": "For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things." }, { "point_text": "Frequently made unfruitful as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:13", "verse_text": "I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them." }, { "point_text": "Frequently made unfruitful as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Hosea 2:12", "verse_text": "And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them." }, { "point_text": "Frequently made unfruitful as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:7", "verse_text": "He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white." }, { "point_text": "Frequently made unfruitful as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Joel 1:12", "verse_text": "The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes cast its fruit before it came to perfection", "verse_ref": "Job 15:33", "verse_text": "He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes cast its fruit before it came to perfection", "verse_ref": "Malachi 3:11", "verse_text": "And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Nazarites prohibited eating any part of, &c", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:3-4", "verse_text": "He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried. 4 All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 15:1-2", "verse_text": "I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit." }, { "point_text": "Of Israel", "verse_ref": "Psalm 80:8", "verse_text": "Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it." }, { "point_text": "Of Israel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:2", "verse_text": "And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes." }, { "point_text": "Of Israel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:7", "verse_text": "For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry." }, { "point_text": "(Its fruitful branches,) of saints", "verse_ref": "John 15:5", "verse_text": "I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing." }, { "point_text": "(Its unfruitful branches,) of mere professors", "verse_ref": "John 15:2", "verse_text": "Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit." }, { "point_text": "(Its unfruitful branches,) of mere professors", "verse_ref": "John 15:6", "verse_text": "If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned." }, { "point_text": "(Its quick growth,) of the growth of saints in grace", "verse_ref": "Hosea 14:7", "verse_text": "They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "(Its rich clusters,) of the graces of the Church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 7:8", "verse_text": "I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;" }, { "point_text": "(Pruning of,) of God's purifying His people by afflictions", "verse_ref": "John 15:2", "verse_text": "Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit." }, { "point_text": "(Worthlessness of its wood,) of the unprofitableness, of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 15:6-7", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them." }, { "point_text": "(Unfruitful,) of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Hosea 10:1", "verse_text": "Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images." }, { "point_text": "(Sitting under one's own) of peace and prosperity", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:25", "verse_text": "And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon." }, { "point_text": "(Sitting under one's own) of peace and prosperity", "verse_ref": "Micah 4:4", "verse_text": "But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it." }, { "point_text": "(Sitting under one's own) of peace and prosperity", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 3:10", "verse_text": "In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree." }, { "point_text": "Proverbial allusion to fathers eating the unripe fruit of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:29-30", "verse_text": "In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge. 30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge." } ] }, { "name": "Vineyards", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Vineyards.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Origin and antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:20", "verse_text": "And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:" }, { "point_text": "The design of planting", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:37", "verse_text": "And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase." }, { "point_text": "The design of planting", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:7", "verse_text": "Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?" }, { "point_text": "Frequently walled or fenced with hedges", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:24", "verse_text": "But the angel of the LORD stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side." }, { "point_text": "Frequently walled or fenced with hedges", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 24:31", "verse_text": "And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down." }, { "point_text": "Frequently walled or fenced with hedges", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:2", "verse_text": "And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes." }, { "point_text": "Frequently walled or fenced with hedges", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:5", "verse_text": "And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:" }, { "point_text": "Cottages built in, for the keepers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:8", "verse_text": "And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city." }, { "point_text": "Provided with the apparatus for making wine", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:2", "verse_text": "And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes." }, { "point_text": "Provided with the apparatus for making wine", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:33", "verse_text": "Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:" }, { "point_text": "The stones carefully gathered out of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:2", "verse_text": "And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes." }, { "point_text": "LAWS RESPECTING;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Not to be planted with different kinds of seed", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 22:9", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled." }, { "point_text": "Not to be cultivated in the sabbatical year", "verse_ref": "Exodus 23:11", "verse_text": "But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard." }, { "point_text": "Not to be cultivated in the sabbatical year", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:4", "verse_text": "But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard." }, { "point_text": "The spontaneous fruit of, not to be gathered during the sabbatical year", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:5", "verse_text": "That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land." }, { "point_text": "The spontaneous fruit of, not to be gathered during the sabbatical year", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:11", "verse_text": "A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed." }, { "point_text": "Compensation in kind to be made for injury done to", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:5", "verse_text": "If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution." }, { "point_text": "Strangers entering, allowed to eat fruit of, but not to take any away", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:24", "verse_text": "When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel." }, { "point_text": "The gleaning of, to be left for the poor", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:10", "verse_text": "And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "The gleaning of, to be left for the poor", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:21", "verse_text": "When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow." }, { "point_text": "The fruit of new, not to be eaten for three years", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:23", "verse_text": "And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of." }, { "point_text": "The fruit of new, to be holy to the Lord in the fourth year", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:24", "verse_text": "But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the LORD withal." }, { "point_text": "The fruit of new, to be eaten by the owners from the fifth year", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:25", "verse_text": "And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am the LORD your God." }, { "point_text": "Planters of, not liable to military service till they had eaten of the fruit", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 20:6", "verse_text": "And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it." }, { "point_text": "Frequently let out to husbandmen", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 8:11", "verse_text": "Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver." }, { "point_text": "Frequently let out to husbandmen", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:33", "verse_text": "Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:" }, { "point_text": "Rent of, frequently paid by part of the fruit", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:34", "verse_text": "And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it." }, { "point_text": "Were often mortgaged", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 5:3-4", "verse_text": "Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth. 4 There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards." }, { "point_text": "Estimated rent of", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 8:11", "verse_text": "Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver." }, { "point_text": "Estimated rent of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:23", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns." }, { "point_text": "Estimated profit arising from, to the cultivators", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 8:12", "verse_text": "My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred." }, { "point_text": "The poor engaged in the culture of", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 25:12", "verse_text": "But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen." }, { "point_text": "The poor engaged in the culture of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:5", "verse_text": "And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers." }, { "point_text": "Members of the family often wrought in", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 1:6", "verse_text": "Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept." }, { "point_text": "Members of the family often wrought in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:28-30", "verse_text": "But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard. 29 He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went. 30 And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not." }, { "point_text": "Mode of hiring and paying laborers for working in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 20:1-2", "verse_text": "For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. 2 And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard." }, { "point_text": "Of the kings of Israel superintended by officers of state", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:27", "verse_text": "And over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite: over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite:" }, { "point_text": "THE VINTAGE OR INGATHERING OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Was a time of great rejoicing", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 16:10", "verse_text": "And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes continued to the time of sowing seed", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:5", "verse_text": "And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely." }, { "point_text": "Failure in, occasioned great grief", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 16:9-10", "verse_text": "Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen. 10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease." }, { "point_text": "Of red grapes particularly esteemed", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 27:2", "verse_text": "In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine." }, { "point_text": "The produce of, was frequently destroyed by enemies", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:32", "verse_text": "O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage." }, { "point_text": "The whole produce of, often destroyed by insects, &c", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:39", "verse_text": "Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them." }, { "point_text": "The whole produce of, often destroyed by insects, &c", "verse_ref": "Amos 4:9", "verse_text": "I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "In unfavorable seasons produced but little wine", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:10", "verse_text": "Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah." }, { "point_text": "In unfavorable seasons produced but little wine", "verse_ref": "Haggai 1:9", "verse_text": "Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house." }, { "point_text": "In unfavorable seasons produced but little wine", "verse_ref": "Haggai 1:11", "verse_text": "And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands." }, { "point_text": "The wicked judicially deprived of the enjoyment of", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:11", "verse_text": "Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them." }, { "point_text": "The wicked judicially deprived of the enjoyment of", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 1:13", "verse_text": "Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof." }, { "point_text": "The Rechabites forbidden to plant", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 35:7-9", "verse_text": "Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers. 8 Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters; 9 Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:" }, { "point_text": "Of the slothful man neglected and laid waste", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 24:30-31", "verse_text": "I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; 31 And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the Jewish Church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:7", "verse_text": "For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry." }, { "point_text": "Of the Jewish Church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 27:2", "verse_text": "In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine." }, { "point_text": "Of the Jewish Church", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 12:10", "verse_text": "Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness." }, { "point_text": "Of the Jewish Church", "verse_ref": "Matthew 21:23", "verse_text": "And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?" }, { "point_text": "(Failure of,) of severe calamities", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:10", "verse_text": "Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come." }, { "point_text": "(Gleaning grapes of,) of the elect", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 24:13", "verse_text": "When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done." } ] }, { "name": "Visions", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Visions.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "God often made known His will by", "verse_ref": "Psalm 89:19", "verse_text": "Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people." }, { "point_text": "God especially made Himself known to prophets by", "verse_ref": "Numbers 12:6", "verse_text": "And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream." }, { "point_text": "OFTEN ACCOMPANIED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "A representative of the divine person and glory", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:1", "verse_text": "In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple." }, { "point_text": "An audible voice from heaven", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:1", "verse_text": "After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward." }, { "point_text": "An audible voice from heaven", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 3:4-5", "verse_text": "That the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I. 5 And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me. And he said, I called not; lie down again. And he went and lay down." }, { "point_text": "An appearance of angels", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:22", "verse_text": "And when he came out, he could not speak unto them: and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for he beckoned unto them, and remained speechless." }, { "point_text": "An appearance of angels", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:11", "verse_text": "And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense." }, { "point_text": "An appearance of angels", "verse_ref": "Luke 24:23", "verse_text": "And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive." }, { "point_text": "An appearance of angels", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:3", "verse_text": "He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius." }, { "point_text": "An appearance of human beings", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:12", "verse_text": "And hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in, and putting his hand on him, that he might receive his sight." }, { "point_text": "An appearance of human beings", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:9", "verse_text": "And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us." }, { "point_text": "Frequently difficult and perplexing to those who received them", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7:15", "verse_text": "I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me." }, { "point_text": "Frequently difficult and perplexing to those who received them", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8:15", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man." }, { "point_text": "Frequently difficult and perplexing to those who received them", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:17", "verse_text": "Now while Peter doubted in himself what this vision which he had seen should mean, behold, the men which were sent from Cornelius had made inquiry for Simon's house, and stood before the gate," }, { "point_text": "OFTEN COMMUNICATED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In the night season", "verse_ref": "Genesis 46:2", "verse_text": "And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I." }, { "point_text": "In the night season", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:19", "verse_text": "Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven." }, { "point_text": "In a trance", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:16", "verse_text": "He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:" }, { "point_text": "In a trance", "verse_ref": "Acts 11:5", "verse_text": "I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me:" }, { "point_text": "Often recorded for the benefit of the people", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:2", "verse_text": "And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it." }, { "point_text": "Often multiplied for the benefit of the people", "verse_ref": "Hosea 12:10", "verse_text": "I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets." }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To Abraham", "verse_ref": "Genesis 15:1", "verse_text": "After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward." }, { "point_text": "To Jacob", "verse_ref": "Genesis 46:2", "verse_text": "And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I." }, { "point_text": "To Moses", "verse_ref": "Exodus 3:2-3", "verse_text": "And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. 3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt." }, { "point_text": "To Samuel", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 3:2-15", "verse_text": "And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see; 3 And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep; 4 That the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I. 5 And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me. And he said, I called not; lie down again. And he went and lay down. ..." }, { "point_text": "To Nathan", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:4", "verse_text": "And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came unto Nathan, saying," }, { "point_text": "To Nathan", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:17", "verse_text": "According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David." }, { "point_text": "To Eliphaz", "verse_ref": "Job 4:13-16", "verse_text": "In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, 14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. 15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: 16 It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying," }, { "point_text": "To Isaiah", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 6:1-8", "verse_text": "In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. 2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. 3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. 4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. ..." }, { "point_text": "To Ezekiel", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 1:4-14", "verse_text": "And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire. 5 Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man. 6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings. 7 And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass. ..." }, { "point_text": "To Ezekiel", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 8:2-14", "verse_text": "Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber. 3 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy. 4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain. 5 Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. ..." }, { "point_text": "To Ezekiel", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 10", "verse_text": "Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne. 2 And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight. 3 Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court. 4 Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD'S glory. ..." }, { "point_text": "To Ezekiel", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 11:24", "verse_text": "Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me." }, { "point_text": "To Ezekiel", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 37:1-10", "verse_text": "The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, 2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. 4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. ..." }, { "point_text": "To Ezekiel", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 40-48", "verse_text": "In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither. 2 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south. 3 And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate. 4 And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I shall shew thee; for to the intent that I might shew them unto thee art thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel. ..." }, { "point_text": "To Nebuchadnezzar", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:28", "verse_text": "But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;" }, { "point_text": "To Nebuchadnezzar", "verse_ref": "Daniel 4:5", "verse_text": "I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me." }, { "point_text": "To Daniel", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:19", "verse_text": "Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven." }, { "point_text": "To Daniel", "verse_ref": "Daniel 7", "verse_text": "In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters. 2 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. 3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. 4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. ..." }, { "point_text": "To Daniel", "verse_ref": "Daniel 8", "verse_text": "In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first. 2 And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai. 3 Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last. 4 I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great. ..." }, { "point_text": "To Daniel", "verse_ref": "Daniel 10", "verse_text": "In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision. 2 In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks. 3 I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled. 4 And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel; ..." }, { "point_text": "To Amos", "verse_ref": "Amos 7:1-9", "verse_text": "Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings. 2 And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small. 3 The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD. 4 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part. ..." }, { "point_text": "To Amos", "verse_ref": "Amos 8:1-6", "verse_text": "Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. 2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more. 3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence. 4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, ..." }, { "point_text": "To Amos", "verse_ref": "Amos 9:1", "verse_text": "I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered." }, { "point_text": "To Zechariah", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 1:8", "verse_text": "I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white." }, { "point_text": "To Zechariah", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 3:1", "verse_text": "And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him." }, { "point_text": "To Zechariah", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 4:2", "verse_text": "And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:" }, { "point_text": "To Zechariah", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 5:2", "verse_text": "And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits." }, { "point_text": "To Zechariah", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 6:1", "verse_text": "And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass." }, { "point_text": "To Paul", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:3", "verse_text": "And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:" }, { "point_text": "To Paul", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:6", "verse_text": "And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do." }, { "point_text": "To Paul", "verse_ref": "Acts 16:9", "verse_text": "And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us." }, { "point_text": "To Paul", "verse_ref": "Acts 18:9", "verse_text": "Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:" }, { "point_text": "To Paul", "verse_ref": "Acts 22:18", "verse_text": "And saw him saying unto me, Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me." }, { "point_text": "To Paul", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:23", "verse_text": "For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve," }, { "point_text": "To Paul", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 12:1-4", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him. 2 And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD, 3 With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians. 4 And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "To Ananias", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:10-11", "verse_text": "And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord. 11 And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth," }, { "point_text": "To Cornelius", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:3", "verse_text": "He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius." }, { "point_text": "To Peter", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:9-17", "verse_text": "On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour: 10 And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance, 11 And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth: 12 Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. ..." }, { "point_text": "To John", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:12", "verse_text": "And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;" }, { "point_text": "To John", "verse_ref": "Revelation 4-22", "verse_text": "After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. 2 And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. 3 And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. 4 And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold. ..." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes withheld for a long season", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 3:1", "verse_text": "And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no open vision." }, { "point_text": "The withholding of a great calamity", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 29:18", "verse_text": "Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he." }, { "point_text": "The withholding of a great calamity", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 2:9", "verse_text": "Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD." }, { "point_text": "False prophets pretended to have seen", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:14", "verse_text": "Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart." }, { "point_text": "False prophets pretended to have seen", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:16", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The prophets of God skilled in interpreting", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:5", "verse_text": "And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper." }, { "point_text": "The prophets of God skilled in interpreting", "verse_ref": "Daniel 1:17", "verse_text": "As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams." } ] }, { "name": "Unicorn", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Unicorn.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Generally had a single horn", "verse_ref": "Psalm 92:10", "verse_text": "But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes found with two horns", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:17", "verse_text": "His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Intractable in disposition", "verse_ref": "Job 39:9-10", "verse_text": "Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? 10 Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?" }, { "point_text": "Intractable in disposition", "verse_ref": "Job 39:12", "verse_text": "Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?" }, { "point_text": "Of vast strength", "verse_ref": "Job 39:11", "verse_text": "Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?" }, { "point_text": "The young of, remarkable for agility", "verse_ref": "Psalm 29:6", "verse_text": "He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of God as the strength of Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 23:22", "verse_text": "God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn." }, { "point_text": "Of God as the strength of Israel", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:8", "verse_text": "God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows." }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 34:7", "verse_text": "And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness." }, { "point_text": "(Horns of,) of the strength of the descendants of Joseph", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:17", "verse_text": "His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh." }, { "point_text": "(Horns of,) of the strength of powerful enemies", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:21", "verse_text": "Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns." }, { "point_text": "(The position of its horns,) of the exaltation of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 92:10", "verse_text": "But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil." } ] }, { "name": "Vows", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Vows.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Solemn promises made to God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 76:11", "verse_text": "Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared." }, { "point_text": "WERE MADE IN REFERENCE TO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Devoting the person to God", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:2", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Dedicating children to God", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:11", "verse_text": "And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no rasor come upon his head." }, { "point_text": "Devoting property to God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:22", "verse_text": "And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Offering sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:16", "verse_text": "But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:" }, { "point_text": "Offering sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:18", "verse_text": "Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering;" }, { "point_text": "Offering sacrifices", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:22", "verse_text": "Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Afflicting the soul", "verse_ref": "Numbers 30:13", "verse_text": "Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void." }, { "point_text": "To be voluntary", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:21-22", "verse_text": "When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee. 22 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee." }, { "point_text": "To be performed faithfully", "verse_ref": "Numbers 30:2", "verse_text": "If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth." }, { "point_text": "To be performed without delay", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:21", "verse_text": "When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee." }, { "point_text": "To be performed without delay", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:23", "verse_text": "That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth." }, { "point_text": "Danger of inconsiderately making", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:25", "verse_text": "It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make inquiry." }, { "point_text": "Of children void without the consent of parents", "verse_ref": "Numbers 30:3-5", "verse_text": "If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth; 4 And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand. 5 But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her." }, { "point_text": "Of married women void without consent of husbands", "verse_ref": "Numbers 30:6-8", "verse_text": "And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul; 7 And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand. 8 But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her." }, { "point_text": "Of married women void without consent of husbands", "verse_ref": "Numbers 30:10-13", "verse_text": "And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath; 11 And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand. 12 But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her. 13 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void." }, { "point_text": "Of widows and women divorced from their husbands binding", "verse_ref": "Numbers 30:9", "verse_text": "But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her." }, { "point_text": "Of wives, could only be objected to at the time of making", "verse_ref": "Numbers 30:14-15", "verse_text": "But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which are upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them. 15 But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity." }, { "point_text": "Might be redeemed by paying a suitable compensation", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 27:1-8", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by thy estimation. 3 And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary. 4 And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels. ..." }, { "point_text": "Might be redeemed by paying a suitable compensation", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 27:11-23", "verse_text": "And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the priest: 12 And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be. 13 But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy estimation. 14 And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand. ..." }, { "point_text": "Clean beasts the subjects of, not to be redeemed", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 27:9-10", "verse_text": "And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD, all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy. 10 He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy." }, { "point_text": "RECORDED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of Jacob", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:20-22", "verse_text": "And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, 21 So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: 22 And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Of Jacob", "verse_ref": "Genesis 31:13", "verse_text": "I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred." }, { "point_text": "Of Israelites", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:2", "verse_text": "And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities." }, { "point_text": "Of Jephthah", "verse_ref": "Judges 11:30-31", "verse_text": "And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, 31 Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD'S, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering." }, { "point_text": "Of Hannah", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:11", "verse_text": "And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no rasor come upon his head." }, { "point_text": "Of Elkanah", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:24", "verse_text": "And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young." }, { "point_text": "Of David", "verse_ref": "Psalm 132:2-5", "verse_text": "How he sware unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob; 3 Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed; 4 I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids, 5 Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob." }, { "point_text": "Of mariners who cast out Jonah", "verse_ref": "Jonah 1:16", "verse_text": "Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows." }, { "point_text": "Of Jonah", "verse_ref": "Jonah 2:9", "verse_text": "But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Of Lemuel's mother", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:1-2", "verse_text": "The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him. 2 What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?" }, { "point_text": "Of Paul", "verse_ref": "Acts 18:18", "verse_text": "And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow." }, { "point_text": "Of certain Jews with Paul", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:23-24", "verse_text": "Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a vow on them; 24 Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law." }, { "point_text": "Of certain Jews with Paul", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:26", "verse_text": "Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them." }, { "point_text": "All things dedicated by, to be brought to the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:6", "verse_text": "And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:" }, { "point_text": "All things dedicated by, to be brought to the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:11", "verse_text": "Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "All things dedicated by, to be brought to the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:17-18", "verse_text": "Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand: 18 But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto." }, { "point_text": "All things dedicated by, to be brought to the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 12:26", "verse_text": "Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose:" }, { "point_text": "Of things corrupt or blemished an insult to God", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:23", "verse_text": "Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted." }, { "point_text": "Of things corrupt or blemished an insult to God", "verse_ref": "Malachi 1:14", "verse_text": "But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen." }, { "point_text": "The hire of a prostitute or price of a dog could not be the subject of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 23:18", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God." } ] }, { "name": "Waiting upon God", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Waiting-upon-God.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "As the God of providence", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:22", "verse_text": "Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things." }, { "point_text": "As the God of salvation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 25:5", "verse_text": "Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day." }, { "point_text": "As the Giver of all temporal blessings", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:27", "verse_text": "These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season." }, { "point_text": "As the Giver of all temporal blessings", "verse_ref": "Psalm 145:15-16", "verse_text": "The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. 16 Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing." }, { "point_text": "FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Mercy", "verse_ref": "Psalm 123:2", "verse_text": "Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us." }, { "point_text": "Pardon", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:7-8", "verse_text": "And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish." }, { "point_text": "The consolation of Israel", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:25", "verse_text": "And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him." }, { "point_text": "Salvation", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:18", "verse_text": "I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD." }, { "point_text": "Salvation", "verse_ref": "Psalm 62:1-2", "verse_text": "Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. 2 He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved." }, { "point_text": "Guidance and teaching", "verse_ref": "Psalm 25:5", "verse_text": "Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day." }, { "point_text": "Protection", "verse_ref": "Psalm 33:20", "verse_text": "Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield." }, { "point_text": "Protection", "verse_ref": "Psalm 59:9-10", "verse_text": "Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence. 10 The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies." }, { "point_text": "The fulfillment of His word", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:3", "verse_text": "For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry." }, { "point_text": "The fulfillment of His promises", "verse_ref": "Acts 1:4", "verse_text": "And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me." }, { "point_text": "Hope of righteousness by faith", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:5", "verse_text": "For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith." }, { "point_text": "Coming of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:7", "verse_text": "So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:" }, { "point_text": "Coming of Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 1:10", "verse_text": "And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come." }, { "point_text": "Is good", "verse_ref": "Psalm 52:9", "verse_text": "I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints." }, { "point_text": "God calls us to", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 3:8", "verse_text": "Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations and encouragements to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:14", "verse_text": "Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations and encouragements to", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:7", "verse_text": "Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations and encouragements to", "verse_ref": "Hosea 12:6", "verse_text": "Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "With the soul", "verse_ref": "Psalm 62:1", "verse_text": "Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation." }, { "point_text": "With the soul", "verse_ref": "Psalm 62:5", "verse_text": "My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him." }, { "point_text": "With earnest desire", "verse_ref": "Psalm 130:6", "verse_text": "My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning." }, { "point_text": "With patience", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:7", "verse_text": "Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass." }, { "point_text": "With patience", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:1", "verse_text": "I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry." }, { "point_text": "With resignation", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:26", "verse_text": "It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "With hope in His word", "verse_ref": "Psalm 130:5", "verse_text": "I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope." }, { "point_text": "With full confidence", "verse_ref": "Micah 7:7", "verse_text": "Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me." }, { "point_text": "Continually", "verse_ref": "Hosea 12:6", "verse_text": "Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually." }, { "point_text": "All the day", "verse_ref": "Psalm 25:5", "verse_text": "Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day." }, { "point_text": "Specially in adversity", "verse_ref": "Psalm 59:1-9", "verse_text": "Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me. 2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men. 3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD. 4 They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold. ..." }, { "point_text": "Specially in adversity", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:17", "verse_text": "And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him." }, { "point_text": "In the way of His judgments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:8", "verse_text": "Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee." }, { "point_text": "Saints resolve on", "verse_ref": "Psalm 52:9", "verse_text": "I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints." }, { "point_text": "Saints resolve on", "verse_ref": "Psalm 59:9", "verse_text": "Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence." }, { "point_text": "Saints have expectation from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 62:5", "verse_text": "My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him." }, { "point_text": "Saints plead, in prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 25:21", "verse_text": "Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee." }, { "point_text": "Saints plead, in prayer", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 33:2", "verse_text": "O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble." }, { "point_text": "The patience of saints often tried in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:3", "verse_text": "I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God." }, { "point_text": "THEY WHO ENGAGE IN,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Wait upon Him only", "verse_ref": "Psalm 62:5", "verse_text": "My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him." }, { "point_text": "Are heard", "verse_ref": "Psalm 40:1", "verse_text": "I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry." }, { "point_text": "Are blessed", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:18", "verse_text": "And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him." }, { "point_text": "Are blessed", "verse_ref": "Daniel 12:12", "verse_text": "Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days." }, { "point_text": "Experience His goodness", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 3:25", "verse_text": "The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him." }, { "point_text": "Shall not be ashamed", "verse_ref": "Psalm 25:3", "verse_text": "Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause." }, { "point_text": "Shall not be ashamed", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:23", "verse_text": "And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me." }, { "point_text": "Shall renew their strength, &c", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:31", "verse_text": "But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." }, { "point_text": "Shall inherit the earth", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:9", "verse_text": "For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth." }, { "point_text": "Shall be saved", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:22", "verse_text": "Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee." }, { "point_text": "Shall be saved", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 25:9", "verse_text": "And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation." }, { "point_text": "Shall rejoice in salvation", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 25:9", "verse_text": "And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation." }, { "point_text": "Shall receive the glorious things prepared by God for them", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 64:4", "verse_text": "For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him." }, { "point_text": "Predicted of the Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:4", "verse_text": "He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law." }, { "point_text": "Predicted of the Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:9", "verse_text": "Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Psalm 123:2", "verse_text": "Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:36", "verse_text": "And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "James 5:7", "verse_text": "Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nHannah, \nDavid, \nIsaiah, \nMicah, \nJoseph,", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:18", "verse_text": "I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nHannah, \nDavid, \nIsaiah, \nMicah, \nJoseph,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 1:2", "verse_text": "And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nHannah, \nDavid, \nIsaiah, \nMicah, \nJoseph,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 39:7", "verse_text": "And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nHannah, \nDavid, \nIsaiah, \nMicah, \nJoseph,", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:17", "verse_text": "And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nHannah, \nDavid, \nIsaiah, \nMicah, \nJoseph,", "verse_ref": "Micah 7:7", "verse_text": "Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nJacob, \nHannah, \nDavid, \nIsaiah, \nMicah, \nJoseph,", "verse_ref": "Mark 15:43", "verse_text": "Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counseller, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus." } ] }, { "name": "War", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/War.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:2", "verse_text": "That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar." }, { "point_text": "Originates in the lusts of men", "verse_ref": "James 4:1", "verse_text": "From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?" }, { "point_text": "A time for", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 3:8", "verse_text": "A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace." }, { "point_text": "GOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Frequently ordered", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:16", "verse_text": "For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation." }, { "point_text": "Frequently ordered", "verse_ref": "Numbers 31:1-2", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people." }, { "point_text": "Taught His people the art of", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 22:35", "verse_text": "He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms." }, { "point_text": "Strengthens His people for", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:7-8", "verse_text": "And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8 And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword." }, { "point_text": "Gives the victory in.\r\n\n\n\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:3", "verse_text": "And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah." }, { "point_text": "Gives the victory in.\r\n\n\n\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:33", "verse_text": "And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people." }, { "point_text": "Gives the victory in.\r\n\n\n\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 3:3", "verse_text": "So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining." }, { "point_text": "Gives the victory in.\r\n\n\n\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 23:10", "verse_text": "He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil." }, { "point_text": "Gives the victory in.\r\n\n\n\n\n\r\n (marg.)", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 21:31", "verse_text": "The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Causes, to cease", "verse_ref": "Psalm 46:9", "verse_text": "He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire." }, { "point_text": "Scatters those who delight in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:30", "verse_text": "Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war." }, { "point_text": "Large armies frequently engaged in", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 13:3", "verse_text": "And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valour." }, { "point_text": "Large armies frequently engaged in", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 14:9", "verse_text": "And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto Mareshah." }, { "point_text": "Weapons used in", "verse_ref": "Joshua 1:14", "verse_text": "Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side Jordan; but ye shall pass before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valour, and help them;" }, { "point_text": "Weapons used in", "verse_ref": "Judges 18:11", "verse_text": "And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with weapons of war." }, { "point_text": "PRECEDED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Consultation", "verse_ref": "Luke 14:31", "verse_text": "Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?" }, { "point_text": "Consultation", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 24:6", "verse_text": "For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellers there is safety." }, { "point_text": "Great preparation", "verse_ref": "Joel 3:9", "verse_text": "Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:" }, { "point_text": "Rumors", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:19", "verse_text": "My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war." }, { "point_text": "Rumors", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:6", "verse_text": "And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet." }, { "point_text": "Frequently long continued", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 3:1", "verse_text": "Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker." }, { "point_text": "Frequently sore and bloody", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 14:22", "verse_text": "Likewise all the men of Israel which had hid themselves in mount Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle." }, { "point_text": "Frequently sore and bloody", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 5:22", "verse_text": "For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity." }, { "point_text": "Frequently sore and bloody", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 14:13", "verse_text": "And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before the LORD, and before his host; and they carried away very much spoil." }, { "point_text": "Frequently sore and bloody", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 28:6", "verse_text": "For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers." }, { "point_text": "OFTEN ATTENDED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Famine", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 51:19", "verse_text": "These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?" }, { "point_text": "Famine", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:15", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed." }, { "point_text": "Famine", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 5:10", "verse_text": "Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine." }, { "point_text": "Pestilence", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:13", "verse_text": "Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?" }, { "point_text": "Pestilence", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 28:8", "verse_text": "The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence." }, { "point_text": "Cruelty", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 18:21", "verse_text": "Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle." }, { "point_text": "Cruelty", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 5:11-14", "verse_text": "They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. 12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. 13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. 14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick." }, { "point_text": "Devastation", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:7", "verse_text": "Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers." }, { "point_text": "Records often kept of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:14", "verse_text": "Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon," }, { "point_text": "Often sent as a punishment for sin", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:8", "verse_text": "They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?" }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Were expert in", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:33", "verse_text": "Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: they were not of double heart." }, { "point_text": "Were expert in", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:35-36", "verse_text": "And of the Danites expert in war twenty and eight thousand and six hundred. 36 And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, forty thousand." }, { "point_text": "Frequently engaged in", "verse_ref": "Joshua 6-11", "verse_text": "Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in. 2 And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour. 3 And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days. 4 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets. ..." }, { "point_text": "Frequently engaged in", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 14:30", "verse_text": "And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days." }, { "point_text": "Frequently engaged in", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:7", "verse_text": "Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam." }, { "point_text": "Frequently engaged in", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 15:16", "verse_text": "And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Our contest with death", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 8:8", "verse_text": "There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it." }, { "point_text": "The contest of saints with the enemies of their salvation", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:23", "verse_text": "But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members." }, { "point_text": "The contest of saints with the enemies of their salvation", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 10:3", "verse_text": "For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:" }, { "point_text": "The contest of saints with the enemies of their salvation", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:12", "verse_text": "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." }, { "point_text": "The contest of saints with the enemies of their salvation", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:18", "verse_text": "This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;" }, { "point_text": "The contest between Antichrist and the Church", "verse_ref": "Revelation 11:7", "verse_text": "And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them." }, { "point_text": "The contest between Antichrist and the Church", "verse_ref": "Revelation 13:4", "verse_text": "And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?" }, { "point_text": "The contest between Antichrist and the Church", "verse_ref": "Revelation 13:7", "verse_text": "And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations." }, { "point_text": "The malignity of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 55:21", "verse_text": "The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords." } ] }, { "name": "Watchfulness", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Watchfulness.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Christ an example of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:38", "verse_text": "Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me." }, { "point_text": "Christ an example of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:40", "verse_text": "And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?" }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Mark 13:37", "verse_text": "And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch." }, { "point_text": "Commanded", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:2", "verse_text": "Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:6", "verse_text": "Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober." }, { "point_text": "Exhortations to", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:7", "verse_text": "But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer." }, { "point_text": "God especially requires in ministers", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 3:17", "verse_text": "Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me." }, { "point_text": "God especially requires in ministers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 62:6", "verse_text": "I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence," }, { "point_text": "God especially requires in ministers", "verse_ref": "Mark 13:34", "verse_text": "For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch." }, { "point_text": "Ministers exhorted to", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:31", "verse_text": "Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears." }, { "point_text": "Ministers exhorted to", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:5", "verse_text": "But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry." }, { "point_text": "Faithful ministers exercise", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:17", "verse_text": "Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you." }, { "point_text": "Faithful ministers approved by", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:45-46", "verse_text": "Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? 46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "With prayer", "verse_ref": "Luke 21:36", "verse_text": "Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man." }, { "point_text": "With prayer", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:18", "verse_text": "Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;" }, { "point_text": "With thanksgiving", "verse_ref": "Colossians 4:2", "verse_text": "Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;" }, { "point_text": "With steadfastness in the faith", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 16:13", "verse_text": "Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong." }, { "point_text": "With heedfulness", "verse_ref": "Mark 13:33", "verse_text": "Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is." }, { "point_text": "With sobriety", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:6", "verse_text": "Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober." }, { "point_text": "With sobriety", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 4:7", "verse_text": "But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer." }, { "point_text": "At all times", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 8:34", "verse_text": "Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors." }, { "point_text": "In all things", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:5", "verse_text": "But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry." }, { "point_text": "Saints pray to be kept in a state of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 141:3", "verse_text": "Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips." }, { "point_text": "MOTIVES TO;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Expected direction from God", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:1", "verse_text": "I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved." }, { "point_text": "Uncertain time of the coming of Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:42", "verse_text": "Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come." }, { "point_text": "Uncertain time of the coming of Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:13", "verse_text": "Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh." }, { "point_text": "Uncertain time of the coming of Christ", "verse_ref": "Mark 13:35-36", "verse_text": "Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: 36 Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping." }, { "point_text": "Incessant assaults of the devil", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:8", "verse_text": "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:" }, { "point_text": "Liability to temptation", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:41", "verse_text": "Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:37", "verse_text": "Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them." }, { "point_text": "Blessedness of", "verse_ref": "Revelation 16:15", "verse_text": "Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame." }, { "point_text": "Unfaithful ministers devoid of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:10", "verse_text": "His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber." }, { "point_text": "The wicked averse to", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:7", "verse_text": "For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night." }, { "point_text": "Danger of remissness in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:48-51", "verse_text": "But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; 49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; 50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, 51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." }, { "point_text": "Danger of remissness in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:5", "verse_text": "While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept." }, { "point_text": "Danger of remissness in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:8", "verse_text": "And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out." }, { "point_text": "Danger of remissness in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:12", "verse_text": "But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:35-36", "verse_text": "Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; 36 And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nAnna, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Psalm 102:7", "verse_text": "I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nAnna, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:37", "verse_text": "And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day." }, { "point_text": "Exemplified.\r\n\nDavid, \nAnna, \nPaul,", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 11:27", "verse_text": "In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness." } ] }, { "name": "Watchmen", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Watchmen.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Soldiers generally acted as", "verse_ref": "Matthew 27:65-66", "verse_text": "Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can. 66 So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch." }, { "point_text": "Citizens sometimes acted as", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 7:3", "verse_text": "And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one to be over against his house." }, { "point_text": "WERE STATIONED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "On watch towers", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 9:17", "verse_text": "And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?" }, { "point_text": "On watch towers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 21:5", "verse_text": "Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield." }, { "point_text": "On the walls of cities", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 62:6", "verse_text": "I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence," }, { "point_text": "In the streets of cities", "verse_ref": "Psalm 127:1", "verse_text": "Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." }, { "point_text": "Around the temple in Jerusalem on special occasions", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 11:6", "verse_text": "And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down." }, { "point_text": "Paraded the streets at night to preserve order", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 3:3", "verse_text": "The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?" }, { "point_text": "Paraded the streets at night to preserve order", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:7", "verse_text": "The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me." }, { "point_text": "IN TIME OF DANGER", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Increased in number", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:12", "verse_text": "Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon." }, { "point_text": "Vigilant night and day", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 4:9", "verse_text": "Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them." }, { "point_text": "Vigilant night and day", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 21:8", "verse_text": "And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:" }, { "point_text": "Reported the approach of all strangers, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 18:24-27", "verse_text": "And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone. 25 And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said, If he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth. And he came apace, and drew near. 26 And the watchman saw another man running: and the watchman called unto the porter, and said, Behold another man running alone. And the king said, He also bringeth tidings. 27 And the watchman said, Me thinketh the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings." }, { "point_text": "Reported the approach of all strangers, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 9:18-20", "verse_text": "So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he cometh not again. 19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to them, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. 20 And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously." }, { "point_text": "Reported the approach of all strangers, &c", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 21:6-7", "verse_text": "For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth. 7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:" }, { "point_text": "Reported the approach of all strangers, &c", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 21:9", "verse_text": "And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground." }, { "point_text": "Sounded an alarm at the approach of enemies", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 33:2-3", "verse_text": "Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: 3 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;" }, { "point_text": "Vigilance of, vain without God's protection", "verse_ref": "Psalm 127:1", "verse_text": "Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." }, { "point_text": "Were relieved by turns", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 7:3", "verse_text": "And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one to be over against his house." }, { "point_text": "Danger of sleeping on their posts, referred to", "verse_ref": "Matthew 28:13-14", "verse_text": "Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept. 14 And if this come to the governor's ears, we will persuade him, and secure you." }, { "point_text": "Neglecting to give warning punished with death", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 33:6", "verse_text": "But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand." }, { "point_text": "Often interrogated by passengers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 21:11", "verse_text": "The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?" }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of ministers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:28", "verse_text": "Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:" }, { "point_text": "Of ministers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 62:6", "verse_text": "I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence," }, { "point_text": "Of ministers", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 3:17", "verse_text": "Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me." }, { "point_text": "Of ministers", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:17", "verse_text": "Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you." }, { "point_text": "(Blind,) of careless ministers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:10", "verse_text": "His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber." }, { "point_text": "(Looking for the morning,) of anxious waiting for God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 130:5-6", "verse_text": "I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. 6 My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning." } ] }, { "name": "Walls", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Walls.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Designed for separation", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 43:8", "verse_text": "In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger." }, { "point_text": "Designed for separation", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:14", "verse_text": "For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;" }, { "point_text": "Designed for defence", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:16", "verse_text": "They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep." }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of cities", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:28", "verse_text": "Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there." }, { "point_text": "Of temples", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 29:4", "verse_text": "Even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses withal:" }, { "point_text": "Of temples", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 56:5", "verse_text": "Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off." }, { "point_text": "Of houses", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 18:11", "verse_text": "And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice." }, { "point_text": "Of vineyards", "verse_ref": "Numbers 22:24", "verse_text": "But the angel of the LORD stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side." }, { "point_text": "Of vineyards", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 24:31", "verse_text": "And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down." }, { "point_text": "Frequently made of stone and wood together", "verse_ref": "Ezra 5:8", "verse_text": "Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands." }, { "point_text": "Frequently made of stone and wood together", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:11", "verse_text": "For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it." }, { "point_text": "Were probably often strengthened with plates of iron or brass", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 15:20", "verse_text": "And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Were probably often strengthened with plates of iron or brass", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 4:3", "verse_text": "Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel." }, { "point_text": "OF CITIES", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Often very high", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 1:28", "verse_text": "Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there." }, { "point_text": "Often very high", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 3:5", "verse_text": "All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many." }, { "point_text": "Strongly fortified", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:15", "verse_text": "And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall," }, { "point_text": "Strongly fortified", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 25:12", "verse_text": "And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust." }, { "point_text": "Had towers built on them", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:9", "verse_text": "Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them." }, { "point_text": "Had towers built on them", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 32:5", "verse_text": "Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance." }, { "point_text": "Had towers built on them", "verse_ref": "Psalm 48:12", "verse_text": "Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof." }, { "point_text": "Had towers built on them", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 8:10", "verse_text": "I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour." }, { "point_text": "Houses often built on", "verse_ref": "Joshua 2:15", "verse_text": "Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall." }, { "point_text": "Were broad and places of public resort", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:26", "verse_text": "And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king." }, { "point_text": "Were broad and places of public resort", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:30", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh." }, { "point_text": "Were strongly manned in war", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:26", "verse_text": "Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall." }, { "point_text": "Kept by watchmen night and day", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:7", "verse_text": "The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me." }, { "point_text": "Kept by watchmen night and day", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 62:6", "verse_text": "I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence," }, { "point_text": "Houses sometimes broken down to repair, and fortify", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:10", "verse_text": "And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall." }, { "point_text": "Danger of approaching too near to, in time of war", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 11:20-21", "verse_text": "And if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall? 21 Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also." }, { "point_text": "Were battered by besieging armies", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 20:15", "verse_text": "And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down." }, { "point_text": "Were battered by besieging armies", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 4:2-3", "verse_text": "And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about. 3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Adroitness of soldiers in scaling, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:7-9", "verse_text": "They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks: 8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded. 9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes burned", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:27", "verse_text": "And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes burned", "verse_ref": "Amos 1:7", "verse_text": "But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:" }, { "point_text": "Frequently laid in ruins", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 25:23", "verse_text": "And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits." }, { "point_text": "Frequently laid in ruins", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 36:19", "verse_text": "And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof." }, { "point_text": "Frequently laid in ruins", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:15", "verse_text": "Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of, a punishment and cause of grief", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 28:52", "verse_text": "And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of, a punishment and cause of grief", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 1:3", "verse_text": "And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire." }, { "point_text": "Destruction of, a punishment and cause of grief", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 2:12-17", "verse_text": "And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon. 13 And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire. 14 Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass. 15 Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned. ..." }, { "point_text": "The falling of, sometimes occasioned great destruction", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 20:30", "verse_text": "But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber." }, { "point_text": "The bodies of enemies sometimes fastened on, as a disgrace", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 31:10", "verse_text": "And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan." }, { "point_text": "Custom of dedicating", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 12:27", "verse_text": "And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps." }, { "point_text": "Idolatrous rites performed on", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 3:27", "verse_text": "Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land." }, { "point_text": "Instances of persons let down from", "verse_ref": "Joshua 2:15", "verse_text": "Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall." }, { "point_text": "Instances of persons let down from", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:24-25", "verse_text": "But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him. 25 Then the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket." }, { "point_text": "Instances of persons let down from", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 11:33", "verse_text": "And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands." }, { "point_text": "Small towns and villages were not surrounded by", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:31", "verse_text": "But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile." }, { "point_text": "Small towns and villages were not surrounded by", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 3:5", "verse_text": "All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many." }, { "point_text": "OF HOUSES", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Usually plastered", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 13:10", "verse_text": "Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter:" }, { "point_text": "Usually plastered", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:5", "verse_text": "In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote." }, { "point_text": "Had nails or pegs fastened into them when built", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 12:11", "verse_text": "The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd." }, { "point_text": "Had nails or pegs fastened into them when built", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 22:23", "verse_text": "And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house." }, { "point_text": "Liable to leprosy", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:37", "verse_text": "And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall;" }, { "point_text": "Often infested with serpents", "verse_ref": "Amos 5:19", "verse_text": "As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him." }, { "point_text": "Could be easily dug through", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:6", "verse_text": "O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall." }, { "point_text": "Could be easily dug through", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 8:7", "verse_text": "And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall." }, { "point_text": "Could be easily dug through", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 12:5", "verse_text": "Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby." }, { "point_text": "The seat next, was the place of distinction", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 20:25", "verse_text": "And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon a seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, and David's place was empty." }, { "point_text": "Hyssop frequently grew on", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 4:33", "verse_text": "And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes." }, { "point_text": "MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Falling of the walls of Jericho", "verse_ref": "Joshua 6:20", "verse_text": "So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city." }, { "point_text": "Handwriting on the wall of Belshazzar's palace", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:5", "verse_text": "In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote." }, { "point_text": "Handwriting on the wall of Belshazzar's palace", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:25-28", "verse_text": "And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. 26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. 27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. 28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of salvation", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:1", "verse_text": "In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks." }, { "point_text": "Of salvation", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 60:18", "verse_text": "Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise." }, { "point_text": "Of the protection of God", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 2:5", "verse_text": "For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her." }, { "point_text": "Of those who afford protection", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:16", "verse_text": "They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep." }, { "point_text": "Of those who afford protection", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 2:15", "verse_text": "And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall," }, { "point_text": "Of the Church as a protection to the nation", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 8:9-10", "verse_text": "If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar. 10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour." }, { "point_text": "Of ordinances as a protection to the Church", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:9", "verse_text": "My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice." }, { "point_text": "Of ordinances as a protection to the Church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:5", "verse_text": "And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:" }, { "point_text": "Of the wealth of the rich in his own conceit", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 18:11", "verse_text": "The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit." }, { "point_text": "(Brazen,) of prophets in their testimony against the wicked", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 22:20", "verse_text": "Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed." }, { "point_text": "(Bowing or tottering,) of the wicked under judgments", "verse_ref": "Psalm 62:3", "verse_text": "How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." }, { "point_text": "(Bowing or tottering,) of the wicked under judgments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:13", "verse_text": "Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant." }, { "point_text": "(Of partition,) of separation of Jews and Gentiles", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:14", "verse_text": "For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;" }, { "point_text": "(Daubed with untempered mortar,) of the teaching of false prophets", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 13:10-15", "verse_text": "Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter: 11 Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it. 12 Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it? 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it. ..." }, { "point_text": "(Whited,) of hypocrites", "verse_ref": "Acts 23:3", "verse_text": "Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?" } ] }, { "name": "Warfare of Saints", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Warfare-of-Saints.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is not after the flesh", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 10:3", "verse_text": "For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:" }, { "point_text": "Is a good warfare", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:18-19", "verse_text": "This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare; 19 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:" }, { "point_text": "Called the good fight of faith", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:12", "verse_text": "Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses." }, { "point_text": "IS AGAINST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The devil", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:15", "verse_text": "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." }, { "point_text": "The devil", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 2:11", "verse_text": "Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices." }, { "point_text": "The devil", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:12", "verse_text": "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." }, { "point_text": "The devil", "verse_ref": "James 4:7", "verse_text": "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." }, { "point_text": "The devil", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:8", "verse_text": "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:" }, { "point_text": "The devil", "verse_ref": "Revelation 12:17", "verse_text": "And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "The flesh", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:23", "verse_text": "But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members." }, { "point_text": "The flesh", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:25-27", "verse_text": "And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway." }, { "point_text": "The flesh", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 12:7", "verse_text": "And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure." }, { "point_text": "The flesh", "verse_ref": "Galatians 5:17", "verse_text": "For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would." }, { "point_text": "The flesh", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:11", "verse_text": "Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;" }, { "point_text": "Enemies", "verse_ref": "Psalm 38:19", "verse_text": "But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied." }, { "point_text": "Enemies", "verse_ref": "Psalm 56:2", "verse_text": "Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High." }, { "point_text": "Enemies", "verse_ref": "Psalm 59:3", "verse_text": "For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD." }, { "point_text": "The world", "verse_ref": "John 16:33", "verse_text": "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." }, { "point_text": "The world", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:4-5", "verse_text": "For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. 5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?" }, { "point_text": "Death", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:26", "verse_text": "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." }, { "point_text": "Death", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:14-15", "verse_text": "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; 15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage." }, { "point_text": "Often arises from the opposition of friends or relatives", "verse_ref": "Micah 7:6", "verse_text": "For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house." }, { "point_text": "Often arises from the opposition of friends or relatives", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:35-36", "verse_text": "For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. 36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household." }, { "point_text": "TO BE CARRIED ON", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Under Christ, as our captain", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:10", "verse_text": "For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings." }, { "point_text": "Under the Lord's banner", "verse_ref": "Psalm 60:4", "verse_text": "Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah." }, { "point_text": "With faith", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:18-19", "verse_text": "This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare; 19 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:" }, { "point_text": "With a good conscience", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 1:18-19", "verse_text": "This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare; 19 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:" }, { "point_text": "With steadfastness in the faith", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 16:13", "verse_text": "Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong." }, { "point_text": "With steadfastness in the faith", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:9", "verse_text": "Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world." }, { "point_text": "With steadfastness in the faith", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:23", "verse_text": "Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)" }, { "point_text": "With earnestness", "verse_ref": "Jude 3", "verse_text": "Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints." }, { "point_text": "With watchfulness", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 16:13", "verse_text": "Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong." }, { "point_text": "With watchfulness", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:8", "verse_text": "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:" }, { "point_text": "With sobriety", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:6", "verse_text": "Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober." }, { "point_text": "With sobriety", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 5:8", "verse_text": "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:" }, { "point_text": "With endurance of hardness", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:3", "verse_text": "Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "With endurance of hardness", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:10", "verse_text": "Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory." }, { "point_text": "With self-denial", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 9:25-27", "verse_text": "And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway." }, { "point_text": "With confidence in God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:1-3", "verse_text": "The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. 3 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident." }, { "point_text": "With prayer", "verse_ref": "Psalm 35:1-3", "verse_text": "Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me. 2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help. 3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation." }, { "point_text": "With prayer", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:18", "verse_text": "Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;" }, { "point_text": "Without earthly entanglements", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:4", "verse_text": "No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." }, { "point_text": "Mere professors do not maintain", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:3", "verse_text": "And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Are all engaged in", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:30", "verse_text": "Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me." }, { "point_text": "Must stand firm in", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:13-14", "verse_text": "Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;" }, { "point_text": "Exhorted to diligence in", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:12", "verse_text": "Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses." }, { "point_text": "Exhorted to diligence in", "verse_ref": "Jude 3", "verse_text": "Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints." }, { "point_text": "Encouraged in", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:11", "verse_text": "Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish." }, { "point_text": "Encouraged in", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 51:12", "verse_text": "I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;" }, { "point_text": "Encouraged in", "verse_ref": "Micah 7:8", "verse_text": "Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me." }, { "point_text": "Encouraged in", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:4", "verse_text": "Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world." }, { "point_text": "Helped by God in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 118:13", "verse_text": "Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me." }, { "point_text": "Helped by God in", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:13-14", "verse_text": "For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. 14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Protected by God in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 140:7", "verse_text": "O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle." }, { "point_text": "Comforted by God in", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 7:5-6", "verse_text": "For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears. 6 Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;" }, { "point_text": "Strengthened by God in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 20:2", "verse_text": "Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion;" }, { "point_text": "Strengthened by God in", "verse_ref": "Psalm 27:14", "verse_text": "Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Strengthened by God in", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:10", "verse_text": "Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness." }, { "point_text": "Strengthened by Christ in", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 12:9", "verse_text": "And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me." }, { "point_text": "Strengthened by Christ in", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:17", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion." }, { "point_text": "Delivered by Christ in", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:18", "verse_text": "And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Thank God for victory in", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:25", "verse_text": "I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin." }, { "point_text": "Thank God for victory in", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:57", "verse_text": "But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "ARMOR FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Girdle of truth", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:14", "verse_text": "Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;" }, { "point_text": "Breastplate of righteousness", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:14", "verse_text": "Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;" }, { "point_text": "Preparation of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:15", "verse_text": "And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;" }, { "point_text": "Shield of faith", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:16", "verse_text": "Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked." }, { "point_text": "Helmet of salvation", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:17", "verse_text": "And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:" }, { "point_text": "Helmet of salvation", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 5:8", "verse_text": "But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation." }, { "point_text": "Sword of the Spirit", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:17", "verse_text": "And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:" }, { "point_text": "Called armor of God", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:11", "verse_text": "Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil." }, { "point_text": "Called armor of righteousness", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:7", "verse_text": "By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left," }, { "point_text": "Called armor of light", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:12", "verse_text": "The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light." }, { "point_text": "Not carnal", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 10:4", "verse_text": "(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)" }, { "point_text": "Mighty through God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 10:4-5", "verse_text": "(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;" }, { "point_text": "The whole, is required", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:13", "verse_text": "Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand." }, { "point_text": "Must be put on", "verse_ref": "Romans 13:12", "verse_text": "The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light." }, { "point_text": "Must be put on", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 6:11", "verse_text": "Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil." }, { "point_text": "To be on right hand and left", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 6:7", "verse_text": "By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left," }, { "point_text": "VICTORY IN, IS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "From God", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:57", "verse_text": "But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "point_text": "From God", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 2:14", "verse_text": "Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place." }, { "point_text": "Through Christ", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:25", "verse_text": "I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin." }, { "point_text": "Through Christ", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:27", "verse_text": "For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith, all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him." }, { "point_text": "Through Christ", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 12:9", "verse_text": "And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me." }, { "point_text": "Through Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 12:11", "verse_text": "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death." }, { "point_text": "By faith", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:33-37", "verse_text": "Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. 35 Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: 36 And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: ..." }, { "point_text": "By faith", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:4-5", "verse_text": "For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. 5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?" }, { "point_text": "Over the devil", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:20", "verse_text": "And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Over the devil", "verse_ref": "1 John 2:14", "verse_text": "I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one." }, { "point_text": "Over the flesh", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:24-25", "verse_text": "O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin." }, { "point_text": "Over the world", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:4-5", "verse_text": "For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. 5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?" }, { "point_text": "Over all that exalts itself", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 10:5", "verse_text": "Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;" }, { "point_text": "Over death and the grave", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 25:8", "verse_text": "He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it." }, { "point_text": "Over death and the grave", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:19", "verse_text": "Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead." }, { "point_text": "Over death and the grave", "verse_ref": "Hosea 13:14", "verse_text": "I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes." }, { "point_text": "Over death and the grave", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 15:54-55", "verse_text": "So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" }, { "point_text": "Triumphant", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:37", "verse_text": "Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us." }, { "point_text": "Triumphant", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 10:5", "verse_text": "Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;" }, { "point_text": "THEY WHO OVERCOME IN, SHALL", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Eat of the hidden manna", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:17", "verse_text": "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it." }, { "point_text": "Eat of the tree of life", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:7", "verse_text": "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God." }, { "point_text": "Be clothed in white raiment", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:5", "verse_text": "He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels." }, { "point_text": "Be pillars in the temple of God", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:12", "verse_text": "Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name." }, { "point_text": "Sit with Christ in His throne", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:21", "verse_text": "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne." }, { "point_text": "Have a white stone, and, in it a new name written", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:17", "verse_text": "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it." }, { "point_text": "Have power over the nations", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:26", "verse_text": "And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:" }, { "point_text": "Have the name of God written upon them by Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:12", "verse_text": "Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name." }, { "point_text": "Have God as their God", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:7", "verse_text": "He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son." }, { "point_text": "Have the morning-star", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:28", "verse_text": "And I will give him the morning star." }, { "point_text": "Inherit all things", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:7", "verse_text": "He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son." }, { "point_text": "Be confessed by Christ before God the Father", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:5", "verse_text": "He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels." }, { "point_text": "Be sons of God", "verse_ref": "Revelation 21:7", "verse_text": "He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son." }, { "point_text": "Not be hurt by the second death", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:11", "verse_text": "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death." }, { "point_text": "Not have their names blotted out of the book of life", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:5", "verse_text": "He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:5", "verse_text": "For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 10:5", "verse_text": "And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded." } ] }, { "name": "Tyre", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Tyre.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:7", "verse_text": "Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn." }, { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Joshua 19:29", "verse_text": "And then the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at the sea from the coast to Achzib:" }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "The daughter of Zidon", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:12", "verse_text": "And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest." }, { "point_text": "The daughter of Tarshish", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:10", "verse_text": "Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength." }, { "point_text": "The joyous city", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:7", "verse_text": "Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn." }, { "point_text": "The crowning city", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:8", "verse_text": "Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?" }, { "point_text": "The renowned city", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:17", "verse_text": "And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!" }, { "point_text": "Insular position of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:17", "verse_text": "And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!" }, { "point_text": "Insular position of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:4", "verse_text": "Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty." }, { "point_text": "Insular position of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:25", "verse_text": "The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas." }, { "point_text": "Strongly fortified", "verse_ref": "Joshua 19:29", "verse_text": "And then the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at the sea from the coast to Achzib:" }, { "point_text": "Strongly fortified", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:7", "verse_text": "And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, even to Beersheba." }, { "point_text": "Strongly fortified", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:17", "verse_text": "And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!" }, { "point_text": "Strongly fortified", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:3", "verse_text": "And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets." }, { "point_text": "Governed by kings", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:1", "verse_text": "And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David." }, { "point_text": "Governed by kings", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 25:22", "verse_text": "And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea," }, { "point_text": "CELEBRATED FOR", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Its beauty", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:3-4", "verse_text": "And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty. 4 Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty." }, { "point_text": "Its commerce", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:2-3", "verse_text": "Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished. 3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations." }, { "point_text": "Its wealth", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:33", "verse_text": "When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise." }, { "point_text": "Its wealth", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:4-5", "verse_text": "With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: 5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:" }, { "point_text": "Strength and beauty of its ships", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:5-7", "verse_text": "They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee. 6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim. 7 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee." }, { "point_text": "Soldiers of, supplied by Persia, &c", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:10-11", "verse_text": "They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness. 11 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect." }, { "point_text": "INHABITANTS OF,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Sea-faring men", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:17", "verse_text": "And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!" }, { "point_text": "Mercantile men", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:8", "verse_text": "Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?" }, { "point_text": "Proud and haughty", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:9", "verse_text": "The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Proud and haughty", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:2", "verse_text": "Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:" }, { "point_text": "Proud and haughty", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:17", "verse_text": "Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee." }, { "point_text": "Self-conceited", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:3-5", "verse_text": "Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee: 4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: 5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:" }, { "point_text": "Superstitious", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:2-3", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck, 3 And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;" }, { "point_text": "Superstitious", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:9", "verse_text": "Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:" }, { "point_text": "Wicked", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:18", "verse_text": "Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee." }, { "point_text": "Often confederated against the Jews and rejoiced in their calamities", "verse_ref": "Psalm 83:7", "verse_text": "Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;" }, { "point_text": "Often confederated against the Jews and rejoiced in their calamities", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:2", "verse_text": "Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:" }, { "point_text": "Often confederated against the Jews and rejoiced in their calamities", "verse_ref": "Amos 1:9", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:" }, { "point_text": "David and Solomon formed alliances with", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:1", "verse_text": "And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David." }, { "point_text": "David and Solomon formed alliances with", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:3", "verse_text": "And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him an house to dwell therein, even so deal with me." }, { "point_text": "SUPPLIED", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Seamen for Solomon's navy", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 9:27", "verse_text": "And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon." }, { "point_text": "Seamen for Solomon's navy", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 8:18", "verse_text": "And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon." }, { "point_text": "A master-builder for the temple", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:7", "verse_text": "Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide." }, { "point_text": "A master-builder for the temple", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:13", "verse_text": "And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father's," }, { "point_text": "Stones and timber for building the temple, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:6", "verse_text": "Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians." }, { "point_text": "Stones and timber for building the temple, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:9", "verse_text": "My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household." }, { "point_text": "Stones and timber for building the temple, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:8-9", "verse_text": "Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants, 9 Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great." }, { "point_text": "Stones and timber for building the temple, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:16", "verse_text": "And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Timber for rebuilding the temple and city", "verse_ref": "Ezra 3:7", "verse_text": "They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia." }, { "point_text": "The Jews condemned for purchasing from the people of, on the Sabbath", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:16", "verse_text": "There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "CHRIST", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Alluded to the depravity of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:21-22", "verse_text": "Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you." }, { "point_text": "Visited the coasts of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:21", "verse_text": "Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon." }, { "point_text": "Visited the coasts of", "verse_ref": "Mark 7:24", "verse_text": "And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid." }, { "point_text": "Was followed by many from", "verse_ref": "Mark 3:8", "verse_text": "And from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him." }, { "point_text": "Was followed by many from", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:17", "verse_text": "And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;" }, { "point_text": "Saint Paul found disciples at", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:3-4", "verse_text": "Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden. 4 And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Depended for provision upon Galilee", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:20", "verse_text": "And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king's country." }, { "point_text": "Propitiated the favor of Herod", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:20", "verse_text": "And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king's country." }, { "point_text": "PROPHECIES RESPECTING;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Envy against the Jews a cause of its destruction", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:2", "verse_text": "Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:" }, { "point_text": "Pride a cause of its destruction", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:2-6", "verse_text": "Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: 3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee: 4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: 5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches: ..." }, { "point_text": "To be destroyed by the king of Babylon", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:13-14", "verse_text": "Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin. 14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste." }, { "point_text": "Inhabitants of, to emigrated to other countries, &c", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:6", "verse_text": "Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle." }, { "point_text": "Inhabitants of, to emigrated to other countries, &c", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:12", "verse_text": "And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest." }, { "point_text": "To be scraped as the top of a rock, and to be a place for the spreading nets", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:3-5", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up. 4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. 5 It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations." }, { "point_text": "To be scraped as the top of a rock, and to be a place for the spreading nets", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:14", "verse_text": "And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "The king of Babylon to be rewarded with the spoil of Egypt for his service against", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 29:18-20", "verse_text": "Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it: 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. 20 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "To lie waste and be forgotten for seventy years", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:15", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot." }, { "point_text": "Its restoration to commercial greatness after seventy years", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:16-17", "verse_text": "Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered. 17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Its second destruction by the Macedonians", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:32", "verse_text": "And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?" }, { "point_text": "Its second destruction by the Macedonians", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:7-8", "verse_text": "Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness. 8 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas." }, { "point_text": "Its second destruction by the Macedonians", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:18", "verse_text": "Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee." }, { "point_text": "The ruins of the first city to be employed in making a causeway to effect the destruction of insular Tyre", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:12", "verse_text": "And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water." }, { "point_text": "Never to recover its greatness", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:21", "verse_text": "I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Its inhabitants to be sold as slaves, as a recompense for their selling the Jews", "verse_ref": "Joel 3:4-8", "verse_text": "Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head; 5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: 6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border. 7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head: ..." }, { "point_text": "All nations to be terrified at its destruction", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:15-18", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee? 16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee. 17 And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it! 18 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure." }, { "point_text": "All nations to be terrified at its destruction", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:29-36", "verse_text": "And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land; 30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes: 31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing. 32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea? ..." }, { "point_text": "All nations to be terrified at its destruction", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:5", "verse_text": "Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited." }, { "point_text": "To participate in the blessings of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:12", "verse_text": "And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour." }, { "point_text": "To participate in the blessings of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:18", "verse_text": "And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing." }, { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:7", "verse_text": "Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn." }, { "point_text": "Antiquity of", "verse_ref": "Joshua 19:29", "verse_text": "And then the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at the sea from the coast to Achzib:" }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The daughter of Zidon", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:12", "verse_text": "And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest." }, { "point_text": "The daughter of Tarshish", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:10", "verse_text": "Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength." }, { "point_text": "The joyous city", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:7", "verse_text": "Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn." }, { "point_text": "The crowning city", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:8", "verse_text": "Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?" }, { "point_text": "The renowned city", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:17", "verse_text": "And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!" }, { "point_text": "Insular position of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:17", "verse_text": "And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!" }, { "point_text": "Insular position of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:4", "verse_text": "Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty." }, { "point_text": "Insular position of", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:25", "verse_text": "The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas." }, { "point_text": "Strongly fortified", "verse_ref": "Joshua 19:29", "verse_text": "And then the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at the sea from the coast to Achzib:" }, { "point_text": "Strongly fortified", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 24:7", "verse_text": "And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, even to Beersheba." }, { "point_text": "Strongly fortified", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:17", "verse_text": "And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!" }, { "point_text": "Strongly fortified", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:3", "verse_text": "And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets." }, { "point_text": "Governed by kings", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:1", "verse_text": "And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David." }, { "point_text": "Governed by kings", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 25:22", "verse_text": "And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea," }, { "point_text": "CELEBRATED FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Its beauty", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:3-4", "verse_text": "And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty. 4 Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty." }, { "point_text": "Its commerce", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:2-3", "verse_text": "Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished. 3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations." }, { "point_text": "Its wealth", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:33", "verse_text": "When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise." }, { "point_text": "Its wealth", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:4-5", "verse_text": "With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: 5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:" }, { "point_text": "Strength and beauty of its ships", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:5-7", "verse_text": "They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee. 6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim. 7 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee." }, { "point_text": "Soldiers of, supplied by Persia, &c", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:10-11", "verse_text": "They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness. 11 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect." }, { "point_text": "INHABITANTS OF,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Sea-faring men", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:17", "verse_text": "And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!" }, { "point_text": "Mercantile men", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:8", "verse_text": "Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?" }, { "point_text": "Proud and haughty", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:9", "verse_text": "The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Proud and haughty", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:2", "verse_text": "Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:" }, { "point_text": "Proud and haughty", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:17", "verse_text": "Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee." }, { "point_text": "Self-conceited", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:3-5", "verse_text": "Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee: 4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: 5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:" }, { "point_text": "Superstitious", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:2-3", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck, 3 And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;" }, { "point_text": "Superstitious", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 27:9", "verse_text": "Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:" }, { "point_text": "Wicked", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:18", "verse_text": "Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee." }, { "point_text": "Often confederated against the Jews and rejoiced in their calamities", "verse_ref": "Psalm 83:7", "verse_text": "Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;" }, { "point_text": "Often confederated against the Jews and rejoiced in their calamities", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:2", "verse_text": "Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:" }, { "point_text": "Often confederated against the Jews and rejoiced in their calamities", "verse_ref": "Amos 1:9", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:" }, { "point_text": "David and Solomon formed alliances with", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:1", "verse_text": "And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David." }, { "point_text": "David and Solomon formed alliances with", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:3", "verse_text": "And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him an house to dwell therein, even so deal with me." }, { "point_text": "SUPPLIED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Seamen for Solomon's navy", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 9:27", "verse_text": "And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon." }, { "point_text": "Seamen for Solomon's navy", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 8:18", "verse_text": "And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon." }, { "point_text": "A master-builder for the temple", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:7", "verse_text": "Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide." }, { "point_text": "A master-builder for the temple", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:13", "verse_text": "And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father's," }, { "point_text": "Stones and timber for building the temple, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:6", "verse_text": "Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians." }, { "point_text": "Stones and timber for building the temple, &c", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 5:9", "verse_text": "My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household." }, { "point_text": "Stones and timber for building the temple, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:8-9", "verse_text": "Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants, 9 Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great." }, { "point_text": "Stones and timber for building the temple, &c", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 2:16", "verse_text": "And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Timber for rebuilding the temple and city", "verse_ref": "Ezra 3:7", "verse_text": "They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia." }, { "point_text": "The Jews condemned for purchasing from the people of, on the Sabbath", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:16", "verse_text": "There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "CHRIST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Alluded to the depravity of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:21-22", "verse_text": "Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you." }, { "point_text": "Visited the coasts of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:21", "verse_text": "Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon." }, { "point_text": "Visited the coasts of", "verse_ref": "Mark 7:24", "verse_text": "And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid." }, { "point_text": "Was followed by many from", "verse_ref": "Mark 3:8", "verse_text": "And from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him." }, { "point_text": "Was followed by many from", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:17", "verse_text": "And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;" }, { "point_text": "Saint Paul found disciples at", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:3-4", "verse_text": "Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden. 4 And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Depended for provision upon Galilee", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:20", "verse_text": "And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king's country." }, { "point_text": "Propitiated the favor of Herod", "verse_ref": "Acts 12:20", "verse_text": "And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king's country." }, { "point_text": "PROPHECIES RESPECTING;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Envy against the Jews a cause of its destruction", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:2", "verse_text": "Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:" }, { "point_text": "Pride a cause of its destruction", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:2-6", "verse_text": "Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: 3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee: 4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: 5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches: ..." }, { "point_text": "To be destroyed by the king of Babylon", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:13-14", "verse_text": "Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin. 14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste." }, { "point_text": "Inhabitants of, to emigrated to other countries, &c", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:6", "verse_text": "Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle." }, { "point_text": "Inhabitants of, to emigrated to other countries, &c", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:12", "verse_text": "And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest." }, { "point_text": "To be scraped as the top of a rock, and to be a place for the spreading nets", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:3-5", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up. 4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. 5 It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations." }, { "point_text": "To be scraped as the top of a rock, and to be a place for the spreading nets", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:14", "verse_text": "And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "The king of Babylon to be rewarded with the spoil of Egypt for his service against", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 29:18-20", "verse_text": "Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it: 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. 20 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "To lie waste and be forgotten for seventy years", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:15", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot." }, { "point_text": "Its restoration to commercial greatness after seventy years", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:16-17", "verse_text": "Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered. 17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Its second destruction by the Macedonians", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:32", "verse_text": "And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?" }, { "point_text": "Its second destruction by the Macedonians", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:7-8", "verse_text": "Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness. 8 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas." }, { "point_text": "Its second destruction by the Macedonians", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 28:18", "verse_text": "Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee." }, { "point_text": "The ruins of the first city to be employed in making a causeway to effect the destruction of insular Tyre", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:12", "verse_text": "And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water." }, { "point_text": "Never to recover its greatness", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:21", "verse_text": "I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD." }, { "point_text": "Its inhabitants to be sold as slaves, as a recompense for their selling the Jews", "verse_ref": "Joel 3:4-8", "verse_text": "Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head; 5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: 6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border. 7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head: ..." }, { "point_text": "All nations to be terrified at its destruction", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 26:15-18", "verse_text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee? 16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee. 17 And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it! 18 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure." }, { "point_text": "All nations to be terrified at its destruction", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:29-36", "verse_text": "And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land; 30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes: 31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing. 32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea? ..." }, { "point_text": "All nations to be terrified at its destruction", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:5", "verse_text": "Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited." }, { "point_text": "To participate in the blessings of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:12", "verse_text": "And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour." }, { "point_text": "To participate in the blessings of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 23:18", "verse_text": "And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing." } ] }, { "name": "Water", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Water.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "One of the elements of the world", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:2", "verse_text": "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." }, { "point_text": "GOD ORIGINALLY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Created the firmament to divide", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:6-7", "verse_text": "And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so." }, { "point_text": "Collected into one place", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:9", "verse_text": "And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so." }, { "point_text": "Created fowls and fishes, &c. from", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:20-21", "verse_text": "And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good." }, { "point_text": "Necessary to vegetation", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:5-6", "verse_text": "And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. 6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground." }, { "point_text": "Some plants particularly require", "verse_ref": "Job 8:11", "verse_text": "Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?" }, { "point_text": "Necessary to the comfort and happiness of man", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:17", "verse_text": "When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them." }, { "point_text": "Necessary to the comfort and happiness of man", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:11", "verse_text": "As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water." }, { "point_text": "COLLECTED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Springs", "verse_ref": "Joshua 15:19", "verse_text": "Who answered, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and the nether springs." }, { "point_text": "Pools", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 22:38", "verse_text": "And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake." }, { "point_text": "Pools", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 2:14", "verse_text": "Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass." }, { "point_text": "Ponds", "verse_ref": "Exodus 7:19", "verse_text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone." }, { "point_text": "Ponds", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:10", "verse_text": "And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish." }, { "point_text": "Fountains", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:5", "verse_text": "And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts." }, { "point_text": "Fountains", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 32:3", "verse_text": "He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city: and they did help him." }, { "point_text": "Wells", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:19", "verse_text": "And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink." }, { "point_text": "Brooks", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 17:20", "verse_text": "And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Brooks", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:5", "verse_text": "And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts." }, { "point_text": "Streams", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:16", "verse_text": "He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers." }, { "point_text": "Streams", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 35:6", "verse_text": "Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert." }, { "point_text": "Rivers", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:7", "verse_text": "Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:" }, { "point_text": "Rivers", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:18", "verse_text": "And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?" }, { "point_text": "The sea", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:9-10", "verse_text": "And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good." }, { "point_text": "The clouds", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:7", "verse_text": "And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so." }, { "point_text": "The clouds", "verse_ref": "Job 26:8-9", "verse_text": "He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them. 9 He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it." }, { "point_text": "Rises in vapor to the clouds", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 1:7", "verse_text": "All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again." }, { "point_text": "Rises in vapor to the clouds", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:8", "verse_text": "They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them." }, { "point_text": "Drops from the clouds in rain", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 11:11", "verse_text": "But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:" }, { "point_text": "Drops from the clouds in rain", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 21:10", "verse_text": "And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night." }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Fluid", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:16", "verse_text": "He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers." }, { "point_text": "Fluid", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:4", "verse_text": "Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?" }, { "point_text": "Unstable", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:4", "verse_text": "Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch." }, { "point_text": "Penetrating", "verse_ref": "Psalm 109:18", "verse_text": "As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones." }, { "point_text": "Reflecting images", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 27:9", "verse_text": "Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel." }, { "point_text": "Wearing the hardest substances", "verse_ref": "Job 14:19", "verse_text": "The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man." }, { "point_text": "Cleansing", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 36:25", "verse_text": "Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you." }, { "point_text": "Cleansing", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:26", "verse_text": "That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word," }, { "point_text": "Refreshing", "verse_ref": "Job 22:7", "verse_text": "Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry." }, { "point_text": "Refreshing", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:25", "verse_text": "As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country." }, { "point_text": "Congealed by cold", "verse_ref": "Job 38:29", "verse_text": "Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?" }, { "point_text": "Congealed by cold", "verse_ref": "Psalm 147:16-17", "verse_text": "He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. 17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?" }, { "point_text": "WAS USED BY JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "As their principal beverage", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:43", "verse_text": "Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;" }, { "point_text": "As their principal beverage", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 13:19", "verse_text": "So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water." }, { "point_text": "As their principal beverage", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:4", "verse_text": "For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)" }, { "point_text": "As their principal beverage", "verse_ref": "Hosea 2:5", "verse_text": "For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink." }, { "point_text": "For culinary purposes", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:9", "verse_text": "Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof." }, { "point_text": "For washing the person", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:4", "verse_text": "Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:" }, { "point_text": "For washing the person", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:32", "verse_text": "And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men's feet that were with him." }, { "point_text": "For legal purification", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:4", "verse_text": "And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water." }, { "point_text": "For legal purification", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:10", "verse_text": "Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation." }, { "point_text": "For legal purification", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 9:19", "verse_text": "For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people," }, { "point_text": "Kept for purification in large waterpots", "verse_ref": "John 2:6", "verse_text": "And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece." }, { "point_text": "Carried in vessels", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:14", "verse_text": "And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba." }, { "point_text": "Carried in vessels", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 26:11", "verse_text": "The LORD forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against the LORD'S anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now the spear that is at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let us go." }, { "point_text": "Carried in vessels", "verse_ref": "Mark 14:13", "verse_text": "And he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and saith unto them, Go ye into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him." }, { "point_text": "Artificial mode of conveying, into large cities", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 20:20", "verse_text": "And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?" }, { "point_text": "Frequently brackish and unfit for use", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:23", "verse_text": "And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah." }, { "point_text": "Frequently brackish and unfit for use", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 2:19", "verse_text": "And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren." }, { "point_text": "The want of, considered a great calamity", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:1-3", "verse_text": "And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink. 2 Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD? 3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?" }, { "point_text": "The want of, considered a great calamity", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:2", "verse_text": "And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron." }, { "point_text": "The want of, considered a great calamity", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 3:9-10", "verse_text": "So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them. 10 And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!" }, { "point_text": "In times of scarcity, sold at an enormous price", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 5:4", "verse_text": "We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us." }, { "point_text": "MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Turned into blood", "verse_ref": "Exodus 7:17", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD, In this thou shalt know that I am the LORD: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood." }, { "point_text": "Turned into blood", "verse_ref": "Exodus 7:20", "verse_text": "And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood." }, { "point_text": "Turned into wine", "verse_ref": "John 2:7-9", "verse_text": "Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim. 8 And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it. 9 When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom," }, { "point_text": "Brought from the rock", "verse_ref": "Exodus 17:6", "verse_text": "Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Brought from the rock", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:11", "verse_text": "And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also." }, { "point_text": "Brought from the jaw-bone of an ass", "verse_ref": "Judges 15:19", "verse_text": "But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day." }, { "point_text": "Consumed by fire from heaven", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:38", "verse_text": "Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench." }, { "point_text": "Divided and made to stand on heap", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:21-22", "verse_text": "And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. 22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left." }, { "point_text": "Trenches filled with", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 3:17-22", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts. 18 And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand. 19 And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones. 20 And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat offering was offered, that, behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water. ..." }, { "point_text": "Iron made to swim in", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 6:5-6", "verse_text": "But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed. 6 And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim." }, { "point_text": "Our Lord, &c. walking on", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:26-29", "verse_text": "And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear. 27 But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid. 28 And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. 29 And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus." }, { "point_text": "Healing powers communicated to", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 5:14", "verse_text": "Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean." }, { "point_text": "Healing powers communicated to", "verse_ref": "John 5:4", "verse_text": "For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had." }, { "point_text": "Healing powers communicated to", "verse_ref": "John 9:7", "verse_text": "And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing." }, { "point_text": "The world and its inhabitants once destroyed by", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:20-23", "verse_text": "Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. 21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: 22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. 23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark." }, { "point_text": "The world and its inhabitants once destroyed by", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:6", "verse_text": "Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:" }, { "point_text": "The world not to be again destroyed by", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:8-15", "verse_text": "And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, 9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; 10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. 11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. ..." }, { "point_text": "The world not to be again destroyed by", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 3:7", "verse_text": "But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the support of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:6", "verse_text": "Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;" }, { "point_text": "Of the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:17", "verse_text": "When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them." }, { "point_text": "Of the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:3", "verse_text": "For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:" }, { "point_text": "Of the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 36:25", "verse_text": "Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you." }, { "point_text": "Of the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit", "verse_ref": "John 7:38-39", "verse_text": "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)" }, { "point_text": "Of persecutors", "verse_ref": "Psalm 124:4-5", "verse_text": "Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul: 5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul." }, { "point_text": "Of persecutions", "verse_ref": "Psalm 88:17", "verse_text": "They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together." }, { "point_text": "Of hostile armies", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 8:7", "verse_text": "Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:" }, { "point_text": "Of hostile armies", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 17:13", "verse_text": "The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind." }, { "point_text": "(Still,) of the ordinances of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Psalm 23:2", "verse_text": "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters." }, { "point_text": "(Deep,) of severe affliction", "verse_ref": "Psalm 66:12", "verse_text": "Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place." }, { "point_text": "(Deep,) of severe affliction", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:1", "verse_text": "Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul." }, { "point_text": "(Deep,) of severe affliction", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 30:20", "verse_text": "And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:" }, { "point_text": "(Deep,) of severe affliction", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 43:2", "verse_text": "When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee." }, { "point_text": "(Deep,) of counsel in the heart", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:5", "verse_text": "Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out." }, { "point_text": "(Deep,) of the words of the wise of the wise", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 18:4", "verse_text": "The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook." }, { "point_text": "(Poured out,) of the wrath of God", "verse_ref": "Hosea 5:10", "verse_text": "The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water." }, { "point_text": "(Poured out,) of faintness by terror", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:14", "verse_text": "I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels." }, { "point_text": "(Pouring, out of buckets,) of a numerous progeny", "verse_ref": "Numbers 24:7", "verse_text": "He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted." }, { "point_text": "(Spilled on the ground,) of death", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 14:14", "verse_text": "For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him." }, { "point_text": "(Its instability,) of a wavering disposition", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:4", "verse_text": "Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch." }, { "point_text": "(Its weakness,) of faintness and cowardice", "verse_ref": "Joshua 7:5", "verse_text": "And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water." }, { "point_text": "(Its weakness,) of faintness and cowardice", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 7:17", "verse_text": "All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water." }, { "point_text": "(Difficulty of stopping,) of strife and contention", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 17:14", "verse_text": "The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with." }, { "point_text": "(Rapidly flowing away,) of the career of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Job 24:18", "verse_text": "He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards." }, { "point_text": "(Rapidly flowing away,) of the career of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 58:7", "verse_text": "Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces." }, { "point_text": "(Many,) of different nations and people", "verse_ref": "Revelation 17:1", "verse_text": "And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:" }, { "point_text": "(Many,) of different nations and people", "verse_ref": "Revelation 17:15", "verse_text": "And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues." }, { "point_text": "(Many,) of a variety of afflictions", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 22:17", "verse_text": "He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;" }, { "point_text": "(Noise of many,) of the word of Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 1:15", "verse_text": "And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters." }, { "point_text": "(Covering the sea,) of the general diffusion of the knowledge of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:9", "verse_text": "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea." }, { "point_text": "(Covering the sea,) of the general diffusion of the knowledge of God", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:14", "verse_text": "For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea." } ] }, { "name": "Wave-offering", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Waveoffering.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Placed in the hand of the priest and waved before the Lord", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:24", "verse_text": "And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons; and shalt wave them for a wave offering before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Placed in the hand of the priest and waved before the Lord", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:27", "verse_text": "And he put all upon Aaron's hands, and upon his sons' hands, and waved them for a wave offering before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "CONSISTED OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The fat, right shoulder, &c. of the priest's consecration-ram", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:22-23", "verse_text": "Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder; for it is a ram of consecration: 23 And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "The breast of the priest's consecration-ram", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:26", "verse_text": "And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron's consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD: and it shall be thy part." }, { "point_text": "The breast of the priest's consecration-ram", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:29", "verse_text": "And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before the LORD: for of the ram of consecration it was Moses' part; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "The breast of all peace-offerings", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:30", "verse_text": "His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The breast of all peace-offerings", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 9:18", "verse_text": "He slew also the bullock and the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled upon the altar round about," }, { "point_text": "The breast of all peace-offerings", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 9:21", "verse_text": "And the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved for a wave offering before the LORD; as Moses commanded." }, { "point_text": "Left shoulder, of Nazarite's peace-offering", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:17", "verse_text": "And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering." }, { "point_text": "Left shoulder, of Nazarite's peace-offering", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:19", "verse_text": "And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after the hair of his separation is shaven:" }, { "point_text": "The first fruits of barely harvest", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:10-11", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: 11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it." }, { "point_text": "The first fruits of wheaten bread", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:20", "verse_text": "And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest." }, { "point_text": "The jealousy offering", "verse_ref": "Numbers 5:25", "verse_text": "Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar:" }, { "point_text": "The leper's trespass offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:12", "verse_text": "And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "The leper's trespass offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:24", "verse_text": "And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Of the fat, &c. of the consecration-ram burnt on the altar", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:25", "verse_text": "And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the LORD: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Of the fat, &c. of the consecration-ram burnt on the altar", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:28", "verse_text": "And Moses took them from off their hands, and burnt them on the altar upon the burnt offering: they were consecrations for a sweet savour: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Was given to the priest as his due", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:26-28", "verse_text": "And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron's consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD: and it shall be thy part. 27 And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons: 28 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it is an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Was given to the priest as his due", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:31", "verse_text": "And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'." }, { "point_text": "Was given to the priest as his due", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:29", "verse_text": "And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before the LORD: for of the ram of consecration it was Moses' part; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "Was given to the priest as his due", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 10:15", "verse_text": "The heave shoulder and the wave breast shall they bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before the LORD; and it shall be thine, and thy sons' with thee, by a statute for ever; as the LORD hath commanded." }, { "point_text": "Was given to the priest as his due", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:20", "verse_text": "And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest." }, { "point_text": "Was given to the priest as his due", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:11", "verse_text": "And this is thine; the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it." }, { "point_text": "Was to be eaten in a holy place by the priest's family", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 10:14", "verse_text": "And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for they be thy due, and thy sons' due, which are given out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Placed in the hand of the priest and waved before the Lord", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:24", "verse_text": "And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons; and shalt wave them for a wave offering before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Placed in the hand of the priest and waved before the Lord", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:27", "verse_text": "And he put all upon Aaron's hands, and upon his sons' hands, and waved them for a wave offering before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "CONSISTED OF", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "The fat, right shoulder, &c. of the priest's consecration-ram", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:22-23", "verse_text": "Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder; for it is a ram of consecration: 23 And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "The breast of the priest's consecration-ram", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:26", "verse_text": "And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron's consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD: and it shall be thy part." }, { "point_text": "The breast of the priest's consecration-ram", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:29", "verse_text": "And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before the LORD: for of the ram of consecration it was Moses' part; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "The breast of all peace-offerings", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:30", "verse_text": "His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD." }, { "point_text": "The breast of all peace-offerings", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 9:18", "verse_text": "He slew also the bullock and the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled upon the altar round about," }, { "point_text": "The breast of all peace-offerings", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 9:21", "verse_text": "And the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved for a wave offering before the LORD; as Moses commanded." }, { "point_text": "Left shoulder, of Nazarite's peace-offering", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:17", "verse_text": "And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering." }, { "point_text": "Left shoulder, of Nazarite's peace-offering", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:19", "verse_text": "And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after the hair of his separation is shaven:" }, { "point_text": "The first fruits of barely harvest", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:10-11", "verse_text": "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: 11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it." }, { "point_text": "The first fruits of wheaten bread", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:20", "verse_text": "And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest." }, { "point_text": "The jealousy offering", "verse_ref": "Numbers 5:25", "verse_text": "Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar:" }, { "point_text": "The leper's trespass offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:12", "verse_text": "And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "The leper's trespass offering", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 14:24", "verse_text": "And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD:" }, { "point_text": "Of the fat, &c. of the consecration-ram burnt on the altar", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:25", "verse_text": "And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the LORD: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Of the fat, &c. of the consecration-ram burnt on the altar", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:28", "verse_text": "And Moses took them from off their hands, and burnt them on the altar upon the burnt offering: they were consecrations for a sweet savour: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Was given to the priest as his due", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:26-28", "verse_text": "And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron's consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD: and it shall be thy part. 27 And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons: 28 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it is an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Was given to the priest as his due", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 7:31", "verse_text": "And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'." }, { "point_text": "Was given to the priest as his due", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 8:29", "verse_text": "And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before the LORD: for of the ram of consecration it was Moses' part; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "point_text": "Was given to the priest as his due", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 10:15", "verse_text": "The heave shoulder and the wave breast shall they bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before the LORD; and it shall be thine, and thy sons' with thee, by a statute for ever; as the LORD hath commanded." }, { "point_text": "Was given to the priest as his due", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:20", "verse_text": "And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest." }, { "point_text": "Was given to the priest as his due", "verse_ref": "Numbers 18:11", "verse_text": "And this is thine; the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it." }, { "point_text": "Was to be eaten in a holy place by the priest's family", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 10:14", "verse_text": "And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for they be thy due, and thy sons' due, which are given out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel." } ] }, { "name": "Weeks", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Weeks.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "A period of time consisting of seven days", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 23:15-16", "verse_text": "And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: 16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD." }, { "point_text": "A space of seven years sometimes so called", "verse_ref": "Genesis 29:27-28", "verse_text": "Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years. 28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also." }, { "point_text": "Origin of computing time by", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:2", "verse_text": "And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made." }, { "point_text": "The feast of pentecost called the feast of weeks", "verse_ref": "Exodus 34:22", "verse_text": "And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end." }, { "point_text": "The feast of pentecost called the feast of weeks", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:1", "verse_text": "And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place." } ] }, { "name": "Whirlwind", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Whirlwind.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Generally came from the south", "verse_ref": "Job 37:9", "verse_text": "Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north." }, { "point_text": "Generally came from the south", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 21:1", "verse_text": "The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land." }, { "point_text": "Generally came from the south", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:14", "verse_text": "And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord GOD shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes came from the north", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 1:4", "verse_text": "And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire." }, { "point_text": "Called the whirlwind of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:19", "verse_text": "Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked." }, { "point_text": "Called the whirlwind of the Lord", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 30:23", "verse_text": "Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked." }, { "point_text": "Arose up from the earth", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 25:32", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth." }, { "point_text": "MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Elijah taken to heaven in", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 2:1", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal." }, { "point_text": "Elijah taken to heaven in", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 2:11", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven." }, { "point_text": "God spoke to Job from", "verse_ref": "Job 38:1", "verse_text": "Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said," }, { "point_text": "God spoke to Job from", "verse_ref": "Job 40:6", "verse_text": "Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said," }, { "point_text": "Frequently continued for a long time", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 30:23", "verse_text": "Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked." }, { "point_text": "Destructive nature of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:27", "verse_text": "When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Speed with which God executes His purposes", "verse_ref": "Nahum 1:3", "verse_text": "The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet." }, { "point_text": "Velocity of Christ's second coming", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:15", "verse_text": "For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire." }, { "point_text": "Velocity of the chariots in hostile armies", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:28", "verse_text": "Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:" }, { "point_text": "Velocity of the chariots in hostile armies", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:13", "verse_text": "Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled." }, { "point_text": "Fury of God's judgments", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 25:32", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Fury of God's judgments", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 30:23", "verse_text": "Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked." }, { "point_text": "Sudden destruction of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 58:9", "verse_text": "Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath." }, { "point_text": "Sudden destruction of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 1:27", "verse_text": "When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you." }, { "point_text": "Sudden destruction of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 17:13", "verse_text": "The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind." }, { "point_text": "Sudden destruction of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:24", "verse_text": "Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble." }, { "point_text": "Sudden destruction of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:16", "verse_text": "Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Sudden destruction of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 30:23", "verse_text": "Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked." }, { "point_text": "Unavoidable fruit of a life of sin and vanity", "verse_ref": "Hosea 8:7", "verse_text": "For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up." } ] }, { "name": "Wicked, The, are compared to", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Wicked-The-are-compared-to.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Abominable branches", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:19", "verse_text": "But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet." }, { "point_text": "Ashes under the feet", "verse_ref": "Malachi 4:3", "verse_text": "And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Bad fishes", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:48", "verse_text": "Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away." }, { "point_text": "Beasts", "verse_ref": "Psalm 49:12", "verse_text": "Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish." }, { "point_text": "Beasts", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:12", "verse_text": "But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;" }, { "point_text": "Blind, The", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 1:17", "verse_text": "And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung." }, { "point_text": "Blind, The", "verse_ref": "Matthew 15:14", "verse_text": "Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch." }, { "point_text": "Brass and iron, &c", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:28", "verse_text": "They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters." }, { "point_text": "Brass and iron, &c", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:18", "verse_text": "Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver." }, { "point_text": "Briars and thorns", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 55:13", "verse_text": "Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off." }, { "point_text": "Briars and thorns", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 2:6", "verse_text": "And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house." }, { "point_text": "Bulls of Bashan", "verse_ref": "Psalm 22:12", "verse_text": "Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round." }, { "point_text": "Carcasses trodden under feet", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 14:19", "verse_text": "But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet." }, { "point_text": "Chaff", "verse_ref": "Job 21:18", "verse_text": "They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away." }, { "point_text": "Chaff", "verse_ref": "Psalm 1:4", "verse_text": "The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away." }, { "point_text": "Chaff", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:12", "verse_text": "Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire." }, { "point_text": "Clouds without water", "verse_ref": "Jude 12", "verse_text": "These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;" }, { "point_text": "Corn blasted", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:26", "verse_text": "Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up." }, { "point_text": "Corrupt trees", "verse_ref": "Luke 6:43", "verse_text": "For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit." }, { "point_text": "Deaf adders", "verse_ref": "Psalm 58:4", "verse_text": "Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;" }, { "point_text": "Dogs", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:11", "verse_text": "As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly." }, { "point_text": "Dogs", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:6", "verse_text": "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you." }, { "point_text": "Dogs", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:22", "verse_text": "But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire." }, { "point_text": "Dross", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:119", "verse_text": "Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies." }, { "point_text": "Dross", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:18-19", "verse_text": "Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver. 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Early dew that passeth away", "verse_ref": "Hosea 13:3", "verse_text": "Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney." }, { "point_text": "Evil figs", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 24:8", "verse_text": "And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:" }, { "point_text": "Fading oaks", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:30", "verse_text": "For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water." }, { "point_text": "Fiery oven", "verse_ref": "Psalm 21:9", "verse_text": "Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them." }, { "point_text": "Fiery oven", "verse_ref": "Hosea 7:4", "verse_text": "They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened." }, { "point_text": "Fire of thorns", "verse_ref": "Psalm 118:12", "verse_text": "They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them." }, { "point_text": "Fools building upon sand", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:26", "verse_text": "And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:" }, { "point_text": "Fuel of fire", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:19", "verse_text": "Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother." }, { "point_text": "Garden without water", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:30", "verse_text": "For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water." }, { "point_text": "Goats", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:32", "verse_text": "And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:" }, { "point_text": "Grass", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:2", "verse_text": "For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb." }, { "point_text": "Grass", "verse_ref": "Psalm 92:7", "verse_text": "When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:" }, { "point_text": "Grass on the housetop", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:26", "verse_text": "Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up." }, { "point_text": "Green bay-trees", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:35", "verse_text": "I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree." }, { "point_text": "Green herbs", "verse_ref": "Psalm 37:2", "verse_text": "For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb." }, { "point_text": "Heath in the desert", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 17:6", "verse_text": "For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited." }, { "point_text": "Horses rushing into the battle", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 8:6", "verse_text": "I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle." }, { "point_text": "Idols", "verse_ref": "Psalm 115:8", "verse_text": "They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them." }, { "point_text": "Lions greedy of prey", "verse_ref": "Psalm 17:12", "verse_text": "Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places." }, { "point_text": "Melting wax", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:2", "verse_text": "As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God." }, { "point_text": "Morning-clouds", "verse_ref": "Hosea 13:3", "verse_text": "Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney." }, { "point_text": "Moth-eaten garments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 50:9", "verse_text": "Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up." }, { "point_text": "Moth-eaten garments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 51:8", "verse_text": "For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation." }, { "point_text": "Passing whirlwinds", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:25", "verse_text": "As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation." }, { "point_text": "Potsherds", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 26:23", "verse_text": "Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross." }, { "point_text": "Raging waves of the sea", "verse_ref": "Jude 13", "verse_text": "Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever." }, { "point_text": "Reprobate silver", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:30", "verse_text": "Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them." }, { "point_text": "Scorpions", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 2:6", "verse_text": "And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house." }, { "point_text": "Serpents", "verse_ref": "Psalm 58:4", "verse_text": "Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;" }, { "point_text": "Serpents", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:33", "verse_text": "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?" }, { "point_text": "Smoke", "verse_ref": "Hosea 13:3", "verse_text": "Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney." }, { "point_text": "Stony ground", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:5", "verse_text": "Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:" }, { "point_text": "Stubble", "verse_ref": "Job 21:18", "verse_text": "They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away." }, { "point_text": "Stubble", "verse_ref": "Malachi 4:1", "verse_text": "For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch." }, { "point_text": "Swine", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:6", "verse_text": "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you." }, { "point_text": "Swine", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:22", "verse_text": "But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire." }, { "point_text": "Tares", "verse_ref": "Matthew 13:38", "verse_text": "The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;" }, { "point_text": "Troubled sea", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 57:20", "verse_text": "But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt." }, { "point_text": "Visions of the night", "verse_ref": "Job 20:8", "verse_text": "He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night." }, { "point_text": "Wandering stars", "verse_ref": "Jude 13", "verse_text": "Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever." }, { "point_text": "Wayward children", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:16", "verse_text": "But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows," }, { "point_text": "Wells without water", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:17", "verse_text": "These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever." }, { "point_text": "Wheels", "verse_ref": "Psalm 83:13", "verse_text": "O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind." }, { "point_text": "Whited sepulchres", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:27", "verse_text": "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness." }, { "point_text": "Wild ass's colt", "verse_ref": "Job 11:12", "verse_text": "For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt." } ] }, { "name": "Weights", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Weights.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Generally regulated by the standard of the sanctuary", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:24", "verse_text": "And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:" }, { "point_text": "Sometimes regulated by the king's standard", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 14:26", "verse_text": "And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight." }, { "point_text": "Were frequently used in scales or balances", "verse_ref": "Job 31:6", "verse_text": "Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity." }, { "point_text": "Were frequently used in scales or balances", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:12", "verse_text": "Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?" }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Gerah", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:13", "verse_text": "This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Gerah", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 45:12", "verse_text": "And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh." }, { "point_text": "Bekah or half-shekel", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:22", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;" }, { "point_text": "Shekel", "verse_ref": "Exodus 30:13", "verse_text": "This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Shekel", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 45:12", "verse_text": "And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh." }, { "point_text": "Dram", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 7:70-71", "verse_text": "And some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty basons, five hundred and thirty priests' garments. 71 And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pound of silver." }, { "point_text": "Maneh or pound", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 7:71", "verse_text": "And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pound of silver." }, { "point_text": "Maneh or pound", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 45:12", "verse_text": "And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh." }, { "point_text": "Talent", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 12:30", "verse_text": "And he took their king's crown from off his head, the weight whereof was a talent of gold with the precious stones: and it was set on David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance." }, { "point_text": "Talent", "verse_ref": "Revelation 16:21", "verse_text": "And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great." }, { "point_text": "Value of money estimated according to", "verse_ref": "Genesis 23:16", "verse_text": "And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant." }, { "point_text": "Value of money estimated according to", "verse_ref": "Genesis 43:21", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand." }, { "point_text": "Value of money estimated according to", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 32:9", "verse_text": "And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver." }, { "point_text": "All metals were given by", "verse_ref": "Exodus 37:24", "verse_text": "Of a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels thereof." }, { "point_text": "All metals were given by", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 28:14", "verse_text": "He gave of gold by weight for things of gold, for all instruments of all manner of service; silver also for all instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of every kind of service:" }, { "point_text": "Provisions were sold by, in times of scarcity", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 26:26", "verse_text": "And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied." }, { "point_text": "Provisions were sold by, in times of scarcity", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 4:10", "verse_text": "And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it." }, { "point_text": "Provisions were sold by, in times of scarcity", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 4:16", "verse_text": "Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:" }, { "point_text": "THE JEWS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to have divers", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 25:13-14", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. 14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to have unjust", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 19:35-36", "verse_text": "Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. 36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Frequently used unjust", "verse_ref": "Micah 6:11", "verse_text": "Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?" }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of sins", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 12:1", "verse_text": "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us," }, { "point_text": "Of the restraints put on the elements", "verse_ref": "Job 28:25", "verse_text": "To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure." }, { "point_text": "(Heavy,) of the exceeding glory reserved for saints", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 4:17", "verse_text": "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;" } ] }, { "name": "Wells", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Wells.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "First mention of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 16:14", "verse_text": "Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered." }, { "point_text": "FREQUENTLY MADE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Near encampments", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:30", "verse_text": "And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well." }, { "point_text": "Near encampments", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:18", "verse_text": "And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them." }, { "point_text": "Outside cities", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:11", "verse_text": "And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water." }, { "point_text": "Outside cities", "verse_ref": "John 4:6", "verse_text": "Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour." }, { "point_text": "Outside cities", "verse_ref": "John 4:8", "verse_text": "(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)" }, { "point_text": "In the courts of houses", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 17:18", "verse_text": "Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down." }, { "point_text": "In the desert", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 26:10", "verse_text": "Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry." }, { "point_text": "Supplied by springs", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:22", "verse_text": "Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly." }, { "point_text": "Supplied by the rain", "verse_ref": "Psalm 84:6", "verse_text": "Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools." }, { "point_text": "Surrounded by trees", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:22", "verse_text": "Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:" }, { "point_text": "Surrounded by trees", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:27", "verse_text": "And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters." }, { "point_text": "Names often given to", "verse_ref": "Genesis 16:14", "verse_text": "Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered." }, { "point_text": "Names often given to", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:31", "verse_text": "Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them." }, { "point_text": "Canaan abounded with", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 6:11", "verse_text": "And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;" }, { "point_text": "Many supplied from Lebanon", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:15", "verse_text": "A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Beer-lahai-roi", "verse_ref": "Genesis 16:14", "verse_text": "Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered." }, { "point_text": "Bethlehem", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 23:15", "verse_text": "And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!" }, { "point_text": "Bethlehem", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 11:17-18", "verse_text": "And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, that is at the gate! 18 And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD," }, { "point_text": "Beer (east of Jordan)", "verse_ref": "Numbers 21:16-18", "verse_text": "And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water. 17 Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it: 18 The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:" }, { "point_text": "Beer-sheba", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:30-31", "verse_text": "And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well. 31 Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them." }, { "point_text": "Elim", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:27", "verse_text": "And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters." }, { "point_text": "Esek", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:20", "verse_text": "And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him." }, { "point_text": "Hagar", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:19", "verse_text": "And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink." }, { "point_text": "Haran", "verse_ref": "Genesis 29:3-4", "verse_text": "And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place. 4 And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran are we." }, { "point_text": "Jacob", "verse_ref": "John 4:6", "verse_text": "Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour." }, { "point_text": "Rehoboth", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:22", "verse_text": "And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land." }, { "point_text": "Sitnah", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:21", "verse_text": "And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah." }, { "point_text": "Often deep and difficult to draw from", "verse_ref": "John 4:11", "verse_text": "The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?" }, { "point_text": "Often covered to prevent their being filled with sand", "verse_ref": "Genesis 29:2-3", "verse_text": "And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well's mouth. 3 And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place." }, { "point_text": "Had troughs placed near for watering cattle", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:19-20", "verse_text": "And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking. 20 And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels." }, { "point_text": "FREQUENTED BY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Women who came to draw water", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:13-14", "verse_text": "Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water: 14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master." }, { "point_text": "Travellers", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:11", "verse_text": "And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water." }, { "point_text": "Travellers", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:13", "verse_text": "Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:" }, { "point_text": "Travellers", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:42", "verse_text": "And I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:" }, { "point_text": "Strangers not to draw from, without permission", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:17", "verse_text": "Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders." }, { "point_text": "Water of, frequently sold", "verse_ref": "Numbers 20:19", "verse_text": "And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing any thing else, go through on my feet." }, { "point_text": "Were a frequent cause of strife", "verse_ref": "Genesis 21:25", "verse_text": "And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away." }, { "point_text": "Were a frequent cause of strife", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:21-22", "verse_text": "And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah. 22 And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land." }, { "point_text": "Were often stopped up by enemies", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:15", "verse_text": "For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth." }, { "point_text": "Were often stopped up by enemies", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:18", "verse_text": "And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them." }, { "point_text": "Were often stopped up by enemies", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 3:19", "verse_text": "And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones." }, { "point_text": "Were often stopped up by enemies", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 3:25", "verse_text": "And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it." }, { "point_text": "Often afforded no water", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 14:3", "verse_text": "And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads." }, { "point_text": "Often afforded no water", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:11", "verse_text": "As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the ordinances of the Church", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 12:3", "verse_text": "Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation." }, { "point_text": "Of the Holy Spirit in saints", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:15", "verse_text": "A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Of the Holy Spirit in saints", "verse_ref": "John 4:14", "verse_text": "But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life." }, { "point_text": "Of the mouth of the righteous", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 10:11", "verse_text": "The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked." }, { "point_text": "Of wisdom and understanding in man", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 16:22", "verse_text": "Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly." }, { "point_text": "Of wisdom and understanding in man", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 18:4", "verse_text": "The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook." }, { "point_text": "(A fruitful bough by,) of Joseph's numerous posterity", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:22", "verse_text": "Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:" }, { "point_text": "(Drinking from one's own,) of enjoyment of domestic happiness", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 5:15", "verse_text": "Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well." }, { "point_text": "(Without water,) of hypocrites", "verse_ref": "2 Peter 2:17", "verse_text": "These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever." } ] }, { "name": "Widows", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Widows.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Character of true", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:37", "verse_text": "And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day." }, { "point_text": "Character of true", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:5", "verse_text": "Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day." }, { "point_text": "Character of true", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:10", "verse_text": "Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work." }, { "point_text": "GOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Surely hears the cry of", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:23", "verse_text": "If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;" }, { "point_text": "Judges for", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:18", "verse_text": "He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment." }, { "point_text": "Judges for", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:5", "verse_text": "A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation." }, { "point_text": "Relieves", "verse_ref": "Psalm 146:9", "verse_text": "The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down." }, { "point_text": "Establishes the border of", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:25", "verse_text": "The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow." }, { "point_text": "Will witness against oppressors of", "verse_ref": "Malachi 3:5", "verse_text": "And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "point_text": "Exhorted to trust in God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 49:11", "verse_text": "Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD NOT BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Afflicted", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:22", "verse_text": "Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child." }, { "point_text": "Oppressed", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:6", "verse_text": "If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:" }, { "point_text": "Oppressed", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 7:10", "verse_text": "And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart." }, { "point_text": "Treated with violence", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 22:3", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place." }, { "point_text": "Deprived of raiment in pledge", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:17", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:" }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Pleaded for", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:17", "verse_text": "Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow." }, { "point_text": "Honored, if widows indeed", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:3", "verse_text": "Honour widows that are widows indeed." }, { "point_text": "Relieved by their friends", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:4", "verse_text": "But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God." }, { "point_text": "Relieved by their friends", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:16", "verse_text": "If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed." }, { "point_text": "Relieved by the Church", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:1", "verse_text": "And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration." }, { "point_text": "Relieved by the Church", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:9", "verse_text": "Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man," }, { "point_text": "Visited in affliction", "verse_ref": "James 1:27", "verse_text": "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." }, { "point_text": "Allowed to share in our blessings", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:29", "verse_text": "And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest." }, { "point_text": "Allowed to share in our blessings", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:11", "verse_text": "And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there." }, { "point_text": "Allowed to share in our blessings", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:19-21", "verse_text": "When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands. 20 When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 21 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow." }, { "point_text": "Though poor, may be liberal", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:42-43", "verse_text": "And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. 43 And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:" }, { "point_text": "When young, exposed to may temptations", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:11-14", "verse_text": "But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry; 12 Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith. 13 And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. 14 I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully." }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Relieve", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:39", "verse_text": "Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them." }, { "point_text": "Cause joy to", "verse_ref": "Job 29:13", "verse_text": "The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy." }, { "point_text": "Disappoint not", "verse_ref": "Job 31:16", "verse_text": "If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;" }, { "point_text": "THE WICKED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Do no good to", "verse_ref": "Job 24:21", "verse_text": "He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow." }, { "point_text": "Send, away empty", "verse_ref": "Job 22:9", "verse_text": "Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken." }, { "point_text": "Take pledges from", "verse_ref": "Job 24:3", "verse_text": "They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge." }, { "point_text": "Reject the cause of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:23", "verse_text": "Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them." }, { "point_text": "Vex", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:7", "verse_text": "In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow." }, { "point_text": "Make a prey of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:2", "verse_text": "To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!" }, { "point_text": "Make a prey of", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:14", "verse_text": "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation." }, { "point_text": "Slay", "verse_ref": "Psalm 94:6", "verse_text": "They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless." }, { "point_text": "Curse for perverting judgment of", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 27:19", "verse_text": "Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen." }, { "point_text": "Woe to those who oppress", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 10:1-2", "verse_text": "Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; 2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!" }, { "point_text": "Blessings on those who relieve", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:29", "verse_text": "And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest." }, { "point_text": "A type of Zion in affliction", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 5:3", "verse_text": "We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows." }, { "point_text": "Were released from all obligation to former husbands", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:3", "verse_text": "So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man." }, { "point_text": "Were clothed in mourning after the decease of husbands", "verse_ref": "Genesis 38:14", "verse_text": "And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife." }, { "point_text": "Were clothed in mourning after the decease of husbands", "verse_ref": "Genesis 38:19", "verse_text": "And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood." }, { "point_text": "Were clothed in mourning after the decease of husbands", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 14:2", "verse_text": "And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:" }, { "point_text": "Were clothed in mourning after the decease of husbands", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 14:5", "verse_text": "And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead." }, { "point_text": "Reproach connected with", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:4", "verse_text": "Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more." }, { "point_text": "Increase of, threatened as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:24", "verse_text": "And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless." }, { "point_text": "Increase of, threatened as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 15:8", "verse_text": "Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city." }, { "point_text": "Increase of, threatened as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 18:21", "verse_text": "Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle." }, { "point_text": "LAWS RESPECTING;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Not to be oppressed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:22", "verse_text": "Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child." }, { "point_text": "Not to be oppressed", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 27:19", "verse_text": "Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen." }, { "point_text": "Raiment of, not to be taken in pledge by creditors", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:17", "verse_text": "Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:" }, { "point_text": "Bound to perform their vows", "verse_ref": "Numbers 30:9", "verse_text": "But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her." }, { "point_text": "Not to intermarry with priests", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 21:14", "verse_text": "A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife." }, { "point_text": "To be allowed to glean in fields and vineyards", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 24:19", "verse_text": "When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands." }, { "point_text": "To have a share of the triennial tithe", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 14:28", "verse_text": "At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:" }, { "point_text": "To have a share of the triennial tithe", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 26:12-13", "verse_text": "When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled; 13 Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:" }, { "point_text": "To share in public rejoicings", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:11", "verse_text": "And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there." }, { "point_text": "To share in public rejoicings", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 16:14", "verse_text": "And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates." }, { "point_text": "When daughters of priests and childless, to partake of the holy things", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 22:13", "verse_text": "But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof." }, { "point_text": "When left childless, to be married by their husband's nearest of kin", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 25:5-6", "verse_text": "If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her. 6 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Allowed to marry again", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:3", "verse_text": "So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man." }, { "point_text": "Intermarrying with, of kings considered treason", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 2:21-24", "verse_text": "And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife. 22 And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah. 23 Then king Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life. 24 Now therefore, as the LORD liveth, which hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me an house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day." }, { "point_text": "Not to be deplored by, considered a great calamity", "verse_ref": "Job 27:15", "verse_text": "Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep." }, { "point_text": "Not to be deplored by, considered a great calamity", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:64", "verse_text": "Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation." }, { "point_text": "Were under the special protection of God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 10:18", "verse_text": "He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment." }, { "point_text": "Were under the special protection of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 68:5", "verse_text": "A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation." }, { "point_text": "Were frequently oppressed and persecuted", "verse_ref": "Job 24:3", "verse_text": "They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge." }, { "point_text": "Were frequently oppressed and persecuted", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:7", "verse_text": "In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow." }, { "point_text": "Specially taken care of by the primitive Church", "verse_ref": "Acts 6:1", "verse_text": "And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration." }, { "point_text": "Specially taken care of by the primitive Church", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:9", "verse_text": "Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man," }, { "point_text": "Often devoted themselves entirely to God's service", "verse_ref": "Luke 2:37", "verse_text": "And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day." }, { "point_text": "Often devoted themselves entirely to God's service", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:10", "verse_text": "Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work." }, { "point_text": "Instances of great liberality in", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 17:9-15", "verse_text": "Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. 10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. 11 And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. 12 And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. ..." }, { "point_text": "Instances of great liberality in", "verse_ref": "Mark 12:42-43", "verse_text": "And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. 43 And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:" }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "A desolate condition", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 47:8-9", "verse_text": "Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: 9 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments." }, { "point_text": "Zion in captivity", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 1:1", "verse_text": "How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!" } ] }, { "name": "Wind, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Wind-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Variable nature of", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 1:6", "verse_text": "The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits." }, { "point_text": "GOD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Created", "verse_ref": "Amos 4:13", "verse_text": "For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name." }, { "point_text": "Restrains", "verse_ref": "Job 28:25", "verse_text": "To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure." }, { "point_text": "Restrains", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:29", "verse_text": "He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still." }, { "point_text": "Brings forth, out of his treasuries", "verse_ref": "Psalm 135:7", "verse_text": "He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries." }, { "point_text": "Brings forth, out of his treasuries", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 10:13", "verse_text": "When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures." }, { "point_text": "Raises", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:25", "verse_text": "For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof." }, { "point_text": "Raises", "verse_ref": "Jonah 4:8", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live." }, { "point_text": "Changes", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:26", "verse_text": "He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind." }, { "point_text": "Assuages", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:26", "verse_text": "And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm." }, { "point_text": "Assuages", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:32", "verse_text": "And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased." }, { "point_text": "Gathers, in His hand", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:4", "verse_text": "Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?" }, { "point_text": "Accomplishes the purposes of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:8", "verse_text": "Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word:" }, { "point_text": "Theory of, above man's comprehension", "verse_ref": "John 3:8", "verse_text": "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit." }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "North", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:23", "verse_text": "The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue." }, { "point_text": "North", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:16", "verse_text": "Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits." }, { "point_text": "South", "verse_ref": "Job 37:17", "verse_text": "How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?" }, { "point_text": "South", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:55", "verse_text": "And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass." }, { "point_text": "East", "verse_ref": "Job 27:21", "verse_text": "The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place." }, { "point_text": "East", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:10", "verse_text": "Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew." }, { "point_text": "East", "verse_ref": "Hosea 13:15", "verse_text": "Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels." }, { "point_text": "West", "verse_ref": "Exodus 10:19", "verse_text": "And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Euroclydon", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:14", "verse_text": "But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon." }, { "point_text": "The simoom or pestilential wind", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:7", "verse_text": "Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land." }, { "point_text": "The simoom or pestilential wind", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:35", "verse_text": "And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses." }, { "point_text": "The whirlwind", "verse_ref": "Job 37:9", "verse_text": "Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north." }, { "point_text": "Drying nature of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:1", "verse_text": "And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;" }, { "point_text": "Drying nature of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:15", "verse_text": "And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod." }, { "point_text": "Purifying nature of", "verse_ref": "Job 37:21", "verse_text": "And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them." }, { "point_text": "Purifying nature of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:11", "verse_text": "At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse," }, { "point_text": "WHEN VIOLENT CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Tempest", "verse_ref": "Job 9:17", "verse_text": "For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause." }, { "point_text": "Tempest", "verse_ref": "Job 27:20", "verse_text": "Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night." }, { "point_text": "Tempest", "verse_ref": "Jonah 1:4", "verse_text": "But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken." }, { "point_text": "Storm", "verse_ref": "Job 21:18", "verse_text": "They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away." }, { "point_text": "Storm", "verse_ref": "Psalm 83:15", "verse_text": "So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm." }, { "point_text": "Stormy wind", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:8", "verse_text": "Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word:" }, { "point_text": "Stormy wind", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 13:11", "verse_text": "Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it." }, { "point_text": "Stormy wind", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 13:13", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it." }, { "point_text": "Windy storm", "verse_ref": "Psalm 55:8", "verse_text": "I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest." }, { "point_text": "Great and strong wind", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:11", "verse_text": "And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:" }, { "point_text": "Mighty wind", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:2", "verse_text": "And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting." }, { "point_text": "Mighty wind", "verse_ref": "Revelation 6:13", "verse_text": "And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind." }, { "point_text": "Fierce wind", "verse_ref": "James 3:4", "verse_text": "Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth." }, { "point_text": "Rough wind", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 27:8", "verse_text": "In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind." }, { "point_text": "From the north drives away rain", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:23", "verse_text": "The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue." }, { "point_text": "Frequently brings rain", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:44-45", "verse_text": "And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not. 45 And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel." }, { "point_text": "Frequently brings rain", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 3:17", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts." }, { "point_text": "Often blighting.\r\n\n\r\n (Hebrew.)", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:16", "verse_text": "For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more." }, { "point_text": "Often blighting.\r\n\n\r\n (Hebrew.)", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:7", "verse_text": "The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass." }, { "point_text": "Movement of the leaves of trees, &c. by, noticed", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:2", "verse_text": "And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind." }, { "point_text": "Movement of the leaves of trees, &c. by, noticed", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:7", "verse_text": "And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?" }, { "point_text": "Movement of the leaves of trees, &c. by, noticed", "verse_ref": "Revelation 6:13", "verse_text": "And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind." }, { "point_text": "TEMPESTUOUS,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Raises the sea in waves", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:25", "verse_text": "For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof." }, { "point_text": "Raises the sea in waves", "verse_ref": "John 6:18", "verse_text": "And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew." }, { "point_text": "Drives about the largest ships", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:24", "verse_text": "But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary." }, { "point_text": "Drives about the largest ships", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:18", "verse_text": "And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;" }, { "point_text": "Drives about the largest ships", "verse_ref": "James 3:4", "verse_text": "Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth." }, { "point_text": "Destroys houses", "verse_ref": "Job 1:19", "verse_text": "And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee." }, { "point_text": "Destroys houses", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:27", "verse_text": "And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it." }, { "point_text": "MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Locusts brought by", "verse_ref": "Exodus 10:13", "verse_text": "And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts." }, { "point_text": "Locusts removed by", "verse_ref": "Exodus 10:19", "verse_text": "And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Red Sea divided by", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:21", "verse_text": "And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided." }, { "point_text": "Quails brought by", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:31", "verse_text": "And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Rocks and mountains rent by", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:11", "verse_text": "And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:" }, { "point_text": "Raises on account of Jonah", "verse_ref": "Jonah 1:4", "verse_text": "But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken." }, { "point_text": "Calmed by casting out Jonah", "verse_ref": "Jonah 1:15", "verse_text": "So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging." }, { "point_text": "Calmed by Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:26", "verse_text": "And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm." }, { "point_text": "Calmed by Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:32", "verse_text": "And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the operations of the Holy Spirit", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 37:9", "verse_text": "Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live." }, { "point_text": "Of the operations of the Holy Spirit", "verse_ref": "John 3:8", "verse_text": "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit." }, { "point_text": "Of the operations of the Holy Spirit", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:2", "verse_text": "And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting." }, { "point_text": "Of the life of man", "verse_ref": "Job 7:7", "verse_text": "O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good." }, { "point_text": "Of the speeches of the desperate", "verse_ref": "Job 6:26", "verse_text": "Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?" }, { "point_text": "Of terrors which pursue the soul", "verse_ref": "Job 30:15", "verse_text": "Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud." }, { "point_text": "Of molten images", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:29", "verse_text": "Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion." }, { "point_text": "Of iniquity which leads to destruction", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 64:6", "verse_text": "But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away." }, { "point_text": "Of false doctrines", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:14", "verse_text": "That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;" }, { "point_text": "(Chaff or stubble before,) of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Job 21:18", "verse_text": "They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away." }, { "point_text": "(Chaff or stubble before,) of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 1:4", "verse_text": "The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away." }, { "point_text": "(Without rain,) of one who boasts of a false gift", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:14", "verse_text": "Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain." }, { "point_text": "(When destructive,) of the judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 27:8", "verse_text": "In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind." }, { "point_text": "(When destructive,) of the judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 29:6", "verse_text": "Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire." }, { "point_text": "(When destructive,) of the judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:16", "verse_text": "Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel." }, { "point_text": "(Sowing,) of a course of sin", "verse_ref": "Hosea 8:7", "verse_text": "For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up." }, { "point_text": "(Feeding upon,) of vain hopes", "verse_ref": "Hosea 12:1", "verse_text": "Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt." }, { "point_text": "(Bringing forth,) of disappointed expectations", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:18", "verse_text": "We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen." }, { "point_text": "Variable nature of", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 1:6", "verse_text": "The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits." }, { "point_text": "GOD", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Created", "verse_ref": "Amos 4:13", "verse_text": "For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name." }, { "point_text": "Restrains", "verse_ref": "Job 28:25", "verse_text": "To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure." }, { "point_text": "Restrains", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:29", "verse_text": "He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still." }, { "point_text": "Brings forth, out of his treasuries", "verse_ref": "Psalm 135:7", "verse_text": "He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries." }, { "point_text": "Brings forth, out of his treasuries", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 10:13", "verse_text": "When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures." }, { "point_text": "Raises", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:25", "verse_text": "For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof." }, { "point_text": "Raises", "verse_ref": "Jonah 4:8", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live." }, { "point_text": "Changes", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:26", "verse_text": "He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind." }, { "point_text": "Assuages", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:26", "verse_text": "And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm." }, { "point_text": "Assuages", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:32", "verse_text": "And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased." }, { "point_text": "Gathers, in His hand", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 30:4", "verse_text": "Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?" }, { "point_text": "Accomplishes the purposes of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:8", "verse_text": "Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word:" }, { "point_text": "Theory of, above man's comprehension", "verse_ref": "John 3:8", "verse_text": "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit." }, { "point_text": "MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "North", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:23", "verse_text": "The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue." }, { "point_text": "North", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 4:16", "verse_text": "Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits." }, { "point_text": "South", "verse_ref": "Job 37:17", "verse_text": "How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?" }, { "point_text": "South", "verse_ref": "Luke 12:55", "verse_text": "And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass." }, { "point_text": "East", "verse_ref": "Job 27:21", "verse_text": "The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place." }, { "point_text": "East", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 17:10", "verse_text": "Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew." }, { "point_text": "East", "verse_ref": "Hosea 13:15", "verse_text": "Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels." }, { "point_text": "West", "verse_ref": "Exodus 10:19", "verse_text": "And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Euroclydon", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:14", "verse_text": "But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon." }, { "point_text": "The simoom or pestilential wind", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:7", "verse_text": "Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land." }, { "point_text": "The simoom or pestilential wind", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 19:35", "verse_text": "And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses." }, { "point_text": "The whirlwind", "verse_ref": "Job 37:9", "verse_text": "Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north." }, { "point_text": "Drying nature of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:1", "verse_text": "And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;" }, { "point_text": "Drying nature of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:15", "verse_text": "And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod." }, { "point_text": "Purifying nature of", "verse_ref": "Job 37:21", "verse_text": "And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them." }, { "point_text": "Purifying nature of", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 4:11", "verse_text": "At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse," }, { "point_text": "WHEN VIOLENT CALLED", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Tempest", "verse_ref": "Job 9:17", "verse_text": "For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause." }, { "point_text": "Tempest", "verse_ref": "Job 27:20", "verse_text": "Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night." }, { "point_text": "Tempest", "verse_ref": "Jonah 1:4", "verse_text": "But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken." }, { "point_text": "Storm", "verse_ref": "Job 21:18", "verse_text": "They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away." }, { "point_text": "Storm", "verse_ref": "Psalm 83:15", "verse_text": "So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm." }, { "point_text": "Stormy wind", "verse_ref": "Psalm 148:8", "verse_text": "Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word:" }, { "point_text": "Stormy wind", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 13:11", "verse_text": "Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it." }, { "point_text": "Stormy wind", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 13:13", "verse_text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it." }, { "point_text": "Windy storm", "verse_ref": "Psalm 55:8", "verse_text": "I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest." }, { "point_text": "Great and strong wind", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:11", "verse_text": "And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:" }, { "point_text": "Mighty wind", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:2", "verse_text": "And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting." }, { "point_text": "Mighty wind", "verse_ref": "Revelation 6:13", "verse_text": "And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind." }, { "point_text": "Fierce wind", "verse_ref": "James 3:4", "verse_text": "Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth." }, { "point_text": "Rough wind", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 27:8", "verse_text": "In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind." }, { "point_text": "From the north drives away rain", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:23", "verse_text": "The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue." }, { "point_text": "Frequently brings rain", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 18:44-45", "verse_text": "And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not. 45 And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel." }, { "point_text": "Frequently brings rain", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 3:17", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts." }, { "point_text": "Often blighting.\r\n\n\r\n (Hebrew.)", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:16", "verse_text": "For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more." }, { "point_text": "Often blighting.\r\n\n\r\n (Hebrew.)", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:7", "verse_text": "The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass." }, { "point_text": "Movement of the leaves of trees, &c. by, noticed", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:2", "verse_text": "And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind." }, { "point_text": "Movement of the leaves of trees, &c. by, noticed", "verse_ref": "Matthew 11:7", "verse_text": "And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?" }, { "point_text": "Movement of the leaves of trees, &c. by, noticed", "verse_ref": "Revelation 6:13", "verse_text": "And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind." }, { "point_text": "TEMPESTUOUS,", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Raises the sea in waves", "verse_ref": "Psalm 107:25", "verse_text": "For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof." }, { "point_text": "Raises the sea in waves", "verse_ref": "John 6:18", "verse_text": "And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew." }, { "point_text": "Drives about the largest ships", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:24", "verse_text": "But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary." }, { "point_text": "Drives about the largest ships", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:18", "verse_text": "And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;" }, { "point_text": "Drives about the largest ships", "verse_ref": "James 3:4", "verse_text": "Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth." }, { "point_text": "Destroys houses", "verse_ref": "Job 1:19", "verse_text": "And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee." }, { "point_text": "Destroys houses", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:27", "verse_text": "And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it." }, { "point_text": "MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH;", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Locusts brought by", "verse_ref": "Exodus 10:13", "verse_text": "And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts." }, { "point_text": "Locusts removed by", "verse_ref": "Exodus 10:19", "verse_text": "And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt." }, { "point_text": "Red Sea divided by", "verse_ref": "Exodus 14:21", "verse_text": "And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided." }, { "point_text": "Quails brought by", "verse_ref": "Numbers 11:31", "verse_text": "And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth." }, { "point_text": "Rocks and mountains rent by", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 19:11", "verse_text": "And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:" }, { "point_text": "Raises on account of Jonah", "verse_ref": "Jonah 1:4", "verse_text": "But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken." }, { "point_text": "Calmed by casting out Jonah", "verse_ref": "Jonah 1:15", "verse_text": "So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging." }, { "point_text": "Calmed by Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 8:26", "verse_text": "And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm." }, { "point_text": "Calmed by Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 14:32", "verse_text": "And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "Of the operations of the Holy Spirit", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 37:9", "verse_text": "Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live." }, { "point_text": "Of the operations of the Holy Spirit", "verse_ref": "John 3:8", "verse_text": "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit." }, { "point_text": "Of the operations of the Holy Spirit", "verse_ref": "Acts 2:2", "verse_text": "And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting." }, { "point_text": "Of the life of man", "verse_ref": "Job 7:7", "verse_text": "O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good." }, { "point_text": "Of the speeches of the desperate", "verse_ref": "Job 6:26", "verse_text": "Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?" }, { "point_text": "Of terrors which pursue the soul", "verse_ref": "Job 30:15", "verse_text": "Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud." }, { "point_text": "Of molten images", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:29", "verse_text": "Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion." }, { "point_text": "Of iniquity which leads to destruction", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 64:6", "verse_text": "But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away." }, { "point_text": "Of false doctrines", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 4:14", "verse_text": "That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;" }, { "point_text": "(Chaff or stubble before,) of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Job 21:18", "verse_text": "They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away." }, { "point_text": "(Chaff or stubble before,) of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Psalm 1:4", "verse_text": "The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away." }, { "point_text": "(Without rain,) of one who boasts of a false gift", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 25:14", "verse_text": "Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain." }, { "point_text": "(When destructive,) of the judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 27:8", "verse_text": "In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind." }, { "point_text": "(When destructive,) of the judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 29:6", "verse_text": "Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire." }, { "point_text": "(When destructive,) of the judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 41:16", "verse_text": "Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel." }, { "point_text": "(Sowing,) of a course of sin", "verse_ref": "Hosea 8:7", "verse_text": "For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up." }, { "point_text": "(Feeding upon,) of vain hopes", "verse_ref": "Hosea 12:1", "verse_text": "Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt." }, { "point_text": "(Bringing forth,) of disappointed expectations", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:18", "verse_text": "We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen." } ] }, { "name": "Wisdom of God, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Wisdom-of-God-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is one of his attributes", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:3", "verse_text": "Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed." }, { "point_text": "Is one of his attributes", "verse_ref": "Job 9:4", "verse_text": "He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?" }, { "point_text": "DESCRIBED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Perfect", "verse_ref": "Job 36:4", "verse_text": "For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee." }, { "point_text": "Perfect", "verse_ref": "Job 37:16", "verse_text": "Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?" }, { "point_text": "Mighty", "verse_ref": "Job 36:5", "verse_text": "Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom." }, { "point_text": "Universal", "verse_ref": "Job 28:24", "verse_text": "For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;" }, { "point_text": "Universal", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:22", "verse_text": "He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him." }, { "point_text": "Universal", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:18", "verse_text": "Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world." }, { "point_text": "Infinite", "verse_ref": "Psalm 147:5", "verse_text": "Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite." }, { "point_text": "Infinite", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:33", "verse_text": "O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!" }, { "point_text": "Unsearchable", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:28", "verse_text": "Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding." }, { "point_text": "Unsearchable", "verse_ref": "Romans 11:33", "verse_text": "O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!" }, { "point_text": "Wonderful", "verse_ref": "Psalm 139:6", "verse_text": "Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it." }, { "point_text": "Beyond human comprehension", "verse_ref": "Psalm 139:6", "verse_text": "Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it." }, { "point_text": "Incomparable", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 44:7", "verse_text": "And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them." }, { "point_text": "Incomparable", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 10:7", "verse_text": "Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Underived", "verse_ref": "Job 21:22", "verse_text": "Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high." }, { "point_text": "Underived", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 40:14", "verse_text": "With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?" }, { "point_text": "The gospel contains treasures of", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:7", "verse_text": "But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:" }, { "point_text": "Wisdom of saints is derived from", "verse_ref": "Ezra 7:25", "verse_text": "And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not." }, { "point_text": "All human wisdom derived from", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:1", "verse_text": "And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him." }, { "point_text": "Saints ascribe to him", "verse_ref": "Daniel 2:20", "verse_text": "Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:" }, { "point_text": "EXHIBITED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "His works", "verse_ref": "Job 37:16", "verse_text": "Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?" }, { "point_text": "His works", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:24", "verse_text": "O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches." }, { "point_text": "His works", "verse_ref": "Psalm 136:5", "verse_text": "To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth for ever." }, { "point_text": "His works", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 3:19", "verse_text": "The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens." }, { "point_text": "His works", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 10:12", "verse_text": "He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion." }, { "point_text": "His counsels", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 28:29", "verse_text": "This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working." }, { "point_text": "His counsels", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 32:19", "verse_text": "Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:" }, { "point_text": "His foreshadowing events", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 42:9", "verse_text": "Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them." }, { "point_text": "His foreshadowing events", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 46:10", "verse_text": "Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:" }, { "point_text": "Redemption", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 1:24", "verse_text": "But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God." }, { "point_text": "Redemption", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 1:8", "verse_text": "Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;" }, { "point_text": "Redemption", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 3:10", "verse_text": "To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God," }, { "point_text": "Searching the heart", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 28:9", "verse_text": "And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever." }, { "point_text": "Searching the heart", "verse_ref": "Revelation 2:23", "verse_text": "And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works." }, { "point_text": "Understanding the thoughts", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 28:9", "verse_text": "And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever." }, { "point_text": "Understanding the thoughts", "verse_ref": "Psalm 139:2", "verse_text": "Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off." }, { "point_text": "EXHIBITED IN KNOWING", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The heart", "verse_ref": "Psalm 44:21", "verse_text": "Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart." }, { "point_text": "The heart", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 15:11", "verse_text": "Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?" }, { "point_text": "The heart", "verse_ref": "Luke 16:15", "verse_text": "And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God." }, { "point_text": "The actions", "verse_ref": "Job 34:21", "verse_text": "For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings." }, { "point_text": "The actions", "verse_ref": "Psalm 139:2-3", "verse_text": "Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. 3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways." }, { "point_text": "The words", "verse_ref": "Psalm 139:4", "verse_text": "For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether." }, { "point_text": "His saints", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 7:20", "verse_text": "And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy servant." }, { "point_text": "His saints", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:19", "verse_text": "Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity." }, { "point_text": "The way of saints", "verse_ref": "Job 23:10", "verse_text": "But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold." }, { "point_text": "The way of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 1:6", "verse_text": "For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish." }, { "point_text": "The want of saints", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 2:7", "verse_text": "For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing." }, { "point_text": "The want of saints", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:8", "verse_text": "Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him." }, { "point_text": "The afflictions of saints", "verse_ref": "Exodus 3:7", "verse_text": "And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;" }, { "point_text": "The afflictions of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 142:3", "verse_text": "When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me." }, { "point_text": "The infirmities of saints", "verse_ref": "Psalm 103:14", "verse_text": "For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust." }, { "point_text": "The minutest matters", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:29-30", "verse_text": "Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. 30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered." }, { "point_text": "The most secret things", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:18", "verse_text": "That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly." }, { "point_text": "The time of judgment", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:36", "verse_text": "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." }, { "point_text": "The wicked", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:10", "verse_text": "And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day." }, { "point_text": "The wicked", "verse_ref": "Job 11:11", "verse_text": "For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?" }, { "point_text": "The works, &c. of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 66:18", "verse_text": "For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory." }, { "point_text": "Nothing is concealed from", "verse_ref": "Psalm 139:12", "verse_text": "Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee." }, { "point_text": "The wicked question", "verse_ref": "Psalm 73:11", "verse_text": "And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?" }, { "point_text": "The wicked question", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 47:10", "verse_text": "For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me." }, { "point_text": "Should be magnified", "verse_ref": "Romans 16:27", "verse_text": "To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Should be magnified", "verse_ref": "Jude 25", "verse_text": "To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen." } ] }, { "name": "Winter", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Winter.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "God makes", "verse_ref": "Psalm 74:17", "verse_text": "Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter." }, { "point_text": "Yearly return of, secured by covenant", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:22", "verse_text": "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." }, { "point_text": "Coldness and inclemency of, noticed", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:4", "verse_text": "The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing." }, { "point_text": "Coldness and inclemency of, noticed", "verse_ref": "John 10:22", "verse_text": "And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter." }, { "point_text": "UNSUITED FOR", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Traveling", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:20", "verse_text": "But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:" }, { "point_text": "Traveling", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 4:21", "verse_text": "Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren." }, { "point_text": "Navigation", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:9", "verse_text": "Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished them," }, { "point_text": "Ships were laid up in port during", "verse_ref": "Acts 27:12", "verse_text": "And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west." }, { "point_text": "Ships were laid up in port during", "verse_ref": "Acts 28:11", "verse_text": "And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux." }, { "point_text": "The Jews frequently had special houses for", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 36:22", "verse_text": "Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him." }, { "point_text": "The Jews frequently had special houses for", "verse_ref": "Amos 3:15", "verse_text": "And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Illustrative of seasons of spiritual adversity", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:11", "verse_text": "For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;" } ] }, { "name": "Wine", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Wine.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "First mention of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:20-21", "verse_text": "And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: 21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent." }, { "point_text": "WAS MADE OF", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "The juice of the grape", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:11", "verse_text": "Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:" }, { "point_text": "The juice of the pomegranate", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 8:2", "verse_text": "I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate." }, { "point_text": "First mode of making, noticed", "verse_ref": "Genesis 40:11", "verse_text": "And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand." }, { "point_text": "Generally made by treading the grapes in a press", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:15", "verse_text": "In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals." }, { "point_text": "Generally made by treading the grapes in a press", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:2-3", "verse_text": "Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat? 3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment." }, { "point_text": "Refining of, alluded to", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 25:6", "verse_text": "And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined." }, { "point_text": "Improved by age", "verse_ref": "Luke 5:39", "verse_text": "No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better." }, { "point_text": "PLACES CELEBRATED FOR;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Canaan in general", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:28", "verse_text": "Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew." }, { "point_text": "Possessions of Judah", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:8", "verse_text": "Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee." }, { "point_text": "Possessions of Judah", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:11-12", "verse_text": "Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: 12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk." }, { "point_text": "Lebanon", "verse_ref": "Hosea 14:7", "verse_text": "They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon." }, { "point_text": "Helbon", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:18", "verse_text": "Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool." }, { "point_text": "Assyria", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 18:32", "verse_text": "Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us." }, { "point_text": "Assyria", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 36:17", "verse_text": "Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards." }, { "point_text": "Moab", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 16:8-10", "verse_text": "For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea. 9 Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen. 10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease." }, { "point_text": "Moab", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 48:32-33", "verse_text": "O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage. 33 And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting." }, { "point_text": "Many kinds of", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 5:18", "verse_text": "Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people." }, { "point_text": "Sweet, esteemed for flavor and strength", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:26", "verse_text": "And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob." }, { "point_text": "Sweet, esteemed for flavor and strength", "verse_ref": "Amos 9:13", "verse_text": "Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt." }, { "point_text": "Sweet, esteemed for flavor and strength", "verse_ref": "Micah 6:15", "verse_text": "Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine." }, { "point_text": "Red, most esteemed", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:31", "verse_text": "Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright." }, { "point_text": "Red, most esteemed", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 27:2", "verse_text": "In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine." }, { "point_text": "Often spiced to increase its strength, &c", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 9:2", "verse_text": "She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table." }, { "point_text": "Often spiced to increase its strength, &c", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:30", "verse_text": "They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine." }, { "point_text": "Often spiced to increase its strength, &c", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 8:2", "verse_text": "I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate." }, { "point_text": "WAS USED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "As a beverage from the earliest age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 9:21", "verse_text": "And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent." }, { "point_text": "As a beverage from the earliest age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:25", "verse_text": "And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank." }, { "point_text": "At all feasts and entertainments", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:7", "verse_text": "And they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king." }, { "point_text": "At all feasts and entertainments", "verse_ref": "Esther 5:6", "verse_text": "And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed." }, { "point_text": "At all feasts and entertainments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:12", "verse_text": "And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands." }, { "point_text": "At all feasts and entertainments", "verse_ref": "Daniel 5:1-4", "verse_text": "Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. 2 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein. 3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. 4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone." }, { "point_text": "At all feasts and entertainments", "verse_ref": "John 2:3", "verse_text": "And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine." }, { "point_text": "For drink offerings in the worship of God", "verse_ref": "Exodus 29:40", "verse_text": "And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering." }, { "point_text": "For drink offerings in the worship of God", "verse_ref": "Numbers 15:4-10", "verse_text": "Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the LORD bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oil. 5 And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb. 6 Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil. 7 And for a drink offering thou shalt offer the third part of an hin of wine, for a sweet savour unto the LORD. ..." }, { "point_text": "For drink offerings in idolatrous worship", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:37-38", "verse_text": "And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted, 38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection." }, { "point_text": "As a medicine", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:34", "verse_text": "And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him." }, { "point_text": "As a medicine", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:23", "verse_text": "Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities." }, { "point_text": "First fruits of, to be offered to God", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 18:4", "verse_text": "The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him." }, { "point_text": "First fruits of, to be offered to God", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 31:5", "verse_text": "And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly." }, { "point_text": "With corn and oil, denoted all temporal blessings", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:28", "verse_text": "Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:" }, { "point_text": "With corn and oil, denoted all temporal blessings", "verse_ref": "Genesis 27:37", "verse_text": "And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?" }, { "point_text": "Given in abundance to the Jews when obedient", "verse_ref": "Hosea 2:22", "verse_text": "And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel." }, { "point_text": "Given in abundance to the Jews when obedient", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:19", "verse_text": "Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:" }, { "point_text": "Given in abundance to the Jews when obedient", "verse_ref": "Joel 2:24", "verse_text": "And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil." }, { "point_text": "The Jews frequently deprived of, as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 24:7", "verse_text": "The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh." }, { "point_text": "The Jews frequently deprived of, as a punishment", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 24:11", "verse_text": "There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone." }, { "point_text": "The Jews frequently drank, to excess", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:11", "verse_text": "Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!" }, { "point_text": "The Jews frequently drank, to excess", "verse_ref": "Joel 3:3", "verse_text": "And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink." }, { "point_text": "The Jews frequently drank, to excess", "verse_ref": "Amos 6:6", "verse_text": "That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph." }, { "point_text": "In times of scarcity, was mixed with water", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 1:22", "verse_text": "Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:" }, { "point_text": "Sometimes mixed with milk as a beverage", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 5:1", "verse_text": "I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved." }, { "point_text": "CHARACTERIZED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Cheering God and man", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:13", "verse_text": "And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?" }, { "point_text": "Cheering God and man", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:17", "verse_text": "For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids." }, { "point_text": "Gladdening the heart", "verse_ref": "Psalm 104:15", "verse_text": "And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart." }, { "point_text": "Strengthening", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 16:2", "verse_text": "And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink." }, { "point_text": "Strengthening", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 2:5", "verse_text": "Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love." }, { "point_text": "Making mirthful", "verse_ref": "Esther 1:10", "verse_text": "On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king," }, { "point_text": "Making mirthful", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 10:19", "verse_text": "A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things." }, { "point_text": "Custom of presenting to travellers", "verse_ref": "Genesis 14:18", "verse_text": "And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God." }, { "point_text": "Custom of presenting to travellers", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:18", "verse_text": "Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses." }, { "point_text": "Custom of giving to persons in pain or suffering, mixed with drugs", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:6", "verse_text": "Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts." }, { "point_text": "Custom of giving to persons in pain or suffering, mixed with drugs", "verse_ref": "Mark 15:23", "verse_text": "And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not." }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to the priests while engaged in the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 10:9", "verse_text": "Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:" }, { "point_text": "Forbidden to Nazarites during their separation", "verse_ref": "Numbers 6:3", "verse_text": "He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried." }, { "point_text": "The Rechabites never drank", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 35:5-6", "verse_text": "And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine. 6 But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever:" }, { "point_text": "IN EXCESS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Forbidden", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:18", "verse_text": "And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;" }, { "point_text": "Infuriates the temper", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 20:1", "verse_text": "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise." }, { "point_text": "Impairs the health", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:37", "verse_text": "But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone." }, { "point_text": "Impairs the health", "verse_ref": "Hosea 4:11", "verse_text": "Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart." }, { "point_text": "Impairs the judgment and memory", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:4-5", "verse_text": "It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: 5 Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted." }, { "point_text": "Inflames the passions", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 5:11", "verse_text": "Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!" }, { "point_text": "Leads to sorrow and contention", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:29-30", "verse_text": "Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? 30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine." }, { "point_text": "Leads to remorse", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 23:31-32", "verse_text": "Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. 32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder." }, { "point_text": "An article of extensive commerce", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 27:18", "verse_text": "Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool." }, { "point_text": "Was stored in cellars", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:27", "verse_text": "And over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite: over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite:" }, { "point_text": "Was kept in bottles", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:18", "verse_text": "Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses." }, { "point_text": "Was kept in bottles", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 2:15", "verse_text": "Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!" }, { "point_text": "Consequence of putting (when new), into old bottles", "verse_ref": "Matthew 2:22", "verse_text": "But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee:" }, { "point_text": "The love of Christ to be preferred to", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 1:2", "verse_text": "Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine." }, { "point_text": "The love of Christ to be preferred to", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 1:4", "verse_text": "Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee." }, { "point_text": "Water miraculously turned into", "verse_ref": "John 2:9", "verse_text": "When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom," }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the blood of Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 26:27-29", "verse_text": "And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; 28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. 29 But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom." }, { "point_text": "Of the blessings of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 9:2", "verse_text": "She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table." }, { "point_text": "Of the blessings of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 9:5", "verse_text": "Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled." }, { "point_text": "Of the wrath and judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 60:3", "verse_text": "Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment." }, { "point_text": "Of the wrath and judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Psalm 75:8", "verse_text": "For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them." }, { "point_text": "Of the wrath and judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 13:12-14", "verse_text": "Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? 13 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness. 14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them." }, { "point_text": "Of the wrath and judgments of God", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 25:15-18", "verse_text": "For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it. 16 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them. 17 Then took I the cup at the LORD'S hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me: 18 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;" }, { "point_text": "Of the abominations of the apostacy", "verse_ref": "Revelation 17:2", "verse_text": "With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication." }, { "point_text": "Of the abominations of the apostacy", "verse_ref": "Revelation 18:3", "verse_text": "For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies." }, { "point_text": "Of violence and rapine", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 4:17", "verse_text": "For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence." } ] }, { "name": "Wives", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Wives.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Not to be selected from among the ungodly", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:3", "verse_text": "And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:" }, { "point_text": "Not to be selected from among the ungodly", "verse_ref": "Genesis 26:34", "verse_text": "And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:" }, { "point_text": "Not to be selected from among the ungodly", "verse_ref": "Genesis 28:1", "verse_text": "And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan." }, { "point_text": "DUTIES OF, TO THEIR HUSBANDS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To love them", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:4", "verse_text": "That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children," }, { "point_text": "To reverence them", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:33", "verse_text": "Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband." }, { "point_text": "To be faithful to them", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:3-5", "verse_text": "Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. 4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. 5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency." }, { "point_text": "To be faithful to them", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:10", "verse_text": "And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:" }, { "point_text": "To be subject to them", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:16", "verse_text": "Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee." }, { "point_text": "To be subject to them", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:22", "verse_text": "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord." }, { "point_text": "To be subject to them", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 5:24", "verse_text": "Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing." }, { "point_text": "To be subject to them", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:1", "verse_text": "Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;" }, { "point_text": "To obey them", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:34", "verse_text": "Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law." }, { "point_text": "To obey them", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:5", "verse_text": "To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed." }, { "point_text": "To remain with them for life", "verse_ref": "Romans 7:2-3", "verse_text": "For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. 3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE ADORNED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Not with ornaments", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:9", "verse_text": "In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;" }, { "point_text": "Not with ornaments", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:3", "verse_text": "Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;" }, { "point_text": "With modesty and sobriety", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:9", "verse_text": "In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;" }, { "point_text": "With a meek and quiet spirit", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:4-5", "verse_text": "But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. 5 For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:" }, { "point_text": "With good works", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:10", "verse_text": "But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works." }, { "point_text": "With good works", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:10", "verse_text": "Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work." }, { "point_text": "GOOD,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Are from the Lord", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 19:14", "verse_text": "House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Are a token of the favor of God", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 18:22", "verse_text": "Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Are a blessing to husbands", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 12:4", "verse_text": "A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones." }, { "point_text": "Are a blessing to husbands", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:10", "verse_text": "Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies." }, { "point_text": "Are a blessing to husbands", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:12", "verse_text": "She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life." }, { "point_text": "Bring honor on husbands", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:23", "verse_text": "Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land." }, { "point_text": "Secure confidence of husbands", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:11", "verse_text": "The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil." }, { "point_text": "Are praised by husbands", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:28", "verse_text": "Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her." }, { "point_text": "Are diligent and prudent", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:13-27", "verse_text": "She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. 14 She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar. 15 She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. 16 She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard. ..." }, { "point_text": "Are benevolent to the poor", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:20", "verse_text": "She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy." }, { "point_text": "Duty of, to unbelieving husbands", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:13-14", "verse_text": "And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him. 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy." }, { "point_text": "Duty of, to unbelieving husbands", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 7:16", "verse_text": "For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?" }, { "point_text": "Duty of, to unbelieving husbands", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:1-2", "verse_text": "Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; 2 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear." }, { "point_text": "Should be silent in the Churches", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:34", "verse_text": "Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law." }, { "point_text": "Should seek religious instruction from their husbands", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:35", "verse_text": "And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church." }, { "point_text": "Of ministers should be exemplary", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 3:11", "verse_text": "Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nWife of Manoah, \nOrpah and Ruth, \n\nAbigail, \nEsther, \nElizabeth, \nPriscilla, \n\nSarah,", "verse_ref": "Judges 13:10", "verse_text": "And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the other day." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nWife of Manoah, \nOrpah and Ruth, \n\nAbigail, \nEsther, \nElizabeth, \nPriscilla, \n\nSarah,", "verse_ref": "Ruth 1:4", "verse_text": "And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nWife of Manoah, \nOrpah and Ruth, \n\nAbigail, \nEsther, \nElizabeth, \nPriscilla, \n\nSarah,", "verse_ref": "Ruth 1:8", "verse_text": "And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nWife of Manoah, \nOrpah and Ruth, \n\nAbigail, \nEsther, \nElizabeth, \nPriscilla, \n\nSarah,", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 25:3", "verse_text": "Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nWife of Manoah, \nOrpah and Ruth, \n\nAbigail, \nEsther, \nElizabeth, \nPriscilla, \n\nSarah,", "verse_ref": "Esther 2:15-17", "verse_text": "Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her. 16 So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. 17 And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nWife of Manoah, \nOrpah and Ruth, \n\nAbigail, \nEsther, \nElizabeth, \nPriscilla, \n\nSarah,", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:6", "verse_text": "And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nWife of Manoah, \nOrpah and Ruth, \n\nAbigail, \nEsther, \nElizabeth, \nPriscilla, \n\nSarah,", "verse_ref": "Acts 18:2", "verse_text": "And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nWife of Manoah, \nOrpah and Ruth, \n\nAbigail, \nEsther, \nElizabeth, \nPriscilla, \n\nSarah,", "verse_ref": "Acts 18:26", "verse_text": "And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly." }, { "point_text": "Good--Exemplified.\r\n\nWife of Manoah, \nOrpah and Ruth, \n\nAbigail, \nEsther, \nElizabeth, \nPriscilla, \n\nSarah,", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:6", "verse_text": "Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement." }, { "point_text": "Bad--Exemplified.\r\n\nSamson's wife, \nMichal, \nJezebel, \nZeresh, \nJob's wife, \nHerodias, \nSapphira,", "verse_ref": "Judges 14:15-17", "verse_text": "And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson's wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye called us to take that we have? is it not so? 16 And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee? 17 And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people." }, { "point_text": "Bad--Exemplified.\r\n\nSamson's wife, \nMichal, \nJezebel, \nZeresh, \nJob's wife, \nHerodias, \nSapphira,", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 6:16", "verse_text": "And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart." }, { "point_text": "Bad--Exemplified.\r\n\nSamson's wife, \nMichal, \nJezebel, \nZeresh, \nJob's wife, \nHerodias, \nSapphira,", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:25", "verse_text": "But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up." }, { "point_text": "Bad--Exemplified.\r\n\nSamson's wife, \nMichal, \nJezebel, \nZeresh, \nJob's wife, \nHerodias, \nSapphira,", "verse_ref": "Esther 5:14", "verse_text": "Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made." }, { "point_text": "Bad--Exemplified.\r\n\nSamson's wife, \nMichal, \nJezebel, \nZeresh, \nJob's wife, \nHerodias, \nSapphira,", "verse_ref": "Job 2:9", "verse_text": "Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die." }, { "point_text": "Bad--Exemplified.\r\n\nSamson's wife, \nMichal, \nJezebel, \nZeresh, \nJob's wife, \nHerodias, \nSapphira,", "verse_ref": "Mark 6:17", "verse_text": "For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her." }, { "point_text": "Bad--Exemplified.\r\n\nSamson's wife, \nMichal, \nJezebel, \nZeresh, \nJob's wife, \nHerodias, \nSapphira,", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:1-2", "verse_text": "But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, 2 And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet." } ] }, { "name": "Wolf, The", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Wolf-The.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Rapacious nature of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:27", "verse_text": "Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil." }, { "point_text": "Particularly fierce in the evening when it seeks its prey", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:6", "verse_text": "Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased." }, { "point_text": "Particularly fierce in the evening when it seeks its prey", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 1:8", "verse_text": "Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat." }, { "point_text": "Destructive to flocks of sheep", "verse_ref": "John 10:12", "verse_text": "But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Matthew 10:16", "verse_text": "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." }, { "point_text": "Of the wicked", "verse_ref": "Luke 10:3", "verse_text": "Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves." }, { "point_text": "Of wicked rulers", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 22:27", "verse_text": "Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain." }, { "point_text": "Of wicked rulers", "verse_ref": "Zephaniah 3:3", "verse_text": "Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow." }, { "point_text": "Of false teachers", "verse_ref": "Matthew 7:15", "verse_text": "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves." }, { "point_text": "Of false teachers", "verse_ref": "Acts 20:29", "verse_text": "For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock." }, { "point_text": "Of the devil", "verse_ref": "John 10:12", "verse_text": "But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep." }, { "point_text": "Of the tribe of Benjamin", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:27", "verse_text": "Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil." }, { "point_text": "Of fierce enemies", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 5:6", "verse_text": "Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased." }, { "point_text": "Of fierce enemies", "verse_ref": "Habakkuk 1:8", "verse_text": "Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat." }, { "point_text": "(Taming of,) of the change effected by conversion", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 11:6", "verse_text": "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them." }, { "point_text": "(Taming of,) of the change effected by conversion", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 65:25", "verse_text": "The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD." } ] }, { "name": "Works, Good", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Works-Good.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Christ, an example of", "verse_ref": "John 10:32", "verse_text": "Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?" }, { "point_text": "Christ, an example of", "verse_ref": "Acts 10:38", "verse_text": "How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him." }, { "point_text": "CALLED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Good fruits", "verse_ref": "James 3:17", "verse_text": "But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy." }, { "point_text": "Fruits meet for repentance", "verse_ref": "Matthew 3:8", "verse_text": "Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:" }, { "point_text": "Fruits of righteousness", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:11", "verse_text": "Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God." }, { "point_text": "Works and labors of love", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:10", "verse_text": "For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister." }, { "point_text": "Are by Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God", "verse_ref": "Philippians 1:11", "verse_text": "Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God." }, { "point_text": "They alone, who abide in Christ can perform", "verse_ref": "John 15:4-5", "verse_text": "Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing." }, { "point_text": "Wrought by God in us", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 26:12", "verse_text": "LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us." }, { "point_text": "Wrought by God in us", "verse_ref": "Philippians 2:13", "verse_text": "For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure." }, { "point_text": "The Scripture designed to lead us to", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:16-17", "verse_text": "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works." }, { "point_text": "To be performed in Christ's name", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:17", "verse_text": "And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him." }, { "point_text": "Heavenly wisdom is full of", "verse_ref": "James 3:17", "verse_text": "But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy." }, { "point_text": "Justification unattainable by", "verse_ref": "Romans 3:20", "verse_text": "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin." }, { "point_text": "Justification unattainable by", "verse_ref": "Galatians 2:16", "verse_text": "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified." }, { "point_text": "Salvation unattainable by", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:8-9", "verse_text": "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast." }, { "point_text": "Salvation unattainable by", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 1:9", "verse_text": "Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began," }, { "point_text": "Salvation unattainable by", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:5", "verse_text": "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;" }, { "point_text": "SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Created in Christ unto", "verse_ref": "Ephesians 2:10", "verse_text": "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." }, { "point_text": "Exhorted to put on", "verse_ref": "Colossians 3:12-14", "verse_text": "Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; 13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. 14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness." }, { "point_text": "Are full of", "verse_ref": "Acts 9:36", "verse_text": "Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did." }, { "point_text": "Are zealous of", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:14", "verse_text": "Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works." }, { "point_text": "Should be furnished unto all", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:17", "verse_text": "That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works." }, { "point_text": "Should be rich in", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:18", "verse_text": "That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;" }, { "point_text": "Should be careful to maintain", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:8", "verse_text": "This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men." }, { "point_text": "Should be careful to maintain", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:14", "verse_text": "And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful." }, { "point_text": "Should be established in", "verse_ref": "2 Thessalonians 2:17", "verse_text": "Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work." }, { "point_text": "Should be fruitful in", "verse_ref": "Colossians 1:10", "verse_text": "That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;" }, { "point_text": "Should be perfect in", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 13:21", "verse_text": "Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen." }, { "point_text": "Should be prepared unto all", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 2:21", "verse_text": "If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work." }, { "point_text": "Should abound to all", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 9:8", "verse_text": "And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:" }, { "point_text": "Should be ready to all", "verse_ref": "Titus 3:1", "verse_text": "Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work," }, { "point_text": "Should manifest, with meekness", "verse_ref": "James 3:13", "verse_text": "Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom." }, { "point_text": "Should provoke each other to", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:24", "verse_text": "And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:" }, { "point_text": "Should avoid ostentation in", "verse_ref": "Matthew 6:1-18", "verse_text": "Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. 2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. 3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: 4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly. ..." }, { "point_text": "Bring to the light their", "verse_ref": "John 3:21", "verse_text": "But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." }, { "point_text": "Followed into rest by their", "verse_ref": "Revelation 14:13", "verse_text": "And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them." }, { "point_text": "Holy women should manifest", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:10", "verse_text": "But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works." }, { "point_text": "Holy women should manifest", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 5:10", "verse_text": "Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work." }, { "point_text": "God remembers", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:14", "verse_text": "Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof." }, { "point_text": "God remembers", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 6:9-10", "verse_text": "But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. 10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister." }, { "point_text": "Shall be brought into the judgment", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 12:14", "verse_text": "For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil." }, { "point_text": "Shall be brought into the judgment", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 5:10", "verse_text": "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad." }, { "point_text": "In the judgment, will be an evidence of faith", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:34-40", "verse_text": "Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: 36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. 37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? ..." }, { "point_text": "In the judgment, will be an evidence of faith", "verse_ref": "James 2:14-20", "verse_text": "What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, 16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? 17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. ..." }, { "point_text": "MINISTERS SHOULD", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Be patterns of", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:7", "verse_text": "In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity," }, { "point_text": "Exhort to", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 6:17-18", "verse_text": "Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; 18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;" }, { "point_text": "God is glorified by", "verse_ref": "John 15:8", "verse_text": "Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples." }, { "point_text": "Designed to lead others to glorify God", "verse_ref": "Matthew 5:16", "verse_text": "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." }, { "point_text": "Designed to lead others to glorify God", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 2:12", "verse_text": "Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation." }, { "point_text": "A blessing attends", "verse_ref": "James 1:25", "verse_text": "But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed." }, { "point_text": "The wicked reprobate unto", "verse_ref": "Titus 1:16", "verse_text": "They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate." }, { "point_text": "Illustrated", "verse_ref": "John 15:5", "verse_text": "I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing." } ] }, { "name": "Woman", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Woman.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Origin and cause of the name", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:23", "verse_text": "And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." }, { "point_text": "ORIGINALLY MADE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "By God in His own image", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:27", "verse_text": "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." }, { "point_text": "From one of Adam's ribs", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:21-22", "verse_text": "And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man." }, { "point_text": "For man", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:9", "verse_text": "Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man." }, { "point_text": "To be an helpmeet for man", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:18", "verse_text": "And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him." }, { "point_text": "To be an helpmeet for man", "verse_ref": "Genesis 2:20", "verse_text": "And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him." }, { "point_text": "Subordinate to man", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:3", "verse_text": "But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God." }, { "point_text": "To be the glory of man", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:7", "verse_text": "For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man." }, { "point_text": "Deceived by Satan", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:1-6", "verse_text": "Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: ..." }, { "point_text": "Deceived by Satan", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 11:3", "verse_text": "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ." }, { "point_text": "Deceived by Satan", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:14", "verse_text": "And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression." }, { "point_text": "Led man to disobey God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:6", "verse_text": "And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat." }, { "point_text": "Led man to disobey God", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:11-12", "verse_text": "And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? 12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat." }, { "point_text": "Curse pronounced on", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:16", "verse_text": "Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee." }, { "point_text": "Salvation promised through the seed of", "verse_ref": "Genesis 3:15", "verse_text": "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." }, { "point_text": "Salvation promised through the seed of", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 7:14", "verse_text": "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel." }, { "point_text": "Safety in childbirth promised to the faithful and holy", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:15", "verse_text": "Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety." }, { "point_text": "CHARACTERIZED AS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Weaker than man", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:7", "verse_text": "Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered." }, { "point_text": "Timid", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 19:16", "verse_text": "In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it." }, { "point_text": "Timid", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 50:37", "verse_text": "A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed." }, { "point_text": "Timid", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 51:30", "verse_text": "The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken." }, { "point_text": "Timid", "verse_ref": "Nahum 3:13", "verse_text": "Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars." }, { "point_text": "Loving and affectionate", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 1:26", "verse_text": "I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women." }, { "point_text": "Tender and constant to her offspring", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 49:15", "verse_text": "Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee." }, { "point_text": "Tender and constant to her offspring", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 4:10", "verse_text": "The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people." }, { "point_text": "To wear her hair long as a covering", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 11:15", "verse_text": "But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering." }, { "point_text": "Good and virtuous, described", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:10-28", "verse_text": "Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. 11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. 12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. 13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. ..." }, { "point_text": "Virtuous, held in high estimation", "verse_ref": "Ruth 3:11", "verse_text": "And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all that thou requirest: for all the city of my people doth know that thou art a virtuous woman." }, { "point_text": "Virtuous, held in high estimation", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:10", "verse_text": "Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies." }, { "point_text": "Virtuous, held in high estimation", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:30", "verse_text": "Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised." }, { "point_text": "FREQUENTLY", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Fond of self-indulgence", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:9-11", "verse_text": "Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech. 10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. 11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins." }, { "point_text": "Subtle and deceitful", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 7:10", "verse_text": "And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart." }, { "point_text": "Subtle and deceitful", "verse_ref": "Ecclesiastes 7:26", "verse_text": "And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her." }, { "point_text": "Silly and easily led into error", "verse_ref": "2 Timothy 3:6", "verse_text": "For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts," }, { "point_text": "Zealous in promoting superstition and idolatry", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 7:18", "verse_text": "The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger." }, { "point_text": "Zealous in promoting superstition and idolatry", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 13:17", "verse_text": "Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them," }, { "point_text": "Zealous in promoting superstition and idolatry", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 13:23", "verse_text": "Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Active in instigating to iniquity", "verse_ref": "Numbers 31:15-16", "verse_text": "And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? 16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD." }, { "point_text": "Active in instigating to iniquity", "verse_ref": "1 Kings 21:25", "verse_text": "But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up." }, { "point_text": "Active in instigating to iniquity", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 13:26", "verse_text": "Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin." }, { "point_text": "Generally wore a vail in the presence of the other sex", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:65", "verse_text": "For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself." }, { "point_text": "Generally lived in a separated apartment or tent", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:9", "verse_text": "And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent." }, { "point_text": "Generally lived in a separated apartment or tent", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:67", "verse_text": "And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death." }, { "point_text": "Generally lived in a separated apartment or tent", "verse_ref": "Esther 2:9", "verse_text": "And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king's house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women." }, { "point_text": "Generally lived in a separated apartment or tent", "verse_ref": "Esther 2:11", "verse_text": "And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her." }, { "point_text": "Submissive and respectful to husbands", "verse_ref": "1 Peter 3:6", "verse_text": "Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement." }, { "point_text": "Submissive and respectful to husbands", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:12", "verse_text": "Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?" }, { "point_text": "OF DISTINCTION", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Fair and graceful", "verse_ref": "Genesis 12:11", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:" }, { "point_text": "Fair and graceful", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:16", "verse_text": "And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up." }, { "point_text": "Fair and graceful", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 1:8", "verse_text": "If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents." }, { "point_text": "Fair and graceful", "verse_ref": "Amos 8:13", "verse_text": "In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst." }, { "point_text": "Haughty in their deportment", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:16", "verse_text": "Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:" }, { "point_text": "Fond of dress and ornaments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:17-23", "verse_text": "Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts. 18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, 19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, 20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, ..." }, { "point_text": "Wore their hair plaited and adorned with gold and pearls", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:24", "verse_text": "And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty." }, { "point_text": "Wore their hair plaited and adorned with gold and pearls", "verse_ref": "1 Timothy 2:9", "verse_text": "In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;" }, { "point_text": "Of the poorer classes swarthy from exposure to the sun", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 1:5-6", "verse_text": "I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. 6 Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept." }, { "point_text": "YOUNG,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Called maids", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:8", "verse_text": "And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother." }, { "point_text": "Called maids", "verse_ref": "Luke 8:51-52", "verse_text": "And when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden. 52 And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth." }, { "point_text": "Called damsels", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:55", "verse_text": "And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go." }, { "point_text": "Called damsels", "verse_ref": "Mark 5:39", "verse_text": "And when he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth." }, { "point_text": "Called virgins", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:16", "verse_text": "And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up." }, { "point_text": "Called virgins", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 1:4", "verse_text": "The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness." }, { "point_text": "Gay and mirthsome", "verse_ref": "Judges 11:34", "verse_text": "And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter." }, { "point_text": "Gay and mirthsome", "verse_ref": "Judges 21:21", "verse_text": "And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin." }, { "point_text": "Gay and mirthsome", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 31:13", "verse_text": "Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow." }, { "point_text": "Gay and mirthsome", "verse_ref": "Zechariah 9:17", "verse_text": "For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids." }, { "point_text": "Kind and courteous to strangers", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:17", "verse_text": "And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher." }, { "point_text": "Fond of ornaments", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 2:32", "verse_text": "Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number." }, { "point_text": "Required to learn from and imitate their elders", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:4", "verse_text": "That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children," }, { "point_text": "Inherited parents' property when there was no male heir", "verse_ref": "Numbers 27:8", "verse_text": "And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter." }, { "point_text": "Could not marry without consent of parents", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:3", "verse_text": "And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:" }, { "point_text": "Could not marry without consent of parents", "verse_ref": "Genesis 34:6", "verse_text": "And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him." }, { "point_text": "Could not marry without consent of parents", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:17", "verse_text": "If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins." }, { "point_text": "Not to be given in marriage considered a calamity", "verse_ref": "Judges 11:37", "verse_text": "And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows." }, { "point_text": "Not to be given in marriage considered a calamity", "verse_ref": "Psalm 78:63", "verse_text": "The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage." }, { "point_text": "Not to be given in marriage considered a calamity", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 4:1", "verse_text": "And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach." }, { "point_text": "Often taken captive", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 1:18", "verse_text": "The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity." }, { "point_text": "Often taken captive", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 30:17-18", "verse_text": "The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity. 18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for seducing, when betrothed", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 22:23-27", "verse_text": "If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; 24 Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you. 25 But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die: 26 But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter: ..." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for seducing when not betrothed", "verse_ref": "Exodus 22:16-17", "verse_text": "And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. 17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins." }, { "point_text": "Often treated with great cruelty in war", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 32:25", "verse_text": "The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs." }, { "point_text": "Often treated with great cruelty in war", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 2:21", "verse_text": "The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied." }, { "point_text": "Often treated with great cruelty in war", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 5:11", "verse_text": "They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah." }, { "point_text": "Of distinction, dressed in robes of various colors", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 13:18", "verse_text": "And she had a garment of divers colours upon her: for with such robes were the king's daughters that were virgins apparelled. Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her." }, { "point_text": "Of distinction, dressed in robes of various colors", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:14", "verse_text": "She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee." }, { "point_text": "Were required to hear and obey the law", "verse_ref": "Joshua 8:35", "verse_text": "There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them." }, { "point_text": "Had a court of the tabernacle assigned to them", "verse_ref": "Exodus 38:8", "verse_text": "And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "point_text": "Had a court of the tabernacle assigned to them", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 2:2", "verse_text": "There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God." }, { "point_text": "Allowed to join in the temple-music from the time of David", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 25:5-6", "verse_text": "All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. 6 All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king's order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman." }, { "point_text": "OFTEN ENGAGED IN", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Domestic employments", "verse_ref": "Genesis 18:6", "verse_text": "And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth." }, { "point_text": "Domestic employments", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:15", "verse_text": "She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens." }, { "point_text": "Agriculture", "verse_ref": "Ruth 2:8", "verse_text": "Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens:" }, { "point_text": "Agriculture", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 1:6", "verse_text": "Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept." }, { "point_text": "Tending sheep", "verse_ref": "Genesis 29:9", "verse_text": "And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them." }, { "point_text": "Tending sheep", "verse_ref": "Exodus 2:16", "verse_text": "Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock." }, { "point_text": "Drawing and carrying water", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:11", "verse_text": "And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water." }, { "point_text": "Drawing and carrying water", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:13", "verse_text": "Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:" }, { "point_text": "Drawing and carrying water", "verse_ref": "Genesis 24:15-16", "verse_text": "And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder. 16 And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up." }, { "point_text": "Drawing and carrying water", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 9:11", "verse_text": "And as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?" }, { "point_text": "Drawing and carrying water", "verse_ref": "John 4:7", "verse_text": "There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." }, { "point_text": "Grinding corn", "verse_ref": "Matthew 24:41", "verse_text": "Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left." }, { "point_text": "Grinding corn", "verse_ref": "Luke 17:35", "verse_text": "Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left." }, { "point_text": "Spinning", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:13-14", "verse_text": "She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. 14 She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar." }, { "point_text": "Embroidery", "verse_ref": "Proverbs 31:22", "verse_text": "She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple." }, { "point_text": "Celebrating the victories of the nation", "verse_ref": "Exodus 15:20-21", "verse_text": "And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. 21 And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea." }, { "point_text": "Attending funerals as mourners", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:17", "verse_text": "Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:" }, { "point_text": "Attending funerals as mourners", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 9:20", "verse_text": "Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation." }, { "point_text": "Vows of, when married not binding upon the husband", "verse_ref": "Numbers 30:6-8", "verse_text": "And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul; 7 And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand. 8 But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her." }, { "point_text": "Unfaithfulness of, when married found out by the waters of jealousy", "verse_ref": "Numbers 5:14-28", "verse_text": "And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled: 15 Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance. 16 And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD: 17 And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water: ..." }, { "point_text": "Punishment for injuring, when with child", "verse_ref": "Exodus 21:22-25", "verse_text": "If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. 23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, 24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe." }, { "point_text": "To be governed by, considered a calamity by the Jews", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 3:12", "verse_text": "As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths." }, { "point_text": "To be slain by, considered a great disgrace", "verse_ref": "Judges 9:54", "verse_text": "Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died." }, { "point_text": "Considered a valuable booty in war", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 20:14", "verse_text": "But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee." }, { "point_text": "Considered a valuable booty in war", "verse_ref": "1 Samuel 30:2", "verse_text": "And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way." }, { "point_text": "Often treated with great cruelty in war", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 8:12", "verse_text": "And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child." }, { "point_text": "Often treated with great cruelty in war", "verse_ref": "Lamentations 5:11", "verse_text": "They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah." }, { "point_text": "Often treated with great cruelty in war", "verse_ref": "Ezekiel 9:6", "verse_text": "Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house." }, { "point_text": "Often treated with great cruelty in war", "verse_ref": "Hosea 13:16", "verse_text": "Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "(Gloriously arrayed,) of the Church of Christ", "verse_ref": "Psalm 45:13", "verse_text": "The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold." }, { "point_text": "(Gloriously arrayed,) of the Church of Christ", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:26", "verse_text": "But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all." }, { "point_text": "(Gloriously arrayed,) of the Church of Christ", "verse_ref": "Revelation 12:1", "verse_text": "And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:" }, { "point_text": "(Delicate,) of backsliding Israel", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 6:2", "verse_text": "I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman." }, { "point_text": "(Chaste and holy,) of saints", "verse_ref": "Song of Solomon 1:3", "verse_text": "Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee." }, { "point_text": "(Chaste and holy,) of saints", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 11:2", "verse_text": "For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ." }, { "point_text": "(Chaste and holy,) of saints", "verse_ref": "Revelation 14:4", "verse_text": "These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb." }, { "point_text": "(Lewd,) of the Roman apostacy", "verse_ref": "Revelation 17:4", "verse_text": "And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:" }, { "point_text": "(Lewd,) of the Roman apostacy", "verse_ref": "Revelation 17:18", "verse_text": "And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth." }, { "point_text": "(Wise,) of saints", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:1-2", "verse_text": "Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish." }, { "point_text": "(Wise,) of saints", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:4", "verse_text": "But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps." }, { "point_text": "(Foolish,) of mere professors", "verse_ref": "Matthew 25:1-3", "verse_text": "Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:" }, { "point_text": "(At ease and careless,) of a state of carnal security", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:9", "verse_text": "Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech." }, { "point_text": "(At ease and careless,) of a state of carnal security", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 32:11", "verse_text": "Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins." }, { "point_text": "(Forsaken,) of Israel in her captivity", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 54:6", "verse_text": "For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God." } ] }, { "name": "Zeal", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Zeal.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Christ an example of", "verse_ref": "Psalm 69:9", "verse_text": "For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me." }, { "point_text": "Christ an example of", "verse_ref": "John 2:17", "verse_text": "And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up." }, { "point_text": "Godly sorrow leads to", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 7:10-11", "verse_text": "For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. 11 For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter." }, { "point_text": "Of saints, ardent", "verse_ref": "Psalm 119:139", "verse_text": "My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words." }, { "point_text": "Provokes others to do good", "verse_ref": "2 Corinthians 9:2", "verse_text": "For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many." }, { "point_text": "SHOULD BE EXHIBITED", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "In spirit", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:11", "verse_text": "Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;" }, { "point_text": "In well-doing", "verse_ref": "Galatians 4:18", "verse_text": "But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you." }, { "point_text": "In well-doing", "verse_ref": "Titus 2:14", "verse_text": "Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works." }, { "point_text": "In desiring the salvation of others", "verse_ref": "Acts 26:29", "verse_text": "And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds." }, { "point_text": "In desiring the salvation of others", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:1", "verse_text": "Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved." }, { "point_text": "In contending for the faith", "verse_ref": "Jude 3", "verse_text": "Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints." }, { "point_text": "In missionary labors", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:19", "verse_text": "Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ." }, { "point_text": "In missionary labors", "verse_ref": "Romans 15:23", "verse_text": "But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you;" }, { "point_text": "For the glory of God", "verse_ref": "Numbers 25:11", "verse_text": "Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy." }, { "point_text": "For the glory of God", "verse_ref": "Numbers 25:13", "verse_text": "And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "For the welfare of saints", "verse_ref": "Colossians 4:13", "verse_text": "For I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis." }, { "point_text": "Against idolatry", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:4-14", "verse_text": "And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel. 5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven. 6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people. 7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove. ..." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes wrongly directed", "verse_ref": "2 Samuel 21:2", "verse_text": "And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)" }, { "point_text": "Sometimes wrongly directed", "verse_ref": "Acts 22:3-4", "verse_text": "I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day. 4 And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes not according to knowledge", "verse_ref": "Romans 10:2", "verse_text": "For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes not according to knowledge", "verse_ref": "Galatians 1:14", "verse_text": "And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers." }, { "point_text": "Sometimes not according to knowledge", "verse_ref": "Acts 21:20", "verse_text": "And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:" }, { "point_text": "Ungodly men sometimes pretend to", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 10:16", "verse_text": "And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot." }, { "point_text": "Ungodly men sometimes pretend to", "verse_ref": "Matthew 23:15", "verse_text": "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves." }, { "point_text": "Exhortation to", "verse_ref": "Romans 12:11", "verse_text": "Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;" }, { "point_text": "Exhortation to", "verse_ref": "Revelation 3:19", "verse_text": "As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent." }, { "point_text": "Holy--Exemplified.\r\n\nPhinehas, \n\nJosiah, \nApollos, \nCorinthians, \nEpaphras,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 25:11", "verse_text": "Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy." }, { "point_text": "Holy--Exemplified.\r\n\nPhinehas, \n\nJosiah, \nApollos, \nCorinthians, \nEpaphras,", "verse_ref": "Numbers 25:13", "verse_text": "And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel." }, { "point_text": "Holy--Exemplified.\r\n\nPhinehas, \n\nJosiah, \nApollos, \nCorinthians, \nEpaphras,", "verse_ref": "2 Kings 23:19-25", "verse_text": "And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel. 20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem. 21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant. 22 Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah; ..." }, { "point_text": "Holy--Exemplified.\r\n\nPhinehas, \n\nJosiah, \nApollos, \nCorinthians, \nEpaphras,", "verse_ref": "Acts 18:25", "verse_text": "This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John." }, { "point_text": "Holy--Exemplified.\r\n\nPhinehas, \n\nJosiah, \nApollos, \nCorinthians, \nEpaphras,", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 14:12", "verse_text": "Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church." }, { "point_text": "Holy--Exemplified.\r\n\nPhinehas, \n\nJosiah, \nApollos, \nCorinthians, \nEpaphras,", "verse_ref": "Colossians 4:12-13", "verse_text": "Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. 13 For I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis." } ] }, { "name": "Years", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Years.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "The sun and moon appointed to mark out", "verse_ref": "Genesis 1:14", "verse_text": "And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:" }, { "point_text": "Early computation of time by", "verse_ref": "Genesis 5:3", "verse_text": "And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:" }, { "point_text": "DIVIDED INTO", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Seasons", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:22", "verse_text": "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." }, { "point_text": "Months", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:11", "verse_text": "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." }, { "point_text": "Months", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:1", "verse_text": "Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand." }, { "point_text": "Weeks", "verse_ref": "Daniel 9:27", "verse_text": "And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate." }, { "point_text": "Weeks", "verse_ref": "Luke 18:12", "verse_text": "I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess." }, { "point_text": "Days", "verse_ref": "Genesis 25:7", "verse_text": "And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years." }, { "point_text": "Days", "verse_ref": "Esther 9:27", "verse_text": "The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;" }, { "point_text": "Length of, during the patriarchal age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:11", "verse_text": "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." }, { "point_text": "Length of, during the patriarchal age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:13", "verse_text": "And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry." }, { "point_text": "Length of, during the patriarchal age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 7:24", "verse_text": "And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days." }, { "point_text": "Length of, during the patriarchal age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 8:3", "verse_text": "And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated." }, { "point_text": "Commencement of, changed after the exodus", "verse_ref": "Exodus 12:2", "verse_text": "This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you." }, { "point_text": "REMARKABLE;", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "Sabbatical", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:4", "verse_text": "But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard." }, { "point_text": "Jubilee", "verse_ref": "Leviticus 25:11", "verse_text": "A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed." }, { "point_text": "In prophetic computation, days reckoned as", "verse_ref": "Daniel 12:11-12", "verse_text": "And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. 12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days." }, { "point_text": "ILLUSTRATIVE", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "(Coming to,) of manhood", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 11:24", "verse_text": "By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;" }, { "point_text": "(Well stricken in,) of old age", "verse_ref": "Luke 1:7", "verse_text": "And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years." }, { "point_text": "(Being full of,) of old age", "verse_ref": "Genesis 25:8", "verse_text": "Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people." }, { "point_text": "(Acceptable,) of the dispensation of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 61:2", "verse_text": "To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;" }, { "point_text": "(Acceptable,) of the dispensation of the gospel", "verse_ref": "Luke 4:19", "verse_text": "To preach the acceptable year of the Lord." }, { "point_text": "(Of the right hand of the Most High,) of prosperity", "verse_ref": "Psalm 77:10", "verse_text": "And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High." }, { "point_text": "(Of the redeemed,) of redemption by Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 63:4", "verse_text": "For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come." }, { "point_text": "(Of visitation,) of severe judgments", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 11:23", "verse_text": "And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation." }, { "point_text": "(Of visitation,) of severe judgments", "verse_ref": "Jeremiah 23:12", "verse_text": "Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD." }, { "point_text": "(Of recompenses,) of judgments", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 34:8", "verse_text": "For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion." } ] }, { "name": "Zebulun, The Tribe of", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Zebulun-The-Tribe-of.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Descended from Jacob's tenth son", "verse_ref": "Genesis 30:19-20", "verse_text": "And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son. 20 And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun." }, { "point_text": "Predictions respecting", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:13", "verse_text": "Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon." }, { "point_text": "Predictions respecting", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 33:18-19", "verse_text": "And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and, Issachar, in thy tents. 19 They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand." }, { "point_text": "PERSONS SELECTED FROM,", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "To number the people", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:9", "verse_text": "Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon." }, { "point_text": "To spy out the land", "verse_ref": "Numbers 13:10", "verse_text": "Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi." }, { "point_text": "To divide the land", "verse_ref": "Numbers 34:25", "verse_text": "And the prince of the tribe of the children of Zebulun, Elizaphan the son of Parnach." }, { "point_text": "Strength of, on leaving Egypt", "verse_ref": "Numbers 1:30-31", "verse_text": "Of the children of Zebulun, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 31 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred." }, { "point_text": "Formed the rear of the first division of the army of Israel in its journeys", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:14", "verse_text": "In the first place went the standard of the camp of the children of Judah according to their armies: and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab." }, { "point_text": "Formed the rear of the first division of the army of Israel in its journeys", "verse_ref": "Numbers 10:16", "verse_text": "And over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon." }, { "point_text": "Encamped under the standard of Judah, east of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 2:3", "verse_text": "And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah." }, { "point_text": "Encamped under the standard of Judah, east of the tabernacle", "verse_ref": "Numbers 2:7", "verse_text": "Then the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab the son of Helon shall be captain of the children of Zebulun." }, { "point_text": "Offering of, at the dedication", "verse_ref": "Numbers 7:24-29", "verse_text": "On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun, did offer: 25 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: 26 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: 27 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: ..." }, { "point_text": "Families of", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:26-27", "verse_text": "Of the sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Sardites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites: of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites. 27 These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and five hundred." }, { "point_text": "Strength of, on entering Canaan", "verse_ref": "Numbers 26:27", "verse_text": "These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and five hundred." }, { "point_text": "On Ebal said amen to the curses", "verse_ref": "Deuteronomy 27:13", "verse_text": "And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali." }, { "point_text": "A naval and commercial people", "verse_ref": "Genesis 49:13", "verse_text": "Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon." }, { "point_text": "Furnished scribes or writers to Israel", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:14", "verse_text": "Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer." }, { "point_text": "Bounds of their inheritance", "verse_ref": "Joshua 19:10-16", "verse_text": "And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families: and the border of their inheritance was unto Sarid: 11 And their border went up toward the sea, and Maralah, and reached to Dabbasheth, and reached to the river that is before Jokneam; 12 And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the border of Chislothtabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth up to Japhia, 13 And from thence passeth on along on the east to Gittahhepher, to Ittahkazin, and goeth out to Remmonmethoar to Neah; ..." }, { "point_text": "Unable to drive out the Canaanites from their cities, but made them tributary", "verse_ref": "Judges 1:30", "verse_text": "Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries." }, { "point_text": "Praised for assisting Deborah and Barak in opposing Sisera", "verse_ref": "Judges 5:14", "verse_text": "Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer." }, { "point_text": "Praised for assisting Deborah and Barak in opposing Sisera", "verse_ref": "Judges 4:10", "verse_text": "And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him." }, { "point_text": "Aided Gideon against the army of the Midianites", "verse_ref": "Judges 6:35", "verse_text": "And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; who also was gathered after him: and he sent messengers unto Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali; and they came up to meet them." }, { "point_text": "Furnished a judge to Israel", "verse_ref": "Judges 12:11-12", "verse_text": "And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years. 12 And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun." }, { "point_text": "Some of, at David's coronation", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 12:33", "verse_text": "Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: they were not of double heart." }, { "point_text": "Officer appointed over by David", "verse_ref": "1 Chronicles 27:19", "verse_text": "Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of Azriel:" }, { "point_text": "Only some of, assisted in Hezekiah's reformation", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 30:10-11", "verse_text": "So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them. 11 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem." }, { "point_text": "Only some of, assisted in Hezekiah's reformation", "verse_ref": "2 Chronicles 30:18", "verse_text": "For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one" }, { "point_text": "Country of, blessed with the presence and instruction of Christ", "verse_ref": "Isaiah 9:1", "verse_text": "Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations." }, { "point_text": "Country of, blessed with the presence and instruction of Christ", "verse_ref": "Matthew 4:13-15", "verse_text": "And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim: 14 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, 15 The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;" } ] }, { "name": "Witness of the Holy Ghost", "url": "https://www.bible-topics.com/Witness-of-the-Holy-Ghost.html", "entries": [ { "point_text": "Is truth", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:6", "verse_text": "This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth." }, { "point_text": "To be implicitly received", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:6", "verse_text": "This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth." }, { "point_text": "To be implicitly received", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:9", "verse_text": "If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son." }, { "point_text": "BORNE TO CHRIST", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "As Messiah", "verse_ref": "Luke 3:22", "verse_text": "And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased." }, { "point_text": "As Messiah", "verse_ref": "John 1:32-33", "verse_text": "And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. 33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "As coming to redeem and sanctify", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:6", "verse_text": "This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth." }, { "point_text": "As exalted to be a Prince and Saviour to give repentance, &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:31-32", "verse_text": "Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. 32 And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him." }, { "point_text": "As perfecting saints", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:14-15", "verse_text": "For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. 15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before," }, { "point_text": "As foretold by Himself", "verse_ref": "John 15:26", "verse_text": "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:" }, { "point_text": "In heaven", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:7", "verse_text": "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one." }, { "point_text": "In heaven", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:11", "verse_text": "And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son." }, { "point_text": "On earth", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:8", "verse_text": "And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one." }, { "point_text": "The first preaching of the gospel confirmed by", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:3", "verse_text": "Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands." }, { "point_text": "The first preaching of the gospel confirmed by", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:4", "verse_text": "God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?" }, { "point_text": "The faithful preaching of the Apostles accompanied by", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:4", "verse_text": "And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:" }, { "point_text": "The faithful preaching of the Apostles accompanied by", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 1:5", "verse_text": "For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake." }, { "point_text": "GIVEN TO SAINTS", "verse_ref": null, "verse_text": null }, { "point_text": "On believing", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:8", "verse_text": "And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;" }, { "point_text": "On believing", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:10", "verse_text": "He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son." }, { "point_text": "To testify to them of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 15:26", "verse_text": "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:" }, { "point_text": "As an evidence of adoption", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:16", "verse_text": "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:" }, { "point_text": "As an evidence of Christ in them", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:24", "verse_text": "And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us." }, { "point_text": "As an evidence of God in them", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:13", "verse_text": "Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit." }, { "point_text": "Borne against all unbelievers", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:30", "verse_text": "Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands." }, { "point_text": "Borne against all unbelievers", "verse_ref": "Acts 28:25-27", "verse_text": "And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers, 26 Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive: 27 For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them." }, { "point_text": "Is truth", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:6", "verse_text": "This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth." }, { "point_text": "To be implicitly received", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:6", "verse_text": "This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth." }, { "point_text": "To be implicitly received", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:9", "verse_text": "If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son." }, { "point_text": "BORNE TO CHRIST", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "As Messiah", "verse_ref": "Luke 3:22", "verse_text": "And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased." }, { "point_text": "As Messiah", "verse_ref": "John 1:32-33", "verse_text": "And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. 33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost." }, { "point_text": "As coming to redeem and sanctify", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:6", "verse_text": "This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth." }, { "point_text": "As exalted to be a Prince and Saviour to give repentance, &c", "verse_ref": "Acts 5:31-32", "verse_text": "Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. 32 And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him." }, { "point_text": "As perfecting saints", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 10:14-15", "verse_text": "For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. 15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before," }, { "point_text": "As foretold by Himself", "verse_ref": "John 15:26", "verse_text": "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:" }, { "point_text": "In heaven", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:7", "verse_text": "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one." }, { "point_text": "In heaven", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:11", "verse_text": "And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son." }, { "point_text": "On earth", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:8", "verse_text": "And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one." }, { "point_text": "The first preaching of the gospel confirmed by", "verse_ref": "Acts 14:3", "verse_text": "Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands." }, { "point_text": "The first preaching of the gospel confirmed by", "verse_ref": "Hebrews 2:4", "verse_text": "God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?" }, { "point_text": "The faithful preaching of the Apostles accompanied by", "verse_ref": "1 Corinthians 2:4", "verse_text": "And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:" }, { "point_text": "The faithful preaching of the Apostles accompanied by", "verse_ref": "1 Thessalonians 1:5", "verse_text": "For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake." }, { "point_text": "GIVEN TO SAINTS", "verse_ref": "", "verse_text": "" }, { "point_text": "On believing", "verse_ref": "Acts 15:8", "verse_text": "And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;" }, { "point_text": "On believing", "verse_ref": "1 John 5:10", "verse_text": "He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son." }, { "point_text": "To testify to them of Christ", "verse_ref": "John 15:26", "verse_text": "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:" }, { "point_text": "As an evidence of adoption", "verse_ref": "Romans 8:16", "verse_text": "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:" }, { "point_text": "As an evidence of Christ in them", "verse_ref": "1 John 3:24", "verse_text": "And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us." }, { "point_text": "As an evidence of God in them", "verse_ref": "1 John 4:13", "verse_text": "Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit." }, { "point_text": "Borne against all unbelievers", "verse_ref": "Nehemiah 9:30", "verse_text": "Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands." }, { "point_text": "Borne against all unbelievers", "verse_ref": "Acts 28:25-27", "verse_text": "And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers, 26 Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive: 27 For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them." } ] } ]